Hebrews 9:26 KJV
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
There’s a truth that I’ve shared for years from my time of discovery of what Jesus Christ did for us that should ignite joy and freedom in your spirit; and that is: Jesus Christ abolished sin! Hahaa!
What does it mean to abolish something? To abolish means to formally put an end to something, whether a system, a practice, or a long standing institution. So, the bible doesn’t say that Jesus forgave sin; it says He abolished it. He didn’t just do a little something here and there to sin in order to help us manage and negotiate our lives with sin, no! The Bible says that He canceled it!
This is profound, and it’s essential for us to grasp this reality to truly live the victorious life of sinlessness, which is a reality He provided for us through the gospel. Sinlessness is one of the Seven Miracles of Righteousness, a revelation that I received from the Lord some years ago which changed my life completely and I trust that by the grace of God I will share it with you fully and I know it will do the same for you. For now I will share with you some nuggets about it. Let’s go!
ἀθέτησις athetēsis put away – abolition, disannulling, cancellation, put away, repudiation
So, the Bible in our opening verse says that when Jesus “appeared at the end of the age“, His purpose was so that He could “put away sin forever by the sacrifice of himself.“
The word there translated “put away”, sigh, I mean, you know some times when I read some bible translations that are out there I could get a little upset because, you read something very important like this and then you check the original word and sometimes I’m left wondering about the translators “why did you do this?” But that’s a topic we can get into another time, but if you find out what the meaning of the word is you’d understand why. Like I was saying, the word translated “put away” is the Greek athetēsis, and athetēsis means to abolish. You get it now? Absolutely incredible! This is what that scripture is saying. And this, that Jesus accomplished in His abolishing sin wasn’t a temporary fix like that of the yearly atonement like under the Old Testament. This was a once-for-all, Eternal Abolition! Oh glory!
Now, the very legal power and authority of sin, its right to influence you, condemn you, oppress you and impose it’s consequence on you was stripped away at the cross by Jesus Christ forever. This means that sin has no legal claim over your life anymore, hallelujah!
This understanding impacts your daily walk forever. You can’t fully know and understand this truth and live the same, never. You see, sinlessness is not about you ‘striving to be a better person’ or trying to do the right thing or trying to not do wrong in your own strength and understanding, no! Someone says, “But Shingi, sinlessness is impossible, nobody can be sinless”. See, anyone who thinks that sinlessness is impossible, like they like to say “only Jesus was sinless”. What you have before you is a person who does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. That person does not understand the passion of Christ. That’s the issue. That’s why every year on this platform during Easter I go into the details in The Passion series to try and help people understand the gospel. This topic reminds me of the sinless merch that I wear; and everywhere I go it always without fail provokes a conversation which I like because it always gives me the opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them.
When you understand the technicalities of what Jesus Christ accomplished with His death, burial and resurrection in detail, and in accordance with God’s standard for righteousness, that’s only when you’ll understand what sinlessness is, and how Jesus Christ made it possible. The problem we have is we have people including ministers mounting pulpits who don’t understand what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. So they’re on there imposing their ignorance on those who do not care to find out the truth of God’s Word for themselves. So they say what they feel, and not what the word says! And then all I see is Christians being bashed by ministers every other day but also don’t know how to help themselves, and the minister does not know what to do with them, so he’s also frustrated with the people yelling on the pulpit “stop sinning, don’t sin!” and guess what? The do the very thing he’s threatening them not to do. What needs to happen is for the minister to prayefully study and understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, what does it mean? So that he can be empowered by God’s truth to help the people.
Now, because of what Jesus Christ did to sin for every child of God, sin is now an outside force. It is no longer something that you will have to battle with from within. Knowing this, you’d also have to understand that sin and sinlessness is also not a respecter of your good intentions and your desire of wanting to be good, and to do the right thing. Sinlessness is about exercising legal authority. Living in sinlessness is about living in authority hayaya! Living in the legal authority and power of the truth of what Jesus Christ did to sin on the cross, and imposing that authority of that finished work in your life. We are talking about spiritual authority, sinlessness is about exercising spiritual authority in the reinforcement of sins abolition.
Maybe let me bring this to something you can understand – “sin and demons are addressed in same manner like they’re in the same category!” You get it? Oooh if only you could catch this, I pray.
Sin is a spiritual outside force just as demons are spiritual outside forces that want to influence and oppress you into the wrong things. So, from today you will have to impose sins abolition in your life for you to enter into sinlessness, its about authority, authority in the fulfillment of Jesus’s abolishment of sin, and it’s consequences in your life forever. Just like someone can be without demons so can someone be without sin living in sinlessness! Now if you don’t know this, the deception of sin will be running circles around you all your life leaving you weak, condemned and ineffective always polluting the atmosphere with forgive me prayers.
Jesus Christ came and dealt with it and He abolished it, and then accepting that reality and truth and continuing to enforce that finished work of Christ over your life and over your environment is what sinlessness is. This is beyond good morals and nice behaviour.
This is the righteousness of God, the scepter of the righteousness of God – which is a demonstration of God’s authority over sin and lawlessness (Hebrews 1:8 – 9). It is the only way you will ever come out of those unwanted habits, permanently. There’s no other way. Try to treat those things nice and trust me those habits will whip you nice everytime, and you’ll be the one living a weak and frustrated life.
Lets run it back slowly – The bible says Jesus Christ abolished sin, I need that to sink in, I need to soak in you. You are now free to live as if sin doesn’t exist for you, in terms of its power, accusation and condemnation, do you understand what that means? I hope to God that you would understand this stuff! Christ is now in you, and you are in Christ, and in Him, the bible says there is no sin! (1 John 3:5) Sin has been dealt with definitively. From today until Jesus comes begin to live in this glorious reality and authority of your freedom from sin and it’s effects and consequences, because of Jesus’s abolition of sin and all its effects!
God bless you.
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I rejoice and give You thanks that Jesus Christ has abolished sin by the sacrifice of Himself. He has put away sin, canceled its power, and removed its accusation and condemnation from my life. I declare that I live in the glorious reality of Christ’s finished work of sinlessness, living everyday in the freedom Christ purchased for me, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Speak The Word
Sin has been abolished! Jesus canceled sin for me! I am free from sin’s power and influence, accusation and condemnation. I live a victorious life in Christ Jesus everyday of my life, thank you Lord Jesus!
