No More Conscience of Sins by Pastor Olawunmi Marcel Abraham

I READ THIS ON A DEVOTIONAL AND I THINK I COULD JUST SHARE IT WITH YOU. READ AND BE BLESSED.It’s sad that many believers are not conscious of the things they ought to be conscious of and conscious of things they ought to have discarded. Did you know that the blood of Jesus paid for our sins -past, present and future, in such a powerful way so that we should have no more conscience of sins? Conscience of sins? What could that mean? Hebrews 10:1-4, ‘For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.’ This passage talks about the inability of the sacrifices stipulated by the law of Moses  to achieve a vital dream of God; an absence of conscience of sins. What is referred to by conscience in this passage? The word, ‘conscience’ derives from the Greek, ‘suneidēsis’. Suneidēsis refers to consciousness, moral perception’. Now, we are told that there is a ‘Conscience of sins’. In other words, it is the consciousness of a man of  the operation of sin in and through him. So, you see God wasn’t just after sin, he was after that guilt that made Adam hide from him, that made Peter on meeting the Lord Jesus say, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinner”. 1 Peter 3:21, ‘ The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:’. This is remarkable! Here, he talks about a baptism; the baptism into the body of Christ that water symbolizes. This baptism brings us into participation with the Lord. Hence, we have been made participators in his resurrection through which we can give the answer of a good conscience. What made this possible? It’s the resurrection of Christ! The blood was potent enough to thoroughly achieve God’s eternal aim; the purging of our sins! Through the purging of our sins, he made us intrinsically righteous. The result of this is that we would have no more conscience of sins! It’s sad that too many believers don’t know this, hence, they start their prayers with pleas for mercy thinking that God is about to strike them or that their pleas will do a better job than the work of  Christ in  remitting their sins. It just shows that they haven’t contemplated the Work of Christ well enough. This has been a long post and we will continue later. But, let’s rejoice that sin has been defeated and we no longer should we consider ourselves as sinners… No more conscience of sins!

This was taken from DIVINITY TODAY DEVOTIONAL, at divinitytodaydevotional.org

Claiming Our Rights by E.W. Kenyon

Are We Claiming Our Rights?
Our Authority
How The Early Church Used Their Authority
Christianity is a legal document. Most of our basic legal terminology comes from the Scripture. The very titles, Old Covenant and New Covenant, are legal terms. Every step in the plan of Redemption, from the Fall Of Man until Jesus Christ was seated at the right hand of the Majesty on High, having redeemed the human race, is simply a series of legal steps perfecting the most remarkable Legal Document the human has in its possession.
The plan of Redemption cannot he understood unless one reads it from the legal point of view. In this plan of Redemption there are three parties to the contract: God, Man, and Satan. God must be just to Himself, just to Man, and just to the Devil.

We understand that God created man, placing him here on the earth, and that He conferred upon him certain legal rights. Legal rights that are conferred are more easily forfeited than those that come by nature. These rights man transferred to Satan, God’s enemy. This brings the Devil into the plan so that he must be dealt with, and the whole scheme of Redemption is God’s seeking to redeem the human race from Adam’s sin, and doing it upon such an equitable basis that it will perfectly satisfy the claims of Justice, meet the needs of man, and defeat Satan on legal grounds.
The Fall of Man was a lawful act; that is, Adam had legal right to transfer the authority and dominion that God had placed in his hands into the hands of another. This gives Satan a legal right to rule over man and over creation.
The plan of Redemption is one of the most ingenious and most wonderful of all the many works of God. Notice what He is obliged to do. Man sold himself out to the Devil, making himself a bond slave, and that slavery will last until the lease or period of man’s dominion expires. God must in some way redeem fallen man from his sin, and Satan’s dominion. He must do it in such a way as not to be unjust to Satan, nor unjust to man. God must recognize and hold inviolate man’s treacherous act of transference of dominion. It was a legal act, and God has no right to arbitrarily annul it. He must show to Satan perfect justice at all points, and at the same time He must reach man in his helplessness and redeem him.
In order to do this, it is necessary that one come to the earth who is not a subject of Satan, and yet a man, and as a man meet every demand of justice against man. In order to accomplish this, there must be an Incarnation. This Incarnate one must not be a subject of Satan, nor a subject of death, and to this end God sends the Holy Spirit to a virgin in Judah, and she conceives and bears a son. This son is born, not of natural generation but of supernatural. The child is not a subject of death nor of Satan. He has the same type of a body that the first man, Adam, had before he sinned. Every step of the work that was accomplished by this Incarnate One was based upon perfectly legal grounds.
This Incarnate One met the demands, first, of the heart of Deity for a perfect human who would do His will; second, He met the demands of fallen man in that as a man He met the Devil and conquered him in honorable open combat. “Being tempted in all points, yet without sin.” He goes on the Cross, and God lays upon him the iniquity of the human race. He, then, with this burden upon Him and under Judgment of God, goes down into Hell and suffers the penalty demanded by Justice.

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