Christ saves from the cancer of sin and the death that it brings.

Beloved of God, Christ says to you: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He came to save us from our sins and to lift the burden of the law from off our shoulders. Let’s take our blessed brains to church. Matthew 1:21 says:

“And she will have a Son, and you are to name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Christ came to save us from our sins. How can our Saviour who came to save us from our sins use those very sins that He came to save us from as an excuse for not saving us and even punish us with death for them? This is akin to an oncologist dad refusing to treat his own beloved child who has cancer and even punishing his child....because his child has cancer.

For all who believe, Christ is "The Lord our Righteousness." God cannot punish the same sins twice- in the body of our Saviour and a second time in the believer. He corrects/disciplines us (or else we would rot) but never with the punishment that Christ took for us (death and all of its symptoms of fear, anxiety, stress, sickness, oppression, lack, earthly ills, etc.) According to Hebrews 12, His discipline is so that we might "live," "share His holiness" and that we might "yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness." His discipline brings life and causes us to live right, never death.

God sent His own Son to save us from the cancer of sin and the death that it produces. Sickness, lack, depression and all earthly ills are "death begun." These things would not exist but for the cancer of sin that all mankind inherited from Adam. See Romans 5:19-

"By one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous."

Adam passed on to all mankind that sinful nature that makes man able to produce sins. Just as the sinful/old nature produces sins, as new creation in Christ Jesus, made righteous by His obedience, we get to produce righteousness. With God's gift of righteousness to us in Christ, no longer having the sinful nature inherited from Adam (Romans 5:19), we get to have life and life more abundant. We get to live right. In Christ, the Lord God fills us with His Spirit, the only "chemo" that can transform the sinner to right living. See 2 Corinthians 3:18-

"But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed to the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

Like chemotherapy, but one that can never fail, God's eyes burn at sin but radiate perfect love for the sinner who believes, saving all who believe from sins and addictions and transforming us to perfection in Christ. If we could heal/save ourselves from our sins, live right by ourselves and do all that the law commands, Jesus would not have needed to come and save us.

For those who think that "at least a person should still try his best to not do some sins," the reason why we are not committing particular sins is because we have not been tempted beyond what we can bear in those areas. The potential to commit heinous crimes is in everybody. God sees this potential and how favourable circumstances can make some people boast that they can never degenerate to the extent of committing some sins or that some sins are beneath them. Peter thought so too, even boasted about how he would never deny Jesus. But when circumstances became unfavourable, he sang a different tune... three times. See Proverbs 16:18-

"Your boast becomes a prophecy of a future failure.

The higher you lift up yourself in pride,

the harder you’ll fall in disgrace."

But for God who does not let us be tempted beyond what we can bear and who makes a Way of escape with every trial, we would be no different from those that we see as "wallowing in sins." With this revelation, instead of crucifying believers that are still struggling with sins all over again, we get to point all to Christ of whom it is written in Titus 2:14-

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

In many places of worship, many "men of God" teach that sinners can transform themselves to godliness/righteousness using the arm of flesh that will fail (human effort at obeying the law;) These ones distrust the power of the Holy Spirit to transform the sinner who believes! Remember Romans 5:19-

"By one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous."

Here we see that committing acts sins is not what makes people sinners. Adam's disobedience took care of that long before anyone got the chance to commit an act of sin. Just like cancer and its symptoms, the old/sinful nature aka cancer of sin within, when activated by the law that many are trying to obey in order to b e godly, is what produces acts of sin that lead to death, just like cancer and its symptoms: See Romans 7:5-

"When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death."

Suppressing sinful desires by human effort at obeying the law in a bid to be godly is THE evidence of having the sinful nature inherited from Adam. Such do not believe that "By one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous." Such reject God's gift of righteousness to us in Christ and treat Christ's death as meaningless. See Galatians 2:21-

"I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!"

Deploying the arm of flesh to obeying the law can only take one so far. The arm of flesh will fail and when it does, the suppressed desires will burst out in a volcanic eruption of sinful deeds that lead to death. See Romans 7:5.

Many beloved of God who are held captive by the cancer of sin are being instructed to redouble their efforts to stop sinning and obey the law "better" in order to be accepted by God, but only in the Beloved - Jesus Christ- are we accepted, and not because of any good thing we did. This instruction usually comes from those who think they have some good in them. This instruction is as USELESS as a person with cancer expecting to be cured by putting plaster on a festering sore that is as a result of a sickness caused by the cancer within. See this in Romans 8:4 (MSG)-

"The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us."

Christ came to rid us of that sinful nature that all mankind inherited from Adam which, when activated by the law, causes acts of sin to proliferate. See Colossians 2:11-12:

11 "When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with Him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead."

All whom God has raised together with Christ get to have life and life more abundant and also get to produce not a harvest of sinful deeds that lead to death but a harvest of good deeds for God. See Romans 7:4-

"So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the One who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God."

Understand the essence of God raising Christ from the dead. See this in Romans 4:25-

"Who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous."

The TPT puts it this way: "Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that He had made us right with God!"

Christ's resurrection is the divine evidence that we have been made righteous forever and apart from works. To believe that one still has to keep the law of Moses in order to be godly/righteous is to deny Christ's resurrection. Romans 3 says of God:

26 "...for He Himself is fair and just, and He makes sinners right in His sight when they believe in Jesus. 27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. 28 So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law."

Law-keeping to get right with God causes sin to have dominion- "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under Grace." Romans 6:14. It is also the way to get cut off from Christ, "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." Galatians 5:4.

We are saved by grace through faith and not by works (Eph. 2:8.) But this "goodness of God" is not a license to sin. He is the Way to right living: it is the goodness of God that leads to repentance. We see this in Romans 2:4- "Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"

Even when we sin, which we do not want to, we remain righteous in God's sight; not because God has gone soft on sin (He will punish sin to the uttermost) but because Christ paid the price for our sins. God punished our sins to the uttermost in His body. Many religious folk find it hard to come to terms with this truth. It seems illogical to many but it is the message of the cross:

"For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God." 1 Cor. 1:18.

In Christ, we do not continue to live in sin! When we receive God's abundance of Grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ, we GET TO live in triumph over sin and death. See this in Romans 5:17-

"For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. 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."

This is the only way to live in triumph over sin and death. The letter kills. Try to obey the law and sin will have dominion. But mouthpieces of Satan the Accuser are pushing this agenda straight from some pulpits in order to keep people under sin's dominion. Believers, watch what you are hearing. Is it "righteousness by works of the law" or "righteousness by faith in Christ?" The law is not of faith. Grace stops sin.

This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour. Grace is for sinners, not those who can save themselves from their sins or obey the law in order to earn a ticket to heaven. Salvation is a gift, not a reward for the good things we have done: see Ephesians 2:

8 "God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago."

Come to Christ with your baggage of sins and addictions and experience what He came to do: "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matt. 1:21. Why don't you ask Him to rid you of every wrong theology and wrong believing today? He will help you. He is Saviour.

By God’s grace, watch what you are hearing in your local church. Is it righteousness by works or righteousness by faith? Once your foundation is righteousness by faith, Christ’s righteousness and not yours from obeying the law, “all these things shall be added unto you.”

Right believing always produces right living.