*ACCEPT WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE* *PASTOR CHRIS OYAHKILOME* *SATURDAY, 28TH DECEMBER 2024* _*Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our justification (our acquittal), [making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt before God] (Romans 4:25 AMPC).*_ When we say "Jesus died for the whole world," it's a generic expression indicating that He died for all humanity. So, in that generic sense, Jesus was condemned in our place. He was judged for all of us. But when you believe in Him, two significant things happen. First, your acceptance and acknowledgement that His vicarious sacrifice was in your behalf makes it possible for you to receive eternal life. Receiving eternal life means you're born again; you're now a brand new person, without a past: _*"...if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"*_ (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then, now that you're a new creature in Christ Jesus, it's essential to understand that in the actual sense, Jesus didn't die for the sins of this new man in Christ because the new life you received upon the New Birth is the God-life; it's not tainted with sin. The new man in Christ was created in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24). Colossians 3:10 says you _*"...have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."*_ This realization leads to the understanding of why you're justified. The Bible says, "Jesus Christ was delivered up on account of our transgressions but He was raised for our justification" (Romans 4:25). Now, being justified, you're at peace with God and have become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Those who don't understand this truth struggle daily, "trying" to be righteous and to please God. But the key is to simply accept the truth of what Jesus Christ has done and live by it. *PRAYER* *Dear Father, I thank you for the gift of my brand-new life in Christ. I celebrate the truth that I am a new creation in Him, with old things completely passed away. I fully embrace my new identity and live in the fullness of eternal life that you have imparted to me. I declare that I am justified and empowered to live righteously, free from any past struggles, in Jesus' Name. Amen.* *FURTHER STUDY* *||* *Galatians 2:20-21* I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. *||* *||* *Romans 5:12-17* Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offence, so also [is] the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 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. 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.) *||* *||* *2 Corinthians 5:17* Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. *||* *||* *John 10:10* The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly. *||* *SCRIPTURE READING* *1-Year Bible Reading Plan📖=>* Revelation 19:11-21 & Zechariah 9-11 *2-Year Bible Reading Plan📖=>* Revelation 21:1-12 & Zechariah 11-12 EXCERPT FROM=> Rhapsody Of Realities Daily Devotional

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