Posts by Tricia Gunn

Faith is useless if we can earn the favor of God. For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect. (Romans 4:14)1 In other words, if we could obtain God’s promise by working for it, then it wouldn’t be given by promise! “Void”…

God made a promise to Abraham, the father of our faith; and as the seed of Abraham, God made that promise to us as well. What was the promise? “”For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the…

How does the righteousness of faith work? It works by not working for it! What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God,…

We can rest and be at peace because the Father Himself has qualified us to partake in the inheritance we have in Jesus Christ. He was the firstborn among many brethren, and we have been born from above by the Spirit of God as a new creation in the very image of God. … giving thanks…

“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29) About fifteen hundred years after Sinai where the law was given to Moses and the children of Israel, a prophet named John appeared on the scene and declared the new order of things: “Repent (change your mind!), for the kingdom…

In the fullness of time, when the law had served it’s purpose and proved that no man could be made right with God by perfect performance, God sent His Son, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law.1 Redeem literally means “to buy out of slavery.”2 Jesus, the Son of God,…

We enter into the New Covenant of grace by our faith, not our faithfulness. Grace is based on the faithfulness of God to us, not the other way around. Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done…

New Covenant reality: Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death…

After the Israelites were set free from the bondage of Egypt, they traveled for two months in the desert and then reached the foot of Mount Sinai. They had experienced one demonstration of God’’s grace after another during those two months, and this is the message that God gave to Moses to deliver to them:…

Law offers temporary relief. Grace offers permanent freedom. Living under a system of performance is like doing drugs. It gives us a temporary feeling of relief from guilt if we do something for God. However, when the feelings of guilt and shame return, we have to give ourselves another “hit” of dead works to numb…

As God led the Israelites in the dessert, He tested them to see if they would believe in His goodness. It was the test of the manna: “Do you want relief (and go back to your pots of meat in Egypt) or do you want freedom (and trust Me to provide)?” As God led the…

The New Covenant: an intrinsic covenant made within the infallibility of the Trinity. The Abrahamic Covenant: a picture of this unconditional covenant. An example of this unconditional covenant can be seen in the deliverance of God’s people from their captivity Egypt. Hundreds of years into the Israelites’ captivity in Egypt, Moses was born to lead…