The importance of what Jesus died after He died and then rose from the dead cannot be emphasized enough.
Here are five references to Jesus our High Priest seated at the Right Hand of God our Father:
"3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" (Hebrews 1: 3)
Jesus sat down because He purged our sins, and He completed this work on His own, not with Twelve Steps are any other man-made cult.
Jesus is not an angel, but fully God and fully man:
"But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?" (Hebrews 1: 13)
When Jesus sat down, He depends on God the Father to make every enemy His footstool. We are in Christ, and so we can rest in Jesus as we watch our Loving Father making every enemy our footstool too!
Alcoholics Anonymous wants the members to keep fighting against the sin in the flesh, which has been condemned because of Jesus (Romans 8: 3-4). The wicked program tells people to keep looking at themselves and their sins, or "defects of character", as if ruminating on our failures will make us successful and overcome.
We need to learn more about Jesus, and all that He is doing for us:
"Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;" (Hebrews 8: 1)
Jesus is our High Priest, and He ministers on our behalf, taking our prayers and making them fit for our Father. We have access to God the Father because of the Son, our perfect representative before God.
Instead of trying to help ourselves, we can enter boldly into the throne of grace (Hebrews 4: 16) with our needs, and know that Jesus can help us!
There's more about Jesus seated at the Father's right hand:
"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;" (Hebrews 10: 12)
Jesus offered one sacrifice for our sins, and His sacrifice covers our sins forever.
The work is done!
Yet evil cults like Alcoholics Anonymous give the impression that the sins in our flesh and the struggles in our mind will not end unless we keep on confessing them. After years of growing up in that terrible cult, I was habituated to struggling with angry thoughts and feelings, that I had to do something about them before I could move on.
Such bondage was indescribable during more trying times in my life. I had given up on ever walking in peace and victory, since the feelings and thoughts in my life, or so I had believe, would determine whether God was with me and for me or not.
The truth sets us free, while error of any kind brings us into bondage, and the Errors of Alcoholics Anonymous is no exception. The high incidence of depression, dysfunction, and death associated with this evil program cannot be overstated. The ongoing urban lie which suggests that this program does work, if you work it, has permitted the cult to maintain some mainstream legitimacy.
These lies must be corrected, and the truth about this terrible cult must be told!
"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12: 2)
Jesus is the Author and Finisher of faith, not just yours and mine. Instead of looking at ourselves, we need to keep our eyes on Jesus, for we receive all things through Him, starting with the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace accompanied with it.
The Devil, and all evil cults practiced on lies, train us to look at ourselves. There is no hope or life in looking at ourselves and our shortcomings. The gift of righteousness permits us to look away from ourselves, and see that in Christ Jesus, His obedience at the right hand of God the Father (2 Corinthians 10: 5), we have rest and enjoy all things.
Now, because Jesus has sat down, we can know and believe that all our sins -- past, present, and future - have been purged, paid for, put away forever.
Therefore, if we insist on getting angry, fearful, or worried about the sin in our flesh, and if we insist on believing that we can do something about the sins in our lives instead of resting in His righteousness, we are insulting Jesus and basically telling Him that He cannot sit down, that He did not do a good enough job.
Let us take this revelation one step further. Any church, any teaching, and set of principles, and any person in league with precepts which tell men that they must do something to atone for their sins, are insulting Christ and Him Crucified. They are enemies of the Cross, dictating through false teachings that the work of all our sins paid for has not been finished.
That is not true. Look to Christ, for in Him we find all things that we need, even the faith to believe and receive from Him that our sins are paid for, and that we have passed from death to life.
Let Jesus sit and rest in Him today, and grow in grace and knowledge of all that Jesus has done for you at the Cross!
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