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Revolution Within: A Fresh Look at Supernatural Living ReviewThe purpose of this book is to help believers understand and apply the provisions of the New Covenant (NC) while severing all ties with the Old Covenant (OC), which Edwards makes synonymous with the Law. While his handling of the NC is fairly accurate, his portrayal of the believer's life under the OC is not.
Edwards believes Christians should obey God's standards out of love for Christ, unlike OC obedience which he claims was obedience to a code, not a person. He further characterizes OC living as devoid of grace, true spirituality, meaningful service, and joy. Has Edwards ever read the Psalms? He believes that under the OC, only the giants of the faith were usually able to know God (prophets, priests, kings). All others could only know Him through external means. However, David was called by God while a shepherd boy because of his heart condition (I Sam.16). Many others such as Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, none of whom were high ranking people nor came to know God through external means, obviously had deep faith relationships with Him. God is made to be a capricious liar by Edwards' position since God says in Deut. 4:31 that anyone who seeks Him with all his heart and soul will find Him. This verse also indicates that OC believers were to seek God Himself, not simply obey a moral code.
Although God Himself initiated the OC, Edwards believes it shows only what man can do for God, a list of commandments to obey. He fails to mention that Abraham was saved by faith (Gen. 15:6) or that grace even existed under the OC. He believes love is the spiritual litmus test in the NC, unlike the OC, failing to mention that the two greatest commandments to love God and others were given as part of the OC. He also fails to mention that Micah reduces God's requirements to doing justice, loving kindness, and walkling humbly with God, not a system of do's and don'ts.
Edwards minimizes the ministries of the OC believers as depicted in Heb. 11 and II Chron.31:21, stating that OC ministry is lifeless and produces only death. This is because of his view that the Law and the OC are synonymous. However, while the OC is obsolete, the Law is not. Jesus came to fulfill it (Matt.5) and Paul says faith establishes it (Rom.3:31). They are not one and the same. Heb.9 relates that only the OC sacrifices, earthly tabernacles and purification rites are now obsolete, not the Law itself.
Edwards never mentions that the OC was given in the larger context of a pre-existing covenant of grace. OC recipients of grace through faith in God enjoyed circumcised hearts to love God with all their hearts and minds (Deut.30:6), as well as eternal salvation. Salvation through grace and love for God as a motivation for godly living is God's plan in both the NC and the OC.
If you feel strongly about the message of grace throughout the Bible from beginning to end, you will probably not appreciate this book.
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