Follow Me...!

Ignore the one who is talking behind your back. That is where he belongs... behind you. This one always rushes you with demands; pulls you and provokes you from your back...

Pay more attention to the One who speaks to your face. He is in front of you. He always leads you and He always guide you with abundant grace... His sheep know His voice.

Jesus said, "Follow Me...!" (Luke 8:22)

The Root Of A Prosperous Life

What are the two or three things that concern you the most right now? Do they involve your finances? Your health? Your family? Are you troubled by mistakes you made in the past? This may surprise you, but the devil understands something that most Christians don't. 

Perhaps you've noticed that the Bible doesn't call him the enemy of all prosperity. The Bible doesn't call him the enemy of all health. The Bible doesn't call him the enemy of all peace. Or the enemy of all wisdom…or of all love…or of all joy. 

But the Bible does call him the enemy of all righteousness (Acts 13:10). Why is this? Because the devil knows that righteousness is the key to all victory in our lives.

And that's why the devil spends all his time attacking the gift of righteousness in your life — trying to put inferiority back on you and trying to keep you thinking lower of yourself than what God says about you. But I'm not going to let that happen in your life, because I've learned that you cannot experience all that God has for you until you are established in righteousness.

Righteous means you have “right standing.” It means you have the right to stand in the presence of God — without a sense of guilt or shame or condemnation, without a sense of inferiority, without a sense of fear. In other words, it means that God is pleased with you! It's a gift, of course — made possible by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Think about that for a moment — God is pleased with you! You may have tried to convince yourself in the past that you're pleasing to God, but until you receive the gift of righteousness, you'll never truly feel like you're pleasing to Him.

But when you receive the gift of righteousness by faith, you'll understand that you're not in the process of being made the righteousness of God — but you're in the process of learning about that righteousness and in the process of living out that righteousness.

Righteousness is the taproot to all other blessings —

• the taproot to favor (Psalm 5:12).

• the taproot to prosperity (Proverbs 13:22).

• the taproot to healing (Malachi 4:2).

• the taproot to victory over sin (1 Corinthians 15:34).

• the taproot to wisdom (Proverbs 2:7).

• the taproot to spiritual growth (Ephesians 4:14-15).

Righteousness is a gift that will protect you and provide you with favor, wisdom, insight, power, authority and the anointing!

Is it any wonder why the devil has declared war on righteousness?

He wants to defeat you. He wants you to be influenced by your feelings and your image of yourself — and to be controlled by people and what they think about you. He's the enemy of righteousness.

The Bible says we can be established in righteousness (Isaiah 54:14). The gift of righteousness will provide an unshakable foundation for our lives — a rock to stand on in the midst of every storm.

Jesus never said that the wise man wasn't going to have storms. He just said that the wise man built his house upon the rock — this man was established in righteousness because he built his life upon the rock of God's Word.

What about you? Is your life built on that rock? Is your life firmly established in righteousness? Are you confident that God is pleased with you right now?

If you have any uncertainty about this, if there's any question at all — or if you're experiencing any kind of lack in your life, let me encourage you right now to do these three things:

First – Recognize that you need to get understanding. You need a revelation of who you are and what God has done for you. We will not reign in life without the gift of righteousness, and we will not reign in life without understanding the gift of righteousness.

Second – God wants our minds filled with a consciousness of righteousness because He knows that the devil gains access into our lives when we lack confidence in who we are in Christ.

Third – Sow into righteousness. Plant your best seed toward a harvest of righteousness in your life. Isaiah 32 says, “And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness is quietness and assurance forever…When it shall hail, coming down on the forest, and the city shall be low in a low place, you'll be blessed because you sowed beside the waters” — you'll be blessed because you sowed the seeds of righteousness!

Your life will be changed completely as you receive the Word of God — as you go through the Bible allow God to show you His promises of what happens when you know you're the righteousness of God…

P.S. Satan is not stupid. He knows the source of your power — righteousness. The devil is working overtime to undermine your confidence, your stability, the security that comes from knowing who you are — the righteousness of God! Once you understand what it means to be established in righteousness, I guarantee that your life will be changed forever!

A Facebook Note By Daniel Mentz.

The Gospel Hidden In Chinese Characters

Coming Soon @ SIB Grace ~

Come and be blessed with this fresh revelation of the Gospel hidden in the Chinese characters, expounding the finished work of Christ and the grace of God!





The following Video Clips were taken from "A Tale of Two Covenants in Chinese Characters" during my sharing at tNCC in their midweek service on 03-11-2011.

The word GOD in the Chinese Characters

The words THIEF and ABUNDANT in the Chinese Characters

The words CAME & COME in the Chinese Characters

The word RIGHTEOUSNESS in the Chinese Characters

The word BELIEVE in the Chinese Characters

GOOD MORNING, GOOD AFTERNOON and GOOD NIGHT in the Chinese Characters

Gold Dust

When I arrived at my office this morning, I discovered Gold Dust scattering on my office table as I took out my mobile phone from my left pocket. As I reached out to my right pocket and pull out my hand, the Gold Dust in that pocket scattered on the floor.

I was greatly amazed by the phenomenal. Wow...! Isn't this the sign and wonder that many Charismatic circles are looking for and now, this sign and wonder follows those who preaches the Good News... the Gospel of Grace, the WORD OF CHRIST!


Mark
16:15  He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the GOOD NEWS to all creation.
16:16  Whoever BELIEVES and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
16:17  And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
16:18  they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."



Mark my word, this is the last day and HE means business.... the FATHER's business!

John 
6:54  Whoever eats my flesh (the WORD OF CHRIST) and drinks my blood (the WINE HE CHANGES) has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


What this verse means is:- Those who eats the WORD OF CHRIST and drinks the WINE HE CHANGES, He will RAISE (stand up in original Greek) him up to preach the WORD OF CHRIST at this last day!


This is the last day..... sign and wonder follows the preaching of the significance of GRAIN, NEW WINE and OIL which expounded a fresh insight on HOLY COMMUNION!

Amen!

Gold Dust In My Pockets

I discovered Gold Dust in my left pocket as I took out my mobile phone when I arrived at my office this morning. I was greatly amazed when these Gold Dust scattered all over my table...


1 Corinthians
3:11  For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
3:12  If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
3:13  his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.

A Quote From The Lord

I woke up at 3.00 am this morning due to the excitement that I have over my preaching appointment at the Main Service this morning... I started to rehearse and preaching to myself in the spirit for about half an hour. All of a sudden, the Lord reminded me with a very profund statement... 

"WHENEVER WE STOP BELIEVING, THE GRACE THAT WE THINK WE ARE IN, HAS ALREADY BECOMES A RELIGION...!"

Oh... I just preached myself happy and I went back to my sleep.

A Checklist On What Is Hidden In Your Subconsciousness

How well did I understand grace before I understood grace?

A Facebook Note by Paul Ellis on Thursday, 19 May 2011 at 04:11

Have you ever seen those Magic Eye 3D pictures that look random at first glance but then reveal a hidden picture? Maybe there’s a group of you looking and someone says, “Wow – look at that! It’s a ship!” Then another person sees it and now they’re both describing the picture to you. But try as you might you just can’t see it. They try to encourage you. “Look – it’s right there. It’s huge!” But still you can’t see it. You’re starting to think there’s no picture at all and they’re all deluded when suddenly, revelation comes and a ship appears! If you’re like me and you’re usually the last person to see these things, you’ll no doubt embarrass yourself at this point by shouting, “I see it!”

That’s how it was for me with grace.

I knew people who looked into the Bible and saw radical grace but I didn’t. Sure, there were pockets of grace but there was a whole lot of other stuff as well. Then one day, revelation came and I saw Grace! He’s right there on every page and in every book! How can you miss Him? He’s huge! I now find myself reading old scriptures with new eyes and saying, “Look! This is speaking of Jesus! This is all about Him – I never saw this before.” Now that I’ve seen Him once I see Him everywhere. I was saved decades ago and I have always loved God with my whole heart. But when I got this revelation of His amazing grace, it was like being born again, again.

A friend recently asked me, “How did you understand grace before you understood grace?” Here’s my answer: I thought I understood grace perfectly well. For as long as I can remember I’ve considered myself a testimony of His grace. But when Grace Himself came into focus, I was floored. I realized that I had barely understood grace at all. Looking back I can identify nine signs that showed I did not fully grasp the grace of God.

1. I understood that I was saved by grace but not that I was kept by grace

I had received Christ by faith and without doing a thing, but I was not continuing in Him by that same faith (Col 2:6). Although I would never have said it, I had taken out a little works insurance. Faith is a positive response to what God has done, but I liked to initiate things. And so my walk became “do, do, do,” rather than it’s “done, done, done.” There was no rest, only performance anxiety. There was always another meeting to lead, another plank of truth to teach, another stray sheep to gather. I thought this was normal. I could get excited about the idea of being saved and saving others, but I was not drawing from the wells of salvation with joy (Is 12:3). I was constantly stressed and I treated grace as grease for my engine.

2. I felt obliged to serve

Jesus had done everything for me, what would I do for Him? Of course I didn’t use the word “indebted” – that would’ve alerted me to the poverty of my theology – but much of what I did was motivated by a sense of obligation. I thus cheapened the exceeding riches of His grace (Eph 1:7) by trying to pay Him back for His priceless gift. Inevitably this shifted my focus from Him and His work to me and mine. Instead of being impressed by what He had done, I was trying to impress Him with what I was doing.

3. I motivated others using carrots and sticks

Because my own motives were screwed up it was inevitable that I would preach rewards and punishments to others. Do good, get good; do bad, get bad. At the same time as I was preaching against legalism I was putting people under law! My gospel was like an ash-tray – full of “buts”! God loves you but… Jesus died for you but…  God’s gifts always came with a price to pay. But grace is free – you can either receive it or reject it but the moment you start charging for it, you’ve missed it. There’s only one motive in the kingdom and that is love. The Son of Man didn’t come to threaten us, judge us, or scare us, but to demonstrate love (Rm 5:8). I no longer believe that evangelism means scaring the hell out of people. The good news that the world needs to hear is that God is good and He loves us. The new covenant of grace is the formal expression of His unfailing love for us (Is 54:10).

4. I saw myself as a servant rather than a son

My identity was in the things I did rather than in my Father. I saw myself as working for God (a noble cause!) rather than doing the works of God. I would not have said I was justified by what I did for I knew that grace and works don’t mix (Rms 11:6). Yet I was mixing grace with works like there was no tomorrow! But here’s the strange thing. Even though I preached servanthood more than sonship, whenever there was a crisis I was quick to relate to Him as Papa. It was only when I was strong and healthy that I was seduced by the religious need to do something for God. Happily, there were many crises!

5. I kept asking God to provide things that He’s already provided

6. I was more sin-conscious than Christ-conscious

Like many Christians I was afraid of sin (keep it out of the camp!) and I was not known as a friend of sinners. I defined sin as bad works only and I taught that the solution to sin was repentance. I had read that the grace of God teaches us to say no to ungodliness (Tit 2:12), but I wasn’t quite sure how that worked. So when preaching against sin I used inferior incentives like fear and punishment that led, at best, to temporary, will-powered changes in behavior. I emphasized what people must do (repent!) more that what God has already done (forgiven us!). I kept the focus on us when it should’ve been on Him and my preaching was powerless as a result. If anyone failed to experience victory over sin, I just figured they were unacquainted with God’s transforming grace – even though I had given them none.

7. I always tried to do the right thing

Someone under grace says, “I trust Him from start to finish. He will lead me in the right path” (Ps 23:3). But in subtle ways I preferred rules to relationship. What I craved were clear Biblical guidelines for living. I thought I was choosing good, but then so did Adam. We both had an independent spirit that led us to eat from the wrong tree. I felt particularly good when people came to me for guidance. I thought I was giving them wisdom when really I should just have got out of the way and taught them to lean on Jesus (Jn 10:27).

8. I had a stronger relationship with the written word than with the Living Word

I did not read the scriptures to find Jesus (Lk 24:27) but to learn, what should I do? I read indiscriminately and was often confused by scriptures that seemed to contradict each other. My solution was to go for balance: A little of this, a little of that, for all scripture is profitable. But by failing to filter what I read through the finished work of the cross, I unwittingly poisoned myself. I was mixing the death-dealing words of the law with the life-giving words of grace. Although I was zealous for the Lord, in truth I was lukewarm. I was neither under the stone-cold reality of the law nor walking in the red-hot heat of His unconditional love and grace.

9. I knew I was righteous, but I didn’t feel righteous.

When I stumbled I would more readily confess my sins to God than allow the Holy Spirit to remind me of the gift of His righteousness to me (Jn 16:10). I knew I was a new creation (2 Cor 5:17), but in many ways I acted and spoke as if I was merely an improved creation. I thought honesty about my struggles was the key to getting more grace. But I probably would not have struggled so much in the first place if I had just learned to see myself as God sees me – redeemed, righteous, and holy.

I am convinced that grace comes by revelation. If you don’t yet see it this post may sound like the ramblings of a man who is unbalanced. (Thank God I am! I’m done with balance!) If you do see Grace, then right now you will be resonating like a tuning fork. So let me finish with a few words for those of you in the first group. Please be patient with those of us who are leaping for joy. Don’t walk away from the Magic Eye picture scowling, “I can’t see it, there’s nothing there.” Just keep looking! Grace really is standing right there in front of you. And He’s huge!

"Favor and Mercy" vs "Grace and Righteousness"

Under the dispensation of Law in the Old Covenant, in order to obtain favor from God, the Israelites needed to perform according to what the Law required plus, offer up the various type of sacrificial offerings ordained by God. 

In the account of Moses praying to God to lead His people, he prayed: “If You are pleased with me, teach me Your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with You. Remember that this nation is Your people.” Moses as the minister of Law, needed to perform and comply with the requirements of the Law in order to have favor in the eye of God.

Likewise, when we look at the account of prophet Daniel, he also needed to resolved first not to defile himself with the royal food and wine from king Nebuchadnezzar, then the Lord granted him favor and mercy in the eye of the official. Under Law, men needed to perform to deserve favor from God. This favor from God in the dispensation of Law was conditional.

As for mercy, the Israelites in their dispensation were blessed not because they obeyed the Law completely but they offered sacrificial offerings according to the provisions of the law when they failed. Their blessings were also depended on their high priest. If God accepted their high priest that year, they were blessed. It was the mercy of God to ordain His people to offer up sacrifices the moment Moses brought down the two tablets of stone from Mount Sinai. God could be merciful and forgive all their sins, but they were still sinners and needed to offer up sacrifices repeatedly. This is what mercy could do...

In the dispensation of grace after Jesus had died on the cross and resurrected on the third day of His death, His shed blood and His finished work at the cross had turn God's favor into GRACE and God's mercy into RIGHTEOUSNESS! After the cross, we do not have to do anything to deserve His grace. 

2 Timothy 1:9 ~ Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 

While we were still sinners, His grace was there waiting for us. We did not do anything good to deserve God's favor to be saved. We were all saved by GRACE through faith. When sin abounded, grace much more abounded! That is why we needed these extra words of “unearned, undeserved, and unmerited” to be added in front the word "favor" in order to define His GRACE. His GRACE is unearned, undeserved, and unmerited favor from God!

Likewise, when we received Jesus as your Savior, Father God not only had mercy on us by forgave ALL our sins, and because of Jesus' shed blood and His finished work at the cross, He went beyond the limitation of what mercy can give by giving us Jesus’ righteousness and consequently, made us a righteous man! We can now come boldly unto His throne because He did not just give us mercy, He added on to His mercy and gave us Jesus' RIGHTEOUSNESS! Oh Hallelujah...! What a finished work that our Lord Jesus Christ had done! Indeed, the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks better thing! Wow...!!!!

We are all made righteous by faith not by work. If you understand this truth, you will not ask for favor and mercy anymore but instead, you will be wise enough to ask for the abundance provision of grace and the gift of His righteousness. 

Romans 5:17 ~ For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

Do not settle for the things that we deserve. This is the mentality of a servant. In the dispensation of grace, we are all called the sons of God and we have the best. So receive the abundance provision of grace and the gift of His righteousness and you will reign in life!

Transfer Of Wealth

Believer: “Father God… Please give me money…!” “You know that I have been praying for money for a long time already….”

Father God: “I don’t have money… In heaven there is no money… The least valuable thing in Heaven is gold and I have used them to make road…”

God cannot lie. What He says is true. There is no money in Heaven. Let us ask from God wisely and let us ask for wisdom instead of money… Do not ask for a "wife" or husband" from Him also... Because wife or husband belong to others and He has to separate "husband and wife" to give you the "wife" or "husband" that you are praying for! That is not possible because our God is a good God... Ask for wisdom instead of wife or husband...!

The wealth of the sinner is led up for the righteous. The money is in this world and in this end time, the money is from the sinners and the money will be supernaturally transfer to those who are righteous by faith, like Abraham!

The bible sets forth a divine plan of God that as we draw near to the second return of Jesus, His Kingdom will grow through out the world and His kingdom will draw in the wealth of the ungodly and will use it to bless and bring the Kingdom to the poor and lost and the last and the least. This plan must surely stir every member of the body of Christ to step out and play their part in this plan and plunder the ungodly of their wealth and pass it on to the extension of the Kingdom.

Proverbs 13:22 ~ A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ~ ‘To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God’ 

Isaiah 60:5 ~  Then you shall fear and become bright, and your heart shall throb and swell for joy; because the abundance of the sea shall turn to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.

Isaiah 60:11 ~ Therefore your gates will always be open; they will not be shut day nor night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings may be led.

Isaiah 61:6 ~ ‘You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast’.

Isaiah 66:12 ~ ‘I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream’.

At the time of writing this post, a Facebook friend of mine Terence Yeo from New Creation Church, posted on Facebook an article on the nation of Israel discovered a world potential largest gas field off the coast of Israel. The other referential article is "Will Bible Lead To Oil Reserve Under Israel?" This discovery is just in time before the turmoil in Egypt which had been number one gas exporter to Israel. With this discovery, Israel is now energy independent soon! Pastor Joseph Prince preached on this in 90s and early 2000s. Now in 2009, the prophesy is fulfilled !

My heart was impressed by these verses from the 26th chapter of Book of Leviticus lately. It is towards the end of the book. The proclamation of the blessings from God started towards the end of this book because this book is all about the ordinances and the types of scarification pointing to Jesus' work at the cross.

Leviticus 

26:6 ~ I will bless your country with peace, and you will rest without fear. I will wipe out the dangerous animals and protect you from enemy attacks. 

26:7 ~ You will chase and destroy your enemies, 

26:8 ~ even if there are only five of you and a hundred of them, or only a hundred of you and ten thousand of them. 

26:9 ~ I will treat you with such kindness that your nation will grow strong, and I will also keep my promises to you. 

26:10 ~ Your barns will overflow with grain each year. 

26:11 ~ I will live among you and never again look on you with disgust. 

26:12 ~ I will walk with you--I will be your God, and you will be my people. 

26:13 ~ I am the LORD your God, and I rescued you from Egypt, so that you would never again be slaves. I have set you free; now walk with your heads held high. 

Father God will have respect to us, and make us fruitful, and multiply us, and establish His covenant with us, because we have respected His Son’s finished Work at the Cross… and we have respected the ultimate will of our Father God in Heaven. We believe in His finished work and we are righteous by faith, so did Abraham, the father of faith!

His Love Is Perfected In Us

Christmas and New Year is a season of giving and giving is one of many ways that we can express our love.

1 John 4:12 ~ No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

I want to love others, and I long for others to love me too. The ability to love is inside every created things on earth. The desire to love is in man. Ever since I have become a believer, the felt of the need to love others become stronger because of the many verses stated in the Bible about love. Especially with the verses from 1 John chapter 4. I felt the need to love others more or at least, I was taught that this is the basic requirement from the Lord for a believer. From the way we used to read the Bible, we might conclude that loving others is also a sign to show that we are believers! Because of the way we are brought up in the Christian circle, we do not really know the true meaning of what is “we love because He first love us”.

After I have been enlightened by the grace of God, I gradually learn that we are actually the subject of His love and men are created for His love.  Men are created to be loved by Him and we are created to receive His love. Even though the teaching on the grace of God has overturned the inception that was rooted in me on how men should love each other, and even though I have been proclaiming the verse “we love because He first love us” over and over again, the Lord is still showing me through my circumstances that I still do not really know what is He trying to say...

It was after I have been led to learn on how to engage my heart to receive His revelation a few months ago; I started to receive new insight on what kind of love this really is. Incidentally, this revelation was immediately confirmed by a Christmas card given by a sister in which 1 John 4:12 was quoted: “No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.”

This kind of love is not our human kind of love. It is His love which perfected in us. We all know we have to love, but without knowing that when we are using our own effort in trying to love, we are doing it out of our flesh (brain), i.e. the dogs that God asked us to be aware of. At the end of the day, we murmur and we are not satisfied with others responses in respect of our “love” for them.  We have seen this over and over again and do not even realize that we are using our own effort to love each other. We did not love others out of the overflow of His love which is perfected in us.  We do not love others out of His love for us.

On the 31st of October last year, our church declared that, the church offering collection of that day would be used as a love gift to three of the churches in Israel . Through this event, the Lord revealed to me the meaning of “His love perfected in us”.

As believer, we have our Jewish brothers in the holy land. These are the kind of brothers that we never know of and we have never seen them before. But as we know more about the message of His grace, the desire of this kind of love to our Jewish brothers grow stronger each day. This is what we call the "supernatural love" from our Lord because our Jewish brothers are His chosen people and our Lord loves them very much. As such, this "supernatural love" is His love perfected in us.  If we have this kind of love towards our Jewish brothers, His love is already perfected in us! If we know that His love is perfected in us, we can rest assure that we can love and we shall love.

The only problem is on how are we going to dispense this perfect love to each other?  Perhaps the only solution to this problem is how much we can rest in Him. When we rest in Him, this perfect love shall flow in and through us. When this perfect love is flowing, we are in the flow of loving each other with the love that He perfected in us. And now, we love because He first loves us.

Understand that once we have put our faith in Him, His love is already perfected in us. Rest in Him and let this perfect love flow in and through you by His grace. After all, we love because His first loves us and only His grace can bring us there...

Power That Gives Life Is In Our Heart

Our mortal bodies are subject to death. Apostle Paul was actually struggling in Roman chapter 7 and his struggle ended with him asking WHO would rescue him from this body of death not how or what he could do. He did not ask HOW but WHO. By asking WHO, the WHO, Who is always faithful, revealed to him that 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.  The Who did not revealed to him that he must repent… The Who revealed to him that there is now no condemnation. Who would have known that Paul condemned himself because of the tenth commandment which was nailing his innermost being? It was the dogs (his brain) barking at him... The 1st to the 9th commandments are of external behavior, while the 10th deals with the hearts of men.

From here, the Lord asked me to add the word “brain” in bracket after the flesh and the word “heart” in bracket after the Spirit.

In the Garden of Eden, the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened. Their minds were activated by the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When their minds were activated, they started to see their nakedness. They started to see their lack and fear came into them.

On the road to Emmaus, the couple by the name of Cleopas, ate the bread broken by the Lord and their eyes were opened too, but they see the Lord and their heart was burning. The Lord said "Shalom...!"

Romans  8:1 ~ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh (our brains) , but according to the Spirit (our hearts).

The revelation from the Lord at this point of time becomes very clear and easy to understand. If we walk according to our flesh (using our brains) condemnation will come! Remember the Lord reminded us to beware of dogs? Our brains are the shadow of the two tablets of Stone and they bark at us when we fall short. If we walk according to the Spirit (using our heart), there will be no condemnation. It is so clear that under the dispensation of grace, we cannot use our brains anymore. To walk in flesh (to use our brains) is death; to walk in the Spirit (to use our hearts) is life. After all, when we put our faith in the Lord, we never invited Him into our brains but into our hearts.

Our whole body is death… there is no life. In this resurrected body, only our hearts are new and are from the Lord. But the hope is found in Romans 8 verse 11 where we can find the Trinity God appears together in one verse…

Romans 8:11 ~  But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you (our heart), He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you (our heart).

Oh Hallelujah! The power that gives life to our mortal bodies is in our hearts! He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in our heart. It is all by grace through faith, not of us; grace and faith are gifts from God not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

We can do nothing. We are human being not human doing. We don’t do good deed to become a believer but as a believer, we produce good deeds. The Lord did not ask us to do anything. He said He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to our mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in our heart. Being in Christ alone, is already doing our good work because we are His workmanship, created in Him to produce good work...!

Proverbs 4

20: My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

21: Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;

22: For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

23: Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

Proverbs 4

20: My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

-             Romans 10:17 ~ Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ.

We can only listen to the preaching of the Gospel of Grace. Let His living water washes our feet day in day out. This Gospel of Grace will point us to see Jesus and His finished work. We are then transformed from glory to glory by beholding our wonderful Lord Christ Jesus. We can do nothing but give attention to His words; incline our ear to His sayings. Let His living water washes our feet...; It is finished,,,!

21: Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;

-             On the road to Emmaus, Jesus expounded the Word from Moses to the Prophets things concerning Himself, He broke bread and their eyes were opened to see Jesus and their heart was burning.

When we read the Word be it Old and New Testaments, we must find out the Spirit of Jesus. Where the Spirit is, there is freedom.

22: For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

-             Romans 8:11 ~ But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.

He has given us His own heart. That is the fountain of life, the abundant life that He has promised.

23: Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

-             Matthew 12:35 ~ A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings out good things; and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings out evil things.

A verse before this is “Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” His definition of good and evil is : When you trust in His grace that is good. If you trust in your performance by abiding the law, He calls that evil. There is nothing good coming out from our performance through obeying the Ten Commandment because a man of sinful nature can never abide to the holy standard of the commandments.

Coma patients have non-functioning brains yet as long as they are still beating, the are considered alive.  Heart Attack patients are dead because their hearts stopped beating... Patients suffering from Heart Attack are certified dead once their hearts have stopped beating...and Heart Attack is caused by stress and the root of that lethal stress is from our mind...

Matthew 6:34 ~ Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow shall be anxious for its own things. Sufficient to the day is the evil of it. 

We Are All Under Grace!

We are all under grace… all of us... even the unbelievers. Every human being on this planet earth are under God’s grace…

John 1:17 ~  For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 

It has been over two thousand years ever since our Lord Jesus died on the Cross and resurrected on the third day of His death. When He was spending His six hours of long suffering on the Cross, He had made seven remarkable statements... these statements are selectively recorded in the four Books of Gospel!

i) "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

ii) "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

iii) He said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother."

iv) "I am thirsty."

v) "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

vi) "It is finished."

vii) "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."

With these seven remarkable statements from the mouth of our Lord during His great suffering, as human being, we ought to believe that Father God is indeed faithful in loving us, for Jesus' death was a confirmation to His declaration that He so loved the world and He would gave up His One and only Begotten Son… and we, who called ourselves BELIEVER..., yes BELIEVER..., oh yes BELIEVER, should better know that our sins are totally forgiven In Christ..., past, present and future! Sin is a looooong settled issue!

Jesus with His death on the Cross had changed the dispensation and ended the era of human performance religion. His death on the Cross had called the human race out from the era of law, into the era of abundant provision of His grace and the gift of His righteousness… This is the era whereby the sins of all mankind had been forgiven… It is finished…! God had done His part… His grace has been lavished to all mankind… it is now up to mankind to respond to His love by receiving His Son through faith. Faith is indeed,  believing in what Jesus had done, not what our faith can do. 

Ephesians 2:8 ~ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.

Therefore, in this dispensation, it is NOT only those who preaches GRACE are under GRACE... But as long as you are a human being, whether believer or not, you are under GRACE. As long as you are born after the death of Christ, you are under this Grace Dispensation! Believers of Christ are no more under law but under grace. Believer did not invite Moses into their heart to be their Saviour... Believers have invited Jesus into their  heart, and Jesus is their Saviour. 

So, if we are not listening to the preaching of pure grace, or even if we are listening to the preaching that mixes grace with law, we have been robbed of all our blessings that Jesus died to give us…! We will slowly be "killed" and eventually, be "destroy"...! Before the devil comes to kill and destroy, he has already done his ground work on his targeted victims, that is to steal the truth from them. It is this lie on unforgiveness, condemning, legalistic preaching that keeps Christians bound. Christians are carrying a lot of guilt over their life which are bound by the teaching and preaching of prideful men. The end result is, instead of looking for victory that they already process, they focus on their own lacks. Instead of being positive in life, they are negative… Instead of being free, they are bound!

John 10:10 ~ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

The abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness is a bombshell to this religious world… Grace is unearned, underserved and unmerited favour from God. Nobody deserved anything from God but He chose to love, He chose to give... for He is Love and we are the object of His love! It is all about what Jesus had done… and our faith is to receive what Grace has given, no question asked…!

For it is by grace we have been saved, through faith and this not from ourselves, it is the gift of God.

Where Do You Stand...?

How well we can see is very much determined by the position that we are in. Therefore, the angle of our sight will affect the way we believe, the way we talk and the way we behave…

John 1:17 ~ For the law was given  by Moses, but grace and truth  came by Jesus Christ.

The law stands alongside with Moses, while grace and truth stands alongside with Jesus. Law is standing at the different mountain with grace and truth. Law is at Mount Sinai while grace and truth is at Mount Zion. Law is the word of God but Grace is the word of Christ (He is the Way, the Truth and the Life... no one comes to the Father except through Him!). Therefore, the way we interpreted the Bible also demonstrate to us the mountain that we are camping on…

If we see in the Bible that we need to obey the Law to be righteous and holy, we are standing alongside with Moses and we are dancing with the Pharisee and the Sadducee. This is the attitude of a servant. From this angle, we can never understand that our righteousness is from our Lord Jesus Christ. From this angle, we are actually using our mind to comprehend what the Bible says. We reap what we have sowed. We do good, we get good, we do bad, we get beat.  Though we are zealous for God, but our zeal is not based on knowledge. Since we did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish our own, we did not submit to God's righteousness. We cannot comprehend that Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Because of our ignorant, we have insulted God grace.... We have slapped Jesus on His face... We are saying  His death meant nothing to us!

My friend, concerning law, Jesus only used His finger to write on the stones… when come to Grace, He  gave up His whole body on the Cross.

Grace is unearned and unmerited favor from God. We cannot use our effort to earn God’s grace. We have to humble ourselves before Him to receive His grace. This is the kind of humility that is pleasing in God’s eye... and this kind of humility is definitely not the kind of humility that is advocated by any legalistic preacher. 

If you are a legalistic preacher and you are now facing the ever increasing pressure from this grace revolution that is happening all over the world, I think the most difficult thing for you to do now is to humble yourself and preach against all your past teachings. You may try to use the word “Grace” in your preaching, but your motive is to further implant an inception into your "sleep walking" congregation… 

I am going to share with you a little revelation and I hope this revelation can help you to wake up from your sleep walking as well...

If you can understand that Saul the Pharisee was definitely more legalistic than you, there is still hope for you. God loved him as much as He loved Paul. It was the grace of God that converted Saul the Pharisee into Paul the Apostle. The Apostle Paul was called the Apostle to the Gentile and he wrote two third of the New Covenant. He even personalized this gospel of grace as “his gospel”! He was called the Apostle of Grace for his revelation of God's grace... like the late Datuk Ramsay Jitam, he was called the Apostle of Loving Tears for when he preached, his tears would fall when he was overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit...

If we are saying we believe in Jesus, do stand alongside with Him… Be a believer that acknowledge and glorifies His finished work. Be a believing believer…

Mind vs Heart

The kingdom of this world is in our mind.
The Kingdom of God is in our heart.

Law is in our mind.
Grace is in our heart.

To do right or not to do wrong is from our mind,

Abundant life is in our heart.

Our mind prompts us to do.
Our heart prompts us to rest.

Work is from our mind,
Faith is from our heart.

The devil speaks and prompts us through our mind,
Our Lord speaks and prompts us through our heart.

Worries are from our mind.
Shalom peace is in our heart.

Self righteousness is from our mind.
The Righteousness of God is in our heart.

The nature of condemning is from our mind,
The nature of compassion is from our heart.

Doubt is from our mind.
Believe is from our heart.

Our mind seeks knowledge,
Our heart seeks wisdom.

Knowledge is from our mind.
Revelation is from our heart.

We obey the letters with our mind.
We obey the Spirit with our heart.

Ezekiel 11.19 – I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

Spiritual Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. In the body of Christ, many believers suffer from this spiritual mental disorder and the signs and symptoms depending on the individual, a person suspected with spiritual schizophrenia may experience the following conditions:-

“Sometimes God is angry with them, while sometimes He is happy with them.”

“Sometimes He bless them, but sometimes He curses them.”

“Sometimes God cares for them, and they do not know why, sometimes He leaves them.”

”Sometimes they feel like He wants them to rest, and sometimes He just wants them to labour!”

“Today, He prospers them, hallelujah , but tomorrow, God may give them poverty to humble them…”

“Today, He may heals them, but tomorrow, He may give them a disease to teach them a lesson.”

"Today, He forgives all their sin. Tomorrow, they are responsible for all their wrong doings.”

“They must make every effort to tithe so that God will not curse them…”

Welcome to a Schizophrenic Church!

If you are sitting under such a ministry, you are actually allowing yourselves to live under two types of covenant i.e. the Old Covenant of law and the New Covenant of grace. This kind of church environment allows a mixture of law and grace in their preaching. This kind of mixture is causing the congregations to "torn between two lovers (Mr. Law and Mr. Grace), feeling like a fool..." The obvious evidence of this Schizophrenic influence is that, they have failed to put Christ and His finished work as their center focus. 

In this kind of man centered environment, believers are led to believe that sometimes God is good to them and sometimes God may not be good to them. This insecurity is not from God but from the preacher himself. His spiritual Schizophrenia allows the religious spirit to nullify the power of the cross and blind them from seeing the dynamic power of God.  The obvious sign of this belief is that, they are more concerned with their own behavior. They believe that their behavior can determine the blessings of God. You do good, you get good, you do bad, you get beat. 

This kind of belief system is no different to any other religions at all. Please do not continue to humiliate our Lord Jesus and what He had done for us at the Cross.

The New Covenant was cut with the Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but they deny this Blood and anchor their faith on the covenant that was cut with the blood of bull and goat. In the Old Covenant, God said: “You shall not, you shall not, you shall not…” and He demanded our behavior and righteousness. But in the New Covenant, God said: “I will, I will, I will…”  because God demanded Jesus’ behavior. In this Covenant of Grace, God lavished His own righteousness as a gift to those who believed in Jesus. 

According to the Apostle Paul (the Apostle of grace to the Gentile), this Schizophrenic message is not a Gospel/Good News at all. For the same reason, he was astonished that the Galatians were so quickly deserting the One who called them by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different Gospel, which is really no Gospel at all (the Schizophrenic kind of message). With this Schizophrenic kind of message, some people are actually throwing the listeners into confusion and are trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ. He prayed that God would punish anyone who preaches anything different from his message, the message of Grace! He was so concerned that it did not matter if that person was one of his people or an angel from heaven.  Paul had said it before, and he would say it again. Indeed he hoped God would punish anyone who preaches anything different from what you have already believed. Remember we are all called to live by grace through faith...

Why was Paul so angry to pronounce a double curse over those who preaches a different gospel? I don't think we need to be a rocket scientist to understand that this kind of Schizophrenic message is actually leading people to seek their own righteousness. When anyone attempt to be justified by law, they have been alienated from Christ and they have indeed, fallen away from grace. 

For our heavenly Father had chose us in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love, He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with His pleasure and will, to the praise of his glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ. 

My friend, this is what the Bible means "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ". The message of Grace is the truth and the truth can set you free. This Grace message is the Gospel that Apostle Paul defended with all his heart. This Gospel of Grace can heal you from your spiritual Schizophrenia!

The Prologue of John’s Gospel

In the Gospel of John, John began his prologue periphrastically with the words of Word, Light, Glory, Grace and Truth to introduce the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

In this account he wrote: In the beginning was Jesus Christ is called the Word. Jesus was with God and was truly God. From the very beginning Jesus was with God. And through Jesus, the Word, God created all things. Nothing was made without the Word. Everything that was created received its life from Jesus, and His life gave Light to everyone. 

The Light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness can never put it out. God sent a man named John the Baptist who came to tell about the Light and to lead all people to have faith. John wasn't that Light. He came only to tell about the light. 

The true Light that shines on everyone was coming into the world. The Word was in the world, but no one knew Him, though God had made the world with His Word. He came into His own world, but His own nation did not welcome Him. 

Yet some people accepted Him and put their faith in Him. So He gave them the right to be the children of God. They were not God's children by nature or because of any human desires. God Himself was the One who made them His children. 

The Word became a Human Being and lived here with His people. They had seen His true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From Him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to them. John the Baptist spoke about Jesus and shouted, "This is the One I told you would come! He is greater than I am, because He was alive before I was born." Because of all that the Son is, they have been given one blessing after another. 

Hey, after saying all these, John was trying to tell us the comparison between the Law that his people was abiding and Grace that was from the Son of God. He then merely wrote… the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Can you comprehend what John was saying? Jesus  who is the Word, Light and Glory personified, brought us unearned, undeserved favour and truth from Heaven! There is no one has ever seen God, but the only Son, the Word, Light, Glory, Grace and Truth personified, who is truly God and is closest to the Father and has shown us what God, is like…

Though law was given by Moses for the purposes of pointing his people to the standard of God, but now the true standard of God has come to give us Word, Light, Glory which is totally unearned and unmerited and is the everlasting truth revealed by the gracious Father in Heaven.

How Grace Might Reign...?

Do you know why some people just cannot accept the grace of God? Some people just cannot receive this amazing grace that we are sharing, even though there are numeric evidences of 119 verses in the New Testament concerning grace with 128 hits, while only 18 verses with 20 hits in the Old Testament (NKJV).

The key reason why these people are not receiving is:  This amazing grace can only reign through Jesus’ righteousness. If we are still in our default mode of self righteousness and sin consciousness, we are in a wrong platform and frequency to receive the impartation of grace from God.  Under law, we can never understand what unearned and unmerited favour from God is.

Romans 5:21 ~ so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Only when we can realize that the word "righteousness" is referring  to Jesus’ righteous act and not our righteous act, the grace of God could then reign in our life. Grace can only reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

In the case of the Apostle of grace to the Gentile, whenever Apostle Paul talked about grace and righteousness, he was talking about Jesus’ righteous act at the cross. Though he was once a Pharisees,  but after the fall of the scales from his eyes as a result of the “Light” that flashed to him from Heaven  while he was on his way to Damascus, he never again justifying himself under law. He esteemed grace more than law as he preached that anyone who attempt to be justified by law; they have fallen from grace. 

Can you imagine, he was circumcised on the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; and concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, he was blameless; and yet he preached Jesus as his righteousness, holiness and redemption.  He had finally came to his senses to realized that whatever was profitable to him before his spiritual transformation was a loss for the sake of Christ. 

If you still find yourself unable to understand the grace of God, please bear in mind that this righteousness that the Bible talks about is not your righteous act but Jesus’ righteous act. If you are a believer and you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. You are already righteous in God’s eye. 

Rest in Him… all that needs to be done had been done. Remember Jesus had cried out loud on the cross: "It's Finished!"? He meant it, don't think that He shout this for fun! All that needs to be done had been finished by Jesus. So just relax (rest in Him) and receive... for grace can only reign through righteousness (Jesus' righteousness) to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Status Not Action!

Romans 5:19 ~ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. 

This verse caught my attention lately. It was by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. It was by Adam’s act of disobedience; we who live after him were made sinners. The state of “sinnership” that we are in is not because of our action but because of Adam’s action. Sinner here is our status and sinner sins...

Praise our Father in Heaven for He understands English! So as through one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. It was by Jesus’ obedience that many like us who were sinners were made righteous. This state of righteousness is not because of our action but because of Jesus’ action. Righteousness here is our status and what we do are righteous!

It is not that many Christian cannot understand English. It is because many Christians are sin conscious. Sin conscious made you conscious of your action. Righteousness conscious makes you conscious of your status.

For example when you fill in a form given by government, you fill in your name and age. When comes to sex, you fill in either “male” or “female”, depending whether you are male of female. This is status. I don’t see anybody would fill in “three times a week”! Because “three times a week” is an action! In filling a form, there is no sin consciousness; therefore we are right with our mind to do the right things. But when come to the word of God, our sin consciousness make us miss interpreting the word of God.That's why I say sin conscious made you conscious of your action while righteousness conscious makes you conscious of your status. Hey, if you are a believer, you are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and Christ in you, the hope of glory!

Therefore, when we can understand the difference between action and status, the following verses in their reverse order will beautifully review to you the results of the righteous act of our Lord at the cross...

Romans 5:18 ~ Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 

Romans 5:17 ~  For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) 

Romans 5:16 ~ And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. 

Romans 5:15 ~ But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. 

Romans 5:14 ~ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 

Romans 5:13 ~ (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 

Romans 5:12 ~ Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

Romans 5:11 ~ And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Romans 5:10 ~ For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Wow..., how beautiful was the action of our Lord at the cross that brought forth the righteous status to all who believe in Him!

Finding Fault...

Toyota Motor Corporation, commonly known as Toyota, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan and is currently the world's largest carmaker.

Toyota is also one of the largest companies to push the hybrid vehicles in the market and the first to commercialize such vehicles, an example being the Toyota Prius, their innovative model which combine an internal combustion engine with electric motor. Toyota eventually began providing this option on the main smaller cars such as Camry and later with the Lexus divisions, producing some hybrid luxury vehicles. It labeled such technology in Toyota cars as "Hybrid Synergy Drive" and in Lexus versions as "Lexus Hybrid Drive."

The Prius has become the top selling hybrid car in America, and Toyota, as a brand, now has three hybrid vehicles in its lineup: the Prius, Highlander, and Camry.

During the recent embarrassment for the world's largest carmaker which was triggered by complaints about their faulty accelerator and braking system. The fault, which causes the car to accelerate, has also proved deadly, leading to the death of an American family whose luxury Lexus vehicle allegedly sped out of control. The brake problem also affects the petrol-electric Priuses that were sold in the US and Japan. Drivers there have complained of a short delay before the brakes kick in.

In respond to these complaints, Toyota “found fault” with the accelerator pedals and braking system and responded with recall exercise to fix the accelerator pedals and brake system. Approximately, Toyota announced recalls of 8 million cars around the world because of the sticky accelerator pedals and braking system…

If you own one of these cars, there are faults hidden in those two pedals under your feet… and is life threatening. I don’t think a person with a sound mind would reject this recall exercise.

If you own such a car, will you refuse to respond to the manufacturer’s recall exercise…?

Apostle Paul, one of the greatest “agent” of the Creator of this universal, reminded us the believers, times over times in his different epistles that the ministry that is engraved in letter on stone is a ministry of death. The Creator of this universal Himself had found fault with this weak and useless covenant, for the law made nothing perfect. He Himself had made an open statement through His prophets on why he had found fault with this old covenant….

Nevertheless, if the first covenant with God had been all right, there would not have been any need for another one. But the Lord found fault with it and said,

"I tell you the time will come, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and the people of Judah. It won't be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors, when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They broke their agreement with me, and I stopped caring about them! "But now I tell the people of Israel this is my new agreement: `The time will come when I, the Lord, will write my laws on their minds and hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Not one of them will have to teach another to know me, their Lord.'  "All of them will know me, no matter who they are. I will treat them with kindness, even though they are wicked.  I will forget their sins."

When the Lord talks about a new covenant, he means that the first one is out of date. And anything that is old, outdated and useless had disappeared.

The recent recall exercise by Toyota is to replace the sticky accelerator pedals and to rectify the braking system. Two thousand years ago, the Creator of this universal, found fault with this weak and useless regulations that He made with the Israel people. Through His one and only Begotten Son, and at the cross, He implemented the recall exercise to reconcile this sinful world with Himself.

Through that recall exercise, the Creator of this universal had written His laws, the law of the Spirit of life, on our minds and our hearts. He had become our God, and we had become His people. Not one of us will have to teach one another to know Him, our Lord. All of us will know Him, no matter who we are. He treats us with lovingkindness, even though we are wicked, for He remembers our sins no more!

Have you responded to His recall exercise… or are you still holding on to the law of sin and death?

Obsolete

For if that first covenant (the covenant of Law) had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

For God Himself finds fault with them when He says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant (the covenant of Grace) with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.

For this is the covenant (the covenant of Grace) that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbour and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more!

In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away…

This faulty computer monitor was placed on a typewriter and unintentionally creating a  combination of an unique computer system with UPS. However, it does not work but worth a laugh... because what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away…!

When comes to Law, God used only His finger, but when comes to Grace, He offered up His own Body. Through the Cross, Jesus had replaced the Law with Grace.

Is grace cheap? Some of us might think that grace is cheap, but  think about it, grace costs God His own Begotten Son!

When the devil gives you LAW, remember to press 'Move to Trash' & click 'Empty Trash', and most important thing is - DON'T click 'RESTORE' to inbox, only save JESUS & His GRACE in your inbox.

- A Quote by Hui Joo in her Facebook