A Judge’s Bench or the Throne of Grace?

Dearly beloved of God, the show trial of our President starts tomorrow by the House presenting its accusations against him to the Senate.

At one time we stood trial before God. We were guilty before God. We all had sinned and come short of the glory of God. We stood before Him dead in sin and deserving of the sentence of death. We were guilty, ungodly, sinners, and enemies of God. We had no hope; we were by nature the children of wrath.

Instead of our guilt and the sentence of condemnation against us, God showed His justice by sending His Son to save us from the condemnation against us.

The Lord Jesus Christ accomplished the justice of God by giving His life for us as the Lamb of God. He carried the sins of the world on the cross and he died in our stead; the just for the unjust.

Compare what Adam did with what Jesus Christ accomplished.

By the offense of one man, Adam, the world was guilty before God and dead in sin, but much more by the grace of God and the gift by the grace the one man Jesus Christ abounded unto many.

The judgment was by one man to condemnation, but the free gift of grace is from many offenses unto justification.

By Adam’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of the one, Jesus Christ, many will be made just.

Dearly beloved, as sin reigned unto death, even so now the grace of God reigns through His justice unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

There is therefore now no sentence of condemnation against those who are in Christ Jesus! The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made us free from the law of death dealing sin.

Jesus Christ the Lord sent the promise of the Father, which was the gift of holy spirit. All who confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead will be saved. At that moment God seals us with the holy spirit for eternal life.

That new birth spirit is the down payment of our inheritance until we acquire it when Christ returns to gather us together up to him on the day of redemption.

Jesus Christ justified us from sin and its condemnation because it was His Father’s will. Love motivated God to show us mercy, which is the withholding of merited judgment, and He showed us His Divine favor, His grace in Christ Jesus.

We no longer stand in Adam as guilty before God; we stand in Christ Jesus and God freely gives us all things with him. We are completely filled in him, dearly beloved; we are as he is. Such grace!

He sent His spokesmen; apostles and prophets and teachers and pastors and evangelists to make known the good pleasure of His will by declaring the gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord and what he accomplished.

God would have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth, but not all accept His invitation.

Dearly beloved, we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. God called us by His gospel to acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming.

God’s justice is quite different from what man calls justice. Jesus Christ was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. We are justified by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and now we have peace with God. Through him we have access into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Not only did He justify us in Christ, He gave us the life-giving spirit of Christ in you, the hope of glory. Christ presented us to God as holy, and without blemish, and unimpeachable in His sight. By the grace of God we are joint heirs of glory with him.

The gavel has fallen, and the sentence has been proclaimed. In Christ we stand before God without any sense of sin, or guilt. There is no more condemnation to those whose standing is in Christ Jesus. We are clothed with the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus our Lord and we eagerly anticipate his coming for us.

We no longer stand before the Judge as accused; in Christ we stand before Him as His dearly beloved and highly favored sons.

We don’t approach the Judge’s bench, we approach the Father’s throne of grace to find His help in our time of need, and we approach Him with boldness and confidence because we believed in Christ; it is the good pleasure of His will, dearly beloved.

Today’s trial is indeed petty and insignificant compared to the trial of the ages and God's justice in Christ Jesus the Lord.

Thank God for His justice. His verdict concerning us in Christ will stand forever. We were justified in Christ and we will be glorified with him when he returns to gather us up to him. Rejoice forevermore and give God thanks, dearly beloved.