Condemnation is not what Jesus was about. Yet the religious ones were quick to condemn.
Jesus is about getting you free from sin and death. Free from condemnation and the devil. Free from anything that is death, anything that would separate you from God who is love and is eternal life.
Jesus said in John 8:11 to the woman, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Hebrews 12:5-11 v5…My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
He wants to set you free. He already made provision for your liberty, for he has accomplished God’s salvation through His Spirit in Christ Jesus.
That same Spirit that brought Jesus up from the dead and the grave of sin is abiding in you to make you free. Free from the devil, free from the disobedient rebellious spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
Romans 6:5-11 v5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
V6 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,
V7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
V8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
V9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Hallelujah! That is an awesome working In Us! The Lamb of God sits upon His throne….In Us. For He has declared us to be God’s Habitation, His Temple….if it is that you have the Spirit of the Son in you.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Defilement comes from within the heart, not by what you eat or if you eat without washing your hands.
Hebrews 12:13-15 *15 Looking diligently least any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;…
And in Matthew 15:10-11 v10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Then in Matthew 15:17-20 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
V18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile the man.
V19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
V20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
So the Holy Spirit in you is revealing Truth to you, and that word that is spirit and life, revealed in your soul and mind, begins to wash and cut away the “flesh” from your heart. This process of being born again produces the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:4-6 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to this mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;….
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
So we continue to allow the Holy Spirit to nourish us in God’s Word of Salvation. Fellowship in Christ Jesus changes us from the inside out. He circumcises our hearts so that we cannot defile His temple anymore.
Grace is abundant, and His Righteousness is His gift to cause us to reign with Him in Eternal Life Now.
Romans 5: 17 For if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
So today, if you hear the Father’s voice…. Harden not your heart, but rather let it receive His Word that is Spirit and Life, and let Him change your heart and cut away the flesh, and allow His Son to shine through you.
1 Corinthians 6:17-20 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
V18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that comitteth fornication sinneth against his own body.
V19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
V20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Amen.
