Introduction By now, you should be able to understand that it is only through our faith and trust in God that we can enter into the salvation covenant. In my last blog we saw that the first commandment is about knowing God for ourselves and looking to Him as the only authority by which we…
Introduction Welcome! We are going to set off on a journey to understand each commandment of the salvation covenant. Before we start, I want to remind you again that the Ten Commandments are just outlines that God gave us. He wants to transform us, but He also made each of us unique! He wants us…
Introduction Let’s take a break this week from the salvation covenant itself. We will return to it next week when we start looking at the actual commandments. This week, I want to talk about the reasons why I believe that people don’t keep the salvation covenant. I believe that there are four reasons: 1. We…
Introduction Over the last two blogs, we looked at how the salvation covenant was designed to ensure our eventual transformation into God’s people and how we should understand it. In this blog, we will look at how to keep the salvation covenant. There are three things to keep in mind: 1. The Ten Commandments are…
Introduction In my last blog, we looked at faith as a requirement to enter the salvation covenant. Only if you had enough faith, you could be drawn in to begin a revolutionary relationship with God. But the proper attitude and understanding must accompany our faith so we can have success in living inside of His…
Introduction Having Enough Faith The only requirement of salvation is having enough faith to enter the salvation covenant and to live according to His covenant ways for us to be transformed into His image. Faith is the entry requirement for our transformation. We all must answer the question; “Do I have enough faith in God…
Introduction In the last two blogs, we’ve discussed the old covenant priesthood and how it was abolished to make way for a new covenant with Jesus as the only High Priest. In this blog, we shine the light on the role of the Abrahamic covenant in our transformation process. How can we turn into people…
Introduction The attentive reader will know that I’ve been blogging over the last few weeks about the covenant that Jesus came to fulfill. Today, I want to shift the focus a little and talk about the covenant that Jesus came to replace. Surprised? Yes, we are dealing with two separate covenants. God gave us many…
Introduction Abraham got a new name after entering the covenant with God. It was a symbol of a new beginning – of a set precedent – on how one can come into a relationship with God that can last forever. Abraham is our spiritual father and our salvation model. We can understand something of our…
Introduction Nothing has changed We concluded last time by saying that Christianity is still the original faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It came to the full circle in the sacrifice of Jesus. The Tanakh and Brit Hadashah is one united message for the “commonwealth of Israel”: Salvation comes for those who have absolute faith…