“Light from on high”
– Luk 1:78 (AMP)
A New Plan
God said:
This new plan I’m making… isn’t going to be written on paper, isn’t going to be chiseled in stone; this time I’m writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts. I’ll be their God, they’ll be My people. They won’t go to school to learn about Me, or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons. They’ll all get to know Me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They’ll get to know Me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.
By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and His people, God put the old plan on the shelf. And there it stays, gathering dust… But when the Messiah arrived… He bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent” – the true Holy Place – once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered Himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.
Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, cancelling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and His people in this new way. (Heb 8:10-13 & 9:11-16 Message Bible)
Rejoice in the awesome and kind Salvation Plan of God, but also walk circumspectly in holiness to bring honor to the Name of our great God!
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