 Okay, good morning everyone, welcome to new day in a new sessions this morning. Let's begin this time with the word of prayer Could one of us please lead us in prayer? Amen Go ahead father. We want to say thank you The king of glory you want to see came The shape of this you want to think you for the best we break this morning For do you see us through this morning with a thinking that it would commit our lecture and the lecture into your face this morning Father enlightening our other standing in the name of Jesus and at the end of this course my father my god I pray that would become a practical of your world in the name of Jesus Thank you, my father in Jesus name we pray Amen, amen. Thank you success All right, so before we go in to today's sessions last week we Ended in chapter 8. We look at the new covenant and the old covenant contrast and how You know the contrast between what what happened in the old covenant and what Jesus did in the new covenant and How the old covenant is more of the law and the new covenant is of grace and old covenant, you know, just was Brought condemnation the new covenant is full of grace and truth now now we've established the fact that You and I as Believers are part of this new covenant. We also establish the fact that the new covenant is a Greater covenant with the greater promises and greater glory and greater You know greater work and manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the new covenant now in the old covenant we see that The people were the daily life Was affected With the old covenant meaning? So if you look at in the old covenant everything that they did Was in line with the covenant So if you look at, you know, all the all the offerings the sacrifices the fees You know the the tabernacle the temple everything affected their daily lives Right. It was not like what we see now, right? Okay, wake up go on a Sunday go to church come now It was it was something that was always Constantly in their mind in the old covenant always. Okay. These are things that I have to do these other Feast these are the offerings these are the sacrifices that I have to do so Everything in their daily life Pointed to the to the law to the covenant Now we go to chapter 9 how is it as you and I as Believers, how is the new covenant affecting our daily life or The question we can ask ourselves is does it affect our lives or is everything still the same? Let's look at chapter 9. Jeff and I'm on page Yes page 39 on your notes chapter 9 page 39 the new covenant in daily living, right now We need to learn To let the new covenant the blood that God Our Lord Jesus shed on the cross Though the covenant of the cross what Jesus did in the new covenant We must let this covenant affect our daily life, right? So what does the Bible teach us? About this new covenant just a few points first one Bible teaches us that we are his own special people Right now when you look at the old covenant as well God had his own special people that was the Jews, right? But now in the new covenant all of us Whether we are Jew Gentile, it does not matter Paul writes and he says Jew or Gentile doesn't matter We are his own special people Let's read Titus 2 and verse 14. I just want to request maybe few of us to quickly Begin to read there be a couple of verses that we'll go through in this in these two classes. So Yeah, two three of us Titus chapter 2 verse 3 to 15 go ahead Sorry, Chuck Titus 2 verse 14 Titus 2 verses 14 Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify For himself or people that are his very own eager to do what is good Amen, thank you Sid now it says here some of the versions on the notes It says his own Special people he gave himself up to redeem us from the law and he made us his own special people Right. So when we look at ourselves as People in the new covenant we must understand that we are his own special people Now does that mean that God is showing favoritism God has a special liking to us than to the others not really We know that John 3 16 says God so loved the world. He loves the world equally But again, you know when we read the book of Ephesians, we will understand that when we are in him We are predestined in Christ There are blessings and and there's this Special place the special relationship that the Lord, you know establishes with us Right, and what is the special? People why are we special people for good works? too bless to be a You know fruitful for the kingdom of God first Peter chapter 2 and verse 9 Peter writes it so beautifully, but 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 Right Paul is right. Sorry Peter is writing now. He's writing mostly to Gentile believers right first Peter He's writing mostly the letters addressed mostly to the Roman believers And he's saying you are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation And so as believers you and I Are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation. We are special in the eyes of God Right, it's not that you know, we have to you know Say for example, we have to do some great work and then go before God and and God says, okay, you are special. No Because of the cross we are already a special people for our Lord Jesus Right, you know when you look at the world the world standards is you do something good You'll get a special reward You do something better, you know, you get special attention special reward But everything is reversed in the kingdom of God God is saying you don't have to do anything All you have to do is believe that you are part of this new covenant you believe in the cross and When you do so we are already a special people To as In the new covenant we are sons and daughters kings and priests Right now we've emphasized the fourth that the reason for the blood covenant in the old come Old Testament also Wars for relationship Now in the new covenant The Lord Jesus Restored he redeemed that relationship. He reconciled us with God Right. What does it mean to reconcile even away from God? He brought us closer to God. So the reason a blood covenant was established for is for a relationship now before in the old covenant We were not sons and daughters when you look at it in the literal terms because God and we were man as sinners But now after the cross God says you are my sons and daughters You're gonna your kings and priests Right and so as sons and daughters how much more important It is that we walk in that authority right picture a king right and This king has a prince The prince is not going to act like, you know, somebody who's you know, just walking around in the streets. He's gonna act Very dignified. He's gonna act in a way that That he knows, okay, I am gonna be the next king of this nation So I need to portray myself with dignity with honor and I need to you know Rule this nation in the right way. And so There's this authority. There's this Responsibility also so just because God has You know made us sons and daughters doesn't mean we don't have responsibilities There are responsibility as God has invested. He's given us an inheritance. We have to use that and walk wisely Right Peter again writes in his letter and he says walk circumspectly Walk with good understanding know what you are doing understand who you are Be aware of your surroundings Three as people in the new covenant, we are living differently read Ephesians chapter 4 You know Paul is writing to the Ephesus church and Ephesus and he talks about You know, how what it is to live in Christ that we walk in unity. He talks about the 5-fold ministry of the church and as believers We live differently Now we may ask this question. How you know, how how is it to live differently? I go to work in the morning. I come back in the evening. I have my family, you know Nothing changes. I'm doing what everyone else does. No How we are living differently is whether we are at home Whether we're in the business whether in in the workplace sector in ministry wherever we are We can make a difference In the way we live our lives People will watch us People will know. Hey this guy this girl or this boy There's something different about him He's not going to gossip or he's not going to tell a lie. I know that How's that they're living with a new covenant where mentality we're living knowing that we are different from people and What makes that differentiation? the Holy Spirit in us and We also walk in this new covenant culture right now different States different nations have different cultures of lifestyle the way they you know celebrate Christmas or Easter or the way they the children are raised up the way In different in so many ways the culture is different like even if you look at our nation the nation of India itself When I'm not Southeast West there's so much of differences in the culture certain places they They have breakfast at 5 a.m. And Certain places they have dinner at 7 a.m. 7 p.m. So the way of living the life is very different Now we're not talking about that culture But we are talking about a lifestyle that is in line with the word of God remember the old covenant the scriptures teach us that the book of Hebrew says In the book of John, sorry it says that the old covenant brought condemnation Brought guilt But the new covenant brings grace and truth the old covenant brought hopelessness there was there was Guilt condemnation fear in the old covenant the new covenant is full of grace and truth And so as believers of the new covenant you and I are to walk in grace and in truth What is grace? Grace is unmerited favor The favor that God places upon us we walk in the grace of God. We walk in the truth of God's word That is the culture Right, it's not about you know going into church and you know covering your hair or removing your shoes or going inside All of these are practices which are followed by different cultures, but the true new covenant culture Is about walking in grace and in truth So this is a question we can ask ourselves say God am I walking in the grace of God? Am I walking in truth of the word of God? Am I obeying the word of God? Am I in line with the word of God? Is my life Reflecting you know the beauty of Jesus or to the people around me Then we will know that hey, I'm walking in this new covenant Finally we live in a new covenant community Paul writes this wonderfully to the Ephesians and he says Ephesians he writes also to the Corinthians and he says Is Christ divided? This in Ephesians chapter 4 again, he says we have one body One body one in spirit one in mind and all the five-fold functions the five-fold ministry of the Holy Spirit It is all to equip the body of Christ to edify the body of Christ and So as new covenant people we must learn to live in community in unity in oneness Now I think I believe that you know the time that we are living in Unity is something that we do not see Because a lot of ministries have different essence have different callings Of course, we do see you know the body of Christ working together different ministries But this needs to grow even more. We need to see love and unity spread even more You know the the basis of the new covenant is Is not power Right, we always look at the new covenant and we think oh power of God power of God Yes, but the foundation the basis of the new covenant is love Right God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Paul writes and he says if you have all the gifts of the Spirit you have all the Prophecies word of knowledge all these wonderful things that the Holy Spirit gives us But if we do not have love it's of no use So in in in a community If if there are other ministries other people and we and if we don't love them and If we don't love do the ministry in out of love that God has placed in our hearts then people fail in In the aspect of you know being new covenant community remember the to the to the Philippines Paul writes and he says You know, you all have been so wonderful You'll have given me all the gifts when I was in prison. You have blessed me. You have you have Provided me for everything And then to the Thessalonians again Paul writes and he says I wish to see you My heart longs to see you How is it? Why is all that? Where is all that coming from love and unity? And so even in our lives daily lives when we walk this walk Understanding that we are part of the new covenant love and unity must be the basis Now there will be times when we don't agree to people other people's understanding or other people's Practices or dogmas that they follow but that should not stop us from, you know loving them and and walking in a new covenant Remember the Lord Jesus You know when this is so wonderful the road to Emmaus he has died He has resurrected the road to Emmaus to people meet with him and they don't recognize him, but later on Mary Magdalene come and tell the disciples these two people come and tell the disciples and the disciples say It cannot be they don't believe them right and and And the story goes on where later on Jesus himself appeared to the disciples and He rebuked them for their unbelief, but he chose the same 12 11 12 people 11 people to Go out and do the ministry. They were the same 11 people who didn't believe. Why didn't they believe? They saw Jesus on the cross. They saw Jesus was dead. They saw Jesus was put in the tomb. It's been three days It's not possible But Jesus did not give up on them Why it is the love of God? These didn't say okay. Now I have to choose another 11 people because these 11 don't believe I'm alive. No, he didn't say that He continued to love them. He looked beyond their challenges He looked beyond their present situations. He knew that they were having a tough time to understand They were going through a pain in their life. They were going through Persecution as well. There was fear. There was pain. There was sorrow But God the Lord Jesus overlooked all of that and he continued to use these 11 disciples who went about turning the world upside down And we live in a new covenant community. We will look beyond people's failures We will look beyond people's struggles. Look at who they are in You know, look at who they are In the new covenant that they are Children of God They are kings and priests. They are a royal priesthood a holy generation right, so We complete that on chapter 9 any questions any thoughts anyone has And if not, we can move to chapter 10 and learn what is Jesus doing as our high priest and our mediator Any questions? Are we living the new covenant life? Are we living that culture? These are questions It's good to ask ourselves right the movie ask ourselves questions the more we can learn And the more we feel okay God, I need to you know step up this area of my life I need to you know grow in this area. I need to mature in this area. The Holy Spirit will teach us How to do that? Yes, any thoughts any questions should we move on? Okay, no questions Let's go to chapter 10 chapter 10 We look at high priest and mediator Now in the old covenant Okay, I'm gonna ask some of the question right? It's awfully quiet What does the high priest do in the old covenant maybe two or three of us come on What does the high priest? What is the role of the high priest in the old covenant? High priest stand between people and God and live for the sacrifices, especially on the Great Atonement Day He enters the Holy of Holies and takes the blood which represents the sin of the entire people and at the people of Israel He includes it on the Holy of Holies and And stands in between God and people Okay, yeah, that's wonderful. Thank you John Anyone else what else does the high priest do? Now we looked at the Old Testament What does the high priest do like so John said the day of atonement He goes he takes the blood to represent the nation of Israel So what what other thing does the high priest do? Anyone else? So offering sacrifices in Yeah, Robert said you're muted now. You said offering sacrifices It's master. Okay. Okay. Yes. He helps in The daily offerings of sacrifices as well What else does he do? He's something very important What else does the high priest do? So high priest is the only one who can go to the most holy place? Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you said anything else Yeah, so if you look at uh, you know, God told Moses, you know, Aaron was made the high priest What there are certain things that he uh, you know, he does as We know that, you know, it's more of religious Aspects that the high priest looks at It's something very important. He does I'm just looking for that word Okay, we'll go into this chapter so we can, you know, get a better idea as well So basically the high priest is our mediator Right. That's that's the word I was looking for he is our mediator Right. He's he talks to God on behalf of us He represents God on behalf of us. He stands between God and man. So look at chapter 10 What does Jesus do As our high priest and our mediator Right. What does the resurrection and exaltation of Christ Mean to us as believers Jesus died. He rose again now. He's he's not sitting in heaven relaxing But what is he doing? So we will look at that from this chapter first one Jesus Christ was the first born from the dead. Let's read Colossians chapter one and verse 18 Go ahead Colossians 118 Colossians 118 And he is the head of the body The church who is the beginning The first born from the dead Things he may have the premonious Amen. Thank you. Thank you brother. So that's and he is the head of the body the church who's the beginning The first born from the dead Now Jesus Christ Was was the one who came into this world first born from the dead meaning that From among sin right born without sin Born into this world And became the head of the body, which is the church And in him that he may have and in all things that he may have preeminence Right. So the Lord Jesus Represents us just because Jesus rose up from the dead You and I can You know, you and I have this understanding that hey, this physical body Is not the end and this is just You know, this our soul Spirit is inside But our spirit is who we really are and so we understand that this body will fade away And since Jesus Christ He overcame death On the cross he overcame he died and he resurrected he overcame death You and I as his children Can overcome death He has authority over hell and death Revelations 118, let's read that Revelations chapter one and verse 18 Revelations chapter one was 18 I am he who lives and was dead and behold. I am alive forevermore Amen, and I have the keys of headies and of death Thank you, john Now this is the Lord Jesus himself saved this this John is looking at The exalted the glorified Jesus He looks at Jesus and he falls at Jesus's feet and he says I am he who was dead, but now I am alive forevermore And I hold the keys of death and hell The word keys means authority I have the authority of death and hell So the Lord Jesus In the new covenant as a high priest as a mediator has destroyed The works of the devil Right. He sin came into this world Sin the effect of sin is death What does the Lord Jesus do? He reversed it He said I'll come into this world. I live this perfect life And I will die But death will not keep me down I will overcome death as well So he's emphatically he's declaring to john and he's saying john I was dead, but now I'm alive And I will be alive forevermore I have the keys of death and hell satan has been destroyed Right you and I I have got a mediator who is in authority over death and hell The Lord Jesus has given us the authority He says I'm giving you authority to trample over snakes and scorpions right so As new as new testament believers. We are to walk in that authority We are to walk in that anointing Right You know, I remember this one time we were in small I think a city in under predation You know, I didn't know much of the word It's probably about 23 years old Uh, I didn't know much of the word but all I knew is Jesus is victorious Right and I knew that the Lord can do anything in a person's life so we were in town and Now we were just doing these small evangelistic meetings with about You know 50 60 people from the towns and villages they would come Just just small, uh, you know very farmers and Carpenters tailors very low-income people very earnestly. They love the Lord You know, they come every day every Sunday to church for fasting prayers and all of that. So we went there to this It's a town. I wouldn't say it's a village, but it was a small town and We started, you know, we had the whole like a three-day meeting and so we would you know, just teaching some basic stuff about, you know, what the Lord Jesus did about the cross about You know, uh, the authority that God has given us and then we would spend time praying for the people There's this one time this You know, this lady just began to manifest She came straight to my face and she said, uh, do you know who I am and all of that, uh, at initially I was Uh, I was really scared. I was really afraid. I said, God, what is this? You know, all of a sudden this moment came and uh I was really scared. I was about to just take the mic and keep it aside and Probably walk off the stage But at that moment I remember saying God fill me with your Holy Spirit I need your Holy Spirit now. Now no matter what muscles or no matter how many times you go to the gym All of that is not going to matter when you see things like this, right? Whether we are, you know fitness, whether we are fit in our body. Now all that is important But the enemy, the devil is not afraid of us Whether we are fit or whether we are unfit, whether we are, you know, going to the gym and all of those things No, no, no And this woman came and I said, God give me your Holy Empower me with your Holy Spirit. And so at that moment Some kind of a boldness came into me. I mean picture this, right? Jesus, uh, it was just a picture, right? It was a picture that came into my mind. Jesus was giving me a key Right, uh, it was just like a picture giving me a key and I took that key And I realized that in the bible all through the bible the word keys Refers to authority and it was like Jesus is giving me the authority So all of a sudden that woman who was highly possessed Two things happened. First thing Is I was not afraid Right, I knew that he's already defeated. I was not afraid at all And two, uh, there was this feeling of love And sadness for the person who's going through this, you know, sometimes we get very upset with the person who's possessed Uh, but there was a feeling for the person, you know, that's not what he this woman has to go through You know being possessed by this one And I just remember saying I just put my hand on this woman I said in the name of Jesus, I command you to come out of this body Right there, right? I didn't I didn't scream and shout and you know Slap the woman or or, you know, just cause a whole Ruckus there nothing Just in the name of Jesus. I command you to get out of a body That moment spirit that was tormenting her for about eight years That in an instant it just left her Right, uh And she was free Now I was only about 23 years old and I when I saw that I was surprised. I know about no Bible college. No Nothing I I didn't know revelations and all of those things But as new testament believers as believers when we know That the Lord Jesus has given us authority over hell and death. He has he has He has destroyed the enemy the way we walk Will change We will walk in authority. We will walk in power now. I'm not saying that Later on many other instances. I did feel fear again Right because some some of those instances are very scary, but the Lord Has overcome remember the enemy comes but to bring fear Right, he brings all these, you know thoughts of fear He comes to destroy our faith And so we must walk in this authority Remember that all authority belongs to Jesus All right, and there are three verses there. Let's read Hebrews 2 and 9 like this verse Hebrews 2 and 9 Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 9 Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels For the suffering of death Crowned with glory and honor That he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone Yes, thank you john so We see here in Hebrews 2 9 that he was made lower than angels just so that he could taste that But now all authority both on heaven and on earth Belongs to the Lord Jesus Who's in authority over hell the Lord Jesus is Right, there is there is no demon That can you know come and just you know have a casual conversation with Jesus. No, no, no There's power. There's glory. There's authority You know, we sing that song in the name of Jesus demons will have to flee Right, it's it's not just some song that we sing it is truth And the name of Jesus demons will don't don't just sit around they flee They run away the word flee is to you know, not just walk away. It's to run away the opposite direction All authority has big belongs to him Now our high priest Jesus our mediator All authority belongs to Jesus Every believer lives with the hope of resurrection now we must understand that Heaven is real hell is real There is eternity that we all must face, you know When we look at what's happening around us There are different thoughts of schools would say that you know There is no hell this is only hell Or you know, there is no heaven There is there is no eternity You know once we die We become something else or Or we just go into the grave and it's the end It's not the end The bible teaches us in first Corinthians He writes and he says there is a hope of resurrection I Paul writes the Thessalonians why because people came into the church and said You know, what if the resurrection has already happened? Now they were fearful and then Paul begins to explain to them Say don't you know that in a twinkling of an eye we will be changed. We will meet him in the clouds And so Each one of us as believers We live with the hope of resurrection No demon or no work of the enemy can stop us from being resurrected in Christ What can the enemy do? Now we must understand that the enemy can bring death. There will be physical death Right, but The hope that you and I have Is that we will resurrect in Christ Jesus The moment we are in Christ The day that we die At that moment we will be resurrected in Christ And we will stand with him We will see him. The bible says we will see him face to face. What a hope that is Right, and so we need to live with that hope now does not mean that we live in fear. Oh, I don't want to die I don't want to die. No It's something that we have to face But we have this assurance We will live with him. We will see him face to face. There will be eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Every believer has the right to use the name that is above every other name the name of Jesus Jesus has given us the authority Now after Jesus died he resurrected. He went up to heaven. He says He gave the great commission to the disciples. He said go and make disciples baptizing them In the name of the father of the son and of the Holy Spirit So Jesus has given us the authority to use the name Right, uh, you know, for example, uh, you know Example you can't get into A school right the parents are not allowed example right say for example The parents are not allowed in school during the class hours right Uh, now if I say if I tell the security guard at the gate That principle the name of the principle This principle the name she told me to come and meet me at 12 o'clock What is going to happen? He's going to say okay You have used the name So you're allowed to go inside right So Jesus is saying no, I've not just finished the work But I'm it's not like I finished the work and I'm Done it and I've gone and sat in heaven. No, Jesus saying I'm giving you the authority. I'm giving you The authority you use the name The name of Jesus And that's what happened in the book of acts acts three Peter heals the lame man And all through the book of acts we see That healings happen in the name of Jesus that same name is still powerful today The same name is still effective today and this is proof of his resurrection You can't say If Jesus had died and he has not resurrected I can't pray in the name of Jesus. It's not going to have any effect But since Jesus has overcome that resurrected to heaven When we use the name of Jesus It is still effective And God has given us this commission to go and make known his name Every believer has his resurrection power at work in them Right, so let's read Ephesians chapter one was 19 and 20 Ephesians one 19 and 20 Ephesians one 1920 And what is the accident greatness of his power toward us who believe according? To the working of his mighty power Which he worked in christ when he raised him from the dead and seated in at the right hand in the heavenly places Amen, thank you zalee. So we see a god Exerted his power to resurrect the lord jesus christ and seated him in heavenly places God is still willing to exert the same resurrection power in our lives remember we looked at the lord's table And we looked at the covenant the sign of the new covenant was the lord's table And we saw that how when we partake in the bread when we partake in the juice Or the wine and we and we say this is the body. This is the blood We are partaking in the resurrection power We are remembering his death, but we are also partaking in the resurrection power Right, so it's not only grieving good friday. It's not only about grieving it is about Remembering what he did, but it's also about a victory When the lord jesus said it's finished it was victory But we remember the pain the suffering the agony that he went through for us And so The lord jesus is willing every believer has this resurrection power at work in them Now here's the thing. I'll just use this example now if I for example, I Give you the authority or I give you the the keys to the church like when I'm talking about the physical Church location, right? What am I doing? I'm giving authority right now If I give it to one person and I say, okay, make sure That after two months from now when I'm back Everything is all right. You know every sunday services go on well So I gave this person the key And I come back after two months and I see That you know, the chairs are broken The tables are not in place the places of mess It's fully dirty The cables are not working the mics are not working the guitars are broken What am I going to think I'm going to think that this person is not Used the authority that I've given him in the right way or Either he has misused it or he has not bothered about it But he has just left it as it is and the whole place is still smelling. He has not cleaned it. He's not So what am I trying to get at every believer? The lord has god has given us his resurrection power in us Now it's up to us to use it in our lives in our daily situations Right. So for example You know, we see A challenge ahead of us How do we you know react to that challenge? How do we Uh respond to it. What is the first thing that comes to our mind? right Now the resurrection power is in us the power of god is in us. We are to use it Right. So if I give a key to this person and I say this is a church key Imagine he goes there He stands outside and he says he has the key in his hand, but he doesn't open the church It doesn't make sense I've given you the authority, but you're not using it open it Use the key open the open the church and go inside He had the authority, but he didn't use it So the same way the lord jesus has given us authority. It is up to us to use it And now more than the old covenant the lord jesus has given us so much more than the new covenant picture this moses and You know david and daddiel they didn't have the scriptures They couldn't go back and keep reading scriptures. No And now with the new covenant we have so much more Right, we have so much more we can go to the scriptures we can read we can ask the holy spirit for revelation We can ask the holy spirit to teach us When we don't understand, you know the book of john says if you lack wisdom, sorry the book of james says If you lack wisdom ask him he will give you abundantly And so it's very important That we use the resurrection power that god has placed in us Right, so we'll get into What the scripture reveals about jesus? And what is jesus Doing on our behalf Standing at the father's right hand, right, so we'll take a break. We'll come back at 11. We'll begin with What jesus is doing on our behalf as a mediator in heaven, right? Let's take a break. We'll come back at 11 o'clock here