Never Answer Satan With Our Good Conduct But Always With The Blood Of Christ

The Blood of Christ already paid for our sins.

Romans 3 tells us "Jesus Christ's Blood is the Sacrifice that Paid for our Sins."

The nature of our flesh is to sin and whenever we commit sin we tend to correct or atone by works.

We try to be a nicer, better, kinder humans.

We believe that the way to atone for our sins is by doing good works and having good conduct.

We go to church, we read the Bible, we tithe, we help the poor and the needy and those are good things to do but are you doing it to glorify and obey God or are you doing it to atone for your sins or to receive extra cookie points from God?

Are you doing good works to receive more blessings and good karma?

This is from the book Watchman Nee:

Never Answer Satan With Our Good Conduct But Always With The Blood Of Christ.

Yes, we are sinful, but, praise God!The blood cleanses us from every sin. God looks upon the Blood whereby his Son has met the charge, and Satan has no more ground of attack. 

We are already free because of the Blood of Christ! Satan has no control over us!

But Satan will convince us that we are sinners and we are not worthy of God's love and that we are worthless and these lies can create a distance between us and God and that is his goal.

Satan wants to separate us from God and so he tempts us to sin and when we sin he condemns and makes us feel guilty and the guilt makes us shy away from God because we feel ashamed. That is his goal.

Most of the time we will resort to doing good works to get back on God's good side but this is really not an effective approach and one reason is that we are relying on ourselves but without God we can do nothing.

Only God's truth can truly set us free.

The truth that we need to know is that Jesus already paid for us sins! Satan already lost!

It is not by doing good work but knowing the truth which is that our sins have been paid off by Jesus' Blood that will set us free from Satan's lies!

When you sin, instead of feeling guilty and resorting to doing good deeds to atone for it, Go to God instead.

Ask for forgiveness, receive the Blood of Christ and his forgiveness, pray for guidance, wisdom, discernment, grace and the Holy Spirit to help you walk on the path where God wants you to be in.

Jude 1:20 tells us "But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."

You must go straight to the truth that God loves you! You may commit sin but His love never changes and so do not allow Satan to deceive you into believing his lies and make you feel guilt and shame which causes you to stay away from Christ.

You need to go to God when you sin and not run away from Him.

Only God can help us. Staying guilty and shameful can cause us to hide from God and that is Satan's goal.

So do not allow Satan to create a distance between you and God.

Remember that Jesus already paid for our sins!

Colossians 2:13-14 tells us "He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and the condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

God loves you and He wants you to come to Him for every single thing and from now on, do not let Satan come between you and your loving father God! God wants to help us! He does not want you to hide from Him! He wants you to come to Him and ask Him for help and He wants to rescue you!

-Jennifer