Hello everyone🙂,

Thank you for joining us again today,so glad to have you here. So in the spirit of Easter celebration, we will be looking at the death and resurrection of Jesus. So will like us to have a sub-theme;

Yes, He is risen, so what next?

Hmmm🤔 So we will be looking at three major victories amongst others that we have because Jesus is risen!!!

He isn’t here—he has risen victoriously, just as he said! Come inside the tomb and see the place where our Lord was lying.
Matthew 28:6 TPT

1. Righteousness.

This scripture has really been re-echoing in my heart:

2 Corinthians 5:21

“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him”.

He made Him who knew no sin to become sin…please let’s follow carefully, Jesus had never sinned and God made Jesus to not even sin,but rather become sin!Let’s really think about this for the next one to two minutes. The “sin” used here is a noun,and we know that a noun is the name of a person,animal,place or thing. In greek,this word”sin” means hamartia or tragic flaw. So Jesus,all embodiment of wisdom in all His perfection and glory took on the nature of that thing called sin(sexual immorality,addictions,lies,basically every deviation from truth) He took them all,every flaw you may have and He was nailed to the cross. So you know what happened? When Jesus hung on the cross,He wasn’t hung up on the cross just as Jesus,but also as SIN,yours and mine! Oh yes,every humiliation,shame and disdain He faced was done also to “the body of sin” Ever heard of that before?

“knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin”.
Romans 6:6‭-‬7 NKJV

Message translation in Romans 6:11 reads:

” From now on,think of it this way:sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you;God speaks your mother tongue and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God.”

Why did Jesus become sin? So that we might become the righteousness of God in Jesus and so now,we live in the power of resurrection! It is therefore big time error,big time flaw and tragedy for “the righteousness of God to live in sin”,no!no! It is error.

What is Righteousness?

According to the Greek translation, righteousness is called “dikaiosunē”,the state of him who is as he ought to be, it is the condition acceptable to God, it is a nature and a noun. Therefore as a believer who is dead to sin and is now resurrected with God, there is a state we ought to be in and that we are in now, it is called righteousness.

“Since there was a body of sin who died, there is also a body of righteousness who is now living!praise God! You are that body of righteousness who is living with Christ in you,the hope of glory.”

We Receive grace to say No! to every form of sin in Jesus name. Amen.Jesus has died for our sins,so we enjoy the freedom and blessings that come with living righteously.Sin is not for us,it is for the world! righteousness belongs to us! ( see Titus 2:11, John 1:29,36).

2. Blessings.

” for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,that though He was rich,yet for your sakes He became poor,that you through His poverty might become rich”.

2 Corinthians 8:9 NKJV

From the above scriptures,we can see that through the death and resurrection of Jesus,we have been blessed with the blessings of Abraham. Can I give you a little assignment? Please find out what the blessings of Abraham are and begin to confess them over your life,because they are ours to enjoy without measure!

3. Healing.

“But [in fact] He has borne our griefs, And He has carried our sorrows and pains; Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken, Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated [by Him]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]; The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him, And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:4‭-‬5 AMP

“He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed”.
1 Peter 2:24 AMP

Beloved,the same stripes and wounds that Jesus bore on His body that signifies He died for our sins are the same stripes that signifies that we have been healed. Once you become a child of God and believe that Jesus carried your sins for you and that the body of sin was crucified and now you live to righteousness,you should also believe that,that same “body of sin” had on it sickness,weakness and disease on it, it had on it cancer,covid-19 and any other disease you can think of.The punishment for our well-being has fallen on Him already,no need for us to wallow in sickness, you were healed and saved over 2000 years ago when Jesus Christ died and rose again.Now, receive His salvation and healing!No wonder He could say it is finished(John19:30) and the angels could say He has risen victoriously!! Glory to God.

Conclusion.

As believers, we believe in these “truth” and we continue to confess them, remember; “the more we soak in these truth the more we naturally walk in them”. I’ll leave us with this scripture:

Romans 8:37;

Yet in all these things,we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us (so much that He died for us).

Than you for staying with me thus far,

Till next time,

Remain in God’s Love❤.