You Are Right With God Through Jesus!

Under the old covenant, sins were merely covered.  

Hebrews 10:11  And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

But today we have the new covenant which is better than the old covenant.   Read the following verse which talks about Jesus:

Hebrews 9:25-26, Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with the blood of another—He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Jesus removes our sin in the new covenant.  John the Baptist announced in John 1:29 when He saw Jesus,  (The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,) “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”  Jesus doesn’t just cover it, He takes it away!

Because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross we have right-standing with God because we have been made new creations in Christ Jesus.  We don’t look at our sin the way God’s people from the Old Covenant did.   Once we ask for forgiveness, it’s as if we never sinned as far as God is concerned.  We are right with God because of the new covenant through Jesus Christ!   The new covenant was formed when Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected.  That ended the old covenant!

Think about what this means to you.  You don’t have to see yourself through your sins but as God sees you which is through the righteousness of His Son, Jesus Christ.  You don’t have to live in misery any more  because you don’t have to live with your past failure.  If you are, then you need to follow Christ right now and begin walking in your inheritance.  It belongs to you not because of who you are but because of Jesus and what He did for you on the cross.

So the next time you start to feel badly about your past or the mistakes you’ve made, STOP and remember who you are in Christ.  You are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ.  Think like it, speak like it and act like it and in time you will make the truth of God’s Word come alive for you.

When you do this, you will begin to realize God’s blessings in your life.  God can’t bless you when you’re looking at yourself instead of the fact that Jesus removes our sins as if they never were.  He removed your sins if you asked for forgiveness.   If you haven’t already, ask for God to remove your sin now and then — KEEP YOUR EYES ON WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST!