Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Romans 5:17, “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ)”

Sin is a devious thing in us that Paul personifies in Romans chapter 7.

Sin takes on all the characteristics of a person: it is crouching and seizing an opportunity to attack (7:8); it can deceive (7:11); it dwells (7:17); it can kill (7:11).

This is the way sin is described in Romans 7.

It is to this realm of sin that subjective condemnation comes.

Whenever we identify with the realm of sin, whenever we own it and say, “Yes, that is right, I am feeling this way,” then the law of God immediately comes in.

When the law is allowed to come in and speak to the reaction of sin in our flesh, at that moment we die with a torrent of condemnation.

But now that the organic union has been established in our spirit, when the enemy comes and sin shows up and knocks on our door, we have to declare, “He has the sin and I have the righteousness!”

He has the sin! .

He bore it!

He took it!

He paid for it!

I do not have it anymore!

I have the righteousness!

The righteousness that I have is the righteousness that flows directly from Calvary, where Christ’s blood was spilt and shed for me.

So in this organic union there is a glorious experiential reality that we can confess again and again.

He was made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him–in union with Him, in fellowship with Him.

Whenever the enemy comes to accuse us, we need to say, “Satan, the moment you touch sin in my flesh, you touch what God condemned at the cross.

You are touching what Jesus has borne away.

So you must talk to Him, not me.

My Jesus has my sin and I have His righteousness.”

We have to see that we have a new, organic “I.”

In this organic “I,” our spirit is life because of righteousness.

And we must be clear about whose righteousness this is.

It is not mine, it is His.

It is that imputed righteousness given as a gift.

It is the kind that is given not on the basis of works, but on the basis of grace.

You do not work for this kind of righteousness.

It is the kind that you receive and rejoice in (Rom. 5:17).

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

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