There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)
The great enemy of God and His people is Satan, known as the accuser. Once a holy, beautiful, and righteous angel, after rebelling against God and being cast down out of heaven, he is now busily engaged in accusing the believers in the hopes of discrediting them before God. But Satan, who prowls around the earth like a roaring lion, has no teeth and his accusations are not to be accepted.
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation. (Colossians 1:21-22)
This passage comes under the heading – the beautiful ‘BUTS’ of God. For all those who have trusted by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, the assurance of God’s forgiveness and love is absolutely assured. Now you can’t keep Satan from accusing you and you can’t keep others from accusing you. But never will God accuse you. Because you are clothes in the righteous robes of Christ, you are totally and completely and eternally free from accusation. Because God pronounced judgment upon Jesus who took our sin and nailed it all to the cross, there can never be any judgment against us. Because God said “guilty” over Jesus, who paid the penalty for our sins in full, He can never make the “guilty” pronouncement over us.
Remember, all of our sins have been removed as far as the east is from the west, and that is a distance that simply cannot be measured. We have been cleansed by the saving blood of the Lamb of God who has taken away every one of our sins the moment we trusted in Him for our salvation. We are free because of Jesus and when Satan or anyone else sends an accusation our way, we are to respond “ACCUSATION UNACCEPTED!”
This is the Gospel. This is grace for your race. NEVER FORGET THAT . . . AMEN!
Grace for the Race 