Sunday, December 31, 2017

How build the character of Christ.
In the eternal counsel of God ,He designed and created all things according to His covenant -law. His description and reasons for creating all things was worked out by a covenant oath and the order of His perfect law. The desire of man to meet the laws demands was worked out by God in fulfilling mans purpose. But when sin entered into the world, man became blind to the covenant. Man only sees the laws standard. The law was separated from the covenant by the fall. Christ had to unite the law and the covenants once again by His incarnation. The struggle in all creation with sin and corruption is our loss of control living in the unity with Gods creative authority of covenant- law.
Gods covenant is the foundation of creating all things according to His perfect law. Our personal struggles as Gods elect with creation and in relationships is according to the tension we experience by the power of evil to separate Gods covenant from His law in which the unity is the basis of our experiencing rest. Our power to unite the covenant- law is in pronouncing the curse.
When man sinned he was cursed with blindness to the covenant oaths of Christ. Without understanding covenant faithfulness the wicked are forced to live under the law. The entire struggle in relationship with evil and the wicked is in exercising our covenant rights as we pronounce the law to oppose the violent threats that keep us from living in Christ covenant faithfulness. Separating the covenant from the law is like the person being divided. The perfect image of the real man is fulfilled in the covenant law keeper.
God has given us the means to wrestle and destroy all opposition. We are given eternal weapons to engage in hand to hand combat with spiritual forces of evil. Gods elect live in a world of violent hatred to the unity that comes from the power in laws work that is founded upon covenant. This personality of grace of covenant law is obnoxious to the natural disposition of the wicked. Gods elect have unlimited power in pronouncing the covenant oaths, arguing and pronouncing the laws standard and cursing the violators who are separated from the covenant. And the wicked have unending blindness and hatred toward this unity. Gods elect control the creation of this unity in pronouncing the covenant law and the curses which work beyond the blindness of the wicked so as to unite the creation.
Christ is the covenant keeper. The covenants are the legal authority that was given to Christ to carry out the law and the curses. Christ obedience is put to our account upon the swearing of His own hurt if the covenant failed. We are tied to the unity of the covenant law as our experience with eternal rest. The only power that we have to overcome our insecure separation of covenant law as the force of the opposition is the pronouncement of death upon law breakers. Knowing Christ is intimately tied to our own healthy disposition.

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