Today I was really blessed reading Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations".
CONTINUE IN GOD’S GRACE
2 Corinthians 3:6 …for the letter kills, but the Spirit
gives life.
To the Jews, the feast of Pentecost is a celebration of the
giving of God’s law. It takes place 50 days after the Passover feast. When God
gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, it was 50 days after
they had celebrated their first Passover and come out of slavery in Egypt.
But what happened after God gave them the law on the first
Pentecost? Three thousand people died (see Exodus 32:28)! Contrast this with
another Pentecost in the New Testament. In the book of Acts, it says that when
Pentecost had fully come, God gave not the law but the Holy Spirit, and what
happened? Three thousand people got saved (see Acts 2:41), which goes to show
that “the letter [the law] kills, but the Spirit gives life!”
The law, which was “written and engraved on stones,”
ministered death. It killed 3,000 people. That is why the apostle Paul calls it
“the ministry of death” and “the ministry of condemnation” (2 Corinthians
3:7–9). On the other hand, the Spirit ministered life—3,000 people got saved.
My friend, when you come under the law by trying to keep
God’s commandments in order to be blessed, it will lead to death. There will be
deadness in your marriage, ministry, health, career…in your life. But when you
depend on the Spirit of grace, it will lead to life. You will see breakthroughs
and miracles (see Galatians 3:5), and manifest the fruit of the Spirit.
So if you want to be blessed, make sure that you are on the
right mountain. You see, the law was given on Mount Sinai, but the Spirit on
Mount Zion. That is why the Bible says that “you have not come to the mountain
[Sinai] that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and
darkness and tempest…But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels”
(Hebrews 12:18, 22). The Lord blesses you out of Zion (see Psalm 128:5), and
not Sinai!
Beloved, by grace you have been saved through faith (see
Ephesians 2:8). Now, continue in the Spirit of grace. Remain on the right
mountain and He will continue to supply miracles in your life!
AMEN! I pray that you will come to know and understand just how blessed we are under our new and BETTER Covenant with Almighty God! Believe His Word and you WILL see it come to pass in your life! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Your Word":
Shalom in Him!
