Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Rom.8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

If the new creation was based upon merit, that is, our performance the words of the apostle Paul here would be meaningless! The righteous laws of God condemns any sinner, which is all of us. Hence, charges brought under the old law against a sinner would be accurate and just, but none can be brought rightly against God's chosen one, but why?

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

Here is the profound wisdom of God that seemingly fly's in the face of the wise of this world, the leaders, the courts, the governments and even religion, and what is that? It is, God removed his judgment off of deserved breakers of his righteous law. How can acquitting a person of deserved justice upon hold justice, and righteousness? Nothing within the human reason can say such a thing works for any institution small or great?

Romans 6:14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
1Cor.1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."{Isaiah 29:14}

However, Gods' own wisdom saw that the cycle of judgment and death set in order at Adam and Eves sinning must be stop by life, not judgment of death producing yet more death. How to remove mankind deserved judgment for sinning was the real question? By love! God knew what we don't being our creator, and what is that?
There are those desiring not to sin, or rebel against God, but whom cannot stop sinning, and that sin causes a wall of alienation between God and them. Thus, the removing of judgment must come from God and not mankind in sin and death, death can only produce more death, life with God must come from life. But how does one bring life into death, without judgment?

1Cor.1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men

John 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 3:15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

The world and all that is in it, the system of things is set in motion by judgment through laws, which support, build, and protect all that is against God ways of life; could such a pattern be broken? Certainly not by man conceived in sin, the fleshly mind cannot stop judging evil in others. God sent his own son, out of love for us, to purchase us from our old dying life, by giving us a new life, the life of his son Christ Jesus.

John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 8:12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world.{Isaiah 60:1} He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

John 10:28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Christ defeated death, he stripped the power of this world all authority through governments, but what power? The power to control him, and/or God's chosen ones through sin, and its guilt, judged by laws that built this world. Christ was life, righteous perfect life, no law of sin was against Christ. Men could make false accusations, but what authority is above God's approval of his son? Certainly not mundane laws pointing to sin and death!

Eph.1:20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. 1:22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Col.2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
2:14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
2:15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Now God imputes the same to his chosen ones, yet, another defeat for Satan, and his power, but let us take caution here because this is the point of Paul's writings, and what is that? Those wanting power through guilt of judgment like the world in religion need that power to control others. To maintain that power they steal Christ name, and enslave people to the laws created for sin, bring them back into death through control of righteous judgment from God's laws.

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

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

We are not deserving, we must stop thinking about self and set our minds on Christ worth in faith, and that is the hard part for us still in the sinful flesh. We do not belong to ourselves, but to Christ, and his life this is why Christ lives through us as a member of his body, him being the head.

1Cor.4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

We cannot be in our flesh, without the guilt of judgment because our flesh is deserved of death by God's righteous laws. By faith against all odds of the thinking of our flesh we must walk in life, our life Christ Jesus. We were made dead in our old life, that is, dead to sin, made new in life, Christ Jesus. Hence, freed from the judgment of our flesh, although, deserved, and still condemning us, the power to save us is in God, not our flesh, or its judgments.

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

The accuser of Christ will not stop accusing, he can't, he won't, nor will anything he has built in his system of things under his control, but our Father Jehovah is not accusing us, he has spared not one thing in saving us completely. He has given us life, now! Not at some future time as false religion practices having one work until death in gaining enough merit. Christ defeated death at his resurrection, he gives God's chosen ones that life now indwelling them. Please note, God gives it freely without earning it. This is the manifold wisdom of God, which cannot be defeated by judgments of death, the judgment too life is undeserved, and kind, gentle, full of mercy and good fruits, for those loving God. Have no fear little flock our eternal life is not based upon man's judgment but upon God's worth, his love!

Ephesians 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

1Cor.13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails.

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