How can we tell if GOD is showing us something HE wants us to change (CONVICTION), or if the devil is putting us down to defeat us (CONDEMNATION)?
The word condemn is a key to determine who is doing the talking. To be CONDEMNED holds an eternal punishment fitting to the wrath of GOD against all sin.
But GOD laid on JESUS the sins of all (Isaiah 53:6) so all who come to HIM (JESUS) are cleansed from their sin.
Much more then, being now justified by JESUS blood, we shall be saved from wrath (of GOD) through HIM (Romans 5:9).
He that believes on HIM (JESUS) is NOT COMDEMNED: but he that does not believe IS CONDEMNED already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten SON of GOD (John 3:18).
He that believeth on the SON has everlasting life: and he that believeth not the SON shall not see life; but the wrath of GOD abides (stays) on him (John 3:36).
And this is the CONDEMNATION, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil (John 3;19).
Verily, verily, I (JESUS) say unto you, He that hears MY word, and believes on HIM (GOD the FATHER) that sent ME, has everlasting life, and shall not come into CONDEMNATION; but is passed from death unto life (John 5:24).
For if we would judge ourselves (confess and turn from sin), we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened (disciplined) of the LORD, that we should NOT be CONDEMNED with the world (1 Corinthians 11:31-32).
There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in CHRIST JESUS (Romans 8:1).
So, if you feel CONDEMNED and defeated you know that it is the devil talking. GOD will and does correct us, but it is always by letting us know the next step we should take. There is always hope when GOD is correcting us.
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Sharon
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