In Romans 5 Paul speaks to us about Jesus and how he came to reconcile us to God by his death. Until the point of Jesus’ death Jewish priest offered sacrifices of lambs, oxen and doves for the Atonement of the sin of man, but God always had a plan to bring man back to the point of His original plan, so He set up His own Atonement. The sacrifices of animals were to be the first born and the best of the flock so God sent His only precious and beloved Son, the animals also had to be flawless with no blemish, Jesus was a perfect and without sin His whole life. With that said just as one man's disobedience we were made sinners, one Man's obedience made us Righteous.
Rom 5:12 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:
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Rom 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Rom 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Jesus became sin so that we could become righteous and now we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus, we are now co- inheritors of everything God has though Jesus sacrifice of His Life, we became everything He was and is today and He became all that we were. This is a key point, have you ever thought of how Jesus got into hell? Here is the answer; God designed hell for satan and his demons but man now is given a chance to get redemption for his sin through the finished work of Jesus. Those who refused His salvation shall be damned to hell.
Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
So if Jesus never sinned how did He go to hell? John the Baptist said:
Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
In the Old Testament the high priest would make a sin atonement by placing his hand on the lamb and transferring the sins Israel to the lamb and then kill it spilling the blood as a sacrifice hence ridding the sins of Israel .
Jesus in this same manner became all the sins man ever did and was rejected by God The Father for His sinfulness died and went to hell as a sinner. But once in hell and our transgressions already paid for by death and entrance to hell His glory was once again revealed and no force in hell could stop Him. Jesus took the key of death, hell and the grave and walked right out of hell and the angels waited for Him as He came out of the tomb restored in His resurrected body.
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 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.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All God has is available to every man, woman, and child by the Grace of God, so what is God's Grace? Well grace by definition means unmerited, undeserved favor, but God grace means forgiveness, empowerment, salvation, redemption, love, blessing, health, wealth, and all things Good. The Bible states all good and perfect things come from God, it is also written that Jesus came to give us Life and Life more abundantly. God's Grace wants to give us the desires of our hearts and bless us beyond what we can think or imagine all this is available to us through Faith. Believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and believing that He died for our sins and accept that based on what Jesus did we are now saved, justified, and are now righteous heirs to our inheritance from God.
How do we do this? You can become saved by Believing on Jesus Christ and know that he died for our sins confess it in hearts and becoming born again. There was a man who asked Jesus how can I be born again; can he enter his mother womb a second time? The answer is NO! To be born again means to have your Spirit man which we talked about in part one that died due to Adam’s disobedience rekindled. When this happens our Spirit man is born again because it was alive before Adam’s transgression against God after his sin our Spirit man died and the connection was lost with God. But thanks be to God and to Jesus for His obedience God excepted His life as a permanent sacrifice and we are redeem and now our spirit has a new birth, hence the terminology Born Again. Now when we are born again this is why we are called babes in Christ, because we are new to the spiritual world just as new born babies and we have to learn and be taught everything to function in this world, the same goes for the spirit world or to understand God’s System of Operation.
Through this new life we have now inherited all the gifts of the spirit, we have the full amour of God, we have all the abilities that Jesus and the apostles have and had in us now. Just as babies have everything they need to walk the day they are born, yet they must learn hand eye co ordination, fine motor skills etc. we must also develop in Christ the same way to be able to harness all God has for us. We can do this by developing The Mind of Christ.
We are no longer bound to the things of this world because we no longer belong to this world we are now sons and daughters of God, Just as His Son Jesus Christ. The earth is the Lord and the fullness there of and I am the inheritor of it all because God is my Father and all the Believers and followers of Christ are our brothers and sisters because we have the same Father. This now changes my socio-economic status I no longer have to work for a living because I am an heir to the entire earth I have stocks that pays me, but its like having a rich grand uncle that pass and left you 5 million dollars in the will and you don’t know the will exists or the executor to the will comes and tell you, you have inherited 5 million dollars and you don’t believe him so you never claim it. So we have to study the word of God, The Holy Bible to know what is all available to us. Now don’t miss understand what I am saying. I am not saying that we do not have to work as believers; I am saying we don’t work for a living because we have an inheritance. But we still work on assignment God has a predestinated assignment for everyone to accomplish His work in the earth and when you do the work of God provision comes along with the assignment.
Praises be to the most high God creator of heaven and earth and our Father who Loves us so much that we can not even begin to phantom how deep and how far His Love for us extends.
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