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Know Who You Are in The Anointing!

Romans 3: 21-26 states that the righteousness of God apart from the Law has been received . I thoroughly dislike how people take Romans 3:23 out of context here when it's one line in a whole paragraph! When you read the whole thing you see that Paul, inspired by the Holy Ghost, wasn't bringing attention to our sins but  to our redemption! No one can boast that their own works have saved them-Heavenly father knows we've sinned.  Paul is pointing out here that since we  all sin (all believers) we all are freely justified by The Atonement since heavenly Father has caused the angel of death to pass over our sins, seeing we are washed in the Blood of the Lamb, so that God demonstrates his righteousness, "that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." Our Father in Heaven does not want to focus on our sins but on who we are in The Anointing of the Anointed Jesus, and that's where our own focus should be. The amazing, humbling thi...