Our Covenant of Faith, Part 5

Our Covenant of Faith, Part 5

All of the things that were dealt with in the sacrifice of Jesus are valid for the believer today.  Everything that was dealt with in this sacrifice still must be received by faith.  Even though they belong to you, you still have to receive them by your faith.

You find in the book of the Prophet Isaiah, chapters 52-55, the promise of the Father about the sacrifice as he placed Jesus on the cross for us, He placed on Jesus everything that had come on mankind since the fall in Genesis.  In Isaiah 53:11, God said that Jesus would bare all our iniquities and our guilt (with the consequences).  All through Isaiah 54 and the first verse of 55, He speaks of His righteousness and restoration back to Him.  In Isaiah 55:1 He declares that these things are ours by the “acceptance of the blessing”.  The only way to accept the blessing is by our faith.  Later in the same chapter (Isaiah 55:8-11), He says that His ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, but His word would not return unto Him void.  This is why we were to renew our minds (Romans 12:2), since we now have the mind of Christ (I Cor 2:16).

By understanding the sacrifice by faith, we have access to all the sacrifice covered.  In I Cor 1:3-7, Paul was speaking to the church in Corinth.  In verse 7, he prayed that we (the church) would not fall behind or lack in any spiritual endowment or Christian grace.

By what Paul was saying here, there must be a chance that we don’t understand and therefore not receive all that grace has given us as a free gift.  When you read in Romans 5:15-17, we find that in verse 15, God’s grace is out of all proportion to what sin has subjected us to.  Verse 17 Amp: God’s overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and His free gift of righteousness (putting us into right standing with Himself), we can reign as kings in life through Jesus, the Messiah.

In Ephesians 3:9-12, we find that in verse 10, God wants the church to be the revealed things of the wisdom of God.  Verse 12: we (by faith) have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear).

As we go on into the revelation the Apostle had about Jesus and us in Jesus, we find something that without faith, you could not even begin to conceive in your own mind.  Ephesians 3:16-20 makes your Spirit leap in expectation.  As you read verse 19, that we can now become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself.

All of the great things that we were given by grace must be received by faith.  They already belong to us, but will not be appropriated in our lives here without faith to receive them.  In the garden, when love prayed, grace answered.  Faith says, “thank you, Father.  I receive what you gave and blessed me with in your son”.

I have determined in, my life to walk in as much of the love of the Father’s sacrifice as I can and raise my faith to a level to receive.  I don’t want to count out anything He died to give me as not important in my life here as well as my life later.  I won’t need Isaiah 53 in heaven, there is no sickness there.  I won’t need the power of His name over demons, there won’t be any.  Once I am in the fullness of heaven, the fight of faith will be over and I will never again be faced with the doubt and trials of the enemy.  BUT, while I am still here, I will put my faith in the fact that the power of His blood will work by faith here.  Psalm 91 is a Psalm for here (this is the valley of the shadow of death) and even here He has spread a table of covenant where the child of God can rest in His grace by faith.  I don’t want to be as those in Heb 4 Amp: there where those that didn’t put faith in the rest (grace) and didn’t enter in.  Verse 5 says that the word was preached to them but they didn’t mix faith with what they heard.   Verses 9-10 declares there is still this rest (grace) being offered today, but it still takes faith to receive it.