Christians are told to listen and obey, but are waiting at the mouth of the wrong covenant.

If you are like most Christians, you don’t know which covenant God empowers today and that means you are unsure of the things God provided in Jesus Christ to complete your faith. Hence, the empty well syndrome, whereas Christians are told to listen and obey, but are waiting at the mouth of the wrong covenant.

Believers go to ministers for instruction to know how to serve God according to God’s new covenant terms in Jesus Christ, and leave empty and dry. This is because ministers do not possess the knowledge of the new covenant. Apostle Peter likens these ministers to empty wells.

2 Peter 2:17
“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.”

Most likely you have been given a grand tour of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, but still do not know the terms of the new covenant. The knowledge you received did not empower you to know God and to serve Him in righteousness.

Let’s conduct a simple test to gauge what you know about covenant faith and where you are placing your confidence:

Deuteronomy 29:1a
“These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 29:12
“That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:”

The lie the devil sows in the church today is that the people made a covenant with God. That would mean that they chose laws for themselves that they presented to God for Him to follow to empower their faith. So no, the people did not make a covenant with God.

There is a path God created for the children of Israel for their faith to please Him: To enter into covenant with God, the children of Israel had to first accept the stewardship of Moses to receive the law at his mouth. They also had to agree to the terms of God’s covenant, that is, to touch the tools that Moses (God’s steward) had sprinkled with the blood of an animal by which God sealed His covenant to them.

Believers have the bad habit of wanting to skip ahead to get to the part that says what they can get from God and how they can get it. Never mind the terms of the covenant, never mind serving God acceptably, just tell me how to get blessed! The blessing became the false gauge.

God established a divine connection between the blood of an animal and the physical tools of the old covenant, and the stewardship and priesthood. Moses (God’s steward) taught the people this connection.

Hebrews 9:19-21
¹⁹ For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

²⁰ Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

²¹ Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

Those who consented to the terms of the old covenant accepted the stewardship and priesthood and walked in the ways of the Lord. Both Caleb and Joshua showed that faith was a choice of will to consent to God’s terms, to thus wholly follow the Lord.

Numbers 32:12
“Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord”

This instruction today comes through God’s new covenant stewards, the apostles. When the terms of the new covenant are unknown so also are Jesus’ tools unknown and the entire Bible becomes a set of stories and the steward become nothing more than a story teller.

Some believe that the Bible is one unified story that leads to Jesus, but this is not true. Those who teach this never teach the terms of the new covenant, and never put the tools of Jesus in your hands to help you start building with the Spirit.

The downside is that your soul becomes an empty well, void of the virtues of Christ.Watch out for the story tellers who try to connect you to God by making the story relevant to your life, thus making Jesus’ new covenant of none effect.

There are sure signs that God gives to let you know when a minister, apostle, or prophet, or graphic artist does not know Him and therefore misleading your faith with his own agenda.

1. He does not know the terms of the new covenant. He may speak of love or grace, but no vital connections are made to the stewardship or priesthood of the new covenant. Faith is in word only, not in deed and in truth. This empty vessel talks a lot about his hope in God, but his hope is not given substance in Christ, and is therefore not a present reality. He will stretch for those things he does not possess and that’s not a good thing for you to do. Do not follow the empty vessels.

2. He is not able to make distinction for Christ, and therefore continues to use the commandments and tools God sprinkled with the blood of an animal. Is it any wonder his conscience reflects dead works?

3. His faith follows the rhythm of the flesh and therefore he does not believe that he can have the one perfect and wholesome truth that God wants the church to have. He possesses multiple truths he has gathered over the years. As each nugget spoke to the truth of his own fallen condition, he accepted these truisms as his guide. He believes in partial truths, not the one whole truth of Jesus Christ.

4. He has not connected Jesus’ apostolic stewardship to his own priesthood and therefore cannot approach unto the altar of Christ to serve God with His knowledge. Instead, he approaches the altar he constructed of his own fleshly needs, calling upon Jesus’ name, professing his desires as the will of God.   

This minister says that he does not need an apostle to teach him, nor does he desire a Godly priesthood, thus he casts off the cords of God’s care. The foundation of truth being thus set aside, the anointing that attends upon Jesus’ record is also abandoned, leaving him unable to reciprocate to God in kind.