"...but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins." Romans 5:16.

Believer, see how God the Righteous Judge sees all who believe in Jesus Christ the Defense Attorney/Advocate of all who believe in Romans 5:9 —

“And there is still much more to say of His unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in My sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God."

This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour. Only by receiving God's abundance of grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ do we get to live in triumph over sin and death: See Romans 5:16-17:

"And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 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."

In Christ, God sees us as righteous, "even though we are guilty of many sins." Satanic pastors preach that this word from God is blasphemy and a license to sin; GOD'S WORD SAYS BELIEVING WHAT HE SAYS IN THIS VERSE IS THE WAY TO LIVE IN TRIUMPH OVER SIN AND DEATH. But false teachers try to introduce the Law (which Romans 5:20 says was given that sin might increase) to keep believers in check!

This verse 16 above - "God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins" - also seems to be the only thing that many skeptical churchgoers take away from the entire message of Christ which is GRACE alone - as if God just dashes us His righteousness and then turns a blind eye to our sins and as if we Grace children just want to wallow in sins because of Grace! There is much more! God's word says receiving His abundance of Grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ is the Way to "live in triumph over sin and death." Whose report will you believe?

Satan obviously does not want God's people to live in triumph over sin and death (lack, sickness and all earthly ills are "death begun") so he does his best to keep churchgoers focused on striving to be righteous/godly (be like God) by keeping the Law which gives "the knowledge of good and evil." This is the same strategy that Satan used to deceive Eve in the garden of Eden when he told her she could be godly by human effort at doing something (eating from the tree of "the knowledge of good and evil.") See the forbidden fruit as a picture of the Law that many are trying to keep in order to be godly (be like God) in Romans 7:8-12 (MSG) -

"Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me."

Satan the Accuser is a legalist. "Ha Satan" is literally “prosecutor at Law” in Hebrew. In Israel today, all prosecuting attorneys are referred to as "Ha Satan."

Satan the accuser can't just go about slapping sickness, lack and judgment in general on anyone, just as an earthly prosecutor has no power to pass judgment on a person who has broken the Law. He cannot even issue a parking ticket. He can only point you to law-keeping as the way to get right with God. He knows this is an effort in futility:

"For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the Law commands. The Law only shows us how sinful we are." Romans 3:20.

Just as eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil made Adam and Eve see their nakedness (unrighteousness,) trying to be godly (be like God) by keeping the Law will only cause you to see the extent of your unrighteousness. Here, Satan can accuse and taunt you with guilt and judgment for your sins that Christ bore for your sake; those who accept their guilt and try to do things to be right with God reject Christ's sacrifice and thus will face judgment.

Many pastors are doing Satan's work for him today - pointing out sins and threatening people with God's wrath that Romans 5:9 says believers in Christ will never experience if they do not save themselves from their sins and the curse. Such will never point you to Christ the Advocate and "Bearer of sins" of all believers and of whom it is written in Matthew 1:21-

She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Satan is a prosecuting attorney who's out to deceive people into believing that they can be godly (be like God) by using the knowledge of good and evil (Law). Once he gets his prey in this helpless position, his job is to accuse, get convictions and ensure that the sinner gets the harshest judgment: Death preceded by earthly ills.

God the Righteous Judge is the only one who can pass a "guilty/condemned" or "not guilty/not condemned" sentence on anybody. He Himself gave His own Son Jesus Christ to bear the guilt, condemnation and judgment of the world that He so loved: see John 3 -

16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

Believer, God Himself made the Way for us to be godly (be like God) and it is through the suffering of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Isaiah prophesied of His suffering for us in Isaiah 53. See the effect of His sacrifice for us in Isaiah 53:11-

"After He has suffered, He will see the light of life. And He will be satisfied. My godly servant will make many people godly because of what He will accomplish. He will be punished for their sins."

All of that law-keeping done in order to be righteous/godly or to get into God's good books amounts to worse than nothing before God the Righteous Judge. In fact, Isaiah 64:6 describes them as "a menstrual rag" in His sight -

"We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in Your sight."

Rather than receive God's freely-given abundance of grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ, many churchgoers depend on their own useless "menstrual rag" righteousnesses in order to get a "not guilty/not condemned"verdict from God. Believer, let's not be found depending on human effort or will-power at being godly (be like God) as Eve did. The end is condemnation and death.

Thought to point out that a person cannot be under both Law and Grace - calling Christ "Saviour" while trying to keep the Law in order to be godly/righteous before God, escape judgment and make it to heaven. You either represent yourself in court or you depend on the Advocate to plead your case, not a mixture of both.This horrid mixture that is neither Law nor Grace is the "neither cold nor hot" that Christ speaks of in Revelation 3. Galatians 5:4 says:

"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."

Anyone who claims to be a Christian yet is trying to keep the Law in order to remain in God's good books will lose both the wine and the wineskin- cut of from Christ and left to face the curse of the Law which condemns all who try to keep it. Romans 3 says of our salvation in Christ:

"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."

Notice th following legal terms: God the "Righteous Judge." Jesus Christ the "Advocate" and Bearer of sins of all who believe. The Holy Spirit who bears "Witness" to the Truth. "Acquittal." "Condemned." "Law." "Accuser." These are all legal terms. Spiritual warfare is a legal battle.

Satan is not called "accuser" for no reason. He brings charges of sin against man and tries to condemn man so that judgment can follow- the same processes found in any regular court of law. This is his only weapon - the Law that many churchgoers are struggling to keep in order to be godly (be like God.) For all who believe, Christ has disarmed Satan. He has taken away Satan's weapon that he uses to accuse - the Law; see this Colossians 2:

13 "At one time you were dead in your sins. Your desires controlled by sin were not circumcised. But God gave you new life together with Christ. He forgave us all our sins. 14 He wiped out what the law said that we owed. The law stood against us. It judged us. But He has taken it away and nailed it to the cross. 15 He took away the weapons of the powers and authorities. He made a public show of them. He won the battle over them by dying on the cross."

As long as a person is trying to keep the Law in order to be godly/get right with God, Satan's accusations in his life can stick, so condemnation and judgment (Death preceded by its symptoms of fear, stress, stupid mistakes, depression, oppression, lack and every earthly ill) will follow, just as it is in any earthly court of law. This is why many churchgoers are locked in a prison of sins and running from pillar to post looking for salvation from "Daddies in the Lord" who only give them more laws to keep and more things to do in order to be godly (be like God.) So the vicious cycle continues.

All the law-keeping and good works in the world cannot make anybody free from the condemnation and curse that comes from trying to keep the Law to get right with God- "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the Law commands. The Law simply shows us how sinful we are." Romans 3:20.

When a person presents his own obedience to the Law, tithes and good works as evidences for why God should bless or save him, Satan the prosecutor will simply point out another thing that he has not done. Recall that James 2:10 says:

"For whosoever shall keep the whole law yet stumble at one point he is guilty of all."

Romans 3:20 says- "For no on can ever be made right with God by doing what the Law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are."

All of that law-keeping to get into God's good books amounts to worse than nothing before God the Righteous Judge. In fact, Isaiah 64:6 describes them as "a menstrual rag" in His sight -

"We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in Your sight."

Nothing but the blood of Jesus will suffice for God the righteous to declare a person righteous in His sight and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ is free for all who believe. Remember 2 Corinthians 10:4-5:

“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,"

From what we are up against in the verses above, we see that this warfare that Paul wrote of here isn't fought in some coven, church building or some mountaintop; what we are up against is "arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God" and "thoughts."

We overcome Satan and his accusations not through carnal weapons (human effort at getting a “not guilty" verdict) such as doing restitution like Judas, promising to keep the law that kills and being more obedient or attempting to break generational curses with 40 days' dry fasting when Christ already hung on the tree to redeem us from the curse of the Law. We overcome by bringing the weapons of the enemy (accusations of the Accuser) into captivity to "the obedience of Christ," according to the same passage.

But what is the obedience of Christ? Who better to interpret the Word than the Word Himself! Romans 5:19 tells us all about the obedience of Christ and who we are because of His obedience-

"For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous."

Whenever Satan comes with his accusations, we proclaim our blood-bought righteousness in our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the only way to escape the judgment that the Law demands. Christ bore it all for us.

Satan’s strategy has not changed since he deceived Eve in Eden: In this court of law, all who depend on their own obedience/human effort at being godly (be like God) stand accused and condemned. Such reject Christ as their Advocate and put up their law-keeping and good works (which can never make any righteous in the sight of God the Righteous Judge) as their defense. Death (preceded by its symptoms of earthly ills) is the outcome.

In Christ, we are not under Law but under Grace. We have no righteousness of our own. The Lord Himself is our Righteousness. In Christ, we have salvation from every earthly ill and death in hell. Romans 5:9 says of God:

“And there is still much more to say of His unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in My sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God."

When you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and speak out your righteousness in Christ that you believe in your heart, salvation, including salvation from sins and every earthly ill, follows, “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:10.

This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour. Grace is for sinners, not those who think can save themselves from their sins or obey the law in order to be godly aka “be like God” as Adam and Eve tried to do.

“Christ crucified" and the essence of God raising Him from the dead is not being preached in many churches. See the significance of these actions 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 crucifixion has cleared the believer's entire sin debt before God the Righteous Judge. Satan has nothing on us. Christ paid it all. He died the death that the Law demanded of us for our sins. His resurrection is the divine evidence that we have been made righteous forever and apart from works. But prosecuting attorneys aka "Ha Satan" behind some pulpits preach that our sins are still hanging unpaid somewhere until we do certain things and that you are only righteous until your next sin.

The spirit of the antichrist is not anti-God. It is very legalistic and preaches very stongly on human striving at keeping the Law in order to attain the godliness - godliness that Christ died that we might freely have. It’s hallmark is trying to reduce or remove the finished work of Christ who suffered and died to make us godly — Isaiah prophesied of Christ's suffering for us in Isaiah 53. See the result of His decease which He accomplished at Jerusalem in Isaiah 53:11-

"After He has suffered, He will see the light of life. And He will be satisfied. My godly servant will make many people godly because of what He will accomplish. He will be punished for their sins."

Through Christ's decease that He accomplished, we who believe in Him have been made godly/to be like God. But in many churches, people are told to strive for godliness/get right with God by keeping the Law. This false teaching is Satan's modus operandi! See the forbidden fruit as a picture of the Law (which gives the knowledge of good and evil) that many are trying so hard to keep in order to be godly (be like God) in Romans 7:8-12 (MSG.) This deceit of attaining godliness by human striving is the same strategy that Satan used to deceive Eve when he told her she could be godly by human effort at doing something. This is not Christianity. In fact, this is how to get cut off from Jesus Christ the Tree of Life: 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.”

Christ never condemns or judges the one who believes in Him, no matter how vile our sins are: John 3:

16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

He died to free us from “every kind of sin": 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.”

No sin is too vile for Him to redeem the sinner who believes from. The way to get cut off from His saving power, even salvation from sins,is to try to add our own human striving (arm of flesh that will fail) at keeping the Law to it and this is what many churchgoers are being asked to do- depend on the arm of flesh that will fail for godliness and salvation.

The Holy Spirit transforms us to life (see 2 Cor. 3:18.) 1 John 4:19 says “We love because He first loved us.” As He opens our eyes to Christ's love for us more and more through True Grace preaching, not only do we desire to hear more about God's saving Grace, hence our desire to be in places where the true gospel is preached, we get to live right too. In Christ, we get to live in triumph over sin and death. Romans 5:

16 "And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 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."

When your believing is right, right living will follow.