Believers, acts of sin is not what makes a person a sinner. Sinners are sinners because of Adam's disobedience. The bible says "By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous." Romans 5:19.

Every human inherits this sin (old) nature by default. This root of sin is what produces acts of sin like stealing and immorality. Christ died to make us righteous (2 Cor. 5:21), making all who believe in Him and His finished work a new creation and no longer of the old nature.

As the righteousness of God in Christ, (not depending on our law-keeping to make us right with God but on that which comes from the righteous exchange that took place on the cross where our Saviour Jesus hung for our sake,) we are 100% righteous in the eyes of our heavenly Father, even when we sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

Just as the good things that we did before we became born-again could not make us right with God, as the righteousness of God in Christ, our sins have been punished in the body of our Saviour Jesus. As New Covenant believers, God does not remember our sins anymore, according to Hebrews 8:12-13 ""For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."

We do not become unrighteous when we sin because we did not work for His gift of righteousness, to begin with. It is a gift.

But God's grace is not a license to sin! Certainly not! Preachers that are under the Law (those who preach that we should do "good things" and keep the Ten Commandments in order to 'maintain our salvation" and thus are slaves to sin seem to believe that all we "grace people" want to do is wallow in sin when the exact opposite is the case (only by God's grace are we this way!) Like our heavenly Father, we “grace people” hate sin with a passion! We live right without trying, yet not us, but Christ (the Way; our Way) in us!

Believers, trying to keep the Law only results in a more sinful lifestyle according to Romans 7:5 - "When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death."

"Old nature" here is the sin nature that was obtained through "one man's disobedience" (Adam's) as recorded in Romans 5:19. The ones with this nature reject the gift of righteousness that we have by faith in Christ by depending on their "filthy rags' righteousnesses to be right with God. The more people with this nature try to keep the Ten Commandments, the more they sin.

As the righteousness of God in Christ, you will not continue to sin and neither will the devil be able to devour you - not with Christ as our Sacrifice, Advocate and our Righteousness! All have sinned and the wages of sin is death. He died this death for us, our death, fulfilling for us the righteous requirements of the Law. We died with Him and live with Him. In Him, we are a new creation. The sin nature that produces sin is dead. We are no longer under Law but under Grace! Nothing to do with our efforts; all to do with our Saviour Jesus Christ.


This is the only Way to produce a harvest of good deeds for God, as it is written in Romans 7:4- "So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God."

These false gospel preachers also forget Galatians 5:4 which says: "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

Keeping the Ten Commandments in order to get right with God is how to get cut off from Christ!

Believers, stop focusing on your ability to keep the Ten Commandments (self-righteousness) and keep your eyes on our Saviour Jesus to cause you to live right and reign in life (righteousness by faith)

A tightrope walker with a safety net installed far below to catch him if he falls will walk the tightrope with confidence and without fear because he knows that he will not die/get hurt if he falls. But the fact that the safety net is there does not make him love to fall. He doesn't deliberately fall or spend time bouncing around on the net just because it's there. He hates to fall because it would ruin his performance! And he is less likely to fall because there is no fear of falling or anxiety to make him act irrationally or lose concentration while walking.

On the other hand, the one with no safety net will be consumed with thoughts of falling and what could happen if he does fall. He cannot concentrate on the task at hand because of the fear of falling and the consequences. He wonders what will happen if he takes just one wrong step, and panics! Because he cannot concentrate on the task at hand, because the thought of death by splatting on the concrete far down below consumes him, his greatest fear - falling and splatting- comes upon him! And because there is no safety net, he dies!

This is the same way you don't see diplomats/ambassadors from rich countries going berserk and breaking laws in their poorer host country just because they have diplomatic immunity. The law cannot prosecute a diplomat/ambassador for any crime that he commits in his host country, even murder. The diplomat's home country does the sanctioning. But you don't find them going on sinning sprees. They have no reason to because their home country makes sure that they are well taken care of and well trained too. How much more us believers that are citizens of heaven and Christ's ambassadors here on earth where our Lord God, our Trainer, loads us daily with benefits! His gift of no condemnation empowers us to go and sin no more! His correction is for our profit too.

But God's grace through Christ is much more than just a safety net! In Christ, the Holy Spirit transforms us to the image of His glory, from glory to glory. When you depend on His righteousness and not your own ability to be good, you'll find that the desire to indulge in those sins and addictions that you enjoy but are ashamed of will disappear miraculously. You find that you talk about our Saviour more, give more, love more and do exploits without knowing how, yet not you but Christ in you! This is the transformation to the image of the Lord's glory, from glory to glory. It comes by beholding Jesus, not beholding the Law. This is Grace! We get to walk that tightrope successfully and in peace, without fear, yet not us, but Christ in us. And He can never fall!

True deliverance is not trying hard to resist the urge to do those bad things that you secretly enjoy when you have the urge to do them because they could have bad consequences. Even non-believers do this all the time. You don't need Jesus in your life if you can do this successfully (and no one can!) True deliverance is being freed completely from the desire to do the bad things that you used to love doing!

God hates sin but loves the sinner, much like (but waaaaaaaay better than) how a loving father who is also an expert oncologist hates the cancer in his beloved child. So what does our heavenly Father do? He fills us with the only effective sin "chemo" that He has made available to all believers in Christ - the Holy Spirit. His eyes burn at and destroy sin but radiate perfect love for the sinner. His Spirit transforms us to the image of His glory, from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18.) We get to be free from the clutches of sin and live right and not by our efforts but Christ in us!

Ask the Lord to lead you on the path of righteousness today. No long prayer or anything. A simple "Lord, help me, for I don't know what to do" will suffice. Like our heavenly Father, we prefer our kids' badly drawn/written birthday cards to the fanciest Hallmark card in the world. He loves you!

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right!

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