Condemnation Is The Root Cause
Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus.
“When you see a plant with sickly leaves, it would be
foolishness for you to just treat the leaves without knowing the root cause of
the problem.
Similarly, when “leaves” of sickness, poverty and despair
start sprouting in your life, you need to know what the root cause is. Experts will tell you that it is stress. They may go a little
deeper and say that it is fear — fear of the future, of rejection, of loss, of
death and so on. But is fear really the root? Or is there something deeper than
fear?
The Bible shows us that the most fundamental cause of
problems in our lives is condemnation. With condemnation comes fear. Fear then
induces stress which brings about the symptoms of the curse.
This is what happened to Adam. Long before he faced poverty,
sickness and eventually death, he had stress. God told him, “In the sweat
of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground”.
(Genesis 3:19) Sweat speaks of stress. But before there was stress, there was
fear because Adam told God, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was
naked; and I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:10)
But what made Adam fearful? Adam was fearful because he felt condemned
for being naked. He felt so ashamed that he hid himself. God then asked him, “Who told you
that you were naked?” (Genesis 3:11) There was no one else in the
garden other than Adam and Eve, so we know that it was probably the devil who
told Adam that he was naked.
My friend, condemnation is the root cause of the symptoms of
the curse manifesting in your life. That is why you need to know that at the
cross, God took all your sins, put them on Jesus and unleashed the full fury of
His wrath against them until Jesus cried out, “It is finished!”
All
your sins have been completely punished and condemned in the body of Christ.
The root cause of all your problems has been dealt with. This means that the
devil cannot enforce the curse in your life apart from your receiving
condemnation. So come to the place of no condemnation, and no sick “leaves”
will sprout in your life!
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