Blessed Success, Part 2

God has granted to the believer in Christ the opportunity to experience what we call Blessed Success. It's not the success of the world, but it's a Divine Success that is rooted in one's relationship with Christ and the covenants that God established with our Jewish fathers. If a believer can learn how to access the covenant through their relationship with Jesus Christ, they can experience a success for which the world cannot compete. The root of experiencing this Blessed Success starts in Jesus Christ. The only way to operate in covenant relationship with God the Father is through faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ for the remission and forgiveness of our sins (Hebrews 9). This is called The New Covenant in Jesus Christ, under what we call the Grace Dispensation (Matthew 26, John 1).

What many Christians don't realize is that the New Covenant that God has established through the shed blood of His Son Jesus Christ is connected to the covenants that He established with the Jews. Don't be mistaken, Jesus is still Jewish. Even though He died for the "sins of the world" (John 3), His heritage remains that of the Hebrews. With that being the case, the promises of the New Testament are not in historical or even spiritual isolation. They are connected to the Jewish fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. If the church can identify and access the original terms of those covenants and apply them to our covenant established in Jesus Christ, we will experience the Blessed Success that God has ordained for His children.

Let us establish very quickly that Abraham, The Father of Faith, was wealthy. This means in common vernacular that he was rich, very, very rich (Genesis 13). The extensive wealth that Abraham received did not come from his educational prowess or pulling himself up from his proverbial bootstraps. His wealth came from God. This is called the Abrahamic blessing or The Blessing of Abraham. Why is this significant? Because God uses Abraham's witness as a prototype for the condition of our faith (Romans 4). No one else in the Bible is described as "the Friend of God" (James 2). With this being said, if Abraham experienced this Blessing, this "success," then this is also the birthright of God's children today.

In Galatians chapter 3, the scripture says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ". Jesus actually died, not just that our sins may be forgiven, but that we might take advantage of The Blessing of Abraham. This is why something is wrong when Christians are content to be financially broke because it doesn't represent their rights in the New Covenant. All we have to do now is learn what the New Covenant consists of so we can learn to take advantage of it and be the beneficiaries of God's Blessed Success.