{"id":158978,"date":"2024-06-26T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/righteousness-the-cure-for-sin\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:00:33","slug":"righteousness-the-cure-for-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/righteousness-the-cure-for-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Righteousness\u2014The Cure For Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit\u201d<\/em> Romans 8:1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Someone rightly said it\u2019s better to light a candle than to curse darkness, how true. It\u2019s no use talking or complaining about darkness when you can simply turn on the light. This is the reason it\u2019s no use preaching and talking to God\u2019s people about sin all the time. What God sent us to preach is the gospel, not sin, and gospel is good news. Thus, the gospel to the sinner is that by virtue of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, he\u2019s been made righteous.<\/p>\n

Righteousness is the cure for sin. Your life can\u2019t get any better than what you talk about. Sin-conscious people spend their time talking about sin, so both the speaker and the hearer remain in the same boat. The Bible says, \u201cFor sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace<\/em>\u201d Romans 6:14<\/a>. In other words, sin is no longer a factor. The sin problem has been eradicated; that was why Jesus came\u2014He was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him 2 Corinthians 5:21<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, rather than preach sin, preach its cure\u2014righteousness. Jesus Christ has made us free from sin and sin consciousness. Christians who still have problems with sin and sin-consciousness are those who are dominated by their senses. So they think God always talks about sin. They think that\u2019s all God\u2019s Word is about. But God isn\u2019t that concerned about sin, for sin has been dealt with: \u201cKnowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin<\/em>\u201d Romans 6:6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the new creation, sin is not a problem anymore and should no longer be the focus. You can live as righteously as you decide to, it begins with being conscious that you\u2019re the righteous and not a sinner, and then talking and living that way.<\/p>\n

Confession<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, my old nature was crucified with Christ, thus I\u2019m dead to sin, but alive unto God, having put on the new man, which is created in righteousness and true holiness. <\/em><\/p>\n

For Further Study<\/h2>\n

Romans 10:6<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cBut the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

(Taken by permission from\u00a0<\/em>Christ Embassy Church<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0, aka\u00a0<\/em>Believer’s LoveWorld Ministries<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0, Lagos, Nigeria.<\/em>\u00a0www.ChristEmbassy.org<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit\u201d Romans 8:1.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[383],"class_list":["post-158978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-","tag-righteousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifechangingtruth.org\/lctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}