When God's Word says something, it is settled forever. When He declared our redemption, we were completely redeemed. Everything that we owed, lost, had given up or had stolen was bought back and restored to us by the Kinsman Redeemer.
The year of Jubilee has come and is no longer something that has to be redone every fiftieth year. The Kinsman Redeemer has perfectly redeemed us of everything that was ever lost to mankind. There's no longer a curse that goes with the believer because our Kins-man Redeemer became the curse for us. He didn't just remove the curse, but He became the curse for us. Galatians 3:13-14 (Amplified) says that, "Christ purchased our freedom (redeeming us) from the curse (doom) of the Law (and its condemnation) by (Himself) becoming a curse for us, for it is written (in the Scriptures,Deuteronomy 21:23) 'cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified).'" Verse 14 goes on, "to the end that through (their receiving) Christ Jesus, the blessing (promised) to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that through faith we might (all) receive (the realization of) the promise of the (Holy) Spirit."
If we would only believe in what God's Word has said about Jesus, then we could actually walk above the curse that is still operating (because of unbelief) in the lives of God's people. We've been taught over the years that if we mess up, then the curse will still come. If we were to believe what the Word says, then we wouldn't set ourselves up (through condemnation) to receive the lie of the enemy and receive to ourselves what we've been redeemed from.
When Jesus rose from the dead and was justified by the Father, you were perfectly justified with Him. When Jesus was declared righteous, you were declared righteous. When He brought forth the blessing, you were blessed. When He bore our sin, you were made sinless. When He bore our sickness and disease, we were healed and made whole. The same Man on the same cross that bore our sin, also bore the entire wrath and judgment of God on Himself. All that's left for those who will believe are blessings and favor by God's grace.
All of the debt that was against us has been paid. All of the judgment that against us has been met by Jesus and we were judged in Him. Romans 3:23-24 (Amplified) says, "Since all have sinned and are fallen short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives." Verse 24 says, "(All) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy) through the redemption which is (provided) in Christ Jesus."
The same Word that declared us forgiven of our sins has declared us righteous and justified by His grace. If we learn to trust in the truth of His resurrection and sacrifice, then we cal also trust in His justification. By receiving what Jesus did on the cross, we (by faith) in what He's done can walk in the release from condemnation and guilt of what we were. Once we trust in His Word, we can actually be free from the lie of the enemy and the conscience of the old man.
Until we learn to trust more in God's Word than we do in the old spirit of condemnation, we will never be comfortable in the presence of our Father. When we walk in the guilt of the old man, we make void the release for the new man. For years we've been placed under the fear that we still had some unconfessed sin that would bring us under God's judgment. And, we believed that if all things didn't get confessed, then we still had to work at being forgiven.
We're always quoting John 3:16, but we don't go onto what this salvation was about concerning sin. The next three verse tell us what the sin is that had to be judged. John 3:17-19 (Amplified) says, "For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, bu that the world might find salvation and be made safe through Him." Verse 18 says, "He who believes in Him (who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him) is not judged (he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation (he incurs no damnation); but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already (he has already received his sentence) because he has not believed in and trusted (He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name)." Verse 19 goes on, "The (basis of the) judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground sentence) lies in this; the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil."
The sin we were forgiven of wasn't receiving Jesus. Once we've received Him (that was the Sin), all of our sins and trespasses were taken by His Sacrifice. Our sin wasn't adultery, cursing, drinking and all of the other things we did. Those were the fruit of the tree. The real sin was the root of the tree; the transgression that came in the Garden. Once that seed was planted by Adam, we had no choice but to bear the fruit. Romans 5:18-19 (Amplified) says, "Well then, as one man's trespass (one mans false step and falling away) led to condemnation for all men." Verse 19 continues, "For just as by one mans disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by One Man's disobedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him)."
By trusting in His Word and not our feelings, we are made right with God through Jesus. We're no longer to be condemned.
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