 | Teaching:
'Freedom from the Accusation of Law' |
| Jesus Christ is Lord!
Andrew Shreeve Ministries
Partner Letter – March 2008
‘Bringing good tidings, publishing peace and salvation’
(Isaiah 52:7, Romans 10:15) | Contents
- Welcome
- Teaching: ‘Freedom from the Accusation of Law’
- Itinerary
| Welcome
| Dear blessed Partners,
Praise the name of Jesus! I pray God’s grace is allowing you to be: led by HIS Holy Spirit, flowing in HIS wonderful anointing, receiving your abundant financial blessings, healthy and strong, loyal and faithful to the Lord’s calling, meditating HIS promises daily, and enjoying God’s divine order in your family, with loving unity.
This month has been a wonderful time of spiritual growth, creative writing, holy fellowship, intellectual advancement, and anointed ministry. To be yielded to the Holy Spirit reaps rich reward, as HIS ways and plans are far beyond our limited human perspective. Praise the Lord for making himself available to be involved in our daily lives.
This year is loaded with power and manifestation of God’s glory. Make sure you remain open to the Lord so HE is able to manoeuvre you into his ‘River of Life’. Expect great and mighty manifestations of HIS power in ever realm of your life, this day, this week, this month, and this year! This is the time you have been waiting for! Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you (James 4:8). This months teaching has come out of inspiration and ideas from the writing of my latest book, “God’s Covenant of Healing”. It contains powerful truth which if understood will liberate you from religious guilt and ungodly hypocrisy, to walk in the truth of the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus.
Be blessed, I love you!
Andrew
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Copyright © Andrew J. Shreeve 2008
‘Freedom from the Accusation of Law’
| A beautiful aspect of the New Covenant is that we receive its benefits by faith. The Lord knows that none of us are perfect, or without sin:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us
(1 John 1:8)
The New Covenant is not another Covenant of law, like the Old Covenant. Rather, the New Covenant is a Covenant of faith and grace (Romans 3:22, 24). Right standing with God is now achieved through belief, or faith, in the shed blood and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Romans 3:25, 10:9-10). Righteousness, and therefore qualification for receiving God’s blessing, is based on our identification with Jesus - ‘in Christ’. It is not based on our own merits. Therefore everybody, weak and strong, can partake of the blessing, simply through faith (1 Corinthians 1:30, 2 Corinthians 1:20).
In fact, the accusation of the law has been removed:
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross
(Colossians 2:14)
The perfection of the law condemned us, making us unworthy and open to accusation from the enemy. We however have now become dead to the law by the body of Christ (Romans 7:4). The law, which brought condemnation, no longer has power over us. In addition, the enemy who brought accusation against us has no legal access to us, based on our wilful breaking of the law. The accusation of the law has been nailed to the cross. Jesus has paid the penalty for all our transgressions. We have indeed been liberated into wonderful freedom, by grace, through faith.
We must immediately ‘shut the door’ on any thought that suggests our sins disqualify us from receiving our blessing from the Lord. Otherwise our faith is always attacked and weakened, as nobody is without sin. Righteousness is based solely on faith in Jesus’ blood, not our observance of law. If we are trying to qualify based on our obedience to law we are judged by the law and continually condemned by the law. We will never be in faith as long as we hold to righteousness based on obedience to law. As the apostle Paul writes:
False brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you…knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ…I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by law, then Christ is dead in vain
(Galatians 2:4-5, 16, 21)
We must keep before us at all times the truth that the accusation of our imperfection, which comes by the knowledge of the law, has been removed. The law, which brings allegation, has been nailed to the Cross of Calvary. God sees us as without blame, perfectly cleansed, by Jesus’ blood:
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin
(1 John 1:7)
Jesus’ shed blood has done away with all guilt and sense of unworthiness which could stop us receiving every promise of the Lord. When we add to freedom from guilt: faith in God’s promises, we fortify ourselves against the enemy. We are worthy to receive every promise of God through faith in Jesus’ blood. We have been set free from the accusation of the law, which comes when, through our sin, we violate the holy Law of God. Our freedom from guilt, coupled with our faith in God’s promises, causes all the fiery darts of the enemy to be quenched (Ephesians 6:16).
The blessing of the Lord Jesus includes complete freedom from all the works of the enemy – hallelujah! When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour we become spiritually born again. This spiritual rebirth takes us out from under Satan’s accusation and power:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son (Colossians 1:13)
The devil no longer has a legal right to dominate or oppress the born again child of God. We have been set free!
Say this out loud: “No past sin is stopping me from receiving my blessing. Jesus has taken away all accusations against me. I choose to walk in the light of God’s word. Through Jesus’ shed blood I am free from all sin. I put my faith shield up and extinguish every attack of the enemy. I have been made righteous through faith in Jesus’ shed blood. I do not entertain any thoughts that challenge my absolute righteousness and worthiness to receive every promise and blessing of the Lord, in the all powerful name of Jesus Christ, Amen!”
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Itinerary
(This itinerary is subject to change without notice)
| March 28 Prophetic Seminar, Christian Faith Revival Centre, Shailer Park, Brisbane, Australia
March 29 Prophetic Seminar, Christian Faith Revival Centre, Shailer Park
March 30 Prophetic Seminar, Christian faith Revival Centre, Shailer Park
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‘Bringing good tidings, publishing peace and salvation’ (Isaiah 52:7, Romans 10:15) |
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