Post by beloved on Sept 25, 2007 10:14:40 GMT -5
Many Christians fear God; believing Him to be angry because He is holy and we are not. They haven't yet grasped the truth that they have been "justified in the spirit". As a result many Christians go around desperately trying to justify themselves before God through works of the law.
Neil T. Anderson, "Who I am in Christ"
I don't think it should be a hard thing to grasp that Christianity should be different than other religions of the world. Yet it looks so much the same because the law is used:
- as a way of escape from a wrathful God
- as a means to change our lowly human nature
- as a way to approach God by our good works
- to move Him to do what we desire from Him.
As Christians we seem to have lost the very foundational truths of God's Word:
1. That we cannot be made righteous by the law; and that the law was given in part to show us how utterly in need of a Savior we are.
2. That we are saved by grace through faith in Christ's blood sacrifice, death, burial, and resurrection alone; and we are kept there by the same.
3. That God is a good God that loves us, and all of mankind, and does not desire that we come to him through our works, but indeed tells us we can only come to Him through His Son.
4. That we are no longer under the law. It is good for correction and rebuke, but we cannot become righteous by it, or stay righteous by it. We are only righteous through what Jesus did.
5. Jesus did everything that needs to be done and we rest in him, not our works.
Galatians 2:16 Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 5: 9-11
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, though whom we have now received reconciliation.
We don't have to pursue peace with God through our works, nor will that work for any person because "we have all come short of the glory of God" within our own works of righteousness. God freely gives peace to us by justifying us through the blood of his Son, if we tell him we receive it as ours.
You have been justified by Jesus blood. You don't need to try to justify yourself any longer.
Many Christians try desperately to become something they already are while the Bible declares that you cannot do for yourself what has already been done for you by Christ. The enemy's lie is that you must atone for your sin by works of some kind and thereby prove your love for God. The occult and non- Christian religions teach that.
Neil T. Anderson, "Who I am in Christ"
I don't think it should be a hard thing to grasp that Christianity should be different than other religions of the world. Yet it looks so much the same because the law is used:
- as a way of escape from a wrathful God
- as a means to change our lowly human nature
- as a way to approach God by our good works
- to move Him to do what we desire from Him.
As Christians we seem to have lost the very foundational truths of God's Word:
1. That we cannot be made righteous by the law; and that the law was given in part to show us how utterly in need of a Savior we are.
2. That we are saved by grace through faith in Christ's blood sacrifice, death, burial, and resurrection alone; and we are kept there by the same.
3. That God is a good God that loves us, and all of mankind, and does not desire that we come to him through our works, but indeed tells us we can only come to Him through His Son.
4. That we are no longer under the law. It is good for correction and rebuke, but we cannot become righteous by it, or stay righteous by it. We are only righteous through what Jesus did.
5. Jesus did everything that needs to be done and we rest in him, not our works.
Galatians 2:16 Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 5: 9-11
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, though whom we have now received reconciliation.
We don't have to pursue peace with God through our works, nor will that work for any person because "we have all come short of the glory of God" within our own works of righteousness. God freely gives peace to us by justifying us through the blood of his Son, if we tell him we receive it as ours.
You have been justified by Jesus blood. You don't need to try to justify yourself any longer.