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John 9:39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

What judgment did Christ bring into this world? Surprisingly, none! Christ did not judge flesh, why? Because that job was done, how? By God's righteous law which had been in place for thousand's of years over his people the Jews. Christ came to complete the law, that is, died sealing it with his precious blood creating a new covenant between man and God.

John 7:24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

This than is the truth Christ brought, and the fact it was truth caused division among the flesh, to make a choice of accepting it or reject it! Hence, judgment! Was the flesh going to stay blinded to the Spirit or accept the truth and worship God in Spirit and truth? But how could that happen? One way only! The Christ must be lift up, like the serpent in the wilderness where God's people rebelled against Moses and serpents were sent to bit the people. God had a copper serpent made, and put on a pole; everyone humbling themselves that looked up to the copper serpent were healed from death.

John 3:14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.

Numbers 21:8 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.

The rebellious flesh would kill the Christ despite its so called love of God through law, the law cause more sin and not less, the sinful flesh is in a state of rebellion against God it cannot submit to God's laws, so its our serpent that bites us into death! This flesh would destroy the Son of Man. Then the Son of man would be lift up, resurrected and those cut to the heart humbling themselves seeing the truth of their unrighteous condition by their conduct towards God's love, Christ Jesus would be saved, but how?

Rom. 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

John 3:14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
3:15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
3:18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 3:19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 3:20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

They would received not blindness, but the thing that opens eyes, and without it one cannot see or understand God or his words, and what is that? The Holy Spirit, which kills the sinful flesh, and raise the spirit of each of us into Christ. Christ did not come to judge the flesh dead to God and Christ, such was its judgment long before Christ came to this earth. Its judgment handed down in the Garden of Eden, and the law enforced that judgment upon God's people. Christ came for a better lasting hope in making people into spirit being removing the sin of our flesh, by killing it as irredeemable and bring us to life in our spirit. But each of us must come to the light, and/or the truth of serpent in us sins of the fallen flesh, or die in our sins!

Romans 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"}

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die.

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