JUDICIAL POSITION

      All of us know that our sins could only be forgiven on account of the blood of Christ "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins".

      We also know that not one atom of sin can enter into the Fathers presence. But we want to feel spiritual despite our sin. So we in the Church have adopted many ways to eliminate or get rid of our sin problem. We have the clear desire to be something other than we are. "Sin is in the flesh"

      Every one of us wish for a untroubled conscious. We admit we sin and so are often kept from a feeling of freedom both to enjoy ourselves and God..

      There is a simple reason we have this plight. We do not see [apprehend] how the Cross removed the old flesh man and Adam's sin nature forever from God's view or even consideration. Hence we resort to methods such as asking forgiveness for our own sake, a submission to feelings. Even a need for penance, as in we will read more bible, work more in the Church, attend a conference or class etc.... If we base our relationship with the Father on what we are in the flesh or how we feel at the moment we display a condition of unbelief of our complete forgiveness and the sufficiency of the Cross.

      We expect through the work of the Spirit to be improved. Converting what is bad [the Adam man] to what is good calling the result sanctification. Perhaps we even have a moment of glorious feelings of freedom; only to experience the breakout of the flesh once again. Where now is the sanctification we had found in our experience and surrender?

      Yes sin is the root. But we hold a new position. We have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in us. We can easily learn from the word, that according to the will of God, all of what we are/were in the flesh is done away with judicially and only judicially in Christ's own death on the Cross. We are ended in God's sight as a natural man.....and thus "the believer is not in the flesh but in the Spirit" which is a Judicial position or how God views us, period! If we reckon that as true by faith in His Word, in the very condition we are occupying now, in the flesh, the Lord Jesus may become the exclusive delight and object of our heart by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

       A man is sent to prison for murder, given a life sentence. One day after many years he is sent before the Judge who proclaims you have served your sentence to my satisfaction and are free to join society. The man is still a murder but now has a new position granted by the judge, one of freedom. He may live like all other citizens by a Judicial decree. Enjoying life. We are like the murder except our sentence has been served by Jesus Christ and now we are free to live in God's life by a Judicial act. As with the criminal our enjoyment of that new life depends upon our attitude. Ours however should be apprehended by the power for freedom we have in Christ based on a Judicial act that we accept in faith, and of its application to us which we hold by that faith; that of the position we were given in Him pronounced in our favor by the Father by His act. A Judicial position.