Dear Adunni,
I have come with good news because of the Good News. For the love of GOD and the favour of GOD are impervious to iniquity and separation from GOD; because the justice of GOD and HIS judgement are safe and secure from the corruption of perversion and selfishness; because the holiness and purity of GOD is more powerful than impurities and corruption, we no longer need to sin or transgress the holy law of GOD.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” — John 8:34-36 (NKJV)
We do not need to succumb to the wiles and the strategies of our flesh. We no longer need to be subjugated to the desires that hold us bound against our will. The salvation that JESUS gives us—by grace and truth—makes us lawful, gives us the grace to stay lawful, and lawfully empowers us with the strength to reject sin and every unrighteous act: first in our thoughts, then through our imaginations, to the actions of our hands.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” — Romans 6:14 (NKJV)
This is the Good News: that we no longer need to succumb to our worst impulses. We do not need to continue the circle and repetition of unrighteous choices. We have freedom: freedom that is never bound, freedom that can no longer succumb to the boundaries of our human and unequal limitations.
“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” — John 8:36 (NKJV)
The righteousness of GOD, the righteousness of JESUS, shows us that we can live in righteousness and be strong by virtue of living in it.
So I bring you this Good News: that we are no longer slaves to the sins that we once committed; that we are strong enough because JESUS has given us the strength, the enablement, and the might to live above the temptations of our greed for impropriety. We need not excuse ourselves from the responsibility of working worthy of the love and mercy of GOD. Because we are free from sinning and no longer free to sin, freedom is what we truly have.
“And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.” — Romans 6:18 (NKJV)
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” — Galatians 5:1 (NKJV)
“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” — Romans 8:12-13 (NKJV)
with much love,
Olatunde
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