Friday, March 18, 2016

Colossians 2:12-14

[Thus you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God [as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead. And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions, Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross. Colossians 2:12-14

Jesus did away with all of the legal decrees that could ever convict us of sin. Now think about what that actually means for us? Jesus did away with all of the laws that could ever convict us of sin. Jesus nailed every last one of them to the Cross, every Law last law, even the Ten Commandments. There is now only Grace and Mercy for us, there are no laws. 

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Why do you think satan was thrown out of Heaven when Jesus was raised from the dead?

Then I heard a strong (loud) voice in heaven, saying, Now it has come—the salvation and the power and the kingdom (the dominion, the reign) of our God, and the power (the sovereignty, the authority) of His Christ (the Messiah); for the accuser of our brethren, he who keeps bringing before our God charges against them day and night, has been cast out! Revelation 12:10

Satan was cast out of Heaven because there is nothing for him to accuse us with anymore. There are no laws to convict us with, so we aren’t breaking any rules. Grace and Mercy are all that is left for us. Don’t let this freedom and liberty scare you. Many think that this Truth will encourage people to just go and do whatever they want to do, but this Truth is what will finally allow people to live in the fulness of what we have been given. 

I have been around churches and religion my whole life and the preachers are always telling us what we shouldn’t do. Yet, the things that they say not to do are still being done and if you look around in the world they are increasing. Giving people rules doesn’t work, giving them the Truth does and the Truth is there are no laws anymore to convict us with. It is not up to us to keep ourselves, it is up to Jesus to keep us. He will cause us to be the people our Father wants us to be, so we never have to fear the complete and total freedom that we have been given.


All things are legitimate [permissible—and we are free to do anything we please], but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life]. 1 Corinthians 10:23

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