JUDGEMENT is set (not will be)
This is something that pretty much stirs on the inside of me. I don't get depressed about this either. Let me just lay this out. It's quite obvious that people have a wrong perception of of what judgement is. If you come up to me and tell me that you're having an affair on your husband/wife with your co-worker or anyone else, by your OWN WORDS, you've declared yourself a transgressor of the law or the Word of God, and telling me you don't feel bad as if you've done something wrong, I would then tell you to inform your spouse on your adultery. (I bet you won't because you know it's wrong, and you know your spouse will agree that it's wrong!) If I tell you that you're wrong in what you're doing and you tell me to stop judging you, you don't know what judgement is. You've judged yourself by saying it.
Here's what I've ran into ALOT. When I'm proclaiming the Word of God, people just don't like hearing that they're sinners and need a saviour. Why? Because they're selfish and wicked and despise the things of God, that pertain to righteousness and holiness. What do they say? "GOD SAYS DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE." Absolutely right! That means, I don't need to be forming opinions or thoughts on the heart intent or motive as to why someone did something, and how they did it!! How many people have you hear come up to you and say, "So and so did this, just like this, and I KNOW they did it to make me mad. YOU'RE PASSING JUDGEMENT!!
Let me clarify this too. I proclaim the Word of God, and claim Christ. The Word of God, condemns me a sinner. Why? I've broken every law there is.. (God looks at the heart.) I don't have to act the sin out to comit it in my heart. Hate is murder. Lust is likened to adultery. (It's an ACT of the heart.) By the law, i'm sentenced to death! A DEATH IS OWED. Why? THE LAW DEMANDS JUSTICE.
I claim Christ. Christ came down to this world in the likeliness of sinful flesh, and FOR SIN (to pay the price of sin) condemned sin in the flesh. You don't know sin is sin unless you know what doing right is. I can't know that smoking is wrong, without know that NOT SMOKING is right. Christ showed us SIN was right, by SHOWING us what was right, and then, when further, KNOWING no man, because of his flesh, could go without sinning. What did He do? He did it for us. He paid the price sin demanded. He paid the price justice declared! Because His LOVE desires mercy. Innocence has a voice. God is just, and because innocent blood was shed, it began to cry out for JUSTICE. MERCY cried out for JUSTICE. Innocence DEMANDED justice. Do you see this? The blood said, "DO I NOT DESERVE WHAT I PAID FOR?" What did He pay for? The price of your sin to be paid. He wants you! You mean that much to HIM. So much that His blood STILL cries out for YOU. I don't care what you've done or where you've been that you would esteem to be wrong. I'm telling you what, it IS wrong, but God loves you, and if you'll believe and accept the sacrifice of sin, you'd then have everything you've ever wanted, and that's Christ. He loves you! God doesn't ask you to be perfect, He asks you to love Him. If you love Him you're going to want to please Him, but He loved you first, to demonstrate His devotion to you. He would never ask you to do something He hasn't done first.
I wasn't going there originally, but it's there for whoever needs it. When someone's proclaiming the Law of God, they're claiming Christ, for they know that they can be saved or justified by nothing else and no other, except Christ alone. We've all sinned and fallen short, and we all need a saviour. There gift is there for anyone who will accept and recieve Him. I can't judge people, but the Law of God does. He said, "All have sinned."
"If I offend you, I need to repent, but if the Word of God offends you, you need to repent."
-A Messenger.
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