Quotes from Steve McVey

To unlock your Bible so that you can understand its meaning and application to your own life, it is necessary to avoid reading the whole Bible through old covenant eyes that see rules to be obeyed. That's not what the Bible is about, and you will miss the point of Scripture altogether if you read it like an Old Covenant Jew who is still under the Law.

The truth is, we in our own resources cannot forgive. However, since Christ is our life and lives in us, we realize that forgiving is what we as holy, righteous, and loving people do. It is our very nature to do so.

Grace is the expression of Love Himself, and since He is infinite, it seems reasonable to assume that we will spend time and eternity discovering more and more about the vastness of the subject.

Having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15).

There is no love apart from God's love—and as His love fills your consciousness you won't be able to contain it!

the entire Bible is written for you, but not all of it is written to you.

the New Testament model of a Christian is not one who dedicates his own work to God. Rather it is the story of God Himself doing the work through a person totally yielded to Him.

If you have seen your God through the lens of legalistic religion, you most likely have believed that God was warning them [Adam and Eve] that He would punsih them if they ate from the tree. Nothing could be further from the heart or intent of God. He wouldn't kill them - sin would kill them. God wasn't warning them about what He would do but about what sin would do to them.

God's covenant with Israel, known as "the Old Testament" or "Old Covenant," called upon the people to do their part. God repeatedly told them that if they would fulfill their end of the covenant, they would be blessed, and if they didn't, they would experience all kind of curses.

the way we perceive God affects everything else in our lives.

It's important to remember that the verses in the Old Testament were addressed to the people of that covenant, and not to you.

The Birthright of a Child of God God has already provided everything we need to be free in Christ

The idea that God does His part and we have to do our part in order to experience His blessings is one of the greatest misunderstandings that affects people today. It affects how we understand the Bible. It affects how we perceive God. It affects how we live our lives.

Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate love.

The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.

How is the Old Covenant like the New Covenant? It isn't!

When we come to the New Testament, we must understand how this new covenant that God has made is different from the old one. We have to see that, not only is the old covenant outdated, it has become completely obsolete.

When He [God] said, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear" (Hebrews 8:13).

You have been made right with God by the finished work of Jesus Christ. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace. It's all His doing, and not our own, that has positioned us in Christ.

We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).

The Old Covenant stressed what the people had to do, but the New Covenant focuses entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf.

Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30).

The Holy Spirit of God didn't inspire the Scriptures so that we can know about God. He wrote it to bring us into an experiential knowledge of God.

2 Corinthians 4:16: "Though the outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day" (NKJV).