“For ships from Cyprus shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and return in rage against the Holy Covenant, and do damage. So he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the Holy covenant.” Daniel 11:26. It also says in Daniel 11:32 “ Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” In today’s teaching much of what is taught is wickedness against the covenant of our God. The danger in this is if you have no covenant you have no relationship. The Lord said in Exodus 19:4-5; “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people, for all the earth is Mine.” It is no wonder that satan wants to attack our relationship with the Lord. The Lord also says in Jeremiah 31:33; “ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put My laws in their minds, and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” This same verse of scripture is repeated in Hebrews 8:10. The reason satan can do wickedly against the covenant is because there are a lot of us who do not know what it consist of, or where it is established in the bible. Even worst, there are some of us who understand the covenant from the movie the 10 Commandments. Although it is an entertaining movie it is biblicaly incorrect. It is important to know where the covenant was established, and what it consists of. The covenant of God starts at Exodus 20:1 and goes to Exodus 24:8. Once the people of God came into agreement with the conditions of establishing their relationship with Lord in Exodus 19:8; He then went on to say; “And God spoke all these words saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me…” After He gives the rest of the commandments He then goes on to instruct us regarding the altar; which He is; the servants; which He is; violence; which He suffers; animal laws; which apply to Him; responsibility for property; which belongs to Him; the new character He’s given us; justice for all; which His sacrifice provides; Sabbath which gives us rest; the feast for nourishment and celebration, and the Holy Spirit; which is the Angel of promise. The last stage of establishing the covenant is the finale agreement of the people in Exodus 24:7 which says; “Then he took the book of the covenant and read in the hearing of the people, and they said; all that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” All of this was done before Moses went up on Mount Sinai. The beauty of our covenant relationship with the Lord is that it is a real relationship of two parties coming together and interacting with each other. The Lord has done His part. He was the altar, the strong servant(Ox), who is the Lamb of God; who suffered violence to restore and redeem His property (us); to change our character, and give us justice, rest, nourishment, and His Spirit. He says in Matthew 5: 17-18; “Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. On the cross when He said “It is finished”; His work was completed, but remember that the agreement of the covenant is that the people of God said; “All that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient.” This is where satan comes in to do wickedly against the covenant by preaching and teaching you that the very thing that you agreed to is dead. My question is if you are alive in the Lord Jesus Christ, and He has put His laws in your mind, and wrote them on your heart how can they be dead? Yes the Lord who spoke the commandments in Exodus is the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why Paul says there is one Lord in Ephesians 4:5. Don’t let satan steal from you the very relationship the Lord sacrificed Himself for you to have by telling you something is dead; when in fact it is alive forever more. Psalms 119:89 says; “Forever oh Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.” When some of us speak about the Law we put everything together without understanding the difference between the law of sin; which was satans rule over you, and the law of God which is our righteous relationship with Him. It is the law of sin; satans rule over you; which is dead. Christ’s blood washed it away. Satan wants you to think that the law of God was washed away, because if he can get you to turn away from what you agreed to you have no relationship. He knows because he came out of that relationship first. The danger here is you can go to church and not be in covenant. You can lay hands on the sick, and not be in covenant. You can prophesy and not be in covenant. The Lord says in Matthew 7:21-23; “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!” Paul also warns us about the lawless one in 2 Thessalonians 2: 7-10; “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way, and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” The word says satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Don’t let him steal from you the very relationship he stole from Adam and Eve. In Romans 7:22-23 Paul talks about his inward man that rejoices in the law of God, but that his flesh wars against it. In Galatians 5:16 he also says, “I say then walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” In all of Paul’s teaching he has never taught that the law of God’s covenant is dead; nor would he. Paul is Israel, and the only relationship Israel has with the Lord is a covenant one. It is the only relationship any of us have with the Lord. What makes the Covenant new is that He is new. He died to sin and rose in Eternal life. We are new, because if you are in Christ you are a new creation. His laws are written in a new place. They went from tablets of stone to the tablets of our heart, but as we read earlier His word is forever settled. He being my Father, Lord, God, Friend, and Savior is all based on covenant. That is why He is our God, and we are His people. Paul only taught that the law of sin is dead, and that we have been set free from it. It was because of the law of sin that made the first covenant week, but know that we have been set free from it let us walk in the royal law of the covenant so that His word will not return to Him void, but it shall accomplish what He sent it to do in us. As we rejoice in the covenant we have with the Lord let us always keep in mind the words of our beloved brother Peter in 2 Peter: 3 14-17; “Therefore, beloved, be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation- as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of scripture. You therefore, beloved since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked.”
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