Hope, the Word, the Christ With Us!

How wonderful! How marvelous! How awesome!  The Word, the Christ, our Hope is WITH us!  When Jesus was born God entered the human side of the covenant.  He said, "I Am going to make a lasting covenant once and for all! I'm going to get into a body and make a contract that cannot be broken!"  The old testament covenant between God and man was broken so many times by man that in order to fix it God actually had to take our place and make a covenant with Himself. The covenant includes us but takes us out of the equation as principles.  It is a covenant for us but between God and God!  We cannot mess it up!  This is the message of the birth of Jesus; in our human and Adam condition we were hope-less, in Christ we have Hope eternal, a cheerful confident expectation of good. We've been saved. We are new. We are WITH Christ!

What Not To Love

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world- the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does- comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and it's desires pass away (death) but the man who does the will of God lives forever."

1 John 2:15-17

Defeat the Accuser

Your enemy, Satan will manifest as an accuser in your life. Calling out all your past and your sins and your guilt and your shame. He will attack in your mind and try to convince you that you don't belong in the body of Christ. Instead of that you say: "Accuser take your hands off of me! Take your hands off of my family! Take your hands off of the Church!" The accuser is a liar. He will attack you from every conceivable angle and use every possible person. Never be surprised at who he will use to try to bring you down. And never be surprised at the power of the blood of Jesus to demolish those attacks!

If the accuser is winning a battle against you, repent! Repentance defeats condemnation! Repent and then claim the victory that has been won for you already!

All Things New