COULD NOT DISANNUL

COULD NOT DISANNUL

I got a real “wallop” a few days ago while musing about Abraham and the one-sided (Unilateral) Covenant of Promise that God made with him, after the 42 years of testing (Documenting) his Faith (Obedience) were finished.

Abraham walked with God in very much the same way that Christians SHOULD walk with Him today.

It was, basically, a walk of FAITH and OBEDIENCE. There were no other requirements asked for nor expected, as far as God was concerned.

The relationship had plenty of GRACE (Divine Enablement) in it, for no ordinary man could do what Abraham was asked to do, that of sacrificing Isaac, without the enabling factor of God’s Grace. That was the “Acid Test” of his FAITH (Obedience).

It was after that incident that God added the element of PROMISE to the relationship.

Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Those three elements, GRACE, FAITH, AND PROMISE were all that was needed.

That relationship endured for 430 years before being interrupted for a time, and for a reason.

Gal 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, (to define sin—Wey) (to identify wrongdoing—God’s Word) (to show what wrongdoing is—Goodnews), till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

The Law was given as a Schoolmaster to bring us to Faith in Christ Jesus.

Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

The Law, AT NO TIME was able to supercede or cancel out the relationship of FAITH, GRACE AND PROMISE that existed between God and Abraham.

Gal 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

All through the 1500 years of the LAW, there were people who acquired and maintained the same relationship that Abraham had experienced—that of GRACE, FAITH and PROMISE. Many of the Heroes of Faith (Heb 11) came from that period of time.

The LAW, which had been Divinely inaugurated at the first Passover, was also Divinely set aside on the Cross of Calvary when Jesus said, “It is finished”. The “Schoolmaster” was dismissed, and school was let out. THERE WERE NO MORE RESTRICTIONS. There were NO MORE RITUALS AND NO MORE CEREMONIES.

If we have “done our homework” (learned our lessons), we have learned to put our trust in Jesus for the Salvation of our souls. THAT IS FAITH.

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

FAITH gives us access to THE GRACE OF GOD, and HOPE.

Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES: that by these ye might be PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

FAITH GRACE PROMISE (The same as Abraham, our Father)

Rom 4:16 Therefore it is OF FAITH, that it might be BY GRACE; to the end the PROMISE MIGHT BE SURE to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

NO RESTRICTIONS NO RITUALS NO CEREMONIES

HOWEVER, if we have completed our lessons given by the Schoolmaster (LAW) we have learned a few PRINCIPLES of God that we will faithfully practice because of Love and Respect for our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.