Understanding Covenant

Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of

Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA.

I hope the following message challenges and courages and

ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.

We're going to get back into our series when I get back from

Indonesia and do be praying for us.

We're going to connect with one of the pastors from Columbia in

Houston. We fly out six O clock Wednesday

morning. We arrive in Jakarta midnight

Friday night. Then we spend the night there

and then take a fly overnight again to some island.

I mean Indonesia is like 17,000 islands and so, but we're going

into minister into some. There's a a leader in in

Indonesia, we're going to minister in his church and then

minister in a Bible school do a pastor's conference.

And I just have a sense about this, this trip, that God wants

to break some things open and so be praying for us.

It's the most populated Muslim nation in the world.

It's got the largest Muslim population in the world.

And so they need a move of God. And Indonesia has seen a move of

God in the past. And so we're believing God for

some real breakthrough. And so as as you think of it,

pray for us. I've got to spend 2 weeks with

my brother, so I'll need it. Amen.

OK All right. We're going to receive communion

at the end this morning. And here I am opening my

elements. I better put that down.

I'm fiddling with it. Oh, all right.

There we go. OK.

But what I want to do this morning is I want to look at the

idea of covenant. Last time we took communion.

And so over these next few times when we receive communion, I

want to lay some groundwork so that we really understand what

we're doing. The, you know, communion, the

the Lord's Supper is a covenantal meal and it is rich

with revelation of what God has done for us and how he wants us

to utilize that covenant and how he wants us to utilize this

meal. Jesus said when he He took the

Passover with his disciples and he renamed it, he reframed it

for them. And he said, this is now the new

covenant in my blood. And by that he instituted a new

meal. And he said, do this in

remembrance of me. So whenever we do it, we're to

remember what he did. It's supposed to we're to

recollect or recollect some of these ideas and put them in the

forefront of our mind so we can remind ourselves, so that we can

look through the lens of what he has accomplished for us.

The fact is, we can accumulate truths that we can easily lose.

How many of you ever lost something that God has spoken to

you about? I had a vision one time that I

forgot about until Roger reminded me this morning.

And so we can lose touch with those things.

And so God has given us this wonderful helpful tool, this

covenant meal that we can go back to and that we can remind

ourself what he did for us. But we need to understand what a

covenant is because if we don't understand covenant, we leave a

lot of value on the table, so to speak.

There's things that we we're partaking of it, but we don't

really, we can't leverage it in our life.

We don't really understand what's going on.

So now the the the foundation of what I'm going to say this

morning was what we talked about last time.

So I I want to say it was like 3-4 weeks ago, 5 weeks ago.

Just look back on the podcast and it should say something

about the blood and a laid a groundwork for an understanding

of the blood. Why does God value the blood and

how do we utilize it in our own life?

Because the blood of Jesus is something that we offer the

Father. It's something that's God word.

It's also something that we apply to our own heart and it's

also a weapon we use against the enemy.

The Foundation is using it in in approaching the Father.

If we don't understand why God values the blood, then we can't

really apply it to our own heart.

Scriptures clear there's a there's the shed blood that we

offer to the Father, but there's the sprinkled blood that we

apply to our own heart. It's a different application of

the same blood of Jesus. And so we can't understand how

to apply it to our heart unless we first understand how God

values it. And we can't really use it as a

weapon against the enemy until we understand how to use it in

our own heart. We're to cleanse our heart of a

guilty conscience through the sprinkled blood, and that gives

us our on ramp into what we're going to talk about this

morning. Now again, communion is a

covenantal meal. Covenant is common to the

ancient world. In fact it's it's very common to

many Eastern nations to this day, We as the West and our

advanced technology our our advancement, we have lost the

meaning of covenant and therefore we're at a

disadvantage when we look at this wonderful truth and

scripture. Covenant is not some side issue

in scripture. It's not even 1 doctrine among

many. It's an actuality.

It's the the framework, it's the it's the context of all the

other content. The Bible is a covenantal book.

God deals with us through covenants and if we don't

understand what covenants are, we don't really understand much

of the word. Really the last residue of

covenant that we have in Western culture is of course the

marriage covenant. The marriage covenant is to be

entered into. It's not a marriage contract,

even though some people try to reduce it to that.

And there's a reason for that. The the purpose of covenant is

to make two people, parties, nations, tribes, to take two and

bring them together and make them one.

That is the purpose of covenant. The marriage covenant is to make

the two into one the covenant with God.

We were alienated from God, but God is going to remove the

barriers and were to come into oneness with him through

covenant. So much so that just like in

ancient times when someone when 2 tribes would enter into

covenant with one another, if you attacked the person that you

were in covenant with, you were obligated to go to war with them

because when they attacked your covenant brother, they attacked

you. When they stole from your

covenant brother, they stole from you.

And so you, what was yours, belong to them and vice versa.

And it's a beautiful picture of our relationship with God.

What I brought to the table was sin.

What God brought to the table was redemption and the Kingdom

of heaven. What was mine he took on and I

get to take on what is his. It's a covenant act.

And so we need to understand covenant.

Now Covenant is the purpose of covenant is to make two parties

into one party. OK, but the the the method of

doing that was to remove all doubt in the hearts of the

covenant partners. Think about it in the in regards

to marriage, when you get married, you're in love.

Hopefully you're you're you're in love with that person and

over time you hopefully grow in love and you surrender yourself

more to them. But the only way for you to do

that is there has to be trust between those two partners.

And if you don't trust, you can't surrender yourself to that

person. That's why marriage is a

covenant. And so the purpose of covenant

is to remove all the barriers, to remove the doubt, to remove

any kind of fears in those individuals so they can fully

give of themselves to one another.

That's the idea of Covenant. And so God instituted this idea

of covenant. Now all down through history and

and actuality in the ancient world Covenant put the civil and

civilization it would Covenant was the way that people would

enter into agreements and then enter into relationships.

It was the way that they would know hey, we're safe.

We can live amongst these people.

These two tribes can live with one another in peace.

These two families can live with one another in peace.

So Covenant was a way to to really create trust among people

so they could live together. So that's why I say it put the

civil and civilization today, what we've replaced Covenant

with is of course, contracts. When you're in Covenant with

someone, the objective is that you trust them so much that you

fully surrender yourself to them.

What what is mine is yours and vice versa.

I trust you. If you don't have that trust,

the only way to really work with people, the only way to really

enter into to business with people is you have to have a

contract at you know, that operates really by fear of

retribution. If you don't live up to your

end, then there's going to be consequences that I'm going to

have the courts enforce. In ancient society, they would

enter into covenants before God understanding that God was the

one who would honor the covenants.

God would be the one who would enforce the covenants.

In the book of Jeremiah it has this interesting phrase.

It talks about when they walked among the pieces and it's a

reference to a covenantal ceremony that we see Abraham and

enter into in Genesis chapter 15.

Genesis 15 · chapter mention

In that passage God makes a promise to Abraham and he says

I'm going to make you a father of many nations.

And Abraham asks this question that God could have easily took

offense to. He said how do how can I know

this is going to happen. How are you going to bring this

about? And rather than rebuke him, God

says go get some animals and bring them before me.

And God was asking him to make a sacrifice.

So what Abraham did is he cut the hind parts in the four

quarters and he laid them out in in four pieces.

And this was a common covenantal ceremony.

It was common among the the people, the Mesopotamian people

of that area. But rather than walk through the

pieces like most people would, Abraham did not do that.

He just he just laid out the sacrifice and then waited and it

says a deep darkness came over Abraham.

He went into his sleep. Prior to that it said the birds.

These birds began to attack his sacrifice and all of this is has

rich symbolism about around it. The enemy was trying to attack

his sacrifice before God and Abraham wanted to enter into

covenant with God. But Abraham knew better than to

initiate it himself because this specific type of ceremony was a

very serious ceremony. It's what's alluded to in

Jeremiah. When it's called, They walked

among the pieces. And what they would do is they

would walk in a circular 8 fashion between those.

Or it was also called the Valley of Blood.

It was called the Walk of Death or the Valley of Blood.

And they would walk in this, this the circle, the circle

eight way in the bloody portions.

And then they would stand in the midst of this animal torn to

Thunder. And they would make the vows of

the covenant and they would make their promises.

They would state what they're going to give in this covenantal

relationship. Then the partner would do the

same. And then they would say this.

This is how they would bind themselves to their promises,

They would say, and so be it unto me as was done unto this

animal. If I do not fulfill the vows of

my covenant, it's a very, very serious thing in ancient

culture. Now when Abraham lays those

pieces out, he recognized what God was asking of him.

But Abraham didn't enter in because Abraham knew the

weakness of his own heart. How many of you would want to

enter into a covenant with God in that fashion and say, God, I

give you my all, and if I ever renege, so be unto me, as was

done under this animal. I'm not standing in line.

So it says that a deep darkness came upon Abraham and he went

into a deep sleep. And in this dreamlike state a

smoking fire pot and a torch began to move through the

pieces. And then the Lord made promises

to him, and it was a picture of God initiating covenant with

himself. The promises were made to

Abraham, but the covenant was cut by God himself.

In the Book of Revelation, we see Jesus showing up in the

before John the Beloved, the one who'd laid his head on Jesus

chest. But now he shows up in this way

that's terrifying. And his eyes are like flames of

fire. They're like a torch and his his

legs like burnish bronze. And it's a picture of that, that

flaming furnace that walked through the pieces.

What Abraham saw was the preincarnate Christ coming and

walking among the pieces and cutting covenant with the

Father. Jesus entered into covenant with

the Father and we enter in with him into covenant we are we are

folded into that covenant. And so God bound himself by

himself. Hebrew says he's couldn't find

anything greater to swear by but his own name.

He swore by himself and bound himself to covenant.

The whole idea is covenant is the the the purpose is to remove

all doubt on the in the on the part of the covenant partner.

So in the New Testament what did God do?

He foreshadowed it in Genesis 15 with Abram.

But what he did is he sent his son to enter into covenant with

the Father. Jesus came and offered himself

as the sacrifice, Romans 5 says. While we were yet sinners,

Christ died for us. How much more, Now that we're

redeemed, will he not give it? That's a paraphrase.

But now that we're in relationship with him, now that

we've been made righteous, how much more will he not give us

all things? It's an amazing statement.

There were two things that God only two things in heaven that

God could give, that he couldn't just snap his fingers and

recreate. God could have given gold and

treasures and angels and all those things and just recreated.

But the two things He gave to you and I were the two uncreated

elements of heaven, His Son and his Spirit.

And he did it precisely to communicate a message to us.

I remember when I first got saved.

I I was raised in church and knew the Lord as a kid and

drifted away. And I I've picked up a lot of

bad theology and just I had a lot of I I held God at arm's

length. I didn't trust God, and that's

why I ran from him. I picked up some lies along the

way and I remember telling God, I said, God, I don't love you

and I don't want to serve you, but I know you got what I need.

I I've made such a mess of my life.

If you will give me the want to I'll go through the motions

until you do. But just but change my heart.

Give me a desire. Because right now I don't want

to serve you. And God was gracious.

He began to work in my heart and and soften it.

But God began to deal with me and show me his love.

And during that season when I was in Teen Challenge, there was

a song we used to sing. And I don't remember all of it,

but I remember this one phrase it.

It was essentially it was talking about, you know, look at

Jesus hanging on the cross. He outstretched his arms and and

then it said, how can you ever say no to this man?

Anybody ever remember that song? How can you ever say, I won't

say it for you, I'll clear the room, How can you ever say no to

this man? And it was really bringing us

into that, that drama of all that he done for us.

And it then he's saying, what more can I do?

I gave you the only thing I can't replace my son.

Then I gave you my spirit. What more can I do to prove to

you my commitment to you, my love for you?

That was the message of the song.

And I remember that just began to minister to my heart and I

began to realize that I had some misconceptions.

We've talked about this many times, but the foundation of the

human problem is the lies we believe about God and the

corresponding lies we believe about ourselves.

That was the entrance of sin, Entrance of sin.

Theologians talk about original sin.

It was the sin of Adam and Eve, and it opened the door.

Romans 5 is clear that through the disobedience of one man, sin

came into the world and death through sin the door was swung

wide open and everything changed after that.

But we need to realize that behind original sin was an

original lie and that original lie was this.

God can't be trusted. That was the lie in Eden, and

covenant is designed to address that lie.

And there's not a person in this room that overcame that lie

permanently as an event. Some of us more than others

still struggle with the lie, and some of us more than others have

come into the truth. Some of that is because of how

you were raised and and the the the theology you were raised

with, the way you related with your earthly father and all

kinds of other complex things. But the fact is we all struggle

with that lie. Can I really trust Him?

And that's why we need to continually partake of the

Lord's Supper, because we're to remember what He did and we're

attacking those lies that God can be trusted.

In order for us to fully surrender to Him, we've got to

be fully convinced in his heart towards us and the cross was

this resounding message. What more can I do to prove to

you my commitment to you? And when we partake of

communion, we're reminding ourself while we were yet

sinners, while we were still enemies, Christ died for us.

How much more, How much more will He not give us all things

now that we're redeemed? When we were talking about the

blood a couple of weeks ago, I talked about how the enemy has a

primary weapon and that weapon is accusation.

It's really a double edged sword.

It's accusation and condemnation.

He first accuses you, and there's always at least a kernel

of truth in his accusation. He accuses you and then he

condemns you for what you did. And if we don't understand how

to use the blood against that, then we stand condemned and

we'll always stay outside of God's presence.

If God can't lie to you, or I mean if the enemy can't lie to

you about God, God being good and therefore keep you out of

His presence, then what He'll do is lie to you about you and tell

you you're not good enough. Fact is, none of us are good

enough in and of ourselves, but we are good enough under the

blood, and we need to learn how to apply that to our heart.

And so the blood of Jesus is the way that God paves the way for

us to get in. The cross is the resounding

message that God can be trusted, that hard taskmaster mentality

that God is going to require of things of you that he hasn't

already provided for you. That thing has to be eradicated

and has to be attacked. And much of our Christian life

is us growing in faith as he reveals his faithfulness.

And the the result of that is a greater and a deeper surrender

to him. And it's a lifelong thing that

we need a greater revelation when we're when we sing here in

in worship and we cry out, we say, God, I want to know you

more. I want to see you more.

It's not just some curiosity that we have, It's a necessity.

We've got to see him for who he is.

Because seeing him for who he is, it's what's going to

eradicate the things that are destroying our lives, the things

that keep us from him. Because when I have bad

theology, when I have wrong thoughts about him, I won't

approach him for who he is. My beliefs will determine my

behavior, and it'll especially determine my behavior in regards

to my relationship with him. Many of us struggle with

condemnation and at the accusation of the enemy, and

we've never learned to enter into what covenant provides for

us. And we kind of stand on the

outside of the Holy of Holies feeling guilty, almost as if

we're we're going to pay a little bit of penalty.

We'll stay on the outside because we lost it with the cat

or whatever or your children or your wife or your spouse.

Don't bump them it. You know whatever you you failed

and then you feel like you have to stand on the outside of the

holy of holies and that is not Christianity.

We need to learn to apply the blood of Jesus to the door

doorpost of our heart to cleanse our hearts of a guilty

conscience so that we can stand in His righteousness.

Years ago we when I was working for Teen Challenge we used to

have devotion staff devotions is the the students would do what

they call DeVos. They would read a chapter

scripture and they'd write on it.

Meanwhile, we were down in the the dining room and we'd have

devotions with each other and somebody would share something

from the word among the staff. And that morning John Hostetler,

he was one of our staff members was a pastor here in Iowa as

well and John was telling us he said I was reading about Jonah,

he said. So I started looking up about

the Ninovites. He said they were some bad

dudes, the Ninovites. That's why Jonah didn't want to

see them get saved. When they got saved, he got

bummed. When people answered his altar

call, he was like, bummed out. That's kind of dysfunctional,

you know? But when you hear about how the

Ninovites treated people, you kind of understand they used to

skin people alive. I mean, there were some gross

people. One of the things they used to

do is they would stand their prisoners, their captives on A

at the end of a field and they tell them, listen, if you can

run to that end of that field before we catch you, you're a

free man. You know the the prisoners

thinking skinned alive, possible freedom.

I'll take door #2. What they didn't know is that

the Ninovites had this game. They would play with their

prisoners, and the guy would start running down the field,

and they had already made bets on how far he would run without

his head. And they would ride up behind

him on a horse and with the big hold sword, they'd snap his head

off and his body would keep running.

And then it would flop and they would laugh and they would, and

whoever got closest would make the money.

And John is telling us this. And I looked at him just like,

you're looking at me like pastor, Why did you put that in

my head? He didn't have an application

for it was just a gross story. So we went upstairs.

So then we had Chapel, and we're in worship that morning.

And I'm worshipping the Lord trying to get this picture out

of my head. And the Lord spoke to me because

it was very relevant to my life at that time, he said.

Dave, that's exactly what the enemy does to you.

He cuts you off from the head and makes bets on how long

you'll last. Jesus is the head, and we've got

to be connected to him relationally or we won't last.

So what the enemy does is he's got a big old sword called

condemnation. On one side it's a double edged

sword, condemnation and accusation, and he tries to cut

you off from the head if he can cause you to begin to feel

guilty and identify yourself with your failure.

If he can't push you into doing something wrong, he'll beat the

stuffing out of you over not doing enough right and you'll

you'll you'll never get there. There.

That's where the enemy Not that I wasn't falling into doing

things wrong at times, but the enemy would just ride me about.

You didn't read the word enough. You didn't fast enough this

week. You didn't pray enough.

Man, I got, I got. So legalist, I I remember making

vows to God. I'm going to pray 2 hours a day.

I'm going to be in the word. I'm going to fast this many days

a week and I remember just hitting the wall and crying out

to God and say God, I can't do it anymore.

He didn't say this. But now, looking back, I think

what he was saying. I never asked you to.

I put it on myself. I was trying to earn His

righteousness. And it was during that season

the Lord began to teach me about the blood.

And on the tail end of that is when John Hostetler told that

story. The Lord has given us a weapon

of defense. They overcame him by the blood

of the lamb, the word of their testimony and they love not

their life unto the death. The first weapon out of the

sheath is the blood of the lamb. And make no mistake about it

that verse in that verse you use the blood Satan word.

It's used against the enemy. There's verses where we present

the blood. Jesus presented it to God and we

enter into that and we present the blood on our own behalf.

When the enemy accuses you and begins to beat you up and

condemn you. We talked about it a couple

weeks ago, but look at Matthew 5.

It says agree with your adversary when you're on your

way to the judge. Like, what's the deal with that?

Jesus assumes we're always guilty.

No. When you're going to the judge

of all the earth, as Abraham called Jehovah, when you're on

your way to the secret place, the enemy will always condemn

you. He's the accuser of the brother

and he accuses us before the throne day and night.

How does he gain access to the throne?

He doesn't. It's when you go to the throne

he accuses you to keep you out of the secret place.

Because if you believe God is continually disappointed with

you, If in your mind when you approach God, there's this

simmering, this low burn disappointment in you like, oh,

here he comes again, Dave. The failure.

My son bought him, and now I'm stuck with him.

Come on in. What?

What do you want? I I used to feel that I felt

like God was clicking his throne.

He and his little finger on the stone.

Oh man, here he comes again. And I'd come in timidly, God,

rather than come boldly before the throne of grace in our hour

of need. But in order to come, I'm

telling you, if you come boldly before the throne of grace,

based on your own righteousness, you're in deception.

And God loves you enough. He will not allow you to find

rest and security there. He will allow failure into your

life till you throw up your hands and say, God, I can't do

it on my own. And that's what he gives us,

That revelation of the blood, the blood of Jesus is our plea,

The blood that is satisfied every righteous requirement of

God. Once made perfect, Jesus became

the source of eternal salvation. Scripture says what does that

mean? It means he fulfilled all of

righteousness like he told his brother John the baptizer.

He said I must fulfill it all because he wanted to give a

perfected life to the Father. And the life that was in the

blood of Jesus was a life that fulfilled every requirement.

And that's the life that we provide the Father that is the

entry fee into the throne room. I used to imagine a big old

whopping Angel standing outside the throne room and I was

wanting to get in and I'd imagine, I'm saying, all right

buddy, I'm going to have to card you.

Do you got what it takes? Do you have a righteous life?

And I would go through these mental gymnastics in and of

myself. I do not.

My life without him has been an utter failure.

But I've got this life in this bowl of blood, and the Angel

would step back in reverence. Oh my, come on in, enter in, and

I would go in and worship the Lord.

And I had to retrain my heart and mind.

The blood of Jesus answers on our behalf.

The blood of Jesus is what the weapon we use against that

accusation and that condemnation.

We don't argue our own righteousness.

We agree with the enemy. Yep, you're right.

You know what? Thank you.

Thank you Devil, for reminding me what the Bible says is true.

But I don't approach based on my own righteousness.

I pay. I approach God based on the

righteousness of Jesus that was completed 2000 years ago and

that you can't touch this. You can't.

You can't close the door on this.

I have free access when I approach based on the blood.

And so we begin to apply that. So covenant is God's answer for

all of this our doubts about God and our doubts about ourself,

our doubts about God. Because God is saying listen,

I'm willing to bankrupt heaven and give give the worship of all

of heaven in your stead. Jesus took on human flesh and

walked among us and experienced everything we did, all, every

temptation we ever experienced and then gave his life.

Make no mistake about it. Jesus faced every temptation and

came out righteous. You say?

Well, I don't ever see in the scriptures Jesus struggling with

crack cocaine. What Jesus struggled with was

what's behind crack cocaine, That flight from pain, that

momentary escape that I'm not going to follow.

I'm going to take a break from following God.

I'm going to get off this path of suffering so I can get a

little bit of relief. And he resisted that.

CS Lewis has this wonderful phrase.

He said not only does Jesus no temptation, he's the only one

who really does. He's the only one who rode that

thing all the way to the end. You and I have experienced

temptation, and we got bucked off at some point, but Jesus

rode that thing into the ground and tamed it.

He experienced all of temptation and conquered it.

And so when we see what He did for us, it's to minister to our

heart. And every time we take

communion, we're to remind ourself of that we're to

recollect. We're to recollect all these

truths and put them in the forefront of our mind and feast

on them. And the Lord's Supper.

And remind ourself the price He paid and that he has proven

himself trustworthy, worthy of our trust that we can surrender

ourself. And once that is conquered, once

you've really begun and to enter into I know he is trustworthy,

then you've got to begin to work on your you've conquered your

theology, so to speak. We're always going to grow on

that. But you've nailed that down.

I know he's trustworthy. Then you work on your identity

and you fight the enemy's accusations and you find your

identity in Christ and not in your own behavior, your own

performance. And both of those are in

communion. You can put it this way.

Let's go ahead. And if you don't, if, if you

don't have your communion elements, I'm going to ask the

the band to come on up. We're going to close by

receiving the Lord's Supper today.

You can put it this way. Man had a problem.

There was the God side of it and there was the human side of it.

That problem was guilt. There was legal guilt.

That's the God side. We had broken moral law and God

required that that be satisfied because God is just that had to

be satisfied. And the blood of Jesus.

The sacrifice of Calvary satisfied legal guilt and paid

for that with Jesus blood. But there are a lot of people

who understand that God satisfied the legal guilt, but

they still struggle with psychological guilt.

They still identify with it. And I'm telling you that the

answer is the same. The blood of Jesus will deal

with your psychological guilt. I remember a guy that was

discipling me. He was the the guy that ran the

Bible little first Bible squad went to tremendous man of God.

I I'm so appreciative that I had him in my life.

But I wasn't appreciative of this one time he he'd heard my

testimony. He knew my dad was a pastor and

that my dad had left fulltime ministry because of my brother

and I drug use. And he asked me, said, don't.

Aren't you racked with guilt over your father leaving his

calling over your behavior? And I thought for a moment, I

thought not until now. No, really, I I I When he said

it, I just. I was puzzled.

And I told him I said no, because I'm not that person

anymore. That person died with Christ.

I'm a new creation. I, I, I, I am incapable of

feeling guilty about who I used to be because that man is dead

and buried and we celebrate that in here.

Some of you, you deal with psychological guilt.

The enemy use uses accusation about your past and even your

present. And you're thinking, man, I'll

get over this when I get my behavior in order.

And I'm telling you, you'll never get your behavior in order

until you get over that, because guilt will lock your mind on

your behavior. Guilt will block your mind on

the things of the flesh. Paul put it this way in Romans

Romans 8 · chapter mention

chapter 8. He who minds the things of the

flesh walks after the flesh. He doesn't say if you've got a

real positive attitude and you really want it, the flesh you'll

walk out to flesh, he said. If you got your mind on it,

you're going to walk after it. An accusation and condemnation

locks our mind on our fleshly failings and it it sentences us

to repeating them again and again and we've got to find a

way out of the cycle. And I'm telling you, the way out

of the cycle is to step out and approach the Father based on

Jesus righteousness and not our own.

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