Made Innocent!

In the Court of heaven, Jesus the Advocate makes his sensational claim: “There is no evidence against this man.” Then the throne of Justice becomes the throne of Grace. Satan the accuser retires in baffled rage. The Judge beckons the accused and hands him a document called “The New Covenant.” He opens it. There he sees that it carries the red seals of the sprinkled blood of Jesus. It is a royal exoneration declaring, “This court finds no evidence and therefore no case against you.” “There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.” The Judge has signed it saying: “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

The prisoner is free, justified by grace. Then the whole court rises and applauds, for there is joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. When you are justified by grace, God the Judge wants you to know it. Those who wait for the Day of Judgment to discover whether they are saved or damned, do not understand salvation at all. Knowing the promise of Jesus – “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life” – is part of salvation. He lifts that fear from you when you get saved. The word “judgment” in that Scripture is the Greek word “krisis”, from which the word “crisis” is derived. So you can say that a born-again believer will never know such a “crisis” hour, standing in the judgment, waiting to find out whether he is saved or lost. The matter was settled at Calvary.

Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; and by he everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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