FORGIVENESS
Old Covenant vs New Covenant …
Which River is the Outflow
of YOUR ❤ ?
. I remember some years ago being under so much condemnation, though I was already a believer in Jesus; still, I got to the point where I looked up to heaven and said, “God, I can’t do this anymore.”
. I’d believed in my heart, because of the way I understood what I was hearing, and how the gospel was being preached and taught, that God was a Finger Pointer always looking for sin.
. I couldn’t live up to (what I believed was) His standard.
. A dear friend of mine would sit on the phone with me and tell me exactly what “the Finished Work of the Cross” meant, that God had already finger pointed me & judged me in His Son on the cross.
. It was then that I heard a pastor frm the Far East unveil the true text of Hebrews 8:12, a quote from a prophetic word from Jeremiah 31:34b, where God swore, with a DOUBLE negative in the Greek text (of the New Testament), that He would NEVER EVER give Himself, let Himself, or make Himself, ever to remember (this is based on how the verb is written in the Greek text), or bring to His lips our sin ever again (see Young’s Literal Translation of Jer. 31:34) …. and it had to do with the blood of Jesus from the cross washing us so clean. (Eph. 1:4, 7; Col. 1:14; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Rom. 3:24-25; 6:2-7).
. I screamed, three times, in my house, ” THIS IS THE GOSPEL ! “ … It was like hearing the Good News for the very first time.
. The veil between God, as “Abba”, and me ripped that day.
. I burst into tears at the revelation of this kind of forgiveness, this Love from God, from HOLY God … now to me, “Abba”.
. The force of New Covenant “Forgiveness” through the spilled Life blood of Jesus, ALL rooted in the intense, crazy awesome, redemptive Love of God (described in detail in 1 Cor. 13:4-8), is not God’s purpose as a vertical downpour alone of Heaven into us.
. God Loves us, because God IS Love!
. New Covenant Forgiveness, rooted in the Love that is God’s very nature through every fiber of His being, is not an Old Covenant pardon with retained remembrance, a retained record, that sets up caution boundaries with filtered Love, lest we blow it exactly as before, and find the old record being added to this present offense. It has no root of anything that could cause it to be provoked, to anger, to hurt, to anything, because it isn’t even able …
. Love, Agape Love, doesn’t love for any selfish reason that could even remotely be provoked to filter or stop the gushing waterfall that is the nature of unconditional Love.
. The writer of Hebrews (ch 10) makes clear the CONTRAST between Old Covenant Forgiveness, with retained remembrance of sin (vs 1-3), and New Covenant Forgiveness, which has Jesus’s blood, washing forever ALL Sin (past, present, future), to where the very remembrance DOES NOT EXIST in God, giving us access to His Holy Throne with ZERO condemnation for transformation … by Grace thru Precious Shed Blood (vs 14-22).
. The record has been FOREVER blotted out by Jesus’s shed blood.
. In the last number of years there has been a cry from my heart for transformation, towards becoming Love, for Abba God to duplicate His image through Christ Jesus in me. This has augmented exponentially in me these last several weeks, and I find my ❤ now pressing in for this same transformation in the bride Christ at large, the Ekklesia.
. Jesus, in John 13:34-35, gives His disciples a new command – to Love one another … exactly as He had loved them … that by THIS the 🌍🌎 would know we’re His disciples. And He was about to show them the extent of His Love to them, in giving Himself to the death of a cross (1 Jhn.4:10-11).
. In his prayer in John 17, right at the end, right before He walks up into the Garden of Gethsemane to be betrayed three hours later, Jesus prays to His Father that the love with which He loved Him would be in US!
. This Love of Father God to Jesus, in Jesus towards His disciples, just did not retain record of wrong, did not ever get provoked, not ever, bcuz this Love was not about seeking its own, rather OUR redemption, our transformation…
. Towards …
. BECOMING …
. Love
. THIS kind of Love …
…
. In the exact image of God, of Jesus, …
. a NEW creation!
. FORGIVENESS, rooted in the Love of God, poured out onto us, the depth of this kind of received Love, manifests in truth through how the River out of our bellies (Jhn. 7:38) flows horizontally (1 Jhn. 4:7-11), firstly towards one another in the Body of Christ (Jhn. 13:34-35), and also to the world around us (2 Cor.5:14-19).
. Too many of us forgive in an Old Covenant manner …
. It manifests in our retaining records of wrong with each other through kept alive hurt, in the remembrance of the offense. It manifests before one another in (intentionally) withheld unconditional Love.
. The bride of Christ needs a revelation baptism of the love of God, of the purpose of the love of God, that it’s not about receiving His love alone, rather it’s about becoming Love by that Love received …
. … to where forgiveness flows like an Unstoppable powerful River frm the Throne of Grace through our ❤s, exactly as we received from God. (Eph. 4:32-5:2 – read this without seeing the chptr division … It will become very clear to you).
. There will never again be a retained record of wrong in the bride of Christ when she is one with Jesus in her heart, in THIS KIND of love that He has for her.
. There will be no such thing as retained hurt, because the foundation of her ❤ is so secure in the love that comes from the throne, from the Lover of her soul; …
. … she’s dead to everything she’d gotten Adam, bcuz she knows confidently she’s not in that bloodline anymore, but in the Bloodline of her Redeemer… soul ties that were the buttons used by the enemy thru people to roil her out of her identity in Jesus’s love will never again exist in her jealous faith in her Lord’s Faithful love rooted & grounded in her ❤.
. She will be consumed by the love of God exactly as Paul describes in 2 Cor. 5:14-21 & Rom. 5:5 & 8.
. It is here that will become visible her Royal Robe of Righteousness, her white wedding dress … and she will be an Unstoppable Force in the Earth because the force of this LOVE, this Oneness with Jesus, will bring about the dominionative might of His kingdom rule (Rev. 19:6-16) exactly as we see in the last chapters of the Book of Esther.
. The GLORY of Jesus – her Redeemer/LORD – will emanate from her, because of the force of forgivenesses flow from out of her ‘established-in-Love’ ❤, causing a true fear of God to spread across regions & nations (Ps. 130:4).
. This word is by no means condemnation or finger pointing or accusation of any sort, Beloved, rather a call to run to the Throne of Grace (Heb. 4:16; 10:19-22), to strip ourselves of every shred of unforgiveness, to give ourselves to Holy Spirit transformation, to let Him clothe us w/ all that is His 1 Cor. 13:4-8 Royal Robe, towards BECOMING Love, …
. … to where the force of this Love through the Forgiveness shown to us becomes the River of Life from out of us towards one another, and towards the world. (Col. 3:13b; 2 Cor. 5:14-19 … this pssg. needs to sink DEEPLY into us, until the revelation of Holy Spirit truth from God our Father is woven into the fabric of our Born-Again, New Creation, renewed mindset).
. There is a revelation of Glory to be revealed THROUGH us, Beloved, that will be so bright in the 🌍🌎 when we go after this breath of Holy Spirit breathed by Jesus (Jhn. 20:19-23a).
. It’s time to run to the Throne of Grace in private time, and give up hurts and offenses, and to camp there for transformation, because Grace from the cross and from the Throne, where is the blood of Jesus, is LONGING to be poured out for us to live and walk in the Freedom of such crazy Awesome Love.
. and to let the River of New Covenant Forgiveness be the revelation to the world of what God’s Love ACTUALLY looks like in truth.
. Ask Holy Spirit to open the eyes of your heart to glimpse into the Glory that is to manifest thru the Bride … You will weep, and pursue transformation, letting go of every shred of unforgiveness, so that unforgiveness doesn’t even have a chance to cling to you.
. … because your only desire is to become the Very Love that has always been His Love unto you … just to shine … Him!!!
. You are SO Loved, Beloved.
Mark Dl
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** – Beloved, you are free to print this and any Kairos for your own study. Take the time to go through these scriptures, and let the Holy Spirit write them and bear witness to them in your hearts and minds. Let the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus and the witness of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you wash through you and renew your mind. These blogs are meant to be Bible studies, so you are free to print up any newsletter of this blog site for your own study. Feel free to copy and reset these Newsletter with lines in them for notes.
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– If you have never believed into Jesus Christ, you can do so now, from your own heart and words. If you wish help to pray, pray, “LORD Jesus, I believe You died for me and as me because You love me. I receive Your Forgiveness for my sin. Thank You for shedding Your blood to cleanse me, for making me clean, for breaking the power of sin in my life, for transforming me as a gift of Your Grace to me. I ask You to live inside of me. I thank You, Jesus, for giving me eternal life, that I might know You and Your Father, as my God, forever. In Your Name, LORD Jesus. Amen!”
. If you just believed into Jesus, if you prayed this prayer to believe into Jesus, it is of great importance that you be water baptized (Mk. 16:16a; Acts 10:47-48a; Rom.6:4). And ask Jesus to baptize you in Holy Spirit & fire. Share your faith, what Jesus has done for you.
. For those of you who have believed into Jesus; take communion often (I Cor. 11:23-26; Lk. 24:30-31a). Let communion be a refreshing of the Blood and the Spirit (Heb. 9:14) to cleanse your conscious from sin consciousness to righteousness consciousness, that you are indeed clean, as a gift of His grace. You are no more, Dearly Beloved, under condemnation; rather, you are under justification – eternally! (Rom. 4:25b, 5:21;b; Heb. 9:11-12). You will find the Holy Spirit of Jesus unveiling Jesus to you from the scriptures like you’ve never seen Him before.
kairos – (Kahee-ros’) – Strong’s concordance defines this word: “an occasion, I.e. set or proper time.” The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (NASB) defines this word; “season, time, but not merely as a succession of moments, which is chronos,” [from which we derive the English word ‘chronology’]. “Kairos, however, implies not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the task at hand, whether the time provides a good, convenient opportunity or not.” This must be understood. Strategic times of the Lord do not necessarily imply good or convenient times. We are in Kairos times. Maybe not good or convenient times, but definitely strategic, opportune times because of the season we are in. We must have “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches,” (Rev. 2:29), so as to respond correctly to the Kairos time.
* Some Scripture for this letter is taken from the (NASB) – NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Other references translated from Grk. Txt as presented in T. Newberry’s Englishman’s Greek New Testament, Zondervan Publishing – 1982- originally published in London, Eng. 1877 Scripture references not showing a Translation in Brackets are this writer’s translation from the Hebrew Massoretic Text as it appears on the web-site “qbible.com”, our from the Greek text of Thomas Newberry’s “Englishman’s Greek New Testament”. Some definitions given to Hebrew words are also referenced from qbible.com website, as well as from Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Baker Book House Company, (C) 1979
Several Translations and study guides to which this author refers are taken from biblehub.com website.