Judging sin in the day of Judgment

“But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.........” 

A believer is in an interesting and sometimes stressful position in his/her day-to-day world in this day of judgment. Loving one’s neighbor involves a commitment to the basic needs, including the spiritual context of those needs (as an “unseen witness”) of the people around them without actually knowing who God has saved and who God hasn’t. Though there are seemingly obvious clues to a believer regarding the behaviors, attitudes and beliefs of those around who do not seem to be saved, in a way, believers, being drawn to God, alone, Himself, weep in their carnal body but not in their spirit. This is a difficult concept.  

At the same time, God’s present judgment on the world is obvious to the believer with the revelation of  sin and it’s destruction of the earth and the world all around. To a believer it’s like a room where the walls are progressively and irrevocably closing in on all flesh. Yet the revelation of God’s Judgment must be kept in the heart of believers. Yes, they must witness, from time to time, that this is happening, though, at the same time, they must raise children and participate in livelihoods that grow businesses as if the “fix it” policies and procedures of the unbelieving  world will resolve the God’s condemnation of the world  through the efforts of man. Believers are free of any belief that these man-striving solutions will work, while working alongside unbelievers as if they were. Their hope is not in what is seen, but by what is unseen, which is this intimate relationship with God, invisible in the inner man.  

“...........For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more...........” 

The “gain” in the believer’s subjugation of his/her body (which can be interpreted as the subjugation of the physical body in it’s desires but also the spiritual body in a day of judgment where God has made believers invisible to the world),  is that God’s  judgment of  the world and the flesh, of both unbelievers and believers, might become complete.  

“Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.”  Romans 7:13 

The sinful nature of man, born spiritually dead from Adam, is extremely desensitized from the significance and seriousness of their sin. This is why, in this day of judgment, God is exposing the fulness of man’s sin, revealing the exceedingly sinful ways of man.  

“..........I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so, fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection: .......” 

Bringing the physical body in subjection to the will of God is one of the struggles of believers. Since the physical body can never be perfectly sinless, the struggle to subject it to God’s law is a believer’s praise to God in seeking His Kingdom.