Wednesday, March 19, 2014

No More Evil Deeds in His Light

"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." (John 3: 19)

Jesus is the light of the world (John 8: 12), yet this light brings righteousness, not condemnation:

"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8: 12)

Jesus did not want to bring illumination so that we would see what we were doing wrong:

"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." (John 3: 17)

Salvation is not about giving people to stop doing the bad things and start doing good things.

Salvation is about receiving life, since all men are born dead in their trespasses:

"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." (Romans 5: 14)

and

"But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe." (Galatians 3: 22)

We are under sin because of one man, Adam, yet we can be under grace because of another man, Jesus:

"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." (Romans 5: 17)

In Christ, we are in the light, and under His light, His blood cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7), and transforms us into sons of light (1 Thessalonians 5: 5)

When God sees us in Christ, He does not see our sin, or our sins, but He sees us "accepted in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1: 6) and "holy and unblameable and unreproveable" (Colossians 1: 22)

In other words, we do not have to worry about our deeds, or about being evil, because He has transformed us from death to life (1 John 3: 14) ), and because we in His light, under grace, sin shall have no dominion over us (Romans 6: 14)

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