Monday, June 13, 2022

Ordained of Old for this Condemnation

‘Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept unawares, who WERE BEFORE OF OLD ORDAINED TO THIS CONDEMNATION, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.'
(Jude v.3-5)

'Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.' (Jude v.8)

'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(Romans 8:1-4)

'Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.' (Romans 8:34)

Christ that died condemns those who will not follow in the wisdom of God! There is no condemnation for those as they do. But, the spirit to walk wantonly against Christ's way is still at work, manifest is those described above. That same spirit caused men of old to separate themselves from Christ's way.

'Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.'
(Matthew 16:24,25)

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