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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Christ and His Saints Go to Work, #10
Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things, says the LORD Almighty. (Malachi 4:3—NIV)
The wicked will be ashes under your feet, not under the Lord's feet but under your feet.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Romans 16:20—NIV)
We are the Body of Christ, including the feet of the Body of Christ. The feet burn as bronze in an oven, the bronze of judgment. The Lord will make the place of His feet glorious because they will drive sin from the earth.
We had believed we would never get final victory over sin while living on the earth, that victory over sin would come about somewhere in Heaven. This is faulty reasoning because sin began in Heaven. Deliverance from sin is not found in Heaven, only in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is only as we abandon our earthly life to the cross with Jesus and press into our new life at the right hand of God that we can gain the strength to renounce sin.
Sin is a question of truth and choice. Jesus Christ has all power. To obtain deliverance we must decide this is what we truly, finally want. We can lay hold on enough power to decide what we truly want by going to the Lord constantly for that power. Once we make the decision we do not want to sin, in whatever area we are concentrating on, the Lord will furnish the power to keep us from sinning. He gives us the power to decide, and having made the decision He gives us the power to get rid of the sin. He came to destroy, not forgive, the works of the devil.
Sin has power only as long as we yield to it. Once we can gain the determination to renounce and denounce the sin, the power of the Lord is at hand to destroy the works of the devil.
When the sons of God appear with the Lord they will denounce and renounce all sin. Then it requires only one angel to chain Satan and cast him into the bottomless pit.
The Release of the Material Creation
The Christian churches for a long time, maybe from their beginning, have not understood that God intends to remove sin from the earth. Paradise was on earth in the beginning. Paradise will once again be on earth when God has finished redeeming the earth, only this time Paradise will be protected by a great wall.
Paradise is in the spirit realm at the present time. And so traditionally the goal of salvation has been presented as eternal life in Heaven. This goal has served to the present hour. Now that the Kingdom of God is ready to come to the earth the Spirit of God is opening the Scriptures to us so we can see that the goal of redemption is not eternal residence in the spirit realm but the release of the material creation into the liberty of the children of God.
That the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. (Romans 8:21—NIV)
To be continued.