Not Guilty; Forever Acquitted!
Dearly beloved by our Heavenly Father and highly favored in His sight, because of Jesus Christ’s accomplishments anyone can stand before God as justified from sin, declared not guilty, forever acquitted in God's courtroom.
The one just man who was without sin, Jesus Christ, gave his life in the place of the unjust so that we could be justified from the sin of Adam and the condemnation of death it brought upon the world.
There is therefore no more condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus; no more sentence that declares us guilty before God. We have been acquitted forever; justified.
God demonstrated His justice towards us in Jesus Christ. He set the standard by which He justifies, and Jesus Christ fulfilled His Father’s will.
We are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. He alone justified us from past sins, and in him God has given us the remission of sins by the riches of His grace.
God demonstrated His justice to the world by sending His Son as the Lamb of God to take the place of the guilty as the sacrifice for sin. By the grace of God and because of His great love for us, if you confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved! God counts his work for our salvation and justification.
Dearly beloved, the free gift of God’s grace is not like Adam’s trespass. By Adam’s offense many died [they lost spirit life the day he disobeyed], much more by the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.
The gift of God is not like the trespass of the one that sinned, for the judgment was by Adam unto condemnation, but the free gift of grace is out of many trespasses unto justification.
If by the trespass of Adam, death reigned through him, much more they who receive God’s abundance of grace and the gift of His justice will reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
By one man’s disobedience, Adam’s, many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one, Jesus Christ, many will be made just.
Dearly beloved, sin reigned in death – the death, the loss of spirit life due to Adam’s sin and condemnation - even so might grace reign through God’s justice unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I Corinthians 5:21 reveals that “God made him who had no sin [Jesus Christ] to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Jesus Christ came to do His Father’s will. He did away with the first covenant in order to establish the second. By this will, the will of God, we are sanctified once and for all through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ.
By one offering, Jesus Christ has perfected forever those whom he sanctified. It is done! God chooses to remember our sins and iniquities no longer. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin. Through Christ we can now enter God’s presence with absolute certainty of believing; with boldness and confidence.
Dearly beloved, God showed us this mercy, and grace while we were guilty, not innocent; dead in sin, ungodly, His enemies, and deserving of the wrath to come.
In God’s courtroom we now stand justified from sin and declared not guilty; we have been acquitted and there is no more condemnation coming to those who are in Christ Jesus. Rejoice forevermore!
Being justified by believing in Jesus Christ we have peace with God and have access into His grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The judge has declared, “Not guilty; you are acquitted forever. There is no more condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus!” The sound of the judge’s gavel signals that His judgment stands; it rings throughout eternity. Court dismissed!
As He has said, so it is, dearly beloved. Rejoice and live in thanksgiving for the Father’s great love and grace that He showed us in Christ Jesus our Lord.