Passover: Your Divine Appointment - City of Destiny

Passover: Your Divine Appointment - City of Destiny: Passover: Your Divine Appointment The first of God’s three feast seasons Compartir Give Descargar “Three times a year all your males (and females) shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread,(Passover) at the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and at the Feast of Tabernacles (Atonement); and THEY SHALL NOT APPEAR BEFORE THE LORD EMPTY-HANDED.” Why is this COMMANDED APPOINTMENT so important to us as Christians? Passover is a foundational pillar of our faith and a set time for celebration on God’s heavenly calendar for our release from the struggles and bondages of the past and the freedom that can only be found in Christ Jesus. PASSOVER IS A VITAL PART OF OUR FAITH STORY! In Exodus 12:13 God declared: “Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.” God told Moses in Exodus 12:24: “And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance FOREVER!” 

The Doctrine Of Grace - Part II
by Gabriel Swaggart

WHAT MAKES THE GRACE OF GOD POSSIBLE?

This leads us to our next question, what makes the grace of God possible?  The answer is very simple:  The cross of Christ.  It is the cross that makes the grace of God possible for anyone who will simply believe.

In fact, the cross is the greatest display of the grace of God that has ever been.

God has always been a God of grace, even at the outset of humanity.  When Adam and Eve fell in the garden, it was His grace that provided the means of the sacrifice to restore right relationship with Him.

Knowing this, we see that there was just as much grace under the old covenant as there is under the new covenant.     

However, those under the old covenant could not enjoy all of the benefits of God’s grace as those can who are under the new covenant.  The difference is the Cross, for it was the Cross that atoned for all sin—past, present, and future.  The Cross of Christ is what makes the grace of God possible, and it makes the grace of God more available presently than in the days of the old covenant.            

We must understand that before the Cross, God was limited as to what He could do because animal blood was extremely insufficient.  However, when Christ died and shed His life’s blood, it opened the door for the Lord to do great things in our lives.
 

HOW CAN BELIEVERS BE GUARANTEED A CONSTANT FLOW OF GRACE IN THEIR LIVES?

Once again, we must look to the Cross of Christ for the answer to the question above.  It was the Cross of Christ that signaled the beginning of the dispensation of grace, which is the age in which we live today. 

It was Jesus Christ and what He did at Calvary that made it possible for all believers to bask in the grace of God in a bountiful way.  However, as the Cross of Christ makes it possible for us as believers to enjoy the grace of God in a bountiful way, so too does the Cross of Christ guarantee the grace of God to flow to us, in us, and through us in an uninterrupted way.

Listen to what John the Beloved said: “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). 

This refers to what Jesus Christ did at Calvary.  This grace, which can flow uninterrupted, was made possible by Jesus Christ.  Never forget that.  As well, if our faith is anchored and secured in Christ and the Cross, we can rest assured that His grace can flow uninhibited in our lives every day, which is the only way that we can live an overcoming, victorious life over the sin nature.

(Cont'd next week)

Taken from the book 'I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About To Happen' by Gabriel Swaggart