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Greetings,
Today I am in Deming, New Mexico. I have been blessed the past couple of days at CitiLife Church. As I have been, I ministered on the peace of God yesterday. I also did teaching on Authority last night and will do another session tonight. It is always a pleasure to be with my church family and friends here. Thank you for being who you are Pastors Cesar, Irene, and all of CitiLife church. God’s favor is upon you and with you as you continue moving forward in this new year.
I have been writing concerning 2022 being a year of peace. In this, I have been sharing on the Old Covenant peace offerings as a shadow of something real for us today in celebrating the peace that we have with God in Christ as His community of sons and daughters. We are His family, and we celebrate with thanksgiving, praise, and submission to one another because of our nearness to God and His nearness to us in all things.
The peace offerings of the Old Covenant could be a sacrifice of the herd or of the flock. It could be a sacrifice of male of female. It was a testimony of who we are as sons and daughters of God in Christ. It doesn’t matter who we were, or where we came from, we have been brought near to God in Christ. God sees us all as His sons and daughters and He declares us to be His inheritance in the earth.
Leviticus 3:1 ‘When his offering is a sacrifice of a peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.’
Leviticus 3:6 ‘If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.’
The peace offering is an offering without blemish. In truth, God doesn’t judge us by the flesh. He sees us by the spirit. He is not looking for the perfection of the flesh, but the sincerity of our hearts. We cannot find our pride in any form of flesh that we might confess to find our identity, testimony, and purpose in. When we come as we are, He sees us as we should be. We don’t come to Him to preserve who we are in the flesh. We come to Him so He can declare who we are by His Spirit. The unblemished sacrifice could depict the best that we could be as perfect in the flesh, but even the best that we could be in the flesh is consumed in the fire of His presence. His baptism of fire transforms the testimony of our lives to be testimonies of His miraculous love and life-transforming power of grace. Jesus took on the form of perfect flesh. He was the word made flesh so that our flesh could become a testimony of His word. God’s peace gives us access to God’s grace and God’s grace transforms our lives.
Galatians 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
The peace offering could be a male or a female animal – as we are all sons of God in Christ. God’s peace in our lives confirms that we are all inheritors of the abundance of His life. Being one with God and one with one another gives us all access to the wholeness of all that God is and has in heaven. Our future is determined by God and all that He possess in His heavenly house. It doesn’t matter what trouble there is in the world, our portion is a portion of life in all things! We are joined to the eternal life of God in heaven and to the eternal life of God in one another.
The grace of God is working by the Spirit of Knowing in this season in the earth. We have peace with God because we are the community of His family. Whether we were bound to the law or bound to lawlessness, we have found the presence of God in Christ that gives us peace in all things. We know the life and power of God’s grace working in and through our lives.
Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
The testimony of God’s peace is seen in being a community of His presence. It is not just being joined to Him, it is being joined to one another. Peace is not just the testimony of being brought near to God, but one of being brought near to one another. It is where the law and the lawless become one because of the One who empowers them both by grace. Intimacy with God in our hearts makes us one with Him and with one another. It is by faith that we live as His sons and daughters, it is not by the legalism of some Biblical principle or the liberty of some personal desire. It is by relationship with God that we come to know relationship with one another as His community in the earth. It is a community of the Spirit, and not a community of human control nor human liberty. It is by the life-giving way of God!
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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