KenH
Well-Known Member
NOT MY WORKS
The hollow promise of man's religion is the strength to abstain from sin through the Holy Spirit as you become more and more obedient to the law. It is an unending treadmill of backsliding, misery and despair, knowing you have never achieved an acceptable level of holiness.
Those who have been brainwashed into believing they are acceptably obedient to God's law are in an even worse state of sin and unbelief.
The gospel declares that those that are Christ's are free from sin, in that they died to the law in Him and are accounted to presently be the righteousness of God in Him.
God's sovereign decree of imputing the death and righteousness of Christ to those He represented is the good news of His glorious gospel. It is free, full and eternal liberty from the guilt, penalty and condemnation of the law through the obedience unto death of our Redeemer alone.
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 sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans 7
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 4
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
2 Corinthians 5
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- by Kenny Dyess
The hollow promise of man's religion is the strength to abstain from sin through the Holy Spirit as you become more and more obedient to the law. It is an unending treadmill of backsliding, misery and despair, knowing you have never achieved an acceptable level of holiness.
Those who have been brainwashed into believing they are acceptably obedient to God's law are in an even worse state of sin and unbelief.
The gospel declares that those that are Christ's are free from sin, in that they died to the law in Him and are accounted to presently be the righteousness of God in Him.
God's sovereign decree of imputing the death and righteousness of Christ to those He represented is the good news of His glorious gospel. It is free, full and eternal liberty from the guilt, penalty and condemnation of the law through the obedience unto death of our Redeemer alone.
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 sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans 7
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 4
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
2 Corinthians 5
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- by Kenny Dyess