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Will the Real God Please Stand Up? Part 2
by Lewis McNeely on Monday, Feb 22nd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
In part one I shared we often have been taught wrong concerning the nature of God. Someone stated I was in error about the Law not existing before Moses. He said the Law existed in Cain's day. I'll reply to his email in a more detailed way later. It's clear the Old Covenant Law did NOT exist until the time of Moses. Galatians 3:17, "What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise."

Moses Law was introduced 430 years after Abraham. Abraham was born at least 400 years after Cain. So, the Law DID NOT exist in Cain's Day. Now am I saying sin did not exist? Of course not. I'm saying the Old Covenant was not in effect in Cain's day. Nor was an accounting of sin. Romans 5:13 "for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law."

Next key thought is it is important to know if you are under the new covenant, you do not rest under the anger of God. In fact He is NEVER angry with you. This is remarkable and sounds too good to be true. Yet the Prophet Isaiah prophesied this about the New Covenant in Chapter 54: "To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn NOT to be angry with you, NEVER to rebuke you again. Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you."

Some may argue this was a promise to Israel at that time or is for when we get to heaven. It's clear the entire chapter is a prophetic promise of the New Covenant. It states this promise happens under the "Covenant of Peace." Look at Ephesian 2 starting at 14 "For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near."

We know it is not just for heaven because later in the chapter He states. in verse 15 "If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing". No one will attack us in heaven so it is a promise for here and now. By the way, did you catch that? He is NOT the one who attacks us. Praise the Lord!

Indeed our old nature was destined for God's wrath. Ephesian 2:3 "Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath". Now, because we have a new nature, we are objects of His mercy. Romans 5:9 "Since we've now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!"

Keep in mind everyone has to be punished by God's wrath. We either get it on the Day of Wrath by rejecting Jesus. Or we can accept the price Jesus paid by taking the wrath for us on the cross. Then we are given a new nature that will never suffer the anger of our Creator.

The bottom line is if you are born again GOD IS NO LONGER ANGRY WITH YOU. He swore He will never be angry with you again. Doesn't that make you want to get to know Him even more? It is His kindness that leads us to repent (Romans 2:4), not His wrath. That's all for now. I'll finish this up in part three. Remember it sounds too good to be true but it is true. Your heavenly Father is deeply in love with you. He wants relationship with you. Run to Him today.

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