God’s Mercy Your Gateway to Reign in Life || Part 1

Hello everyone, welcome to Education for the New Creature. Today I want to look at two powerful aspects of God’s mercy.

The first part is the fact that God sent Jesus to take our sin, to take our pain, and to take our shame. Isaiah 53 presents it very clearly. It says, “He was wounded for our transgressions… He was bruised for our iniquities.” Verse 6 says God laid our iniquity on Jesus. So God could show us mercy because He had done justice on Jesus. It was not just mercy for free, like, “Okay, let’s just have mercy. They are crying, let’s just forgive them like that.” No. Forgiveness is because justice was done on the Son of God. His blood was shed to redeem us. Ephesians 1:7 says we have redemption through His blood. It was a redemption from bondage, from slavery. So Christ had to suffer.

To emphasize this more, 2 Corinthians 5:19 says that God reconciled the world to Himself. He did not impute our trespasses to us, but to Jesus. So Jesus paid the price for us to be free, for us not to have the consequences or the repercussions of our wrong.

There’s another aspect of God’s mercy. And of course, we thank God for the first one—that’s the reason we are standing today. Jesus Christ was the Lamb. In fact, John 1:29 says, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” He was the Lamb because He was sacrificed. It was a sacrifice of God to set us free.

But there’s another dimension that takes us to another level of the goodness of God.

Ephesians chapter 2 from verse 1 talks about how we were dead in trespasses and sins. To give some background, what led to the sin sickness we face in the world is what Adam did. The first man God created sinned, and what he did joined humanity to the nature of the enemy. So sin, sickness, and disease came out of that. Sin was not just what you do; it was a nature. We were born in sin. The acts of sin and the outward appearance of sickness were because of the nature we had.

Ephesians 2:1 says, “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” When God gave Adam the command, He said, “If you eat of this tree, you will die.” Adam did not fall down physically and die, but he actually died. That death was spiritual death—a separation from the life of God and a union with the life of the enemy, which is death, sin, sickness, and every atrocity you can think of.

Verse 2 says that in time past we walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. Verse 3 says we were by nature children of wrath.

But verse 4 says, “But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ.” The word “quickened” means “made alive.”

When Christ died, Romans 5 tells us that we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. But He did not stay dead. He was raised from the dead on the third day. The Bible says that we were dead in sins, but we were made alive together with Christ. After Christ died to pay the price for our sins, He was raised from the dead. And it says we were raised together with Him.

Verse 6 says, “And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” So the mercy of God is that He made us alive.

When Jesus came, He said in John 10:10, “The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come that you may have life.” The people He was talking to were breathing and walking, but they did not have the life of God. What Adam did removed humanity from the life of God and joined humanity to the life of the enemy, which is death. Jesus said, “I have come to give you life.”

John 3:16 says that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life—the life of God. Yes, heaven is the ultimate, but there is a nature of God that we receive. That was the nature we lost.

So God’s mercy is not just that Christ paid the price and everything is forgiven. The problem was not just your actions; it was your nature. So when Christ came, He united Himself with humanity to pay that price. Hebrews 2:14 says He partook of flesh and blood to destroy the works of the enemy.

When He was raised, He was raised to usher us into the nature of God. That’s why we say we are born again. You are born again because you are brought back to life. He did not come for Himself.

Romans 6 tells us we died with Christ. His death was your death. Everything He came to do, He did for you and with you, so He could destroy the hold of the enemy.

The mercy of God in this aspect is the newness of nature He gives us—the nature of righteousness. Mercy does not just say, “Okay, anything I do, God has mercy.” Yes, there is forgiveness. But mercy went further. God made man in His image and likeness. He wants man to reflect Him, to think like Him, to act like Him, to be righteous like Him.

Ephesians 1:3–5 says God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings and chose us before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame. It says He predestined us to adoption as children. That is rebirth.

In Ephesians 2, it says when we were dead in sin, He made us alive. That death was spiritual death. He made us alive and raised us far above principalities and powers—far above sin, sickness, and the old nature.

Colossians 1:13 says God delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of His Son. He delivered us, and the blood did not just stop at delivering us; it washed us and made us new. Leviticus 17:11 says the life of the flesh is in the blood. The life of Jesus is in His blood. That life becomes your life.

So the mercy of God is revealed in that the life and nature of God are now in us. We should not see mercy as just an excuse. Mercy also lifts you above sin and sickness because it changes your nature. Christ’s death put to death the nature of sin; His resurrection opened you up to the nature of God.

Romans 6 says, “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid.” How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it? Verse 4 says we were buried with Him by baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

The newness of life comes because Christ was raised from the dead. His resurrection was your resurrection. He was not raised for Himself. Everything He did was to raise you from bondage into that elevated state.

In the Old Testament, the blood of bulls and goats could only work externally. Hebrews 9 tells us that if the blood of bulls and goats sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ cleanse your conscience and change you within? God did not just repair you; He made you a brand-new creature.

The mercy of God has given you the nature of righteousness, the nature of perfect health, the God-kind of life. You are back in the image of God.

Yes, we are still growing. Like newborn babes, there may be slips here and there. When you fall, you don’t stay in condemnation. You confess your sins—1 John 1:9 says He is faithful and just to forgive you. But you don’t stop there. You say, “This mercy has made me righteous. This mercy made me alive together with Christ. I have His nature.” So you rise up in that consciousness.

The blood of Christ is not just for forgiveness. It brings you into the consciousness of who you are in Christ. When you plead the blood of Jesus, you remind yourself: this is not my level. This habit is not my nature. I have the life of God.

Mercy does not just cover; it pulls you up. It takes you beyond the old level. As you grow in the consciousness of who you are in Christ, you walk differently.

I heard someone say that when people change their mindset, it can even affect their DNA. In a similar way, what God did for us is like a change of spiritual DNA. When we begin to think like a new creature—“I am righteous, I am one with Jesus”—it changes everything about us.

Let’s take our confession together:

Jesus is my Lord.
I was crucified with Christ.
I died with Christ.
I was buried with Christ.
I was raised with Christ.
Right now, I am justified with Christ.
I am made alive with Christ.
I conquered Satan with Christ.
I conquered sin, sickness, and disease with Christ.
I have been raised up together with Christ
and I am made to sit together with Christ in heavenly places
at the right hand of God, far above all principality and power.
All things are under my feet because I am in Christ.
Jesus’ righteousness is my righteousness.
Jesus’ wisdom is my wisdom.
Jesus’ nature is my nature.
Jesus’ life is my life.

Hallelujah. God bless you. See you tomorrow. Thank you.