Judgment part 5
When we understand the judgment of God--that it was in our favor... that it was not a death sentence, but an eternal LIFE sentence--that's when we can stop being afraid of the judgment. Look at 1 John 4:17, "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." The day of judgment. It is appointed unto men ONCE to die, then the judgment. Jesus kept that appointment. And He had first drawn us all into Himself. His death was our death. The judgment God handed down to Jesus is the judgment He handed down to us all. We don't have to fear, because when God looks at Jesus He sees us. And when God looks at us He sees Jesus. As He is, so are we in this world. We don't have anything to fear because perfect love casts out all fear. We are perfectly loved by our heavenly Father, who has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts so that we might cry out, "Abba, Father!" So that we might know Him as Father and know ourselves as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. We don't have to fear a judgment in our future. Because the judgment is in our past. And now, because we know the good news, we can execute that judgment. We can be a witness of what God has done and who God is. God is love and He loves you. That's what we are a witness to. That's how we execute His judgment. His judgment is love. We receive it and release it. We fill ourselves to overflowing with what He has filled us with, and we let it come out of ourselves... naturally. We love God (by loving the people we come into contact with) with every breath we take and every move we make. We execute His judgment by knowing it and believing it. Not judging according to appearance, but judging righteous judgment. Receiving the life that God has given us and releasing it by sharing it with the people we come into contact with. That's what life is all about because that's what life IS: To live is to love and to love is to live! You can't have one without the other and you can't do one without the other. We can be bold in the day of judgment because the day of judgment happened 2000 years ago. And the day of judgment is every day. We judge things every day. Let's be real. The key is to judge them the way God has already judged them. To line up with what He says. Binding and loosing isn't about changing heaven. It is about BRINGING heaven to earth. The days of heaven ON earth. We can only bind what God has already bound. Can only loose what God has aleady loosed. We ought to only judge as God has already judged! Again, EXECUTE His judgment, rather than making up our own. When we see things the way God sees them--because the light of the world, the light of His love is shining--we can experience things the way God always wanted us to experience them! And that's when we can truly live. Not by trying to live Jesus' life (nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus), but by letting Jesus live His own life in us, and through us, and as us! That's when things really come into focus and really get... well... real. When we be still and know that HE is God it takes all of the pressure off of us. We don't have to make a judgment on things when we know what judgment GOD has made on them. We can simply agree with Him and execute HIS judgment. We can be bold in the sense of not being afraid of what the judgment is, and we can be bold in the sense of knowing that by executing it, we are doing the best possible thing we could be doing. Because executing His judgment (which is love)... simply means loving people!