Please consider these truths from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ…
For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. (John 3:17 AMP)
Please meditate about why God the Father sent Jesus Christ into the world. Are you working for Jesus Christ by helping save the world through Him? Or, are you working against Jesus Christ by condemning the world?
- What is the gospel?
- Is your church actively seeking sinners?
- Ministry of reconciliation (how to be reconciled to God)
Please read the entire book of John with this perspective. For instance…
But I have a greater witness than John—my teachings and my miracles. The Father gave me these works to accomplish, and they prove that he sent me. And the Father who sent me has testified about me himself. You have never heard his voice or seen him face to face, and you do not have his message in your hearts, because you do not believe me—the one he sent to you.
“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.
“Your approval means nothing to me, because I know you don’t have God’s love within you. For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them. No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God.
“Yet it isn’t I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes. If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. But since you don’t believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?” (John 5:36-47)
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:29)
For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. (John 6:38)
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. (John 6:57)
“No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.” (John 8:11)
You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. (John 8:15)
Jesus shouted to the crowds, “If you trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me. For when you see me, you are seeing the one who sent me. I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark. I will not judge those who hear me but don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it. But all who reject me and my message will be judged on the day of judgment by the truth I have spoken. I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.” (John 12:44-50)
As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. (John 17:18)
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.“ (John 20:21)
After experiencing all of this, do you think the Apostle John had the right to declare…
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. (1 John 4:14)
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- Stop condemning people with Galatians 6:7-8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption
- Don’t live in fear Jesus does not condemn you
Are you working for Jesus Christ by helping save the world through Him? Or, are you working against Jesus Christ by condemning the world?
Sadly, I know Christians who are more interested in arguing their particular view of arcane doctrines with other Christians than they are in being shining lights among a world lost in darkness. Don’t be that guy.
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. (James 1:19-20)
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3:17-18)