What
laws might you be using that are holding you in a prison from living
fully and freely now and continuing on with life into eternity? Anything
making you depressed and discouraged? Diseased?
What is your thinking behind these things? Get
quiet and ask yourself a few things.
If the things of the world
are what determine one's identifiable
lifestyle, learn to give it
up for the sake of the gift of His righteousness.(Matthew
10:39; Luke 17:33).and
for a much better and more prosperous life here and now and an ultimately
better reward.
Now what
does.'His
righteousness' and the whole subject of this thing called righteousness
really mean? Does it mean you have to work to become perfect before you
can be like the Infinite One, by going to church and doing all the religious
things they tell you?
Be thinking.you
have the very nature of the Great Infinite One if it is of your heart
to bring out this nature
into your experience, because harmony
just doesn't dwell with inharmony.
That's why sin no longer counts, because, how can God dwell with thoughts
of low consciousness?.Isaiah
55:8. This way of love ensures Christ is
dominant
in the heart and not the guilt that alienates
one from the Creator:.Romans
11:22.
Guilt
is like kicking Christ out of your life. If one has guilt he or she is
living with hurts of the past, thus
destroying any effective present living environment.
Guilt replaces
the blood of Emmanuel that eradicated
all sources of guilt in the past and anything in the present and covers
all that could cause guilt in the future. All this is known as the
grace of God, which is the favor of the Creator toward us or, God favoring
us. He loves us!.Jeremiah
29:11.
Possessing guilt after Christ
has cleansed, is like a dog returning to his vomit:.2Peter
2:21,22.
Titus
2:14.(He
came to redeem us from all iniquity). Many spiritually concerned
individuals.(called
Christians
in the Bible).however,
interpret this to mean that He came,
died,
rose
again and gave us His Holy Nature, His Holy
Spirit, so we could overcome the faults we possess and work
on getting them out of our lives. But, they are already out of our lives
as far as how God now looks at us because of the blood of Christ, meaning,
why
He came to Earth in the first place:.Hebrews
10:12. But, that is spirituality on the one hand and the other is religion.
Like why would one continue to eradicate that which has already been taken
care of for all time? One has to know his past evils have been looked after
by the blood of Christ.
To find out if they have do this?
So one can now live in the
righteousness of Christ by faith instead of under the regulation of character
by law:.Romans
13:10; Hebrews 10:14,17.
Law regulates character by controlling actions:.Hebrews
7:19 "For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God.".Implication
being, law does nothing to bring one closer to God. That's why all the
ancient Mosaic Law was abolished.
Knowing that one is righteous,
knowing that one is now of spiritual intent of heart, obviates
physical regulations designed for those of the wayward.low
consciousness. So, day by day little by little we become more like
Him in character of love and grow in favor with others:.Luke
11:3 "Give us day by day our daily bread." 2Corinthians
4:16 "...the inward man is renewed day by day."
Day by day Emmanuel improved
as He grew up:.Luke
2:52. So should those on the spiritual road:.1Peter
2:2; 2Peter 3:18; Ephesians
4:14,15.
It is true: He gave us His
Spirit and that with His Spirit we can be overcomers of character flaws
and gain a great reward. But this is only possible when one proceeds
from knowing he is righteous. The Holy Spirit
does not flow in one who believes that he is unrighteous.
Christ came to redeem us
from all.(past,
present and future).iniquity,
as has been said earlier here:.Colossians
1:22 "In the body of his flesh through death, to present
you.(to
the Father).holy
and unblameable.(without
a flaw).and
unreproveable.(unable
to be blamed).in
his sight." 2Corinthians 5:21
"For he.(God).has
made Him.(Emmanuel).who
knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that we might be made the
righteousness of God in.('in'
or 'through' or 'by means of').Him."
Again,.Hebrews
10:26.".....there
remains no more.(none
other is ever necessary).sacrifice
for sins.".Emmanuel
Christ's sacrifice was once for all.(Hebrews
10:12), once for all time, once
for all people, once for all sins, the past ones and the present
ones and any future ones. Your sins, my sins and everyone else's sins are
all gone.(*).
But, some people still hold onto them:.1Corinthians
11:27. His sacrifice, more of a
gift, was great enough to wipe them away not just once but always and
forever!.Hebrews
10:10,14.
That sacrifice was so great,
not only did it redeem us, but it made it possible for God to forever overlook
sins we still have:.Hebrews
10:16-20. It was this judgment of the Father, that Christ's sacrifice
was so great, that we would be able to be redeemed by it.
The Creator redeemed those
back then in the Old Testament with His judgments too:.Exodus
6:6.
Under the
old
covenant, God overlooked sins from year to year, until it was sacrifice
and atonement time
again.(*):.Hebrews
10:3,4; Leviticus
16:15-17,22,30,33,34. This was a shadow of a much greater sacrifice
to follow:.Hebrews
10:1;
9:15.(notice
if you will, that it says 'for sins under the first covenant').
Why?
If His death was insufficient,
where would
the security
for us be?.2Corinthians
1:9,10;
Hebrews 6:18,19;
Ephesians
1:6.
If His nature of love is
your nature, you have no sin as far as God.(whose
opinion
only counts).is
concerned:.1John
3:5;
1John 2:1. Here, all things
work for the ultimate good.(Romans
8:28), even your present weaknesses:.Romans
8:18; 1Corinthians 1:25;
2Corinthians
12:7,9,10;
13:4;
Hebrews
11:33,34.
Hebrews
10:26,27: The reason one would be looking for more forgiveness is because
he or she does not believe Christ's sacrifice was good enough for all time.
The individual has yet to move on from the repentance religion keeps telling
us to do each time a sin is detected:.Hebrews
6:1 "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let
us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance
from dead works and of faith toward God."
Paraphrase
of Hebrews 10:26,27:.'If
you still think you are sinning after you know Christ took away sin, then
you will be looking for something to take sin away.(like,
if you have done bad, better now do good to atone or balance it).and
nothing else exists but that which has already been done by Christ.'
If we are like that, then
we are despising.(rejecting,
disabling).the
mercy shown us:.Hebrews
10:29.
Hebrews
10:29 paraphrased from original Greek:.'Of
how much sorer punishment will one think of himself as being worthy.(guilt).when
He comes, if he believes that he has trodden under foot the Son of God.(the
reasons Emmanuel came, all He is, all He did).and
has counted the blood of the covenant, wherein is his sanctification, an
unholy thing? This does despite unto the Spirit of grace.(all
the Father has given us in Christ).
For we will then think of God as, vengeance belongs unto God, I'll be recompensed
since I feel as though I'm now worthy of judgement, thus falling into the
hands of a vengeful God which is fearful.'
When we realize that we have
'missed the mark'.(original
meaning for word 'sin').of
the high calling in Emmanuel.(Philippians
3:14), we are acknowledging that
we are not deceived about the truth being in us.(2Corinthians
13:5), the truth being that we
are still human and as such our weaknesses are 'balanced' by what Emmanuel
had come to do:.1John
1:8,10.
When we are willing to continually
improve, we can know we have the nature of love of the Infinite One:.1Thessalonians
2:12; 1Peter 1:15; 1Peter
2:9.
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