Sin
no longer counts against us. Because of Emmanuel's
death, all sin past, present and any future ones as an issue between
God and man, are no longer
relevant,
having been nailed to the cross:.Matthew
27:46.
So, anything that kept us from a
relationship with the true God of all creations, is now not against
us, thanks to Christ:.Isaiah
52:14.
But, though now clean in relationship to God, the
reap and sow law.(Luke
5:32).still applies. Forgiveness
by God doesn't remove the results of one's actions. It sets us back into
the state we were in when God created us and that was in a state of being
ok with God, nothing being against us as far as God was concerned.
If you hurt someone somehow, do your best to amend
for it and that includes learning never to again be the way that led you
to be that way in
the first place. This heals over the hurt done and maintains you in
alignment with God,
so that your name remains in the Book of Life:.Revelation
21:27.
When
did sin ever count against us?
God no longer holds anything against you. All your
bad and evil was placed on Christ so that all God's
good would be available for free
choice to act in a holy way. It's always your choice.
Luke
7:47 "...Her sins which are many are forgiven, because she
loved much...".And.James
5:20. Evil cannot exist with love.
Acts
10:43 "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins."
Isaiah
38:17 "...you have in love to my soul delivered me from the pit of
corruption, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
How
far back were they cast when you may have felt like this?.Psalms
88:4,5; 103:12.
What you believe in, you bring
to you, so take in another's love all the way from head to shoe.
When you believe in something
it becomes part of your mind, because you think about it.
Good people are promised
protection
from getting into wickedness:.Psalms
125:3 "For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity."
Colossians
2:13,14 "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven
you all trespasses and also 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 his cross." Luke 3:2
"... the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.(this
was John the Baptist)."
Isaiah
43:25 "I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine
own sake and will not remember your sins." Isaiah
44:22 "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions and
as this cloud are your sins. Return unto me for I have redeemed you." Isaiah
53:11 "He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.
By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall
bear their iniquities." Isaiah 53:6
"All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own
way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.".Psalms
103:10-14.
Romans
8:33,35,37 "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It
is God that justifies...What shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or
peril or sword?...Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loves us."
Philippians
3:10 "That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death."
Why did God get rid of sin?
When you get rid of sin,
you get rid of death:.Romans
6:23 "For the wages of sin is death..." 1Corinthians
15:26 "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
God wants nothing
to do with sin. That's why Christ took it all away.
1Corinthians
15:28 "And when all things shall be arranged under him, the Son himself
being subject unto him that put all things under him, for the reason God
may be all in all."
Ephesians
1:17-2:1-7 "That the God of our Lord Emmanuel
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of him.(or,
for the acknowledging of Him)...So
that the eyes of your mind being enlightened that you may know what is
the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance
in the saints is...And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to
usward who believe, according to the working of the might of his power?...Which
he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and set in his right
hand the heavenly powers...Which are far above all principalities and power
and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world,
but also in that which is to come...And has put all under his feet, giving
him authority to be head over all things regarding the church...Which is
his body, the fulness of him that fills all in all......And
you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins...Wherein in
time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children
of disobedience...And among whom also we all had our conversation in times
past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others...But
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved
us...Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ,
by whose grace you are saved...And raised up to sit together with these
heavenly powers...So that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding
riches of his grace by kindness toward us through Christ Emmanuel."
And what if we still sin?.Romans
7:8-25.
Matthew
Henry's Commentary:."Do
not deny to yourself what God has not denied to you. It is not your sin,
but your impenitence,
that bars heaven against you."
Romans
5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift. For the
judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences
unto justification." John 3:16,17"For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent
not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through
him might be saved."
Humans have an aerial,
as
it were, where they receive information from the 'radio
broadcast' on 'station' mass
consciousness. Each one of us decides to allow
or disallow whatever messages arrive.
Humans are also automatic broadcasting stations,
where information on what it is that we are becomes part of the collective
consciousness of humanity.
If one is sad, morose,
feels unworthy in some way, has guilt, feels
lack,
feels he or she has sin,
then guess what adds to the negatives already in this quantum
field of information? It's your feelings that make things worse for
all.
This quantum field of intelligence of all that
is, responds to what is put into it and what's put into it comes from what
each of us is. If one's core presence is lack and/or other negatives, guess
what he'll get more of?
Man, lacking solid information which could provide
helpful guidance for his life, has a difficult time to accurately.delineate.what's
good for him and what's not and so our lives end up in trouble unless
we learn from
them:.Proverbs
14:12 "There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the
end thereof are the ways of death."
As in all things, the key
is God and being aligned with the
good. And in this, God gives us help when we ask for it.(*).
Whatever it is, ask! You want to become as is the
perfect soul inside you, so stop submerging it using negative thoughts.
You want to be."I
am what I am".that
is, what it is that is the real you, the you of you that is your soul,
the soul before selling it out to and clouding it over with the low consciousness
ego ways which creep in soon
after birth.."I
am what I am".is
being aware of the self right here and now, in the present:.Exodus
3:13,14.
Close your eyes right now.
What are you aware of? Maybe nothing, but ask yourself that question and
you'll know the answer is about you sitting there with your eyes closed.
That's a way to see yourself in the present moment.
Isaiah
1:25 "And I will turn my hand upon you and purely purge away your dross
and take away all your tin."
One's conversion to righteousness is not turning
away from sins and deciding to be righteous. All sin for all time has already
been dealt with by Christ
who also gave you a gift, the gift of righteousness. Turning to Christ
is the key:.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, Emmanuel Christ."
But for some, sin has a prominent
place in the heart and mind above Christ who has
redeemed them. They have and hold guilt and
the fear that accompanies it with greater importance
than Christ who is in charge of the world's redemption:.John
3:17 "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved.(original
for word 'saved' also connotes
'made whole', 'heal' and other
good things)."
Have you sinned? Of course.
Who hasn't? If you're not sure, then what does this thing called sin
mean? Why is a human even subject to what is called sin?.Romans
8:20; so you can be on your way to hell? No! No
such thing as it's commonly believed to be.
The full offence was because
of one man, Adam. The full offence could only be reconciled
through one man, Emmanuel the Christ:.1Corinthians
15:22 "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all be made
alive."
Adam got the ball rolling
on sin which passed onto all humanity until it got to Emmanuel who
picked it up and crushed it for all time:.Romans
5:19 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
the obedience of one many be made righteous.".The
whole passage:.Romans
5:8-21.
Religion's hard time with
this is proportionate
to the distance they are off the spiritual
road. What you need do?.Acts
17:11.
Hebrews
8:12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins
and their iniquities will I remember no more." Hebrews
9:12 "...by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us."
Hebrews
10:16-20 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those
days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their
minds will I write them. And their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin.(once
being enough for all time). Having
therefore brethren boldness, to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Emmanuel by a new and living way, which he had consecrated for us, through
the veil, that is to say, his flesh."
Jeremiah
33:8 "And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they
have sinned against me and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby
they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against me.".The
verse simply means that newness of living comes with high consciousness
of the mind of the Creator in us.(how
do we get this?), then we no longer
are in a consciousness of transgressing, that is, no longer slaves to an
evil consciousness.(what
did Einstein say about this?), no longer
part of the low consciousness mind that has brought all of the world into
the suffering mess it's in.
Note, it is God who cleanses us. If God says it,
He can do it!.Psalms
130:7,8 "...hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy and
with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel.(Israel
today refers to anyone's mind awakened to the Creator: 2Timothy
1:9).from
all
his iniquities." Genesis 18:14
"Is any thing too hard for the Lord?..."
So how did Emmanuel
bring this purity, this sincerity, this incorruption.(1Corinthians
15:53,54).into our lives?
That is what we will see as we go through here.
Isaiah
43:25 "I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine
own sake and.will
not remember your sins." Isaiah
38:17 "Behold, for peace I had great bitterness, but you have in love
to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption, for you have cast all
my sins behind your back." Isaiah
65:16 "...the former troubles are forgotten...they are hid from mine
eyes."
We gain the knowledge of
salvation
by accepting the remission
of sins:.Luke
1:77 "To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission
of their sins."
Sin is missing the mark
of freedom. This
freedom was what made such a drastic impact upon the New Testament church
back at the time just after the resurrection:.Acts
17:6.
Titus
2:14 ".....redeem us from.all
iniquity.and
purify.(original
is 'has purified', it is done, once for all time.1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7).unto
himself a peculiar.(original
'purchased').people......"
Colossians
1:12-14 "Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet.(or
fitting).to
be partakers.(a
part of).of
the inheritance of the saints
in light...Who has delivered us from the
power of darkness and has translated
us into the kingdom of his dear Son...In
whom we have redemption through his
blood, even the forgiveness of sins."
Revelation
14:4,5 "These are they.....without fault before the throne of God."
Hebrews
10:2 "Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins.".But
today...
2Timothy
1:10 "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Emmanuel
Christ, who has abolished death.(?).and
brought life and eternality.(original,
'incorruption, sincerity, purity'; the purity of eternal life).to
light through the gospel."
Romans
6:6 Knowing this, that our old man.is.crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should
not serve.(original
'be in bondage to':.1John
1:5: 3:5).sin."
Romans
6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.".A
dead man cannot sin. But you still do! So, read on to comprehend.
To abolish death, sin has
to be gone too:.Romans
6:23; 8:2;.John
1:29 "The next day John saw Emmanuel coming unto him and said, Behold
the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.(Acts
3:26)."
Others may be aware of your
faults. You are aware of them. But when it comes to how the Great Infinite
One sees you, well that is another story entirely!
If you live by your thoughts
and feelings.(Proverbs
3:5), so long
programmed
by externals you have always encountered as you lived your life, you
think that this is the real you.
This
programming.(some
say it was indoctrination,
not
education).started
when we were babies. Then came your first report card in elementary school
and trained you to look at the grades. We became programmed not to focus
upon the image of the grade we desired, but rather to let results on the
card control our thinking. It should have been the other way around. If
it be good, follow your passion, not the numbers someone acting according
to the rules laid down by some committee, tells you.
If we have to blame
something for the state
we're in, let's blame education.
Everyone else does. Why should we be left out? The miseducation
we all have encountered steered us away from sanity.
Some of us became insane and committed suicide.
Some of us retained.commonsense
and others of us, accepted without question the directions we have been
steered into toward formulating
beliefs, including such beliefs along the lines of beginning of living
organisms.(*).and
how to protect them.(*).
We are what we have accepted
from outward information. This was
Adam's
error.
Once the Creator gets ahold
of you, opening
your mind, you begin to be in union with the loving nature that Christ
came to Earth to reveal to us.(1Corinthians
6:17).and
you begin to respond to information from within. But not fully being aware
of this yet.(Ephesians
4:13-15), you conclude
that there must still be something wrong with you and you may feel as Paul,
the great apostle
did:.Romans
7:14-25. Hey! There's lots wrong with you and with everyone else too.
Just ask your friends! Ha ha!
But there's nothing wrong
with Christ and if the attitude
of Christ is in you, you are
then dead, dead to self:.Romans
6:4.
Accept as true what the Creator
says about you and you move
into the reality of who you really now are. Stop this stuff about 'that
can't be me, I'm not perfect, I am flawed to the core, I'm so weak, I fall
down all the time, my thoughts run me, I can't run my thoughts, etc.' and
decide now to think as God does regarding you!
You are who the Creator says
you are, not who you think you are, not who you have become from all
the negative mind programming that has bombarded you soon after day
1.
The job of the
evil one is to keep your attention glued to how you act, so you identify
yourself with your behavior and not identify yourself with the
source of all blessings now and forever for you.
Doing good does not make
you righteous and doing bad does not make you sinful. Study the
Pharisees with this in mind. Birth.(what
birth?).and
not performance determines identity.
There are no failures in
the
Creator's family, as it is His
righteousness that counts and not yours. How anyway could our righteousness
ever count when we were
doomed from the start? Having begun in lower consciousness and unless awakened,
we had no other choice and continued on living as we thought best for us:.Proverbs
14:12.
Sin still has dominion over
some of religious minds, because they are into various rules and regulations
to keep themselves 'right' with God.(Romans
6:14; 3:19-28).and
may use their own personal 'laws' to keep themselves right with others.
Only
love can get and keep one in harmony
with God.
Problems occur anytime anything
rules in you to regulate behavior apart from living with a heart, an
attitude, that has decided to love in all it does. And this is not the
same for everyone. God doesn't want
clones.
There is no
other way than love.(1John
4:8,16;
John 14:6).to
progress in the spirit. Any other way causes what Christ.(what
does Christ mean?).came
and did to empower you with the strong spirit of love, to
become ineffective in the heart and thus, one's life.
People hold onto their
laws, the beliefs they have made real to them, as a checkpoint for
conduct. They still see things in themselves needing regulation. They do
not understand the power of love:.Romans
13:10.
Such individuals do not realize
that Christ came to make them dead to sin.(original
Greek meaning for 'sin' is 'missing the mark'),
dead to missing the mark of love, the Creator's highest form of expression
through us:.Romans
6:6-12.
How can there be any sin.(missing
the mark in things relating to the Great Infinite Intelligence).if
you are of the same nature and this nature now
is lodged in your heart, now being your nature? In Christ we are one with
the Creator, equal with the Great Infinite One:.Philippians
2:5,6; Ephesians 2:14.
The
Creator never coexists with anything not as pure, not as holy, not
as righteous, not as perfect as He is, so He declared
you perfect and the pathway for relationship was open.
Sin reigns in you when you
believe that you have to relate to the Creator, the God, by means of something
apart from Emmanuel the Christ,
like laws, rules
and regulations as were part and parcel of the old
covenant. Now we can.relate
to the Infinite One when in the same consciousness as He.
The subject of sin becomes
easier to understand once one comprehends.what
it means in the original.
Once one awakens to the fact
that they are righteous, thanks to Christ's gift of righteousness.(Romans
5:17).to
them, sin is null
and void.(1Corinthians
15:34), he no longer misses the
mark with the Creator or with man:.Romans
13:10; 14:18.