Psalm 82:1.
“Thine,
O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and
the majesty: for all that is in the Heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is
the Kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all.”
1 Chronicles 29:11.
Good morning, well-judged Christian!
In Christ Jesus, you and I have been Spiritually awakened by the Lord God to
know ourselves to be gross sinners on our way to a lost Eternity in Hell; an
Eternity of perpetual torment after that, in the Lake of Fire Created to punish
Satan and his fallen, disobedient angels, but which shall also house all sinful
souls that knew not Christ as their own and personal Saviour from sin.
“And the angels which kept not their
first estate (a state of obedience to the Lord God), but left their own
habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the
judgement of the great day. Even as
Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh (homosexuality), are set
forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of Eternal fire.” (Jude 6-7)
“And the Devil that deceived them was
cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever…And whosoever was
not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”
(Revelation 20:10-15)
On the other hand, having, by God’s
Sovereign grace and enablement, judged ourselves to be lost; and having been
blessed with God’s gift of faith to believe and trust in Christ’s Salvation –
we have been born-again, regenerated by God the Spirit to be new creatures in
Christ, never to be judged by God again or condemned for sins – past, present,
and future sins – committed. Hallelujah!
(John 3:3-8)
“There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not 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.” (Romans 8:1-2)
Having been justified by faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and declared ‘not guilty of sin’ by our Father in Heaven as
a consequence – we are clearly instructed by God’s Word not to ever ‘…accept
the persons of the wicked.’ We are not
to ‘judge’ the words and actions of others according to their social or legal
positions in society, but according to the laws of the Living Lord God, as
written clearly in our KJV Bibles. Wrong can never ever be judged right! The
Lord God grants us Holy discernment, to judge what is wrong and right.
God Judges the judges: “God standeth in
the congregation of the mighty He judgeth (judges, and continually judges)
among the gods (small g.)” (Psalm 82:1)
Verse 3. “Defend
the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. It is said of
Francis the First, of France, that when a woman kneeled to him to beg justice,
he bade her stand up; for, said he, ‘Woman, it is justice that I owe thee, and
justice thou shalt have; if thou beg anything of me, let it be mercy.’”
(William Price,1642)
Nations which have been founded on
the Ten Commandments of God, and the Divine wisdom of the King James Version
Bible, have for centuries been characterized by a high sense of justice and
mercy shown to their peoples, and especially to those that have become
prisoners within a Sovereign territory.
“Prisoners are judged by courts and
put into prison AS a punishment, not FOR punishment. Loss of liberty IS the
punishment!” (C.K. McClinton 1947 -?)
Verse 4. Deliver
the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. It is a brave
thing when a judge can liberate a victim like a fly from the spider’s web, and
a horrible case when magistrate and plunderer are in league. Law has too often been an instrument for
vengeance in the hand of unscrupulous men, an instrument as deadly as poison or
the dagger. It is for the judge to
prevent such villainy.” (C.H. Spurgeon,
Treasury of David, page 353)
The Lord God Jehovah is an absolutely
Holy Lord God, Creator of all things; Sovereign in all issues pertaining to
what He has Created. All that He has
Created was perfect, until Adam and Eve sinned the sin of disobedience in
Eden’s Garden.
All since then has been polluted by
mankind’s sin. All mankind since that
Fall into sin, are NOT Created by God, but born of sinful man and woman, in
Adam’s Fallen image and likeness, with a nature that is at all times very prone
to sin. (Genesis 5:3)
This is why the Lord Jesus Christ
taught us, “Ye must be born again!” We
must be Spiritually regenerated, made Spiritually alive, and forgiven of all
our sin; redeemed from sin, by the precious, sinless, shed Blood of the Saviour
Lord, Jesus Christ. Praise His Holy
Name! We are made to be Holy by the
imputation (putting to our personal account) of the righteousness of Christ
Jesus Himself. Hallelujah! What a Saviour! (John 3:3-8)
“For He (God the Father) hath made
Him (Jesus Christ, God the Son) to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we
(God’s elect people) might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2
Corinthians 5:21)
When God, the righteous Judge of all
the earth, looks upon those of us that have been, by His grace and faith, born
again in Christ – all He causes Himself to see IS His Son, Jesus Christ, and
thus, we are passed over for destruction, Hell, and the Lake of Fire. Wow!
Glory to God.
“You hath He quickened (made
Spiritually alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins…even when we were dead
(Spiritually dead) in sins, hath quickened (made Spiritually alive) us together
with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.)” (Ephesians 2:1-5)
In Christ Jesus we are judged to be
totally innocent from all our catalogues of vile sins!
“But if we walk in the light, as He
is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth us from ALL SIN.” (1 John 1:7)
“I, even I, am He that blotteth out
thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” (Isaiah
43:25)
“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.” (Isaiah 44:22)
Thought: God, the Almighty Judge
declares ‘His people’, not guilty of sins! Hallelujah!
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