Meditate On
You Can’t Lose Fellowship with God
Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your
holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make
reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness.
Daniel 9:24
There are some Christians who believe that you can lose
fellowship with God when you sin, and you need to confess your sin to God and
obtain forgiveness to become righteous again. They claim that your relationship
with God is not broken when you sin, but fellowship with Him is, so you need to
confess your sin to restore fellowship with Him.
It sounds very good. But believing that your fellowship
with God is broken when you sin will affect your ability to come boldly to His
throne of grace to receive from Him. In reality, both the words “relationship”
and “fellowship” share the same Greek root word koinonia. This means that even
if you fail, relationship and fellowship with God are not broken. Why? Because
your sins and failures have all been paid for at the cross. How can you ever
lose your righteousness in Christ when it is based entirely on His perfect work
and not your imperfection?
To see how we have everlasting righteousness in Christ,
look at the prophecy in the Book of Daniel about Jesus’ work at Calvary. Daniel
9:24 describes His mission in no uncertain terms: “...to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to
bring in everlasting righteousness.” Beloved, we can rejoice today because
Jesus has fulfilled every iota of this prophecy! The blood of bulls and goats
in the old covenant only provided limited and temporal righteousness for the
children of Israel, and that is why with every new failing, the sacrifices had
to be repeated.
But in the new covenant, the blood of Jesus put an end to
sin and gave us everlasting righteousness! Listen carefully to this: Jesus does
not have to be crucified repeatedly whenever you fail because every sin has
already been paid for on the cross. We need to trust in just how complete and
perfect His finished work is. Today, as a new covenant believer, you are
righteous not only until your next sin. You have everlasting righteousness!
BLESSINGS
JOSEPH PRINCE
