MORE BLESSING TEACHINGS AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    After Jesus Christ was baptized in My Holy Spirit and resisted the devil's temptations, He taught a lengthy sermon about the blessings that were to come into the lives of His followers if they followed His guidance. (Matthew chapters 4-7)  By the power of My Holy Spirit He  was able to heal the lepers, the crippled, the blind people, a woman with a years long bleeding problem, an officer's son, a woman ill with a fever, plus He cast deranged demons out of people, raised a woman who was dead and restored to health all who were sick. He fulfilled the prophesy of Isaiah that said, "He took away our weaknesses and infirmities, plus He bore our diseases." (Isaiah 53:4; Matthew chapter 8)  After He cast demons out of deranged people they were completely healed. 
    Then Jesus Christ experienced extreme persecution because of some things that He did, which was to tell a paralyzed man that his sins were forgiven. As a result, the religious politicians, the scribes who were present, began to think that Jesus was blaspheming because they believed that only I can forgive sins.  They did not recognize Jesus as My Son.  Jesus knew their thoughts and asked them which is easier to say, whether it was that their sins were forgiven or for Him to tell them to rise up and walk.  Jesus said that in order for the people to know that My Son had the authoritative power to forgive sins and erase the penalty, He told the man to get up and take his sleeping pad home, which the formerly paralyzed man did.  The crowd was amazed, struck with awe, and recognized Jesus as My Son; so they praised and thanked Me that I had given such power to a human, Jesus.  It was then that Matthew, the tax collector, joined in the ministry of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 9:3-9)
      The repercussions continued for Jesus when He went to the home of Matthew where many other men joined them.  Some Pharisees, who were the politicians of that day, asked Jesus why He ate with his followers who didn't wash their hands before they ate, as was the law at the time. That questioning by the Pharisees was only the second time that Jesus encountered so much persecution and doubt from religious and political people.  In His reply to the religious politicans Jesus wisely told them that people who are well don't need a doctor, but the sinful people do.  Then Jesus gave to the Jewish law abiding Pharisees and scribes a key to My character when He told them that go and learn what the prophet Hosea declared when he prophesied that I desire mercy for My children instead of sacrifice, meaning that I desire that people have mercy for the sinful people instead of requiring that they make sacrifices for their sins.  All of that was a revolutionary statement.  Then Jesus spoke something even more revolutionary when He said that He came to earth to invite sinners, which He called the erring people, to join Him; that he did not come to invite the righteous to join Him. (Matthew 9:10-14) 
     The disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked Him why they and the Pharisees continued to fast food and drink but Jesus and His disciples did not fast, as the Jewish law requires.  Again Jesus Christ was asked to discuss why He was doing revolutionary things that were contrary to Jewish laws.  For the first time Jesus tried to explain the difference between the commands of the old covenant laws and the instructions in the revolutionary new covenant which Jesus came to earth to establish.  He said that the owner of a vineyard knows better than to put His newly made wine into old wine skins because the fermentation or spirits in the new wine would burst the old fragile wine skins, the new wine would spill out and be wasted, plus the old wine skins would be ruined.  He emphasized that new wine is always put in new wine skins in order to preserve both the old wine skins and the new wine. To explain further, Jesus said to the disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees that nobody uses a piece of new cloth to patch an old garment because the new patch will shrink when washed and tear away from the garment, ruining it. 
    The Jewish political leaders and the disciples of John the Baptist did not realize that Jesus Christ came to earth to eventually die for the sins of the world, to go to hell, to rise from the dead by the power of My Holy Spirit with authority over the heavens and earth, and to send My Holy Spirit into the earth to live in My children which would institute My entirely new everlasting covenant with people.  My new covenant of the Holy Spirit, where I would live inside of them in the person of My Holy Spirit, would give Me direct access to their thoughts in which I can teach them personally as their tutor by My powerful Holy Spirit who has the wisdom and power to defeat the evil which the first man, Adam, had allowed the devil to flood the earth with his demons and curse it.  (Isaiah 59:20-21; Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2:1-4)  Jesus was explaining to the old covenant officials that in His new covenant that was soon to come into the earth that the requirement under His new and everlasting words would be different than their old covenant which had become the covenant of sin and death at the devil's command.  My new covenant is the covenant of life in the Holy Spirit which is the gospel or the Good News.
    That explanation of Jesus Christ initiated the Good News in the earth, the promise to My children that help was on the way, which was My intention from the beginning of the earth, that if My children would engage in My new covenant with human beings that they could have heaven on earth instead of having the hell on earth that the old covenant of sin and death had instituted.
    Think about the difference.  Under the old covenant sinning required punishment.  Under My new covenant sinners receive forgiveness from Me and the power leading to a new life of righteousness.  Now, that is worthy of praise and celebration. 
    My Good News is always welcome news to My children, you and your family included.
    Your Father of the Magnificent Holy Spirit Covenant of Love.