In our last post we talked a little about what it means to be holy and to grow in Christ. We said that holiness is a work of God with which we cooperate in His transforming us into the image of Christ (His image). It is primarily focused on the inner thoughts and attitudes, and…
The New Covenant is what God uses to change and transform us, making us holy as He is holy. We are changed into Christ’s image.
The promises of the New Covenant mean that there is no sin from which God cannot free us. Change and growth are possible for every believer in Christ.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means…