What is a covenant relationship

Part two

This scripture points out three things. Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption and all three must be in motion in our lives for our covenant to be working through us. We have already described the meaning of righteousness as being justified (blameless), innocent (free from evil), and holy (set apart from the world and be able to walk in God’s presence.) Only a born again believer can walk in God’s presence and it has nothing to do with His behavior. When one walks in God’s presence they are capable of walking in God’s characteristics the same as Jesus our older brother. I don’t know how many times I need to say this. You can not be thrown out of the family of God after you have become born again. This is the real issue that has kept the body of Christ vacillating as to God’s holding power of love in their lives.

When we sit under preaching that under minds our eternal security in Christ; our understanding of God’s holding power of love in our being is never realized and felt with power. This is totally under minding our trust to allow the Holy Ghost to reason with us and us being honest with our feelings because; it keeps a Christian living in their shame based nature and feeling like an illegitimate child. I have been in a warfare in my mind and with people I have met who oppose themselves since the day I became born again and entered the family of God. I have been accused of being iconoclastic meaning somebody challenging traditions and who challenges or overturns traditional beliefs, customs, and values.

I hope I am communicating a message of hope and warning to you who are reading this. The e-mail I get at times from people are a real encouragement to us here and I wish and hope more of you would e-mail us from time to time so I we can get a better flavor of what God is doing in the family. We are all in different places trying to mature and live in our inheritance given to us by our Father. (Please write.)

We will now go on to the word sanctification which is described in the Greek Concordance as the word hagiazo. It means to be pure, innocent, and clean and to nurture and provide a child with care and upbringing by encouraging their development with a relationship that is alive and active between a father who has a great love for his children.

Do you know God your Father as being this kind of person? When we really walk in our covenant, this is what we experience daily because we are learning how to walk in heavenly places with Christ Jesus as scripture tells us. This is what Jesus did as he walked the earth. He was a covenant man and judged life by an inner voice and conviction in strict obedience to His Father’s urgings and not by the outward conditions of the world’s enticements.

Sometimes I wonder how the born again church prospers when they do not with deep conviction really know the testimony of their brother Jesus who was tempted and rebuffed by Satan; condemned by the religious group; abandoned by the Apostles at the cross which was His greatest hour of need other then Mary Magdalene, John the Apostle and His mother Mary.

This is why scripture tells us in Heb. 4:14-17 “Inasmuch as we have a great High Priest who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him. For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners, that we may receive mercy for our failures and find grace to help in good time for every need appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it.”

It’s only as we are walking in a true working covenant as a born again believer that; one can hold on to their confession of faith. People who do not know covenant think that they are following God however; in reality they have no clue as to what covenant they are following. Most haven’t even heard about a covenant with God.

Do you see here that Jesus the man was tempted and tried with all the trials that can be brought upon us and yet He never sinned? People who are walking in a true righteous covenant do not look at themselves as sinners; but they see themselves through the eyes of their Father God as saints. I know we are getting into some serious iconoclastic statements here and I am going against the grain of the majority of the doctrine that is being taught in the pulpits of America and over seas.

In Galatians 5:19-21 Paul the Apostle talks about people’s behavior who do not know their covenant and cater to their flesh and undisciplined nature because they do not understand how to allow the Holy Ghost to live big in them. He says. “ Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

This does not mean that they are going to hell as the majority of born again believers have been taught. It means that they are not walking in their covenant according to the leadings and empowerment’s of the Holy Ghost who is in us to do this very thing. That is why He was sent by Jesus to be our comforter and teacher and not our condemner and judge that makes us feel unaccepted and illegitimate at times. All this type of behavior is not knowing how to walk in the Spirit and how to commune with our new nature and we reason in our own understanding while we look for love in all the wrong places. People who live with these behavior patterns are milk babies, they’re still continually messing their diapers

They have no clue as to confessing a positive faith statement, they know nothing about how to allow God to give them seed to plant in the kingdom of God and get the crop they need for every good work. They can be God’s own children living as a prodigal and in the pig pen of life dealing with illicit covenants trying to fine their identity and have not made a decision to repent and change to make covenant with God and let go of their childish behavior. This makes me grieve over these conditions as I see them. God’s kids scattered all over the plant as a rag time army living in defeat and despair not knowing where their spiritual home is and how to get there. We are talking about faithful church goers here as well as the millions who are wandering outside the local establishments of supposedly Christian assemblings. Unless we gather in covenant with God; He doesn’t show up. Why do you think scripture tells us we have to gather in his name and then he will be there?

Our covenant is permanent as God’s children however; it says that all we have to do is make a choice to follow God’s leadings and God will not only tell and give us a desire to do his will but; He will also empower us to do his will. I know this is a resting statement telling us to rest from our laboring for us who have been trying so hard all of our lives to be good little Christians and cross all the T’s and dot all the I’s in our walk with God.

If you are really hearing me with Holy Ghost discernment; it’s like God is trying to take a burden off all of us; who have been carrying one for years; and us allowing the Holy Ghost who is described as a rushing wind teaching us how to rest in God as the relationship Adam and Eve had with God in the Garden of Eden before they became sin conscience or self conscience.

If we understand or have a glimpse of what it means to be righteous in God’s sight, these next statement I hope will make it clearer to you as to how your walk in covenant is generated and a permanent gift by God.

Most Christians have a concept that if they believe in Jesus they are saved and sanctified and living in a covenant relationship with God. There is a life and death meaning of living by faith in Christ verses living by the faith of Christ. It is hard to believe that these two little words can mess up our empowerment to live the Christian life. When we say in we mean living by doctrines written in the bible however, we do not actually live by the faith of Jesus who is Christ who is God’s life in Him. It was Jesus who believed through His covenant with His Father but Christ who lived in Him that did the signs and wonders that as a born again believer. With out Christ and God’s D.N.A. in Him, He was just a mere man with no power. I am not trying to be disrespectful here but trying to give an example that makes sense to me as scripture tells it. I am a science fiction junky and star trek is a program I wish would have never been taken off the air. Do you remember the mind meld that Spock used to become one person with another when he would say “My mind to your mind?”

Most Christians have a mental attitude and learned behavior because of being influenced and sitting under ministries that don’t have a clue as to who they are in Christ. We talked about Jesus being our righteousness and that we needed to sink into Him as wearing a white Robe of Righteousness. This is us seeing our self as blameless, innocent and free from all evil. What most Christians do is as they are encountering trials in their lives; they look under their white robe and see their past failings and all the scars and disappointments of life. Thus, they become self conscience rather then staying Christ conscience.

This idea of looking under their robes is common with in the family of God and what is more grieves; most assemblies deal with the behavior of sin rather then the cause of sin as God the Holy Ghost deals with it. That is because he is not a judge and condemner but; a healer and up lifter to those who have been bruised and have become their worst enemy. This attitude is what causes Christians to live looking under their white robe of righteousness.

(Thank you so much Lord for your understanding and mercy.)

When one feels reproach; they feel blameworthy and ashamed because they know they have done something wrong. God tells us that, there’s no reason to reproach yourself, because there was nothing you could do about it in your own strength and that’s the reason I sent my first son to die on the cross for you so I could make covenant with you and you can begin to experience my holding power of love which is the only thing that delivers you from your self conscience mentality of judging your self.

We actually spit on the cross when we live in a mentality of telling God that something He did for us is not good enough and we have to help Him out. This principle that I am attempting to express as clearly as I can is us thinking that we are spotted and imperfect. This is demonic in nature and has the body of Christ without the strength and powerless to do anything effective as far as discipling their brothers and sisters to the true understanding of who they are in Christ.

People who do not know their covenant have a desire put there by God to reach for more however; as long as they live in bondage to seeing them selves with spot and not blameless; they will live with the expectation of God coming on the scene however; in their lack of perception of knowing their covenant and their walk in the spiritual kingdom of God; they will continually wait for God’s promises but; continually miss His perception on what a high calling He has on their lives. Just sitting here writing this motivates me to walk in the reverential fear of God and very clearly see how seriously I need to wait in His presence and be instructed as to the daily activities He has planned for me.