“Who shall bring a charge against God's elect?” (Romans 8:33)

This is the most wonderful rhetorical question in the Bible, with one blessed answer: “NO ONE!” “Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us” (Romans 8:33-34).

It's finished, it’s paid, it’s eternal life for all who believe! Every sin of the elect was laid upon Christ. There’s no sin in God's book against His people. When the guilt of sin was taken away, the punishment of sin was removed. For the Christian, there’s no dreaded judgement day, not so much as a single frown of punitive justice. The believer may be chastised by his Father, but God the Judge has nothing to say to the Christian, except, "I have absolved you: you are acquitted."

The Christian is completely freed from all the punishment as well as the guilt of sin, and the power of sin is removed as well. Christ came to “destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Hebrews 2:14-15). It may stand in our way, and keep our New Man in perpetual warfare; but sin is a conquered foe to everyone in union with Christ. The Christian can overcome every sin if he relies upon God to do it.

They who wear the white robe in Heaven overcame through the blood of the Lamb, and we can do the same. No lust is too mighty, no sin too strongly entrenched; we can overcome through the power of Christ. Christian, your sin is already condemned. It may kick and struggle, but it’s doomed to die. God’s written His condemnation on it. Christ has crucified it, “nailing it to His cross.” Go now, and kill it, and may the Lord help you to live to His praise, for sin with all its guilt, shame, and fear, is gone.