Paul writes in Romans that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We can all be judged “GUILTY” in the court of God’s law. However, the good news is that with Jesus Christ’s death on the cross, a guiltless person took on the shame and guilt of us all and paid the consequence (the death penalty) for all of us. So, by faith IN Jesus, we are judged ‘justified’, guiltless, 100%, first class honours. When we are IN Christ, God judges and convicts us as if we are Jesus.  That’s very cool! As Charles Wesley writes in that fantastic hymn ‘And Can It Be’:
 
No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness Divine,
Bold I approach the eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.