The Blessing I Will Bless You

The Blessing

I Will Bless You

God said to Abraham…

 “I will bless you.” Hebrews 6:14

That is very cool… Abraham was a very faithful guy.

It may be hard for you and I to think

God would promise to us saying…

“I will Bless you.”

The blessing God made to Abraham

was also to his descendants.

The blessing came in a covenant God made with them.

God found fault in that covenant.

Not that God was at fault, but the people

like you and I could not keep the convent.

Hebrews 8:7…

God promised to Abraham, “I will bless you”.

God gave to us these words

“better promises”.

You and I have been blessed with better promises.

  

“But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the

covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one,

and it is founded on better promises.” Hebrews 8:6 NIV

Abraham and his descendants found their blessing

in the context of the covenant God made with them.

 

You and I find our blessing in the context

of the “New Covenant” God made with us.

 

The major reason we have better

promises comes from Jesus Christ.

God never comes up short on blessing

us but we fall short every day.

Jesus has become the anchor of our blessings.

He is in heaven at the right hand of God the Father.

Our faith is the rope that connects us to the anchor.

As long as we hang onto the rope,

Jesus intercedes for us.

We do not have to be perfect to hang onto the rope.

Our hands may be dirty but we can still hang on.

Now the rope is every promise in the new covenant.

Each promise is a fiber of that rope.

So praying for a blessing to win the

lottery is not hanging unto the rope.

  Only the things God has put in his New

Covenant are tied to the anchor Jesus Christ.

  

You and I have a better blessing

and promises than Abraham.

If we want the greater blessing

the greater promises we must…

Read and study the covenant.

The blessings are not something we make up.

They are written by God and

He holds himself to it.

What connects you to Jesus, the Anchor of our souls?

How strong is your rope?

How tight is your grip?

Don't let go of the blessing.

Scripture Reading

  Hebrews 6:13-15 NIV

13 When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, 14 saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants."   15 And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.

Hebrews 7:23-8:8 NIV

23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

26 Such a high priest meets our need — one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 8 NIV

8:1 The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.

3 Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. 4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already men who offer the gifts prescribed by the law. 5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."   6 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.

7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said:

"The time is coming, declares the Lord,

when I will make a new covenant