God the Righteous Judge is satisfied with our Saviour Jesus' payment of our sin debt.

When payment is made to a creditor on your behalf, who must be satisfied? You? The creditor of course! Believers, we were all (sin) debtors to God until He lovingly gave up His Son as payment for ALL of our sins. He is satisfied with this payment. With Jesus, He gives us all things FREELY. Romans 8:32-

"He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"

In Christ, we are His beloved and He is well pleased with us, not because of what we do but because of what Jesus did. Doing good (our righteousnesses = filthy rags) in order to be close to our Lord or please Him or get from Him is looking for justification in the Law. This makes Christ of no effect in the lives of whosoever lives by the Law (do good, get good; do bad, get bad) - including "believers." Galatians 5:4 - "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."

Because we don't feel or even know of this satisfaction that God already feels at the over-payment of our sin debt by our Saviour Jesus Christ, we try to "make up" for our sins by doing good works and doing restitution. We try to obey the law and do good so that we can receive from Him or be pleasing to Him; this is akin to telling Him that what Jesus did at the cross is not enough! Jesus is our restitution! He restored what He did not take! This is undeserved, unmerited favour. You don't qualify for it if you still think that there is some good in you. This is why the Pharisees remained blind and could not receive from our Lord! Our good deeds are like filthy rags anyway!

You cannot have one leg on Mount Sinai and the other on Mount Zion. You cannot put new wine in old wineskins. Jesus the Son will not share the house with Moses the servant!

Believers, in Christ, truly believing Him and not trying to re-accomplish His finished work of saving us with our silly efforts at saving ourselves (aka professing Christ but trying to be righteous by doing works of the Law,) we are automatically God's beloved children in whom He is well pleased. We are accepted in the Beloved. Nothing to do with what we do or do not do. He loves us so! No longer under the old covenant but under a New Covenant of Grace and Truth in Christ, where our sins and lawless deeds are no longer remembered by our Heavenly Father. (Hebrews 8)

There is no condemnation for us in Christ Jesus. And it is His "Neither do I condemn you" that makes us "go and sin no more."

Believe Right and you will Live Right!

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