CHRIST'S STEPS TO YOU AND TO US

The New Testament is not the same old, same old with Jesus’ help. The New Testament is the declaration of the new man/woman as the expression of Christ. Christ has not risen from the dead to help is keep the law. He is  beside Father and in us to be our life. Any gospel of the law plus the gifts is a parody we can do without.

The Kingdom Jesus began is not a poverty mentality or an austerity package eked out in the law. But it is if we remain tied to the law. Neither is it ‘we should all try harder with Jesus’ help to earn Jesus’. Jesus has earned us and our union with God. Grace has always been, and grace has been expanding. The trinity in us is the ultimate grace.
COVENANT
The New Covenant is God’s guarantee that all who believe Christ are included in God. The New Covenant is the Person of Jesus representing you. That’s the guarantee and the starting place of your communion with God and the realisation of your True Self.
WAS GRACE
“The covenant between God and Israel was not a covenant between God and a holy people, but precisely the reverse. It was a covenant established out of pure grace between God and Israel in its sinful, rebellious and estranged existence. Hence, no matter how rebellious or sinful Israel, was, it could not escape from the covenant love and faithfulness of God.
That is the aspect of the covenant that is brought out so poignantly in the book of Hosea. Even if Israel persists in adulterating its relationship with God, he will not divorce Israel, for the bonds of God's steadfast love retain their hold upon Israel and lock it into a relationship with God which will finally triumph over all estrangement and bring about reconciliation and peace.” (1)

THE NEW COVENANT IS NEW
It may be seen that Israel enjoyed belonging with God prior to the cross – of a kind. Yet this relationship was not of the kind that meant union with God. This communion was inferior to our inheritance today. It was not the kind of trinitarian oneness that is God and the trinitarian oneness of God that enfolds us. There had been no incarnation of the kind in which God comes in the flesh first as Jesus of Nazareth and following Pentecost as Christ in us.  The double whammy of the incarnation is that Christ comes to Palestine and since Pentecost comes in you.
FULLNESS CAME WITH CHRIST
The presence of God was in the earth as creation and society but not as a personal presence and not as the envelopment of human-kind in the oneness of being that is the trinity. This happened after the Resurrection. In the Messiah God reached out and ceded Godself into human beings and wove human beings into the Family of God. This intimacy is yours in Christ, despite our progress or lack of it. Live from where He has situated you.
Christ took steps to us. Your inheritance is not about you taking steps to Christ, but it is about your inclusion in the person of Christ and in the Family of the Trinity in Christ.
THE HUB OF HUMAN HISTORY IS THE CROSS
THE HUB OF YOUR LIFE AND OF THE COSMOS IS THE TRINITY
THE TRUTH OF YOUR SALVATION IS THAT IN CHRIST YOU ARE INCLUDED IN GOD.
The cross-roads of history is the cross and the hub of all life is the trinity. At the cross the oneness, the fellowship, the one for all and all for one of the trinity drew human beings into their communion. In Christ, they undid Adam and drew us into God. Thus, holy communion is much more than mourning Christ’s sacrifice of the cross and trying to do better. It’s the sign and celebration of our now union with God. As the bread and the wine become you, so you have become one substance with God. You are a daughter/son of incredible closeness with God.
GOD COMES AMONG US. CHRIST COMES INTO YOU
[In the] incarnation .. God has drawn so near to man and drawn man so near to himself in Jesus that they are perfectly at one. In Jesus the problematic presence of God to Israel, the distance of his nearness and the nearness of his distance, which so deeply troubled the soul of psalmists and prophets alike, was brought to its resolution. In Jesus, as the angel announced to the Virgin Mary, there was born none other than Emmanuel, 'God with us", that is, the mediator between God and man, who is both God and man in one incarnate Person, in whom and through whom and in the form of whom divine reconciliation is finally accomplished. (2)
RECONCILED
Paul says we are reconciled to God in Jesus Christ. ‘All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:  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’ 2 Col 5.18-19.
The distrust and animosity that Satan seeded into our souls was extinguished in the person of Jesus Christ. In Jesus alienated human beings enter a level of union with God that is closer than that enjoyed before the fall. Life in the Spirit is much more than an influence. It is the personal God, the three personed God alive and present in you and being expressed for you and as you.
REAL IDENTITY OURS IN CHRIST
Jesus Christ is the life-giving spirit of adoption. He has given us oneness with God and Jesus is our oneness with God. Christ is our life in more ways that one. He is our fellowship with God in fullness. He is the righteousness of God manifest in us and He is the One who makes us who we really are as authentic sons and daughters of God.
(1)  Thomas Torrance, The Mediation of Christ.
(2) Ibid.