To truly know FATHER, we must know Jesus!
Throughout our history God has spoken to our ancestors by HIS prophets in many different ways. The revelation HE gave them was only a fragment at a time, building one Truth upon another.
But to us living in these last days, FATHER now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through Him God created the panorama of all things and all time.
Jesus, Our Elder Brother, is the dazzling radiance of FATHER’S splendor, the Exact Expression of GOD’S True Nature—HIS Mirror Image! If you want to truly understand FATHER’S Nature, you must focus on Jesus Christ.
Why should we spend an inordinate amount of time and focus on the Old Testament prophets when we really should focus on all aspects of Jesus Christ and the Epistles which further point to His Nature?
He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of His Spoken Word. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sins, and then took His Seat on the highest Throne at the Right Hand of FATHER, the Majestic One.
The Old Testament was a legalistic, temporary approach toward GOD which simply identified what sin was and provided a temporary solution to reestablishing access to GOD in some manner. Constant, innocent blood sacrifice was required for access. Jesus Himself rectified the problem of access to FATHER. The Old Testament was based on your performance and how well you lived. In contrast, The New Testament is based on The Blood of Jesus and His performance, independent of our own performance… thankfully!
You cannot merge the New and the Old together. The New Covenant replaced the Old Covenant!
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 11:
6 But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
FATHER rewards our faith, not our performance. When we diligently seek HIM, our mindset changes and we begin to embrace everything He has already provided for us. We don’t need to beg HIM for healing, we need to embrace the healing power HE has already provided. The problem is between our ears, not HIM being reluctant to bless His Children!
And in chapter 12:
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the Right Hand of the Throne of God.
As I wrote yesterday, if you truly desire to walk in faith, you should focus on The One Who leads us into faith’s perfection. His perfect sacrifice did what the Old Testament could not do: Bring us into full Sonship with FATHER!
You cannot mix the two Covenants together and expect to produce the same results Jesus produced. The Old Covenant did not produce a new creation, however, The New Covenant did.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5:
16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
18 Now all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the Word of reconciliation.
Jesus emphasized the reality on the “new creation” when He spoke in Mark chapter 2:
18 The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.
21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.
22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.“
Being a new creation, we ought to walk accordingly and focus on the revelations contained in The Words of Jesus, not the incomplete, partial aspects of the Old Testament. Those prophecies pointed to Jesus, the Author and Finisher (perfecter) of our faith!