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Creation is not fixed. This planet and our bodies are still subject to Adam’s fall. Outwardly, we’re all a work in progress. But the story doesn’t end there. We have great hope within us, knowing this - It won’t be long before the wonderful salvation promised by God shows up all around us!

The result of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice wasn’t just to get you a bit closer to God. It was to thrust you into His presence forevermore. God’s promise to the world, sealed by His oath to Himself, is that you are perfected right alongside Jesus, by faith alone!

Hebrews 7 lays out the clear comparison of a Levitical Priesthood, overseen by men who die, with the Priesthood of Jesus, the man who will never die. With the change of priests comes the change of law, and thus we are still enjoying the new covenant, built on the law of Grace and Mercy!

In the Biblical account of God’s covenant with Abraham, we see plainly what our New Covenant looks like. Ours is not a covenant of man’s effort to reach higher and higher, hoping to one day be counted as worthy of some prize. Instead, our covenant is simply received by faith, bringing the weight of heaven’s blessing with it!

When the Gospel is preached well it should leave the hearer in awe of what God did. There is nothing relatable or logical about what God accomplished in Christ. Because of Jesus the pure and perfect life of God lives in the very heart of every believer!

Just the mention of Judgment Day invokes extreme emotions of all sorts. “Did I do a sufficient amount to be accepted? Was I good enough?” The amazing news of the Gospel is that our entrance into heaven is not based on the scale of our good deeds. Rather, we are promised eternal life because Jesus “done good” in our place and gave us the reward!

The Apostle Peter paints a clear picture of why a believer sometimes lacks virtue, kindness, love, and the like. And the prescription has nothing to do with changing their behavior. Instead of pressuring people to act better or do better, Peter chooses to remind us of our total forgiveness as a motivator to good works!

God’s method of the forgiveness of sins has never been a mystery. For over 1,500 years God demonstrated the need for blood as the only way to remove sin. In preaching the true Gospel we should make it crystal clear that Jesus is the substance of all that was foreshadowed. He is the completed will of God for all to receive a full pardon for their sins!