No Condemnation.
If we are asked to mention people God doesn’t like, I can imagine we’ll say: Thieves…adulterers…witches…wizards….
But you know what, God has never, and will never condemn people. What He condemns are the actions. It is when people practice such actions that they position themselves to be condemned.
Proverbs 6: 16-19 says: These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look…A lying tongue…Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans…Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies…And a false witness who sows discord among brethren.
Galatians 5: 19-21 also mentions some more, such as: Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
If God has never condemned people, then we have no right to. Our job description as defined in 2nd Corin 5:20 is: We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you – TM
When the scribes and Pharisees caught a women in the act of adultery in John 8: 3-11, Jesus asked her: ‘Woman, where are those your accusers? Has any man condemned you? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.
All Jesus told her is 'go and sin no more', so we need not mention anybody's wrongdoings; we need not condemn anybody. Our job is to implore them to be reconciled with God. Once they do that, the Spirit of God now residing in them will take over and help them with their sins.
Love, Janmo!
But you know what, God has never, and will never condemn people. What He condemns are the actions. It is when people practice such actions that they position themselves to be condemned.
Proverbs 6: 16-19 says: These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look…A lying tongue…Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans…Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies…And a false witness who sows discord among brethren.
Galatians 5: 19-21 also mentions some more, such as: Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
If God has never condemned people, then we have no right to. Our job description as defined in 2nd Corin 5:20 is: We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you – TM
When the scribes and Pharisees caught a women in the act of adultery in John 8: 3-11, Jesus asked her: ‘Woman, where are those your accusers? Has any man condemned you? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.
All Jesus told her is 'go and sin no more', so we need not mention anybody's wrongdoings; we need not condemn anybody. Our job is to implore them to be reconciled with God. Once they do that, the Spirit of God now residing in them will take over and help them with their sins.
Love, Janmo!
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