© 14 Colin Melbourne
Redeemed Guilty Saints?
Q: When we repent and admit our sins to God, and know that The Lord Jesus died for our sins to be absolved; does God remove our guilt of those sins, or do we become a guilty born again Christian? Warren
A: Thank you for a lovely question that demonstrates the Lord is drawing you to Christ. Ask Him to show you what His Redemption includes.
The Bible answer is majestic, more than any of us can imagine, and better yet; signed and sealed with the Blood of Christ.
In every sense, God has given us His Word.
The LORD Jesus Christ, His Word made Flesh, cannot lie.
Sinners take pride in the integrity of their word: But a Christian’s only pride is the integrity of God’s Word, who declares in Jn. 5:24, 8:31-32,36 KJV;
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Guiltless: Sainthood
The instant any sinner repents of unbelief in the LORD Jesus Christ, and receives Him as their Lord, the Holy Ghost comes into their heart and transforms them from a sinner into God’s child; a saint of God, washed free of every guilty stain by the precious sinless Blood shed for you.
This is what He came for.
To make you clean from the inside out, righteous, innocent, blameless, and no longer guilty.
It is one thing to know the scripture, and to comprehend sound doctrine, but it is altogether divine to experience the personal revelation and reality of what the word of God promises.
You will have no hesitation in declaring; The Blood of Christ has set me free!
Every Sin, All Guilt
The scope of that eternal liberty and freedom is infinite.
Free from all condemnation, free from all guilt, free from every bondage to sin, Satan, sickness, and death.
That is why the Holy Ghost declared in Romans 8:1-2 KJV;
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
The unsaved cannot understand this scripture, only those who have been saved, born of God, and experienced it personally, comprehend these blessed Gospel Facts of Life.
They know that Christ has made them righteous in God’s sight, Rom. 3:21-22, 2 Co. 5:21 KJV;
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Blameless and Holy
That’s what God does for each sinner who truly believes on Christ, instantly, and entirely due to His grace.
Why else would He declare believers holy, blameless, and call them saints? (Eph. Chs. 1-2, Pe. 3:14)
Drink in these Living Waters, Col. 1:21-23 KJV;
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.
I’m holy and blameless before God right now.
What about you?
By Grace Through Faith
To the religious, this Gospel fact is sacrilege and unthinkable: To the child of God, it is their staple eternal food, an undeniable fact.
The religious man chases his tail trying to become holy, spinning the treadmill all his life.
Not me.
I got my holiness, and my righteousness, direct from God by faith in what Christ has already done, once and for all. I simply accepted His Gift and live in the truth of it.
The Advocate
If, after coming to Christ, the Christian does fall into sin, God tells us clearly what to do in 1 Jn. 1:7 KJV;
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
We admit to Him directly that we have missed the mark, repent of the sin, are instantly forgiven, and cleansed of all unrighteousness.
(See 1 Jn. 2:1-2)
The word “absolve” is jargon of the Roman Catholic cult. The “confessional” expressions; “I absolve you from all your sins.”, “You’re sins are absolved” aren’t Christian.
The word absolve is not even in the English Holy Bible: The KJV.
The word God uses for cleansing from sin and guilt is forgiven, far better than the Devil’s religious inventions.
If Adam and Eve had stuck to the true words of God, the world would never have been plunged into sin.
When a sinner is made a new creature in Christ 1 Jn. 2:12 becomes precious;
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
Whenever a Christian sins, he remains under God’s grace, convicted of sin by His Spirit, but not condemned as religion condemns. It’s part of the joy of being His child, along with Learning God’s Discipline, and how to hear God’s Voice.
Are you a sinner or a saint of God?
Is the most crucial question to ask yourself:
You can hear God declare you not guilty today, would you like that?
The Holy Bible opens the eyes of sinners to their guilt before God, and points them to the only way they can be forgiven, set free, saved, and at peace forever, and… Transforms sinners into saints
© 14 Colin Melbourne
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