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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Lord, enter not into judgment with thy servant. Psalms 143:2. Divine answer. Verily verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my voice, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. John 5:24. See also John 8:51. Isaiah 25:8.
Since the Judge himself is our brother, our bridegroom, the Lord of death and life, yea even our life, believers cannot die any more, but are passed from death unto life, it being impossible that Christ should die again. He that owns the justice of God’s judgment, confesses himself guilty in all things, and appeals from the judgment-seat to the mercy-seat, him the Lord will own and justify again through the righteousness of his Son: for if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged. We shall even judge together with Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:2. and surely we will not condemn ourselves, much less will Christ; for he loves us more than we do ourselves.
Who shall the Lord’s elect condemn?
’Tis God that justifies their souls,
And mercy, like a mighty stream,
Over all their sins divinely rolls.
Who shall adjudge the saints to hell?
’Tis Christ that suffered in their stead;
And the salvation to fulfil,
Behold him rising from the dead.
Faith hath an overcoming power,
It triumphs in the dying hour;
Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,
Nor can we sink with such a prop.
