The world today is in need of knowing that God is good...it is
ironic...but, religion also needs to know that God is good! Religion, made up of
a myriad of segregated denominations have not realized the significance of the
cry of Jesus from the cross: "IT IS FINISHED", they are of the opinion that God
needs man's help for Jesus to finish the task He was given to do.
However, its
done..."THE GREAT TRANSACTION IS
DONE"!
Sin is no
longer an issue with God, the question is, why is it still such a big issue for
religion? Because, religion knows NOT the extent of what Jesus accomplished on
the cross and His subsequent
resurrection.
Many of
God's people are continually subjected to the shame, blame and condemnation
mentality of religion for faults and failures in their living of life, over
which they can't seem to gain victory. Religious conscientiousness has made them
sin-conscious when the finished work of Christ on the cross fits them to be
God-conscious. The sin of the saint, and the sin of the sinner are no longer an
issue with God because Jesus has taken care of the sin issue, past, present and
future once and for ALL! We all have God in us, what we need now is for His
life to grow in us and to transform us into the fullness of His image and
likeness. We need never be condemned for the giving in to our adamic nature; we
just need to keep hungering after God and seeking Him until He comes to full
stature within us. This will take care of our faults and failures. We also need
to realize that this is a process that takes time as Jesus, who is the author
and the finisher of our faith, works in us to bring us fully into His plan and
purpose for the Community of the Redeemed.
Our
sinning should never discourage us, rather our sinning should encourage us to be
more determined to trust in the finished work of Christ and cause us to run to
His open arms for empowerment to
overcome.
When we
come to God through religion we are told what we should do and shouldn't do in
order for God to be able to bless us so that we can mature spiritually to
receive His blessings. This is pure religious ignorance, due to the fact of not
understanding the significance of the cross. As surely as there is a God, He is
saying, "You are not guilty"! God would never bring you before Himself and
remind you of your sin. "As far as the east is from the west, so far have I
removed the transgressions of My people"
(Psalm 103:12). "Their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no more" (Hebrews
8:12).
Believe the good news: you are not
guilty, does that mean you are above sinning...No. Jesus said: "neither do I
condemn thee. You are not condemned in the condemnation chamber of the
religious; you are being transformed in the transformation chamber of the
righteous. As your sin is not transforming you, the condemnation of the
religonists is not condemning you, at least not in the eyes of God so don't be
condemned in your own
eyes.
Ephesians
4:17-18 says: "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their (religious)
mind, having the (spiritual) understanding darkened, being alienated from the
(grace) life of God through the ignorance (in the work achieved on the cross)
that is in them, because of the (religious) blindness of their heart." (Brackets
mine)
Religious
people were wearing religious spectacles at the time of their new birth, thus,
deceived about the life of Jesus in them. Such it was in my case and with most
all of religious conversions. If the religious deception were not there, there
is no way would those claiming to be believers in Christ be in such ignorance as
to the understanding of the work God accomplished through Christ on the cross,
His subsequent resurrection and His Gospel of Grace.
- Glenn Regular
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