This can be hard to hear. Shakes your ideology, theology, and identity. Why Jesus asked often, “Can you hear?”
Hard to hear a God when we’re so sure we’re right in defending the ideologies and theologies we’ve been taught since birth. All that came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We have a belief system of right and wrong, good and bad. Religion is just a byproduct of mans belief system. If you went to get rid of religion you’ve got to get rid of man. Man fights over morality of who’s right and who’s wrong. Who’s belief system is superior?
The Bible is a representation of the old covenant age. From the trees in the garden to Moses, up to the cross is all the old covenant. Talking to the Jewish people at that time. Jews kept thinking we can do it all through laws. Jesus came and kept dumping more laws on them (making up new ones). Every time the Jewish Pharisees kept saying they could do it, Jesus kept making up new laws. A law is a law. If it’s in the you ought to do this and ought not do this, that’s a law. He kept giving new laws until the essence was, you’re going to have to be perfect. Think you can do that? You can’t!
The New Testament church didn’t get it. They still talk about unrighteousness, behavior, sin, the enemy (satan or the devil) and hell. And don’t ever introduce the finished works of Jesus or The New Covenant. This New Covenant and the finished works of Jesus Christ is the greatest gift that relieves you of judgement, unrighteousness, heavy burden, anxiety, depression, fear, doubt, and more. Yet most who know the Bible inside and out and who’ve been in the church for their entire lives, even the preachers on the pulpit, don’t know about or speak about or receive this gift from God.
We’re talking about coming to know God not coming to know a program, not seeking to become a better Christian, person or whatever that program is called. Most religions or programs people are in brings more guilt, not peace and rest, that comes in trusting the God and His New Covenant with all. There are none excluded.
Takes you from going through life trying to make it happen, to trusting in God who created all of this finished work before man (you and I) showed up. Thank you God for taking care of this. From my perspective it may look off, or not good at times, yet I trust in You for it all.
Hebrews 8:10-12 (NIV) 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
What could you do that would be unforgivable by God? Absolutely nothing is unforgivable by God.
