The Judgement of the Cross – He Shall Bring Forth Judgement Unto Victory
In Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 12:20 the scripture reads, “A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. With the idea of judgement in much of the Christian Church, what does this mean? How would Jesus send forth judgement to victory?
To understand this, we would need to comprehend the judgement of the cross, and we would have to understand the cross in the reality of the Person of Jesus Christ. At the cross much more happened than just Jesus dying for our sins. While this is a tremendous truth, that He died for our sins and they were laid upon Him, the fullness of this is not understood by most believers. At the cross Jesus died to sin. He judged sin in the flesh through His death (Romans 8:3). He brought us into His death to sin, freeing us from its penalty and bondage.
John writes in I John 3:5 “And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.” This is a powerful statement. Jesus was manifested to take away our sins. It is fitting that John also wrote in His Gospel, “Behold the lamb of God that taketh away our Sin.” In the seeing of this statement, Jesus not only died and forgave my sin, He took it away. I am no longer bound to sin through His glorious work.
Therefore, we must understand the judgement in the death of Christ and our union in His death. He that is dead to sin is freed from sin. The word judgement used often throughout the scripture is the Greek word Kreesis 2920 in the Strong’s dictionary. It has in its definition the meaning of a decision for or against, and to separate. The death of Christ is a separation from sin and its root. Through the work of Christ we are separated out of sin.
One of the words for sin (Strong’s 264), means to miss the mark. It is this word used in 1 John 3:6. John states that whoever abides in Christ does not sin. I could consider this as to mean, that we who abide in Christ do not miss the mark. In Romans 3, the scripture tells us that all sinned and fell short to the glory of God. We should consider the Glory of God as the mark or the goal for man.
He that abides in Christ shall not miss the mark of God’s Glory. In John Chapter 17, Jesus makes it clear that those who are His are to behold His Glory. Read this Chapter closely. Jesus prays to be glorified with the Glory He had before the world. He then declares that He will be glorified in the believer, and at the conclusion of the Chapter, Jesus states that the believer will be one with Him as He is one with the Father, that they may behold His Glory. This is through Christ being in you.
Much of our teaching has robbed us from the reality of God’s Glory in a people. The “some-day” mentality that we have been programed to believe has kept us from the reality that He is in us right now. All Christians who are truly born again say Jesus is in my heart, but many do not understand the power of that statement. When Paul writes “when Christ who is our life appears in Glory, then we shall appear with Him in Glory (Colossians 3),” many do not consider this as an inward appearing. This is what Jesus says in John 17. He declares that “they may be one as we are one, I IN them, thou IN ME, that they may be made perfect in one.”
Through the judgement of the cross we are dead to sin with Christ, and we are made alive with Him. Here in His life we are waiting, watching, expecting His glory to appear. This appearing is not on the outside, but it is inward, and in it we are transformed to the same image as Christ to be His expression. Now this is a glorious judgement that brings us to victory. Glory to God!
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