Jesus is the great reformer who brought a better covenant with better promises! Live your life in the reformation Jesus provided that's where your victory is at!
Jesus The Reformation For Our Salvation
Hebrews 9:8 the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. 9 It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience; 10 concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
Jesus Christ came bringing the reformation for our salvation. Jesus, our High Priest came with a greater more perfect way! Jesus is our reformation!
1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. When the object of your faith becomes Jesus Christ and Him crucified you have moved from death unto life. You have been born of God at faith in Jesus Christ! Jesus brought the reformation needed to allow us to be reconciled to God. Before Jesus there was not justification; with Christ there is righteousness (right standing) and justification (declared innocent) through faith in His atoning work at Calvary .
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
God’s Word is so clear on this issue! Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. What a privilege to be under this covenant of grace and truth. What you think of Jesus Christ determines your destiny for eternity and in this life.
John 3:14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
At God’s command Moses made a bronze snake; whoever would but look up to the snake would be healed. Whoever believes in Jesus can have eternal life. This is not an intellectual exercise even the devil believes on that level. This is placing the object of your faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ. It is a surrender to Jesus as your Messiah. That degree of surrender brings you out of darkness into the light of Jesus Christ.
John 3:35 "The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. 36 "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
What you think of Jesus Christ determines your destiny both now and eternally. Jesus the great reformer has turned the wrath of God away from us by taking the wrath of God for us. Jesus became our sin bearer and that changes everything!
Acts 20:20 "how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ is the gospel and there is no other gospel. Turn your eyes upon Jesus and the reformation He brings; it is your source of victory.
Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
Faith in Jesus bring us a right standing with God; it leads us into a life of faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Here is the reformation that Jesus Christ provided. Faith in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ brings us right standing and a declaration of innocence. Faith in God and work Jesus did at the cross. God’s defines faith as the object of your faith in Jesus. The Word of Faith Movement has redefined faith. Faith in your faith changing the world with your own strong faith. The minute we leave the object of your faith from Jesus Christ to our performance by our faith we stray from the reformation Jesus provided.
Romans 4:13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15 because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
The reformation brings us to trust exclusively in the work of Jesus Christ. Anything out side of reformation brings us into trusting our own works. The law or the traditions of men that cause us to leave the reformation in Jesus Christ leads to death.
Galatians 3:22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Believer once you have come to the reformation provided in Jesus Christ you no longer need to be under the tutor of the law. YOU ARE SONS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS! Any other message is forsaking the reformation Jesus brought!
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
The warning goes out from the Spirit of God! Beware… Jesus Christ and Him crucified is where your liberty and freedom come from; don’t receive any other message!
Colossians 2:16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
Many religious practices were only shadows types and patterns that pointed out truths until our reformer Jesus Christ came. Jesus Christ is the substance those practices. Faith in Jesus set us free from the practices of food or in drink, or new moon Sabbaths found in the law. After coming to the reformation of Jesus Christ live in that liberty. Don’t be yoked with men’s traditions or practices of the law which lends itself to bondage.
Hebrews 9:14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Fleshly ordinances were imposed until the time of reformation! Jesus is our reformation!
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