Sunday, February 14, 2010

The gospel announced to Abraham - nations will be blessed through you!

Galatians 3:8 (New International Version)
The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham:
"All nations will be blessed through you."

What a strange scripture to pick up on. I have read over this many times before, but never saw it the way i did the other day.

Have a look at what it is saying. The gospel was announced in advance to Abraham, rigtht?
What does it say next? "All nations will be blessed through you" WOW.

Is it saying that a part of the gospel, the good news, is that nations will be blessed through us? It most certainly is.

The bible says: "So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith."

I would like to proclaim to you today, that a part of the gospel, is that we will be a blessing to all nations. We become the blessing. This is because of the Holy Spirit living in us. The main purpose here is not to draw towards ourselves or take anything for ourselves, but so that we can reflect Jesus, to honor God in all we do. We are a blessing to all nations by showing them who Jesus is and showing off His glory. Not so that people will be impressed with us in any way, but that they will be impressed by our Lord and saviour. We must always be pointing to Jesus.

How do we become a blessing? By not being a curse!
We counter the ways of this world, we counter the system of the ruler of this world. Where people fight against each other, we bring peace. Where people turn away from each other, we turn towards. Where people run, we stand. Where destruction comes, we bring restoration. Where sickness come, we heal. Where demons oppress, we set free. Where people steel, we give. Where there is poverty, we bring abundance. Where there is hate, we bring love.

We opperate under a different, oppossing kingdom to the one of this world. And the more aware of the kingdom we are acctually living in, the more we radiate that kingdom, and that power begins to bring the change.

Too many christians live no different from this world, we do the very things they do. This is because we do not have revelation of the gospel. When we grasp this revelation of the gospel and the power we have, then we begin to steward that correctly, and naturally bring change.

Let us mature in the gospel of grace, let uis mature into the full stature of Christ and we will see the world naturally change just through us being who we really are.

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