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A Word of Encouragement |
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January 16, 2026 |
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Mission Mountain Range - Jan 2014 |
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Grace, Hope & Peace, Friend; We are ministers God's new covenant with humanity - the covenant whereby He reaffirmed His love for humanity by sending His Son to bear our sins on the Cross. (Luke 22:20 & 1 John 2:2) A minister is defined as 'One who attends to - or serves - the needs of others.' We share Jesus with those who need Him. How can we - being sinful ourselves - share the message of God's redeeming love with others? Paul wrote, "Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (2 Corinthians 3:5-6) It is God's Spirit - the Spirit of Truth (John 16:13) - who works through us and enables us to share the Good News. And that Good News is salvation - eternal life. (John 3:16) Salvation was promised under the old covenant, but people could not see it - "Their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted." (2 Corinthians 3:15) It became about works - keeping the law to EARN salvation - instead of being about God's lovingkindness. "But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away." (2 Corinthians 3:16) The new covenant did not abolish the old covenant - the Law, or what God had said through the prophets - it fulfilled it. (Matthew 5:17) And it is the Spirit who lets us see that.
El Rachum - Merciful God - Thank You for revealing Your love through Your Spirit.
There is freedom, |
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