Several years ago, we decided to drive through a wild animal park in Oklahoma on one of our family vacations. My daughter, Alicia, was sitting in the front passenger seat. My wife, Trina, and my son, Aaron, were sitting in the back seat. As we drove, we purchased some small buckets of feed to give the animals. At first, all we saw were deer. We fed the deer and they were nice and cute. Then, a llama came strolling up on Alicia's side of the van. He scared her so much that she quickly rolled up her window. I laughed and said, "I'm not afraid of a llama." The llama must have heard me say that because immediately, he came to my side of the van. I began to feed him out of my bucket. Suddenly, he forced his whole head in the window and ate out of my bucket, placing his entire head in my lap. Alicia and I began to laugh nervously. Then the llama pulled his head out of the bucket and sneezed. Llama spit, snot, and slimy stuff went all over the front dash and on our clothes. It was nasty and had a terrible smell. I slapped the llama's head to get him out and rolled up the window, but the damage had been done. We left the park and headed to the nearest store to get something to clean up the mess. We finally got the slime out, but the smell was more difficult. We could smell the llama sneeze during our whole vacation every time we got in the van. That smell stayed in the van for months. The llama was gone, but the smell was still there! Sin and satan are the same way. When the devil gets his head in your life, he will not leave until he has sneezed on you and made a mess. Jesus died on the cross, He shed His blood, and arose from the dead to undo all that the devil has done in your life. Jesus became everything sin produced, and through the new birth, you receive everything righteousness produced. When the devil brings accusations to your mind, you need to say, "Don't talk to me. Talk to the blood. My faith is in Jesus’ blood." Smith Wigglesworth said, "There is not one thing in me the blood does not cleanse." The blood of Jesus not only cleanses all sin, it cleanses all unrighteousness. It removes the guilt and stain of sin and produces a righteousness consciousness. If you minimize the significance of the gift of righteousness, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God and the substance of your faith. Ask God to give you more understanding on the gift of righteousness. Romans 1:16-17 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ… For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” Your faith will be strong in the light of a revelation of righteousness. You will walk free from the weight of the old system—a religious system, man's system. You will walk as a new creation in Christ, under God's system of righteousness based on Jesus blood. A lack of understanding or a misunderstanding about righteousness will hinder everything else in your Christian life. A right understanding and a revelation of what righteousness is and what it means will enhance everything else in your Christian life. A righteousness consciousness will have these wonderful effects on our lives: .... See MARK HANKINS - PAGE 16 3 GLAD TIDINGS APRIL 2025 Glad Tidings “Glad Tidings” was founded by Quinnelle McRae Ministries in August 1987, after graduating from Rhema Bible College in the spring of 1981 and 1986. In the spring of 1992 we began publishing a quarterly newsletter, being mailed free of charge to a list of families, reaching across the United States, including the Navajo reservation and into the countries of Mexico, Africa and France. In the year 1998 the Glad Tidings Newspaper began its publication, replacing the Newsletter. 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