Today’s devotion is from Hebrews 10:16-17 (NLT)
“This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
In the New Covenant God writes His laws on our hearts and on our minds and having received cleansing from our sins, He will NEVER again remember our lawless deeds. In the New Covenant in Christ, God sees us as righteous in Christ and he no longer remembers our sinful actions or our sinful past. In our New covenant in Christ we are blessed to walk according to His New Covenant laws that He has written in our hearts.
What are the New Covenant laws?
They are the law of liberty, the law of faith, the law of righteousness and the law of Christ.
The perfect law of liberty…
The first New Covenant law that I want to focus on is the perfect law of liberty in Christ. James 1:25 says, ‘He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.’
2 Corinthians 3:17 tells us that the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and freedom. One of the ways that we know that we are following the Spirit is that where the Spirit of the Lord is. There is freedom and liberty. If what you are saying, doing or believing leads to bondage, oppression, suppression or control then it is not God and it does not have His stamp of approval.
Jesus the Anointed One was anointed to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed. (Luke 4:18) Romans 8:21 says that we have been delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Galatians 5:1 tells us to ‘stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.’
When we walk according to our New Covenant in Christ, everything that we do by grace through faith leads to liberty, freedom, joy, peace and life more abundantly. - Selah
In tomorrow’s teaching we will continue our study of New Covenant laws…
