Righteous Consciousness v Sin Consciousness
Some people are saying that in order to receive healing, whether it is physical or emotional, we have to break soul ties, generational curses, make lists of the traumatic events that happened in your life, etc. After all this, then these same people use the gift of healing to heal a person up. How effective is it?
Check out this short video on the Laws of Sin and Righteousness
There is a better way! The Bible says that Jesus became a curse for us (Gal 3:13); that by His stripes, we were already healed (Isa 55:5 & 1 Pet 2:24); and as He is today so are we (1 Jn 4:17). When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord, God declares us righteous (Rom 5:1). In 2 Cor. 5:17 it says that we are a new creation! That means that our born-again spirit is brand new! The old curses — unforgiveness — trauma — soul ties — etc. — have been put on the Cross!
We should not be sin conscious! The reality is that Jesus became sin for us and gave us His righteousness! He is holy so I am holy! In Phil 4:1 it says to think about what is good, what is pleasing, what is praiseworthy, etc. Nowhere are we told to think about our old dead nature!
There are some going around bringing people back before the Cross and then healing them. That is plain ordinary stupidity which the Bible says is a different Gospel!
Galatians 1:8 says “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we [originally] preached to you, let him be condemned to destruction!”
When God looks at you He sees you healed, set free, and delivered! Why dig up the old past with the old man? Kick him back into the grave and put on your new nature in Christ!
Here’s a little testimony with a study:
Years ago, I had no clue I was righteous. I’d been stuck in an “ism.” There are “ism’s” in this world. But the day I submitted to Jesus, my life was changed. It is now Christ in me, the hope of glory (Col 1:27)!
I never went back to the “ism.” In fact, I walked away from all I’d held dear my entire life. I didn’t know a thing about what the Bible said about my new righteous nature. I only knew I was different. Soon, I began to tell people that it was all about what Jesus had done for me; not what I had done for Him.
Many people have never heard the Good news that Jesus had paid for all their sins. I find that many people are interested in religion today, but not in Jesus! Yet God is no longer “imputing our trespasses” to us. God has settled the account of the whole world’s sins. That is good news!
The sad thing is many believers – people who have already been made righteous in Jesus – don’t fully understand this good news. They don’t realize God isn’t mad at them; that the war is actually over. They don’t realize they can go boldly before the throne of God without shame – dressed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
That’s because they’ve been taught to focus more on how they’ve messed up than on what Jesus has done for them. As a result, they’re more sin-conscious than they are righteous-conscious.
How do we become more righteous conscious? Step 1: Learn the difference between having your sins forgiven and having your sins remitted. “Remitted” is a word that should never be used in connection with a believer because a man’s sin is remitted only once. Did you hear that? Only once!
When sin is remitted, at the moment of salvation, the Word tells us we become “a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).
You see, the problem we had before we were saved was not all those little individual sins we committed. They were only the symptoms. The problem was the condition of our heart. The problem was our sin nature. No matter how hard we tried to be good and act right, that nature kept us imprisoned in sin.
But when we made Jesus the Lord of our lives, our sin nature died and a righteous nature was born in us. Sin no longer has dominion over us. Righteousness set us free!
That kind of freedom wasn’t available to people in Old Testament days. Back then, before the blood of Jesus had been shed, there was a “reckoned righteousness” with God, gained through the blood of sacrificed bulls and goats. Those sacrifices covered the individual sins, but they didn’t change the hearts of people. People kept on committing the same sins every year because their nature was still the nature of sin.
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Heb. 10:4). But what the blood of bulls and goats could not do, Jesus’ blood did. “…This Man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God…For by one offering He has perfected forever them that are sanctified” (vv. 12, 14).
How long will Jesus’ sacrifice for sin last? Forever. We are forever righteous through the blood of Jesus.
We all still miss it! But even when we do, it’s not the same because our heart is different. God doesn’t see us the same way He did before we were born again.
Think of it this way. If you’re a parent, you may know your child has done something wrong, but as far as you’re concerned, he’s still your child and he’s wonderful. He may need to be corrected, but there’s nothing wrong with him. You know he wants to please you. He just needs more training so he can learn to do things right.
Do your children fall out of good standing with you just because they mess up? Certainly not. It’s the same way in the family of God. Once you’ve been born again, your nature is changed. You don’t want to sin even when you do. It doesn’t feel good.
And when you do sin, you have Someone on your side. Jesus! “…If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). “If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). And all confession means today for us to agree with what God says about us!
While remission changes our nature, forgiveness erases our mistakes. And that’s the final word on sin! God has taken care of the sin problem forever. When Jesus became sin and put sin away, the sin problem became a closed issue with God!
You can still sin if you choose. God won’t stop you. The Holy Spirit will try to get your attention, and if you’ll listen, He will guide you out. But if you don’t, you can continue on with what you do. But you don’t have to sin. Why? Because you don’t have a sin nature anymore. You have a righteous nature.
God “has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son” (Col. 1:13). You’ve been translated out of one kingdom and into another one. We teach this in the Word and people become well! Not only do they become well and healed, they become whole through the Word of God and nothing ever comes back! And when the enemy attacks, they use the Word of God!!! Not some derelict running around pretending that he’s a deliverance minister.
People are so worried about the devil. They’re fighting the devil and bombarding the gates of hell all over the place. One author said, “If you really understand your righteousness in Christ and your authority as a believer, you will pay no attention to the devil. You’ll just go on and do your job.”
Jesus Himself said, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:18-19).
Satan has no authority over you unless you give it to him. Why? Because Jesus has stripped him of all authority and placed it in your hands. As He said in the Great Commission, “All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Go therefore…” (Matt. 28:18-19). That’s really good news, Church!
Be careful today who you listen to! They will either lead into the freedom that Jesus purchased for us by His blood or they will you into a prison of your own self.