Your sins are not the reason why you are not enjoying God's promise

Believers, let's take our blessed brains to church😊 Galatians 3:29 says "If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise." But many in the church are not enjoying the promise of God for His children. Ask anyone why and most would respond with: "It is because of sin and the way people are just breaking God's law anyhow." But nothing could be further from the truth. God hates sin, but sin is not the cause. According to Romans 4:13-

"For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."

The promise (a part of which is living in triumph over sin according to Romans 5:17) is not inherited through the law. It is inherited through the righteousness of faith- that righteousness that comes not by our own obedience to the law but by the obedience of Christ, as it is written in Romans 5:19- "For just as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one Man’s obedience the many will be made righteous."

That righteousness which we have when we believe of God "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21.

Without this righteousness of faith, there is no way to enjoy God's promise. For instance, the promise of our Lord God to His children in Isaiah 54:17-

""No weapon formed against you shall prosper, 

And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, 

And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord."

Notice that the promise is inherited (the heritage) and cannot be earned by keeping the Ten Commandments or fasting or washing church toilet. Also, it is for those who have no righteousness of their own (from keeping the law) but have their righteousness from the Lord; made righteous by Christ's obedience.

But many of us in the church today are still trying to get right with God and inherit the promise through the law, forgetting that sin has dominion over those who are under law. We think our various fasts, good deeds and law-keeping prowess matter in getting the promise. Well, they do matter, according to Galatians 5:4-

"For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

When we believe that we have everlasting righteousness before God because of what Christ has done and not because of our puny efforts at law-keeping or our high moral standards, we get to enjoy the promise that was made to Abraham and his seed. We get to live in triumph over sin too, as it is written in Romans 5:17-

"But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this One Man, Jesus Christ."

Rejecting His righteousness and relying on that which comes from law-keeping is why sin still has dominion over many in the church.

Believers, let's not put the cart before the horse. No amount of human effort at living a life of moral excellence via law-keeping can give anyone access to the promise of God for His children. Rather, it is the promise that makes us prosper and able to effortlessly live the life of moral excellence that the law demands....all without our being conscious of it because "it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me."

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right.