God works by His Spirit in the conscience which He has purged, to produce this entire and unsparing judgment of self those who have benefited by His working thus in them, will have gained. With it-it rejoices to have a perfect standard whereby to judge all in itself that is inconsistent with the light. Without the knowledge of grace, the soul fears the light. He reveals Christ as one in whom was perfect good, outside and above the evil, as the light by which the Christian thus purged may judge all within Himself. God works in the sinner, convincing him of, and cleansing him from the guilt-whether of nature or practice, according to His knowledge of it, and through the work of Christ. Good which he had no power to practice-evil that he had no power to avoid. When man fell he came to know good and evil for the first time. God, who has wrought us for the glory and assimilation to Christ, works morally in our souls, preparing the vessel by a moral dealing thus for glory. Yet, when the wicked “receive the things done in the body,” they must be condemned.

It does not say “judged,” for then even the saints would be condemned. The thought is, the perfect manifestation of all that a person is, and has been, before a throne characterized by judgment, yet without the judgment of the person being in question. All must be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive of the things done in the body, whether they be good or bad. (John 5:24.) “Condemnation” there is incorrect. Because, for the saint, judgment is past-Christ has borne it for him: he does not come into judgment. It is however to be remarked, that when the apostle has before his mind both saints and sinners, he does not speak of persons being judged, but of their receiving for things done in the body-retribution is his thought.

5:10 is a I road general principle, which is applicable to all mankind, irrespective of what grace has accomplished in, and for, those who believe.

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