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.
