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Since the creation of the world or should I say since man has been know to walk upon the Earth, it has been widely acceptable that no man is righteous in himself. Righteous I say, not good. Of course, there might be some level of humanity (what people generally termed being good), there is no doubt that there is no complete saint or righteous person even though some may claim they are. I say this because there actually not a man that has not committed a sin or done something that is bad in the sight of most people (most people which means majority of the society). So, the good man is without sin!

In our society, a man is termed righteous if his righteous acts surpass that of his bad deeds. But then, it is not so before the great Elohim as he judges everyone equal before him. Since there is no partiality before, hence, sin is sin. Whether committed by a clergy or by a pagan. No wonder he said in his holy book that 'if a righteous man stops being righteous and commits sin, all his righteousness shall be forgotten and only his evil deeds shall be remembered' - Ezekiel 18. Again, the consciousness of the law (whether spiritual or civil), always generates sin. For where there is no law, there is no sin or should I say "where there is no sin, there is no law". The truth is sin is always present, by the introduction of law reveals sin. Hence, the power of sin is the law! The law empowers sin to manifest itself. The knowledge of sin in itself generates fear and death in man.

But since the Almighty is all-knowing, he has made a way of escape for man for he knows no man can overcome sin by himself, so he made provision for atonement of sin. We must have all heard of the story of Adam, the first man, who sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Since he is the progenitor of all human race, all his seeds fell leading to an asunder in the relationship between man and God. Man now has to come to the creator through sacrifices and offerings by the slaughtering of Rams and bulls and birds. But all these can never atone for the sin of man. A sin committed by man who has a soul, will and intention can never be permanently removed by the blood of a souless animal. After all the animal in itself is in sin as all creation as fallen due to Adam's sin. If a man commits a taboo, his properties which includes his animate and inanimate possessions are counted as faulty as well. So also is it with Adam. The animals been sacrificed are in themselves sinful and groaning under the weight of the human sins. So what's next? Who would deliver man?

Coming back to the creator, since he is all-knowing and has seen the end from the very beginning, he has prepared a suitable sacrifice that would suffice for the remission of sin. He had prepared a sheep without blemish and without sin. A sacrifice perfect for man! Truth is this sheep has actually being slain from the very beginning in the Spirit realm as sin is spiritual in a sense of origination. But this must be translated to the physical. So, Jehovah sent his word in flesh through a pure maiden to take the place of all men in death and to bring back to life.

The sinlessness of christ

Jesus came in flesh but is not begotten of man For all men have sinned and fallen short of the glory for God. But Jesus, though birthed by a human was conceived of the holy spirit. I know most of us would be having wild imagination as to whether the holy spirit impregnated Mary in the sense intercourse. But far from it, it was all an act of creation, the very same way the holy spirit was moving on the surface of the deep and called to being what was not. So Jesus was simply translated into the womb of Mary as he was already existing.

The man Jesus

He ate like man, cried like man, walked like man and did every other things like man. He was tempted as we all are, he could feel and felt pain, he was hungered, he slept, he is flesh in all form. But he was different from man, in that even while in flesh he defeated sin and was found sinless by the very accuser of the Brethen, the devil. He could have become the wealthiest, strongest, most popular person of his time, but he chose to died like a mere peasant not really because he loved it that way but because he was here to deliver man, the glory of God. The devil, seeing Jesus had overcome sin in himself, had come and tempt him and even offered him gold and fame all for a knee. And truth be told, that knee is more important and glorious than every other thing in the world at that time, because it would mean God, his word and all the inhabitants of heaven had bow in surrender and acknowledgement of the supremacy of the devil. It would have been a game over for man. But all thanks to God, Jesus overcame him.

Golgotha, the place of victory

The devil was cunny, he knew Jesus's coming to the earth was not for fun. The word of God would not just appear on the earth for no reason. He knew God must be planning something to release man from the grip of sin. So he plotted to kill Jesus, unknown to him that was the checkmate card for him. Fast forward, Jesus was killed, he descended to Hades preached to the lost souls, conquered Death and Hades, rose on the third day, and ascended to heaven. That is the victory of the Christians. Their victory does not lie in riches or amount of material wealth they can emasss for themselves, rather, it lies in the defeat of sin, Death and Hades through the blood of Jesus. The blood is full of power. It didn't destroy the devil because it is only previous and but because of it full of power in it totality. All praise to God, man is free. For as sin came to the world through one man so does righteous come to the world through another man, the man Jesus.

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