Our hearts are drawn from the gospel of condemnation. Condemning means that more focus on our sins than God's grace. In America, it is well-known comic book about an unmarried woman named Cathy, who has thirty years. In a comic strip Cathy is sitting at home alone with my thoughts. On the first image she thinks "The things we should do the job. The things I promised myself that I would do, but never did. The things we wanted to say to Paul, but I did not. "
On the second picture she looks even more sad and thinks," about the things that I could do for her family, his friends, his dog, his colleagues, his home, his diet and millions of people who need help. "
The third and final picture Cathy says," Even if I'm not going to go anywhere, I have two hundred kilograms luggage with me. "
Like Cathy, each of us has not made a list of things not said, the finite is not. Even when we relax, we feel the weight of our imperfections. The Bible calls this the burden of condemnation.
can live with condemnation for so long that you think is normal. Condemnation can be a burden on your heart that you were too busy, when your children were small and now there is nothing you can do to recover this time with them. Can you wear the burden of remembering the sin of sexual abuse in your past. Maybe ever regret that you have no discipline in the life of prayer, or reading the Word of God. The fact is that without the condemnation of the cross is normal. Without the death and resurrection of Jesus, we all deserve hell and eternal punishment for our sins. But thanks to the gospel says, "Now therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Rom. 8:1
do not have to bear the burden of condemnation. You can be free. Not far off, but completely free from condemnation.
not think that cultivating condemnation and wallow in your shame is pleasing to God and will mean the holiness and spiritual maturity. The truth is completely opposite. God is glorified when we believe wholeheartedly that those who trust in Jesus will never be condemned. God's grace is greater than your sin. My sin is great and terrible, your sin is great and terrible, but the grace of God is far greater than our sin. "But where sin increased, grace increased all the more," Rome. 5:20
Most teachers of the Christian knows that God does not want his children lived under condemnation. Therefore, many of which little is said about sin. Rarely speak of the abomination of sin, about how God hates sin and punishes sin. They think that talking about the horrors of sin brings condemnation. But it is not.
When people think that their sin is small and insignificant they think that we are able to cope with it and bear the burden of condemnation. But when we know how big is the burden of sin, and we understand that it can not do deal with sin, then we are willing to entrust our burdens to Jesus and be free from condemnation. Your burden is huge, but Jesus took upon himself the whole.
Luke wrote the story of a woman who knew the size of its sin, but rejoiced that Jesus was completely freed them from damnation.
"I asked him a Pharisee to eat with him. Then he went to the house of the Pharisee, he sat down at the table. And behold, a woman from this city, a sinner, having learned that sits at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. And standing behind at his feet, cried, and tears began to coalesce his feet and wipe the hair of your head, and kissed his feet, anointed them with oil. Seeing the Pharisee who invited him, he said, in itself, "If this were a prophet, he would know who and what is the woman who touches him, he is a sinner. And Jesus said to him: Simon, I have something to say. And he says: Say it, Teacher! A certain creditor had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty, and when they did not have with which to repay, he forgave them both. Which of them will love him more? And Simon answered and said: "I think that the one whom he forgave more. And he said unto him, rightly judged. And turning to the woman, said to Simon: You see this woman? I went to your house, and gave no water for my feet, and she sprinkled my feet with tears and wiped his hair. Do not you kissed me, and she, ever since I entered, has not ceased to kiss my feet, my head did not anoint with oil, but she has poured perfume on my feet. So I say to you, her many sins forgiven, for she loved much. Who but little is forgiven, loves little. Luk. 7:36-47
Pharisee thought that his sins were small. This woman knew that the burden of sin was huge. She loved Jesus so much, because He forgave her sins and made me become free from condemnation. The Pharisee, he wore his condemnation.
woman in this story is a good example for us. She does not cry that there is no hope for her. She is not depressed because of the burden that it suffocates. She is crying with joy that is free. These are tears because of gratitude, love and joy. She is aware of his sin, but he knows that the grace of Jesus is able to free her from damnation.
Day after day we are tempted to carry the same weight of condemnation. The enemy of your soul whispers into your ear against him. Often we feel condemned.
How can we overcome the condemnation? First of all I will say what is not effective. We can not beat the condemnation by the order to be better in the future. Even if we can be better in the future, it will not change the sins that have already committed.
When you feel condemned, you have to confess their sins to God and Use the gift of faith to believe that Jesus died for the sins of exactly those that committed. The penalty, which he suffered, and suffered for you, and resurrection is a sign that God accepted his sacrifice. Jesus bore your condemnation, so now you do not have to. We are not able to bear the condemnation because Jesus did it for us.
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