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The Covenant of Faith, Abandonment

3/19/2025

1. The covenant is faith—which is abandonment—which is... Jesus is everything. I don’t have a backup plan. He decides everything for me real-time because I don’t know anything, and...

2. Only Jesus can go to heaven, so I’m going to hide my everything in Him and “put on Christ,” be clothed with Jesus. The blood of Jesus washing me makes me look like Jesus to the Father. And only Jesus goes to heaven.

“Nothing impure will ever enter in... but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.” (Revelation 21:27)

“Without holiness no one will see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14)

3. The down payment or proof that I have made the covenant (rather than trying to fool others out of pride, or human expectation, or for myself because I want something for myself such as friends, or freedom from guilt, or fear, or ambition, or the momentum of peer pressure...) is “The gift of the Holy Spirit.”

“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the FAITH, the FULL-ON TRUST that Jesus has kept the covenant on my behalf.” “And you shall receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This promise is for you and your children and all who are far away, to all who the Lord our God has called out to.” (Acts 2:38)

4. “The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.” (Romans 8:6)

“The Spirit testifies with our spirit ABBA!” (Romans 8:15)

5. Once we have hidden our life in Jesus rather than in the religion of knowing we’re doing the right thing, the tree of knowing, and our only hope or identity is in Jesus and His blood, then we will see and acknowledge our violations of His character and have our motives laid bare regularly day by day with open hands. We will continually be able to learn more and more to “abide in Him and He in us” and be “conscious of God” “praying without ceasing” (always aware of Jesus as a sub routine running in the background) because we are no longer hypnotized by the world system and its lusts and our eyes. The very separation from “the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace” makes us aware of the path towards “the full measure of the stature of Christ.” The gift of the Holy Spirit is Real. Don’t be drunk on vices, or the world, or fear, or wealth, or the praise of men, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.

6. Once we have chosen faith in Jesus rather than striving or knowing, rather than comfort or pleasure, once we have sealed the covenant and put on Christ as our only hope, then “we will not desire to deliberately continue in sin” because we feel the loss of our all in all and as we confess our sins, call it out for what it is, in this new agreement, new vow and contract and covenant, clothed in Christ, washed in His blood, He will “continually cleanse us from all sin.”

We are granted by His life, not ours, by the Tree of Life, not the tree of striving and trying to be someone, protecting our comfort... We are granted a life that always was and always will be. A 100% on our exam, and an opportunity to every day “make it our goal to please him” and grow into the unity of the faith and the full measure of the stature of the son of God, being molded by the potter into the family likeness of Jesus as we yield, not strive. That’s all we want in life, in this present age.

Recognizing our utter need leads to abandonment into the only one who can heal us, which leads to the gift of the Spirit and the washing by His blood, which leads to the Family of God and the Overcomers who are in His presence “by the blood of the lamb, by their courage in saying so to anyone anytime, and they loved not their lives even to the point of death.”

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