Oct 19, 2022
The wickedness that exists in the world is because of transference. Our actions, our words, our thoughts are transferred from within us to the world surrounding us. And they generate the circumstances and consequences we live in. But if wickedness can be transferred, so can righteousness. By the grace of God and by the transference that He established through the cross, our sin is removed from us and placed on the cross, and the righteousness of Christ is transferred from the cross into our lives. By changing what is in us we can change the world.
Show Notes: As you mature, you become responsible. The more you grow and the more you mature, the more responsibility you take for what is necessary in your life. By doing that, by becoming a responsible person, you affect the world and people around you. It may be something that you are doing internally, but it impacts the lives of everyone you associate with. We understand this principle on a natural level, but we often fail to apply it spiritually. It is the nature within us that negatively affects the world, and if we never take responsibility ourselves for that nature then we have no hope of changing the world.
The world is a closed system. We are all interrelated one to another. What I do does not affect only me. It affects you and it affects the world. And if we as the Body of Christ are to be a solution to the world and the age we live in, then we will have to stop pointing the finger and blaming everybody and everything else and take on the responsibility. We need to do more than say our sins are forgiven. We need to become responsible for changing the consequences of our sin.
Christ did not stand before the Father and say, “These people have sinned. I didn’t. Why should I carry the responsibility of what these other people have done?” Instead, in obedience to the Father, He let God transfer all our iniquity onto Him so that the righteousness of God could be transferred to us. Instead of saying that the sin of the world is not our problem, we need to follow Christ’s example and take responsibility for the sin that has impacted the world through us and transfer that sin to the ever-present provision of His cross so that His righteousness can impact the world through us.
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