Hi. I really want to understand what is meant by "judgement". We tend to think that judgement, in this case, is the same as condemnation. But it really?
Hi. I really want to understand what is meant by "judgement". We tend to think that judgement, in this case, is the same as condemnation. But it really?
Condemnation is the consequence of God's judgement. In law, you face the court and the judge either convicts or releases the individual. If the person is found guilty, sentence then follows.
We are all born judged and condemned. What we do have is a tremendous opportunity to repent and accept God's gracious gift of salvation through Christ. Those who believe and receive are made alive in Christ. Those who do not, remain dead in trespass and sin.
Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment.................
John 3:
16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
18Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19*And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
*The verdict follows judgement.