BLESSINGS FROM THE COVENANT OF LOVE

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's letter of commendation to the church at Corinth, he called attention to the fact that his writings in the letter might have seemed self serving by his elevating himself, but he assured the people in Corinth to whom he was writing that he was only claiming to have joy relating to their devotion to him because of his having led them to belief in Jesus Christ.   He wrote that they were, themselves, a letter of Christ which he had delivered, a letter not written with ink but written by My Holy Spirit, and not on tablets of stone but instead written on the flesh of their human hearts.  They were visual representations of the work that My Holy Spirit had done in them, especially after they had succumbed to his stern corrections in his first letter and had returned to having their loyalty firmly established in Me instead of denominational divisions. (II Corinthians 3:1-3)
     He proclaimed that they had confidence in Me through Christ, declaring that they could not take fleshly credit for anything because their sole credit for anything done inside of themselves and through them was done by Me alone, who had made the apostles qualified ministers of a new covenant, a covenant NOT OF WRITTEN LAWS, BUT INSTEAD A COVENANT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.  He declared that written religious laws kill but the Spirit brings life.  (II Corinthians 3:4-6)
    In contrasting the old inefficient covenant, which he called the covenant of death carved in stone, contrasting it with My new and beneficial covenant,which he called the covenant of the Spirit and Life, Paul wrote that if the old one was accompanied by such glory that the Jews could not look on Moses' face because of My glory on it, even though it was a temporary glory, then how much greater is the ministry of the Holy Spirit, which is the covenant ministered by Jesus Christ.  In other words, if the ministry of the covenant that caused the devil to condemn people had great glory, then greater by far is the covenant of the Holy Spirit which justifies people as being My children.  When you compare the limited glory of the old covenant with the lasting glory of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit, there is not even any comparison because the glory of the old covenant would seem at having no glory at all.  Paul surmised that if the covenant that was to pass away was delivered to people with limited glory, then the glory delivered to people in the new covenant of the Holy Spirit is far greater and it endures forever.  Paul wrote to the Corinthians that because their hope was also enduring and lasting that they acted with confidence in Me. (II Corinthians 3:7-12)
     Paul wrote to the Corinthians that the children of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit were not like Moses who used to hide his face with a veil so that the Jews could not see that the glory of the old covenant was fading and then finally would fade away.  He assured the Gentile converts that when the old covenant was read by the Israelites that the veil between understanding and ignorance of the spiritual world is still present.  He proclaimed that it is only in Christ, being anointed by the Holy Spirit, that the veil is taken away.  To this day, even when the laws of Moses are read there is a veil that covers their understanding.  That veil is a demon.   However, when any of the Jews turn to the Lord, then the veil over their understanding is removed and they can say that once they were blind but now they see.(II Corinthians 3:14-16) 
     Paul was speaking of something which he had personally experienced, one day being a child of Mosaic law with blinders over his mental understanding relating to spiritual matters, and the next day his being completely and totally changed in the twinkling of an eye into a new person in Christ Jesus by his being changed by the Holy Spirit's glory on the road to Damascus.  In Paul's writing to the people in the church at Corinth, he proclaimed that under the new covenant of the Holy Spirit in the earth that THE LORD IS THE SPIRIT, AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY. (II Corinthians 3:17) 
   He wrote to the people of Corinth that all of us, by gazing on the Lord's glory with unveiled faces, that those people are being transformed from glory to glory, by revelation to revelation, into My image by THE LORD, WHO IS THE SPIRIT IN THE EARTH.   (II Corinthians 3:18)
    With unveiled spiritual eyes, My children see Me by the power of My Holy Spirit and they become more like Me every day by the working of the HOLY SPIRIT, WHO IS THE LORD IN THE EARTH.
     Paul went on to write that because humans possess the treasure of the Holy Spirit in human vessels it is made clear to them that the greatness of My surpassing power in them comes from Me and not from their human nature.  (II Corinthians 4:7)
    What a glorious treasure to have living in your human body, the Mighty Spirit of Power yet the Merciful and Compassionate Holy Spirit.  That is reason to celebrate every day of your life.
    Your Father of Enlightenment and Power