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Proof Texts The Devil and Well-Meaning People (The Peddlers of Unworthiness) Use To Clobber You Over The Head To Make You Feel Too Unworthy To Receive Healing and Prosperity: Identified, Examined, Explained and Refuted
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Chapter Nine
God’s Five Provisions Continued
One of the greatest needs in the body of Christ today is the need to be able to throw off the feeling of unworthiness which many of God's children carry around on their shoulders day after day. Many people live their lives under a load of guilt and condemnation because of the Unworthiness Peddlers. Until we deal with this there will never be consistent power in our lives. If we don't have confidence we will never exercise the power in our lives.
Look at Romans 4:1-8
Rom 4:1-8
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
If you work for me, and at the end of the work period I owe you $10.00, I'm in your debt. I owe you. If I give you the $10.00 it can't be said that I gave you anything, because I owed it to you. You earned it.
Provision #4: God Puts Righteousness Down To My Account
Read verses 5-6. Keep in mind the word "justified" and "righteous" or "righteousness" means "cleared of all guilt". This doesn't say the man was not guilty, it says he was cleared of all his guilt because God imputed righteousness to him. If I was a murderer and had been locked away on death row waiting for the sentence of death to be carried out, but for some reason I was pardoned by the governor, I would still be the same person - I did the crime - but the difference is, I wouldn't have to pay for it.
The person who has imputed righteousness is someone who, though he is still the same person who committed the sin, is cleared of all guilt because God imputed the clearance of all his guilt to him. The man on death row is still a murderer, but he does not have to pay for it because he received a pardon. The person who has had righteousness imputed to him is someone who is cleared of all guilt because God gave righteousness to him. David describes this man as blessed.
Then in verses 7-8 Paul quotes David. Pay close attention to the word "blessed" because the context of the entire fourth chapter of Romans is Abrahamic. I'm going to show you, as we move on in this chapter, how it relates to the Abrahamic Covenant. Righteousness is called a blessing. Blessed is the man who sins but God does not hold it against him. That man is a member of the Abrahamic Seed Group.
God Does Not Put Your Sin To Your Account But Wipes Your Slate Clean By Clearing You Of All Your Guilt
As this teaching begins to come alive in you, you will find that as a Christian when you sin God doesn't impute it to you. He just doesn't put it down to your account. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord WILL NOT impute sin, but instead imputes the clearance of all his guilt. I'm talking about Christians. As long as you throw this in reverse and think that God imputes sin instead of the clearance of all your guilt, the Devil has you right where he wants you. He will see to it that you feel unworthy and keep you on a continual guilt trip. It will be very hard for you to receive healing and prosperity, or any of God's promises, because you lack the courage to exercise the power of God in your life. The Devil will always get to you by saying, "Look what you did, or look at what you did not do. Do you really
think God will let you use the name of Jesus. Do you?" You'll reply, "No, I guess not. I'm a pretty bad person." But LOOK at what the Bible says! "God DOES NOT impute sin to those of us in the Abrahamic Seed Group, but He DOES impute righteousness, or the clearance of all guilt." Is that what it says, or not? The Bible says “God does not impute sin to the Christian, but He imputes righteousness."
Let's look at II Corinthians 5:17-19,
2 Cor 5:17-19
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
God does not make you over, He makes you new. I like that. He creates a new heart. When someone gets saved, he is made new. He is a new creature, a brand new creative act of God. There are some other things that go along with this new creation - 1) old things are passed away, 2) all things in his existence have become new, and 3) all these new things are of God.
Provision #5: God Does Not Put Our Sin To Our Account
What are the old things? One of them is the fact that God held his sin against him. But now God no longer imputes sin to him. What a blessed man!
What are the new things which are of God? Other than the fact that my heart is new, I've now got a spring in my step, a smile on my face, and a sparkle to my eyes because I'm no longer burdened down with a sin problem - God does not impute sin to me any more. I'm a new creation! Another new thing is that I am now grafted into the Abrahamic stream and, therefore, I am entitled to the blessings of Abraham - healing, prosperity, salvation, and well being for my family members. These things are new for me, and God has grafted me into them.
Look at verses 18-19. God says it again - He does not impute sins and trespasses against us. Paul calls this a ministry of reconciliation, and he says that God has committed this ministry of reconciliation unto us. If declaring that God does not impute our trespasses to us anymore is the ministry of reconciliation, I wonder what the minister in the pulpit means when he preaches the opposite? The opposite of that would be a ministry of condemnation. But Paul said that it is the ministry of reconciliation which has been committed unto us - God will not impute sin to the members of the Abrahamic Seed Group, those who are in Christ Jesus.
In the last chapter I told you about three things that are continually going on in the life of Christians; they never let up and they never stop - 1) the continuous cleansing of our sin by the blood of Jesus, 2) we continuously have Jesus as our advocate - He is always acting as our lawyer before the throne of God, and 3) the continuous action of Jesus as our propitiation, which means that He is continuously satisfying the demands of God for the clearance of my guilt. Is it any wonder that the Bible says that God will not impute sin to those who are in the Abrahamic Seed Group?
I Can Use Jesus’ Name Because I AM WORTHY
Once I begin to see this from the God-side, there will rise up in my bosom a confidence that I absolutely do have the authority to exercise the power of God on my behalf and on the behalf of others. Bless God, I can be healed, I can use the name of Jesus, because I am NOT unworthy and I do NOT have to be on a guilt trip all the time. I am learning to see things from God's side - God will NOT impute sin to a member of the Abrahamic Seed Group. This is what Paul calls the ministry of reconciliation.
I am trying my best to lift the burden and load from the backs of people. For me to do the opposite means that I make the same mistake that the Jews of old made. They tried to put themselves under something that they really were never under - under a perversion of the Jewish law, i.e. disconnected from the Abrahamic Covenant.
God has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. A lot of people want a ministry. Well, you've got one - the ministry of reconciliation. It contains the fact that God does not impute sin. I WANT YOU TO GET THIS! II Corinthians 5:18 says that God has given us the ministry of reconciliation, and verse 19 says that He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Paul goes on to say,
2 Cor 5:20-21
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
An ambassador is one who is sent on behalf of another. Our government has ambassadors all over the world. What Paul is saying in these verses is this - God has given us a ministry of reconciliation, He has committed to us the word or the message of reconciliation, and therefore, we are now ambassadors of Christ. We are to take this ministry of reconciliation, which includes the fact that God will not impute sin to a member of the Abrahamic Seed Group, and be ministers to those around us. What if God still held our sins against us? Then Christ died in vain. If, in fact, I can sin and lose my salvation, the death of Christ was the most stupid thing this world has ever seen. If this is true, He didn't help us a bit to clear up our past because, for practical purposes, our past is still going on in the present because we still sin.
I not only need help with my past, but I need help with the present. That's where the three things in the message from I John come in - the continuous action of cleansing by the blood of Jesus, the continuous advocacy of Jesus in heaven, and the continuous satisfaction of Jesus' death in the mind of God for my sin. This is the word of reconciliation - we have been reconciled to God, period!
Is it any wonder that David said, even in the Old Testament, "Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity...." (Psalm 32:2). In other words, he can sin, and God won't hold it to his account. That is a major blessing! That was the first blessing Abraham got from God.
Now We Can Walk In Abraham’s Advance Information To Get Off The Guilt Trip Down Unworthiness Detour
Let me show in something in Romans 4:12-14.
Rom 4:12-14
12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
We have to walk in the steps of Abraham's faith. What is faith? It is information that shows us in advance what God's will is on a matter and what our part is in it. This verse says that we have to walk in the very steps of the same, identical advance information Abraham had. What was the advance information Abraham had? He believed God, and God counted it to him for righteousness, which is justified or cleared of all guilt. When you learn to walk in this information you will find that God imputes righteousness to you, but He does not impute sin to you - that's Abraham's information. Anything contrary to this is not the information our father Abraham had. The most miserable person in the world is a Christian who has not learned who he is in Christ and what his relationship with God is - because God no longer imputes sin to him. He just doesn't do it!
I had lunch with a man and woman the other day, and she told me, "I feel liberated." She had listened to a series of tapes which I had made on this subject and had received revelation knowledge from them. Bless God, that's the way she is supposed to feel, because we ARE liberated. The Bible says, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free...." (Galatians 5:1). I stand in liberty. Listen, we sing the songs, and we talk the talk, but most Christians don't have any concept of what this means.
I'll tell you what it means - GOD DOES NOT IMPUTE SIN TO YOU! The Apostle John wrote in I John 2:1, "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not...." Again, this is not a license to do anything you want to do, to live any way you want to live. That's not what the Bible means, and it's not what I mean. But there are times in your life as a Christian when you are going to stumble. When you do, God, your Father, is going to deal with you by lifting you up and not imputing that sin to you.
I do not worry about the sin problem. God imputes righteousness to me - the clearance of all my guilt. That's liberty. This is what Paul meant in the book of Galatians when he told the Christians to stand fast in liberty. If it's any other way, Jesus died a foolish death, because it means His blood didn't work. Someone says, "God sent the Holy Ghost to dwell in us to keep us from sinning." That is a fact, but sometimes we're going to do it anyway! Any level of victory we have over sin is because of Holy Ghost, but there is no getting around it - we are going to stumble from time to time. What happens when we do? God will not impute sin, He'll impute righteousness, and clear us from the guilt of the sin.
I Want To Turn You Into The Most Gutsy Christian in The World
This is the word and ministry of reconciliation. We are ambassadors for Christ. I tell you this to build your confidence and your faith. I tell you this to develop God's power within you. I want to turn you into the most gutsy Christian in the world, so that you don't let the Devil back you in a corner. As long as you are backed into a corner, you'll never have the courage to use the name of Jesus in the face of a demon or disease.
You MUST understand that God does not impute sin to you, but that the blood of Jesus Christ is continually cleansing you from ALL unrighteousness. For God to impute sin to you means that there is a sin more powerful than the blood of Jesus - His blood could not cleanse it; therefore, God Almighty had to impute it to you. But, bless God, that sin does not exist. That is an absolute insult to the blood of Jesus Christ. There can be no sin that God can impute to me, because the blood of Jesus cleanses all sin. Do you see where I'm coming from? People, this is liberty! This is the word of reconciliation - this is the ministry of reconciliation.
When this becomes real to you, then when some disease latches itself to a member of your family, you won't be badgered into a corner, thinking you're not worthy to use the name of Jesus. You will take that Name and blow that disease right out of their body.
How can I be reconciled to God if God is holding something against me? There is no reconciliation in that! Paul said that we have been reconciled because God no longer imputes sin, He imputes the clearance of guilt concerning the sin. That's liberty. You will feel the very power of God rise up when you get into the meat of this teaching and let it begin to shape your life. This will turn you into a person who is not afraid to charge hell with a squirt gun! We are ambassadors of Christ, and this is the word we are to be presenting to the world.
Look at II Corinthians 5:20-21,
2 Cor 5:20-21
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Paul is begging Christians to be reconciled to God, because God made Jesus everything we are, and He made us everything He was. No wonder God doesn't impute sin. If God imputes sin that means Jesus was not what He was cracked up to be. Think about this! God made Jesus to be sin! God made Jesus what I was, and he made me what He was - the righteousness of God in Him. How can God impute a sin to me if He made Jesus what I was and made me what He was? This is reconciliation. If God made Jesus sin and made me the righteousness of God in Christ, how, how, how can sin be imputed to me?
Suppose God Did Impute Sin To Me! So What!
Suppose God did impute sin to me? My answer to that is, "So what!", for three reasons; 1) the blood of Jesus continuously cleanses it, 2) Jesus is continuously my lawyer, and 3) Jesus is continuously the satisfaction for it. Therefore, so what if God did impute sin! But there is a fourth element to add to the previous three - HE DOES NOT IMPUTE SIN!
You can get real gutsy with the Devil when the revelation of this begins to churn in your spirit. I dare the Devil to mess with me. He knows that I know who I am. I settled this a long time ago. Listen, the only way the Devil can get to you is to make you feel unworthy, and get you on a guilt trip because of your sin. He will teach you religious theology when you ought not listen to it. Instead, you should get into the Word of God, yourself, and let the Spirit of God teach you.
So, let God impute sin (that is, if He did, which He doesn't). I can handle it, because the blood of Jesus continuously cleanses me from all sin, and there is no sin His blood cannot take care of. So, if I was imputed with sin, so what? That's liberty, my brother and sister. That is freedom. Second, Jesus is continuously my lawyer. Third, Jesus is continuously the propitiation or satisfaction for my sin. But when you consider the fact that God does not impute sin to me, that's four things that keep me free.
Let's add a fifth thing. God DOES impute the clearance of all the guilt of all my sins that He does not impute anymore - how many ways can I say it? Can you tell - I'm not getting on this unworthiness kick. I'm not getting on a guilt trip. When I stumble and fall, it grieves my heart, because I'm saved, and a saved person has a pain in his heart when he sins. But I will not let it go beyond that. I throw it off, put it under the blood of Jesus, and go on and do what God wants me to do.
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