Now let's open our Bibles to
the book of Jude. The book of Jude, the last, next
to the last book of the Bible. I've been going through this,
it's just one chapter, 25 verses, as we have in our version of
the Bible, our translation. And today I wanna mainly focus
on verses five through seven on this subject, the judgment
of the ungodly. The judgment of the ungodly,
that's what that psalm that Richmond just read, Psalm 1, speaks of. It speaks not only of the judgment
of the ungodly, but the judgment of the righteous. One of the
things we need to have clear in our minds on that issue, who
are the righteous and who are the ungodly, or as it speaks
in Psalm 1, verse 1, when it speaks of ungodly people, it's
talking about the wicked. We know we're all sinners, don't
we? I mean, there's no question about
that. I hope nobody here would say, well, I'm not a sinner anymore.
As I said earlier in the 10 o'clock message, there's only two kinds
of people in this world, sinners lost in their sins, sinners saved
by grace, and that's it. We're either in one category
or the other. As I read there in John 3, he that hath the Son
hath life. And having life, where does life
come from? It comes from God through Christ on the basis of
his righteousness imputed to us. That's where life comes from. All who are justified, that is
freely forgiven of all their sins on a just ground. And what
is the just ground? My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood. And right there's the just ground.
And from that just ground, righteousness comes and God charges it to the
account of you. Charging, having charged our
sins to Christ. He charges his righteousness
to us. And out of that comes spiritual
life. Faith in Christ. Repentance of
dead works. Perseverance of the faith. All
the blessings and benefits of eternal life that by which God
uses in his power and grace to bring us unto glory. And all
who stand at judgment, that's what we're talking about, the
judgment. All who stand at the judgment in Christ shall be blessed
forever. It's an amazing thing. There's
so much we don't know about what we call heaven. The Bible teaches
that there'll be a new heavens and a new earth and we who die
in the Lord We appear at judgment not to be judged, but to be declared.
And we'll talk about that in just a moment. But we will occupy
the new earth in glorified bodies without sin. We can't even imagine
what that would be like. To have a thought without sin.
And those who appear before the judgment seat of Christ without
him, in their own, on their own works and the basis of their
own deeds, they'll be damned forever. They'll perish. And
that's a most frightening truth. One of the most frightening truths
of God's word is the certainty of judgment. But the Bible teaches
in Hebrews 9, 27, as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after
this, the judgment. And I'm convinced that that truth
alone is at the heart of a lot of people's rejection of the
word of God, even those who call themselves atheists. They don't
want to be held accountable. You mean God's going to judge
me? Well, that's what the scripture says. That's what Psalm 1 was
all about. He says there in Psalm 1, as
our brother read, he said, verse 5, he says, therefore the ungodly
shall not stand in the judgment. Who are the ungodly? Those who
die and appear before the judgment seat of Christ without Christ.
Without a righteousness. Without forgiveness. They're
on their own. The best and the worst of them. And that's what he says. Nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous. Who are the righteous? Paul spoke of that in Philippians
3. He said that I may be found in Christ. Not having my own
righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through
the faith or the faithfulness of Christ. And it's the righteousness
that we receive by faith when we believe in Him. We receive
it to ourselves. God's already imputed it to us.
But we receive it in the court of our conscience. You know that
accusing conscience? What do we do to soothe the guilty
conscience? We look to Christ. We plead his
blood, his righteousness. We sing my hope is built on nothing. That's what we do. Because that's
what God in the gospel directs us and commands us to do. And
so the judgment is coming. Look at Jude verse five. Now he's talking about contending
for the faith because there are false preachers, false prophets,
false believers who have crept into the church. And you need
to understand that the children of God, the true children of
God, those who are truly saved by grace, those who have genuine
God-given faith in Christ, they're safe. We're safe and secure in
Him. Christ is our surety, He's our
security. And nothing will separate us
from the love of God in Christ. If the Holy Spirit has convinced
us of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, what does the
Bible tell us? We cannot deny it, we cannot
ignore it, and we cannot leave it. Because God won't allow us
to leave it. He's gonna keep us. And Jude says that in the
last two verses of Jude, now unto him that is able to keep
you from falling. Our salvation is by grace through
Christ. And it will stay of grace, it
continues of grace. And when we're brought to glory,
it'll be by grace. And in all of that, we have nothing
to brag about in ourselves. We glory in Christ. And so he
said that there's false preachers. So he starts out in verse five
to put them in remembrance of something. Look at it. I will
therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, this
is nothing new to you, how that the Lord, having saved the people
out of the land of Egypt, now who's he talking about? He's
talking about the national children of Israel that Moses brought
out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. God judged
them that believe not. Hebrews 3 speaks of that. They
could not enter into the promised land because of unbelief. But
they partook of many temporal, physical privileges. Think about
it. These are the people who saw
the Red Sea. They saw the plagues of Egypt. They saw the Passover
ritual. And they put blood over their
door, physical blood of a physical lamb, and they were led out by
Moses. They saw Pharaoh's chariots falling
behind. They saw the pillar of fire and
the pillar of the cloud. They saw the Red Sea parting.
Wow, what would that be like? Hollywood didn't do justice to
it, all right? Charlton Heston, he's not Moses. And that's, so wouldn't that
be something to see something like that? And they walked over
on dry ground, got on the other side, and you'd think, well,
if anybody's gonna serve the Lord, if anybody's gonna believe
the Lord, it'd be them. But what happened when Moses went up into
the mound, stayed there, and he didn't come back when they
thought he should? They made a golden calf and worshipped.
Well, see, that's man by nature. That's us by nature if God let
us go. And now they're wandering on
the way to the promised land, all the complaining and murmuring
and unbelief, and God wouldn't let them go into the promised
land because of unbelief. God's judgment is upon the unbelieving. And Paul says now, now these
false preachers, they're gonna try to draw people unto themselves,
to feed themselves. They want a following for themselves. But the true people of God are
safe. If God has given you the gift
of faith in Christ, you're safe in Christ. That's what he tells
them. But you need to, let me remind
you now, those who leave it, apostatized from it, God's gonna
judge them just like he judged those people back then for unbelief.
Without faith, it's impossible to please God. And then verse
six, he goes to the angels that kept not their first estate.
Who's that? That's the fallen angels. Now that all took place
in time past before the world was created. They fell with Lucifer. You remember Lucifer? That means
light. Well, that Lucifer fell and that's
Satan. And I know people think there's
a lot of mythology revolving. This isn't mythology. This is
how it happened. He said, the angels which kept
not their first estate but left their own habitation, he hath
reserved an everlasting change under darkness unto the judgment
of the great day. That's the fallen angels. They
didn't know their place. That's what it is. You ever said
to one of your children when they got a little smart aleck,
he said, you need to know your place. That's what happened to
the fallen angels. They didn't know their place.
They fell with Lucifer. They wanted to lift themselves
up above God, or at least to be equal with God. And that can't
happen. That's what Adam did when he fell. But God has reserved
him in chains of darkness unto the judgment. And then look at
verse seven. He mentions Sodom and Gomorrah. Now you know who
Sodom and Gomorrah, that infamous, immoral, idolatrous, That's where
Lot lived, that's where he got, that was Lot's address for a
while. He said, even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about
them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, sexual immorality,
going after strange flesh, foreign, that was foreign to what's natural,
and set forth an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
You know how God rained fire and brimstone down on Sodom and
Gomorrah? Now, when you think about these
things, when you think about judgment, what should be our
attitude? Should we take on an attitude
and say, well, now I'm better than that bunch? I'm not like
those children in the wilderness who didn't believe. It's kind
of like the preacher talking about the death of Christ. I
heard this years ago. A famous preacher talking about
the death of Christ. This was on Easter. and he was
preaching a message, and he was describing the awesome, the awful
things that the Lord went through in his humanity, the nails in
the palms and the feet, the crown of thorns and the sweat drops
of blood. He was describing that in graphic
detail, and he had everybody crying in the audience, and he
was crying. Emotional. And he made this statement. He said, if I had been there,
I would have tried to stop it. And you know, the first two words
came to my mind, you fool. This great event, as torturous
and painful as it was for our Savior, was set up by God Almighty
before the foundation of the world. And that old worm of a
man said, he's gonna stop it? You think you were any better
than the Gentiles and the Jews who turned thumbs down on Christ?
I know I'm not and you're not either. That's right. And so when we
think about these things, what's our attitude? Here's what our
attitude ought to be. That if God, as bad as the unbelief
of the children of Israel was, as bad as the angels that fell,
as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah was, If God were to judge me,
a preacher who preaches the gospel, an American, that means anything. If God were to judge me based
upon my best, not my worst, but my best, where would I stand? And here's the point, I'd be
damned forever. What are you saying, preacher?
I'm saying that the salvation of sinners is by God's grace
based upon the blood of Christ alone and his righteousness alone. We have no righteousness of our
own. It is totally God's mercy and
God's grace. Nothing in and of us. That's
what I'm saying. So what's my hope at judgment?
My only hope is to stand before God. in Christ, washed clean
from all my sins in his blood. Righteous, justified before a
holy God in the righteousness of Christ imputed to me. That's
my only hope. It's appointed unto men once
to die and after this the judgment. The Lord tells us, Paul wrote
in Romans 2 and verse 2, but we're sure that the judgment
of God is according to truth against them which commit such
things. And do you know this judgment is the glory of God? Just like our brother read there
in Psalm 1, the certainty of the salvation of God's people
who are called the righteous, they're righteous by grace, not
by works. It says in Psalm 9, listen to
this, this is Psalm 9 and verse 16. The Lord is known, how do
you know God? The Lord is known by the judgment
which he executeth. The wicked is snared in the work
of his own hands. The Lord is known by the judgment
that he executeth. Well, we've seen three examples
here of judgment in the book of Jude. The unbelieving Israelites,
The angels that fell with Satan followed Satan. Sodom and Gomorrah. God executed judgment and he
will execute final judgment. So what does that mean for me
if the Lord is known by the judgment that he executed? Do you know
that I can tell you without fail that if you are a believer in
the Lord Jesus Christ, if you're a true believer, who God has
given faith, the faith that is the gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. The new creation, we are his
creation. If we know Christ, if we're depending
upon resting in Christ, submitted to him as our righteousness,
that God has already executed the full measure of his judgment
against your sins. That's what the Bible teaches.
How, preacher, where? Is it because I've got arthritis? Is it because I get cancer or
some dreaded disease or I lose my bank account? He executed
his full judgment against the sins of his people on the cross
of Calvary when he put his son unto death. It pleased the Lord
to bruise him. Our sins were charged to Christ. He was made sin, how? By the imputation, the legal
charging and accounting of the debt of our sins to him. And
what did he do? As our surety, he substituted
himself in the place of his people. Now who is this to? Who can take
comfort in this? Only those who truly believe
in Christ, as he's identified in the scripture. And he as our substitute took
our place and died under the judgment of God for our sins. And he brought forth an everlasting
righteousness of infinite value, a perfect righteousness. I know
it's perfect because we didn't have anything to do with it.
If we had anything to do with it, it wouldn't be perfect. But
it was perfect because it's the righteousness of God Romans 1,
16 and 17. The perfection of righteousness
found in the law that can only be found in Christ. And that's
how we suffered that judgment. The standard of judgment is high
and strict. In Acts 17, 31, Paul spoke of
that to the Athenian philosophers and religionists. He said, God
has commanded all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed
a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. by
that man whom he hath appointed, in that he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. That's
Christ. The Bible teaches us that God
is a just God. It teaches us that God must punish
the ungodly. And as I said, who are the ungodly?
All who are found in judgment without Christ. But now you know,
in Romans chapter four and verse five, doesn't it say God justifies
the ungodly? It does. That's the kind of people
who God justifies. And aren't we all by nature ungodly? Yes, we are. That's why we need
salvation by grace. Ungodly people are the kinds
of people that God saves by His grace. But in this context, here
in Jude, the ungodly refers to all who live their lives in unbelief,
die in that state without Christ, without a surety, so that God
charges them without their sins. That's why David said, blessed
is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Doesn't charge. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? Those who stand before God in
their sin. You remember Christ told the
Pharisees, if you don't believe that I am, he said, you'll die
in your sins. I don't wanna die in my sins.
I wanna die in Christ. That's what the scripture speaks
of. They die without a substitute, without a mediator, without blood,
without righteousness. There are those who I read about
in John 3, 36, remember what he said? He that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life. If you truly believe on Christ,
that he's your only hope of salvation, if you can sing that song that
we sang, My Hope is Built, from the heart and really, really
understand what that means according to the scripture and the gospel.
You know why? It's because God has given you
the gift of everlasting life. That's right. But he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abided on
him. So all who die in an ungodly
state will be judged according to their works and found wanting.
So the Bible also teaches that God will bless and receive the
righteous. Now who are they? Sinners saved by grace. washed
in his blood, clothed in his righteousness. And here's the
point that I believe the Holy Spirit is making through Jude
here. It doesn't matter who you are.
It doesn't matter what privileges you enjoy here in this life. Rich man, poor man, beggar man,
thief, you've heard that. The only thing that really matters
is do I know Christ? That's right. You see, the people of God who
stand by His grace righteous before Him in Christ, they are
those whom God chose before the foundation of the world. God
elected them. But how do I know if God elected
me? God justified them. How do I know that God has justified
me? The Bible says God adopted them
into his family. How do I know that I'm adopted?
The Bible says God redeemed them through Christ on the cross.
How do I know that I'm redeemed? How do I know if Christ died
for me? The Bible says that God, the Holy Spirit, regenerates
them, gives them life. You must be born again. How do
I know if I'm regenerated? Well, my friend, if you don't
trust this Christ of this Bible, a God-man, in the glory of his
person, in the power of his finished work, ignorant of his righteousness,
then you have no right to claim any blessing of election, of
justification, of adoption, of redemption, of regeneration.
But if God has brought you by his power to believe in Christ
and given you the gift of faith and repentance, then you can
know you're looking to him. I don't care if you're like unbelieving
Israel. With all their privilege, all
the many miracles that they saw. Or an angel who was in heaven.
Think about it. Somebody said one time, he said,
I can't understand how angels in heaven could fall. Well, the
Bible says they did. They kept not their first estate.
They left their own habitation. They didn't want to be subject
to God. They rebelled and were turned out of heaven. They're
now reserved in everlasting change under darkness, under the judgment
of the great day, and it was because of their rebellion, and
their destiny is eternal damnation and death. That's what it says.
Pride. Unbelief. Pride. All of those things. When Jude comes to the point
of identifying these false preachers, and he'll get to that later in
another message, he shows that these false preachers would not
submit to God's revealed word in Christ. They would not be
subject to him. And that's why when people, they
go to churches, they hear preachers preach, understand, test the
preachers. Are they preaching from the Word
of God or are they preaching their opinion? Are they just
telling you, you know, I've heard people say, I love that preacher
because he tells such wonderful stories. Well, my friend, that's not what
preaching the gospel is. It may be entertaining. And you
may be able to sit through it and stay awake. Whatever. That's not what you need to hear.
That's not what I need to hear. Now don't get me wrong, I love
a good story just as much as anybody. I used to know a man
who tells stories and I called him the Will Rogers of the church. But he didn't preach the gospel.
There was no life in the words because the word of life is the
gospel. We're on our way to judgment. Let me give you two glorious
thoughts here. Turn to John chapter 16. Remember what I said, that if
you're a child of God, a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, you've
already been judged for all your sins in the glorious person and
finished work of Christ on that cross. He died for me. When a
person says that, if they really know what it's about and really
mean it, that's what it is. He put away my sins. He purged
my sins. He bore them away. Like that,
you remember the scapegoat in the Old Testament? He bore them
away. They were taken out into the wilderness and that goat
was never to be seen again. God said, I will remember your
sins no more. Now what does that mean? That
means God will not bring them up again at judgment. You know,
I know people who say, well, even Christians, when they go
before God at the judgment, that God's gonna bring up all your
past sins and just grind you down in the dust before he takes
you. That's not biblical. That's preachers trying to get
people to do what they think they should do. God said, I'll remember them
no more. The blood of Christ has washed them away. What can
wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For by one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are
sanctified, Hebrews 10, 14. Well, listen to this. Christ
is speaking to his disciples about the work of the Spirit
in the new birth. And he says in verse seven, listen
to this, John 16. Nevertheless, I tell you the
truth, it is expedient or necessary for you that I go away. He was going away. Where was
he going? Well, he was going to the Father.
Now how was he going to get there? By way of going to Jerusalem,
being arrested, tried, and going to the cross, going into the
grave, being raised again the third day, and ascending into
the Father. That was his way. And he did it as the surety,
as the substitute, and as the redeemer of God's people that
were given to him before the foundation of the world. Isn't
it right? And he said, that's necessary for you. He says, if
I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. That's
the Holy Spirit. What is the work of the Holy Spirit, the
third person of the Trinity in salvation? He's the great applicator,
as one old writer said, of all that God purposed for us, the
Father purposed for us, and all that the Son earned for us. Life. He applies it under the preaching
of the gospel. He's the Spirit of truth. And
Christ is saying this. If I don't do my work and finish
it, there'll be no life to give. Be nothing but death and hell
for any of us. So he said, but if I depart,
verse seven, I'll send him unto you. They'll preach in the power
of the Spirit and he says, and when he's come, verse eight,
he will reprove or convict or convince the world. Now the world there is the world
of God's elect. How do you know? Because whoever
he's talking about, they're gonna be convicted of certain things. They're gonna be convinced of
it. And how are they gonna be convinced? By the power of the
Holy Spirit through the preaching of the word. It's not gonna be
the preacher who convinces you, it's gonna be the Holy Spirit
through that preacher preaching the gospel. And he said he will
convict the world of three things, of sin, of righteousness, and
of judgment. You see that? Now how's he gonna
do that? Look at verse nine. Of sin, because
they believe not on me. What does that mean? Remember
what I told you Christ told the Pharisees? If you believe not
that I am, you'll die in your sin. What did you say about the
children of Israel who came out of Egypt? They perished in unbelief. If we don't have Christ, If we
don't believe in Him, there is no remedy for sin. He's the only
remedy. There's no other. Religion won't
save you from sin. Baptism won't save you from sin.
Walking an aisle and talking to a preacher won't save you
from sin. Trying to be a good person will
not save you from sin. There's only one way that a sinner
can be saved from sin, and that's the blood of Jesus Christ. And so he says the Holy Spirit
will convince you of that. He'll convict you. You know what
that is, that conviction, that convincing. I always say you
can't deny it, you can't ignore it, you can't go away from it.
That's what that means. You're convinced by God's Word
and the power of the Spirit. Without Christ in God's sight,
now think about this. Without Christ in God's sight,
All we are, even at our best, is sin. Missing the mark. That's what that word sin means,
it misses the mark. So you take the best person you
could ever imagine that ever lived on this earth. Without
Christ, he'll die in his sins, or she'll die in her sins. They'll
miss the mark. How good must I be? God requires
perfection. Where am I gonna find that? Only
in Christ. So without him, it's all sin.
Not just the awfulness of the perversions of Sodom and Gomorrah,
but even the best of religionists. I always think about when I think
about Sodom and Gomorrah, you know what I think about? I don't
think about the fire and brimstone coming down, even though it did.
I think about Isaiah chapter one. Speaking to his generation
in Jerusalem, in their religion, But it was false religion. It was unbelief. It was self-righteous
religion. They were doing the works of
the old covenant law, but they were doing them self-righteously.
They didn't see the purpose of that law, to bring them in sinners
who are in need of God's grace. They were lifting themselves
up in their religious pride. And you know what Isaiah told
them? He said, except the Lord hath left us a seed, a small
remnant of people who truly believe the gospel, who truly look forward
to the coming of the Messiah, we'd be just like Sodom and Gomorrah. Every one of us would perish.
But thank God that God chose a people before the foundation
of the world and he's gonna save them through Christ. The election
of grace is what that's called. So he said of sin because they
believe not on me. Now look at verse 10, John 16.
He's gonna convict his people of righteousness. How? Because I'm gonna make them get
busy trying to work out a righteousness. No. Now look at it. Of righteousness
because I go to my Father. And you see me no more. Righteousness
established because of what Christ did. As the surety and substitute
and redeemer of his people. It's not righteousness because
of what we do. It's righteousness because he
went to the Father. And how did he go? By way of
the cross, putting away our sins. Daniel 9 verse 24 speaks of it,
that how he will finish the transgression, make an end of sin, and bring
in everlasting righteousness by his death on the cross. So
the Holy Spirit's gonna convict you that the only righteousness
there is to be found before God that will make the test of judgment
is the imputed righteousness of Christ. That's what it is. But now look at verse 11. He
says of judgment because the prince of this world is judged.
Now when was the prince of this world judged? That's Satan. He
was judged at the cross because that's when he was cast out.
That's when his ability to accuse the brethren was finally put
to an end. And the judgment was finished.
Now who was judged on that cross? Christ was. but not as a private
person. He was judged as the substitute
and surety and redeemer of his people. Our sins laid to his
charge and he put them away. We've already been judged. Isn't
that a comforting thought? You say, well, what's gonna happen
to me at judgment? I'll tell you exactly what. God's
gonna present you and all other redeemed sinners all other justified
sinners, he's gonna present us before the whole universe as
trophies of his grace. That's it. It's a declarative
judgment. We don't go to judgment to determine
anything. It's already been determined.
Even the judgment of the wicked. But it will be declared before
the whole universe that they deserve nothing but damnation
because they don't have Christ. God's not gonna bring up our
sins again. But let me show you one more
verse. This is 1 John chapter four. Now you be sure, God's judgments
are always according to truth, Paul wrote in Romans two. He
will judge the world in righteousness by Christ. The ungodly shall
not stand, Brother Richmond read that in Psalm one. They're not
gonna stand with the righteous, they're gonna be brought down. In 1 John chapter 4 it says in
verse 16, and we have known and believed the love that God hath
to us. Now how do we know that? Because
we're looking to Christ, we're resting in him, we plead his
blood and righteousness. There's no love from God outside
of Christ. Hearing his love, not that we
love God, but that he loved us and gave his son to be the propitiation,
sin-bearing sacrifice who put away our sins by his death for
our sins. So we have known and believed
the love that God hath to us. God is love, he says. God is
love, that's true. But if he shows his love, it
must be on a just ground, and the only just ground is the blood
of Christ. Outside of Christ, there's only
God's hatred. That's not a sinful hatred. That's
a righteous indignation. That's God's judgment according
to His holiness. So God is love, and he that dwelleth
in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Look at verse 17.
Herein is our love made perfect. Now, what is he talking about
there? Our love made perfect. Does that mean that when God
saves us, we now love our neighbor perfectly and love our brethren
perfectly without any taint or contamination of self-love and
even anger? Well, if it does, there is no
such thing as a Christian. Doesn't mean that. Herein is
our love made perfect. What does he mean? That word
perfect doesn't always mean sinless perfection. It means completeness. Herein is our love made complete.
In other words, it's like reaching a goal. Herein is our love. Now we're to strive to love our
neighbor as ourself, we're to strive to love our brethren perfectly,
but we're gonna fall short in this life. We're never gonna
attain the perfection of love. That can only be found in Christ.
But we're to strive for it. But what does it mean when it
says our love made perfect? It means our love reaches its
goal. It's complete. The Bible says we're complete
in Christ. Well, how is it made complete?
Look at it. That we may have boldness in
the day of judgment. Boldness. Now, I don't know about
you, but when I was growing up, whenever preachers talked about
judgment, it scared me. Didn't you? I used to think that
when I go before the judgment, that the Lord was going to have
a movie screen there and flash up my life, all the sin, and
my mother was going to be sitting there watching. Well, my friend,
that's not biblical. God said, I'll remember them
no more. So how can I have boldness in the judgment? Confidence,
that's what that means, assurance. Well look at it, because as he
is, as Christ is, so are we in this world. Now how can I say
that I am as Christ is in this world? Tell you exactly how. as I stand in Him, washed in
His blood, clothed in His righteousness. He was judged in my place. He
died, was buried, and arose again the third day, and He is now
seated at the right hand of the Father, ever living, to do what? To make intercession for me.
I am as He is, not in my own person, but as God looks at me
and judges me in Christ. My sins are all taken away. I
cannot be judged for my sins anymore. How do you know that?
Romans 8, 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after
the Spirit. What is it to walk after the Spirit? It's to walk
in faith. Walk following Him, trusting
Him. Think about that. As He is, So
are we in this world. All who believe in Him are righteous. Righteous not in themselves but
in Christ. One day we will be righteous in ourselves when we
go to be with Him. Think about that. That's the
judgment. God is a just God and He judges according to truth.
All right.