The Fulfillment of the Covenant: The Time of the Law Has Ended, and the Time of Grace Has Begun

 

God told Moses to go into Pharaoh’s palace and challenge him with faith.


But standing before Pharaoh, whose heart grew harder by the day, Moses struggled with unbelief, thinking, “Could this really happen?”


Do not live with a “what if” faith.

Make a decisive commitment of faith.


God’s greater plan in hardening Pharaoh’s heart was to open Moses’ spiritual eyes—to reveal that behind stubborn and hardened hearts, there are forces of darkness at work.

Therefore, God was teaching Moses to imprint the covenant, take root in it, and make it his very nature.


The God who promised to crush the serpent’s head is the offspring of the woman, the Messiah, the Creator God Himself.


If we remain within this covenant, God will surely work.

Lift up the staff and act.


Moses’ staff, bearing covenantal authority, swallowed up all the staffs of Egypt’s magicians.


Through this, God revealed who the true Sovereign is, even within Pharaoh’s palace.


Miracles are part of the process of fulfilling the covenant.


Though the magicians of Egypt could produce temporary signs, they could never alter the redemptive flow of history.


Moses’ staff—endowed with covenantal authority and the authority of God’s Word—swallowed the power of sin, death, hell, and Satan, becoming God’s instrument that leads people to the way of salvation.


Moses spent forty years gaining expertise as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

He heard the covenant while in the arms of his mother Jochebed.

Yet he chose to suffer with God’s people rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

He desired to live righteously, valuing identification with God’s people over royal status.

Even so, without engaging in the spiritual warfare of crushing the serpent’s head, Moses would inevitably reach his limits.

Intellectual and legalistic faith always reaches a limit and brings suffering.


The time of the law has ended, and the time of grace has come.


Blessed are those who read, hear, and keep the words of the covenant, which are words of prophecy.

Through the grace of Jesus Christ, our Great High Priest, we have received the blessing to approach the throne of God with confidence.


Just as God’s work began when His covenant clothed Moses’ staff—a mere piece of wood, when the authority of God’s Word operates within our expertise, it becomes specialized and globalized.


Therefore, even if what you currently hold seems as insignificant as a wooden stick, cast away unbelief that says, “Could this really be possible?”

Seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit to receive covenantal authority, and you will see miracles that swallow up idol-worshiping magicians. Amen.

(Exodus 7:1–13; Revelation 1:3; Hebrews 4:16; 11:24–26)

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