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[TD="align: left"]Romans 8:1, NASB
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
CONDEMNATION IS THE ROOT CAUSE
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[TD="colspan: 3, align: left"] When you have a plant with sickly leaves, it would be foolish to just treat the leaves without knowing the root cause of the problem. Similarly, when “leaves” of sickness, poverty and destructive habits start sprouting in your life, you need to know what the root cause is.
Experts will tell you that it is stress. They may go a little deeper and say that it is fear—fear of the future, of rejection, of loss, of death and so on. But is fear really the root? Or is there something deeper than fear?
The Bible shows us that the most fundamental cause of problems in our lives is condemnation. With condemnation comes fear. Fear then induces stress which brings about the symptoms of the curse.
This is what happened to Adam. Long before he faced poverty, sickness and eventually death, he had stress. Because of his sin, God told him, “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground.” (Genesis 3:19) Sweat speaks of stress.
But before there was stress, there was fear because Adam told God, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:10)
But what made Adam fearful? Adam only feared when, seeing his nakedness, he realized that he had sinned against God. He felt so ashamed and condemned that he hid himself. God then asked him, “Who told you that you were naked?” (Genesis 3:11) There was no one else in the garden other than Adam and Eve, so we know that it was probably the devil who told Adam that he was naked.
My friend, condemnation is the root cause of the symptoms of the curse manifesting in your life. That is why you need to know that at the cross, God took all your sins, put them on Jesus and unleashed the full fury of His wrath against them until Jesus cried out, “It is finished!”
All your sins have been completely punished in the body of Christ who was condemned for you. The root cause of all your problems has been dealt with. This means that the devil cannot enforce the curse in your life apart from your receiving condemnation. So come to the place of no condemnation and no sick leaves will sprout in your life!
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[TD="align: left"]Romans 8:1, NASB
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
CONDEMNATION IS THE ROOT CAUSE
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[TD="colspan: 3, align: left"] When you have a plant with sickly leaves, it would be foolish to just treat the leaves without knowing the root cause of the problem. Similarly, when “leaves” of sickness, poverty and destructive habits start sprouting in your life, you need to know what the root cause is.
Experts will tell you that it is stress. They may go a little deeper and say that it is fear—fear of the future, of rejection, of loss, of death and so on. But is fear really the root? Or is there something deeper than fear?
The Bible shows us that the most fundamental cause of problems in our lives is condemnation. With condemnation comes fear. Fear then induces stress which brings about the symptoms of the curse.
This is what happened to Adam. Long before he faced poverty, sickness and eventually death, he had stress. Because of his sin, God told him, “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground.” (Genesis 3:19) Sweat speaks of stress.
But before there was stress, there was fear because Adam told God, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:10)
But what made Adam fearful? Adam only feared when, seeing his nakedness, he realized that he had sinned against God. He felt so ashamed and condemned that he hid himself. God then asked him, “Who told you that you were naked?” (Genesis 3:11) There was no one else in the garden other than Adam and Eve, so we know that it was probably the devil who told Adam that he was naked.
My friend, condemnation is the root cause of the symptoms of the curse manifesting in your life. That is why you need to know that at the cross, God took all your sins, put them on Jesus and unleashed the full fury of His wrath against them until Jesus cried out, “It is finished!”
All your sins have been completely punished in the body of Christ who was condemned for you. The root cause of all your problems has been dealt with. This means that the devil cannot enforce the curse in your life apart from your receiving condemnation. So come to the place of no condemnation and no sick leaves will sprout in your life!
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Joseph Prince is a false grace teacher, And part of Rom 8: 1, is a typical misquote that he would make,
he would leave the last part out, So instead he would quote it like this,
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ".
And leave out, "Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit".
And as for Acts 20: 32, he leaves out,
"Among all them which are sanctifies".
He also quotes, Col 1: 22, "To present you holy and unblameable in His sight", but leaves out v23,
"IF ye continue in the faith".
Because he says doing those things are being legalistic and putting yourself back under the law.
AS for, "No condemnation", in Rom 8: 1. It's the only time that the Greek adds, "No dividing or separating".
So for those who walk after the Spirit, There is no condemnation, dividing or separating from the blessing we see in Rom 8.
V2, Free from the law of sin and death, [But not those who walk after the flesh],
V4, The meaning of, "The righteousness of the law", is, "Our legal rights", Those who walk in the Spirit can enjoy their legal rights, But not those who walk in the flesh.
So we need to find out what our legal rights are, and walk in the Spirit, and enjoy our rights in Christ.
V11, The Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us, and will keep our bodies healthy. [But those who are walking in the flesh, will have condemnation within themselves, and wont have confidence in the blessings of God. 1 Jn 3: 21--22.
You can read the rest of the blessings that those who walk in the Spirit will have, in the rest of Rom 8.