BEING JUSTIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, Any Believer who is dealing with this internal battle most of the time does not want to talk about it openly. Their feeling of guilt, being found in one who professes being part of the body of Christ. They often feel their religious peers may think less of them, and doubt their faith in God. This situation may not always be found in most Believers that are walking with Christ, but there are those times when some who are following Christ, have this unknown feeling of guilt in their service to God. During this unknown feeling of guilt the Believer necessarily has done nothing really wrong, or out of God’s will. In occasions like this, the Believer must understand whose spirit is behind this false accusation. It is Satan, whom scripture call the “accuser of the brothers” (Rev 12:10). Who desire is keep the Believer feeling guilty about nothing. He’s the Prince of darkness, and he knows your feelings in a way to tempt your conscience into feeling guilty, which in turn keeps the Believer’s heart and mind separated from God’s purpose for them. Now: I’m not directing this ideology to those who have blamable iniquities in their lives, which will separate you from the Lord (Isa 59:1-3). This epistle of encouragement is for the Believer who keeps asking these questions within their mind. “Have I done all that I could do? Is my walk with the Lord sufficient and adequate enough for Him to really bless me?” In most cases the Believer can pinpoint the time when they started to feel insufficient in their walk. All they know is that it is a yoke which they are bearing. The unknown feeling of guilt (why do I feel guilty), may come from low self esteem, or from too many bad relationships In the church. It could come from being in a negative environment, which keeps the Believer from having a strong spiritual confidence. Whatever the cause, Satan will use it in trying to keep a Believer bound and afraid of their hope in Christ Jesus. I would like to give some examples of an “unknown feeling of guilt” in a Believer life. The first is: The Lord has called you to do His purpose in the kingdom. In your heart you feel God has appointed you for the specific purpose. Then you tell someone about what God has placed in your heart, they immediately start to cold watering your calling. Making assumptions of what they think God is calling you to do. Then doubt setup in your heart because of what they have said, then the guilt; the unknown guilty arises in your spirit because of possibilities of uncertainties in what you may have heard or not heard from the Lord because of what somebody has said to you. Another example is, after a Believer gets saved, and something that was done wrong before you were converted did not get cleaned up, which continues to haunt your spirit. This can causes an unknown guilt in the life of a converted Believer. Why? The enemy will constantly tell a new convert, that God not going to accept you as one of His, until the situations is corrected. The Believer must understand in cases like this, that you cannot be held bound or accused to things of your pass before conversion. REMOVE THE UNKNOWN GIULT IN THIS TYPE OF SITUATION. Why? Because the scriptures tell us in 2 Cor 5:17, “therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are pasted away; behold all things are become new. Here is another example that I call the silent guilt killer. The unknown guilt a believer feels at offering time, because they don’t have the money they would love to give in the service. This unknown guilt causes a Believer to shell up every time an offering is requested. The Believer should not allow this unknown guilt to eat at them. Just remember Jesus comments in (Mark 12:41-44) about the widow with the two mites, she put more in then all of these. Because she put in all she had. The last an most probable causes for an unknown guilt in the Believe, is once you have committed your life to Christ, and you fall or do something against the will of God. Then the Believer becomes sorrowful and condemn about what they have done. Feeling the guilt for blamable false, you repent quickly. The Lord forgives you because of the sincerity of your request. Now the Lord has forgiven you of your mistake, but the enemy will trying to use the mistake against you, for a guilt trip with the objective of keeping the Believer bound by a unknown guilt. Once again scriptures come to the rescue; Gal 6:1, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual. Restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” SO GET READ OF THE UNKNOWN GIULT, IT IS HINDERING YOUR WALK WITH CHRIST! Paul uses the Greek verb for “Justified” 27 times mostly in the books of Romans and Galatians. The term describes what happens when someone believes in Christ as his or her Savior. From the negative viewpoint, God declares the person to be “not” guilty: From the positive viewpoint, He declares them to be righteous. God cancels the guilt of the person’s sin and credits righteousness to them. Paul emphasizes two points in this regard: (1) No one lives a perfectly good, holy, righteous life. On the contrary, “there is none righteous” as stated in (Romans 3:10), and “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” as stated in (Romans 3:23), this is why no man can really boast about his own righteous over another person’s, because we are all sinners saved by grace. “By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight?” As stated in Romans 3:20. As creatures of unrighteousness by right we deserve our fate. (2) But even though all are sinners and not sons (until they have His spirit), God will declare everyone who puts their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, “not guilty” but righteous through the shed blood at Calvary. This legal declaration is valid because Christ died to pay the penalty for our sins and lived a life of perfect righteousness (which was necessary for the sacrifice, the perfect lamb of God, who was the only person that could represent the sins of all mankind), in turn would be imputed to us by grace. Even in our inadequacy, he still made a great sacrifice because he loves us. This is the central theme of the book of Romans, “justification through faith in Jesus Christ”, and “the righteousness of God) which is stated in verses 1:16-17. To farther expound the righteousness of God we see read it in Romans 2:13, 3:21, 24.We that believe are justified through Jesus Christ. Why? Christ’s righteousness, his obedience to God’s law and his sacrificial death, will be credited to the believers as their own (debt paid). It is a wonderful thing the chronological order of the Bible which the “church” is established in the book of Acts, and then the directives of the believer’s justification is established in the book of Romans through Christ Jesus in the scriptural order. The central thought in justification is that, although mankind clearly and totally deserves to be declared guilty for their sins (Roman 3:9-19), through his trust in Christ, he is declares righteous in the sight of God. Christ in his death paid the ultimate price, in representing as ransom for fallen mankind, the price that never has to be repaid. Jesus himself on the cross before he gave up his spirit said “it is finished! “John 19:30: These scriptures support Christ sacrifice (Roman 5; 1-9, and 1 Cor 6:11, and Gal 2:17, Titus 3:7). 1 John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, purifies us from sin.” The scriptures also tell us, “That any man which has this hope (in Christ Jesus) let him purify himself.” Don’t let Satan put a guilt trip on you, when you know that Christ has already justified your life in him. Finally, remember the Believer is justified by their faith in Christ Jesus. Amen. |