DELIVERED FROM THE SICKNESS OF SIN

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: DELIVERED FROM THE SICKNESS OF SIN

Romans 8:1-4

A. The Weakness Of The Law -

The Bible makes it clear that every person who has not trusted Jesus as Lord and Savior is sick. In fact, they are terminally ill!
When a person is sick, they will often try any remedy they think will work to make themselves better. Sometimes, those radical remedies work magic in the lives of the physically ill.

However, for those who are afflicted with spiritual illness, only one remedy will effect a cure.
Verse 3 makes it clear that where the Law failed, Christ prevailed! The Law could not make men righteous. In fact, all the Law could do was to point out how sinful men really were Rom. 7:7.

Jesus, on the other hand, was born in a human body that He might die for sin, Phil. 2:5-8. When He did this, He provided a cure for the sickness of sin, Isa. 53:5.

Now, all those who trust Him by faith are forever delivered from their spiritual sickness and are made whole. But, it gets better than that!

B. The Work Of The Lord -

Verse 4 moves on to tell us that when we are in Jesus, that is, when we are saved, the whole righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us. According to the Word of God, when a lost sinner trusts Jesus Christ as Savior, that lost sinner is made right with God. They are declared righteous by God Himself. It is as if they had never sinned and would never sin again. They are justified, Rom. 5:1.

What this says is that people like you and me, people who aren't even as right as a stopped clock that is at least right twice a day, are declared to be perfect in the eyes of God.
Not by our works, but by the work of Jesus on the cross and by the work of the Spirit of God in our hearts. In Jesus, we are made exactly as we should be to be pleasing to the Lord.

When He sees you that are saved, He sees you like as being just as righteous as He is! That is enough to make a Baptist come unglued!
Hallelujah

LET US PRAY
DEAR LORD JESUS DELIVER US TOTALLY FROM SPIRITUAL SICKNESS THAT IS KILLING OUR LOVE FOR YOU IN JESUS NAME.

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