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Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you have a blessed week and a wonderful Christmas celebration. We have been celebrating here at the Hanson house. Our California family was home with us for a few days, and we had a wonderful early Christmas celebration with us all together. I will continue again today on the topic of grace.
The Old Covenant administration of the tree of the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil can never bring freedom to the earth. When our focus is knowledge, we end up becoming judges of ourselves and judges of others. Without an internal change in the weaknesses of our hearts we can never attain to a testimony of being fully good. Only an internal connection to God in our hearts can transform us to become a testimony of God who is good. The Old Covenant of conscience and law can only end in death. Jesus died for us to put an end to the old administration of death in our lives. His death was a judgment of mercy for us all that we might receive the empowerment of His presence in our lives. That empowerment is the testimony of His grace. It is not a law of death but a law of the Spirit of life for us all.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
God’s mercy freed us from condemnation. The death of Jesus upon the Old Covenant tree of death (the cross), enabled us all to find our death in Him. Having died in Him, we are made free from the power of death. We are made free from our disconnection from life. God’s mercy freed us from the law of sin and death. Having been freed from death we are now joined to God in Christ. We are joined to the eternal life found in God. God’s grace gives us the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Having been joined to eternal life in God enables us to live our lives as a testimony of life. That life increases in our lives as a testimony of God’s grace. Grace empowers us to walk according to God’s Spirit. When we are joined to the Spirit of God in our hearts, our spirits inspire our souls with life-giving thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires that enable us to live as sons and daughters of God. We are inspired from within to live our lives as givers of life to our world in every aspect of our being. Mercy ended our life of flesh and grace empowers our life in the Spirit.
Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
The Spirit of God dwells in us. The power of eternal life is within us! Grace is the Spirit of God dwelling in us. Grace is a relationship with God – spirit to Spirit. Being joined to God in our spirits is good news for our souls and even our physical being. Grace is the resurrection life of Christ within us. It is stronger than our mortality. Being joined to God in Christ grants us the power of the resurrection life of Christ – in this world and in all that is to come. We are saved by grace!
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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