💯 The Gospel of Christ: Hear the Right Covenant and Receive Every Blessing
“Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.” — 1 Corinthians 9:14 (NKJV)
🎨 Highlight key: 🟩 = grace / apart-from-works truth · 🟨 = the precious gift · bold = key terms
🕊️ In His Presence — Deliverance and Light
In His presence there is deliverance, solution, and light. Kings went to battle with their own plans — but when they inquired of the Lord, the valley was filled without wind or rain.
- 💧 Promise verse: valley filled with water — 2 Kings 3:17
- 🔍 First step when stuck: inquire of the Lord through His prophet
- 👂 Hearing brings deliverance, healing, and prosperity
- 📖 Today’s focus: hearing the gospel of Christ — the right covenant
👂 Four Blessings of Hearing the Word
By the foolishness of preaching God delivers — worldly people must do something; biblical faith receives by hearing alone.
- 🏆 Victorious — overcome enemies when you hear
- 👑 Noble — like Bereans, search Scripture daily
- 📈 Grace multiplied — blessings come quickly
- 🩺 Healed — the Lystra cripple heard Paul and leaped
| World’s way | God’s way |
|---|---|
| Must work to get delivered | Hear — faith comes by hearing |
| Random YouTube won’t heal | Hear the word of Christ |
| Study wrong syllabus | Study the right covenant |
🍞 Eating Is Fighting — Lechem and Lacham
Hebrew lechem (לֶחֶם) means bread; lacham (לָחַם) means fighting. Same consonants — vowels shift the meaning: eating is fighting.
- 🍽️ Psalm 23:5 — He prepares a table before your enemies so you eat and fight
- 🍞 Feed on Christ as living bread — not random messages
- ⚔️ The cripple from birth kept hearing Paul — continuous tense
- ✝️ Deliverance comes through knowledge of Jesus Christ alone
📜 First Covenant Had Fault — Study the Right Syllabus
Studying the wrong exam paper fails you — if the first covenant had fault, a second covenant was sought. Hear the right syllabus or the four blessings cannot come.
- 📖 Hebrews 8:7 — if the first were faultless, no second would be needed
- ⚠️ Hearing about the faulty covenant ministers fault to your life
- ✝️ Hear the word of Christ — faith comes by hearing Him
- 🎓 Know what to hear and what not to hear
| Old covenant | Gospel of Christ |
|---|---|
| First covenant had fault | New covenant — right syllabus |
| Law on stones | Hear the word of Christ |
| Blessed because you obey | Blessed because He obeyed |
☠️ Ministry of Death — Law Written on Stones
The ministry of death is engraved on stones — the letter kills. The sting of death is sin; the strength of sin is the law.
- ☠️ 2 Corinthians 3:7 — ministry of death, written and engraved on stones
- 📜 The letter kills; the Spirit gives life — 2 Corinthians 3:6
- ⚖️ Law = blessed based on how good you are
- ✝️ Gospel = healed because He took all sickness at the cross
✝️ Gospel of Christ — Power, Teaching, Preaching, Healing
Romans 1:16 — the gospel of Christ is the power of God. Jesus went about teaching, preaching, and healing — all three together.
- 📢 Galatians 1:8–9 — any other gospel is accursed
- 🩺 Matthew 4:23 / 9:35 — teaching + preaching + healing every disease
- 📖 Luke 24:27 — Moses and the Prophets speak of Himself
- 🎁 Blessings are definite — not because of who you are, but whose you are
| Law message | Gospel message |
|---|---|
| Healed because you are good | Healed because He took sickness |
| Brightness by your deeds | Brightness by what He did |
| Works and wages | Gospel = power — gift of God |
Romans 1:16 (NKJV)
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” — Romans 1:16 (NKJV)
Matthew 4:23 (NKJV)
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.” — Matthew 4:23 (NKJV)
Matthew 9:35 (NKJV)
“Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” — Matthew 9:35 (NKJV)
Mark 10:30 (NKJV)
“who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.” — Mark 10:30 (NKJV)
🐑 Bible Pictures of Christ — From Eden to the Cross
The whole Bible speaks of Jesus — the first lamb killed in Eden, Abel’s sacrifice, Abraham’s ram, and every Old Testament offering pictured Christ.
- 🐑 Eden’s first lamb and Abel’s offering — picture of the coming Saviour
- 🏔️ Abraham saw the Lamb on the mountain — that Lamb is Christ
- ✝️ At the cross Jesus called My God, My God — bore our sin as a sinner
- 👑 All blessings are definite — quicker than you expected
Luke 24:27 (NKJV)
“And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” — Luke 24:27 (NKJV)
Galatians 1:8 (NKJV)
“But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” — Galatians 1:8 (NKJV)
🍽️ Psalm 23 — Eat and Fight Before Your Enemies
Psalm 22 — My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me? — Jesus spoke this at the cross so Psalm 23’s table of blessing follows: goodness and mercy all the days of your life.
- 🍽️ He prepares a table before you in the presence of enemies
- 💛 Goodness and mercy shall follow you — not one day missed
- 🩸 Jesus became sin at the cross so you can call God Father
- 🎁 Hundredfold now — Mark 10:30 through the gospel of Christ
📖 Live From the Gospel — 1 Corinthians 9:14
Those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel — Psalm 133 — unity and anointing flow when we hear the right covenant together.
- 📖 1 Corinthians 9:14 — live from the gospel, not from law wages
- 🛢️ Psalm 133:2 — precious oil on Aaron’s head, running down
- ✝️ Galatians 1:8–9 — no other gospel
- 🎁 Hundredfold now — houses, lands, family in this time
1 Corinthians 9:14 (NKJV)
“Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.” — 1 Corinthians 9:14 (NKJV)
Psalm 133:2 (NKJV)
“It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments.” — Psalm 133:2 (NKJV)
Galatians 1:9 (NKJV)
“As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.” — Galatians 1:9 (NKJV)
🎯 The Takeaway
- 📖 Hear the word of Christ — faith comes by hearing the right gospel.
- 🍞 Eating is fighting — lechem/lacham; feed on Christ as living bread.
- 📜 First covenant had fault — study the new covenant syllabus.
- ✝️ Gospel = power — teaching, preaching, and healing together.
- 🎁 Hundredfold now — Mark 10:30 through the gospel of Christ.
🎧 Scripture-based study on hearing the gospel of Christ and the right covenant. If it strengthened you, share it with someone who needs this truth today. 💛