Being forgiven of every ignorant action that's ever been taken in our bodies means that our bodies are now freed from the harvest of our wrong actions! We're finally freed from a negative expectation to reap the harvest of a deed sown by the flesh, because in Him, we are in the Spirit. We're completely freed by the continual harvest of His Righteous Action on our behalf! Today, we can all afford to stand before God in a sinless condition, as Holy Ones having never performed any action inconsistent with God's own image and likeness. How can this all be? How can He call us things our own actions don't give Him permission to call us? How can we underestimate such big news?
God, being holy, would never endorse wrong acts or perform in the likeness of sinful human behavior, however, having never performed the admittedly sinful action of eating the fallen fruit from the Garden of Eden, ever human being still suffered the same deadly consequence of the one who did. Frankly, what the one above you says about you goes. As long as you're under that one's house, you're under that one's rules whether we rebel against them or not, those rules measure and define us. Disobeying the rules defines us as disobedient and causes the measure of our righteousness to decrease, while obeying the rules defines us as obedient and increases the measure of our righteousness by our own actions.
Far superior to this, as Sons in this same house we'd once been as servants in, One righteous action that was performed on our behalf, without our permission, already redeemed our perfect identity before God for all eternity! Likewise, having obviously never performed the righteous action of dying on behalf of all mankind's sins, we're all equally freed from the fallen condition put into place before us of being defined by a life defined as one falling short of being the Son of God.
That we are the Sons of God is without question. He created and defined us in Him from the beginning and no wrong action or misdeed committed by man or angelic being could ever undue the truth of what He'd already determined and known from the beginning as truth! This means that if any human behavior now defines us, it's God own human behavior of redeeming us through Jesus Christ.
It's that righteous human behavior of Jesus giving His life to redeem our Sonship in God that now defines us. The innocence of the One endorsing our innocence before God forever defines us now, and it is not an innocence of our own production. Because of the gift of innocence, it doesn't leave us with anything to boast in or exalt our own selves by. In fact, anything that doesn't come from a place of innocence distances mankind from the knowledge of the radiance of His glory, and the behaviors consistent with being guilty or having a guilty-conscience have today become ugly to us and grieve us.
You see, all the ways of guilt have lost their appeal to us, and whatever image of ourselves that the guilty actions of the flesh defined was indeed "bad" and "wrong" compared to the truth that God unveiled His righteousness in us and associating us with the Highest in Himself, He broke our association with everything "less-than." Unless it's perfectly good, it's lost it's appeal. -f #nobadong
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