Condemnation kills. Christ saves from sins.

Believer, sin is a darkness. There is no point in constantly telling a sinner how bad it is to live in darkness or how terrible the darkness is or how the darkness will cause him to stumble and hurt himself or how he will go to hell because he is living in darkness. Just bring in the Light and the darkness will disappear. Jesus Christ is the Light of the world. Unveil His love to the sinner and sins will disappear. Matthew 1:21 says of Him:

"She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Believer, this is the Good News. By God's grace, don't let anyone trick you into believing that your puny human effort at trying to get right with God by keeping the law is involved in your salvation. This is the way to get cut off from Christ and fall from grace- 

"For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace." Galatians 5:4.

Christ does it all. The arm of flesh (human effort) will fail. Preaching moral codes without pointing the struggling sinner to Christ who saves from sins will only lead to condemnation. Condemnation never saved anybody. As it is in any court of law, the condemned get sentenced, and the wages of of sin is death. A death that Christ died for all. 

The Law condemns ALL who try to keep it in order to get into God's good Books. Galatians 3 tells us:

10 "But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under His curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” 11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”

Believer, we are saved by Grace through FAITH. The Law is not of FAITH. The Law condemns ALL who try to keep it in order to get into God's good Books. A lot of things are not right within and outside the church today but no sick person (sinner) ever got better from constantly receiving doses of criticism and bashing for their illness.  The sick need the great Physician, not self-medication by we who have no medicine to save ourselves.

Pointing out a broken leg (sins) and accusing its owner (sinner) of his inability to walk cannot help a person to walk. The sinner/churchgoer living in sins (this is due to wrong beliefs about Christ) needs to hear about Christ as Saviour from sins and not how terrible his sins are and their consequences or how demons will attack him or how he will perish in hell if he does not stop sinning. 

Many sinners are struggling to stop sinning but sin is a prison that holds the sinner captive. The sinner needs a Saviour and not the additional burden of more moral codes (the Law) that are already crushing him and which many "pastors" are dishing out. Try to keep the Law in order to be godly and sin will strengthen its grip:

"For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under Grace." Romans 6:14.

But many have this verse backwards. This kind of "keep the Law in order to be godly" preaching is one of the reasons why the world views Christians as a bigoted, intolerant and hypocritical lot. Just imagine what would have happened if Christ had yelled his disgust at the woman that was caught in adultery, threatened her with death or lectured her on the pitfalls of her sins. She would still have died. No amount of lectures, restitution, begging for forgiveness, backlog of good works and tithes paid or promises to "not do it again" could have saved her from the righteous demand of the Law aka Death. But this is what is going on in many places of worship - yelling disgust at the world that God so loved and threatening the same people that Christ gave Himself to free from sins with punishment and death. Titus 2:14 says of Christ:

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

Christ is the Great Physician and the Medicine that saves the sick (sinner) from the clutches of sin and death. But in many places of worship, the sinner is being told to look to himself (human effort - the arm of flesh) for godliness and salvation from his sins before Christ who came to save us from our sins will look his way. Believer, John 3:16 is not the most popular Bible verse by accident. See the verses before and after it:

14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

Christ made a comparison between how we "should not perish but have everlasting life" and how the snake-bitten Israelites were saved from death. Think on this for a bit. The affected Israelites were saved by looking expectantly at the bronze snake on the pole, no fasting, no tithe, no restitution, no law-keeping. 

Believer, by God's grace, stop looking at how bad your sins are. Stop wondering how you will overcome them. Stop depending on your will-power to escape the prison of sin and death. This is akin to the Israelites looking at their wounds and the symptoms of the snake venom inside them instead of looking at the bronze serpent- a picture of Christ and His finished work at the cross for our salvation from sin and death. The arm of flesh will fail.  By Grace, look to Jesus the same way the Israelites that were bitten by snakes looked to the bronze serpent on the pole - trusting, depending and relying wholly on Christ as your salvation from sin and death - and you will live in triumph over sin and death-

"For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ." Romans 5:17.

Death here is not limited to physical death. Remember God told Adam concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in Genesis 2:17-

"and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die."

Adam did not immediately drop dead physically. Death is a process that encompasses guilt, fear, stress, stupid mistakes, sickness, depression, satanic oppression, all earthly ills, physical death and the second death in hell. We escape sin and death through Christ by receiving God's abundance of grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ, something that many churchgoers are unwilling to do. But how? 

Many still prefer to eat from the tree that kills. The letter (law) kills. See the forbidden fruit as a picture of the Law that many are trying so hard to obey in order to be godly aka "be like God" in Romans 7:8-12 (MSG) -

"Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me."

Satan, through his ministers on many pulpits, is still seducing many into depending on their arm of flesh (human effort) in the quest to attain godliness, be accepted by God or to position oneself for His blessings, a direct contradiction of God's word in Romans 3:

26"...and He makes sinners right in His sight when they believe in Jesus 27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. 28 So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law."

Like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the Law which tells good from evil kills. It doesn't matter what part of the Law one is eating from - whether a person is trying to keep it or whether he breaks it, the letter kills.

Preach Christ, Grace-personified, and all these things, including salvation from wrong beliefs as well as salvation from sin and death, will be added to all who hear and believe. He saves from sin. Pointing out what is wrong with the church without pointing the church to Christ who saves from sin is quite pointless. It is akin to an HIV patient trying to be healed by treating his HIV-induced tuberculosis. Unless the virus is cut out, he will still die.

Are you worshipping in a place where you are constantly reminded of your sins that you struggle to overcome and how God will punish you for them and how you need to do your best to be godly by keeping the Law and doing good things? This is the modus operandi of Satan the Accuser - cloaked with the appearance of godliness, he accuses the sinner of his faults and tells him to do things by human striving in order to be godly aka "be like God." Same strategy was used on Eve who was deceived into believing that she would be godly if she did something by human effort. The end is death.

Christ died to make us godly. Isaiah prophesied about the suffering of Christ in Isaiah 53. See the result of His suffering for us in Isaiah 53:11-

"After He has suffered, He will see the light of life. And He will be satisfied. My godly servant will make many people godly because of what He will accomplish. He will be punished for their sins."

By God's grace, let's not be found doing Satan's work for him - telling people that they can be godly (be like God) by human effort. Preach Christ, not more condemnation, and right living will follow. 

Unveil the Light of the world and the darkness of sin and death will flee. In union with Him- trusting, depending and relying wholly on Him and putting no confidence in the flesh (human effort,) you will bear "much fruit." He said so: John 15:5-

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."

See the TPT: “I am the sprouting vine and you’re My branches. As you live in union with Me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from Me you are powerless."

Being in Christ without living a life of moral excellence is as impossible as jumping into the sea naked without getting wet. And this is why "Faith without works is dead." But human logic cannot comprehend God's wonderful Grace -

"For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18.

Human logic and satanic ministers twist "Faith without works is dead" to make you think that you have to bear fruit on your own in order to be a member of the body of Christ! We who can do nothing apart from Christ. Good works are EVIDENCES of our salvation in Christ. They are not CONDITIONS for salvation as Satan's ministers preach! Their aim is to get you trying to be like God by human effort. Same strategy was used to deceive Eve. The end is death.

Believer, with Christ as your Source and putting no confidence in the flesh (human effort at bearing fruit to God,) in our Lord's time, your "much fruit" aka works of faith that the world will see and give glory to God will be evident.

Right believing always produces right living.