We are to identify with Jesus, the Victorious One. That’s our secure position with being found in Him through faith. We miss the mark as to our humanity, which is the meaning of sin. It’s never been what we do, but what we are. Fallen. So we need one greater than this which never missed the mark of godliness. That’s why He alone is our Saviour.
Judging is united with condemnation. Only God can judge righteous judgement for He not only sees our hearts desire to be like Him, but He sees His plan when He looks at us. He does not condemn, and rewards can be both here openly, or at the judgement seat of Christ.
But, there are kingdom laws and when it comes to sin, Holy Spirit draws back to allow reaping and sowing to work. Is one way we are chastened.
So Paul said we aren’t to judge another brothers walk. Nor would he judge himself but understood that Holy Spirit puts His light upon our hearts.
Renewing our mind is another thing.
So, being our position is in Him, we identify with Jesus because as we see Him, we become like Him.
No one can see clearly under condemnation.
One who is dead to an old life, but raised to another that is entirely different will respond according to new life. The new creation man or woman.
Clear or not.
We miss the mark as to our humanity, which is the meaning of sin. It’s never been what we do, but what we are. Fallen.
I hope I understand what you are saying above. Sin is missing the mark, being fallen.
What we do is not important, it is what we are. Fallen.
So Jesus is what we need.
The problem with this summary is it is not Gods perspective. What we do is what matters.
To a degree, what we do defines us. God shows without Him we only end up in sin and death.
The knowledge of good and evil led to death. Our actions, our defilement comes from the heart.
18 the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.'
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
20 These are what make a man 'unclean';
Matt 15
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
6 If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus,
his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1
We are purified by walking in the light.
7 He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot
go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3
Our walk defines our spirituality, and our walk comes from our hearts, if purified and made holy, then
so will be our walk.
Some express concern that if we have a holy walk, then this will be our focus, the external rather than
the heart, except a holy walk comes only from a pure heart.
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