Romans 5:18
Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they lost one of the most important things ever given to man, his true identity. Our identity came from God, our Creator. Man looking to God’s creation instead of their Creator lost their God given identity. Your identity is where you find your true value and worth in life. Jesus, by giving us a new spirit once we are born again, gave us the ability to regain our identity, our true worth once again from our Creator. There are four redemptive truths fulfilled in what Jesus did that gives us this identity in our God. The first of these four truths is justification
Justification means the act of God declaring men free from guilt and approved by Him, placing us in right standing with God. The devil works at trying to convince you that you are not in right standing with God, and that you must therefore work at becoming approved by Him. If he succeeds, he will hinder your faith in receiving what you have a right to. Notice in the above verse it is through one Man’s righteous act that justification has come to us. You don’t work to become right with God, you already are because of what Jesus has done for us.
The devil lies to believers getting them to try and find their value and worth in what they do, instead of what Jesus has already done. No amount of “good works” can make us right with God. Because of justification, we are made the righteousness of God through what Christ has already done for us. Remind yourself, my worth or value in life is not in the works that I do, but in my Creator who has already made me right with Him, and therefore I am approved by God.
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