Victory over “Any Religion” is the Spiritual Identity of Sonship Part 2

2020 November 29th Streaming

As we discussed last week, religion and “Christian religion” began with the early church. Initially the members of the early church were not known as “Christians.” That identity came some 12 years after the ascension of Jesus and the Day of Pentecost. This new identity was attached to those of the “Jewish” religion who believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, the Christ sent by God to His people, Israel. We also discussed the covenant God made with Abraham and His covenant made with Israel. As I said last week a covenant is a compromise, an IOU between two agreeing parties! This creates union between them. Now, if the covenant is a bilateral, it calls for both parties to keep their end or part of the covenant. If one party fails to their part the covenant is void. Unless the remaining party continues to keep their part. And, as we read last week in Exo 24:3, 6-8, God and Israel made a bilateral covenant and sealed it with “the blood” of animals. We also saw that God promised a “new” covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

And we saw that this “new” covenant would be fail proof because it WOULD NOT BE a bilateral covenant with Israel this time. This is where Jesus came in. Jesus came with a unilateral covenant to Israel this time! All Israel had to do was receive and believe to enter the new covenant. The blood this time would be God’s own blood!
But none of this produced victory over “Christian religion”. It became the source of it! Let’s talk about…