Here we go with another series from "the old days," meaning 1996. In that particular year, yours truly went hither, thither, and yon (yon was the hardest part) teaching various ensembles of saints the truths concerning Sin, chiefly its inability to condemn us. But not only that. No. In one message—the one you are about to listen to and watch—I explained how God PURPOSELY made us
weak in some areas so that the emphasis of the power (the credit for the power) of our salvation would be on God and not on us.
This is shocking truth. When organized religion owned our souls, we were told that we should "stop sinning for Jesus." We were told that God and His Son expected their followers to strive for perfection. A Christian walk, according to them, was not one of joy and peace and thanksgiving. It was advertised as that, but this was a whitewashed presentation. Because what belonging to
Christ REALLY meant was the setting out upon a path of struggle to maintain God and Christs's good opinion of us.
The message you are about to see and hear blows this theory to smithereens.
In November of 1996 I was invited by Pastor Robert Allen to teach his Newport News, VA congregation some of the basics concerning what Christ did against Sin. The reception was warm and the lovely folks there bent their ears hard toward truth.
This message—as well as the entire series—was recorded on analog audio tape and has been sitting in a storage unit in Canton, Ohio for ten years. Our brother Rodney Paris has resurrected these tapes, digitized them, and is now presenting them to a contemporary audience with some intriguing video behind them and many helpful text frames so as to bring these timeless truths to a new
audience. Rodney Paris; thank you from the bottom of my heart for laboring (you can't believe, people, how much work this entails) for the sake of the revelation of God and Christ.
I commend this message to God, to Christ, and to you, my fellow saints.
From the edge of the bottom of the Floridan peninsula,
—Martin Zender
