Romans 7:8-12

8But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

The purpose of the Law is to make us sin more! That is the truth, the Law equals more sinning. In Romans 6:23, it says  that “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The more you sin, the more death you will get. We can sum it up to this, that the Law kills … 10 Commandments Kill. The world needs more preachers that unveil the Glory of Christ who do not minister death to people.  We do not need the Law anymore, the Law was given so that every person would come to an end of themselves and turn back to God who is LIFE. Praise God that He sent His son, Jesus to fulfill the Law because only Him can perfectly fulfill the Law, no one else! Matthew 5:17 says that “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” what it means is that there has to be someone to fulfill the Law otherwise blessings that can only come by man’s obedience cannot come and God who is just and righteous cannot bend the Law or lower His standards. Thank God that Jesus perfectly fulfilled the Law on our behalf and since we are in Him, we get all the blessings. In the New Covenant, God does not see our Obedience, but He sees every single obedience that Jesus had done for us (that would mean every single believer in this world).

A Covenant is between 2 parties, in the Old Covenant, it was between God and His People (the Jews) and because Men always fail and cannot perfectly fulfill God’s standards, instead of blessings they received curses after curses.They brought offerings and sacrifices to “cover” their sins/disobedience so that they can still get God’s blessings. What amazing is that in the New Covenant (the Covenant that we are under) is still between 2 parties which are God and Man, BUT… this time is between a PERFECT GOD and a PERFECT MAN whose name is Jesus Christ who perfectly fulfilled God’s standards.This means that, the covenant that we are under is a PERFECT COVENANT and cannot be broken.

So, if the Bible says you must tithe in order to be blessed. What shall we do? Do we look at ourself and think “man, I did not tithe last week at church service, no wonder my week has been bad”? No no no no! We look at Jesus, what did Jesus do on my behalf? Did Jesus tithe? YES! Since we are in Him, are we blessed? YES! God does not see our obedience anymore, everything has been satisfied in Jesus. If the Bible says that, you must have a healthy prayer life for God to move. What shall we do? Do we then try to find where have we gone wrong? No no no no… please do not get me wrong. Once we focus upon Jesus, faith will come for the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of CHRIST. If you know how much we are loved by Him, would you not want to spend more and more time with Him? So, what does that mean now? Let’s be stingy and live lawlessly? No no no no… it just means we do not live under the Old Covenant which brings death any longer because God has replaced it with something greater which is the New Covenant of Grace (God’s Spirit).

We are now a spiritual being not a law being and under God’s Grace. Please understand that Grace does not mean “to cover”, we have heard “well Grace is just a license to sin!” I do not think that if you understand His love, you would want to go out and sin. Grace literary means “Undeserved or Unmerited Favour” which pictures the perfect love of God! if we understand Grace and how much we are loved by God whose love is everlasting for Jeremiah 31:3 says that “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” How Glorious is this? God who owns the universe, who knows us before we were conceived, who created the heavens and earth, who numbered the stars and named them, who holds the universe together, and His love towards us is everlasting? Let’s ponder and meditate on this verse. Let God’s Love washes you.  In John 17:23, God says that He even loves us (that would mean YOU) the same as he loves His son, Jesus!

If all these verses did not make you feel super and deeply loved by the Creator, I will give you some more :)

Let’s look at Philippians 4:19

“And my God will meet all your needs ACCORDING to HIS GLORIOUS RICHES in Christ Jesus.”

How much God will bless me? Let me give you a story. Imagine there are 2 people (Bob and Jeremy) and they both are good friends. Bob is rich and he owns multiple companies and according to a fortune magazine, he is considered as one of the most richest and succesfull people on earth. The second one, Jeremy, he lives a normal life, by normal, I mean he has a job who provides him finance to pay the bills. One day, Bob decided to bless Jeremy with his finance. Let’s just agree that Bob is giving a million dollars to Jeremy just because they are good friends. Although it is a huge amount of money, but still the blessing is based on Bob’s bank account. Although he owns millions and millions of dollars, there are still limits. Now lets look at the third person, His name is Jesus Christ. So who is Jesus? Let’s read Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.” OK this Jesus owns the UNIVERSE and EVERYTHING in it. If you like astronomy like I do, imagine how many gazilions starts out there in space? even the scientists could not figure it out how massive the space is! our star which is Sun is already massive in size, but guess what? Our sun/star is one of the smallest starts there is in space! According to Psalm 50:10 which says “for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.”Jesus owns the cattle on a thousand hills - what would that look like today? I will let you to decide. Do you think Jesus will make it to fortune magazine?  I think so! What kind of title he would get? Perhaps something like this The most loving, richest, kind, humble, successful, thoughtful, generous person that ever recorded in history? I hope you get how BIG and GLORIOUS Jesus Christ is.

This is just a small glimpse of His Glorious Riches (based on my tiny brain) :)

I leave you with these verses from Hebrews 8:7-13

7For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8But God found fault with the people and said:
“The time is coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
9It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
10This is the covenant I will make with the house 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.
11No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”

13By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Grace and Peace be with you

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