Weird Ideas: Coming to JudgeSample

There is a negative aspect to judgment. When God comes, he will judge sin. Of this we can be sure: all of us are sinners. So all of us deserve God’s punishment.

Yet the message of the Bible is that God does not want to treat us as our sins deserve. He does not want to punish us.

This is the plight we find in the Bible. A holy and righteous God who will deal justly with sin coming across the people he loves who are utterly sinful.

What does God do? He judges sin. But he condemns sin in sinful man through Jesus dying on the cross. This is the hope for every sinner and any person who has looked at their life knowing they deserve God’s judgment.

Sometimes people wonder why God doesn’t get rid of all the evil and suffering in the world. They ask themselves or cry out to heaven, “Why doesn’t God do something!?” God will do something, he’s promised that, and the ancient creeds underscore it. Jesus will come to judge the living and the dead. But God does not want to condemn anyone. Not even the worst of us. And so God is patient, choosing to tolerate sin and hoping that people will repent before his judgment comes.

Here’s the weird idea: No matter how bad of a sinner you might be, if you turn to Jesus, there’s nothing to fear. There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.