Nov
20
2009
This morning waves of emotion. It seems that as God blesses and changes my mindset it gets more difficult. As I drovethe truck (works when it is not raining) this morning trying to drive off the water in the air filter I cranked up the Skillet and just let go. God is in control and no matter what I try to do I can not thwart that plan for my life. Today I am broken from my sin. It feels strangely good.
Ps. 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not His saints; they are preserved forever. . .”
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Oct
20
2009
“the covenant of works was broken by sin and was unable to confer life”
– Baptist Confession of Faith 1689
What a different way of looking at the covenant. Often we think of the covenants as something the God must keep, we focus on the fact that His promises never fail… to think that a promise made by God was broken, not by God but by man’s failure to KEEP the covenant.
Romans 4:13
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 (emphasis mine)
We are left with a massive shortfall of righteousness on our side of the covenant. We have broken the Laws of God with no hope of making it right. More evidence of grace that has been planned from the beginning.
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Before time began, God knew we would fail our side of the promise. God knew we would never achieve the Glory of Himself. It is in the gospel that we are made righteous.
We must proclaim this Good News. That God would choose us to make His call known is still beyond the reaches of my imagination.
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