This document contains scripture passages from Romans 5:17-18 and commentary on reigning in life through Jesus Christ. The key points are: 1) Through Adam's sin, death reigned, but through Jesus, those who receive grace and righteousness will reign in life. 2) All face condemnation because of Adam's sin, but through Jesus's righteous act, all receive justification and the gift of life. 3) To reign in life, one must receive God's abundance of grace and gift of righteousness through Jesus. Righteousness is a gift not earned by works but received through faith in Jesus, who makes us righteous. By receiving grace and righteousness, one can reign over sin, darkness,

1. For if by the one man’s offense
death reigned through the one, much more
those who receive abundance of grace and of
the gift of righteousness will reign in life
through the One, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17(CEV)
Death ruled like a king because
Adam had sinned. But that cannot compare
with what Jesus Christ has done. God has
been so kind to us, and he has accepted us
because of Jesus. And so we will live and rule
like kings.
Romans 5:17(NKJV)

2. Therefore, as through one man’s
offense judgment came to all men, resulting
in condemnation, even so through one Man’s
righteous act the free gift came to all men,
resulting in justification of life.
Romans 5:18(CEV)
Everyone was going to be punished
because Adam sinned. But because of the
good thing that Christ has done, God accepts
us and gives us the gift of life.
Romans 5:18(NKJV)

3. How Will I Know
What God has in store for me
this 2014?

4. Hebrews 6:1 NKJV Therefore, leaving the
discussion of the elementary principles of Christ,
let us go on to perfection , not laying again the
foundation of repentance from dead works and of
faith toward God,
of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands,
of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal
judgment.
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And this we will do if God permits.

5. Matthew 5:48 (KJV) Be ye therefore perfect, even
as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and
said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all
things are possible."
Hebrews10:14 (NIV) For by one sacrifice he has
made perfect forever those who are being made
holy.

6. For though by this time you ought to be
teachers, you need someone to teach you
again the first principles of the oracles of
God; and you have come to need milk and
not solid food.
Hebrews 5:12
For everyone who partakes only of milk is
unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he
is a babe.
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7. 1. Start Your Day With JESUS
2. Leave Your Worries to God- HE Cares
3. Experience the Presence of God Daily
4. Find Your
place In Ministry
5. Serve with Love Interdependently
6. Reign in life

8. For if by the one man’s offense
death reigned through the one, much more
those who receive abundance of grace and of
the gift of righteousness will REIGN IN LIFE
through the One, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17(CEV)
Death ruled like a king because Adam
had sinned. But that cannot compare with what
Jesus Christ has done. God has been so kind to
us, and he has accepted us because of Jesus.
And so we will live and rule like kings .
Romans 5:17(NKJV)

9. Based on the authority of God’s Word, we are
destined to “reign in life” as a king to have kingly
dominion over all your challenges and
circumstances. You are called to be above them all
and not be trampled by them.
The secret or reigning in life lies therefore with
receiving everything that Jesus has accomplished
for us on the cross.
Today’s Scripture states very clearly that we are
to reign in life through Jesus Christ just by receiving
two things from Him:

10. For if by the one man’s
offense death reigned through the one,
much more those who receive
Romans 5:17(NKJV)
(1) abundance of grace and of the
(2) gift of righteousness will reign in life
through the One, Jesus Christ.

11. 1. RECEIVE THE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE- God’s
way is not for us to be blessed by our own efforts.
We cannot earn God’s blessings by our
performance. God’s blessings are based entirely on
His grace. His blessings over your life have to be
undeserved, unearned and unmerited.!
Romans 5:20(AMP) 20 But then Law came in, [only]
to expand and increase the trespass [making it more
apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin
increased and abounded, grace (God’s
unmerited favor) has surpassed it and
increased the more and superabounded,

12. 1. RECEIVE THE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE•
You will have the power over sin when you receive
and believe that you are under grace.
Romans 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over
you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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Death will not hurt you when you are under grace.
1Corinthians 15:56 (GNB) Death gets its power to
hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.

13. RECEIVE THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESSRighteousness is a gift. It is not a reward for perfect
obedience to the law.
Romans 3:21 (NKJV) But now the righteousness of
God apart from the law is revealed…
even the righteousness of God, through faith in
Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there
is no difference;
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Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares
that we are righteous. He did this through Christ
Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
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14. Romans 10:1 (ESV) Brothers, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for them is that they
may be saved.
Rom 10:2 For I bear them witness that they
have a zeal for God, but not according to
knowledge.
Romans 10:3 For, being ignorant of the
righteousness of God, and seeking to
establish their own (rigtheousness), they did
not submit to God's righteousness.

15. 1 Corinthians 1:30 (GW) You are partners with
Christ Jesus because of God. Jesus has become
our wisdom sent from God, our righteousness, our
holiness, and our ransom from sin..
2Corinthians 5:21(BBE) For him who had no
knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that
we might become the righteousness of God in him.

16. When you receive and believe you are made
RIGTHEOUS through Christ, you will
REIGN IN LIFE!
No matter who you are, no matter what your job is
because the power to reign is based entirely on
Jesus and Him alone.
Rom 5:17
… REIGN IN LIFE through the One, Jesus Christ.

17. …For You were slain, And have
redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of
every tribe and tongue and people and
nation,
Revelations 5:9b
AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND
PRIESTS TO OUR GOD; AND WE SHALL
REIGN ON THE EARTH.”
5:10

18. • Beloved AGC, as 2014 starts Reign in life and…
• you reign over sin,
• you reign over the powers of darkness,
• you reign over depression,
• over poverty, over every curse, and over every
sickness and disease.
• You REIGN over the devil and all his devices!
• 2Corinthians 2:11 that no advantage may be
gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his
devices.

19. Isaiah 54:14(NKJV) In righteousness you shall be
established; You shall be far from oppression, for
you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not
come near you
Isaiah 54:15(NIV) If anyone does attack you, it will
not be my doing; whoever attacks you will
surrender to you.

20. Isaiah 54:17(NKJV)
No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And
every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And
THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FROM ME,”
Says the LORD.

21. Our Year 2014 DECLARATION
•I am righteous by the Blood of Jesus;
•Therefore, no evil shall befall me.
•It is written, there shall no evil happen to the
righteous.
•The Bible declares wealth and riches shall be in
the house of the righteous.
•It is written the Lord blesses the house of the
righteous.
•It is written, the prayer of the righteous has
powerful effect.

22. My house is blessed! my family is blessed! for I
am the righteousness of God in Christ.
In righteousness, I am established.
I am far from oppression for I shall not fear.
No terror shall come near me.
No weapon formed against me shall prosper,
for my righteousness is from the Lord.
In Jesus’, my Lord’s, my Righteousness’ name
Amen!

23. Prosperous 2014
to All of You
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
GOD!!!