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Wayne's World...(29Oct09)

Jesus Changed Everything

 

Wayne Duncan

 

 

Jesus changed everything. One of the greatest challenges for us is to see the degree to which things were changed, by the obedience of Jesus life, and the resulting new covenant in which we now stand.

 

Jesus changed everything

 

Jesus lived a life and by the time he was finished, by the time he cried out "it is finished", everything would be different.

 

So we see the attempt of the enemy to block the ministry and intervention of Jesus in the world. We see the attempt of Satan.

 

King Herod learns of the prophecies and the coming messiah. He becomes concerned, inspired by Satan, he issues a decree to have every baby killed. Jesus is protected however. It's not long until we see Herod dead, and Jesus can return. No matter what comes against you, it must die to make way for the reality of Christ.

 

Satan failed to stop Christ. 

 

Jesus was the most radical man that ever lived.

 

He was the most radical Jew that ever lived.

 

Everything Jesus said and did had implications for us as believers today.

 

 

What are some of the things that Jesus did and said that made Him so revolutionary?

 

Here is one. Jesus said "I came to for fill the law". This was extremely radical. No one had ever said such a thing.

 

Jesus came to change everything.

 

Jesus changed the law. Jesus said "you have heard it said, but now I say". What authority did this man from Nazareth have to change the holy law that God himself had issued?

 

Could it be that when Jesus made these claims he was not being blasphemous, but rather obedient?

 

He was changing everything.

 

 

Here is another one.

 

Jesus forgave sin.

 

Mary, the great sinner comes and worships Jesus. She anoints Him with oil, perfume and kisses.

 

Then he says to her "your sins" are forgiven. Who was this man to be able to forgive sin?

 

Now did she even ask for forgiveness? What came first worship or forgiveness?

 

This was not the traditional or legal way for forgiveness to come.

 

Jesus changed everything.

 

If Jesus could forgive a woman like this, under the old covenant, without even blood, how much more can he through the blood of Jesus and the perfect sacrifice of Jesus, wash and cleanse us, making us pure and holy and blameless in his sight?

 

Your forgiven, justified...just as-if-id never sinned.

 

 

Jesus spoke about the shift that he was ushering in.

 

Matthew 9 (also Mark 2 and Luke 5)

 

16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

 

This one of the earliest parables Jesus tells, he releases into his ministry in early stages of his teaching. He wanted people to know from early on in his ministry that he was ushering in a new way  that would require new wineskins. Jesus was saying that the new and the old are not compatible. He was saying that the mixing of the old and new ways would be destructive and harmful.

 

Mixing the old and new, by refusing to embrace the fresh, causes two devastating effects

 

1)    The hurting of the individual, church, organisation.

 

2)    The wasting of the wine, a picture of the Holy Spirit.

 

It's never a good idea to grieve the Holy Spirit, and this is what we do when we mix the old and the new. This explains the reason why there is often a very low level of anointing in people and individuals who mix old and new.

 

Here is what Clarks commentary says about this passage:

 

Matthew 9:17: New wine into old bottles]  It is still the custom,
 in the eastern countries, to make their bottles of goat skins: if
 these happened to be old, and new wine were put into them, the
 violence of the fermentation must necessarily burst them; and
 therefore newly made bottles were employed for the purpose of
 putting that wine in which had not yet gone through its state of
 fermentation.  The institutes of Christ, and those of the
 Pharisees, could never be brought to accord: an attempt to combine
 the two systems would be as absurd as it would be destructive.
 The old covenant made way for the new, which was its completion
 and its end; but with that old covenant the new cannot be
 incorporated.

 

 

 

Here is a golden key concerning the change Jesus brought.

 

Matthew 5:20: For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  

 

Here Jesus says that we need a righteousness that is greater than that of the Pharisees in order to see heaven.

 

How could that be?

 

Jesus was introducing new covenant righteousness. The gift of righteousness by faith. New covenant righteousness works like this. When we believe in Jesus, he calls us righteous, as a gift. His perfect obedience is credited to our account. His perfect obedience to the law is given to us. Now we have His righteousness. 2 Cor 5:21 god made Him who had no sin to become sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. 

 

Towards the end of His ministry on earth, Jesus continued to say things that were just totally off the charts.

 

He said "its to your advantage that I go"

 

How crazy is that? Here we have Jesus. Healing the sick, raising the dead. Turning entire regions and town around. Multitudes follow Him. How could it get any better? Then He says that it's better if He goes? How could it be?

 

Jesus was saying that by the time he had changed everything, a way would be created that would be more powerful and effective would be released in the earth. That would be released through the holy spirit.

 

John 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you

 

Because he went, the Holy Spirit can be released onto every believer, enabling every believer to do what Jesus did.

 

Jesus was saying that a bunch of people filled with the Holy Spirit, is better than him being here! 

 

Now here is another thing Jesus said that is totally off the charts.

 

John 14:12 "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father

 

 

What is the qualification to do what Jesus did? To believe in Jesus.

 

To believe that we can do these things? No.

 

To believe in Jesus? Yes.

 

Do you believe in Jesus?

 

You can then do all things through Christ who gives you strength.

 

Your belief in Jesus makes you righteous, and you receive every blessing and power freely from heaven as a gift, through faith.

 

 

Jesus then goes to heaven, and the new covenant starts.

 

The Holy Spirit is poured out, and power is released on the earth.

 

Now through the Holy Spirit that lives in us, we can operate in great power in the earth.

 

This is our inheritance through the finished work of the cross, righteousness, power fellowship with the spirit.

 

Jesus came to show us Gods love, to destroy the power of the enemy, to forgive our sins and release righteousness, to give us power, and to release the ministry of the Holy Spirit in and through us.

 

Now we live by the Spirit.

 

Wayne's World...(25Oct09)

Born from Above

Wayne Duncan

 

Possibly the most underestimated aspect of Christianity , is the understanding of the degree at which we were changed when we became born again.

Joh 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Joh 1:13  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Here we see a number of things.

John is talking about being born again.

It cant happen from flesh, effort or the will of the flesh.

It cant happen by blood, you cannot be born, born again.

We also see here that there is power involved in bringing life. This is a powerful act of God. The power is not from or in us, but the receiving and believing releases and activates the power of God and we are born of God.

This power is released over those who receive and believe.

Many receive Jesus teachings, but do not believe in Him. Ghandi honored Jesus teachings, and encouraged people to receive Jesus. But there was not belief. Many today in the world call them selves Christians for they have received some aspects of Christianity. 

Here is the Greek word for believe

G4100

πιστεύω

pisteuō

pist-yoo'-o

From G4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one's spiritual well being to Christ): - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.

When we believe in Jesus we place our faith in Him. We trust Him.

We do not trust ourselves, we do not trust what we can do, we trust Him. We cannot save ourselves, we have not the power. We have no goodness of our own to offer God as a reward for eternal life, so we trust Jesus finished work on our behalf to be enough to entirely satisfy God on our behalf. This is to place our  trust and faith in Him. We believe that Jesus is able to save entirely those who come to Him. This is trust.

We need to trust Him with our sin. We need to know we have missed the mark, fallen short of Gods holiness. Then we trust Jesus to destroy that barrier between us and God. We place our trust in His promise to do that for those who receive and believe in Him.

Now we rest in confidence in the hands of our powerful savior.

When we have this faith, this belief. When we believe this we are born from above.

Here is the word in Greek.

G1080

γεννάω

gennaō

ghen-nah'-o

From a variation of G1085; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively to regenerate: - bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.

We are the literal offspring of the trinity. God is our father and mother, and we are His Children.

We are regenerated, made new by the secret act and power of God.

He has brought us forth, something new.

He has conceived us.

We have been delivered of, we are out of all the old and placed in the new.

We have been made new.

We have sprung forth as new creations and new life.

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

The new is not a mere mentality. It is a literal powerful new creation. A new creation. Not a new mentality. Not a new awareness, no, a new creation. A new creature. New. Never before existed. 

At this moment of being born again we are placed in Christ and sealed with the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:13: In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

How do you become in Him? When we believe. When are we born again? When we believe.

How do we know we are in Him?

I John 4:13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

We know we are "in him" and he in us for we have the Holy Spirit. The seal, and guarantee of our salvation. He is the one who convinces and convicts us of our salvation and righteousness.

Is everyone "in him". No. Only those who have the spirit.

Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 

All were included in His work on the cross, but until you receive Him, and believe in Him, you do not become a new creature, you will not be born from above or receive the Holy Spirit, or the new nature, or the power of God in you.

Some preach that all were included in Christ, and all are born again, and all are new creations, they just need to see it, to discover it. This is not biblical, these tings are available, but it has not yet happened to them until faith comes, and a person believes, and is powerfully changed into a new creation, and the seal of the holy spirit is placed on and in the believer.

Now what do we call people who are born from above, with power. Those who are in him. Those with the seal and presence of the Holy Spirit, what are those called?

We are called sons.

Ladies you too are sons. The reason is that there is no disqualification for you, you have the full inheritance and equal co heirs with Christ. Were all sons.

14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons(See discussion on "sons" in the preface)  of God. 15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs - heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, 

What can a new creation do?

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

You can do anything.

So this is who you are.

A powerful new creation, with the power and righteousness of God plowing in your veins.

You are filled and sealed with the Holy Spirit, he is quickening your body, leading you telling you who you are, and what you can do.

You are a son, with an inheritance from God, a co-heir with Christ.

You can do all things through Christ who gives you strength.

You have a father in heaven who loved to do you good. He is for you, and what can ever be against you that cannot be destroyed?

Have you received Him? Do you believe in Him?

 

From Ryan

Hi guys

Just a quick update on New Nature if you're interested. We now have a facebook page with lots of cool stuff on it.
Become a member to keep up to date with latest book releases and worship albums + read reviews on books as well as first chapter of each book.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=307403895003

Also we've made some changes to our products page to include a new payment method for those who don't have credit cards and would prefer to make a direct bank transfer.
Check that out at: http://newnaturepublications.com/?page=product

Also look out for upcoming books and albums
Including:

- A new worship album from Bonnie. It's Bonnie at a whole new level! Look out for it this December!

- Anneline Breetzke' debut album! Look out for it early 2010.

- A booklet by Chad Mansbridge on the Abrahamic, Mosaic and New Covenant. I read it and was blown away by Chad's revelation! Look out for it early 2010

- A book by Wayne Duncan on how to read the Bible through grace. Out early 2010

- A childrens' book by Milly Bennitt titled, 'A Lamb called Love'. Simple, powerful and full of glory! Early to mid 2010

- A new book co-authored by Rob and Ryan Rufus called, 'Establishing People in Grace'. Out 2010.

Thanks guys and God bless!

Ryan Rufus