Do any of you here have a past?  Are there a few things in your past that you’re glad are under the blood of Jesus?  Does the devil ever try to bring them up?  As the enemy tries to bring these things up, there's a thing that I always like to do when the enemy says, “Remember when you did this?”  And it’s like, “No, I don’t have any recollection, and I would encourage you to go to the very throne of God, who keeps a record of every idle word and every deed ever done;” amen?  “Go sit with Him, and you’ll never find it because there’s no record that it ever occurred.”  We’re blessed.

Therefore, we can’t hold grudges against other people over things that don’t exist; amen?  That enables us to love as He’s loved us, to forgive as we’ve been forgiven, to be long suffering as God has suffered long with us and blotted out our sins, we saw in Colossians.  Through, he said, “…the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Romans 3:25-26).  “Is there boasting, then?  It is excluded.  By what law? of works?  No, but by the law of faith.”  Therefore, we conclude.  We conclude this is the end of the matter.  This is the truth that’s been arrived at, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  Hallelujah!  

Now, that doesn’t mean that we don’t live and fulfill the law of righteousness just as Jesus did.  "I did not come,"
Jesus said, "to destroy the law, but to [what?] fulfill it."  But the law, as we know in Galatians, was that revelation, or the schoolmaster, to help us understand what Jesus effectually and effectively accomplished on the cross.  By our belief and faith that it was sufficient in God’s eyes, we walk daily, free.  There's no condemnation.  Don’t take it anymore.  Don’t accept that condemnation.  It’s a lie of the devil.  There’s no record of it.  Stop bringing it up yourself.  When you get into your little self-pity parties, don’t fall into that trap, whether you’re the one that’s initiating it or the devil.  "That is not true.  I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ, accepted into the Beloved.  I am justified, pronounced righteous.  There is no record of me being out of fellowship with God, from the moment that I accepted Him as my personal Lord and Savior, even though I might, at times, get back into sin and living away from God."  When we come back to Him through repentance, at that very moment, everything is defanged.  We’ve repented of our rebellion, our independence, our lack of love for His finished work, and He’s accepted it and reestablished us in our righteousness.  Hallelujah!  What a thing to rejoice in.  What a thing to delight in.