Looking at myself I find to be one of the bad side effects of living
under condemnation from others and myself... like living in a whirlpool.
By going to the
cross under the condemnation of religion, and then being raised again to new life, Jesus exposed the powerful and satanic lie of religion.
Any individual or any people who flouts his righteous will
stands under condemnation, though his judgment is always linked with love.
How can we believe that we are «accused» when the Bible says we are no
more under condemnation, and surely any reading of the New Testament and covenant shows we are under grace and not under the law?
``... it is the goodness of God that leads to repentance...» It has been my experience (just tonight, in fact, in a beautiful communion service) that people become broken and genuinely heartfeltly repentant when they get a whiff of how much God loves them — and how He expressed that love than ever
do under condemnation.
To the contrary, according to the Calvinists, the whole world
lies under condemnation, and even though they would say that regeneration precedes faith, I have never heard of any Calvinist who claims that being freed from condemnation, or being declared «not guilty,» or being justified, precedes faith as well.
Until we realize that we are totally depraved sinners that hate God, are His enemies, and are
under His condemnation and wrath in our natural states, election won't make any sense.
They were without Christ, and as such were
under condemnation.
Political passion causes him to forget that it is
all under condemnation.
24 Behold, my son, this thing ought not to be; for repentance is unto them that are
under condemnation and under the curse of a broken law.
For the power of redemption cometh on all them that have no law; wherefore, he that is not condemned, or he that is
under no condemnation, can not repent; and unto such baptism availeth nothing --
That puts
us under condemnation whereas Paul says in Rom 8:1 «There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit».
Christ assumed the burden of Adam's flesh which was
under condemnation.