Monday, April 2, 2012

God's Righteousness - Available to All; We Can Be Sin Free Today!

I've had people tell me that they can't be sin free here on earth.  That they have to die first to be free.  That isn't so, and last night I found the truth in Romans and will post it here for all to read the good news.  Jesus gave us a commandment... "Be ye perfect!  Even as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT."  But even more, we can have His righteousness right here, today, and forever.  Here is what I found:

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

Chapter 6, Verses 1-14
     
      What shall we say, then?  Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?  By no means!  We died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?  Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

      If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin - because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

      Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.  The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

      In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.  Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.  For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under GRACE.


Under Grace is the key.  Jesus died that we might live by Grace and not under the law.  Jesus fulfilled all of the requirements for us when He died on the cross.  He rose again on the 3rd day and set us free from the bonds of sin and death.  We do not have to sin in this mortal body and we will cease sinning if we ask Jesus Christ to come into our hearts and lives and change us.  He changes us permanently and forever by his death and by his resurrection.  Once we do accept Christ, we are set free from sin.  We don't have to go on living a life filled with sin of mankind.  We are washed anew in the blood of Christ and are set free of the sin that so easily besets us.  If we realize we are free, and have a new life hidden in Christ, we are truly free and our mind's are eased because we suffer no condemnation from others, or our guilty conscience.  Set Free!  That means from the moment you accept Christ Jesus, you are FREE from SIN,  and full of the grace and glory of God the father, and His son Jesus.  He gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit to keep us from sinning, and to give us a strong witness to others that sin no longer has dominion over us, for we are free in Christ Jesus, forevermore.

Today is the day of Salvation.....  Time is flying by us.... make today your day.  It will change you in ways you never dreamed possible.  Your dreams can be realities, for with God, All Things Are Possible!

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