For he hath made him to be sin for, who knew
no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2
Corinthian 5:21)
Jesus didn’t die to
make us sinners; He died to make us saints of God. We’re His holy and sanctified
ones; born with His nature of righteousness. The opening scripture shows us the
reason He died and was made sin: that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him… Praise God!
The sinner is not just someone who has committed sin. For example,
the fact that someone lied doesn’t make him a liar; he only becomes a liar when
it’s his nature to tell lies. In the same way, though it’s wrong to sin, you can’t
call a man a sinner just because he sinned. One can only be a sinner by nature,
because sin is a nature.
Sin is the nature of the devil which is passed to every man
that’s born into this world. It’s beyond the mere acts of lying, stealing,
fornication etc. that exist in the world today. Thus, for someone to be called
a sinner means such person has the evil destructive nature of sin functioning
in him.
What’s the cure for that? Righteousness! For the one who is
born again, the nature of sin with which he was born by his biological parents
has been supplanted with the nature of God that produces righteousness. He can
no longer be called a sinner even if does something wrong. All he needs for
doing anything wrong is to ask and receive forgiveness from the Father. What the
sinner needs is a new nature, which only occurs when he makes Jesus Christ Lord
of his life.
As you grow in Christ
and learn to live in the word your become perfected in your walk in
righteousness. It’s like a baby who is learning to walk and then stumbles an
falls; would that in any sense suggest that the baby isn’t human, since every
human person is supposed to be able to walk normally? Of course not! That baby
is as human as the adult who can walk and run perfectly without stumbling. In the
same way, a Christian who does something wrong is still as righteous as the one
who never committed any sin. Therefore don’t let anyone call you a sinner, for
you’re the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
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