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Jesus Christ’s judgement consisted precisely in His having come not to condemn but to save; “And this is the judgement, that the light is come into the world” (John 3.19. cf. verses 17 and 18), and likewise men who are reconciled with God and man in Christ will judge all things, as men who do not judge, and will know all things as men who do not know good and evil. Their judgement will consist in brotherly help, in lifting up the falling and in showing the way to the straying, in exhortation and in consolation (Gal. 6; Matt. 18.15ff.), and also, if the need arises, in a temporary suspension of
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Two types of judgment; the one that is given to us as Christians is a judgment free of the knowledge of good and evil that is rooted in Christ alone; it is the judgment of action, or reconciling people back to the Father through the HS.
What is here called love is not this general principle but the utterly unique event of the laying down of the life of Jesus Christ for us. Love is inseparably bound up with the name of Jesus Christ as the revelation of God. The New Testament answers the question “What is love?” quite unambiguously by pointing solely and entirely to Jesus Christ. He is the only definition of love.
One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy. With the best of intentions they believe that a little reason will suffice them to clamp together the parting timbers of the building. They are so blind that in their desire to see justice done to both sides they are crushed between the two clashing forces and end by achieving nothing. Bitterly disappointed at the unreasonableness of the world, they see that their efforts must remain fruitless and they withdraw resignedly from the scene or yield unresistingly to the stronger
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