Our Part, Our Privilege

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by Melissa Yong

Posted on 8/07/09.
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A look at the blood covenant between our Lord and ourselves.

Pacts made with blood have been around a long time and lives on in tribal culture all over the world today. A new member of the Italian mafia mixes his blood with that of an existing member in a pact-making act that binds him to life-long loyalty to the Mafia. The rewards are protection, connections, people who will fight for you. Disloyalty to the Mafia brings swift retribution and death.

Jesus himself made a pact with us by shedding His own blood. He didn't require us to shed blood so the pact is unconditional - Jesus gave Himself, His power and authority, His love to us, and took on Himself our sickness, pain, troubles.

We also call 'pact, 'covenant'. The Mafia covenant can only be broken by disloyalty or death but our covenant with Jesus cannot be broken (unless willingly and purposefully done so by the person) because Jesus cannot break His own word, even when we are disloyal.

Because we are joined to God by covenant, we become targets of the enemy because His enemies become ours. However, we have all of heaven behind us and on our side because of that covenant! God, in His amazing love, freed us from the power of Satan. Now we live to extend God's Kingdom, and bring that same freedom to those who are still in captivity. The battles we fight are not only our duty as His soldiers, it is our privilege.

Read the following scriptures and ask God to teach you more: Romans 8:12-17, Hebrews chapter 9, 2 Timothy 2:11-13.

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