Hebrews 10:9-10 (Amplified) says, "He then went on to say, "Behold, here I am, coming to do Your will; Thus He does away with and annuls the first former order as a means of expiating sin, so that He might inaugurate and establish the second (latter order) And in accordance with this will of God, we have been made holy (consecrated and sanctified through the Offering made once for all of the Body of Jesus Christ (the Anointed One)."
Hebrews 6:18 (Amplified) says, "This is so that by two unchangeable things, His Promise and His oath in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled to Him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before us."
God didn't make covenant with us, He made covenant with Himself through Jesus. Man could never uphold his end of the first covenant, so God made covenant with Himself. This is an unbreakable and unchangeable covenant, that was made by His Own Blood and oath. By accepting Jesus as our Sacrifice and Substitute, we have now not only entered into this covenant, but much more, we have entered now as His children. This new and everlasting covenant is the Last will and Testament of Jesus Christ, on our behalf. In Galatians 3:15-16,29 (Amplified) Paul says, "To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, if even a man makes a Last will and Testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed). Now the Promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir)." The Holy Spirit didn't inspire Paul to write, "And to seeds, descendants and heirs," as if referring to many persons, but to write, "And to your Seed, your Descendant, your Heir," obviously referring to One Individual, Who is none other than Christ, the Messiah. The Holy Spirit inspires Paul to write further in Verse 29, which says, "And if you belong to Christ (are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed), then you are Abraham's offspring and spiritual heirs according to Promise."
Many believe this is a Promise that will be fulfilled only when we arrive in Heaven or in God's Presence after leaving earth. For Abraham, this was a temporal Promise, as well as an eternal Promise. God blessed Abraham while he was still here on earth, as well as the Promise to his heirs, while they were born here and living here on earth.
The covenant God made with Abraham was based on God's Grace and the fulfillment of Abraham's faith. It came 430 years before the Law of Moses and remains forever, by the entering into it through Jesus as our Sacrifice. The new covenant wasn't based on our merits or works, but by the total submission of Jesus, on our behalf.
The only God requires of us under the new covenant, is that we believe in the covenant He made to us through Abraham and his Heir, Jesus. Romans 4:21-24 (Amplified) says, "Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His Word and do what He had Promised. That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness or right standing with God. But the words, it was credited to him, were not for his sake alone But they were written for our sake's too. Righteousness (standing acceptable to God) will be granted and credited to us also who believe in (trust in, adhere to, and rely on) God, Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead."
Under the new covenant and our entrance into God's family as His children, all we're to do to walk it, is believe God can make and fulfill what He has Promised, through Jesus. Our salvation was based on simply believing we would be saved and accepted through Jesus. We had absolutely nothing to do with entering into the family of God, except believing in God's Word and Promise. In everything involved in God's Promise (like it was with Abraham), all that God requires of us is to believe what He Promised.
Throughout the years, we've been taught many things that are required for us to be healed, Baptized in the Holy Spirit, receive a new language or be holy and sanctified to God. We haven't been taught that God only requires us to believe His Promises and be assured that "He is also able and mighty to do what He has Promised."
I suppose this seems too simple to be true, so we set out to make a way to earn our way into His Promise. We witness one person being healed, while another isn't healed and determine that "It must be God's will." The truth though, is that one person believed the Promise and one didn't. We see the same truth occurring in those who hear the Word of salvation and believe it, while some hear the Word of salvation and do not believe it or accept it.
We have limited our believing, to believing the Promise of salvation. In all actuality, all the Promises are received the same way. We've heard the Word preached about being saved by believing, but we haven't heard about believing the other Promises to us as heirs of Abraham through Jesus. God didn't only Promise that, "He would no longer remember our sins and iniquity," but that "By His stripes we are healed." God Promised the Gift of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:29 (Amplified), saying, "The Promise of the Holy Spirit is to and for you and your children and to and for all that are far away, even to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself."
We've been taught we must tarry and cry, remove any make-up, and do many such other things. Jesus said in Luke 11:13 (Amplified), "If you then, being evil as you are, know how to give good gifts (gifts that are to their advantage) to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him." All we're required to do after receiving Jesus, is believe God's Promise and then ask to receive.
For centuries, much of what Jesus bequeathed to us in His Last will and Testament, has been hidden because we've had earthly lawyers trying to "break" the will. Having knowledge of God's Word and faith in His Promises, are all that is required for us. It was by His Own will and Promise to and for us, to walk in His family and His Blessing.
Many of us have never read this New Testament, as being not only a will, but as God's will to and for us. Galatians 3:6-7 (Amplified) says, "And because you really are His sons, God has sent the Holy Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying Abba, Father, Father. Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant), but a son, and if a son, then it follows that you are an heir, by the aid of God through Christ."
When you're left something in a will, you're only required to accept it. You didn't work for it, earn it, or even have a right to it. It was a gift that was left to you, from the labor of some else. It was left to you from the work of someone else, because that person loved you and wanted you to enjoy it. The will of God was ,and is, the Promise of Jesus and we've inherited it by simply believing what He left us in His will. It's ours to receive and enjoy, not only when we leave this earth, but while we're still here on earth.
If you've received the Promise of salvation through Jesus, then the whole Promise of Jesus that God made to Abraham, is your's. Just believe in His Promises, like you did for your forgiveness of sin. They are already yours from Him, to enjoy. Romans 8:17 (Amplified) tells us, "And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ sharing His inheritance with Him. Only we are to share His suffering if we share His Glory."
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