No Condemnation IN Christ!
"There
is therefore now no condemnation
to
them which are in Christ Jesus."
-Romans
8:1 [KJV]
There
is not a more blessed declaration than this in the whole word of
truth. It is the sweetest note sounded by the gospel trumpet, for it
is the very crown of the whole jubilee. Is not condemnation the
bitterest drop in the cup of trembling? the most thrilling, piercing
note of that terrible trumpet which sounded so long and so loud from
Sinai's blazing top that all the people that were in the camp
trembled? (Exodus 19:13, 16.)
Condemnation
is the final execution of God's righteous law, and therefore carries
with it all that arms death with its sting and the grave with its
terror. The apprehension of this; the dread and fear of being
banished for ever from the presence of God; of being lost, and that
without remedy; of sinking under the blazing indignation of Him Who
is a consuming fire, has filled thousands of hearts with horror.
And
it must be so as long as the law speaks in its thunders, as long as
conscience re-echoes its verdict, and
as long as the wrath of God burns to the lowest hell. O the
blessedness, then, of that word of grace and truth, worthy to be
sounded through heaven and earth by the voice of cherubim and
seraphim, "There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus!"
-Gospel report by preacher J.C.
Philpot (1802 – 1869 A.D.)
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