Reflection on Jn 16:9-11

“Sin is that they do not believe in Me. Righteousness is that I go to the Father, and you will see Me no more. Judgment is that the ruler of this world has already been condemned.”

There are people who say: I have no sin; I have not killed anyone, nor robbed anyone. I am an honest citizen, I don’t need God. But it is a lie. Moreover, such person has all the greater sin because he rejects Christ. Not to believe in Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour, is a sin! The saving faith means to believe in Christ, the Son of God, who died for our sins, as well as to believe that He is with us.

“Righteousness is that I go to the Father.” It was unrighteous that being innocent, He was condemned. It is righteous that He is already in the glory of heaven.

“The ruler of this world has already been condemned.” He has already been condemned but he has the right to work if we allow him to through our sin. If we are in actual unity with Christ, this condemnation is real! On the cross, in the death of Christ, and nowhere else is the ruler of this world, the devil and sin, condemned and conquered. Let us enter in spirit into union with the spirit of Christ at Calvary. There is the victory. The Lenten period should be a time of renewal of our faith, surrender and union with Christ crucified, and the Easter period is a time of our union with the risen Christ! We are pilgrims. Our homeland is in heaven. The way to heaven is narrow. It is a way of Christ’s suffering and death on the cross. This narrow way should lead us into the presence of God now in this life and then after death, so that we may be forever with our Lord who died for us and opened heaven’s gates for us.

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