Silencing the Accuser’s Voice

Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus brought the promise made in Genesis into a reality. He came to crush the head of the accuser.

Many of you right now are being accused. Do you ever wake up at 3:00 in the morning and feel the weight of that accusation? It’s the strangest thing. I wake up almost every night, but a lot of times when I wake up in the middle of the night, my mind is just kind of flooded with this free-floating anxiety, the sense of ‘Man, I think I did something wrong.’

Anybody else have that kind of anxiety or fear? That’s the accuser. The Bible calls it the accuser of the brethren, trying to say to you, “You’re no good. You’re worthless! You’re not keeping the law. You’re the least of the Christians in this place.” Now I used to live under such condemnation, guilt and shame, feeling like ‘I’m not obeying enough of the law.’

The Jewish people couldn’t keep all of God’s rules and regulations either, and it gave open access to the enemy and to their own consciences to weigh them down with this sense of guilt, shame, and fear. These people’s lives were falling apart and full of accusations, and all they heard was the religious leaders telling them to try harder and burdening them with shame and condemnation. Jesus came and brought an answer to this. You see it even in the working out of his ministry. He preached the Beatitudes and said to these broken and poor people, “Blessed are those of you who are broken.”

Jesus, when he came to the earth, came to open a new way of living where the Father does not judge us on the merit of our own performance. We are now judged through this lens of Jesus Christ who says to us, “Where are your accusers? Where is Satan? He’s gone! I have crushed his head under my feet. Where is that inner voice that accuses you? I have stopped the foul voice that’s coming against you.”

Where is the voice of the accuser against your friends, your family and others around you? It is gone. We have freedom in Christ!