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In Christ, You Are A Saint Now!
Board for Evangelism Newsletter: July 2006
| Who are the saints? How did they get to be saints? Even before answering these questions, we might find ourselves saying, “What does it matter? I know I am NOT one, and will NEVER be one.” But it does matter. In fact, God wants you to be a saint! In His Word, He tells us how this is possible! Don’t get nervous. It is not what you think. You don’t have to go off and live in a mountaintop monastery to do this. While we have the impression that sainthood is something earned like a student earns a degree, that’s not how anyone becomes a saint. If sainthood is something earned there would be no saints at all. For God says, “Be holy, as I am holy.” Among all the people who have walked the face of this earth, only Jesus Christ was truly holy. In him we find the answers to our questions. The Bible tells us, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” This tells us that Jesus, the Son of God, came in human flesh, without sin, to trade places with us. He came to do for us what we could not do for ourselves, that is, be holy. The Gospels record for us the holy life which Jesus lived while under great spiritual hardships. | The devil was tempting him. The world
was rejecting him. One of his own disciples betrayed him. The rest of
them fled when He was arrested and put on trial. BUT HE NEVER SINNED
ONCE. He did it for each of us. Then, Jesus, the Holy One, went to the
cross to die for our sins! How does this enable us to be saints, even while we fumble about in our daily sins? Through faith, we receive Jesus’ holiness, his righteousness, as if we had lived it ourselves. Through faith, all our sins are removed, forgiven, wiped from our account. In Christ, we sinners are holy and righteous. We are saints without ever having done a single, purely good thing.
“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:21 |
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