Open Heaven 13 June 2020 Memorise: For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28
Read: Galatians 3:20-26 Open Heaven 13 June 2020
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Open Heaven 13 June 2020
Bible in one year: 2nd Chronicles 6-7, Psalm 136
Hymnal: Sing hymn 30
Message: – Open Heaven 13 June 2020 Saturday Daily Devotional
Many Christian think the law (the Old Testament) is no longer of any effect and thus behave carelessly, claiming that, because they are born again, grace cover all their sins. Paul clarifies this in the following Scriptures;
“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the Faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:23-26
The old covenant protected the people against temporal death, poverty, all forms of suffering and bondage but the new delivers eternally (Matthew 1:21; 26:28). Your ability to overcome sin is proof that you are a child of God. John the Beloved corroborated this when he said in 1st John 3:9 that “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
Open Heaven 13 June 2020 Saturday
Are we really children of God? If we still wallow in sin, we remain in the old dispensation and the letter of the law will punish us here and in the afterlife.
The superiority of the new covenant over the old however is that, while the latter puts constraints to prevent sins, the new gives power over it. Romans 6:14 says: “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
We therefore have the assurance that grace will work for us. Romans 6:1 however caution that we cannot remain in sin, expecting grace to abound. Rather grace empowers us to conquer sin. You do not have any excuse to abide in sin.
Action Point – Open Heaven 13 June 2020
Tap into the power of the new covenant to overcome sin.
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Father give me peace, long life, prosperity, protection, blameless before God, promotion
Thank you Jesus for making me a child of God
I thank God for the priviledge to be a child of God
Thank you Father, for planning thy seed in me.
Thank you Father, for planting thy seed in me.Help me by thy grace to sin not AMEN
The superiority of the new covenant over the old however is that, while the latter puts constraints to prevent sins (when you break one, you break all), the new gives power over it (the new encourages prevention is better than cure).
The above summarises the whole lesson. And Romans 1:6 caps it all…we cannot remain in sin, expecting grace to abound.
Lord help me to overcome sin by the power of the new convenant. Amen