The only place where you find no condemnation is in Christ Jesus.

So the devil’s name tells us that he goes straight to the root of your The good news is that God
problems. He doesn’t come to you and say, “let your business slide” or disarmed the devil at the cross. God
“Neglect your children”. On the contrary, he comes to say things like, “How took his only weapon — the law —
can you let the business slide?” or “Call yourself a Christian! Call yourself a and He nailed it to the cross! Yes,
good father. You’re a lousy father!” He accuses you till you feel condemned. God has triumphed over the devil
And he uses the law, which is holy, good and just, to condemn you. That is and all his demonic principalities
why condemnation — the root cause of all your problems — is so subtle. and powers! That’s why I often tell
That is why condemnation usually goes undetected. the church that we are not fighting
I have realized that the devil hasn’t changed his tactics even with a church for victory. We are fighting from
like ours where I preach so strongly against condemnation. Do you know victory. The victory is already ours
why? Because he has no other tactic! He has no other weapon! The devil through the finished work of Christ
cannot enforce the curse in your life apart from condemnation. The devil at the cross.
cannot make you sick apart from condemnation. You have to cooperate with
him and receive the condemnation first.
The Key To No Condemnation

God Disarmed The Devil At The Cross The fact that you can feel
condemned is proof that you have a
Colossians 2:14–15 heart of flesh, not a heart of stone.
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having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was (ezekiel 11:19, 36:26) It is proof that
against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out you are truly born again. What,
of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15Having disarmed then, is the key to getting out of
principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, your evil day? What is the key to no
triumphing over them in it. condemnation in your life?

Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no
Broken condemnation to those who
Marriage are in Christ Jesus

The only place where you find

Sickness no condemnation is in Christ Jesus.
Poverty The word “therefore” connects
Romans 8:1 to the previous verses
in Romans 7, where Paul talked
about how he was condemned by
the law that he knew so well.
The reason there is therefore
now no condemnation, is that God
loved us so much that He gave us His
Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
Stress Jesus came and He was condemned
for our sins at the cross. When He
hung on the cross, God took all
Fear our sins of our entire lives, and He
heaped them on Jesus. Then He
unleashed the vengeance of His fury
against lawlessness and sin on the
Condemnation body of Jesus Christ until Jesus cried,
“It is finished!” The reason that you
and I experience no condemnation
today is that all our sins have been
punished and condemned, but in the

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