“Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.”

Psalm 19:12-14 KJV

This walk we have can be arduous when we stray from the narrow path into the swamps of sin.  It is so confusing that we still stumble or even brazenly walk into those swamps.   Aren’t we supposed to be sanctified, effectively free from sin?

Our only hope is the impossible grace of Jesus, that inexhaustible river of forgiveness which flows from the very throne in Heaven.  He demonstrated it so vividly when he poured out his very life for us from the Cross.   As proof, we can’t stray too far away from Him that His arm is too short to lovingly reign us into His bosom.

I grew up hearing the last part of this verse as a benediction every Sunday but never caught the deep significance of it in context.  It was just part of a bigger weekly ceremony I was supposed to take part in.  In reality, it was David’s cry to the Lord for help, to stay on the path of righteousness no matter how many times he strayed away.

May it be our cry today as well. 

In the beginning Papa gave mankind authority over the earth, period.  Through the fall Adam and Eve handed that authority over to the serpent.  Since then satan got very comfortable using that usurped authority to build his kingdom of death and destruction on earth.   We as subjects fell into a slave mindset, like the Stockholm syndrome we just accepted the “fact” that life sucked and then you die.  So for millennia our master was the devil cloaked in all sorts of region.

Then, Jesus!

He began breaking the chains of the enemy as soon as he came up out of the waters of Jordan.  Demons shrieked in disbelief as he cast them out.  Sickness and death bowed the knee to the Lord of All.  But, people rejected Him because they could not comprehend who He truly was.  He didn’t fit their religious mindset of savior.

As believers, we have renewed minds in Christ, not we’re supposed to, but WE DO HAVE the very mind of Christ. It is our responsibility to enforce the Kingdom.  To do that we must completely embrace the change of mind which opens our eyes to the reality of the world.

We as believers in Messiah, followers of His way, are the rightful rulers of this world.   

Stand up in that authority brothers and sisters!!   

Declare Jesus is Lord of All to the mountain tops.

Before Jesus there were idols everywhere, on every doorstep, in every house there was a shrine to some god or even a whole pantheon of gods.  Jesus turned all that on its head and replaced all the idols with His name asserting His total authority over the cosmos.   The former system of offerings and sacrifices was perpetuated on humanity as a way to reach out to the god/gods and appease his/their anger and wrath.   In some cases the gods were much like us with all the same passions and proclivities, so mankind came up with many variations on that theme.  This religion permeated ancient societies across the board under various names but all essentially the same raw deal for man, to reach them one must perform some penance or sacrifice.  Continual striving to appease the angry deity with burdensome and even gruesome acts.

Jesus split time in two with His birth, ministry, death and resurrection.  Christianity caused the societies it touched to turn from their idols (paganism) and believe the truth He revealed. The truth that Love conquers all evil not some twisted system of sacrifice.  As a result there was time before, ruled by paganism and time after, where Jesus’ actions on earth cancelled out the old systems of death and blood by proving to mankind that the perfect man was more than willing to take our place in our own evil system of death and bring it to a final close.

Unfortunately the church became a system essentially like the religious systems before it.  Man still had many rules to make his own path to god.  So, over time Christianity was watered down to the point where it looked much the same as the old system and we were faced with the insidious return of paganism.

However, the ascendancy of the true believers with the unveiling of the full gospel brought about the church standing in the way of this downward spiral.  We are now walking into the Kingdom age, ushering in heaven on earth, taking back our rightful dominion over the enemy and all his evil pagan plans.  Becoming the beautiful bride Jesus is coming back to marry.

There is now no more need for sacrifice and striving to reach the gods.  Jesus was sent here by Papa God to reconcile us to Papa by His abolishing the religious systems we built to stand  between us and our loving Father.  He did not just fulfill the written Law of Moses, He effectively overturned it, abolished the need for any type of sacrificial system by showing how utterly useless it was to achieve fellowship with Papa.  Papa/Jesus reached out with the kind of power only a creator could, the absolute power of Grace and Love, cancelling all guilt and accusation leveled against us.

Let’s rejoice in the fact that religion is dead Love conquered all.