The Covenant is Sealed

BY PGF
2 years, 3 months ago

Romans 5:6-10

Some are at peace with God. Some make war on God. And yet some are wholly unaware. Sometimes it’s difficult to know who is who and what master they serve. Some have peace with God but a raging war against sin on the inside, tearing them up. Some have faith without peace being a sheep gone astray. Some are justified by the illusions of their mind having peace for a season of their own creation; like a baby with a pacifier, they have temporary comfort while gaining no sustenance. Many know full well they serve the devil; you being a sinner, have that same capacity. Most are blinded and glad to be so. But every soul on earth, ungodly sinners all, have access in faith to the throne of the Almighty by the grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is no peace, no end to the war of the heart and soul by any hustled-up religion, self-help book, and undoubtedly not by the evil that abounds unto death in this world. But we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God through Jesus Christ our Lord and our Saviour. Do you want to wait, have faith in the arbitrary, and see if a better option comes along? You genuinely are taking your chances; eternity is nothing to gamble away.

Hardships are coming; they’re already arriving and will bear down on the soul. Tribulations start in the tangible world, but that’s not the target; it’s in the human soul where the wrath settles; having vexed the body and mind, the trials of wrath look for your core, plunging the depths of conscience to see what you’re made of. None can withstand God. It’s war by judgments and tribulations or peace by the Lord.

The wrath of God is the allowance of evil, and the world leaders have sided with the maleficent, choosing war with the Almighty. It will affect you, family, friends, work, and every aspect of life. The rulers and would-be tyrants all around us have a vested interest in keeping you socially inept, isolated, away from others of like heart and mind. As if by some power, and it is, the whole world was locked in their homes wearing a diaper on their face. Evil is real, and it’s a spirit. The mental damage to especially the young and old is permanent, and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. No man knows the future but do you think things will soon improve? They could, but more likely are wonders to behold; all the world will marvel as the depths of evil are plunged, and none will escape. It will affect your very soul as God permits; that is the target of the enemy’s attack. Evil thrives in the torment of the heart and soul; that’s what’s coming. But there is a peace to be found.

“1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” – Romans 5:1-2

If not today, then why wait? There is no better situation coming, no better time than now, no better covenant than in Christ Jesus. One has but to believe that Christ died paying the fullness of your debt for sin. What a simple and marvelous thing that today, this very moment, you can be delivered from the power of darkness and brought fully into the love that God has for you. There is no reason to wait. Christ will not die again better; God will not love you more later, and the Holy Spirit will not browse the library of your works looking for your nobility. Christ is noble; Christ is King, the only Holy One worthy of life yet suffering defeat at the cross by His own will, for you personally, that you might live bought into godliness by His shed blood upon the tree. He’s not going to the cross again; it is finished; seated at the right hand of Power, Christ has sealed the covenant in His own blood. There’s no purer a covenant because there is no pure blood than that of the Son of God shed for you. Today is your day, the day of redemption; Christ paid it all so that you might go free.

“6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” – Romans 5:6

Now is that time. Not when you have the strength, not when you claim self-godliness, but now, today! God knows you have no power to save yourself from being in a helpless state against what’s coming, and God knows your sins and transgressions; they have found you out. Christ died for the ungodly, not the self-reformed, cleaned up, and presented with phony piousness; Jesus died for the sinner. Today is the day of salvation come unto you!

“7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:7-8

Evil is arriving, and cowardice abounds in these times, although we do see glimmers of hope. Oh, so rarely for a righteous man, and some might die for a good man daring to follow after, but Christ didn’t die for good men; He died while we were sinners, ungodly, yet without strength on our own, because God loves you. God has Commended His love by showing the extraordinary depth and mercy of His heart toward you, in that He gave His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus. No better man is coming; it’s Jesus Christ the Son of God. He’s the only sinless, there being none good, no perfect love but that of God.

“Could we with ink the ocean fill,

And were the skies of parchment made;

Were every stalk on earth a quill,

And every man a scribe by trade;

To write the love of God above

Would drain the ocean dry;

Nor could the scroll contain the whole,

Though stretched from sky to sky.”

The story goes that this poem was found on a cell wall in an insane asylum. Is it any wonder, the love of God seems wholly irrational in a hate filled world. When they come for the truth-tellers, when earthly thrones and kingdoms fall, when as today they call the just man crazy and the evil good, upon what foundation of love will you stand?

Today is the day of salvation because of the covenant with the Saviour who was foreordained before the foundation of the world to die for you. You can be found justified in the mind of Almighty God and saved from the wrath to come. It’s coming; there is no better time, no nearer day to the Lord than this very moment, escaping the wrath of God that abides on all those that hear but wait! Salvation is to them that believe in the power of God over the evil of sin, the world, and death.

“9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” – Romans 5:6-10

The enemies of God are lining up, outing themselves more and more every day. Surely you’re not with them? Why remain an enemy of God? It’s a war you can’t win; today is the day of reconciliation, forgiveness, and salvation; having risen from the grave, He’s alive. By His life, you can enter into life everlasting.

What cartoonish silliness is this to stand at the pearly gates and be assessed by God to see if you’re worthy? You are not holy. You are not sinless. You are not eternal. You’re not worthy; you’re an ungodly sinner, full of deceit, hate, and anger. When those eyes pierce your very soul, it’ll be too late; either you belong to the Just One who is worthy and enter into the love of God by Him, or you’ll be cast into outer darkness burning for eternity. No man stands on the last day; every knee will hit the dirt, every tongue will be stopped; Christ is King.

It’s by the power of God that Christ rose from the grave, and it’s by His power that you, if you are His, will be raised to a new life, being made a son of God, knowing God, set to new purposes in a new kingdom under Heaven. Want to die a death with meaning, gallantly? Die for Christ on the battlefield fighting for the souls of men in the Kingdom of God. Today is the day to be made a friend of God; such a thing as that is the offer of the Almighty whose boundless love toward you would accept the torture of His own Son in your stead.

Friends with God today; Jesus knows those that are His. There’s no reason to fight it, no reason under creation to remain His enemy – what have they got to offer but the coming hell on earth and in eternity to follow?

It can’t be overstated; there is no better offer coming, no better god, no better faith, no better religion; it’s not even about religion or Church; it’s Jesus. Jesus Christ poured out the sinless blood of the New Covenant, for He is the way to the Father, the Creator and Redeemer of those yet without strength, of ungodly sinners in need of salvation; turning to the Saviour today, you can be His. The choice is yours to make, the wrath to come or the love of God by Christ Jesus. Without the resurrection of Christ, there is no eternal life for the believer at the last day; you won’t be raising yourself from the dead to be with Holy Father God. Now is the time to get this right.

Call upon the Father, tell Him you don’t want war with Him; you don’t want to die in your sin but desire a life with meaning and purpose above any that the death and hell the world has to offer. Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. God is faithful to those who are His, for He delivered Christ, so you can also know that He’ll deliver you into eternal life, sealed through faith, in the blood covenant made before the world began.


Comments

  1. On July 12, 2022 at 8:07 am, Drake said:

    Yes – Amen.

    I avoid the national news most of the time these days. When I do see it, I notice that most of our national “leaders” now look like poorly disguised demons to me. Biden’s Cabinet in particular. Maybe I’m just imaging it because they are usually in the process of calling good evil and vice versa when I see them.

  2. On July 18, 2022 at 9:26 pm, RomeoCharlieWhiskey said:

    I, albeit a little late, thank the Good Lord & our host here for these timely, powerful & poignant words. It’s time to walk the talk.

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