Friend, just keep on confessing who you are. The devil wants to define you by your habit. The devil wants to define you by your failures. Yes, even your recent failure. The devil wants to define you by your sinful thoughts, but that’s not who you are. You’re still on a journey. But the fact is you have been made the righteousness of God.
The moment you are born again, you are born the righteousness of God and you need to confess who you are. And when you confess that, who you are will overcome what you do. Amen. Praise the Lord. Always remember this principle: Who you are is your standing. What you do is your state. Sometimes you are depressed. Okay? Sometimes you are sad.
Sometimes you feel rebellious. You want to rebel. Sometimes you feel good, you want to do something good. But that is your state. Your state fluctuates. Your standing doesn’t. Your standing remains forever. Who you are is the righteousness of God. That is your standing. Never judge your standing by your state.
Your state fluctuates. It can be good. It can be bad another day. Okay? But your state doesn’t define who you are. Your real person, your standing. That is permanent. Always judge your state by your standing. Look at your sins square in the eye. Don’t deny it! Don’t excuse it. Look at it and say: “This is not who I am.
” “I am not a resentful person. I’m not an angry person.” “I’m not a depressed person. I’m not a fearful person.” “This is not who I am.” “I am the righteousness of God in Christ.” Judge your state by your standing. Never let the devil tell you that you are your state, that your state defines you. Never judge your standing by your state.
And it’s something we need to remember every day. So once again, grace is supply. Law is demand. So why was the law given? It tells us: “Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound.” Wow. You don’t hear that preached often in many seminaries. And it’s just like they pass by this line very fast.
Because for many of us, if the truth was known, we don’t fully understand this. And we are afraid to preach it because we might be misunderstood. Because we ourselves are misunderstanding this truth. “The law entered that the offense, the sin, might abound.” “But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more!” So we see where sin “pleonazo”, where sin increased.
The word there “abound” for “sin” is not the same word as “grace abounded.” It is a different word! Again, two separate Greek words. “Where sin abounded” is the word “pleonazo”, which means you can quantify it. “Increased.” It is actually the word for “increased”, “increased.” “Where sin increased.” Now watch this, the other word for “abounded”, “grace much more abounded.
” This word here is “huperperisseou.” “Perisseou” is already overflowing. “Perisseuo” is to fill your cup until the cup keeps on overflowing. “Perisseuo” is more than “increase.” You can quantify “increase.” But for “perisseuo”, you cannot quantify it. It is like the stars in heaven. No one can count them. Except God. “God telleth the number of the stars.
” It’s like the dust on the ground. No one can count them. Things that you cannot quantify. This is what the word “perisseuo” is used for. And it’s used for the idea of something overflowing. But then, the word “huper” in the Greek is added to the word “perisseuo.” “Huperperisseou.” Now, “huper” is where we get our English word, today, “hyper.
” So in other words, it’s already overflowing. “Perisseuo” is already overflowing, but “huper” is on top of it. It’s added on top of it. On top of what? It is added on top of the overflow! Wow. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. So where sin increased: location. Where sin increased. Look at your own life. Where sin increased.
