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..."the inseparable condition of a walk in communion with God."
Excerpt- Now it is this new standing, this nearness to God, which gives the believer power for self-judgment. The believer now knows God, is no longer in ignorance of Him or of His will. Not only by outward revelation through the Word, but by the inward witness of the Spirit hath He “shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” 2 Cor. 4:6. “We have the mind of Christ.” 1 Cor. 2:16. In Christ, the believer is always in the presence and power of divine righteousness, for we are “made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:21.
For self-judgment the believer has therefore a perfect rule and measure, AND THE ABILITY TO USE IT. He has only to ask himself, “How has God judged, how has He examined, by what has He tested my nature, my thoughts, my words, my deeds? Do I know peace with God, and have I tasted that the Lord is gracious, even He who bore my sins in His own body on the tree? If so, do I desire to know communion with Him? Then let me ever in honesty and sincerity bring myself, and all that is within me, to the light of His presence, and by the Word of His grace test it, and judge it, even as He has done already. God knows me through and through, and He has given me ability to know myself through and through. Deceitful and desperately wicked as my heart is, yet He has searched it, and I can search it too, and may and should detect every motive and thought, and sift and judge them in their true character in His sight. What will bear His eye, and the judgment of His Word I may allow: and whatever will not, let me condemn it that I may be of one mind with Him out of whose presence the soul can have no true rest—the heart no joy.”
True self-judgment then is the judgment of myself as God has judged and still judges me—Christ as the revelation of God, in His love—His righteousness and His glory, is the rule, and touchstone for my conscience: the Word and the Spirit the means and power for applying Him thus.
Faith in, and the practical application of the Word of God to the soul is what we need. The Word which tells us of the infinite grace of our God, tells us also of His holiness. And the same revelation which gives the believer to know his completeness, his standing in Christ, beseeches him to walk worthy of his calling.
“Where with all shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Thy Word,” Psa. 119:9; “clean through the Word,” John 15:3, “the washing of water by the Word,” Eph. 5:26; also Heb. 4:12,13, and 2 Tim. 3:16,17, show us the fullness and value of the Word of God as a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path, and the searcher of our hearts.
Now we must again repeat, that without self-judgment there can be no communion with God. Faith may have believed the gospel, and a soul may know forgiveness of sins and peace with God through the precious blood of Christ: but his fellowship and communion with God depend upon his judgment of self, and confession of sin.