DailyRhema

Daily Rhema is a teaching ministry for Christians, centered on the finished work of Christ. It posts inspiring teachings and testimonies on weekdays. These short and systematic messages are suitable for personal devotion or Bible Study.

Monday, March 02, 2009

15.20 WALK – Walk by faith and not by sight

The next verse exhorts us to walk by faith and not by sight.

(2 Cor 5:7)
For we walk by faith, not by sight.

The whole basis of the Old Covenant was works of the law. The whole basis of the New Covenant is faith in Jesus. Faith and works are always contrasted.

(Rom 3:21-28)
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. ..27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? OF WORKS? No, but by the LAW OF FAITH. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the DEEDS [WORKS] OF THE LAW.

If you were living in the Old Covenant, your success (blessings) would have depended on your ability to keep the works of the law. And if you failed, you would come under the curses of the law. The blessings and curses are stated in Deuteronomy 28.

Under the New Covenant, your success or blessings does not depend on the keeping of the law. It depends on faith in Jesus. So how do we live in the New Covenant? Romans 1:17 says that the righteous shall live by faith. We walk by faith and we walk by faith.

How did Abraham receive his blessings? He received it by faith. Likewise, we are also sons of Abraham.

(Romans 4:13)
13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

How do we walk by faith? We walk by faith by sitting on the finished work of Christ. When our life, our salvation, our righteousness, our healing, our blessings are firmly grounded on the finished work of Christ, we will the walk by faith in its reality. If we try to attain to all those through our self-effort in keeping the law, then we would have fallen short of His grace. When you walk by faith in Jesus, you will experience His resurrection power in every circumstance in life.