SO NOW — STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP!

Too much has been said about freedom, deliverance, breaking free, breaking loose from the bondage and shackles of our past without the actual application of just doing it! So many Christians live such defeated lives that it would take me another book to dissect all the reasons; rhymes and horrible times we put ourselves through when we refuse to live in the Victory.

What Victory am I speaking about? This Victory is one we won when we took up residence at the Foot of the Cross. We then embraced its substitutionary atonement and subse accepted the Pardon which was paid for there, and is still valid almost 2000 years since!
Two verses today speak to this as we glance at the wonderful chapter of Romans 8 and see that verses 1 and 2 undergirds this foundational truth: “So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death!
How about that! Here are just the facts, ma’am”
– No condemnation: we have been pardoned and declared not guilty BECAUSE we surrendered all at the Foot of the Cross.
– We are not just not guilty (even though the Charge against us was “WE SINNED AGAINST GOD”) but now the Judge Who said we are still “not guilty”  then says…”and furthermore, you now belong to My Son, Who created the Heaven’s and the Earth! Can you just imagine how that feels?! WE BELONG TO THE ETERNAL KING!
– AND not just that, but because we DO belong to this Eternal King of Glory, the Lord God Almighty, the Powerful Force Who created and…..