Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Alan Platt
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January 27 - February 7, 2020
God’s plan was never for us to fulfill the law to be declared righteous.
The purpose of the law was to show us what sin is and to make us aware of the fact that we cannot help sinning.
The New Testament is the revelation of man’s true identity in Christ and our unhindered relationship with the Father.
We are the product of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
He is the manifestation of our completeness.
The Greek word for repentance is metanoia, which means to think differently.
Someone who thinks they are a sinner thinks differently from someone who thinks they are the righteousness of God.
The enemy’s plan is to keep you from discovering who you are in Christ at all costs.
Melchizedek was notable because he was both king and priest, which was impossible under the Old Covenant.
On the cross, Jesus bore every curse that had come over us from not upholding the law, and every blessing that was promised to Abraham became part of our inheritance:
The only thing that pleases God now is our faith.
We need to be freed from having zeal for God and discover the zeal of God!
The gospel of grace loses its power when we mix it with our own efforts.
God could not have spoken to man more clearly than He did when He sent Christ to reveal His heart to us.
When we want to hear what God is saying to us we need to listen to what His Son is saying to us.
If you do not discover your true identity and know who you really are now that you are a new creation, you will continue to be weighed down under the power of guilt and shame and pain.
Man is the bearer of God’s image, likeness, and glory.
Jesus did not come to start a new religion. He also did not come to begin Christianity. People tend to turn the Good News into a religion. But it isn’t a religion, it’s a relationship.
Jesus came to show man how God originally created him: innocent, justified, and a bearer of His glory.
Guilt and shame are the products of sin that robbed us of intimacy with God. The reality is: if you feel guilty and ashamed, you will never feel free or confident to be in His presence.
you think differently about who you are, you will think differently about how you live.
is not the power of His word; it is the word of His power. There is a substantial difference. Let me use
We are no longer intimidated by what our senses tell us, because we have experienced how the Word brings division and distinction in our lives as we now live by the Spirit.
