We are no longer sinners - but rightiousness from God.

 

2 Corinthians 5:17f (Bible)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the

new creation has come:

The old has gone, the new is here!

All this is from God, who reconciled

us to himself through Christ and

gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

that God was reconciling the world

to himself in Christ, not counting

people’s sins against them.

And he has committed to us the

message of reconciliation.

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,

as though God makes his appeal

through us.

We implore you on Christ’s behalf:

Be reconciled to God.

God made him who had no sin to be

sin for us, so that in him we might

become the righteousness of God.

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In churches in Sweden you often hear:

"We are sinners saved by grace."

But that is wrong (ugly) teaching. It

takes away what God has done and

what Christ paied for.

You were a sinner. You then were

saved by grace. BUT YOU BECAME

THE RIGHTIOUSNESS OF GOD.

If you are still a sinner saved by grace

you still live in the Old covenant.

If you teach in that manner, you don´t

teach the New Testament and the

new covenant in Christ.

The New Covenant which God made

with Christ, is a covenant out of re-

surrection and new birth, referring

to Christ but also all his followers.

Christ didn´t just carry our sin, HE

WAS MADE SIN when he took our

place on the cross, and God had to

look away from him. God cannot

stand in a covenant with someone

made a curse to his full being.

Through your faith, explored in the

baptism, you show you drowned,

died, with Christ and when you

come up from the water you show

you also resurrected with Christ.

When he became "the firstborn

from the dead" (Book of Hebrews),

you were counted in, which be-

comes valid as soon as you accept

Christ as your Lord.

You then get born again, and you

are no longer a sinner no matter all

mistakes you may do. Because you

have received Christ´s rightiousness

and fullness. You are now one with

him.

God has no family of sinners, he

only has family of his own kind,

proud sons and daughters of the

mosthigh. Straighten your neck!

When you do, it is true meakness -

You acknowledge God´s high

thoughts about you, after what

he did with you.

People in church often dare to
have a too high confession. Fear
wants to keep us in bondage. It

can also be an excuse when not
believing in God´s high calling,

like "I´m a poor sinner, so let´s

continue in sin..".

But - the high confession is one

about what God has done, without
our bad help.. Be in line with God!
This what I have described IS the

New Covenant in God´s Son and

his blood shared for us.

Of course we may still fall in

various sins after we have received

Christ and do acknowledge his

remarkable salvation. But - listen

here: the revelation of who you

have been made in Christ is the

power that more and more lifts

you out of sin and out of condem-

nation and low esteem:

condemnation only leads to law

works trying to please God out

of fear, such "own-salvation"

attempts neglect your need of a

saviour, neglects Christ´s work on

the cross.

Jesus said that the smallest one

in God´s Kingdom is larger than

John the Baptist, which he said

was the greatest prophet during

the Old covenant. How can this

be?

Jesus is referring to this teaching

I give; He talks about that John

was not born again into God´s

family. He was still a servant, not

a son. You could not become a

son, born again, until Christ had

become glorified after the cross,

scriptures clearly points this out.

This is why the Book of Ephesians

say that angels marvel to look in-

to the new that were to come

with Christ. A new breed of born

again believers. Christ´s pure &

clean bride.

We do need much, much more

revelation about the cross...

You shall serve God and you
should follow Christ, indeed..
But, you shall do it as a son in

the house, not as just a servant.
You should be working with your

father as a son, in his company.

You follow in Jesus footsteps
when you - just like Jesus - "do
nothing but what you see the

Father is doing", but at the same

time remember Jesus did it as

the Son in his Fathers family

business, Jesus was not just a

plain servant.

//Bjorn Hellman