GIG261 Christ Ever Lives to Intercede for Us

Growing In God Podcast

Program Number: GIG #261 Christ Ever Lives to Intercede for Us

 

Web Description: God never breaks His covenants. That means He will never break the covenant He made with you for your salvation through the blood of Christ. Do you feel like God has rejected you because you failed Him? Replace that feeling with the knowledge that nothing can separate you from the love of God in Christ. Far from rejecting us, He ever lives to make intercession for us. Let this truth be what fills our hearts and minds.

 

Show Notes: The Hebrew Scriptures show us God’s faithfulness and His commitment to His covenants. There are Scriptures of course that relate the many times God punished His people Israel for their sins. And Christians over the years have used these Scriptures to support anti-Semitism and replacement theology, claiming that God has rejected the Jewish people. But the opposite is true. The Scriptures are clear that God has never rejected Israel and is always faithful to His covenant people.

 

We read in the Bible that God disciplined them like any good father would discipline his children. But we also read that He will never violate His covenant with them. God’s dealings with Israel, as recorded in the Scriptures, are an example for us as Christians. If we fail Him, He will discipline us, but He will never break the covenant He made with us in Christ. Yet how many Christians really have the confidence that God will never reject them? How many feel like they have blown it so badly that there is no way back to God?

 

According to the book of Hebrews, Christ ever lives to make intercession for us. Yet we look at our flesh and think that any one of our failings could separate us from His love for us. We so easily forget that He is at the right hand of God always, continually, at every moment, making intercession for us. This needs to be solidified in our minds and hearts. God, who never breaks His promises and never violates His covenants, will cause everything to work for good for His people. That is the reality for Israel. And that is our reality that we can have full confidence in.

 

Key Verses:

 

•       1 Corinthians 10:11. “These things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction.”

•       Numbers 23:19. “God is not a man, that He should lie.”

•       1 Corinthians 11:25. “This cup is the new covenant in My blood.”

•       Psalm 89:28–37. “My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.”

•       Jeremiah 31:31–37. “If this fixed order departs … then … Israel also will cease from being a nation before Me.”

•       Hebrews 7:24–26. “He always lives to make intercession for them.”

•       Romans 8:24–34. “Christ Jesus is He … who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.”

•       Romans 8:35–39. “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?”

 

Quotes:

 

•       “I talked to believers quite a bit over the last many years that have the sense that they have blown it and there is no way back. And I think this is one of the things—in really studying the Hebrew Scriptures, in studying Judaism, and studying the Jewish people and God's promises to them throughout the Scriptures—that is not a possibility where God is concerned.”

•       “God has made promises to me as a believer in Yeshua, and He will never, never go back on those promises. I may mess up a thousand ways. I may mess up day after day. And although we on a human level would at some point get exasperated and give up, God doesn't do that.”

•       “If you really forgive, you forget. If you really forgive yourself, you're going to forget those violations, and you're going to find in your life that God is working to make all things come together for your good.”

 

Takeaways:

 

1.    When we read the Hebrew Scriptures and understand God's relationship with the Jewish people in His covenants with them, we understand that nothing they can do will make God separate Himself from them. In our salvation through faith in Christ, we likewise have been grafted into God’s covenants that cannot be broken.

2.    God will never walk away from you. He will never desert you. He will never forsake you. If you have any concept to the contrary, get that out of your thinking. The drive of the Scriptures is to get through to us the understanding that His love is unbreakable, His covenants are unbreakable, and His promises to us will stand through eternity.

3.    God has provided His Son as your Messiah, as the sacrifice for your sins past, present, and future. Nothing is able to separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. He continually makes intercession for you. And God causes everything to work for your good.