A Judge passing judgment
According to my studies of the concept of condemnation in holy scriptures, condemnation simply means being found guilty and sentenced to a penalty due to the offence committed.
Condemnation can only be meted out by a righteous judge in whom no fault is found.
Therefore, when a person judges and condemns another person, he or she is indirectly putting his or herself in a position whereby the same offence for which he or she condemned another, should never be committed by him or her.
In the old testament, the 10 commandments was given to the children of Israel.
In the new testament, the giving of the 10 commandments to the children of Israel was referred to as 'the ministration of condemnation', according to the King James version.
The reason why it is called that is because the law was like a trap, one is not saved by obeying all of the 10 commandments and is guilty of failing all at the failure of keeping one.
It was only by faith in Jesus Christ are men destined to be truly saved , pleasing to God and counted righteous by Him.
This is called the righteousness of faith/the righteousness of Christ.
So, things were made easier for men when the will of God was written in the hearts of men so that when one errs, his or her conscience bears witness to the abberation that has occurred.
When one goes against the will of God, the person will know because the law , the will of God is now written in the hearts of men.
For those under the law, failure to meet all the 10 commandments renders them guilty.
These people under the law also do not believe in Jesus Christ as they should and so are already condemned by their unbelief.
As a person who believes in Jesus Christ, you will not be condemned because you believe in Jesus Christ.
Why is this?
This is because fulfilling all of the 10 commandments does not save you or accredits you as righteous.
When a man in the generic sense, sincerely wants to please God and puts in conscious effort to avoid sin and fulfill all of the 10 commandments, the whole process is called works but a man cannot be saved by his own works.
This is because no amount of avoidance of sin and keeping of all the 10 commandments can be pleasing to God as the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
That is why we need to believe in Jesus Christ, go into Him and please God through our faith in Him.
Let us please God through the righteousness of Christ that is also ours when we believe.
Let us believe in Jesus Christ as we consciously work out our salvation and have the humbling awareness that is not by our might, power, works or avoidance of sin that we are saved or counted righteous by God by the spirit of God and by our faith in Jesus Christ.
This does not mean that we have no role to play in the work of salvation because faith without works is dead.
Show me your faith and I will show you my faith by my works.
It is all about a balance of energies, knowing the extent to which you can do , playing your part and leaving the rest to God.
The grace of God is here to help us when we get to our weaknesses and limits so we do not have any excuse.
When we feel like we can't keep running this race of faith, we can ask for the grace of God and it will be given to us, to empower us to keep running.
When we fall, the blood of Jesus Christ is there for reparation, atonement and intercession, we have an everlasting high priest who was once human and knows what it feels like..
People give excuses with their weaknesses when the grace of God is available to be requested when we need it.
When we are weak and grace is given, we are expected to make the most of it and not remain in our weaknesses even after we have been empowered to overcome them.
Romans 6:1 - 15
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid".
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