"1 There is therefore now "NO CONDEMNATION" for those who are in CHRIST JESUS.
2 For the law of the SPIRIT of life has SET YOU FREE in CHRIST JESUS from the law of sin and death.
3 For GOD has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending HIS own SON in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, HE condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the SPIRIT.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the SPIRIT SET THEIR MINDS ON THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT.
6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the SPIRIT is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to GOD, for it DOES NOT submit to GOD's law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please GOD.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the SPIRIT, if in fact the SPIRIT of GOD dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the SPIRIT of CHRIST does not belong to HIM.
10 But if CHRIST is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the SPIRIT is life because of righteousness.
11 If the SPIRIT of HIM who raised JESUS from the dead dwells in you, HE who raised CHRIST JESUS from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his SPIRIT who dwells in you."
A few years ago our church had a summer book study. The study was on a book about being "set free" from the bondage that sin, even for believers who the enemy entraps with guilt and condemnation. The study opened my eyes to the freedom believers experience in JESUS CHRIST. To know that JESUS CHRIST became flesh, lived a perfect life, and sacrificed HIMSELF so I could be SET FREE from the law causes me great joy!
The great deceiver used to constantly attack me with guilt and condemnation because I am imperfect. But as one who had been SET FREE in CHRIST JESUS there is "NO CONDEMNATION" because of my sins! When GOD looks at me all HE sees is the righteousness of JESUS CHRIST shining through! GOD loves me so much that HE allowed HIS one and only SON to offer HIMSELF as a replacement for my punishment for my sins, past, present and future!
JESUS CHRIST is the SON OF GOD. There is no doubt that HE was, is, and forever will be. Since my FAITH is in HIM there is "NO CONDEMNATION" that can be assigned on my behalf! JESUS paid for ALL my sins, past, present, and future. I have to continually admit, and repent (turn from) for my failures. But to know that HE loves me, even though I am far from what I need to be, is GRACE INDESCRIBABLE!
Don't be deceived into believing that you aren't worthy of HIS love and forgiveness. No matter how many times you come up short of the glory of GOD, because of what JESUS did on Calvary, there is "NO CONDEMNATION" for us who are in HIM!!
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