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“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” – 2Corinthians 5:17 LIGHT FOR NOW: The moment you become born again, you become a new man without a past. The death, burial and resurrection of Christ was to bring justification toContinueContinue reading “YOU ARE A NEW MAN WITHOUT A PAST”

“For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love towards us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” – Romans 5:7-8 LIGHT FOR NOW: No more sacrifice is required for you to walk inContinueContinue reading “NO MORE SACRIFICE”

“Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly” – 1Corinthians 15:49 LIGHT FOR NOW: You are not an earthly being, you are a heavenly being. The believer in Christ is a heavenly being. The word of God confirms that. Our text for today isContinueContinue reading “EXPLAINING THE DOCTRINE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS”

“Even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you” – John 14:17 LIGHT FOR NOW: The believer is the dwelling place of God. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the action byContinueContinue reading “THE SPIRIT IN THE BELIEVER”

“For he had made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” – 2Corinthians 5:21 LIGHT FOR NOW: You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Are you righteous? If you see yourself as unworthy or having earn a right standingContinueContinue reading “RIGHTEOUSNESS: YOUR REALITY IN CHRIST”

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” – Romans 10:9-10 LIGHT FOR NOW: Jesus is ourContinueContinue reading “CONFESSION OF CHRIST: A CONDITION NECESSARY TO SALVATION”