Know what against?

Quote from Radical self-blame.

John says in his first epistle, 1 John 3:21, “Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.”

The Greek word for “does not condemn us” is καταγινώσκω kataginōskō. It means “”to know something against”. It uses the prefix “kata-”. This means “to diffuse”. In our old nature, prior to Christ, I was unable to forgive myself. I did not know what true forgiveness was. True forgiveness does not think about itself, but the other (Gal. 5:14) and would even lay down its life regardless of the circumstances on the basis of supernatural, unconditional love, Rom. 5:8. I am continually amazed at the Lord’s goodness and love, Eph. 3:18.

The other part of the word καταγινώσκω kataginōskō is “-ginosko”. It means “to know by experience” as in sexual intimacy between a man and a woman. The word kataginōskō was also used when Paul opposed Peter in Galatians chapter two and Peter stood condemned. He stood in self-condemnation because he was caught in his hypocrisy eating with the Gentiles then with the Jews. His justification was knowledge against himself that he was reckoning for what he did rather than a knowledge after godliness through grace and faith, Titus 1:1, Rom. 3:21, 26, 8:2.

If the old has gone and the new has come then let us go on to perfection, Heb. 6:1.

Quote from Things that fade away…

Heb. 8:13, “In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which (passive voice) decayeth (obsolete law, Col. 2:14; worn out; no longer applicable) and waxeth old (just plain old) [is] ready to vanish away (to cause to disappear, put out of sight).”

Col. 2:12-14, “Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation (godly-life energy, Philemon 1:6) of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”

Perfect love casts out fear. The Old Covenant and its judgment waxes old and is ready to vanish away out of sight, Rom. 8:1.

In Him, in the Spirit, in truth and reality, there is nothing “to know against” myself anymore or ever in Christ, Rom.5:13, 8:33; Heb. 10:2, 1 John 3:5.

Paul says in Phil. 3:13, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,”

The long Greek word for ‘forgetting those things which are behind’ is epilanthanomai.

It means to intensely, willfully forget or even give to oblivion.

Confidence in 1 John 3:21 is absolute freedom in speech towards God the Father through Christ our Most High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Why do I have such confidence? In love, there is no fear of judgment or guilt of the law in Christ before the Father of our spirits, Heb. 4:16.