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Gods Peace, when
Anger Rises

James 1:19 “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God”
Romans 12:14 “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse”
Proverbs 15:1 “A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger”

   When engulfed with anger, it can be hard to fall into restful sleep. You will be lying in bed stewing over, your mind constantly playing over and over the events that have left you in anger. It could have been something that happened just today, or your co-workers criticism, or your child's wild behaviour, or a church member bringing unwanted gossip in church. It could have happened in your past (years ago) but continually comes to the fore front of your mind. Her unkind words, His refusal to apologise, the betrayal you never saw coming, the wounds you fear will never heal. Those are things to forgive, and hard things to let go.

   While your day my be filled with so much busyness there is no time to properly contemplate these difficult circumstances, your lying in bed are often not that way. All you have is yourself, your pillow, and your thoughts. And when your thoughts turn to these provoking situations, they can lead to long nights of restlessness. Instead of peacefully dreaming, you’re troubled by ways you were wronged, mistreated, and deceived. Not surprisingly, this doesn't lead to peaceful, bliss-filled sleep. Instead, your heart fills a little hard and desire for revenge keeps knocking, holding you and your thoughts in a vice like grip.

What would it look like to let all that pent

up anger go?

   All that resentment that pulses through your veins and makes your face flushed with your frustration is really controlling you(and only you), but not the person who wronged you, not the friend who who deceived you, not the spouse who betrayed you. In short, the anger you hold and nurse and keep on simmering is now impacting you most fervently. It’s started to steal your body of rest and festering in the deepest parts of your soul. We must stay always mindful. As the enemy feeds off of your anger your feeling. But there is good news: the Lord is able to rescue you from his grip.

   In Psalm 37:8, the Psalmist said it like this “Refrain from anger and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself: it tends only to evil” [ESV]. Harbouring unforgiveness is not only harmful for you, it’s also exhausting. Right here and right now, vow to make a change in your thinking, even only a small change. As your reading this cry aloud to God for His help to over come this battle your in. Asking Him for His supernatural strength to breath deeply, inhaling forgiveness and exhaling bitterness. Imagine His loving arms around you, letting you know He understands this fretting your going through. This kind of change doesn’t happen over night. But just for this night, in these quiet moments, you can you can take a small step toward change & cleansing, purifying, rest giving change.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me take a step toward healing and forgiveness. Remind me of the everlasting patience you hold, and help me regard others with the same gracious, loving, spirit-filled as yourself.

Whats in a song - Who is there like you V3

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What’s in a song:

Who is there Like You

   When as a Child I was told this to help bolster up, and help with my self worth. By having Faith in the Lord will help your self worth, giving greater motivation to over come what ever life throws at you. This is all, but truthfully this question is answered only by one. Because we all look different from each other. You’ll be told at some point you look just like or sound like you Mum or dad, as was told many times. For this study I have decided to post each verse separately.

   Only God truly owns the title ‘Who is there like you’, for example of the one true God who created the Heavens and the Earth, you should read 1 Kings 18. Today I want delve deeper into the song ‘Who is there like you’.

1) Who is there like you?

And who else would give their life for me,

Even suffering in my place?

And who could repay you?

All of creation looks to you,

and you provide for all you have made.

2) So I’m lifting up my hands,

Lifting up my voice, lifting up your name,

and in your grace I’m blessed,

For your love has to come to me and set me free

I’m trusting in your Word.

3) Trusting in your cross, trusting in your blood,

All your faithfulness,

For your power at work in me, is

changing me Changing me

    V3] Trusting in your cross, trusting in your blood, and all your faithfulness
‘ Trusting in your cross’ .. Here we’re being tested, and asked are we willing to put our passions ~ desires ~ works ~ self, to ..
Luke 9:23 “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me”
.. so not just one time only, but .. ”daily, and follow Me” ..
Romans 3:25 “whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed”

‘trusting in your blood’ ..
Hebrews 9:22 “according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission”
   Before Jesus came and shed Hid Blood, to cover your past years sins you would have to slaughter so many Cattle ~ Sheep ~ Goats. It was this blood that said to have covered your sins, and was expected to happen year in year out. So did it really cover your sins or just to make you feel better? When Jesus came and died on the cross for our sins, only this time/sacrifice was a one time deal. Now when we come to the Heavenly Father it’s through Jesus and His blood that blots out our sins. . .
Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
… because His [Jesus Christ] blood has washed us clean, so when we go to God in prayer, our sins are no more, forever washed clean.

‘For you power at work in me, is changing me, changing me’
Philippians 1:21/2 “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain”
   If your reading this from a ‘Non-Christian’s’ stand point, you will be thinking ‘what the heck-is-like’, they on about? Well you see it’s like this, the reason we are saved is because life has kicked the stuffing out of us, along with drive & hope. We knew at that moment we needed to make whole sale changes to our lives, this would be the only way to once again have ~ drive and a life worth getting up for each morning. This could only happen with Jesus Christ in our lives. Replacing our old ways for His. As unlike you & I He won’t let us down, instead He directs us in in righteous ways, He gives us strength to face our fears, also from His living Word, wisdom beyond our understanding. This has got sound good, right?
Philippians 1:22 “But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labour; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell”
   In our might, it would be very hard to get our hearts desires. Where as the moment you surrender all to Jesus, and His perfect will, in faith, the riches of Heaven are poured out. Hence why die to our old selves/ways, and now have ..”to die is gain”
‘You power at work in me’ .. To me this means, the way I once behaved or felt have all died, now I have Christ ‘working in me’, influencing me for the better. His name is Jesus Christ.

   Before I sign off, God has just reminded what He wanted to encourage you with, when you think you can’t sing. God is not worried about this instead He wants to hear your song. He says forget those who don’t want to hear your voice, because He does, He wants you to do as the Psalmist said . . .

Psalms 150 “Praise God in His sanctuary;

Praise Him in His mighty firmament!

2 Praise Him for His mighty acts;

Praise Him according to His excellent greatness!

3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet;

Praise Him with the lute and harp!

4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance;

Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!

5 Praise Him with loud cymbals;

Praise Him with clashing cymbals!

...Here is what He wanted tell you..

6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord”

#V2 follows in a couple of days, so please listen to the song a few times. here is the link to the song, just past the link into your browser ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYkce-EhNuQ

Prayer

Heavenly Father God, I was a nobody, now I'm somebody, because yoiu saved my soul. So I'm telling everybody, by raising my hands & voice to you Jesus. Amen

He's not on his Knees yet

2 Corinthians 6:2   “ . . In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. . "

Q . . "What of the multitude who have heard, but not believed, to whom the word of this salvation has come, but rejected it?"

   There are some men who have some kind of faith, and these are perhaps in a more dangerous place than those who have none at all. Because they opt to deceive themselves, and fancy that are in a state of grace. Where as really they are in a state of nurture.  Sadly a man only believes that which affect's his own life.
   

Prayer  "God grant that we may each one of us possess this real 'God given' blessing"

   With out faith you are with out God, with out faith you are with out hope, for a true hope can only spring out of 'true faith'. When you are with out faith in Christ, consequently you are with out a Savior, and with out the means of removal of sin, with out a help with which to fight daily the battle of life against sin. So with out faith we are indeed spiritually naked, poor and miserable lost and condemned, with out hope of escape.

   He who has missed this faith has missed the vital point. Had he begun with that, his amiability: his mortality: his benevolence: had been acceptable because in them there would have been the flower of life. The faith that makes them live, but with out this, they are cold & soul less, indeed a mere carcass of virtue void of life.
   
Paul said of love . .
1 Cor 13 v3  ". . And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.. . ."

Q "If a man prays to God, in whom from his own stand point dose not exist, has he not then engaged in an senseless exercise?

• Do you not believe in flexible justice?
• Do you believe in infinite mercey?
• Do you believe in an Omniscience that can not fail to see?
• Do you believe in the Omni-presence that can never failto be where you are?
• . . . Do you believe all this???

   Because if not you do not believe in God. You may believe in your own idea of God, but you do not really believe in God. If you would come to God, you must believe in ALL that he say's He is. In His Word, He reveals as one God, that He is The Father, The Son & The Holy Spirit. Will you accept his statements about Himself? Then will you pray, will you cease delivering an oration to the air. Instead speak into His ear, believing that every word you utter, also believe that He is reading the thoughts that lye at the back of your words??    We should believe that, that if you preach the gospel God must bless you; that it is not a may-be or a mere possiblity that He will, but that if you deliver His message in the full convictiuon that somebody or other is going to get a blessing, there will be a blessing for someone. Very often just in proportion to our faith, it is done unto us.

   Without faith it would be be impossible to please God by the way you talk. Lets put plenty of faith into all we do. . .

• If I have no troubles where is there room for faith?
• How can I trust when I have nothing to trust?

. . You cannot swim in water only up to your ankles, you may go paddling about, but no swimming. But plunge into deep water, strike out like a mad man until you have faith that you will not sink but swim.

   I have heard of this doctor who was severe in his method of treating his patients, but he healed a great many of them. Then cam a man who had a bad leg.  "Well", said the doctor, "I will adopt such-and -such a course with that leg, and I will restore the use to you, so that you shall go away from this place perfectly whole". He told the patient what he was going to do, but the man said "NO, I could not bear to have that done. I shall have to go to someone else". "Just so" said the doctor, "you are not bad enough for me treat you yet. When you get bad enough for me, you will come back". Then say "do what you like to me so long as you gaurentee my retoration". There is many a soul that is not, in the sence, bad enough for Jesus Christ yet. That is to say he thinks he is too good to need to be saved in Christs way. I heard a well known story of a swimmer who went to rescue a man who was drowning. The man was sinking and the spectaters wondered why he did not strike out at once and lay hold of the man drowning. He swam near him, but kept clear of him, letting him go down a second time, and third, after that he swam to him and brought him to shore. Someone then asked "why did you let him sink?". To that he replied "He was to strong for me at first, whilst he was to strong he would have pulled me down with himself, so I let him sink and loose all strength, then I could rescue him". In like manner, some of you will have to go down for a second & third time before you get weak enough to be saved. It is not your strength that qualifies you it's your weakness, it is not your righteousness, it is your sin that qualifies you for Christ. So stop sinking and start living for Christ.

    
   That is the way to seak Him, to come to Him. We must come to Him as the one Living God, to have a real exsistance a true personality. Other wise we can't come to Him. God bestows upon us His Favour, His Grace and blessings of His covenant, as a gracious reward, NOT because of our merit, but because of the merit of His Son, Jesus christ. This we must believe or we have not really come to God.

NKJ . . Heb 10 v23  " . . Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. . "The Message " . . Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. . "

   No matter how we dress it up the lesson is clear, you must keep your faith in Him, even nudge Him to remind Him. It's not that God forgets, we have to remember "everything works to Gods time, not ours. Reminding Him just shows we are living in His accordance and have kept faith by praising Him, in the good times and the bad

Actions of Sin (pt 2 of 2)

 

Actions of Sin

 (pt 2 of 2)

Prayer:

Heavenly father thank you for saving us, as we embark on the second part of your word may you show us through your tender mercies how lucky we are to made righteous in you. Bless you word to our hearts, in Christ Jesus name, amen.

   I know we are all Human and will miss the mark. That is if your still having your life ruled/controlled by sin. Then you are not only putting your Salvation in jeopardy, but also your life too.

Romans 6:14 . . Because we . . “for you are not under law” . . sin cannot any longer control your fate. When you don’t obey the Law of Moses, sin cannot dominate. Sin can only control you, when you try and keep the Law. Know this, that Satan's power is wrapped up in the Law. For where ever the Law is, it can only add strength to sin.

   The first came in the ‘Garden of Eden’. For god told Adam & Eve that there is only 1 (one) rule/Law .. in that you must not eat from the tree of Life. . . Genesis 2:17 “ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”. . . the Law show a clear Action – Reaction, so simple, and was easy to keep. Though God has set us free from sin by doing away with the law, and it’s restrictions and has now given us ‘Grace’.

Question:

“Was sin (Satan) a verb or noun?

IE ~ Is it an action of sin, but will never dominate your life?

OR

“Was it meant to be a noun, a person ~ place ~ thing?

The Prison of Sin [a place]

The Prison of Righteousness [a place]

Romans 6:14 “For sin shall” [noun] . . “For [the prison] sin shall not have dominion over you”

   With the Law now removed, metaphorically speaking, the walls of the prison are down, and you have been given a pardon (don’t squanderer it). In other words “there will no longer be actions of sin”, Wrong you have been delivered from the ‘sin prison’, now your out from under the prison so Satan can no longer rule/control or have hold of you any more , don’t live there no longer.

Question:- “What was the doctrine/ obedience that was delivered to us from the Apostle Paul?” when he preached the following message of grace ..

Hebrews 8:12 “ For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”

… What Paul refers to here is the teaching of the ‘New Covenant’. Where god had said .. I will .. I will .. I will. I feel this one of the most important point to get across, Jesus Christ said “most assuredly” to get over His point that was important. It’s like saying today ..’Honestly or I’m telling you truth’. If you believe in God, and you’ll be obedient too God, who have been merciful unto your righteousness, your sin’s and iniquities He’ll remember your sins NO more. You used to be a slave in your prison of sin, but the teaching has come and decided to receive what the blood has done for you, and now that you have received the teaching of Grace. So what the blood has & will do for you.

   This blood, is what has sprung you out of prison, that was the ransom, your now no longer being held a slave/captive in prison any more. You have now moved from the prison of Sin, now your the prisoner of righteousness, if you want to call it that ... Romans 6:18 “And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness” … we are all sinner because of ‘one man’s’ actions [Adam] to be sinners no longer, all we need to do is .. be born-again’

   It is so unfair that we are all sinners, the moment we leave our mother womb, band draw our first breath. We are tarnished with the same brush, even though we weren’t there when Adam ate from the tree of life.

# I’m the Righteousness of God #

Question:-”Just as we are born in to sin because of Adam,

so have we been made righteous because of one man?” [Jesus].

   His name of cause … Jesus Christ … (The same thing happened here as it did because of Adam). We did nothing when ‘Born-again’ to become righteous. I have now freely; Willingly become a prisoner of Righteousness, through what one man did [for me]. I am now the Righteousness of God, I did nothing (Earthly) to be righteous, but I was ‘made’ Righteous’ because of Christ Jesus actions, glory be to God, for His goodness & mercies. 

Romans 6:19 “I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness”

   When you were in the prison of sin do you remember doing ‘Righteous’ things like giving money to the ‘poor; homeless or needy?’ Even doing good deeds for the less fortunate? Do you think doing any of these good deeds got you out of the prison of Sin? There is, and will always be only one way out, that is to be ‘born-again’. From one man we have received, for what he did (Jesus) did through His blood, then be delivered from Sin and unto righteousness.

   All it seems throughout this is ask questions after questions, so as not to disappoint, ‘If you Sin whilst in the prison of Righteousness, will it not result in you being dismissed? and our Heavenly Father letting it be known His displeasure in you? We are not taught to fear the Lord for nothing …

Deuteronomy 6:2 “that you may fear the Lord your God”

Psalms 33:8 “Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him”

Proverbs 3:7 “Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil”

… you have been established in the righteousness of God for all those who believe. You now know that you now no longer want to keep sinning. Because God is going to help you, reach in and change those [sin] desires, so that you no longer have the urge to sin anymore. . .

• God knows the best way to help you become clean ..

• Only God knows how to make you Holy ..

• Only God can help you to doing it right ..

… because once you become the Righteousness of God, after time you will start doing things right without giving it a second thought.

   In the prison of Righteousness, it’s the ‘Change-Chamber’, that will change your heart from old sin nature, and bring you out of being addicted to your old self, to one of only want to doing things right. Now don’t let sin convict or condemn you. Instead now all your heart wants is continue to be obedient to your faith and that God has been merciful to your unrighteousness, and your sin and iniquity, He remembers not one. He our Father God in Heaven has taken care of the Sin factor/actions/problems, and never stops taking care of our sin.

NB: Right Believing = Right Living

# Once you wake up, and smell the coffee, as it were, you will see things in a whole new way. 

You won’t want to sin anymore, and (here’s the best bit) you’ll find you don’t

want to either #

Actions of Sin (part 1 of 2)

 

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(part 1 of 2)

Actions of Sin

Isaiah 54:14-16 “In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you. 15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. 16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy”

   In these verses he is not only talking about being established in .. Works Righteousness .. when in fact he is talking about Faith Righteousness .. The one factor needed, that will not have a price tag, all we need to do, is believe and whole heartedly then His (our Lord’s) righteousness will be bestowed upon us. If you are not sure, then every Morning & Evening time just before you close your eyes to sleep, then I know you will be blessed in ways you will be confounded by. . repeat the following ..

# I am the Righteousness of God #

   In the times of the ‘Old Testament’ people had to actually ‘earn’ their Righteousness, that was under the old Law of Moses, this only happened by their ‘works’, good deeds, keeping the Laws telling them .. What ..Where when & how things had to be done.

   Here in V14 Isaiah was telling them that under Faith Righteousness sets you free of ..” oppression; fear; terror”. Once you have taken the seed of Faith, and planted into your heart, then let NO-ONE still it. Then Righteousness will bloom from the buds of the seed. Let it then become established just like a mighty Oak tree, that is now by Faith in Christ Jesus.

# I’m the Righteousness of God, by Faith in Christ Jesus #

   Have you ever gone past where workmen are cementing a new pathway, and an animal or person has walked over the drying cement and left foot prints right the through, and dried before the workmen could correct it.

   Establishing our Faith in God, is like writing your name in the wet cement, for when it dries it stays. Where as if you write your name in the sand, when the tide comes in it’s washed away, and have to write it again & again & again, as it is not permanent.

# I’m the Righteousness of God #

Proverbs 11:27 “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished” … This could be said or meaning your child with time to come back to Christ, or to be saved … Proverbs 10:6 -7 “Blessings are on the head of the righteous .. 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed” It is all well and good to go to Church on a Sunday, to even attend both services, to even go on Wednesday evening to Bible study. This all counts for nought if you don’t seek God the other 96hrs or 4 days of the week. Every Morning, not just when you feel like it, but I have to get the kids ready for School, make sandwiches (make them the night before just mum used to for us kids) .. School bag (night before) .. I don’t have time in the morning (get up 10 mins earlier .. is this sinking in yet? There is no obstacle you can’t over come, if you value your faith in God enough? Do you? We need, yes even me, to remind ourselves of this fact.

   No matter what happens, no matter where it happens, in our lives always remember …

• I am the Righteousness of God

• I am established in the Righteousness

… always bear in mind that, all this is not by your own strength but it has been because of what Christ Jesus did, by His works. I have been made righteous by His sacrifice on the cross, for me, for you, for every Christian.

We need to say .. ‘I’m the Righteousness of God’ .. when …

• When you have fought with your partner..

• When you are in good times..

• When your at peace..

• When your up – or down – or level on the ground

• In every situation & circumstance

… so from hence forth, that no matter what will be fall me, I shall remind the circumstance & situation .. I’m the Righteousness of God.

    After saying this aloud to ones self, the devil is outside your front door, and is coming up with ways to test your metal. He is seeing that if your ‘actually-serious’ about your faith or not? Are you? Are you really or are you just playing, using the Church as a glorified ‘social-club’, which are you? Once, we can show, most assuredly the devil exactly how ‘Established’ you truly are the devil will move, so long as you don’t waver, because you’ll taste foul to him ...

Praise God in the highest

… When the devil comes down your street, looking for whom he can devour-still-rob, there will be demons at the bottom of your drive, telling the devil ways to make us turn away from God. The devil being arrogant goes in anyway, the other demons will warn him of you saying “well don’t say we did not warn you”.

   Your seed of faith, should be planted in your heart, watch over it, nurture it, because it is more precious than Gold ~ Silver ~ Diamonds ...                                # I’m the Righteousness of God #

Romans 6:14-15 “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not”

Question … “How many of you , have become born-again Christian?”  Out of those ‘Born-again’ have not committed sin? Like below or other …

• Speeding, in your car, Motor-bike or Truck?

• Cursed out someone?

• Lied to someone?

• Fornicated – Porn; strip club; on the web; etc.

• Stolen something, accidental or not

… I hope Gods words are being heard, loud and clear …

#If you have honestly answered them, you need to have Gods word planted deep within you#

…(1) if your ’born-again’ and Established in righteousness, many of you will be aware where sin is in your life, don’t you? Yet there is sinning? (2) … How many of you that are ‘Born-again’ and have been made righteous have .. NOT .. sinned since you were born again in Christ?

The Bible tells us to know right and not to do it, sin that is, thats as simple as it gets.

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Settled in Righteousness 

   Holiness is a fruit that comes forth out of our acceptance of a thing called ‘Grace’. Grace is a root= Holiness is the fruit. Some will say being Holy and then these things are able to happen to you. Wrong. Being Righteous by faith and then Holiness will be your faith.

   Think about this for a moment … ‘If you don’t believe in what Jesus Christ our Lord has done, you ain’t going to see him. You need to believe in Him, then the by product will be Faith. You should always walk in uprightness, this is why .. You should live a life of holiness, because without Holiness, no-man will see the Lord through your witness.

Here’s something you should say every morning before getting out of bed….. 

“ Jesus Christ is my Everything” 

Romans 5 v 12 (Because of Adams decision he infected the whole human race to follow him). “..Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned..”

AMP - V13 “..Sin was [committed] in the world before the Law [was given], but sin is not charged [against anyone] when there is no law [against it]..”

Q: “So what happened to all the people back then, before the law was given”?
A: Can you only transgress against something to transgress?
ie.. your not speeding when there is a speed limit ..

… But we know that without being told, the faster we go the more dangerous/ wrong it is. We have been taught to know it might not be good, like standing at the cliff face, it’s going to hurt if we jump.

   An important thing to note, not all that we did has not been put on your record when we stand as a Christian before the Lamb of God, before we were saved, as it has all been washed clean by the blood of Christ, when we accepted Him into our lives.

Romans 5: 14 “..Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come..”

   If a free gift given to you, and you turn around and say ‘you don’t deserve it’ OR ‘Your not supposed to deserve it, is this free gift’? V15 “.. much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ..” in other words the unmerited favour from God, especially this free gift, you feel you don’t deserve it. But instead God is telling us that “I know you did nothing really to deserve it, but this free gift I give to you nevertheless.

V16 “..one offense resulted in condemnation..” We see clearly how Adams actions brought about Gods condemnation, so we can see how sin was brought into being, and how every man was born in to sin.

   Then God said I’m going give you a precious gift, even though I know you don’t deserve it, through my Son Jesus Christ you may never ‘earn’ it, but by my graces you can ‘freely’ receive it. V17 .. “..much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ .” If you receive ‘the gift’, called righteousness, you will reign in your life, by the one Jesus Christ. This wonderful gift from Heaven is Gods graces, as we were saved by Gods grace. Now you can receive the gift, that is called ‘righteousness’ though grace.

Amp V17 “..much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in [eternal] life through the One, Jesus Christ..”

“Will you receive the Gift” 

   Let us pause and take a look at the meaning of the word ‘receive’ to take into ones possession. Something that is offered or delivered.  So to take into possession something that is offered or delivered, we find that it was through ‘Grace’ that offered us the gift of righteousness, which can now be taken into our possession. Please pay attention closely, NO matter what life has to throw at you, DON’T give up this wonderful  gift from God easily. I hear you scream at the screen “..it’s easy for you to say..’’. Let me tell you it has not been easy, as life is a sea of great tempest’s. You can take a ‘physical’ thing into possession, for example: Money – Sofa’s – Cars – Homes etc. So how do we take hold of ‘righteousness’ into our possession? Purely by Faith alone.

   Only when we grasp ‘Righteousness’ fully, in every area of our lives, like ‘Eat/Sleep/Drink', will we see a difference and so will everyone else. Once you realise how good ‘Righteousness’ can be for you in your life, you’ll want to make sure you have it locked down in every area of how you now live. Then everyone will ask you ‘what your on?’ As they now want some, be aware some will be scoffers, and not believe you. All types of crazy things will happen to those who never ‘relinquish’ Gods free gift for you.

If ever in doubt repeat this to yourself daily... 

“I have hold of Gods Righteousness by Faith alone” 

   For, when the Angels in Heaven hear this they come running with all kinds of provisions, for you and yours. There will be NO mistake, let Heaven & Earth & hell know that “I am the Righteousness of God”. From now on no matter how many times you may stumble and fall always get up saying this, and you will get stronger every time. Until one day when you realise that you hardly stumble, or you can’t recall the last time you did.

V18-19 ...”Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous..” 

   Although we did nothing to be righteous, we were all born into sin by the actions of one couple, Adam & Eve. So to counter what they did in the garden of Eden, Jesus Christ came to correct this. The God of Abraham – Jacob & Moses, His favour will always bless even when you feel have done nothing to warrant such kindness.

Q: “Can I sin away my righteousness?”
A: If you can sin away your righteousness, then it would be a foolish act of your own making.

   If someone came along and gave you the ‘Euro-lotto’ jackpot, would you just leave it laying around for someone to find it? As sinning away Gods righteousness would be the same. When you could be living out your righteousness, which is by faith, and enjoying the glory and manifestation of God.

Q: Why do we keep sinning?
A: Because it keeps bringing about ’Human’, not Gods, natural consequences like .. shame – condemnation, bad feelings, all things we are used to. Be honest, who really wants to willingly live this way? 

   Who wants Shame – Guilt – living under the curse, or would you rather be spending you time being happy and rejoicing over the glory of your relationship God? I know which I choose. That’s not giving you cart-blanch to sinning, but the feeling of wanting to sin will go away eventually. I heard it said that ‘if we were to eat the same amount as we read our Bibles each week, we will be skeletons very quickly and die through malnourishment’.

Slowly but surly sinning will erode away …
..Your confidence in God.. 
..Your beliefs..& 
..Your faith in righteousness. 

   Once your confidence & faith in God goes away, then your going to find it harder to break away from those chains of bondage a second time around, the devil now has you bound down with. So after breaking away from his grasp the first time, would you leave the back door open leaving cookies on the worktop with a personal invite to come back.

   How many times whilst growing up, your (Earthly) father would say ‘don’t be doing that as it will make you unhappy’. But you always seem to know better than him, and so go on to make the mistake anyway. Our (Earthly) father now has to sit around and wait, and be there for you. Well surprise the same thing happens with our Heavenly Father.

Then God will say..
God: You know I love you?
You: Yes Heavenly Father
God: You know I ain't mad at you?
You: Yes Father, now what happens? I am truly sorry I let you down like that,
God: You ain’t let me down
You: Yes, but I want my holiness to be a demonstration of my love to you.

Hebrews 12:14 “..Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord..”

2 Corinthians 7:1 “..Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God..”

   We should want Holiness in our lives so bad, so that our hearts can no longer torment us. We should all want to be Holy and pleasing unto God. Everyday we should want God more & more & more, as much as God wants to love us. We should want to be with Him, not looking for Him do something for us, but just because we want to spend time with Him.

   If we keep doing this, then there will come a time, that NO matter the temptation, it will go straight on pass, because you will not be tempted or see the temptation.

May the Lord bless this to your hearts,

in Jesus Christs name

Amen