BELIEVERS’ INHERITANCE IN CHRIST! - PART 5.

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY MAY 04, 2022.

SUBJECT: BELIEVERS’ INHERITANCE IN CHRIST! - PART 5.

Memory verse: "Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3 vs 24.)

READ: Romans 8 vs 1 - 2; 31 - 34:

8:1: There is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

8:2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

8:31: What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

8:32: He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

8:33: Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

8:34: Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, also makes intercession for us.

INTIMATION:

Justification is the translation of the Greek word “Dikaiosis,” Which denotes the act of pronouncing righteous, pronouncing a person just by acquittal from guilt. When a judge in a court of law declares the defendant not guilty, all the charges are removed from his record. Legally, it is as if the person had never been accused. 

When God forgives our sins, our record is wiped clean. He could do this because Jesus, by His Death, took the penalty that we deserved. From God's perspective, it is as though we had never sinned.  Christ purchased our freedom from sin, and the price was His life. All that was necessary on God’s part for our justification had been effected in the Death of Christ, as a propitiation for us. On that note of the propitiation being perfect and complete, He was raised from the dead; His resurrection was the confirmatory counterpart of the perfection and completeness of the propitiation.

God is a just, and righteous God, and demonstrated His righteousness in the act of given His Son as a propitiation for our sins. If He had just wiped away or forgiven our sins without properly serving the consequence of sin, He would have been considered unjust, and His Word wouldn’t have been true. 

Consider this: “But now the righteousness of God apart from the Law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness....that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” (Romans 3 vs 21 - 26).

Therefore, after God’s prove of His righteousness by justly presenting His Son as a propitiation for our sin, in the eyes of the Law and it’s fulfillment, and observed by the Prophets, as the wages of sin is paid by the death of Christ, we are set free from sin and acquitted. There is, therefore, no condemnation for us anymore. For the same God who condemns has set us free by His act of righteousness, and our believe or faith in Jesus Christ. 

We are human and still exist on the earth. God has not removed us from here. Sometimes we fall into the temptations of the ‘tempter,—Satan, Who then accuses us before God. But Jesus is pleading for us in heaven. God has acquitted us and has removed our sin and guilt, so when Satan accuses us, Jesus, our advocate, sits at God’s right hand to present our case, that He has justifiably paid the price, and we are set free. As humanity’s representative, He intercedes for us before God. As God’s representative, He assures us of God’s forgiveness. 

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for setting me free from condemnation, and justifying me in Christ Jesus. In Him I live and move and have my being. I am in Christ and Christ is in You therefore, Satan has no portion in me, and so it is, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!