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To obtain a proper and powerful mindset concerning the Believers
"in Him" identity, it will be of tremendous benefit to determine what the New Covenant has to say on the subject. The Old Covenant and the laws that were a part of it, presented a way for man to gain inclusion in a national identity. By keeping, fulfilling and meeting the requirements of the law, man could earn a standing before God. It would not be an identity in Him, but rather a place before Him. A corporate identity with the people of God, but not a relationship of love, with the God of the people. No man was ever able to keep, fulfill or even stand justified by performance of the law. It was humanly impossible for mere man to come up to its requirements. The man trying to keep the law was flawed by human weakness. Since the man was flawed, the works he would perform were also flawed. Man needed a Savior! The New Covenant, and the grace gift it offers, made another way for man to find his identity and rightstanding before God. Grace offered to man, what law could never make available to man. |
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To obtain a proper and powerful mindset concerning the Believers "in Him" identity, it will be of tremendous benefit to determine what the New Covenant has to say on the subject. The Old Covenant and the laws that were a part of it, presented a way for man to gain inclusion in a national identity. By keeping, fulfilling and meeting the requirements of the law, man could earn a standing before God. It would not be an identity in Him, but rather a place before Him. A corporate identity with the people of God, but not a relationship of love, with the God of the people. No man was ever able to keep, fulfill or even stand justified by performance of the law. It was humanly impossible for mere man to come up to its requirements. The man trying to keep the law was flawed by human weakness. Since the man was flawed, the works he would perform were also flawed. Man needed a Savior! The New Covenant, and the grace gift it offers, made another way for man to find his identity and rightstanding before God. Grace offered to man, what law could never make available to man. So true!!! |
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