Judge Yourself!
Introduction
I have ministered for over 52 years helping people in every walk of life. I been with people who have cherished God but really did not cherish His word. I have seen many people, including Christians, die before their time. It is sometimes due to wrong living, wrong eating, and wrong believing and wrong living. I know of Christians are still drink alcohol and smoke and they are hurting their bodies which are considered the temple of God.
I truly believe the number one major cause for Christians who die before their time has to do with two areas. Number 1, lack of faith. Number 2, lack of walking in love.
Walking in Love
The Word of God says that Father God has given us a measure of His love. We are born out of His love for us. When we walk out of love and do not repent there are consequences. Medical profession states that people who hold grudges, hatred, resentment, back biting, general negativity have a higher risk for heart attacks and strokes.
For the entire law (that given to Moses by God. The Ten Commandments) is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Gal. 5:14
We know that we have passed from death to life because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. I John 3:14-15.
Blessing Your Enemies
The meaning of blessings really is to bring the kingdom of God into the kingdom of darkness. This breaks the realm of darkness around people’s lives. This is why people who hate us hate God people who are our enemies or who we think are our enemies could be possibly enemies of God. Blessing them is bringing about the kingdom of God in their lives so the vail that blinds them by the enemy can be taken away.
so, when you bless your enemies or the food, you break the bondage, or the satanic presence or fabric that surrounds the world around them, who are enemies of God.
The Body of Christ
Therefore, what is this, therefore?
There were lots of problems in this community with pride and dissension. People were not sharing, judging one another, and disrespecting their brothers and sister in the Lord.
Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
I Corinthians 11:27-32.
The Deep Understanding of Redemption
Redemption is a word that’s in the minds of most believers, but they really don’t understand what it means. Redemption is a very broad word, especially in the Greek, but it has two main points that I want to discuss when is called buying back, and the other is the righteousness of God.
We must understand that the world belongs to the god of this world, which is Satan. When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they handed over the title deed of the earth to Satan. It was a legal transaction, and then that legal transaction certain terms had to be met for it to be fulfilled, and or canceled. A debt was incurred, and payment was to be made. The payment was redemptive work of the lord Jesus Christ.
What was the reason for His sacrifice? What does redemption mean?
He redeemed us and made us more than conquerors in him. And Ephesians 1:7 it says, “In Him we have redemption [that is, our deliverance and salvation] through His blood, [which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in] the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace.” (Amplified Bible).
It is very evident that mankind cannot save himself. Due to Adam and Eve’s rebellion mankind, became under the dominion of Satan. That nature that rebellion is in our very spirits so God through his son, Jesus Christ came to pay the ultimate price to set things straight. The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled, the final debt of mankind’s rebellion, and the transaction was paid because that Father God laid our sins and diseases upon Jesus. Scripture says He (Jesus) who knew no sin God made Him to become sin so we become the righteousness of God in Jesus. Col. 1:13-14
He Put Sin Away
Jesus was not only the sin bearer, but God accepted his substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf. Scripture makes it very plain that God delivered him on the account of our sins and put our sins on him. He was raised from the dead because He put it away. He would satisfy the claims of justice after he was made alive in spirit that is re-created. He was the first born out of death (He is the second Adam) and was declared the first born of many brethren by the life of Father God imported to Him. Rom. 8:29 “For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.”
Jesus met the adversary in his own kingdom, and striped Satan’s authority, and took from him all the dominion that he had over the world when Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus not only puts the power of sin away, but also was the substitute in redemption. Through His sacrifice that we are conquerors when Christ was raised from the dead,
Set Aside Weights and Sin.
The author of Hebrews distinguishes between “weight” and “sin” in the original Greek language. While sin violates God’s law (and without a doubt should not be a part of our lives), weights might be considered impediments or hindrances.
Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Heb. 12:1
As the Lord tells us to “Lay aside, that is to put aside, cast away, every weight; stop and think, — what weight, burden, problem, hurt, bruise, pain, debt, habit, sin, addiction, bad memory, everything that is a weight on you.
The phrase “the sin that doth so easily beset us” is with particular reference to that temptation or sin which we always fall victim of; those vices or sinful habits which we seem to overlook either because of material benefits, negligence or carefree attitude.
Repentance
Repentance in the Greek is a change of both mind and behavior.
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy. Blessed is the one who always trembles before God,
but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble. Proverbs 28:13-14.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14