THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION (8 OF 12)
by Tony Thomas
Scripture: Romans 8:1
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There Is No Condemnation (8 of 12)
Series: Unshakable Hope
Tony Thomas
Romans 8:1
We're in Week No. 8 in our series, Unshakable Hope. If you make frequent errors, you're gonna love Romans 8:1 ...
1 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
One of my required seminary classes was situational ethics, and one of the books we read was titled, Pileup on Death Row, by Burton Wolfe. In 1973, 662 men and seven women were on death row in the United States. They were incarcerated, but living under a sentence of death.
That sounds like a lot of people, doesn't it? On Tuesday of this week there were 2,698 death row inmates in the United States! Since 1800, Indiana has executed 151 of them, and currently, we have eleven living on death row (ten men and one woman).
Can you imagine what that must feel like? To be a person whose conduct is called into question, or to have your actions debated before a jury of peers, or to stand before a judge and hear a pronouncement of guilt, or to hear someone say, ''You are sentenced to a lethal injection!''
No word is more fatal or final than the word, ''Condemn.'' The Greek word means to ''... sentence, to pronounce, or to consign.'' When you are condemned, you are targeted for a premature demise!
The Bible portrays God as seeking and saving, not condemning. When Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, God promised to redeem them. When the adulterous woman was brought to Jesus he said, ''Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.'' We all know John 3:16, but the next verse read, ''God sent not his son to condemn the world ...'' And Paul reminds us in Romans 8 that, ''There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.''
That's easy to read but many Christians do not live with that assurance. We feel guilty for our past sin. We're afraid God will punish us for our misdeeds. We allow self-rejection to rob us of our confidence in Christ's finished work at Calvary.
So, Paul begins Romans ...
Series: Unshakable Hope
Tony Thomas
Romans 8:1
We're in Week No. 8 in our series, Unshakable Hope. If you make frequent errors, you're gonna love Romans 8:1 ...
1 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
One of my required seminary classes was situational ethics, and one of the books we read was titled, Pileup on Death Row, by Burton Wolfe. In 1973, 662 men and seven women were on death row in the United States. They were incarcerated, but living under a sentence of death.
That sounds like a lot of people, doesn't it? On Tuesday of this week there were 2,698 death row inmates in the United States! Since 1800, Indiana has executed 151 of them, and currently, we have eleven living on death row (ten men and one woman).
Can you imagine what that must feel like? To be a person whose conduct is called into question, or to have your actions debated before a jury of peers, or to stand before a judge and hear a pronouncement of guilt, or to hear someone say, ''You are sentenced to a lethal injection!''
No word is more fatal or final than the word, ''Condemn.'' The Greek word means to ''... sentence, to pronounce, or to consign.'' When you are condemned, you are targeted for a premature demise!
The Bible portrays God as seeking and saving, not condemning. When Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, God promised to redeem them. When the adulterous woman was brought to Jesus he said, ''Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.'' We all know John 3:16, but the next verse read, ''God sent not his son to condemn the world ...'' And Paul reminds us in Romans 8 that, ''There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.''
That's easy to read but many Christians do not live with that assurance. We feel guilty for our past sin. We're afraid God will punish us for our misdeeds. We allow self-rejection to rob us of our confidence in Christ's finished work at Calvary.
So, Paul begins Romans ...
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