“Those who are devoted to taking up their crosses
and following Christ wherever He leads find more pleasure
than any worldly benefit could ever provide.”
Paul Cain - “Dying to Live”
Paul Cain - “Dying to Live”
“This cup is the new covenant (ratified and established) in my blood”
1 Corinthians 11:25 Amplified Bible
If we truly experienced the fullness of our inheritance in the New Covenant we would be spiritual giants. We would walk in the power and authority of Christ lead alone by the Spirit of God and the Word. There would be no doubt in our minds about following fully with reckless abandon as Disciples of Christ.
"…yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.”
Romans 4:20-21 NASB
When God made his covenant with Abraham he left all in pursuit of Him. Abraham’s covenant pails in comparison to the one, which we enjoy today, this side of the Cross. This inferior covenant took a wanderer and turned him into the father of many nations, a man of unquestioning faith.
Abraham understood the full meaning of a blood covenant – one which is much diluted in the Church today. He knew that entering into a blood covenant with someone meant that you were totally giving yourself away to him and he to you. At the forming of blood covenants the parties exchanged weapons as a sign that they would fight to the death for one another. They exchanged coats as a sign of one another’s authority being conferred on each other. In a covenant exchange, all that you were and all that you possessed, or ever would possess, became the equal property of your covenant partner. Covenant partners walked through the slain covenant animals as a sign of their faithfulness even unto death.
When God made His covenant with Abraham he received everything that God had in a promise that could never be broken. The covenant said to Abraham that God’s promise could be trusted and relied upon. Abraham walked in that truth and it was accounted to him as righteousness.
“For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
If we want to walk in the same kind of faith as Abraham we must press into the covenant we have in Christ Jesus. Intimacy with the Lord is the only way to grow in faith and righteousness. We must ask the Holy Spirit, who leads us into all truth, to show us the way of supernatural faith. Lead us Holy Spirit to understand what “This cup is the new covenant (ratified and established) in my blood.”
This understanding will transform us and the world we live in.
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1 Corinthians 11:25 Amplified Bible
If we truly experienced the fullness of our inheritance in the New Covenant we would be spiritual giants. We would walk in the power and authority of Christ lead alone by the Spirit of God and the Word. There would be no doubt in our minds about following fully with reckless abandon as Disciples of Christ.
"…yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.”
Romans 4:20-21 NASB
When God made his covenant with Abraham he left all in pursuit of Him. Abraham’s covenant pails in comparison to the one, which we enjoy today, this side of the Cross. This inferior covenant took a wanderer and turned him into the father of many nations, a man of unquestioning faith.
Abraham understood the full meaning of a blood covenant – one which is much diluted in the Church today. He knew that entering into a blood covenant with someone meant that you were totally giving yourself away to him and he to you. At the forming of blood covenants the parties exchanged weapons as a sign that they would fight to the death for one another. They exchanged coats as a sign of one another’s authority being conferred on each other. In a covenant exchange, all that you were and all that you possessed, or ever would possess, became the equal property of your covenant partner. Covenant partners walked through the slain covenant animals as a sign of their faithfulness even unto death.
When God made His covenant with Abraham he received everything that God had in a promise that could never be broken. The covenant said to Abraham that God’s promise could be trusted and relied upon. Abraham walked in that truth and it was accounted to him as righteousness.
“For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
If we want to walk in the same kind of faith as Abraham we must press into the covenant we have in Christ Jesus. Intimacy with the Lord is the only way to grow in faith and righteousness. We must ask the Holy Spirit, who leads us into all truth, to show us the way of supernatural faith. Lead us Holy Spirit to understand what “This cup is the new covenant (ratified and established) in my blood.”
This understanding will transform us and the world we live in.
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