Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ: Amazing Grace, Message That Hastens Christ’s Return

In the Old Testament the Israelites repeatedly vowed to keep the law of God  given on Sinai. Repeatedly they failed, leading to the place where they were unable to recognize the Messiah when He came. He came to His own and His own received Him not. The old covenant was a belief that I can save myself by doing.   This old covenant thinking has infiltrated our prefrontal cortex (soul) and impacted how we think and believe in God.  The old covenant mindset has become the source of stinkin’ distorted thinkin’ and includes:

• “we must do this”
• “we must do that”
• “we must study more”
• “we must be more faithful”
• “we must get the victory”
• “we must pray more”
• “we must witness more”
• “must” almost ad infinitum

Many ask like the Jews of old, “What shall we do that we might work the works of God.”

There appears to be a latent fear of  old covenant believers, something too good to be true—  salvation by grace alone; our program of doing obedience might appear to suffer. The fear of being lost is the bottom line because faith is not understood as a heart-appreciation of the heavenly love that casts out fear. Hungry souls and discouraged hearts are the fruit of an old covenant mindset.

Obedience to the law of God is revealed by salvation by grace alone that is received through a faith that works. This transcends and casts out fear, breaking through the fog replacing legalistic imperatives with gospel enablings.

The new covenant the amazing grace of Jesus Christ breaks through the fog.

“When God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself; . . . for men verily swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fed for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us; which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” Heb. 6:13-20.

It was the oath of God, therefore, that confirmed the covenant made to Abraham; that promise and oath to Abraham are our ground of hope, our strong consolation; but it is “sure and steadfast,” because the oath sets forth Christ as the pledge, the surety, and “He ever lives,”—the covenant is confirmed in Him, and no one can disannul it or add anything to it. That is to say, the Gospel to-day is precisely the same in every particular that it was in the days of Abraham. It is summed up in this: God will give to men “the first dominion,” the earth free from all curse; the promise is to all without exception, and the fulfillment is to all who believe in Christ, “in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” Just as the earth was given to Adam in the beginning, without his having done anything to earn it, even so the new earth is a free gift,—the inheritance is solely by promise; but this inheritance is an inheritance of righteousness, and this necessary righteousness God gives to us, creating us new creatures in Christ, even as in the beginning. He created Adam a perfect man. And all this is assured to us by the oath of God, in which He pledged His own existence. But this oath was in Christ crucified, and the cross of Christ, bearing the curse everywhere, is the assurance that God in Christ ever liveth.” E. J. Waggoner. The Signs of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 6 (February 8, 1899), p. 99-100.  https://www.secondcoming.org

Let us grow in  the amazing grace of Christ, experiencing the ongoing  growing faith of Jesus. Look to the cross and the ministry in the heavenly sanctuary.

May we confess our sins and accept the gold tried in fire, the white raiment and the eyesalve. Today. Time is running out. Jesus is coming soon.  Are you ready?

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3: 16

For only as Christ is in us the hope of glory, can we do righteousness, because He is our righteousness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7mBt-hcLE&list=PLzdrN4ZnrM5Y3-3rnnzyl5ToI-0WuXGPj&index=2