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Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Wommack celebrating the good news of Jesus Christ Emmanuel God with us.

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The war from God against our sin is over.

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We here at Andrew Wommack Ministries want to wish you a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year.

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Welcome to our Thursday's broadcast of the Gospel Truth. I've been teaching for two weeks with a brief interlude we played over Christmas this video from one of our performances that we have at our Charis Bible College entitled the Heart of Christmas. And it's awesome. And I played that for three days. But basically for two weeks I've been teaching on the war is over and this is based on Luke chapter 2 and verse 14 where the angel said glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will towards man. That's not talking about peace between people because Jesus said in Matthew 10:34 that he didn't come to send peace but division. A man would be divided against the members of his household. So this isn't talking about peace among men. It's talking about peace between God and man. The war is over because all of God's wrath was placed upon Jesus. So we've got this book and let me just say that tomorrow I'm going to make this the end of this series. Typically I'll teach another two or three weeks on this, but I've got some things that I want to teach at the first of this coming new year. And so this is the War is Over. Our helpline is closed today, but you can still go to our web site and you can get this. We're asking for a donation of any amount for this book. You it's a 200 plus page book and then Goodwill towards Men is an introduction to this larger teaching. And then we have cds, DVDs, a USB and even a study guide on this. Again, our helpline will be closed today, but then again tomorrow it'll be open and tomorrow will be my last day to offer you this product on the war is over. You'll still be able to go to our web site and get it, but it's the last day I'll advertise it over television. So I've already covered a lot of things and again this is a relatively abbreviated teaching and so I'm just not going to be able to say everything that I would like to do. But let me once again just summarize that the book of Romans starts off with talking about the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. And Gospel is talking about good news, not the bad news of how terrible you are and what a sinner you are, but the fact that in spite of who you are, God loves you, not because you're lovely, but because he is love. And so it starts talking about the goodness of God. But then that's in Romans chapter 1, verses 16 and 17. And then from Romans 1:18, all the way to the end of Romans chapter 5, it's just telling you about how that we've sinned and come short of the glory of God. There's none good. No, not one. We've all fallen short. The wages of our sin is death. We were all born in sin. And the last part of the fifth chapter says five different times that you were born a sinner. And the reason you sin isn't what makes you a sinner, it's the fact that you were a sinner. That's the reason that you sinned. So all of us, whether you have acted it out and have done terrible things, or whether you're a relatively good person, all of us have this sin nature and it separated us from God. But at the very end of Romans chapter 5, after it had made this statement in, then it comes out and says in verse 21 that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. And what this is saying is in the same way that you were made a sinner not because you sinned, but that you were born a sinner, likewise, when you receive the salvation of Jesus, you are made the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 21. For he hath made him who knew no sin to be made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God. 1 Corinthians 1 says that Jesus has made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. And so we have been made righteous. And so all of these verses up until this verse are just talking about how bad we were, how in need of salvation we were. And this is so critical that people understand this. Most people have not really understood the war between God and man over sin. And they have made light of it. And they think that, well, I'm not a really bad person. I'm really a good person. That's not true. One of the major problems in our society today is that the liberals believe that if you just took everybody out of poverty, if you took everybody homeless off the streets, if you gave everybody money, they believe that people are basically good. And if you just removed all of the prejudice and all of their hindrances, all of the roadblocks between them and success, that people would just automatically rise and everything would work out. That's basically what the liberals believe, that people are basically good. The Bible teaches, no, you are basically bad. And I know some people hate what I'm saying because you just don't like this. This. You like to think of yourself. You tell your children, oh, you're awesome. You can do all things. I believe that we have the potential of doing all things through Christ. But for you just to tell your children that you're awesome, everything about you is wonderful, is not true. We were all born in sin. It says in Jeremiah, chapter 17, verse 9. It says, the heart is evil and desperately wicked. Who can know it? That is a truth that we were all. Some people acted out more than others. But every single person has this sin nature. You don't have to teach a child to be selfish. You don't have to teach a child to throw a fit. You don't have to teach them how to lie if they think that they're going to have a problem in something. It's just in our nature. And some people acted out more than others. But every single person at their core is a sinner. And if you leave those people to themself without any restraint of government or without any restraint of the gospel on their heart, I guarantee you they will act out that sin. You know, when I was in high school, they made me read this book entitled the Lord of the Flies. And I actually protested. And because I had heard about it and I tried not to do it. And anyway, they said I had to do it or I would be flunked out of that class. So I read it, and basically it was about a bunch of young kids, I mean, even preteens. And then some of them were teenagers and they were stranded somehow or another on this island and they didn't have any adult supervision. There was no government. It was just this group of kids. And over a period of time, they wound up killing each other. They wound up committing every sin that happened in society, and yet they were totally removed from that. And yet left to themselves, it was just in their heart, all of this evil came out. And I'm telling you, if you. If you just try and remove all of the restraints and you let people go and do what's in their heart, they'll wind up sinning every time because we've all been sinners. So Romans chapter one through five is all talking about that. But the last verse of Romans chapter 5 says, now through Christ Jesus, we are changed. And In Romans chapter 6, it begins to start detailing for those who accepted salvation how completely changed you are and how that the war is over between God and you. God is not imputing your sins unto you anymore. That is nearly too good to be true news. And did you know that the average church today doesn't teach this? The average church will preach that when you come to the Lord and you get born again, then yes, you're saved. And if you were to die, you would go to heaven instead of going to hell. But they teach that God is still holding your sins against you, that if you sin, God's not going to bless you, answer your prayers. That is not what the word of God teaches. You know, let me turn over. I'm trying to get into Romans chapter 6, but let me turn over to 2 Corinthians. Chapter 5 in verse 17 says, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. But in verse 18 it says, and all things are of God who hath reconciled us. The word hath means it's already been done. What? We aren't just saved and stuck waiting for our salvation to take place in heaven. One third of your salvation is over. It's done in the spirit. You are completely changed. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things, not some things. All things are become new, not are going to become new. In your spirit, you are already identical to Jesus. That's what it says in 1 John, chapter 4, verse 17, when it says, herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Because as he is speaking of Jesus, so are we in this world. Jesus is not in the process of becoming better and growing and getting better. Your spirit man is full grown. It's identical to Jesus. Ephesians 4:24, you were created in righteousness and, and in true holiness. And so it says in verse 18, all things are of God, who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. Verse 19. To wit, that's Old English, which means to know, or that is that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. The word reconcile means to bring into harmony, to harmonize. For instance, if you have a bank statement, you check that against your record that you kept of the checks that you've written and you call that you are going to reconcile those two. You're going to bring them into harmony so that you what the bank statement says from the bank. And what you say in your check ledger is reconciled. So it means to bring into harmony or to make friendly again. So again, verse 19, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. How did he reconcile us? He didn't impute our trespasses unto us. You know, earlier in this series I was talking about that the word impute is a legal term or it's an accounting term, and it means to record against you, to put on the books. So this is how God. How did God reconcile us? How did he make us friendly again, bringing us, bring us into harmony with Himself? How did he do it? He didn't just say, well, I'm going to let sin go. See, that would have been unjust. Because he said, in the day you eat of the tree, you shall surely die. It also says in Romans 6:23, the wages of sin is death. If God would have just said, well, I'm going to quit holding people's sins against them, he would have been unjust. He would have broken his word. And Hebrews chapter six says it's impossible for God to lie. So he didn't just look the other way. He didn't just change his mind and say, from now on, I'm not going to hold sin against people. You aren't going to die. The wages of sin isn't death anymore. That's not what he did. Jesus. God himself became a man. We call him Jesus, but it was God living inside of that body. And Jesus drew all of God's wrath for you and me to himself. And he paid our debt. God didn't just look the other way. God didn't just say, well, I'm going to change. No, he couldn't do that because he's holy. He's righteous. He's judged. Just sin's got to be judged. And it was judged, but not in your body and not in mine. It was judged in the flesh of Jesus. All of God's judgment came upon Jesus. And now because of that, we are reconciled unto God. That's what this whole teaching is about, that the war is over. You are, you don't have to pay for your sins now. When you make Jesus your Lord, Jesus paid for all of your sins, past, present, and even sins that you haven't even committed yet. Your sin nature was paid for. And everything that came out of that sin nature has, has now been erased and gone. And God is a spirit. John 4:24, he's seeing you in the Spirit. He, he's aware of your body and if it's not acting right, he's aware of that. And he doesn't want you to continue to live that way because it's a direct inroad of Satan into your life. He's aware of your thought life and what you're thinking and he doesn't want you to think the wrong thing because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So God will deal with you over your actions and over your thoughts. But God is a spirit and God looks at you in the Spirit and he's dealing with you based on that Spirit. And the war is over. That spirit man has been cleansed of all sin, past, present and future. And God is looking at you as if you had never sinned. That is just nearly too good to be true. This is how he reconciled us, made us friendly to him, and is that he put all of our sin upon Jesus. And now he is not imputing our sin unto us, our trespasses unto us, and he's committed to us. This word of reconciliation. Go down again to verse 21. I've already quoted this, but it says, for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. You are now righteous in your spirit. The word righteous we could go into a great, you know, theological definition of it, but it just means that in your spirit, man, this new part of you that was recreated, you are now in right standing with God. That's what righteousness means. There is no longer any separation. The war is over. And some people take this and say, well, man, this is, this is great. I can go live in sin because I'm a new creature in Christ. God's a spirit. He's dealing with me based on who I am in the Spirit. He doesn't reject me over my flesh. He doesn't love me more if I live holy, he doesn't love me less if I live unholy. It's all about who I am in the Spirit. And so I'm free to go live in sin. That's just stupid. Forgive me for being blunt. But even though God's not imputing his judgment on your sin, he placed it on Jesus. And so now God is fellowshipping with you, spirit to spirit. You aren't only a spirit, you have a soul and you live in this body. And if you go out and yield this body to sin, Satan is going to take advantage of that sin and he will come in and bring sickness on you, poverty upon you, all kinds of things. He will come into your soulish realm and bring depression and discouragement and fear and condemnation and guilt, shame and on and on. You will suffer in your physical body and in your soulish realm if you live in sin. So if you are taking the fact that God has forgiven you and thinking it's I'm okay to go live in sin, that's just stupid. But what I'm saying is God loves you, stupid. If you go out and if you were to take what I'm saying right here and say, well man, God loves me, I'm in spirit. God looks at me in the spirit. So I can go do anything. I think I'll go rob a bank. I'm not going to work anymore, I'm just going to rob a bank. And I believe I'll get by with it. Did you know that the whole time you're sitting in your jail cell rotting away in jail because you've been caught and punished for what you did? God will love you and you could just have a wonderful time fellowshipping with God in your jail cell. He'll treat you just like you never sinned, but people won't treat you that way. The devil won't treat you that way. He will take any opportunity you give him as an inroad into your life to bring his destruction. John, chapter 10, verse 10. Jesus said the thief talking about Satan cometh not but for to steal, to kill and to destroy. If you yield your body and your soul, your mental emotional part to the devil, he's going to steal, kill and destroy. You don't want that, but God will still love you if you were truly born again. Now there are people who just acknowledge that God exists and say that they're born again, but their heart was never changed. And so they go ahead and act things out and I guarantee you it's just causing terrible destruction in their life. But it is possible for a person who's a Christian and has truly been changed at the spirit level to still continue to operate the way that they did before they got born again. Now they will be convicted about it. They won't enjoy it anymore. Their heart will show them that they're wrong. But it just because you get born again doesn't mean that you're instantly set free of everything. I've met people before that used to smoke before they got born again. When they get born again, some people are instantly delivered. Other people, man, it's a struggle and it takes time and they are born again. And yet they're still smoking. Same thing with drinking sometimes. I've seen people do the same thing with drugs. They could do the same thing. I've actually seen people get born again and live in an adulterous affair for a while. But if they continue to seek the Lord God will convict them over that because that's not a godly thing to do and it's a direct inroad of Satan into your life and he will convict you. And I've seen people that it took a while for them to get out of this adulterous relationship. You can't judge whether or not a person is truly born again just based only on their actions. If a person truly gets their heart changed, then Jesus said, out of the heart proceeds the issues of life. And so if your heart is really changed, if you were truly born again and you became a new creature, there should be a change in your actions. It should be reflected in the way that you live. But it, it's based on truth, really. It's based on what you know. Jesus said it this way in John chapter 8. And in verse 32, he said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, but it's only the truth you know that makes you free. There have been some people raised in ungodly situations, and their reference point to what is moral and, and what is right is completely different than the word of God. So they could get their heart changed. And it might take them a while for them to realize that this way I'm living, the way that I was raised and the way that all of my family and relatives lived, it may be the way I was raised, but this is not what God is saying. So anyway, you can't always judge based only on actions. But if you're truly born again, your actions will begin to start reflecting the change that has taken place. So I'm just about out of time, and I'm just now getting to Romans chapter six. And this is where I tried to start today. You know, the, the things that I'm saying are simple if you understand the word. But the scripture says in Mark, chapter 7, verse 13, Jesus said that your traditions and doctrines of men make the word of God of no effect. And we've got religious traditions today that are so corrupt and so different than what the word of God says that I have to explain these things that I'm saying. Because the average person, it just goes over their head. They don't have this understanding. So I've kind of labored to lay the foundation. But I'M just about out of time today. Let me just start by reading here. In Romans, chapter six, verse one, Paul said, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? And the answer to this is in verse two, God forbid. And then he gives you reasons why you start living holy. But let me just once again say that he had been basically showing us how desperate our situation was, how we were all corrupted and destroyed through sin and nobody can save themself. We have to have a Savior. And the first five chapters were all about that. Now that the last verse of the fifth chapter says that we are now the righteousness of God in Jesus. So now he begins to make applications and say that we are in Christ and we are a new creature. But does this mean that we can go live in sin? He says, God forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? You know, I said this on an earlier broadcast. I just hadn't got time to go back and explain it again. I know that not everybody watches. That's the reason I would love for you to get these materials. But when it says dead to sin, this isn't saying that we can't go out and commit an action of sin, but our sin nature, it's not talking about the action of sin. It's talking about we are dead to that sin nature. The sin nature is taken out of us and. And we have a brand new nature now. When you get born again, you become a new person. Not in your physical body, not in your soulless realm, but in your spirit. And that sinful nature is now gone. And I am just now to a point where I could make some wonderful points and I'm out of time. So again, let me encourage you to please get this book. The war is over. It's over 200 pages. We're asking you to give anything, whatever you can for this. If you couldn't or wouldn't send anything, I'll send you this little booklet entitled Good Will towards Man. It's an introduction to the war is over. And this is a gift to you, free and postpaid. We encourage you to give if you can, but we will send it to you. And I've also got cds, DVDs, a USB and a study guide. And we're also offering this video that was the heart of Christmas. I played three days last week. And this is a performance we do at our facility in Woodland park every year and we have that available. This is just special.