Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers reveals a Truth that many, many born again believers fail to understand!
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. — Romans 5:12
The Bible does not say that God punished the human race
for one man’s sin; but that the disposition of sin, viz., my claim to my right
to myself, entered into the human race by one man, and that another Man took on
Him the sin of the human race and put it away (Hebrews 9:26) — an infinitely
profounder revelation. The disposition of sin is not immorality and
wrong-doing, but the disposition of self-realization — I am my own god. This
disposition may work out in decorous morality or in indecorous immorality, but
it has the one basis, my claim to my right to myself. When Our Lord faced men
with all the forces of evil in them, and men who were clean living and moral
and up right, He did not pay any attention to the moral degradation of the one
or to the moral attainment of the other; He looked at something we do not see,
viz., the disposition.
Sin is a
thing I am born with and I cannot touch it; God touches sin in Redemption. In
the Cross of Jesus Christ God redeemed the whole human race from the
possibility of damnation through the heredity of sin. God nowhere holds a man
responsible for having the heredity of sin. The condemnation is not that I am
born with a heredity of sin, but if when I realize Jesus Christ came to deliver
me from it, I refuse to let Him do so, from that moment I begin to get the seal
of damnation. “And this is the judgment” (the critical moment) “that the light
is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light.”
I have heard some people tell unbelievers that they must confess their sin in order to be born again! This is so NOT how to be born again! What we had to, and they have to, is confess that they are sinners! Sinners by nature, not by deed! It is our very nature that is changed, according to 2 Corinthians 5:17, when we receive Jesus as Lord and personal Savior! NOW we have a new nature! The righteous nature of Jesus Himself is now ours! We are no longer sinners, but saints! Yes, as saints we sometimes do still sin (make selfish decisions to do things our own way instead of God's way) but we do NOT become sinners again. NOW we are members of the family of God! We still have the nature of the flesh, as human beings, until we see HIM face to face! WHEN we sin, then we receive the forgiveness that was provided once and for all by Jesus Christ, for us (1 John 1:9)! Do YOU see the difference here? We will NOT be able to maintain boldness before Him unless and until we do! Meditate on what the Word of God ACTUALLY says concerning these things and the understanding and enlightenment will come! Then YOU can go boldly into His presence to receive everything that is needful for fulfilling YOUR calling and anointing in this life! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Oceans- Where Feet May Fail":
Shalom in Him!
