by Jesse Abel
Thoughts from Papa “J”
If you suffer from a lack of friends as many of us do these days. Check the dipstick of your friendship reservoir; you just may be a quart low. Proverbs 18:24
Good Morning
2 Corinthians 3:7-18 – it is hard for me to imagine that the Law and the sacrifices are referred to by the apostle Paul as; “the ministry of death” and that it was glorious too.
Yet when you think about that moment in time when Moses went to meet the LORD on Mount Sinai; Exodus 34:1-35 you quickly realizes that the ministry itself has no glory, only ritual and death. The Glory of the Old Covenant is the One who promises redemption through the Law and the Sacrifices. Only God is Glorious.
This is the ALMIGHTY God; El Shaddai, so when the thoughts of one’s mind go to the source of all majesty and power, two events play out in our focus. One: From age to age He is still the same; the thought of this alone sends chills and awe flooding and overwhelming our mind.
The second event is the thought of lifting up a voice of praise, as so the flood from the mind spills out of the lips with words like; “I will praise and lift You High, Almighty God.
El Shaddai! Oh my! Is that a Beautiful Name or what? If there are any words in the Holy Bible that bring my eyes to tears it is the Hebrew words. El Shaddai and Abba! These two words are miles apart, and in our passage in 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 we see the two pulled together. One the power of God revealed in the countenance of Moses and the ministry of the New Covenant revealed by the Son who is the Spirit of God.
Notice if you will that the ministry of the Spirit removes the veil of the ministry of death when one turns to the LORD Jesus by faith. Now that isn’t this liberty? The Son of God the Father is the LORD who is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty. Do you have liberty today?
We have; by faith the glory of God revealed in us by His Son, our face is unveiled. The result of this is that we are a daily witness to the veiled faces of those under the ministry of death; these veiled faces see us being transformed into the same glorious image of life through the Spirit. Delivered from the glory of death revealed through the Old Covenant, into the glory of the New Covenant by the Spirit of the LORD who guides us into all Truth. John 14:15-31.
If you suffer from a lack of friends as many of us do these days. Check the dipstick of your friendship reservoir; you just may be a quart low. Proverbs 18:24
Good Morning
2 Corinthians 3:7-18 – it is hard for me to imagine that the Law and the sacrifices are referred to by the apostle Paul as; “the ministry of death” and that it was glorious too.
Yet when you think about that moment in time when Moses went to meet the LORD on Mount Sinai; Exodus 34:1-35 you quickly realizes that the ministry itself has no glory, only ritual and death. The Glory of the Old Covenant is the One who promises redemption through the Law and the Sacrifices. Only God is Glorious.
This is the ALMIGHTY God; El Shaddai, so when the thoughts of one’s mind go to the source of all majesty and power, two events play out in our focus. One: From age to age He is still the same; the thought of this alone sends chills and awe flooding and overwhelming our mind.
The second event is the thought of lifting up a voice of praise, as so the flood from the mind spills out of the lips with words like; “I will praise and lift You High, Almighty God.
El Shaddai! Oh my! Is that a Beautiful Name or what? If there are any words in the Holy Bible that bring my eyes to tears it is the Hebrew words. El Shaddai and Abba! These two words are miles apart, and in our passage in 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 we see the two pulled together. One the power of God revealed in the countenance of Moses and the ministry of the New Covenant revealed by the Son who is the Spirit of God.
Notice if you will that the ministry of the Spirit removes the veil of the ministry of death when one turns to the LORD Jesus by faith. Now that isn’t this liberty? The Son of God the Father is the LORD who is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty. Do you have liberty today?
We have; by faith the glory of God revealed in us by His Son, our face is unveiled. The result of this is that we are a daily witness to the veiled faces of those under the ministry of death; these veiled faces see us being transformed into the same glorious image of life through the Spirit. Delivered from the glory of death revealed through the Old Covenant, into the glory of the New Covenant by the Spirit of the LORD who guides us into all Truth. John 14:15-31.
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