Finally,
be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of
God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. Ephesians 6:10-11
The
Christian believer cannot be happy and victorious in the true liberty of the
children of God if he is still quaking about his past sins.
God knows
that sin is a terrible thing—yes, and the devil knows it, too! So the devil
follows us around and as long as we will permit it, he will taunt us about our
past sins.
As for
myself, I have learned to talk back to him on this score.
I say,
“Yes, Devil, sin is terrible—but I remind you that I got it from you! And I
remind you, Devil, that everything good—forgiveness and cleansing and
blessing—everything that is good I have freely received from Jesus Christ!”
Everything
that is bad and that is against me I got from the devil—so why should he have
the effrontery and the brass to argue with me about it? Yet he will do it
because he is the devil, and he is committed to keeping God’s children shut up
in a little cage, their spiritual wings clipped.
Brethren,
we have been declared “Not guilty!” by the highest court in all the universe.
It is good to know that on the basis of grace as taught in the Word of God,
when God forgives a man, He trusts him as though he had never sinned.
The Bible
does not teach that if a man falls down, he can never rise again. The fact that
he falls is not the most important thing—but rather that he is forgiven and
allows God to lift him up! That is the basis of our Christian assurance and God
wants us to be happy in it.
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