Lessons From The Desert
Our Position in Christ
Salvation is not doing; it is believing. It is counting what God believes to be true for you and about you as true. Our performance is not the source of our righteousness before God. The only righteousness that God can recognize is our position in Jesus Christ when it comes to our humanity and our indwelling sinful nature in the flesh. To believe that what you are doing and what you are restraining yourself from doing is the way you earn a righteous standing before God is placing a lot of confidence in your flesh. Those who are in Jesus Christ are not walking after the inaccurate assumption that their righteousness is related to their performance. This was Israel's problem in the Old Testament. Those are in Jesus Christ are those who place no confidence in their flesh, but understand, as Paul understood, that in their flesh dwells nothing good. The sanctification that comes by way of being placed into Christ - joined to Christ - is a positional truth. A sanctified position in Christ comes not as a result of behavior, it come as a result of belief! God is not looking at how well we adhere to a man made doctrine or standard. God is not looking at our production. God is not looking at our behavior in order to view us as being in favor with him. God sees us in Christ! What a marvelous plan God has for us.
Salvation is not doing; it is believing. It is counting what God believes to be true for you and about you as true. Our performance is not the source of our righteousness before God. The only righteousness that God can recognize is our position in Jesus Christ when it comes to our humanity and our indwelling sinful nature in the flesh. To believe that what you are doing and what you are restraining yourself from doing is the way you earn a righteous standing before God is placing a lot of confidence in your flesh. Those who are in Jesus Christ are not walking after the inaccurate assumption that their righteousness is related to their performance. This was Israel's problem in the Old Testament. Those are in Jesus Christ are those who place no confidence in their flesh, but understand, as Paul understood, that in their flesh dwells nothing good. The sanctification that comes by way of being placed into Christ - joined to Christ - is a positional truth. A sanctified position in Christ comes not as a result of behavior, it come as a result of belief! God is not looking at how well we adhere to a man made doctrine or standard. God is not looking at our production. God is not looking at our behavior in order to view us as being in favor with him. God sees us in Christ! What a marvelous plan God has for us.
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