From Sin's Tree to Shalom: Righteousness in Christ

My future sins? Well, you better hope so because he did it two thousand years ago, and he's not gonna die on the cross again. He said he did it once. He's only gonna do it once. Right? So he paid so that we could be the righteousness of God in Christ, not based on what we do. So we're righteous based on Christ. We are the righteousness of God in Christ. Like, we're in Christ. [01:04:38] (36 seconds)  #RighteousInChrist

Do you guys understand the ramifications of that? If the spirit of God like, we're the temple, just like the ark of the covenant, we've got God on the inside of us, what does that tell you about your spirit? The real you. You're perfect. Because throughout the whole Old Testament, God required perfection. He required perfection. You couldn't be a priest if you had a mole. Right? He required perfection. [01:02:50] (38 seconds)  #TempleOfGod

So a guy by the name of Uzzah reaches out to stop that ox that Ark of the Covenant from falling off that oxcart. And when he does that, he drops dead instantly. Why? Because everybody in the Old Testament was a sinner because they were plugged in to the tree of sin. Jesus hadn't died and paid for their sins. So when a sinner came in contact with a holy god, he dropped dead. [01:00:13] (46 seconds)  #TreeOfSin

So we see he bore all of our sins on the cross, that we would be dead to sin, that we would die to sin, that we would become the righteousness of God in Christ. Right? That we could be righteous. So, you know, I was talking about the the, sinner taking the lamb to the priest. Right? Well, when we fast forward into the New Testament, John says and he sees Jesus coming. He says, behold the lamb of god that takes away the sin of the world. [00:57:04] (48 seconds)  #LambOfGod

Lord told me out of the blue one time, he says, if you've died to sin, then you died to the wages of sin. Oh, I gotta write that down. I put that on my phone right away. Yeah. And we've died to the wages of sin. See, what we did is Jesus came along and he unplugged us from that tree of sin, and he plugged us into a tree of righteousness. And what are the wages of righteousness? Peace, quietness, assurance forever. [01:15:53] (40 seconds)  #PluggedIntoRighteousness

So when we see that we are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells on the inside of us, That tells you that you, the real you, is perfect and can't get any better. It doesn't matter whether you're a goody two shoe or or a terrible Christian in some people's mind. It doesn't matter because your righteousness is not based on what you do. If we could be righteous based on what we do, why would Christ need to come? Right? [01:03:28] (37 seconds)  #RighteousByGrace

And so this taking away the sin of the world is the only way that that union with God can be restored. So we see God taking our sin on the tree that we could be the righteousness of God. Right? See, our righteousness is not based on us. We're the righteousness of God in Christ. Over a 170 times in the New Testament, it says, we're in Christ and Christ is in us, that we're one. [00:57:51] (57 seconds)  #OneInChrist

But Satan will steal from you, he'll destroy you, and he'll kill you if he can. So this is why God has such a problem with sin is because it was destroying his people, and it was always about protecting his people. So he had a plan. He sent Jesus. It was prophesied through the whole, Old Testament that he was gonna not impute our sin to us. Before the law, sin was in the world. But sin was not counted against anyone because there was no law. [01:06:58] (56 seconds)  #SinDestroysLives