Friday, March 30, 2012

Revelation 1:5


5 And from Jesus Christ the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead [first to be brought back to life] and the Prince (Ruler) of the kings of the earth. To Him Who ever loves us and has once [for all] loosed and freed us from our sins by His own blood,

Before Jesus shows us the destruction of the end times that will be brought on by our Father’s wrath, we are shown that Jesus has once and forevermore loosed and freed us from our sins! Now that is a revelation in and of itself, isn’t it? Amen, the Truth is that we are loosed and free from all sin! How great is it, that right at the beginning of our Revelation of the end times, comes the Truth that Jesus has released and loosed us from our sins? False religion wants us to be under constant condemnation of sin and the fear of it. But the Truth that has set us free is that Jesus has once and forevermore loosed and freed us from sin, this is the benefit of our salvation. This freedom is why we will be so bold, even when the world will be in such turmoil. 

We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. Romans 6:6

Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11

Even David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Romans 4:6-8
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:23-24

And ye are complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power: In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, Who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiving you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Colossians 2:10-15
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. Romans 8:9-11
I love reading the Bible. Our Father just so clearly tells us that we are loosed from all sin. The Truth tells us that we can, and are, to consider ourselves dead to sin. We are shown that we are righteous without doing any works to earn it, that we are alive with Jesus, and that our bodies that could sin have been destroyed. Church sermons never seem to proclaim these Truths so clearly and plainly. Somehow I always seem to be told by preachers that we are responsible for making these glorious things happen in our own life’s. I can’t and don’t want to even try. Our Father knew that we couldn’t, so He sent Jesus and the Holy Spirit, our Comforter, His Seven Fold Spirit, and now it is all just a free gift. My prayer is that all of you have this peace with our freedom from sin. Because when the Holy Spirit reveals this Truth to you, all of what our Father has said becomes so easy to hear and live. There is no fear, there is no condemnation, there is only peace that passes all understanding. My advice is if you are in a church that is constantly preaching about sin, get out of it! Find a church that is constantly preaching the Truth about Jesus causing us to be free from sin! Find a church that brings all of the attention towards the power of our Savior, not towards the weakness of man.

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