The Power To Live Right- Pastor Kong Hee

The Power To Live Right

I shared yesterday about how righteousness removes all remembrance of past sin and wrongdoings. But this is only half the good news! That’s because righteousness is also Christ’s divine nature that’s working in your life to overpower sin.

When Jesus gives you freedom, it is not a “freedom to sin” but rather it’s “freedom from sin.” It’s not a freedom to continue in sin, but a freedom to live free from sin! The Bible tells us in 1 John 3:6 and 9,

“Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”

To give you and me power over sin, Jesus has to change us radically. So something else happened on the cross: “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

God has never, ever known sin. He has never been defiled by sin—righteousness is His very nature. Yet on the cross, Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness, and gave you and me His righteousness; His own divine nature. And with this divine nature, the power of sin can now be permanently destroyed in us.

So two things happened on the cross: God declared you righteous, and you were made a new creature in Christ and a partaker of the divine nature. As a believer, you now stand totally complete in Christ, righteous by faith and righteous by nature. You don’t have to be bound by sinfulness and wrongdoing any more. Christ gives you power to live righteously each and every day!

Prayer for the day:

Ask God to help you to walk in the righteous nature that He has already gifted to you through Jesus Christ. Pray that through the righteousness you have in Him, you can always be victorious over the power of sin.