Sunday, June 29, 2014

10 Signs You Might be Under the Old Covenant:

1. You're pretty sure God is getting angry about all that sin
2. You live in fear of growing judgement of God against you, your city or your nation
3. You think the law is a good starting place to understand God and the Father
4. You tithe, avoid shrimp and keep the Sabbath (Insert other levitical laws) to qualify for blessing
5. The thought of God lighting up San Francisco or an Islamic nation gets you excited...
6. You believe the fire and judgment of God is more effective than his love
7. Most of your prayer life is dedicated to repenting for all the bad things you have done, or thought.
8. You believe the Old Testament brings right balance to the New Testament
9. If your fear of God's judgement is a wise precaution that keeps you from sinning more than his love

(This one may sting)

10. If you believe the reason you lost your job, that your child died, and you or your family got sick, got cancer -is because God was finally showing you who is boss, and punishing you for that horrible sin (adultery, pornography, cheating, stealing ect.)
*Extra credit*

11) This posting ticks you off, you are alarmed and your considering accusing me of being heretical.

This used to be me too. Sometimes I still get stuck here, especially in 1 or 2. However, it is not true. We now live in a better, brighter and more powerful covenant of grace and love stemming from faith in Jesus. If any or all of these apply to you, simply as Jesus to show you where you have come under the old covenant. Read Galatians 5 and consider that the whole and entire law was destroyed and the new Covenant in Jesus is way better. Do not come under any of it, not one letter.

**Disclaimer at the end of commercial in little tiny writing**
* I Do believe that God detests sin. So much so he actually crucified his son to cover and forgive it all.
* I do believe in one day of final judgement in the end of earth's time. I do not believe that day is years, a season or a phase.
* I do not believe we are in the "end times" where God is about to pour out all wrath. He already did that on Jesus and the old covenant.

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