Why does the Lord use the word “trespass” to teach us about the boundaries of the covenant He established for us in Jesus Christ? The answer is that God is teaching us how to restrict our faith to the things He placed inside the house and covenant of Jesus Christ to bond and build with Him.

In that God teaches us how to measure our faith against Jesus to stay within the boundaries He assigned to our faith to express Him, He teaches us His fear. Our daily walk with God is life giving as we use the spiritual tools He sprinkled with Jesus’ blood. Therefore, we do not want to trespass against God by neglecting His tools, and thus step outside the boundaries of His care.

In my teaching “Reversing the Greatest Spiritual Deepfake” we covered ground to establish how God is reversing the long-held belief that Moses’ law in any way, including the ten commandments, is still necessary to help us to see Christ and take on His likeness. We saw why God is correcting this epic contradiction that has gone unchallenged for generations.

In this second part of my teaching, we’ll contrast man’s starting point (sin) to God’s starting point (Jesus’ covenant) to move forward to see God’s correction upon ministry leaders and their definition of the boundaries of faith.

Apostle Eric vonAnderseck often uses the example of property lines as a way to define God’s boundaries to help us to understand God’s mind that we honor Him by honoring the restrictions He placed upon our faith, that we build our faith according to the pattern that He established in Jesus’ covenant and not go beyond those limits to draw from ourselves or mix covenants and thus trespass against Him. This is the true fear of the Lord.

Naturally speaking, we understand that if we were to move the fence that divides our property from our neighbors to increase our lot, that would be counted as a trespass against our neighbor. There are laws to protect property rights and “no trespassing” signs warn intruders against violating boundaries. The sign acts in representation of predetermined restrictions.

Spiritually speaking, God set the boundaries of each covenant to let us know how He measures our obedience to Him. In the first (old) covenant God restricted the faith of the people to the things He had sanctified for them to observe and thus show their love toward Him. In that God gave the pattern of the first covenant to Moses to give to the people, when they turned away from the pattern (to add to it or to neglect it) they trespassed and rebelled against the Lord.

In other words, they violated the restrictions He placed upon their faith. We have an example of this in the book of Joshua.

Joshua 22:16
Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord?

We underlined the words “trespass” and “altar”. God had already given the pattern of the altar to Moses to restrict the faith of the people to the things He sanctified with the blood of an animal for their approach to Him. Moses signified those things that God pre-selected to represent their faith. By the word of God, Moses sprinkled the blood of an animal upon the altar and all the articles and furniture of the tabernacle, including the tables of stone upon which God wrote His ten commandments. These were the tools of the first (old) covenant. (Ex. 25:9,40; Heb. 9:19,21)

The people trespassed against the Lord when they ignored the pattern that God had established through His steward, Moses. God’s people decided to change up the altar to include in its design a few things that represented their heart’s desire. In other words, they designed an altar after their imagination, and God called that a trespass against Him and the original pattern for the altar had to be renewed. (2 Chron. 15:8)

In 2 Chronicles 14:3 we read that Asa, “took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves”. We can see how easily Satan slips in a deceptive form of thinking: since God called for an altar to be built for sacrifices to be offered in service to Him, what difference would it make how the altar was built? After all, an altar is an altar. But God set restrictions upon the construction of the altar in that the stones of the altar were to remain whole, rather than chiseled or cut by the hand of man. (Ex. 20:25; Deut. 27:6)

This restriction that God imposed upon their faith was important to preach to us Christ and His new altar as we now observe the same restrictions today. Jesus’ altar is made of spiritual stones (Heb. 13:19). Each of God’s spiritual altar stones (the 12 elements of the gospel) must remain whole, not changed or re-imagined by one’s religious aspirations.

Why is this so important? The whole stones are important to God because if Jesus is not represented in the elements, He does not represent us before God’s throne and does not mediate the covenant on our behalf, meaning that He is not present in our faith to sanctify, heal, and preserve us, and we would have no power to reciprocate to God.

Sadly, many revival altars today are built in representation of one’s need and the heart’s desire to show God how passionate one can be about prayer and obedience and humble submission to Him, while at the same time, ignoring God’s covenant in Jesus. These rebel altars are marked by God because they turn away hearts from following Him.

As God reveals the stones that were selected to build these rebel altars, we see the trespass — the stones have not been kept whole, but have been chiseled and shaped by man’s desire to approach God on his own terms.

As we move further into this study and begin to define how we observe Christ in the spiritual stones of His altar, we learn what it means to restrict our faith to build with God in the way He planned. Rebel altars stand out in contrast, and the true fear of God emerges triumphant over the fear of man and Satan’s deceptions. We fear trespassing against God and therefore we do not neglect His commandment to build the altar of Christ in our heart with Jesus’ whole stones. This is the first step of discipleship.

Whenever Jesus’ covenant is neglected, it is because Satan’s deception has won the hearts of ministers who preach another gospel and claim another Jesus (2 Cor. 11:4; Gal. 1:6-7). These ministers ignore the pattern God established for Jesus’ covenant. In fact, they move the covenant boundaries to include the things of their own nature to increase their lot. In other words, they made room for their aspiration, principle, and imagination, which God did not sanctify.

It is part of man’s fallen nature to include into the design of his faith the things of his own record. Not only does he include his aspiration, principle, and imagination, but also his signature gifts, his moral code, God-Code, the fruits of iniquity that he struggles against, and the knowledge of this world he has absorbed. That is how God defines man’s record, which simply means the place a person intuitively goes to draw content and meaning for his faith connections. It is the nature of man to make accommodations for himself, while neglecting the pattern God provided for contact and increase.

God’s teaching point: When we include the things of our nature into God’s covenant through Jesus, we violate the boundaries God established and we walk outside His fear and holiness. Sadly, roots are established in the history of man rather than the mystery of Christ.

In his IDCCST Course Handbook (p. 44), Apostle Eric explains:

“We all experienced abuse while in Satan’s kingdom under his stewardship and tutorage. We learned how to work with his knowledge, and we struggled under the weight of sin (the system and knowledge of Satan). The fruit of iniquity he formed in us confirmed the history of our first birth, as each cycle of death testified of the lack of the virtue of Christ. The fruit of iniquity offered many anecdotal stories about life’s challenges, life’s wounds, and the pursuit of better paths, but did not provide the new path in Jesus.”

Ministers have a well-established habit of ignoring the boundaries of God’s new covenant in Jesus and instead draw from their ancestral roots and years of struggle with the fruits of iniquity. God is addressing that habit to correct it. We’ll again draw from Joseph Mattera for contrast.

Mattera states: “Boundaries in marriage were broken… Boundaries in gender have been ignored… Boundaries in government have been violated… Each person was born a “boundary breaker” in this unregenerate state with the potential to break every one of the Ten Commandments…”

So, right away, we can see that Mattera is not talking about the boundaries of Jesus’ covenant that God designed for our participation to establish us in His truth, righteousness, and holiness, to engage with us on the level of Himself. Mattera, conditioned by the fall of Adam, has placed God’s boundaries in sin, and we’ll see why that’s a mistake.

And because God is correcting ministry leaders who break God’s covenant boundaries, we will also include those ministers who preach and teach against the “idols of the heart” and the “desires of the flesh”. They too have been conditioned by the fall of Adam and have moved God’s covenant boundaries and placed them in sin and get upset that people who have prayed the “sinners’ prayer” are still eaten up with sin.

Some ministry leaders try to go a little deeper and admit that there has been no transformation in the lives of those who have accepted Jesus, yet can’t see that they are the problem.

Those hungering and thirsting after righteousness will never experience a change in nature until they are discipled to Christ by learning how to function with His covenant knowledge with the covenant tools God designed for their increase in His kingdom.

God is now turning that around with His restored spiritual government. To begin with, believers are learning how to build the altar of Christ in their hearts, they’re learning how to take part in their daily growth cycles, how to recognize and work with the power of grace in them, how to co-labor with the anointing, and how to return to God the gifts of His fellowship. They are learning about the part they play in God’s process to form fruit in their inner man, how to prophesy Christ, how to discern the portion (God’s imprint in man’s soul) from the fulness (Jesus Christ), and how to steward God’s grace to His community of saints.

You will find that when ministry leaders trespass against God by moving the boundaries of Jesus’ covenant to accommodate their nature that they cannot disciple believers in what the covenant contains, nor explain how God’s new covenant works so they use a lot of filler language to get by. They will say things like,

— You’ll experience the peace of God like never before.

— You’ll experience the power of God like never before.

— You’ll be in awe of God like never before.

These quips are nothing more than fluff; things a ministry leader will say as a hook to promise believers something he does not possess. Not being part of the process that God designed for those who have accepted His new covenant through Jesus, the desired peace and power of God is described as an outsider looking in.

First of all, transformation will never happen until ministry leaders learn to work with God’s starting point. God’s boundaries are covenant related, and the covenant God made with the people defines how their faith is to function. Covenant is God’s starting point. In the old covenant, God worked from the pattern He gave to Moses.

Exodus 25:9, 40
⁹ According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

⁴⁰ And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

We underlined the word “pattern” in both verses. The pattern related to the tabernacle and all the instruments that they used in the tabernacle to approach God to serve Him. Wondering what their faith in God was all about and what God’s purpose was and how they were to submit to His will, God’s people went to the pattern which they received from God’s steward, Moses. How was the tabernacle to be constructed? What were the priests to do at the altar to serve God? How was the sacrifice selected and prepared? What was the purpose of the articles and furniture of the tabernacle? How would God oversee His work?

God established firmly in our minds that He starts with a steward to whom He gives the pattern (knowledge/record) of the covenant He is making with the people. To submit to God’s will is to accept the terms and grounds for contact with Him and to walk with Him according to His plan rather than make the choice to represent ourselves.

In the new covenant that we have been given today through Jesus Christ, we see that God has not changed. The covenant has changed from the old to the new, but God still establishes the boundaries of His new covenant to build trust.

God’s will is now bound to the terms of His covenant with us through Jesus. Our obedience to God, our love for Him, our humble submission to His will, His power, His mind, His work in us is defined by the new covenant. God now defines how our faith is to function in a new way by the pattern (record) Jesus gave to His apostles to give to the church.

1 Corinthians 3:10-11
¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

¹¹ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

We underlined the word “foundation” in both verses. God is not defining sin, He’s defining Jesus and His new covenant. God uses the elements of the gospel to inform our behavior and mold our perspective by the anointing. Jesus’ knowledge, His spiritual tools, stewardship and priesthood is the foundation of our faith. Jesus is now the record we draw from. Jesus is the blueprint of our faith. Jesus as our judge, sits at the gate of our conscience to establish our innocence as He represents us before the throne of God.

When we say that Jesus is Lord, we are saying that He is governing His work in the heart and receiving our spiritual sacrifices that we prophesy to testify of Him. We are able to daily gauge our spiritual growth by the tokens we receive and reciprocate to Him. When we are converted and come to Christ, we come as humble servants to His grace, agreeing to draw from His pattern and to use only His tools to behold Him and thus build with God and His community of saints.

The apostolical character and God’s covenant boundary: So many ministry leaders are fearful of the apostolical character because Satan set the pattern for them to walk independently, as he does.

God did not hide the fact that He gave the pattern for all things of that old covenant to His steward and servant, Moses, to give to the people. And today, God does not hide the fact that He gave the pattern for all thing of Christ in His new covenant to His apostles to give to the people. The apostolic stewardship is the key in the hand of God; and when this boundary is violated, this trespass against God results in a broken relationship with Him.

Man’s boundaries are sin related because the conscience apart from Christ is defiled and a person is still looking for redemption and how to fix his broken relationship with God. Sadly, sin is man’s starting point.

There are certain telltale signs that a person is not in covenant with God and being sin conscience is one of them. The broken boundaries a minister refers to is not covenant related, but rather sin related.

We see that as we go back to Mattera’s statement: “Boundaries in marriage were broken… Boundaries in gender have been ignored… Boundaries in government have been violated… Each person was born a “boundary breaker” in this unregenerate state with the potential to break every one of the Ten Commandments…”

Ministry leaders instruct the people how to be sin conscious because sin is their pattern and foundation. Because they are sin conscience, sin is their guide and this is why they challenge idols of the heart and desires of the flesh.

So then, we can understand God’s teaching point: Until Christ would come to provide a covenant in His own blood, the ten commandments ministered death in that it pointed to man’s guilt and separation from God, as we see in Apostle Paul’s instruction to the church.

2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones [ten commandments], was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

We underlined “ministration of death” and “engraven in stones”. The conscience testifies to man’s guilt by the law. God’s plan was to use the old covenant and ten commandments for contrast, to teach us why Jesus’ covenant and law is better.

Because God is omitting sin from Jesus’ covenant and not using that knowledge as building material, we are free to justify Christ. This also means that because God is omitting sin, we cannot include it in our faith. God defines faith as that which pleases Him and He already said that Jesus pleases Him, so we need only those things of Christ to please God (Luke 3:22). It is really that simple.

We cannot use the ten commandments to establish a sanctified connection to God, nor can we use the ten commandments as proof positive of our desire to be submissive to God’s will.

Furthermore, we cannot use the ten commandments to show God that we are in agreement with Him — that we agree that we are sinners in need of Him. God is not bringing us into agreement with the history of our first birth, but to agree to the terms of His new covenant, to accept the history of our new birth in Him through Jesus.

These two histories (that of the flesh and that of the Spirit) are not the same. In fact, they represent two different kingdoms. We can see how God differentiates the knowledge we are using to come into agreement with Him. We are not using the knowledge of sin to come into agreement with God, nor are we using adversity as the source of our stability.

Source means supply. God’s source is Jesus and from His record we draw upon the knowledge that the Holy Spirit uses to confirm Christ in the elements of the gospel. We are supplied with a growth cycle that God authorizes and empowers when we remain steadfast in our priesthood reflections.

Adversity is man’s starting point because he wants to tell his story, his way. Everyone can sympathize with adversity and this is why adversity is preached in place of Jesus’ priesthood.

We can again see how easily Satan slips in a deceptive form of thinking: Since God called for hearts to be cleansed what difference would it make how our hearts are cleansed? After all, coming clean about our motives and owning up to our mistakes and where that led, and letting God know that we are all in and totally invested in Him fixing our hearts should mean something and must be the right thing to do, but it isn’t.

Satan’s deceptive form of thinking can be discerned when a minister challenges sin without teaching the covenant of Jesus Christ. Challenging sin, ministry leaders confront the condition of the heart and turn the gospel into a psychological message. That’s not the same as teaching people how to obediently follow the pattern God set in Jesus to heal our souls and create in us His likeness.

Only those in covenant with God can relate to the anointing of His grace and the work of righteousness that speaks of His fulness. Working from the pattern of truth, we’re telling God’s story, testifying of Christ in the prophecy of our priesthood and in our reflections and exhortations. This is what it means to restrict our faith to the things God placed inside the house and covenant of Jesus Christ to bond and build with Him.

So then, if God did not design the ten commandments as the terms of the new covenant, what is God’s purpose for them? God designed the ten commandments for contrast (His wrath is manifested by the law, but His mercy is manifested in Jesus and His tools) and discernment to know which minister brings the church into bondage by preaching the ten commandments and to learn why the history of the flesh (sin and adversity) is not God’s building material.

The Lord, through Apostle Paul, gives us further instruction in the book of Romans.

Romans 3:19-20
¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

We underlined the word “guilty” in verse 19 and the words “by the law is the knowledge of sin” in verse 20. Ministry leaders use guilt as a power to keep people searching for God’s power. This is not only an obvious contradiction, but an abuse of power, as ministers use guilt to exploit believers; they use guilt to build an altar for prayer and develop different worship styles to try to release the pressure they put on people to live up to a standard God is not calling them to uphold.

When people say that they feel “changed” after being put through the grinder where sin is exposed and guilt is acknowledged and adversity seems to have played its part, they’re saying, “I needed the law to mold my perception of what it means to be submissive to God.” But God defines obedience by the terms of the new covenant to get you out of this cycle of death and to get the process of regeneration going to establish His work in the heart through the power of His resurrection.

The ten commandments and one’s own moral code set the stage for the conscience to weigh good and evil based on the knowledge of sin. Jesus set the stage for the conscience to weigh good on the scale of His righteousness and from that one scale we are empowered to reciprocate to God that which pleases Him and we gain discernment.

Did you know: Guilt in the conscience is not a witness of Christ and His new foundation. Guilt is a sign that the law is being used as a covering of the conscience to replace Jesus. Guilt is a sign that a person has refused the 12 elements of the gospel that God gave us as an altar for our faith.

We have to ask ourselves, what is the question put to believers by ministry leaders? The question is, how can we use sin and fleshly desires to talk about the importance of God’s holiness? If that mentality is your perception, then despite your best efforts, sin is your guide, not Jesus.

We notice a very deadly cycle in all revivals where converts are not instructed to come under apostolic stewardship to begin to build with God. Once God awakens the seed in the conscience and a covenant connection does not happen, these same sinners will need to be awakened again… and again… and again.

A lot of work is done to give this failure on the part of ministers a new look and to cover up the fact that these people who made a commitment to Jesus were never given instruction to function in His house. So, it is preached that this awakening is the end of God’s will, it is the result of everything they had wanted and prophesied God would do, and that this is what Christianity is all about. If the awakening of grace was God’s will and such a beautiful thing to experience, then it would seem to be an easy thing to strive (fast and pray) for multiple awakenings during one’s lifetime. It would seem to be worth the wait if every 20 years or so another visitation from God caused another awakening.

This is why the preaching of sin is so vital in the false religious system and why the devil happily supplies this influence. As long as you can be identified as a sinner, you are a candidate for another awakening. The advice given is that everyone should get with the program — sinners get grace! Well, that’s true if we are talking about grace for salvation, but the saints of God receive grace for growth and that is vital for us to daily walk in the will of God which is to go through the process of regeneration for fruit bearing.

And that’s why I said earlier that discipleship begins with building the altar of Christ in the heart with Jesus’ 12 spiritual foundation stones. Grace is the first element those newly converted learn about as God begins to broaden their experience with Him.

Grace for growth works with all the foundational elements to cause an effect (God’s end result). The thread of the anointing is in the voice of His grace for us to abound in His fruit. This daily experience with God’s voice and power is how God is building trust with us as we learn His fear. God is establishing a new rhythm for us.

As we can see, the new covenant is designed by God for us to receive daily visitations from Him. The need for Jesus’ qualified apostles — His foundation builders — is obvious.

What we learn is that where sin is preached in place of Jesus’ covenant, prayer is needed to release feelings of guilt and to establish “seeking” for God as something that every Christians should strive for, rather than abide in Christ by utilizing His knowledge and tools. Christians often identify themselves as “seekers” to justify waiting for the next wave of God’s grace for salvation rather than accept the terms of His covenant to labor in His house.

“Seeking” or “searching” and “longing” are buzzwords for “I don’t know” God’s will, but I’m open. I know the idols of my heart are not right, so I long to get right with God. I just need to apply God’s word. To be clear, this is wrong thinking and wrong teaching. Seeking the will of God is not the same as abiding in the will of God, and searching, and longing, and applying God’s word also are not the same as walking in covenant with God. God differentiates these dynamics through His restored government today.

Did you know: God breaths upon many souls worldwide as He awakens them to His grace. But ministers, refusing to bring them into covenant with God, put them back to sleep. Your whole Christianity centers on being identified as a seeker – not one who abides in Christ.

To the unskilled minister, this seems to be what God wants: Teach the people how to search for God, how to have a seeking heart (rather than serve Him) and this will awaken them again. Show them their guilt by the law, listen to their hearts cry for a living relationship with God, but don’t equip them with the knowledge and tools of Jesus’ covenant, don’t teach them how to build the altar of Christ in the heart so they can start to function in their priesthood.

What we’re seeing here is that when Jesus’ covenant is not taught, the idea is to get people to stay in search mode, to keep that spark burning as long as possible to again ignite the experience they once had when God awakened them (which God defines as grace for salvation). God’s plan though is different.

God challenges the notion that we can know Jesus as Savior without knowing anything about His covenant. Through His restored government, God is now opening up the true significance of Jesus’ covenant and what that contains.

God’s plan is to get people progressing from grace for salvation into grace for growth by equipping them with the tools they need to succeed, beginning with the altar class to build in them the foundation of truth and prepare them to function in their priesthood at the altar of Christ, thus allowing God to create in them His divine nature.

To retain people in search mode is to keep them prisoner to sin. There are a few different ways to keep people searching to try to ignite another moment with God’s grace for salvation (while denying them access to Christ to allow God to create His fruit in the inner man). Let’s look at three examples of this.

– A commitment to worship styles that are geared toward spontaneity whereas people can claim that no one is leading, but the Holy Spirit. In reality, the record of man is drawn upon in the absence of Christ to develop desire and longing and seeking for God. But desire does not save us. Under apostolic stewardship the saints of God learn how to reciprocate to God His likeness, which is God’s desire for us.

– A commitment to community is encouraged whereas people are tasked with carrying a message of forgiveness to those they encounter to encourage others to seek God. In reality, the record of man is again drawn upon in the absence of Christ to task the moral code (the flesh) to represent God. This is to encourage an awakening (grace for salvation) that does not progress into a covenant relationship with God.

– A commitment to prayer is encouraged whereas people are given ample opportunity to assemble in impromptu gatherings for the express purpose of allowing God to “show up” to again give grace for salvation. In reality, the record of man (the flesh) is again drawn upon in the absence of Christ to develop a desire for God, but none of Jesus’ covenant knowledge is taught which would allow people to progress to become a fruit bearer in God’s kingdom.

Many ministers like to pretend that they are advocating for the faith of those awakened to progress into a healthy relationship with God. But neglecting to establish the people in Jesus’ covenant and neglecting to give them the foundation of truth, they send them on their way to shop for a church that would be “safe” to attend.

I’m sure you’ve run across these types of teachings. Claiming to possess the wisdom of God, some challenge church shoppers with knowledge that has not been set in order by Jesus’ apostles. For example, cautioning against elevating grace over truth or elevating truth over grace, Lucas Miles is quoted as saying, “we need both of those [grace and truth] in full force”. Miles, like so many ministers, quote half-truths.

In reality, grace and truth are only 2 of the 12 elements of the gospel by which we observe Christ in our faith to express Him. All 12 elements are synergistically designed by God and the value of Christ in each element must be set in order for us to fully express Him and for God to see the likeness of Christ in our faith (the full effect).

In truth, all of God’s words and all of God’s tokens that He placed in the first covenant (the ten commandments, the laws, precepts, statutes, the physical tokens of the temple, the physical altar, the physical temple) were sprinkled with the blood of an animal to signify that the types and shadows could not take away sin.

Hebrews 10:4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

Apostle Paul, in his instruction to the saints, agreed that the sprinkling of the blood of an animal upon the words of God’s first law and covenant could not take away sin (Heb. 9:18-22). As God established the guilt of the transgression, He showed that all the words of this law could not take away sin, nor cleanse the conscience.

God established the types and shadows of the law to teach that the allegory has no power to create the reality. In other words, we can’t point to the law to teach what sin is and hope to walk in righteousness. That is to trespass the boundaries of God’s covenant.

Apostle Eric uses an apple tree as a very simple analogy to help believers differentiate the allegory from the reality: “Every tree casts a shadow,” he says, “but we don’t go to the shadow to pick the fruit, we go to the tree.” That’s easy to understand and helps a believer see how God is directing faith to the reality of Christ, rather than the shadows of the law. So, what good was the shadow?

As we brought out earlier, all that God set within the first house; the house of Moses built contrast and discernment, but God had not planned for us to go to the law to walk in the reality or liberty of Christ.

Sin is man’s territory or familiar ground. Ministers establish sin in order to promise the life of God, but sin is not the life of God. Jesus is the new pattern for life, and we are given His DNA to follow in the 12 elements of the gospel.

Ministers use sin to define what it means to transgress the law, while God uses Jesus to define what it means to keep His new covenant commandments to be free from sin.

The law was given to magnify sin for contrast to develop, as Apostle Paul brings out in Romans chapter 7: “I had not known sin, but by the law”. But he is not teaching the virtue of that knowledge, but the contrast. I had not known sin; I didn’t realize the presence of that power. The law made the power of sin stand out in contrast to the reality of Christ I now experience. (Romans chapter 8)

When a minister feels that the law of his conscience speaks his truth it is because he feels within himself the propensity for that violation to take place and he wants the law as a moral guide to confirm what he feels within his defiled conscience. He wants to come clean to keep his heart pure, but God does not use the law to purge the conscience, the law only condemns.

When a person feels settled in the law of his conscience, he fights for its justification to hold onto what feels to him like firm ground. How can a person in all good conscience commit adultery, murder, lie, and steal? Your conscience bears witness to the violation, but does not create the reality of Christ. The offense is not remitted, it is retained. And this is why we are reminded again that God did not create the conscience for sin, but for Himself.

The law of the conscience works with influences to keep the soul tethered to death, but the law of grace establishes a new tethering to God through our Lord Jesus Christ to experience His life.

So far, our disambiguation brought to bear upon the mind that when ministry leaders fail to establish the boundaries of Jesus’ covenant, they set the boundaries in sin and adversity, where Christ will not be found, and therefore their guilt before God remains.

I really want to dig into this part of the study to allow God to hit home His teaching that He set the boundaries of our faith in Christ, in the 12 elements, or foundation stones to restrict our faith to Jesus. God designed each element to function in a certain way for us to return to Him. Let’s go to Apostle Eric vonAnderseck’s IDCCST® Course where he lays this out for us. This quote is from the Handbook p. 272-273.

“The name of Jesus is in us by Spirit and truth. Truth means knowledge. With this knowledge, Jesus engraves himself in us to shape our thinking of him so that we can carry his perspective with us throughout the day. Each element bears a unique signature imprint in our soul that acts as a proof of possession, stating that we belong to God. We are born of him, born of the Spirit, and carry Jesus’ DNA as proof of life – in Spirit and in truth.

Truth is Jesus himself, for he said, “I AM the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Putting first person voice to each element brings this home as it allows us to see Jesus in each element and to understand what God meant in Hebrews 1:3 when he said that Jesus is the express image of his person. Each element is God’s blueprint for building and maintaining all the functions of faith.

1. I AM Grace
2. I AM Faith
3. I AM Righteousness
4. I AM Justification
5. I AM Sanctification
6. I AM Holiness
7. I AM Peace
8. I AM Rest
9. I AM Charity
10. I AM Truth
11. I AM Regeneration
12. I AM Renewing of the Mind

Jesus is grace… by his voice we know him.
Jesus is faith… he completes our obedience to God in his own record.
Jesus is righteousness… he qualifies our faith; he is God’s measure for our completion.
Jesus is justification… to mirror his conscience to free us from condemnation.
Jesus is sanctification… to take ownership of our soul by the mark of his Spirit.
Jesus is holiness… we separate ourselves unto him by touching him.
Jesus is our peace… he mediates the terms of the covenant to become our shield.
Jesus is rest… he gave us tools for our labor of faith to cease laboring with self.
Jesus is charity… he is the love of God we reciprocate in kind.
Jesus is truth… he is the design, record, and pattern our faith follows.
Jesus is regeneration… he is the fruit we carry in our vessel.
Jesus is the renewed mind…our mind reflects the work of the Holy Spirit within.

The plan of God is to receive his virtue. All the elements of the gospel carry the likeness (virtue) of Jesus, which our faith must reflect and express. Our faith labors with what he is and, in this way, Jesus is the author of our faith. The name of Jesus is in each element to tell us who he is by what he does in us by the power of his Spirit. We observe Jesus in each element, and thus he is manifested in our faith. By his knowledge we see him. Jesus begins to emerge in the DNA of his truth.

I want to repeat a teaching point from Chapter 8: ‘We can understand the effect of the Spirit by looking at an acorn. When an acorn is planted in the soil, both the soil that nourishes the seed and the water that moistens the seed causes an effect: the father bears the son. The sapling bears the image of its parent. The new tree is according to the blueprint of its genealogy. Its DNA is its genealogy. Jesus Christ is the genealogy and DNA of the righteous because we take on his likeness through his knowledge. We see that in the elements of the gospel. We carry the testimony of Christ in his knowledge and live by his power.’”

That is an important segment from Apostle Eric’s IDCCST Course. It arms believers with the knowledge that God set in order, which is crucial for them to make the daily decision about their participation with Him. All the elements of the gospel inform our behavior.

Always remember: Without God’s apostolic stewards of grace, those who were once enlightened are not established in the faith and are sent church shopping. Church shopping leads to church hopping because one’s perspective is being molded in the absence of truth which the anointing works with.

The anointing carries God’s perspective and fruit and this is why we are living by a new power according to the boundaries God placed in His new covenant for our contact and increase.

See part one of Teacher Maria vonAnderseck’s teaching: https://s8w.org/blog-post/reversing-the-greatest-spiritual-deepfake/

Read Joseph Mattera’s article: https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/the-pulse/92119-7-spiritual-consequences-from-breaking-god-s-boundaries