Jesus said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:10).
And He said, 11 “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
Men and women do not persecute us for righteousness’ sake. Satan persecutes us.
Satan fears righteousness more than any other thing. On the ground of what God did for us in Christ, when we are born again, we become the righteousness of God.
That means that we can cast out demons, break the power of Satan, and to heal the sick, and to raise the dead.
Righteousness gives deliverance from the fear of Satan and his works.
It gives us a new sense of sonship. This son-consciousness creates a daring faith. It takes away the sense of spiritual inferiority and destroys sin consciousness in us.
We can walk before men and women just as Jesus did because we know that we are new creations.
The old life has been destroyed.
We know that every sin we ever committed has been remitted.
We know that the sins that we committed since we were born again, ignorantly or otherwise, have been forgiven, and we stand in the presence of God just as Jesus did when He walked the earth.
We need to take our stand and make this confession boldly!
Satan seeks to keep us sin-conscious and to rob us of our son-consciousness. If he can keep us sin-conscious, we are beaten.
A lot of the teaching in the church tends to keep people under condemnation.
The ministry has never realized that its work is to free man and women from sin-consciousness and make them God-conscious, son-conscious, victor-conscious, faith-conscious, and love-conscious.
When we realize that we have been born of love and we have the love nature of God in us, we will begin to show forth the fragrance of heaven.
Romans 8: 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
When we become victory-conscious, we will arise as a strong man out of sleep (Samson) and take our place among the victors.
The Son has made us free. Jesus’ redemption has set us free. Let us stand fast in liberty.