What Hinders the New Covenant: The Old Covenant: The Law

 

 

More preachers are sharing the wonders of the New Covenant, in which we "Yes!" and believe Him for all things.

Still, some linger in the Word of Faith aspect of all things, convinced that if they say certain words enough times, or declare the blood over all things, then they will have what they say, want, etc.

The truth is that while we can say all the right things that we want to, if our heart is not established in righteousness, then whatever we say or think will not last long.

What we say, what we think, all manifest what we believe.

If we think that we still owe God something for all that we have done in our lives, then we cannot receive. We cannot have our hands open to God to receive all things if we still believe that there is part which we must play, that we can achieve, or work with God to achieve something.

The Bible is very clear about the promises in the New Covenant:

"0For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

 

11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

 

12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

 

Now, this New Covenant is based on the sure and unshakable truth that all  my sins are forgiven, put away, paid for, and sent away.

 

There is another element which cannot be ignored:

 

"13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8: 13)

 

We have to get rid of the Old, we have to get ourselves out fro under an old system which will leave nothing but a "fearful looking after of judgment" (Hebrews 10: 26)

 

As long as we think that we still owe God something, or that we can and  must contribute something more to what Jesus has done and is doing for us, then we end up frustrating the grace of God in our lives (Galatians 5: 4)

If you want to let His new heart rule in your life, and thus out of the abundance of this heart your mouth will speak, know and believe the love of God (not for God) (1 John 4: 16), and receive His fullness in your life through the New Covenant.