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Define the concept of “holy tension”. What desires conflict in this battle? How does the New Covenant help us face this tension?
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The battle between what I want to be and who I am
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“Holy tension” is what the Apostle Paul felt in Romans 7. He knows what he should be like because of the love of Christ, but sin still battles in the flesh – that is the conflict. Thankfully, the love of Christ, His forgiveness of sin, and the freedom that comes in the forgiveness allows us to know or face the tension, but Christ’s freedom is more attractive at the soul level then the prison of sin.
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The tension is between who I was created to be and soul longs for and my actual daily reality. The purpose of the new covenant is to create a desire to be like God. it also is the only provision to achieve that way of life by resolving the Holy tension.
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Holy tension is the difference between the person God has designed me to be and what I long to be as a Christian and the person I am. The conflictual desires are anything I do to stand in elf preservation, and the “fixes” that I have believed would help, but never do. In the New Covenant in Christ, I am already fully regenerate, and he provides all I need in His provisions of new purity, new identity, new inclination and new power. God provides all we need.
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Holy tension is the battle between what God designed me to be as a Christian, along with the person I desire to be in Him, and the person that I am. The New Covenant helps us face this tension deepest in our soul and, because of the gospel, can relieve it.
