Classic Christianity – A Closer Look at The New Covenant P2 (05-26-21)
Synopsis
Do you realize you are under a New Covenant today? What exactly is the New Covenant? As you read the book of Hebrews, you come to realize that there was an Old Covenant of law that was replaced by a New Covenant of grace. A covenant, a testament and a will are synonyms. We are familiar with a will, that when someone’s death has been proven, then a will is read and whatever is in that will is executed so that whoever is named in that will receives what is written down. So too in the case of a will, testament, or covenant.
The Old Covenant required the sacrifice of the blood of bulls and goats to just cover sin. And under that covenant, a person was required to continue to do everything written in it, which included the ten commandments of God, and if you fail just once you are guilty of breaking all of the law. Only one person fulfilled that will, and that person was Jesus Christ. Since mankind could not keep the requirements of his will, God sent Jesus to do something man could never do.
Jesus came and fulfilled the law. He did so not by obeying letters written on stone, but by who He is, perfect love. God is love and love does its neighbor no wrong and love is the fulfillment of the law. Having fulfilled the law, Jesus, God in human flesh, became sin for us in order that in His resurrected life we can have the righteousness of God imputed to us.
Having fulfilled the Old Covenant, by Jesus death, burial and resurrection, He ushered in a New Covenant with mankind. This is how man’s problem was solved, that man was incapable of coming to God and being made acceptable to God by means of the law, by what he does. Being born dead in sin, dead spiritually, separated from God, man is weak and cannot fulfill the law. The love of God is not in his heart. We love because He first loved us, and love is a fruit of the Spirit, something only God produces. So God provided the means for man to be saved from death unto new life in Him through faith in what Jesus alone accomplished for him.
Salvation is being saved from the consequence of sin, which is death, by the gift of God, which is the resurrected life, the Spirit of life, in Christ Jesus. Yet, many people have not understood salvation. Many people think salvation is getting your sins forgiven. So with faulty thinking, a Catholic thinks they have to go to a confessional booth to get their sins forgiven. A Protestant is no better, for he thinks he can go directly to God to get his sins forgiven, often from a misunderstanding of 1 John 1:9, so as to keep in fellowship with God or to keep short accounts with God. A Jew thinks he can get his sins forgiven by going back to the day of atonement, where a bull or a goat has to be sacrificed on an altar. And that system ceased at the death of Christ, and after the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D., there is no longer such sacrificial system.
But as you read the scriptures, the meaning is very clear. People have not read the scriptures for themselves or have not thought through why Jesus died, was buried and rose again. Look, for example, at Romans 5:10.
Romans 5:10
10 For if, while we were God’s enemies [lost], we were [past tense] reconciled to him through the death of his Son [at the cross], how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
How many of us were reconciled? All of us. What were we? Lost. Through whom were you reconciled? Jesus. By what action of Jesus? His death. What was forgiven at the cross? Your sins. When? While you were still enemies of God. Were you saved by His death? No, because that was a necessary preparation for life to be given. According to Hebrews 9:21, what is necessary for a covenant to be ushered in? Shed blood. Whose blood is of eternal quality that is needed for a New Covenant? Hebrews 10 provides a thorough explanation, and as John the Baptist testified concerning Jesus, that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away, not atones for, or covers sin like that of the blood of bulls and goats, but takes away sin. How many times did Christ Jesus die to take away sin? Once. For how many? For all.
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What would happen, if you were still under an Old Covenant, and you should sin? You would die. According to Romans 6:23, what are you saved from? The wages of sin. What is the wages of sin? Death. Can forgiveness of sins give you life? No, life is a gift from God. In a gift, who does all the work to provide the gift? Who receives the gift? Have you received the gift?
According to 1 Corinthians 15, what if Jesus was never raised from the dead, what would happen to you? If Jesus was not raised, you would still be dead in your sins. Then what saves you from death? Life. Who is the only person who has life to give you, not a temporal life, but eternal life? God Himself through Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead.
You got sins that had to be forgiven. You have a consequence to sin, called death, that has to be corrected. The only solution to death is life. Forgiveness does not bring life to the dead. Life brings life to the dead. There is only one life available to you, and that is the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. Buddha cannot give you life. Mohammad cannot give you life. No prophet can give you life. No evangelist can give you life. No pastor or teacher can give you life. There is only one person who is able to give his life, and that is the resurrected one. That is precisely why the apostle Paul said that without the resurrection we are to be pitied of all people and are still dead in our sins.
So as you understand this New Covenant, have you thought through the scriptures that talk about the Lord’s Supper? Is the Lord’s Supper practiced by whatever church you attend, is it done in accordance with truth? Does your pastor tell you to make sure you drink of the Lord’s cup in a worthy manner, to be sure you have no unconfessed sins and to introspect over any sins you have committed? From what you understand of the New Covenant and of what biblical salvation really is, what conclusions would you come to?
Scripture says the cup refers to the New Covenant. What is written in that New Covenant will in Hebrews, that if you are in Christ Jesus, that you have possession of, and that you become? Jesus said He will remember our sins no more and where these have been forgiven, there is no more sacrifice for sin. What is required for sins to be forgiven? The shedding of blood. For sins to be taken away, never to be seen again? The perfect sacrifice of Jesus, who shed His blood on a cross, once and for all. Will He ever shed His blood again? No. So are you saved by having your sins forgiven? No. So what does His body represent, that you are now placed in, a member of, not by joining an organization, but by faith in what God has provided as a gift? Forgiveness cannot give life. Only life can give life.
Jesus is the only life available to man. So in Him you become a forgiven person. In Him you have become a new creation, a child of God. In Him you have every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus. That is written in His will for you and me. Have you received that by faith, for that is how the will is written. To those who receive Him, to those who believe in His name, He has given the right to become children of God.
Your sins were taken away before you and I were ever born. So what saves you? Coming to receive the life Jesus came to give you, His Spirit to be placed in you at a moment of new birth, not a physical one but a spiritual one (John 3). When you are born again, the Spirit indwells you forever, and will never leave you or forsake you. Why? You are not under Law but under grace. You are not under an Old Covenant system but under a New Covenant in Christ Jesus. This New Covenant is not about what we do, but what God has done for us through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus. We enter into the finished work of Jesus Christ, who cried out from the cross, “It is finished”. There is no more work to be done. Jesus did it all. None of us but all of Him. Have you entered in?
Transcript
We began this study on the New Covenant. It is probably the most untaught, misunderstood, commingled type of message that we have in Christendom. We have never, in most cases settled onto the fact that we are under a new covenant, so we commingle the old and the new with glee. The fact of the matter is God has ushered in a new covenant, a new will, a new agreement.
We talked about the fact the covenant is no different than a testament. You have an old testament. You have a new testament. You have an old will. You have a new will. When you have an old will and a new will, the old will has been replaced by the new one. People do not understand the truth of that. But that is exactly what that is. This is a will.
We look at it this way; a covenant, a will, a testament. In the case of a will, we know that from our experience, as it says in Hebrews 9:16-17.
Hebrews 9:16-17
16 In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, 17 because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
In this day and age, if someone has a will, and they suddenly disappear, the insurance people and the will people are not going to pay off until they determine that person is gone. He may just be missing. So you have to prove the death until a new will goes into effect. That is precisely why in the gospel it mentions the death, the resurrection and the burial. The burial is the proof of the death. All three have meaning to them.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures
In this particular case, dealing now with old and new. If we are going to usher in a New Covenant, someone has to die. That someone was the one who came to give us life, and His name is Christ Jesus. That is why the dividing line of human history is not at the birth of Christ but at the death of Christ. God divided humanity into two segments, before the cross and after the cross.
So we talked about this in Hebrews 9:18-22.
Hebrews 9:18-22
18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
In other words, the first covenant did not go into effect without a forfeiture of a life.
Hebrews 9:19-20
19 When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20 He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”[Exodus 24:8]
Here is a covenant, the law, and we are to keep it. We were in the equation. This is the Old Testament now. We were in the equation, “Here is the law and you have to keep it.”
Galatians 3:10
10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Hebrews 9:21
21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
I have asked people in our meetings to get out your pencil and mark and underline that passage, “without the shedding of blood [ without the forfeiture of life ] there is no forgiveness”. That was in the old and also in the new. The difference between the old and the new; in the old was the shedding of the blood of a bull and a goat, and in the new, was the shedding of the blood of God Himself, whose blood is of such value that it is capable of doing something that the blood of bulls and goats could never do, which is to take away sin. The blood of bulls and goats covered sin, called atonement. Atonement is not used under the new covenant. God did not come to atone for sin. The blood of bulls and goats came to atone for sin. He came to do something far greater than that. But again, because people still use atonement, we put the sacrifice on the same identical basis as a bull and a goat, where people have to keep coming back for forgiveness and forgiveness and forgiveness. He came to take away the sins of the world.
John 1:29
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
He came to do something far greater than the blood sacrifice, or forfeiture, of an animal.
Hebrews 9:27-28
27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Jesus was not sacrificed two times, three times or four times, but once, to take away sins. So pause a minute on Hebrews 9:27-28. These are not just words to hear. They have a meaning to them. What does it mean, that when Christ comes back? Do you believe Jesus is coming back? I would think any evangelical listening today would say, “Amen. Hallelujah.” When He is coming back, is He coming back to bear sin? It seems like there has been a lot of sinning since He died on a cross. Why is He not coming back to bear the sin? Because He did it. When did He do it? He did it at the cross. What did He do at the cross?
2 Corinthians 5:21
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him [His resurrected life] we might become the righteousness of God.
He did not do it twice, but once, and when he comes back, He is not coming back to do it again. Neither is He doing it again now. But when He comes back, He is going to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Since forgiveness requires the shedding of blood, and Jesus shed His blood, one time at the cross, what conclusion can you draw concerning the forgiveness of sins that Christ has provided for you as a child of God? Is this an ongoing deal? If you go to God today and say, “Lord, forgive me“, He would say, “Where is your sacrifice?” Why? Because without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Yet, in the Christian world, people act as if that event never occurred, and if it did occur, people have no clue of the depth of its meaning. Christ went to take away the sins of the entire world and ushered in a brand new covenant. A brand new agreement between God and man was made whereby we are now out of the equation.
Under the Old Covenant, here is the law, and you must keep it. Under the New covenant you cannot keep it, but God did. Now you come to God by faith and faith alone. That is all that is asked.
Galatians 5:6
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
It is finished, folks. When are people going to realize the truth of this. This is not some new teaching. This is the teaching of the New Testament. This is the teaching of the New Covenant. It is over. It is done. There is no more forgiveness to be executed on our behalf by God. He has done it. He did it once, He did it for all and He cried out at the cross, “It is finished.” He did not cry out “It is almost finished.” He cried out, “It is finished” which means “Paid in full”, not “Paid in part.”
1 John 2:2 (KJV)
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
The sins of the entire world were taken away at the cross 2000 years ago, back to Adam and forward to eternity. God is not dealing with sins today. The only sin attributable to man, according to the word of God, is what Jesus said in John 16:9.
John 16:9 (TLB)
9 The world’s sin is unbelief in me
That is the unpardonable sin. That is a sin that cannot be pardoned, the rejection of the Son of God, who came to take away your sins from the eyes of God. So we have to come to conclusions on these things, that if that is true, and it is true, then why are people still going to confession booths? Why are people quoting 1 John 1:9 to keep short accounts with God? Why are people crawling up stairs on their knees to get forgiveness? Because you do not believe God when He said, “I have already done it.” How many times do you want Him to do it for you?
When you were under the Old Testament, bulls and goats were shed. What does scripture say in regard to that?
Hebrews 10:1-4
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
It is never over. In the Old Covenant, it never was over. The sacrifices had to go on and on and on and on, every day. But as you notice, from 70 A.D. on, there are no more sacrifices. The temple was destroyed, and from that day forth there are no more sacrifices that have been made. It seems quite possibly God knew what He was doing there as well. The only one you can count on right now is the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.
It is my prayer that people will get a hold of this truth. What do you do then, Bob? What do you do when you sin? You got your mind on what you do. Why don’t you take a look at what did He do? Why should that not be your first response? What did He do with that sin that you just committed? What did He do? He took it away. He died for it. He sacrificed for it. He said He will never see it again.
Then what should I do? Now I know what to do. The reason we do not know what to do is because we do not know what He did and we do not believe what He did. Jesus says “It is finished.” We say, “No. No. It is not finished. I will go to the confession booth.” or “No. No. It is not finished. I will keep asking God direct.” But it is finished. To a Catholic, it is finished. To a Protestant, it is finished. This is not a Catholic or Protestant deal. This is truth out of the word of God. We come up with our own Catholic traditions and our own Protestant traditions to keep ourselves forgiven. If the sacrificial system was still in effect we would go back to our Jewish traditions to keep ourselves forgiven. There is no more forgiveness. Christ has done it once. He did it for all.
Does that mean that all people are saved? No. Because you are not saved by getting your sins forgiven. In the book of Romans it tells us that.
Romans 5:10
10 For if, while we were God’s enemies [lost], we were [past tense] reconciled to him through the death of his Son [at the cross], how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
How many of us were reconciled? All of us. What are you saved from? The wages of sin.
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You got sins that had to be forgiven. You have a consequence to sin, called death, that has to be corrected. The only solution to death is life. Forgiveness does not bring life to the dead. Life brings life to the dead. There is only one life available to you, and that is the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. Buddha cannot give you life. Mohammad cannot give you life. No prophet can give you life. No evangelist can give you life. No pastor or teacher can give you life. There is only one person who is able to give his life, and that is the resurrected one. That is precisely why the apostle Paul said that without the resurrection we are to be pitied of all people and are still dead in our sins.
1 Corinthians 15:16-19
16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
Knowing full well of the cross, where Jesus took away the sins of the world, and he knew that better than we did, but also knowing that was an event that has taken place, that is what prepared us for what salvation is. Salvation is being saved by the consequence of sin, which is death, by the resurrected life in Christ Jesus. This is good news, folks. But if we do not understand this, we will spend all of our time dealing with sin.
It is like pulling up weeds. We will spend all our time pulling weeds instead of growing grass. If you grow healthy grass, it will choke out the weeds. “I do not want to mess around with this growing grass. I do not know anything about that. But I do know how to pull up weeds, brother. I keep short accounts with those suckers. I pull them out. I keep that lawn clean.” “What are you going to do tomorrow?” “Pull weeds.” “What about the next day?” “Pull more weeds.”
That is a picture of what is done in the so-called Christian life. Confess sins. Confess sins. Instead of resting in the fact it has already been done, so grow grass. Go and get involved in the dynamic of a living Christ Jesus. That is what He has called us to. I am not teaching something that is not taught in the scriptures, folks. This is as clear as the nose on our face, this teaching.
So what does the Old Testament say about this New Covenant that was put in effect at the death of Christ Jesus? We will turn to Jeremiah shortly. But just like a will does not go into effect until you die, this covenant does not go into effect until the death of Christ.
Let us think through these things. If that is true, that the New Covenant did not go into effect until the death of Christ, then when did the New Covenant begin? It began at the death of Christ. Is there anything in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John about the death of Christ outside of that event taking place? No. So did Jesus teach under a New Covenant? Or did Jesus teach under an Old Covenant? He taught under the old. Why? The new one was not there yet. It is not because He did not like the new one. It had not been ushered in yet. He had not fulfilled the old yet. Only He could fulfill the Old Covenant. Only the life of Christ was of such value that He could fulfill the law. And He fulfilled the law, not us.
Romans 3:20
20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
No one will ever be reconciled to God by obedience to the law. The only man that ever lived in total obedience to the law was Christ Jesus. How did He do it? By trying to obey the law? No. By walking in perfect love.
Romans 13:10
10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
1 John 4:8
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Perfect love casts out fear so we are free to go to Him for what He came to give, life. Love fulfilled the law. Jesus came to this earth in order to do what no other man could do, fulfill the law.
That covenant of God’s, has been fulfilled. He was able to usher in a New Covenant. He is not going to usher in a new one when the old is still around. He said that one did not work. No one fulfilled it. Jesus did not say, “I will try another one.” He does not function that way. No. He says, “This old one is going to be fulfilled. But you are not going to do it.” Only Jesus is. So Jesus walked in perfect love and fulfilled the law. Then at the cross, He was able to usher in a New Covenant with both Israel and with the Gentile world.
Turn to Jeremiah 31 and read what was prophesied about this New Covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31-32
31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
Why?
Jeremiah 31:32-33
because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
Every place in the scripture where the ten commandments are used, it is always the laws (plural). The laws of Moses always with no exception. This Jeremiah quote in the Old Testament states that. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.”
Jeremiah 31:33-34
I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
That is a quote from Jeremiah. When this same identical quote is used in the New Testament, rather than being translated “law”, it is translated “laws”. Why translate “law” in the Old and “laws” in the New Testament? Because he is not talking about the ten commandments Law. That is always a singular term, “law”, which includes all of them. But it is the “laws” of Jesus. Jesus said, “I leave you with these two, which hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 2:37-39
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[Deuteronomy 6:5] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[Leviticus 19:18] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The laws of Jesus are the fulfillment of all the Law and the Prophets. So when this is quoted in the New Testament, in Hebrews, it does not say to put their “law”, and write them on their hearts, it uses the word “laws”, referring to the laws of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 8:10-12
10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”[Jeremiah 31:31-34]
Again, let us get back to what we were talking about. This covenant was given to both the Jew and the Gentile, even though it was addressed to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. The Gentile never had the law. They were never given the law. The Law was given to the Jew. Writing in Hebrews to the Jew, he obviously is going to quote the Jeremiah passage, that was also to the Jew, and stated that this is the covenant I will make with your forefathers.
In order to put on the New, to the Jew, he had to take off the old because he had the law. You are going to have to take that law off. You will have to put it aside in order to put on the new. You need to get undressed and then get dressed with a new set of clothes. But to the Gentle, they were naked. They never did have the law. So what does he say to the Gentile world, “Get dressed.” There is nothing for you to take off because you are naked. You never had the law. Butt there is something for you to put on, and that is this New Covenant of grace.
So, that is the New Covenant. It is both to the Jew and to the Gentile. In Luke 22:20, it says this.
Luke 22:20
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Folks, we take the Lord’s Supper and we take it in so many different ways, but the scripture so clearly declares that this is a picture of the new covenant. If this is the cup of the new covenant, what does the new covenant say?
Hebrews 10:17-18
17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
This is the New Covenant. Sins have been forgiven. There is no more sacrifice for sins. To the Jew, through their custom to go to the day of atonement, to go to an altar to get their sins forgiven, he is saying, “No more sacrifices. No more shedding of the blood of bulls and goats. It is finished. It is over.” Did they like that? No. How are you going to feel good about yourself when all you have to do is walk by faith in the fact it is done? This way I can go back and kill a bull and a goat and then go tell everybody “I killed a bull and a goat and I am okay”.
What about us Gentiles? We, a bunch of dummies, stole the law from the Jew and said we will do better than you will. We got ourselves under the law as deep as any Jew ever thought of doing. People today, who come to Christ, are still going back trying to be a Jew, instead of a born again believer and follow all of the Jewish customs and all of the Jewish laws that Jesus said to put aside and learn to walk in the newness of life that is ours through Christ Jesus.
So people take the Lord’s Supper, which is poured out and represents the New Covenant, where our sins and lawless acts He will remember no more, and what do people do? Dim the lights, play the organ, and introspect over sins, trying to get all the unconfessed sins out of their life. That is not New Covenant. New Covenant says it has all been taken away. What are we doing this for? It should be a celebration. We should be celebrating. This is a body of people that their sins have been removed by Christ Jesus.
But I want to tell you something. That is a true statement whether you are saved or not, that your sins are taken away. You are not saved until you come to Him for His resurrected life, but your sins have still been removed. This is a celebration. This is a cup of the New Covenant, not of the old, of the law that kills, but of the Spirit that gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:6
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Look at what Christendom has done. All this is is tradition, what people have grabbed a hold of. We do not sit around with introspection, digging into the past to get our sins forgiven. We ought to be thanking Him, praising God instead of the introspection of looking into ourselves to see how we are doing. None of us are doing very good in the energy of our own flesh.
Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
It is all God my friends. It is none of us.
John 19:30
30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
When are we, as Christians, in our hearts, going to say “It is finished.” and walk by faith in that wonderful truth.
