New Covenant: The Twelve Days of Rock Church

Either live out an old covenant message and replace grace with works. Or say no and get to grips how it was really meant to be with full fat Grace. We are free don't get bound by the old religious law that is now old and ageing and will soon disappear. The knowledge of Christ and the good news of the gospel should inspire us to do more not less!

1. You can come as you are. God loves you as you are not as you should be he loves your imperfections. We can be ourselves and walk our journey and find out who we truly are.

2. It is finished. Jesus took away the first to establish the second covenant. The New Covenant puts you in perfect standing with God even though you still arn't perfect.

3. Sins not the problem. Jesus was the offering to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself your sins and unrighteousness acts I will remember no more (Which ones all of them) sin was rendered powerless.

4. Law has no power. Jesus came to fulfil every bit of the law he came to abolish it.

5. Christ makes us righteous. We're in right standing with him because of his work. Stop trying to swim over the sea when there's a perfectly good ferry.

6. No condemnation. We can have a life blessed by grace because of the finished work of Christ.

7. We're not in trouble. We can never upset gods plans Gods work is water tight.

8. All is grace. Grace is outrageously unfair Grace declares we are winners before the game is over.

9. We're a messy church. We're all int the same boat, we're all broken and we have all sinned and fallen short. But jesus bridged the gap.

10. We're cracked pots. We're cracked pots let Jesus light shine through our imperfections. More light comes through a cracked pot than a perfect one.

11. Jesus shines through us.

12. We're accepted forgiven and loved. Don't miss the mystery. We are accepted forgiven and loved. Done!! You do not have to do anything for God to forgive you! its up to you whether you want to accept it. He's forgiven u so forgive yourself!

Romans 1:17- For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith."

 

 

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2013 A Year Of Grace

The Old Testament law was made over 2000 years ago. Yet the church still preach and believe that Christians have to measure up to some moral standard or have to show complete obedience towards God otherwise if you don't your a sinner. The entire New Covenant screams the overwhelming good news of a loving, gracious God that didn’t primarily send His Son to come and change what we do, but to have a relationship with him and sit at the right hand of the farther, through GRACE.

The veil was torn for believers to be able to enter into the holy of holies basically have a connection with God with confidence and without fear not based on our own merits, but based on the perfect obedience of the one man Jesus Chris and his death on the cross, on our behalf. But through the centuries the church has sewed this veil right back up, depicting God as a harsh unloving God. Jesus received the full punishment for our sins and we received the full reward for His perfect obedience, and He imputed to us His Godly righteousness For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (Romans 1:17 NIV)

This does not say basically because Jesus set you free you can do what you want, because if we truly believe in God and love Him we would want to act Christ like to others and not just do what we want. Even though when we do mess up he still loves us and fills the gap. But the purpose is to preach the message of God’s unconditional love and acceptance in spite of our mistakes, a message that in the past has been preached in a confusing cocktail mixed up with old covenant law, the very thing Jesus died for to set us free from. Achievements and obedience have been preached at the cost of GRACE, causing many of us to be robbed of our confidence before God, always feeling somewhat unworthy. We are here to take the free gift of Grace given by his love.

 

 

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