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July 13th 2025

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With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new Power is in operation. The Spirit of Life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.—Romans 8:1, 2 (MSG)

“The fateful dilemma is resolved!” The cross of Christ is the solution from sin and its condemnation for all who are justified by faith. The death that Christ died was for all Sin, as we receive His work, by faith. This is not a license to sin, but it is the assurance that, through His substitutionary death, we have been delivered from divine condemnation.
The sin that Paul wished to avoid, he committed, in the flesh—his humanity. The righteousness that Paul desired to practice, he avoided, due to his flesh—his humanity. The problem was with his humanity. With his mind he could serve God, but in his humanity, he could not produce the fruit of righteousness. If sin dominated him through his humanity, then something greater than him must empower him to live righteously. The solution—for him and for us—is the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The problem was not with the Law and its requirement. The “Law is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12).” We are simply incapable to achieve what the Law requires. The Holy Spirit can empower us to do that which the Law required (Romans 8:4). The righteousness of God is accomplished, not by walking according to our humanity, but by walking according to the Spirit.
We are not under condemnation because we are in Christ Jesus, who bore the penalty for all our sins. Sin is under condemnation, through the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ. The righteousness which the Law requires and which we find impossible to achieve, God achieves in and through the believer, through the prompting and power of the Holy Spirit. In Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God has delivered us from the penalty and the power of sin.
The fateful dilemma is resolved!

Prayer: Eternal Lord, we praise You that You have graciously provided a means for us to do what Your holiness requires of us, through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. As we go today, let us walk in the delight of knowing that our fateful dilemma has been resolved for us, because we are in Christ Jesus. It is in His name that we pray. AMEN!

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