Our Confidence before God.

Believer, a person with an evil conscience is not one who can slice an infant into pieces and commit heinous crimes without batting an eyelid as is being taught in some places of worship. A person with an evil (guilty/accusing) conscience is one who toils over the guilt of his sins/imperfections and expects God's wrath to fall on him for his unrighteousness unless he does certain things to right himself with God...just like Judas! Notice Christ as Saviour from sin and its penalty has been replaced with human effort (arm of flesh) in this anti-Christ equation that is being taught from many church pulpits today?

The spirit of the antichrist is not necessarily anti-God. Just as it did in the antichrist Pharisees who were against Christ, people carrying this spirit seem to be very godly, preach dependence on the Ten Commandments and "living a godly life" as the means of achieving godliness and are always shouting the need to be godly from the rooftops. But their own method of attaining godliness is never through what CHRIST has done but what YOU must do with your human effort (arm of flesh that will fail) in order to be godly aka "be like God" the Righteous. Satan fed this same doctrine of demons -attaining godliness by human striving - to Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Such are always quick to accuse their congregation of having generational and other curses. The arm of flesh will fail but such false doctrine teachers lead their congregation on a wild goose chase by telling the flock to go and fast for 70 days to break such curses, this when Galatians 3:13 says of all who believe Jesus Christ:

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law..."

The antichrist spirit basically tries to get churchgoers trying to re-achieve what Christ has achieved for us through His suffering and death through human effort.  This spirit is very quick to label you who are in Christ as unrighteous because of your sins and imperfections that keep you awake at night. But see God's heart towards all who have Christ as "Saviour" and trust in Him for forgiveness and salvation from sins 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."

Beloved of God, in Christ, we are God's children. We are the Father's sheep. Christ is the Good Shepherd who gives His life for His sheep. He says in John 10:11-

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep."

The Lord our Shepherd is not in the business of abandoning His sheep to devourers or letting us rot  in the messes (sins) that we create or haplessly find ourselves in. He came to save us from our sins, cause us to live right and make us committed to doing good deeds. He transforms us to live right. Titus 2:14 says of Him-

"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."

Also Matthew 1:21- "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

The loving Father that He is, our heavenly Father corrects/disciplines us when we His sheep fail or mess ourselves up (commit sins) but never with "death" and its symptoms that Christ suffered and died to save us from - "sickness" is death begun. Lack is "death begun," etc. Death is a process. Recall Adam did not drop dead physically on the day his death sentence came into effect. Hebrews 12 tells us that His correction is for our profit, that we might live, that we might be partakers of His holiness (we have none of ours) and that we might live right.

Believer, those sins and shortcomings of yours that you struggle with; those ones that make you feel anxious and depressed; those sins that Satan accuses you of in your heart and even from some church pulpits as the cause of your troubles; those sins and generational curse that Satan dressed as pastor uses to make you feel fearful of bad things happening to you unless you use your own power to do certain things that they prescribe; those sins and their penalties that Satan dressed as "pastor" tells you to go and do restitution like Judas, sow seed and fast in order to be free from and escape God's wrath - they are the same sins and shortcomings that our Saviour Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for you and I ONCE FOR ALL to wipe away forever. By His one perfect sacrifice He made us perfectly holy and complete for all time. See this in His word concerning Himself and our salvation in Him in Hebrews 10-

12 "But when this Priest had offered the one supreme sacrifice for sin for all time He sat down on a throne at the right hand of God, 13 waiting until all His whispering enemies are subdued and turn into His footstool.

14 And by His one perfect sacrifice He made us perfectly holy and complete for all time! 15 The Holy Spirit confirms this to us by this Scripture, for the Lord says,

16 “Afterwards, I will give them this covenant: I will embed My laws into their hearts and fasten My Word to their thoughts.”

17 And then He says,

“I will not ever again remember their sins and lawless deeds!”

18 So if our sins have been forgiven and forgotten, why would we ever need to offer another sacrifice for sin?"

Believer, in Christ, God does not remember your sins and lawless deeds. He will never remember them. But antichrist pastors in some churches try to snatch your victory away by reminding you of your sins and God's incoming wrath on you that His word says we who believe will never experience (Romans 5:9.)

Believer, in Christ, this is our confidence before God: We enter into the Holy of Holies - God's very presence - not by preparations of man, by skipping meals, neglecting our bodies or trying to restore ourselves before God like Judas did, but ONLY through the sacrifice of Jesus. See this and much more in the verses immediately following Hebrews 10:12-18 quoted above (19-23):

19 "And now we are brothers and sisters in God’s family because of the blood of Jesus, and He welcomes us to come right into the most holy sanctuary in the heavenly realm—boldly and with no hesitation.

20 For He has dedicated a new, life-giving way for us to approach God. For just as the veil was torn in two, Jesus’ body was torn open to give us free and fresh access to Him! 21 And since we now have a magnificent King-Priest to welcome us into God’s house, 22 we come closer to God and approach Him with an open heart, fully convinced by faith that nothing will keep us at a distance from Him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity and we have been freed from an accusing conscience and now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!

23 So now we must cling tightly to the hope that lives within us, knowing that God always keeps His promises!"

Believer, believe right. Not even those sins and addictions that you struggle with can keep you at a distance from our Abba Father in Christ. The more you come with your baggage of sins, addictions and earthly ills, believing that He has freed you from them all, the more of His salvation from these ills you will see in your physical walk. Christ came to save us from them all.

Following the seemingly godly but false preaching of antichrist pastors who tell you to depend on your own human ability to obey the law and do things like fast to break the curse, be closer to God or become "perfect" like God is how 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.

The children of Israel depended on the blood of bulls and goats offered year upon year and daily and Balaam could not curse them. See how God saw them based on their covering of the blood of bulls and goats- Numbers 23:

"God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent.

Has He said, and will He not do?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

20 Behold, I have received a command to bless;

He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

21 “He has not observed iniquity in Jacob,

Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel.

The Lord his God is with him,

And the shout of a King is among them."

We who are in Christ have a better covenant, not based on the blood of bulls and goats which needed to be shed year upon year, daily, with each sin and in which there is a reminder of sins. Our New Covenant of Grace has the blood of the Son of God - Jesus Christ - as its foundation. His single sacrifice for sins is good for all time -

11"Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. 12 But our High Priest offered Himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then He sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand." Hebrews 10:11-12.

Believer, this is the crux of the gospel- Righteousness by Faith. We who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ have everlasting righteousness before God, "even though we are guilty of many sins." Romans 5:16.

Antichrist pastors say this will make believers go on sinning sprees and self-righteously try to use the letter (law) that kills to put believers in check concerning sins, BUT GOD'S WORD SAYS DIFFERENTLY- God's word says 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-

"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." Romans 5:16-17.

Right believing always produces right living.