KEY SCRIPTURE: Romans 4:25 “Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification”.

Our key scripture reveals information that is very insightful and revealing. It says our Lord Jesus was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification. This statement has two parts.

The first part states that our Lord Jesus was delivered because of our offences. It simply means God gave Him over to take away our sins. (Isaiah 53:5&6, John 1:29.)

The second part is made clearer through the insight given to Paul.   It says he was raised again for our justification.

Through the writings of Apostle  Paul, we get to know that we were identified with our Lord  Jesus in all that He went through, that is, His passion, resurrection, and His enthronement in heaven  According to Romans 6:6, the body of sin which carried the law of sin and death was crucified with the Lord Jesus. (Rom 8:2)

The Lord Jesus resurrected with us, giving us a new life. This new life or new man had never existed. It is called a new creature (2nd Corinth 5:17). It is a completely new personality with nothing to do with our past life. The Bible used the word raised for our justification because the new man who came out of this resurrection with Jesus is sinless, therefore it is Justified or righteous… Please just consider the way our new personality is described in Colossians 1:21, 22 “And you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled In the body of His flesh through death, to present you Holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight”.

Before we came to Christ, we were enemies in our minds. We were also by nature dead unto God (Ephesians 2:1). The law of sin and death worked and produced all the wrong things in us. It produced sin, sickness, failure, and many more. Now, after our resurrection with the Lord. We are described as Holy, unblameable, and unreproveable.  Dear child of God, our new nature is completely free from the law of sin and death. Now the law at work in our new man is the law of the Spirit of life”. The product of the law of the Spirit of life is true love for all, good health, success, and good deeds. (Romans 8:2).

This is all by the grace of God. Stop calling yourself a sinner rather than the righteousness of God. You are now superior to Satan and his demons. Satan would raise all kinds of things to challenge your position, but stand your ground and resist him. Live a victorious life, manifesting the very nature of the new man created after God in righteousness and true Holiness. Eph 4:24.

 CONFESSION

Thank you, heavenly Father, for giving me life through the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am a new man completely free from the negative influences of the old indwelling evil nature. I now manifest Christ’s nature and victories. Love is my nature. Peace and all good fruits are what I demonstrate.

FURTHER STUDIES.

Ephesians 4:24 “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”.

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