NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST JESUS

MISSION TRIP TO LIBERIA: I have signed up for a teaching trip to Liberia from December 6 to 15. We will be teaching the books of Ruth and Jonah along with preaching training. Please begin to pray for these 85 Pastors mostly from Liberia but also from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.

PRAY WITH ME FOR AFRICA: Praise God for unity and partnership among all protestants working in Mali, with a focus on the seven largest and most strategic peoples in Mali and West Africa. Pray for God to empower these workers and to prepare hearts for conversion under the Gospel message. For now population growth outpaces Christian growth. Mali is very poor and aided by Libya and Saudi Arabia which promote Islam. God can work in Mali. Please pray!

FLAG OF MALI

 Green stands for fertility of the land, Gold for purity and mineral wealth, and Red for blood shed for independence from the French





I abound with joy and praise to God in the truth and reality of Romans 8.1, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus". In union with the death and resurrection of Christ the believer is justified, declared right with God and fully accepted by God without condition or reservation, even when he may sin. In union with the death and resurrection of Christ the believer is dead to law, and will never ever again fall under the condemnation of law. O, what glorious liberty is ours in Christ Jesus.
My friend, I ask you today, do you know this glorious liberty in Christ? Do you know and have you applied the truth of justification by faith and all its implications to your life? Do you understand that the Law has no more power over you to condemn you and that you have the Holy Spirit of life in you so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fulfilled in you? Do you condemn yourself when in Christ Jesus there is no more condemnation?

 As Lloyd-Jones write, "You may and you should feel ashamed (when you sin), but you should not feel condemnation, because to do so is to put yourself back 'under the law'. If we are in this position, 'in Christ', we are there for ever; there is no condemnation, past, present or future". As we will learn in our Sunday study of Galatians "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery" (5.1).
Ask God to enable you to understand and embrace this wonderful truth of justification and the resulting peace and hope (Romans 5.1-2) and no condemnation (Romans 8.1-4) that is the result. You will overflow with abounding praise to God for his marvelous salvation in Jesus Christ.

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