The Way

Covenant is a structure for our approach to God and for God to change us into His likeness. It is the path we take. Every construction needs a blueprint. With that blueprint is the picture of the finished building. God has not only given us covenant making and keeping but He has provided the picture that is the blueprint’s purpose. God gave us Jesus. John 14:6 (New Living Translation)6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. Jesus has become to us our Covenant.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil still stands in the “midst of the garden” or the realm of our dwelling. We still have the choice of eating from it. The disobedience of Adam caused God to drive them from the garden so they would not have access to the tree of Life and live forever in their disobedience. What exactly did Lucifer promise if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? That they would be as God and they would know good and evil. Genesis 3:4-5 (New Living Translation) 4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” Eating from that tree gave them control to know for their own selves what they had been dependent on God to know. That has become the root of human (Adamic) nature. Jesus walked on this earth dependent on God through His Spirit to know His will for what He would say and what He would do. In the fifth chapter of John, there are several keys to the difference between the manner in which Jesus lived and ministered in this realm and the way we who are subject to human nature live and minister. His complete dependence on the Spirit to show Him the Father in action and hear what the Father was speaking and keep the oneness with the Father complete in Him so He could do the Father’s will is a revelation of what is possible for us. Remember Jesus emptied Himself and took on our likeness. He was vulnerable and relied on the Holy Spirit and God’s Word to keep Himself in the purity of oneness with God, the Father. The Holy Spirit is given to us for the same purpose. He will guide us into all truth. The fourteenth and sixteenth chapters of John are a peek into the Spirit’s ministry to the church and each believer. One of my favorite promises of the Spirit’s ministry is John 16:15. (Amplified Bible) 15Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.If we want to eat of the Tree of Life, we need only feed on Jesus. He is Truth. The only way we can truly do this is by the Spirit of the Living God abiding in us, leading us, teaching and revealing Jesus to us. I Corinthians 1:28-30 (Amplified Bible) 28And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are, 29So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God. 30But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].The Holy Spirit’s ministry to us is to reveal Jesus, The Way the Truth and the Life, to us so we can give to God a true and continuing covenant response.