Rodney Howard Browne

I said, "So you're really planning to do it, aren't you?
You're planning to fall, aren't you? You've been talking about it
for years." And the sad thing is that he went on, the ministry
grew, and he fell. It was just like he planned it; he strategized his
own fall.

But I'm not running the race like I'm going to fall When
you want to run a race, you don't stand at the starting line saying,
"I don't want to start because I'm afraid I'll get a hundred yards
down the road and fall."

If you run in the race and suddenly you just fall, bless
God, just get up, dust yourself off, and take off running again.
You don't just lie down and cry, "Do you want to come join me at
the First Church of the Fallen?"

"How you doing down there?"
"Oh, pray for me. I've fallen, Rodney. Pray for me."
"Well, get up!Get on your feet. What are you lying there
in the mud for? Get up!"

"But what about all those other times I've fallen?"
There are no other times! You're a new creature in Christ.
Jesus will never bring up your past. He will never bring up any
failing you've had. He will never even bring up your shortcomings.
Religion will do that to you, but Jesus won't do that to you.
He's not going to come and bring up your past faults and your
failings because your sins are forgiven.

When we realize that we are righteous in Jesus Christ, we
realize that we're not slaves to sin anymore. We don't have to
dance to sin's tune. We've been set free. We've been delivered.
We've been washed in the blood. We've been cleansed. We've
been made righteous. Without Him we're a nothing, but thank
God, we're in Him. (see Acts 17:28.)

If you can get this, you will walk in victory.
And you, that were sometimes alienated and enemies in
your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy
and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
COLOSSIANS 1:21-22

Reconciliation has already been done for you in Christ.
You stand complete in Him. Ephesians 5:27 says, That he might
present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or
wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and
without blemish. You stand righteous and holy in Him!

Teachings of Rodney Howard Browne

Now I'm going to share something with you, and if this
doesn't cause a reaction, you really need revival! Romans 5:17-
19 explains how sin and death came through one man, Adam.
Then it explains how sin and death were defeated through one
man, Jesus, so that many- that's us - could be made righteous.
If by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more

they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all
men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one
the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made
righteous.

Everybody wants to talk about the fall, about when Adam
sinned and sin came into the world, but that's not the end of the
story. The Bible says there is a second Adam and His name is
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of the Living God. He sped
across time and space, took on human flesh, was obedient even
unto death on the cross, paid the price of sin on the cross of
Calvary, and spent three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth. Then He rose from the dead, and having spoiled principalities
and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing
over them in it. (See Colossians 2:15.)

Now here's where you and I come in. Jesus took with Him
the keys of death and hell and the grave and He said to us, "I've
given you the keys of the kingdom. Whatever you bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in
the world. I've raised you up to sit with Me in heavenly places."
(See Revelation 1:18, Matthew 16:19, 1 John 4:4, and Ephesians
2:6.)

And it's not just in heaven! Through Jesus, you reign as a
king in this life, and if you reign as a king in this life, you have
a kingdom, and you as king have dominion over it. Therefore you
have dominion over sin. You have authority over sin because you
reign as a king in this life through Jesus Christ.

That's something to get excited about! I'm seated in the
heavenly places with Christ Jesus. He's my righteousness. The
Gospel comes to the beggar, to the tramp, to the leper, walks
down into the ditch full of muck and mire, and pulls him out,
washes him, puts a robe and a ring and shoes on him, and says,
"This is my friend." That's what Jesus does.
Jesus is your righteousness. It doesn't matter what you've
done.

It's time to get rid of that old sin consciousness and those
old sin rags you've been draping yourself in, worshipping every
day at the altar of sin. It's time to lay that aside and come over
into righteousness and realize what Jesus purchased for you at
Calvary's cross. When guilt and condemnation come your way;
you resist the enemy and say "No! That person doesn't live here
anymore! Jesus is my righteousness and I'm free! Jesus has set
me free!"

Teachings of Rodney Howard Browne