Making It Real for His People

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Daily Devotional, John Piper, 163859, Desiring God, Joy, Devotional, Christianity, Jesus, Solid Joys, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.

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0:00.0	December 14, making it real for his people.
0:10.6	Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old, as the covenant
0:17.9	he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises, Hebrews 8.6.
0:29.0	Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, according to Hebrews 8.6.
0:35.2	What does that mean?
0:37.2	It means that His blood, the blood of the covenant, Luke 22, 20, Hebrews 13, 20, finally
0:45.4	and decisively purchased and secured the fulfillment of God's promises for us.
0:53.4	It means that God, according to the new covenant promises, brings about our inner transformation
1:00.2	by the Spirit of Christ.
1:02.9	And it means that God works this transformation in us through faith.
1:08.6	Faith in all that God is for us in Christ.
1:12.9	The new covenant is purchased by the blood of Christ, affected by the Spirit of Christ
1:19.8	and appropriated by faith in Christ.
1:24.0	The best place to see Christ working as the mediator of the new covenant is in Hebrews 13,
1:30.2	20 and 21.
1:32.7	Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd
1:38.7	of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good
1:45.4	that you may do His will.
1:48.1	Working in us, that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory
1:56.8	forever and ever, amen.
2:00.1	The words working in us, that which is pleasing in His sight, describe what happens when
2:06.8	God writes the law on our hearts in accord with the new covenant.
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