Hello, this is Graham Cook. Welcome to the Brilliant Perspective's Podcast.

Hi everyone, my name is Graham Cook and today we're going to be talking about flaws and

shortcomings or rather your lack of shortcomings from God's perspective. Let me start by reading a couple of short passages from the

Passion translation. First one is in Romans chapter six, five to seven. And he says this, for since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his

and the new life that it imparts.

Could it be any clearer that our former identity is now and forever deprived of its power?

For we were crucified with him to dismantle the stronghold of sin within us so that we could not continue to live

one moment longer to sin's power.

Obviously a dead person is incapable of sinning. And then this from Colosians, chapter 2, verse 12 to 14, again in the Passion translation.

For we've been buried with him, immersed into his death.

Our baptism into death also means we were raised with him when we

believed in God's resurrection power, the power that raised him from death's realm. This realm of death describes our

former state for we were held in sin's grasp. But now we've been resurrected out of that realm of death never to return,

for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins. And through the divine authority of his cross, he cancelled out every

legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrants that stood to Indiders now no longer have meaning

He raced it all our sins our soul, and our shameful failure to keep his laws.

He deleted it all, and they can't be retrieved.

Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there

as a public display of cancellation. Whoa, that's astonishing to me that you see that when Jesus died on the cross, he died

for everyone once and for all. And when he did, he removed the power of sin and he also

removed all of our shortcomings. Does that mean we never have problems?

No.

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