Uncovering the timeless truths of the Bible and transforms them into real-life experiences.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
What you’ll learn
- We will learn the bible in the context of the New Covenant.
- We will discover the importance of Covenant.
- We will discover how we will enter into a covenant with God.
- We will discover how the New Covenant will transform our Christian walk.
- We will learn how to truly offer our life to God.
- We will discover how we will be effective in the ministry.
- We will learn how to read the Whole Bible (From Genesis to Revelations) synchronously.
- Inclusive of helpful articles, blogs and audio resource materials from other New Covenant Preachers.
- Inclusive of E-Bibles (TNIV) and Audio Bibles (NIV) + Bible Reading Challenge Materials.
- Inclusive of Manual Tips on How to Effectively Start a Small Bible Study Groups.
- Free DITM E-Life Book Gift Card worth USD 5 by the time you completed the First and Second Unit of this course.
- E-Book Manuals + Powerpoint will be provided by the end of the course.
- Currently this course is on-going.
Course Content
- Prelude –> 7 lectures • 1hr 2min.
- Introduction to New Covenant –> 21 lectures • 3hr 2min.
- Journeying a Life of Faith –> 2 lectures • 14min.
Requirements
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I want this to be a corner of special message to all of us in order for us to truly realize our identity in Christ. Reading in Exodus Chapter 28 wherein the Lord asked Moses to make a special garment for the consecration of Aaron and his sons for the holy priesthood, two words that got my attention here is GLORY and BEAUTY (see verses 2 and 40). These two words caught my attention because all of us desires these two – glory which pertains to power, and beauty which pertains to attention and praises from men. In short, these two speaks of pride in our flesh. If we are still sinful in our heart, we are chasing after these two.
However, we need to understand that truly, there is nothing good in our flesh (Romans 7) but God wants His creation to be a reflection of His Glory and Beauty everyday (Read Genesis 1), but we cannot do it on our own. So the Lord sent Christ to clothe our nakedness in the flesh that brought us shame, with His own righteousness just like how God, ask Moses to clothe Aaron with the Holy Garment of Priesthood (Exodus 28:40-42).
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)”
In the Old Covenant, the holy garment for priest is just a cover up for the sin of the High Priest so that he can freely come closer to the arc of the covenant without him dying because of his sins. In the New Covenant, it is even more better, because the righteousness that Christ offers is no longer a cover up, but something that will completely sets us free from our shameful sinful image.
“16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:16-20)”
The above verses are an open invitation to all of us. We no longer need to seek for the validation of this world or spend our whole life chasing ourselves to become beautiful in the sight of other people just to please them, because in reality, nothing is truly good and beautiful in us. Absolutely nothing. Why? For we all have sinned and fall short for God’s glory (Romans 3:23). Second proof is that we are all wretched because even we desire to do good, we cannot carry it out for we are weak (Romans 7). The truth is, all that this world defines as good and beautiful are all outwardly and temporary, but the real glory, honor and beauty is the righteousness offered by God to us. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17).” While living in our flesh here on earth, we cannot truly be righteous perfectly as sin still dominates this place, but it is possible to continually walk in righteousness everyday. How? According to Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Clothing in Christ righteousness means being partakers of Christ suffering daily. And we know that Christ suffered in His flesh (Hebrews 2:10, 18) by simply denying what His flesh desires just to obey God and it is the cost of His obedience to the Father. Philippians 2:5-8 even shows us that His constant denying in the flesh leads Him to even died on the Cross just to paid for our sins and reconcile us back to God. This is also how we are going to suffer and how we will carry our cross daily. We have to deny our desire of earthly pleasures just to follow Christ.
Of course, denying earthly pleasure is close to impossible, unless we finally realize, truly and genuinely, that all good things here and beauty and glory, are all temporary and the lasting joy that we truly desires (to which we often mistaken of in lieu of temporary things) can only be found in Christ, even we live here in simplicity, or even in suffering.
Sisters in faith, if we will truly understand this, our mindsets will surely start to shift – from deciding about our clothes to wear or hairstyles for the day, up to the relationship and friendship we make, or the dreams and travel goals we pursue – we will realized that these are all rubbish.
Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 6?
“25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
So think of all these things every time you worry on your body shape, latest fashion trends or relationship goals. Life here is too short compared to eternity that awaits for us. The greatest question is, which eternity will you take? – Life or Condemnation?
“16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)”