 All right welcome back We have a question here. Let's go ahead. So in line with the intercession that Jesus does for us The scripture also says that you know at times where we are groaning and we are weak in the spirit Or we are not able and the spirit Intercedes for us through understandings which our mouth can't utter So how do you distinguish between that and what we also know? Yeah, so that's a good question. So see the Holy Spirit is also referred to the spirit of Jesus Right the scriptures teach us all through in the New Covenant also So Jesus said I will send you a helper Right, it's not like Jesus is not doing the helping work. Yeah, like the intercession work So how there's there's no There's no like distinction like okay What Jesus is doing is different method and what the Holy Spirit is doing is a different method. It's the same thing right one of the Responsible or the the roles of the Holy Spirit is he is our is the spirit of intercession Right, he enables us like as you said the word says When we don't we're not not able to pray he He enables us through groans and he enables us to pray. So It's not like Jesus is not doing it Jesus also is making intercession for us. So if you see it All three of them are one in a sense, right? So we know that so so we don't have to differentiate in a sense Okay, so for example, I'm not able to pray now. I just gave that example, right? I picture it that way. So the thing with me is I picture everything So it could be somebody else and you know, you know, the Holy Spirit is helping you So I don't have to think. Okay. Is Jesus helping me or is the Holy Spirit helping me? The point is that we're able to do it at that moment, right? So Jesus is our He's he's making intercession for us right now for example temptation Jesus is making intercession, but the Holy Spirit is also there. No, he's there always with us So we must be able to likely know that okay, so it's not like is Jesus doing this or is the Holy? I hope you will get what I'm saying right there So see they both they're all one they're working in unity with one another Right, so so the thing is when I gave this example what I said was I just picture things like everything I just try to imagine things like I Imagine how Jesus did those miracles or how all all through the Bible whenever I read I try to imagine it So that it brings in reality for me Oh, but but you can always, you know, you can go by these verses also like the Holy Spirit is our He's our helper. He helps us to pray So we don't have to worry about who's doing it, but as long as it's getting done in our life Yeah, I hope that answers your question Okay, we are on Yeah, we're on page 28 on your notes, right the old required many recurring sacrifices But the new covenant, it's only one sacrifice That is going to continue to remain The old has been removed and the new is in force when we say removed meaning the old the laws The law has been removed and the new is in force. The new is an everlasting covenant Meaning what it doesn't need renewal This place that we've taken needs renewing probably every five years. You want to renew the agreement? Yes, okay The new covenant doesn't mean after hundred years Jesus has to come back and repeat the whole thing No, it's an everlasting covenant till the end of time one covenant established forever, right? The new is a more glorious covenant. The news better with better promises shedding off of the old covenant mentality And I you've heard of the saying it took One day for Moses to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt one day But it took more than 40 years to take out Egypt out of the Israelites They were still had that Egyptian mindset. They were living in Egypt. No for so long. I wonder why Moses? Why did you bring us into the desert? The food the cucumber is good Can you believe they said that The food the cucumbers we got good cucumber in Egypt that at one point they said They've gone till the you know the promised land and they're telling Moses That's they're all deciding let's stone Moses will kill him We'll appoint a new leader and go back to Egypt. They can see the promised land old mentality Sometimes we lock our blessings because of our own thinking if I don't do it this way God won't bless me Or if I do it this way only then God will bless you now You know most of the time when I'm driving I Play speaking in tongues. I've downloaded it speaking in tongues or Bible verses Bible verses keep playing You know you get these things on YouTube right you can just download them so continuously one hour of Bible verses One hour of speaking in tongues So it's just there Now it's not like in the old government you have to go to the temple you have to stand there you have to I'm just giving this example right here. So so what I'm trying to say is the old covenant mentality should be removed Don't try to go to God with your works God if I learn guitar and keyboard and will you make me a good worship leader? Right. No, you don't go to God like that You learn guitar you learn keyboard you learn the instruments whatever God has given you and say Lord These are my gifts. These are my skills open doors for me that I can use them for your glory That's the difference Right, we need to come out of that old covenant mentality Now is the new covenant without law Jesus himself said I am the law The new covenant is called the perfect law of liberty James 125 but 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 James 2 12 and 13 so speak and so do as those Who will be judged by the law of liberty for judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy But mercy triumphs over judgment So right now in the new covenant We are in the law of liberty The old covenant was the law of condemnation or law of guilt And I'm talking about that. I'm you know always remember talking about the law of Moses, right? Law of condemnation here, but in the new covenant as a law of liberty What is the meaning of liberty? to live freely Do you have the liberty in a PC Bible college? Yes You're gonna change that then we didn't have any liberty. There were certain rules and you got to follow those rules right in In the new covenant, we have the law of liberty, which means there was freedom at Any time at any place at any moment Those who worship the father can worship him in spirit and in Liberty we can go to the father at any time Just the way we are It's a law of liberty is freedom in his presence If I can sit and pray I can kneel and pray I can prostrate and pray I can walk and pray During the supernatural hour all of you are in the outer courts there The same presence is there. That's okay Right, but why do I say everyone come in front because it's just bring in unity, but there's liberty during the worship The the Lord may minister to you in a different way and he may minister to me in a different way Right and the mistake I made when I was growing up was have so much of you know zeal for God I said no you have to pray like this You have to worship God like this I realize that hey, I'm not living under the law. I'm living under grace and God can speak In any way through any person and however he feels like Right, so I don't have to make judgment upon people Give people the liberty And and let them make the choice on how they want to do things, right? Now the question comes up. Why still read the old covenant? Why study Old Testament survey? Answers here because God has not changed from the old covenant to the new covenant God has not changed Malachi chapter 3 and verse 6 I the Lord will not change is what that verse says The heart and nature of God remains the same across both testaments. Do you believe this? The heart and nature of God is the same The old and the new or is it old testament? God is angry new testament. God is happy It's the same The power and glory of God remains the same across testaments But sometimes you read the old testament Say God did so many wonderful miracles New testament Why are we not seeing those miracles? We may have those questions but God has not changed God has not changed. He's able to do those same miracles. He did He's able to still patheses He's able to do whatever he feels like doing Nothing can stop him Right, so God has not changed. Remember that now how he works with people may change right How God works with people in the old covenant and how God is dealing with people now May change but his heart and the nature of who he is that will never change He's a loving God He's a zealous God. He's a caring God. He's merciful. He's faithful. He's just He's a healer deliverer all of that is there How he deals with people from the old to the new has changed right We learn from God's workings and delays We learn from God's how God worked and deal with people in the old covenant So when we look at Stories and we read from the old covenant how many of you like to read these stories of people Do these case studies? Do these case study? Look at Job We ever thought of job during the time of Abraham Job was there enjoying his life. He had all the money had all the wealth Family each and everything was going well in his life Righteous man By evening everything was going wrong in his life What a lesson we can learn from him everything was going good. Did he have wife? Yes. Did he have children? Yes Did he have money? Yes. Did he have servants? Yes There was nothing that he lacked. Did he have good health? Yes Everything was lost In one day And I want a lesson it is And how he Job was able to stand and say I know my redeemer lives. I know I'm going through this but God does not change Thing was the stories of Daniel and Joseph and Moses and David because I You know I keep telling stories when I drop my children to school. I keep telling them stories I keep asking who are you? I'm David What did David do? He killed a lion and the bear in his own hands. Nobody saw that but When the time came to stand in front of Goliath. He was unafraid So you so I keep telling them you may be doing great things. Nobody's watching you, but a time will come You all stand for God God will use you you learn from these stories You applied in our life Because you think you know one of the best things I've learned from these stories of the old covenant is God makes his people wait By nature that's what he does Abraham waited 25 years Moses waited 40 years Then who else those have waited 17 years David waited 17 years Why? That's how he is And so if I am waiting for blessings, it's not something new This is not whatsapp. You send one message. God will reply back immediately God's dealing doesn't change If you're waiting for something wait wait and faith Wait trusting God, but that's how he deals with people Right so we learn from it and we applied in our life We draw inspiration from those who walked with God in the old covenant Yes, right there's so much that we can you know get inspired by reading the word of God Shepherd boy. God took a simple shepherd boy What is his what is the shepherd's work? Come we're going grazing and then he's sitting there looking after It's not a great job during that time except when the lions and the bears come he has to fight them, but Simple shepherd boy to the king of Israel Can you imagine that king of Israel? He'd provide inspiration from this. You may be feeling. I am nothing David was nothing God took him and made him the king So you draw into a right now nobody's clapping for me nobody's watching me, but one day God will put me up Help me to be faithful now So you draw inspiration The old covenant points us to Jesus Christ And there are about 300 verses in the old covenant which points us to Jesus And the prophecies that is fulfilled in him about 300 verses It points us to Jesus Right, so we can always read it. There are types and shadows of the old covenant That are fulfilled in the new testament So what does it teach us that? The old covenant is not some you know the cross is not planned be Oh, no Adam Yves I told you no don't eat the fruit now what to do? No What does the bible say we preach christ crucified before the foundations of the world? Right, so it is it is not something that happened all of a sudden There are types and shadows God already knew why did God tell Moses don't hit the rock first time he said hit the rock Water came out from that rock And the rock followed them wherever they went. Can you think of that? Again, you need to imagine these things imagine a rock moving with you And waters flowing from that rock and they're taking water drinking You picture that in the desert Have you seen the deserts how it is? hot windy And then there's water flowing They're drinking from that nobody has to say where's the water they can see it Water's flowing from the rock continuously And then God told Moses no now now you don't Hit the rock you speak to the rock Why was that? It was a portrayal of who christ was The people of israel were disobeying They were doing whatever they felt like doing gods and snakes among them the snakes started biting people They were dying god said lord let them not die. Okay, put a pole Put a snake on it when you look at that they will live type of who jesus is Right So again the lamb the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world the Passover lamp here So everything most of them in the old testament was pointing To jesus there were types and shadows Things pointing to jesus, right? okay What all covenant practices still remain Let's read romans chapter 13 verse 8 through 10 It's on your notes Romans 13 8 through 10 Good anyone can read Oh, no one anything except to love one another For he who loves another has fulfilled the law For the commandments you shall not commit adultery. You shall not murder You shall not steal you shall not bear false witness. You shall not covet and There any other commandments are all summed up in this saying namely you shall love your neighbor as yourself Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law Okay, thank you. Good. So the apostle paul is making it very simple here Okay It's he's talking to a mixed audience the romans were there some of some were jews some are gentiles But he's saying now you have heard about the law. You should not commit adultery You should what you should not murder. You should not steal. You should not bear false witness You should not covet. You've heard about the law the 10 commandments now. I'll tell you something the apostle paul is saying If you learn to love one another Two things love the lord your god love one another you have kept all the 10 commandments You have kept the law. So what about the practices? I don't have to Do those you know those sacrifices and all those practices that were there But if I just love Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law Right, that's that's it. If I just learn to love god love people and walk in love. I've fulfilled all of this Right and so The old covenant practice All of these sums up in one Of the lord your god love one another right and so When you look at what's happening when you look at these contrasts between the old and the new covenant It's not like the old covenant Is is something that we do away with There is a reason that the bible has the old and the new covenant together god has put it there for a reason And so we can learn from it, right? We can learn from people we learn from their mistakes as well What is something that we can learn from solomon? What he himself learned Right towards the end of his life. He says everything has been I did everything in life Everything has been so let me tell you just follow god love god. That's the best thing I have money. I've enjoyed money. I enjoyed women. I enjoyed life as a whole But none of them gave me any fulfillment That's what he says Eglises everything is vanity, right? So we learn from these things from the old covenant And we applied in our life But which is a greater covenant the new covenant Right, so we stand on these new covenant blessings. We say this is who I am This is what jesus did for me and this is how I will walk in covenant with god Okay, okay, let's get into chapter seven any questions those online Okay, chapter seven the new covenant in our daily living Remember we talked about identity and how do we apply identity into our life, right? Just walk in this new identity the same way The new covenant How do we apply it in our daily living? How can we apply it? Okay, let's look at it first one Remember that we are his own special people titus chapter two and verse 14. Let's read anyone can read please We'll just go through these verses Titus chapter two was 14 who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every Lawless deed and purify for himself his own special people zealous for good works Yeah, that he would purify for himself his own special people Zealous for good works. So the moment you and I become believers We accept the Lord Jesus We become his own special people So when you stand up in the morning wake up When you look at yourself Say to yourself I am God's special son I'm God's special daughter Because it says here right is he gave himself for us to purify himself His own special people zealous for good works. So he calls us special But you may not feel special You may feel neglected People may say things about you But when God sees you you are special must be the two nine very powerful You are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light You are a chosen generation a royal priesthood You know in the old covenant It's very easy to say this but in the old covenant Being in a priesthood family was of great ranks Aaron was the first high priest Right and then followed the whole priesthood And the Levites were given High importance during you know in the old covenant They're giving very prominent Oh, you know importance because they were people of the law And Jesus you know this verse is saying you are a royal priesthood A holy nation his own special people see you declare this over your life Right You are kings and priests. We are called to live differently We have a new covenant culture. What does it mean to call to live differently? Everyone are going and drinking and enjoying and doing everything in life, but you are called to be different There should be a difference What does Jesus say I will separate the goats and the sheep They'll come on time He will separate There's a difference when you and I walk as new covenant people When you walk into your office, there should be a difference if there's no difference something's wrong Right to be a difference you live differently Everyone are gossiping everyone are using bad words But you set yourself apart So, you know, I will choose not to But everyone are using that's everyone, but you are different You're not everyone right You live with the new covenant culture You live in the new covenant community that is walking in love Walking in the provisions and blessings of the new covenant Right There is and there's a lot of provisions that are a lot of blessings in the new covenant Now only if we know it we can walk in it So we got to read God's word Know what are the blessings you have? In the new covenant Right one thing that I can suggest to you or encourage you to do is Read Deuteronomy 28 Right read it Keep declaring it the first portion especially it's a 28 to 26 28 okay Yeah Deuteronomy 28 just the first the first 14 verses read it Write down what who you are in Christ Write down the blessings that you have Ephesians 1 you're seated with Him in heavenly places I'm and then you know, there are plenty plenty of verses in Romans and Corinthians I do not have the weapons the weapons of our warfare not carnal. They're mighty in God They pull down strongholds Great else he that is in me than he that is in the world What is all this you're walking in the provisions and the blessings of the new covenant Speak it over your life Declare it over your life, right? and then Walk by faith Jesus taught us to walk in faith Walking in faith means walking in step with what God is doing right now Hebrews 111 can we read that Hebrews 111? I'm sure we all know this verse Hebrews 111 Now great is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen Yes, thank you Now now everyone say now Now faith is the substance of things hoped for Evidence of things not seen I only learned more in faith the class in faith, but One of the prerequisites or one of the most important aspects of believers is to walk in faith You and I are living in faith. Who told you to believe in Jesus? You saw him Your parents told you Who told your parents? And just goes on the questions can go on and on You live by faith because you have experienced him in your life You've experienced God's blessings you have experienced God working in your life And we begin to live in faith and the Bible in Jesus talks about Three aspects in faith Right, you know faith. He wants he says in one place. He says, oh You have No faith. Where is your faith? To he says You have little faith Yeah faith, but very little Three he says This person has great faith Yes, right, so One of the prerequisites as believers is that we continue to walk in faith Walking in faith enables us to walk in tune with God and positions us to receive the blessings of God If I don't walk in faith if I'm just walking this every day. Okay doing whatever I feel like Then there is no substance of things hoped for That's what the verse says no faith is a substance of things hoped for I don't see it. I don't see heaven I know one day I will be there Or for example, you know, if you have children, I know one day my children will You know become Go to drop my kids and I see these Kids these children who are in 10th standard No, they were writing there. They're all getting preparing for board exams. I think oh man one day That will happen These small boys will become go to 10th standard One day it'll happen. It's a that's a hope that we see ahead The bible teaches us that we are to have a hope We need to walk in this hope Walk in faith That and that's that's something that we are applying In our new covenant life right Why are you studying here? Bible college for certificate Hope not No certificate is important What I'm trying to say is You know, you have the faith that when you study your spending time and God's presence God is speaking to you. God is changing you You're growing into the things of God and God is going to use you Whatever he has called you for Right. And so you begin to speak it over your life declared it over your life these new covenant blessings Okay, so What we'll do is we'll stop here. We'll not get into section two But next class we'll get into section two. We'll talk about the cross. So we've completed the covenants Was it interesting covenants? Right covenants is good, right? You and I are part of the part of a great good covenant And the best part is God has established the covenant. All we have to do is Sign on the dotted line. Say God, I agree with you This is what you want for me And I agree and I sign the part of the covenant And so we've completed on the covenants Now just because we finished covenant doesn't mean you take covenant and put it in the cupboard You got to apply it in your life, right? remember that these covenants are to be lived out daily And we understand that you know, God has called us for a greater bigger covenant than that of the old Okay, so next class We'll get into the cross And this is a powerful section right talk about what the cross did What's the centrality of the cross? What's the what's the point of the cross? Why did God choose the cross? You know Jesus when he came and when he came In every place he spoke and things were done Yes, God said let there be light. It was the He spoke things into being But he didn't speak salvation into being He did it He came He shed his blood he died on the cross So he didn't speak it. He did it So that we can speak it You understand that right? So we'll talk about the cross the centrality of the cross What is the purpose of incarnation a little bit of christology there? How did jesus foretell about the crucifixion? And what what is the basis of the cross that we can stand on? All right, so we'll stop here Any questions? on online All right. I just like to invite anyone to please close in prayer Even as you pray just Thank the lord for what he has done right. He has brought us out of this covenant of bondage into The law of liberty a covenant with greater blessings So I just want to encourage any one of you if you'd like to pray And just declare that over your lives and the middle close. Let's pray Gracious loving heavenly father, we come to you in the name of the lord and savior jesus christ We thank you lord for the learnings that we have Being a recipient We know a lot that uh, we are children of the new covenant help us not to undermine The finished work of the cross teachers to Lead and live a life that which is pleasing in your sight We thank you for all that you have enabled us to receive As your children through the blessings of the new covenant We thank you also for the old covenant and for the reminder that The work that instead of we need to do the work that is already done at the cross We thank you for pastor for his teachings and the insights that we gain and we learn on a day to day basis We commit the rest of this course also into your precious care We pray that we will not only be hearers of your work, but also doers of your word We commit ask seek Everything in the matchless name of the lord and savior jesus christ. Amen Amen. Amen. All right. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend And i'll see you next week. God bless Thank you pastor