Judge Jesus

 

John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

 

The word “condemn” is translated into English from the Greek word “krinō”, meaning 

to judge and pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong; to be judged, i.e. summoned to trial that one's case may be examined and judgment passed upon it.” The word “condemned” in the following verse is the same Greek word “krinō”, but means to have pronounced judgment, to subject to censure; of those who act the part of judges or arbiters in matters of common life, or pass judgment on the deeds and words of others. The judging and condemnation of Sin in a “done deal”, in the past tense. Sin is a crime against God’s Law (Divine Commandments, Statutes, Decrees, Mandates, and Judgements), and the Lawgiver, God Himself. The sentence in this life for the crime of Sin is set already also. Romans 6:23a says, “For the wages of sin is death (dead in trespasses and sins).” Who is the judge of the living and the dead? 
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John 5:22-25 tells us, “For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.” Ephesians 2:1 “You He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.”

The 1828 Webster’s dictionary defines the word Judgment as: The act of judging; the act or process of the mind in comparing its ideas, to find their agreement or disagreement, and to ascertain truth; or the process of examining facts and arguments, to ascertain propriety and justice; or the process of examining the relations between one proposition and another.

1. The faculty of the mind by which man is enabled to compare ideas and ascertain the relations of terms and propositions; as a man of clear judgment or sound judgment. The judgment may be biased by prejudice. Judgment supplies the want of certain knowledge.

2. The determination of the mind, formed from comparing the relations of ideas, or the comparison of facts and arguments. In the formation of our judgments, we should be careful to weigh and compare all the facts connected with the subject.

3. In law, the sentence of doom pronounced in any cause, civil or criminal, by the judge or court by which it is tried. Judgment may be rendered on demurrer, on a verdict, on a confession or default, or on a non-suit. Judgment, though pronounced by the judge or court, is properly the determination or sentence of the law. A pardon may be pleaded in arrest of judgment.

4. The right or power of passing sentence.

5. Determination; decision.

6. Opinion; notion.

7. In Scripture, the spirit of wisdom and prudence, enabling a person to discern right and wrong, good and evil.

8. A remarkable punishment; an extraordinary calamity inflicted by God on sinners.

9. The spiritual government of the world.

The Father hath committed all judgment to the Son. 

John 5.

10. The righteous statutes and commandments of God are called his judgments. Ps.119.

11. The doctrines of the gospel, or God's word. Matt.12.

12. Justice and equity. Luke 11. Is.1.

13. The decrees and purposes of God concerning nations. 

14. A court or tribunal. Matt.5.

15. Controversies, or decisions of controversies. 1 Cor.6.

16. The gospel, or kingdom of grace. Matt.12.

17. The final trial of the human race, when God will decide the fate of every individual, and award sentence according to justice.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Eccles.12.

 

Romans 3:22-25 “Even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith.” All are Sinners, but “as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” – John 1:12-14. Trust Judge Jesus!

 

In Christ, Brian