Christ our forever identity

Believers whose righteousness is Christ, never doubt who you are in Christ. A gold bar might fall into mud but it is still a gold bar; the reason Jesus came is to save us from our sins. See Matt. 1:21- "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Jesus came to save us from our sins. He refines us into pure gold and if we fall into the mud, He cleanses us and saves us from our sins. He never condemns us. How could He use the very sins He came to save us from as an excuse for not saving us? This is akin to an oncologist father refusing to treat his own beloved child who has cancer because the child has cancer. If you can stop sinning on your own, you don’t need Jesus!

Christ did not have to turn stones to bread in order to prove to Himself or anyone that He is the Son of God, even though He was in positions that did not portray His glory and majesty to those who walked in the flesh. He knew who He is when Satan came to Him with his "If you are the Son of God..."

John 1:16 says "But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God."

In Christ, we are made righteous (made to be like God) by Christ's obedience (Romans 5:19) and not by our useless efforts at obeying the law or doing things in order to prove to ourselves and accusers on the pulpit that we are sons of God. We are because we believe Jesus and not because we obeyed the law. Only in Him do we get to live in triumph over sin and death (Romans 5:19)

Pastors and leaders, by God's Grace, enough of the "And you call yourself a child of God" accusations from the pulpit. Without God's grace, everyone stands accused and guilty. Everyone. This is why no one could stone the woman caught in adultery. The devil is the Accuser and seduces people to do works of the law in order to be godly aka be like God. But Jesus is Saviour. Instead of doing the devil's work for him after Eve's example - pointing out ungodliness and telling people that they can be godly aka "be like God" if they feed on the law which gives the knowledge of good and evil and kills like the tree - point all to Christ's saving grace.

Christ gave Himself to make us righteous, grant us eternal life and to redeem us from every lawless deed. Only He can transform sinners to righteousness and life, not accusations and threats of judgment from the pulpit.

Grace (Christ personified) did not come to make it okay for people who are drowning (sinners) to continue to wallow in the sins that are causing them to drown. Sinners will surely die if they continue to wallow in sin. Sin destroys. But Christ saves from sin (Matt. 1:21.) Grace came to save the drowning and free the sinner from the sins that hold him captive, not tell the sinner to save himself . Titus 2:14 says of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ-

"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."

He does it all. In Him, we get to live in triumph over sin and death. Those puny efforts at keeping the Ten Commandments only serve to cut one off from Christ. Galatians 5:4 says-

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

There is no salvation without Grace.

John 3:16 tells us all we need to do to be saved, including saved from acts of sin, sickness, depression, oppression, lack, whatever bugs mankind, physical death and the second death; to be in right standing with God – BELIEVE! And even this is not by our strength, lest any man should boast. We are saved by Grace through faith.

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

Believe Right and you will Live Right!