God’s word is that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live in accordance with the Spirit (Romans 8:1, margin). When we Christians feel as though other people are condemning us, the condemnation actually originates from our deceived “old self” regardless of whether the other people actually harbor such feelings against us. Think about it.
Feeling condemnation reveals that we are not living from our “new self” which is one with the resurrected Christ, but are living from the “old self” which was actually crucified with Jesus 2,000 years ago (see 2 Cor. 5:17; Romans 6:5-8). Feeling condemnation is thus a red flag that we are not abiding in the protection of Christ at the moment, but that we have fallen for the lie, and have allowed our old “soulish” nature to usurp authority from our newborn spirit which is one with…
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