The Judgment of the World – Because He is the Son of Man II
When we look at judgment, we must look at the death of Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 12, "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself. 33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.” Here at the cross is our salvation. Here is the judgment we must come to.
Jesus died the death of the cross that we may be made the righteousness in Him. Jesus judged sin in the flesh and put to death sin by dying to sin. Jesus never died in sin. He died to it. It never gained dominion over Him. Paul writes in Romans 8 that Jesus condemned sin in the flesh. This word condemned is the same word used for judgment.
In John 6, John writes as the Father quickeneth the dead even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. Who did the Father quicken or make alive from the dead? He made alive Jesus Christ. He brought Him out from among the dead. Romans 6 says He died to sin once but now he ever lives unto God. Again, I say this is our salvation. This is our judgment that we must hear. In Him we are put to death in the flesh to live unto God by Christ.
“He that has the Son has life,” I John 5:12. John writes we have passed from death to life. Life is all based upon Christ Jesus. If I have Him, I have life. HE is LIFE. If I do not have Him, I do not have life. What a decision! What a judgment! Life is determined by the Son of God. It is determined by nothing but Him. To know Him is to know life.
God has given all judgment unto the Son of God, because He is the Son of Man. Another way we could say this is that everything is determined concerning you and I by Him. Everything! It is no longer determined by Adam’s death. It is determined by Jesus Christ and His life. He is the determination of the soul. He brought judgment upon the work of Adam and put it to its final death. We that come to Him have the finality of Life, and this life is out from Adam’s death.
What I mean by this is this life is in Christ. I must come to see myself put to death to Adam and raised in life in Christ. This is a major struggle within our hearts. This is how we walk by faith and not by sight. We walk in faith of the work of the Son of God, denouncing our very own lives in order to live out of His life. Luke 17:33 “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
He has brought us to Himself. Let us see the separation and judgment of the cross. Let us walk in Him!
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