UNDERSTANDING our value as believers needs appreciation of the value of the One Who purchased us.
Jesus is God Who became human being to redeem us.
Our redemption was fully paid for by His sacrificial death.
We were purchased from the fallen nature with equivalent value of who we were to become.
Our value is regarded in Christ where we’re found.
While our good deeds are commendable, they did not free us from eternal damnation.
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The grace of God did. Jesus went ahead while we were still sinners and rescued us because God is love whose embodiment is expressed in Christ Jesus.
We read Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
We didn’t work for this. It’s unearned, undeserved, unmerited and humanly unattainable favour.
We’re more than pardoned or forgiven. In other words, we’re declared innocent and seen in Christ as having never committed sin.
Before God’s eyes we’re guiltless even if we may feel condemned.
It’s not a feeling but a knowing.
God exhausted and deployed all His love in Jesus to redeem us.
Jesus tells us in John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
We should never feel forsaken nor abandoned.
God invested all and everything that He could in order to identify with us.
It’s important to note that Jesus wasn’t killed by satan.
He gave Himself up willingly.
Satan doesn’t wield such power to execute such an operation.
Titus 2:14 testifies, “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”
Believers are pure in the eyes of justice and God.
God didn’t assign anyone or anything to cleanse us but did it Himself.
Please grasp this, we’re no more less pure than Jesus in the eyes of God the Father.
We’re His holiness and righteousness in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:21 testifies, “For he hath made him[Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
The powers of darkness were defeated hands down, tail between the legs.
Colossians 2:15, notes, “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
The Message Bible hammers it well, “He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.”
We were forgiven, redeemed and ransomed.
Jesus carried out a mission more than the Old Covenant rituals could do and which only Him was assigned to accomplish and He ably did so.
We’re eternally redeemed by His blood in the Holy of Holies. Hebrews 9:11-12, record, “[11] But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; [12] Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
Our salvation is sure and certain.
We don’t live in fear and doubt about our standing before God in Christ.
Our redemption is a complete and finished thing.
Sin was put away and should never shout at us.
The Bible declares that Jesus is in the Father’s presence on our behalf, after putting sin away by the sacrifice of Himself.
We read in Hebrews 9:24-26, New King James, “[24] For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; [25] not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another—26] He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”
Deal sealed.
Hebrews 7:25, assures us, “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
He climaxes the whole discourse by declaring that He made one sacrifice for sins forever, so that the man who accepts Him as his Saviour becomes God’s child.
As His child, man becomes the Righteousness of God in Christ.
Now we can approach the Father at any time or anywhere with a quiet certainty that we have an audience.
Faith has ceased to be a problem.
Sin has ceased to be a problem.
Righteousness has ceased to be a problem. Sonship has ceased to be a problem.
We are now in Christ, New Creations, worthy children of God who are sinless and guiltless in the eyes of our Maker and God our Father.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Grace and peace be multiplied to you through knowledge.