Christ consciousness v sin conciousness

The gathering on zoom this morning and Jamie's talk on the theme of Colossians 2.14-15 can I think be summed up this way - our christian lives shouldn't be spent struggling daily to be 'good enough' according the law, and if we can just 'be saved' it's enough - no, the devil will daily try to remind us of our daily pecadillos, the small stuff, and the big stuff to keep us focused on our sin, our failings, even if we run back to Jesus and think we've arrived, that's enough - but then wander back to being sin conscious and allowing the devil to rub our noses daily in our failings.  

Spiritual maturity comes when we start from the place that our sins are forgiven, forgotten, God is not mindful of them and nor should we be!  We're not struggling daily to escape sin just to get to safety in Jesus - no!  We start from the point of being safe in him - and the idea is to follow him, every moment of every day!  Like him, do what we see the father doing, and say what we hear the father saying - then we'll start to be effective!!  Powerful!!  The devil fears this, so keeps us looking down, keeps rubbing our noses in our failings, beating ourselves.  Sadly many get saved, but then become enslaved in religion - which constantly reminds us of our failings and the need to repent.  It's baked into the liturgy!  The battle of faith, is to live by faith in the finished work of Christ!  Not to live constantly mindful of our failure.  That's where the devil wants us to stay - religion does his work for him!  
Or something like that!

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