May 2021
No Condemnation
Dearly beloved of God, God is not mad at you. Many Christians do not know this because no one has taught them about this reality.
The only way we can know anything about spiritual matters, and the will of God is to know and believe the revelation that God has given in His Word.
Listen to what Jesus Christ said.
John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him That sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation [judgment]; but is passed from death unto life.
Condemnation is a sentence against the guilty. How do we know the will of God concerning the terms of judgment that God determined? Jesus Christ revealed it right here. Anyone can read it; it is clearly understandable.
Earlier in John 3, Jesus Christ said that to see and enter the kingdom of God one must be born again, and he explained it.
John 3:6 and 7
That which is born of the flesh [this is the natural birth] is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit [born of Spirit is to be begotten of the spirit of God, to be born again] is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
He continues to explain this in the context.
John 3:14-18
That whosoever believeth in Him [the Son of man, Jesus Christ] should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him [Jesus Christ] should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not His Son [Jesus Christ] into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
He that believeth on Him [Jesus Christ] is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
God determined the standard by which deliverance from condemnation would be made available to people, and that deliverance is in Jesus Christ. He that believes on him is not condemned; those that reject him are condemned already.
After Jesus Christ gave his life in our stead, and for sin, God raised him out from among the dead. God determined that anyone who confesses Jesus as Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead will be saved. God revealed this truth in Romans 10:9.
God determined this before He sent His Son to save us. He determined this by His Will. Salvation from the condemnation that Adam brought upon mankind is by Jesus Christ, and by his accomplishments. This is God’s standard for justice. He further explains it in Romans 5:12-21.
By Adam’s disobedience mankind was brought under the reign of sin and death. Through the offense of the one, Adam, the many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
The judgment by the one, Adam, was to condemnation, but the free gift is out of many offences unto justification. Therefore as by the offence of Adam judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of Jesus Christ the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus [the rest of the verse is omitted in the Greek manuscripts].
Dearly beloved, God is not mad at us. It was His idea to justify us from sin by Jesus Christ, and his accomplishments. If we believe on him, and that God raised him from the dead we are saved, and will never again come unto condemnation.
Those whom God called, He justified, and those whom He justified, them He also glorified! God that spared not His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will He not with him also freely give us all things? Read Romans 8:29-34. Does that sound like God is mad at us, dearly beloved?
Christ died for us; he does not condemn us. He is risen from the dead, and is seated at God’s right side, and he ever lives to make intercession for us.
God does not condemn us; He justified us from sin. In Christ we are highly favored in His sight; we are His dearly beloved children, and our hope is to be glorified together with Christ. Oh rejoice!
God does not want us to be ignorant about spiritual matters. If we want to know God’s Will we will have to know His Word. The right way of believing; the way that God determined that we should believe, comes by hearing, by hearing the Word of God concerning Christ.
Rejoice, dearly beloved, we will never again come unto condemnation. God our Father has given us good hope through grace by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ; the hope of receiving the glory of God.