The Leverage Devotional by Apostle Segun Obadje 21 FEBRUARY 2024: Redemption Realities
Colossians 1:12-14; Ephesians 1:7-11
Colossians 1:14 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins.”
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12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[a] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9 he[a] made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
11 In him we were also chosen,[b] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
Leverage Devotional For Today Message:
Our opening scripture reveals a fact of God’s Word. It says we HAVE redemption in Christ Jesus. Note the tenses. It says we have redemption; not that we are going to have it, but we possess it. In Christ Jesus, redemption is a fact, not a promise. Redemption is a divine buyback from sin and all its consequences. The power with which the devil terrorised the world was the power of death (Hebrews 2:14-15). The Word reveals that “The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law” (I Corinthians 15:56). The killing power of death is sin, meaning that without sin, death is a toothless dog. The ruling power of the devil, therefore, was sin. The first provision of redemption is salvation from sin. Beloved, the sin problem has been solved. Jesus solved the sin problem once and for all when He became man’s sin Offering and Substitute on the cross of Calvary. He took man’s place and bore the punishment that was due man. God made Him sin for us (II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53:1-5). With the provision of the remedy for sin, the devil’s power to terrorize was terminated eternally.
Not only did Jesus Christ die for our sins, but He also became our sin nature on the cross of Calvary. He identified with man’s sin nature on the cross. With His shed blood, He made provision for the purging of man’s conscience from dead works of unbelief and of the flesh and obtained for man an eternal redemption (Hebrews 9:12-13). The redemption of the man in Christ is an eternal one; it is as everlasting as the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ! Beloved, sin was conquered right on the cross of Jesus Christ, and the conquest was sealed at His resurrection. Jesus’ death and resurrection are witnesses that sin has been defeated. The impeccable blood of Jesus is a permanent and irrevocable cure for sin. Faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for man is man’s access into this redemption. Faith in His shed blood is access to the remission of sin. Beloved, this is the reality of the man in Christ: “…sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace” (Romans 6:14).
MY SOLID FRONT (CONFESSION)
Heavenly Father, I thank You for making Your Son, Jesus Christ, my sin offering. I declare that I am free from sin and I live in righteousness to Your praise, in Jesus’ Name. AMEN.
Further Meditation: Hebrews 9:11-14, 12:22-24; 1 Peter 1:2
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[a] was put off when you were circumcised by[b] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[c] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
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Leverage Devotional 2024 Devotional was written by Apostle Segun Obadje (ph.D), the Set Man of God’s Love Tabernacle International Church. He is a New Testament Apostle and Teacher of the Word of God’s Grace and the Testimony of Jesus Christ.
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