To declare a person guilty and unworthy of punishment refers to condemnation. Condemn and condemnation are judicial terms, the opposite of 'Justify and Justification'. God alone is the judge of men; in His demand for righteousness, sin leads invariably to condemnation and death.

Make a tree sound and its fruit will be sound; make a tree rotten and its fruit will be rotten. For the tree can be told by its fruit. Brood of vipers, how can your speech be good when you are evil? For a man's words flow out of what fills his heart. A good man draws good things from his store of goodness; a bad man draws bad things from his store of badness. So I tell you this, that for every unfounded word men utter they will answer on Judgement day, since it is by yours words you will be acquitted and by your words condemned. - Matt. 12:33-37 -

Adam prefigured the One to come but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one's man fall so many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant free gift. The results of the gift also outweigh the results of one man's sin: for after one single fall came judgement with a verdict of condemnation, now after many falls comes grace with its verdict of acquittal. If it is certain that death reigned over everyone as the consequence of one man's fall, it is even more certain that one man, Jesus Christ, will cause everyone to reign in life who receives the free gift that he does deserve, of being made righteous. Again, as one man's fall brought condemnation on everyone, so the good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified. - Rom. 5:15-18

Incredibly, the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ was not to condemn the world but to save it by bearing on the cross the sin that belonged to His people. There is no condemnation for sinners who repent and believed in Him. Jesus not only bore the consequences of sin but also condemned (destroyed) sin itself so that believers are released from its power. Since they have experienced a gracious pardon, God's believers are directed to practice compassion, love, forgiveness and avoid vindictiveness.

Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon and you will be pardoned. Give and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back. - Luke 6:36-38 -

For God sent his Son into the world
not to condemn the world
but so that through him the world might be saved.
No one who believes in him will be condemned;
but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already
because he had refused to believe
in the name of God's only Son. - John 3:17-18 -

The reason, therefore, why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned, is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. God has done what the Law, because of our unspiritual nature, was unable to do. God dealt with sin by sending his own Son in a body as physical as any sinful body and in that body God condemned sin. He did this in order that the Law's just demands might be satisfied in us, who behave not as our unspiritual nature but as the spirit dictates. - Rom. 8:1-4 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -