Over the years, I have met many Christians who have not been able to get free of the condemnation that belongs to the kingdom of darkness. They may be quite mature Christians but still struggle with this issue. The Bible says, “There is therefore NOW no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1. What an amazing statement! Many Christians know this truth in their head, but cannot live out the truth of this verse in their daily lives. Often the hook is that, although they know that God has forgiven them in what Jesus did on the cross, they cannot forgive themselves. It seems that David in the Old Testament suffered from the same problem.
But we need to go back to what I said last time, that we have been transferred into a different kingdom, which is one of light and love, not darkness and condemnation. Somehow we need to let the truth of the Bible soak down from our head to our inner being, so that we can live in it. The problem often arises that we listen to Satan’s accusations that have no more hold on us, now that we are in a different kingdom. 
It is interesting to think again about the fact that in this world Christians are ambassadors of the kingdom of light, the kingdom of God. In the natural, when an ambassador is sent to another nation, they have to keep the law of their home country, and they keep the law of the land to which they have been sent by choice. If those two laws contradict, the law of the home country takes precedence for the ambassador. But the law of the land in which they are staying cannot accuse or condemn them. The only recourse that nation has is to send the ambassador back to the country from which they had been sent. 
So it is with us as Christians. Satan, whose name means the Accuser, the Opposer, has no legal right to accuse and condemn us anymore, because now we belong to another kingdom. As ambassadors of that kingdom, the law of condemnation from the kingdom of darkness has to give way to the law of the kingdom of light—no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. The amazing truth of God’s kingdom is that He has made us accepted in His beloved Son, Ephesians 1:6. We are no longer slaves, but sons and daughters of the King of the kingdom of light. That is why we can live with Him in a relationship of peace and love. 
It is worth remembering that Satan can accuse us all he likes, but he has no leg to stand on. And he will continue to accuse us, because that is his very nature, and he wants to keep us in bondage to condemnation. He tried to get Jesus to fall for his temptations, and the Bible says in Revelation 12, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 
Interesting! Accusation day and night! But God did not even listen to those accusations, and they also need to fall on deaf ears as far as we are concerned. We need to overcome them by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of our testimony, that we are ambassadors of the kingdom of light. The worst (or, best) Satan can do is to send us back to our home country. That is not a bad prospect when all is said and done!
If we have struggled with condemnation, we can be free of it once and for all. Repent of listening to Satan’s accusations, renounce the spirit of condemnation, and cut it off your life. Ask the Holy Spirit to come and fill you afresh, and help you to build a relationship of peace and love with your heavenly Father. Then walk in that freedom, and tune your spiritual ears not to listen to Satan’s accusations, but rather to God’s voice. Like John wrote to some of the Christians he knew, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.  
 

David W Searle
Co-author of Growing Deep and Strong