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Why Do We Need A Personal Revelation of Grace?

March 5, 2021 by Sandra

My friend Michelle asked me a great question the other day after observing someone who doesn’t seem to understand grace yet. “I have a question….the message that God loved you […]

Why Do We Need A Personal Revelation of Grace?

March 5, 2021 by Sandra

My friend Michelle asked me a great question the other day after observing someone who doesn’t seem to understand grace yet. “I have a question….the message that God loved you […]

Why Do We Need A Personal Revelation of Grace?

March 5, 2021 by Sandra

My friend Michelle asked me a great question the other day after observing someone who doesn’t seem to understand grace yet. “I have a question….the message that God loved you just for you was not something you had never heard before. Why do u think it didn’t register for all that time previous? What was […]

768. Good News About 2 Chronicles 7:14 (God Wasn’t Speaking to You)

August 16, 2020 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

Taking a look at another “verse” where legalistic religion will often try to apply to Christianity … it comes from 2 Chronicles 7:14:

“…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

This is wrapped in the context of the (former) Old Covenant, where the Jewish temple had just opened for business—which would be considered a house of animal sacrifices. It was another conditional promise based upon keeping the law … which nobody could ever successfully accomplish. If they were obedient to every command—while praying and seeking God’s face at the temple house–then God would respond with healing and forgiveness.

Under the New Covenant where we abide, forgiveness and blessings came through another way other than works … it’s by grace through faith and the blood of Jesus Christ which has already been shed. His glory couldn’t be handled by the priests when it filled the temple, but now He has filled you with that same glory by His Spirit—you are His temple. He doesn’t hide His face from you and He never leaves.

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753. Hebrews 10: No More Offerings = No More Forgiveness Required

May 3, 2020 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

Under the old law of commandments which Israel had been under for many years, we discover that ministry could make nothing perfect or take away sins. It was considered by God to be faulty and that law (or laws) is not what is written on our hearts within a new and better covenant. The Old way brought a reminder of sins, but in the New Covenant Jesus established after His death, God declared He would no longer remember sins.

The removal of sins and the end of sacrifices brought a complete forgiveness, once for all. No more forgiveness is being offered because the offerings stopped and no further blood is being shed. Blood no longer needs to be poured out when sins have been thrown as far as the east is from the west.

On this podcast we referred to a blog post written by Joel a few years ago called Instant and Permanent Sanctification, as well as a previous podcast in our current Hebrews series, Hebrews 8: One Bible - Two Different Covenants (Not to Be Mixed).

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752. Hebrews 10: Forgiven and Sanctified (Jesus Sat Down)

April 26, 2020 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

When the commandments which came through Moses were still in effect during the first covenant, every priest under the law stood daily while offering the same sacrifices over and over which could never take away sins. The only time a priest would be allowed to sit is if there were no further forgiveness needed for sin … of course, that never happened.

But Jesus offered one (1) sacrifice for sins resulting in forgiveness … and not just up until that moment … but all sins for all time. Afterwards, we find His offering was more than enough as our new High Priest sat down at the right hand of God. The job was truly complete, and the work of forgiveness was finished, once for all. It also gifted us with instant sanctification and perfection—something the law could never do, no matter how hard one tried to keep it.

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750. Hebrews 9: Your Sins Are Not Covered by the Blood of Jesus

April 12, 2020 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

The blood used during the Old Covenant ceremonies brought an atonement or covering which resulted in a temporary forgiveness under the law. You could walk into the church of St. Moses regularly and walk out covered in bull blood every single time and still not be free from the bondage of sin. It would always need to be repeated after the next sin occurred.

Jesus offered His own blood and went before the true and greater tabernacle of God on our behalf. It was a sacrifice that would need to be performed just once. Why? Because His perfect offering didn’t just cover our sins but it took them away forever, never to become an obstacle between us and God ever again.

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734. Forgiveness: The Christmas Witness

December 22, 2019 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

In order to really get a hold of the complete Christmas message, we’ll need to look beyond the birth of Jesus and the manger scene. The entrance of God into this world as a human being was a prelude to something much bigger than turning water into wine, multiplying fish sandwiches and even raising dead bodies which had been placed into the grave.

God sent Jesus to provide the world with something so massive, magnificent and monumental … that it exceedingly surpasses beyond all that we could ask or think.

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708. Born Identity: We Have Peace With God

June 23, 2019 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

Jesus came to bring peace to those who would receive it. It’s not like the fleeting peace the world tries to give.

How do we begin to truly experience this personally? Is it by how we begin to live our lives or by following a multitude of religious rules? Quite the opposite.

The good news: You can’t make peace with God - but He has made peace with you.

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707. Born Identity: God Remembers Sins No More

June 16, 2019 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

The Christian religion is often built upon the idea we should repeatedly be seeking a renewed forgiveness from God whenever we fall short.

It’s time to ask ourselves a question at it relates to the message of the gospel and the New Covenant of Jesus Christ: How can we be forgiven for something that God says He no longer remembers?

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706. Born Identity: Forever Forgiven – Unconditionally

June 9, 2019 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

How can we know for certain we’re forgiven by God? Is it based on the condition we repeatedly confess all our sins? Is it dependent on whether we forgive others or not? Water baptism?

Let’s ask a different question that contains a very significant answer: Why did our High Priest offer His blood by a sacrifice that occurred “once for all” and afterwards - He sat down? Knowing you are completely forgiven by God should never be something you have to wonder about.

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705. Born Identity: God’s Forgiveness Is Not Repeated

June 2, 2019 by Mike Kapler and Joel Brueseke

If we needed to continue seeking more forgiveness from God for every time we fell short, then the second covenant established by Jesus was a failed experiment. Repeated forgiveness is what the Jews pursued under the first covenant (before the cross).

If more forgiveness needs to be dispersed by God, then Jesus would need to keep offering Himself again and again. We have a better proclamation inside of a new and better covenant. Sins weren’t just covered; they were taken away.