Sons of God judge. They judge differently. They judge from righteousness.
John 7:24 NKJV
[24] Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
John 5:30 NKJV
[30] I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
John 5:25,27 NKJV
[25] Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. [27] and the Father has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
Righteous judgement is how Jesus functioned in dominion over every adversary and situation. He could always be trusted to release God’s will with perfect motives.
First we must see that neither the Father nor Jesus offers judgement to condemnation. They only offer judgement to life and freedom. The law condemns and the words of Christ position us to have to choose to either trust Him and receive life, or stay under the condemnation of the law.
Romans 10:4,10,13 NASB
[4] For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. [10] for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. [13] for “Whoever WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”
Now, righteousness is obtained only by faith. Christ put an end to gaining God’s approval through being good. The law still remains for condemnation, but we will never gain God’s approval through doing things. Living right will not gain us His approval. Not even our gifting used for His glory will gain us approval. For Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13 that anything not done motivated by love is counted as worthless. How do we know that the law still remains for condemnation?
John 5:45,46 NASB
[45] Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. [46] For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
John 3:18 NASB
[18] He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged (condemned in NKJV) already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 12:48 NASB
[48] He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
We can see here that the words of Jesus and the words of Moses will condemn any who choose to not believe. But, God is not judging and neither is Jesus. I don’t know how this relates to nation states, but to individuals, God is not judging even those who don’t believe. Moses and the law judges them. Those who are in Christ are not under any judgement from God.
John 12:47 NASB
[47] If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
John 3:17 NASB
[17] For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
John 5:22 NASB
[22] For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,
Condemnation only remains on those who DO NOT believe. Yet we are called to love them just as Jesus loved them.
Romans 8:1 NASB
[1] Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
A son of God will live this way. Even in the face of condemnation or judgement from others, a son will remain free and abiding in love. When they are rejected by men, it does not phase them for their acceptance is in Christ and in the Father’s love. When they are falsely accused and judged, this won’t move their hearts for none of this can stick to them. They know what God has said about them.
1 Corinthians 2:15 NKJV
[15] But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
Our comfort is in Christ and Holy Spirit. We sit on the lap of Papa. Men always misunderstand. But God is embracing.
When we believe on Jesus, we participate in “Passover” nourishing on Christ. Jesus said that we are to eat his body, the body of the lamb. He also said that believing on Him is equivalent to consuming the Passover lamb. As we do, condemnation passes over us. Death and disease must pass over us. Communion is how we show the powers of darkness that we agree that Jesus is our Passover lamb. If we judge for selfish reasons then we are not in agreement with Jesus who refused to judge. This shows that we are refusing to eat the whole lamb.
You may be wondering why all this judgement and condemnation stuff matters. It matters because sons of God use Christ’s authority to execute judgement in order to release life and set others free from bondage. In the natural, a judge has the authority to pronounce a sentence on a man who stands accused. He has the power to imprison the accused or even to set him free. A governor (king) has the power to set those condemned free. This authority to judge now rests in the hands who Father trusts with the authority He gave Jesus to execute judgement. “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 18:18 NKJV
The authority to judge will be given to those who have learned to judge from righteousness rather than judging from selfishness. They judge from the position of a dearly loved son who desires to bring other sons to the Father. They will operate with the power to release life into any situation just as Jesus did.
John 5:21,26 NASB
[21] For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. [26] For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
Those who follow in Christ’s footsteps will have this same authority. They will have authority over life and death. He wants the world to know who Jesus is, and He has chosen to use us.
Mark 16:17-18 NKJV
[17] And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; [18] they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Matthew 10:7-8 NKJV
[7] And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ [8] Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
Let us look again at the requirements for the Christ Mantle. “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” Luke 9:23-24. If we hone in on these, “deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me,” here we can see the definition of righteous judgment. “My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” Righteous judgement has, at its heart, the will of the Father. The Father’s will is life and love. His will is not condemnation of individuals. He is always hoping for lost children to repent and come home to Love. He knows that it is His goodness that produces a change of heart, not punishment. If we are to follow in Christ’s footsteps, then we must embrace a lifestyle of selfless love and surrender to the voice of our loving Savior and our loving Father.
True Sonship requires the abandonment of self. Just know that you are not being asked to fix yourself. Intimacy produces transformation. Clinging to the words that Jesus speaks to you causes you to change. You will have to repent of things you have been holding onto that are contrary to love, but God will lead you into even this consecration.
The beauty of the abandonment of self is that you will also be experiencing the fulfillment of being filled with the Spirit of Love. Jesus said that as we believe in Him and eat of Him, the Spirit of God will become a wellspring of life causing us to never thirst again for love. See the chapter on the significance of being filled with the Spirit to learn more about this. This is a huge promise of discovering how deeply you are loved and finding perfect fulfillment and the ability to live (abide) in this new reality for the rest of your life.
The abandonment of self means embracing the fact that God’s love removes the need for selfishness. We are made complete in Him as we yield our hearts to receive the fullness of His love. “Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding— this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with (all) the fullness of God!” Ephesians 3:19. Here we lose every need for selfishness.
Those who abandon selfishness and learn to always live in and give only love. These demonstrate that they are releasing the very nature of God. They have surrendered every darkness to God’s fathering. They have reached the place where they can say that the enemy has no area in them that belongs to the dark kingdom. Selflessness allows us to release pure love and righteous judgement. We are taught by Jesus to live without selfishness.
The person who is transformed does not need the law because his nature has been changed. He now has the nature of his Father. Those who believe in Christ, but try to keep the law, will find that condemnation still has room to speak in their life. The law always stops transformation. The law stops transformation because we are dragging an old covenant into our relationship with Christ, trying to find Life through good behavior, rather than in Christ alone. Those who try to change their own behavior through will-power are choosing the law instead of transformation. As a believer we are to take our eyes off the law, and put it on Christ alone and receive from Him His nature. In this way “every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit!” Romans 8:4 TPT. Those who live by the Spirit will live a holy lifestyle without needing to know the law, because the Holy Spirit will compel their nature in the ways of holiness. If there is something that needs to change, if there is darkness in our lives, then we need to bring it to God so that Holy Spirit can breathe upon it and God can expose what has motivated this bad behavior. In intimacy, God will replace that motive with His acceptance. This motive is almost always an unrighteous judgment. God embraces us, breathes love into our hearts, and as we let go of this unrighteous motive, it is replaced with God’s motives and God’s nature.
If we are in judgement against members of the body of Christ, then that judgment will rest on us. When we judge to reject, we are using legalism to judge and legalism always condemns. That same judgment will place us under the condemnation of the law because we are of the same body. Even judging the immoral behavior of non-believers will place us under the condemnation found in the law. We do not need to condemn or reject anyone. They are already under the condemnation of the law, if they reject Christ. You might fear for the direction of a generation or fear for your country, but such fear is not in Christ and neither is the judgment that follows fear. If we learn to allow the law to do its work without needing to always re-invoke the law, that leaves us free to be ambassadors for the answer. The answer is the embrace of Jesus. We can live free in Father’s love and we will be empowered to father those who have rejected morality but desire love. This is how we lead like Christ. How will we be able to father someone we have rejected in judgment?
Satan has been using our wrong judgments and our selfish judgements to prove that we are still under the law. He then uses the law to justify releasing bondage and sickness into our lives. Unless we repent from condemning people, satan will use our condemnation of others to prove that we deserve to bear condemnation in our flesh. If we reject a member of the body of Christ for hurting us, then we are rejecting our own flesh. A fully awakened son will separate himself from that type of judgement because he has found his justification in God’s love. We have found our identity in God’s love. We have found our value in God’s eyes. And, nothing, absolutely nothing can take this reality from us. We are therefore losing the need to self justify or self defend. We are losing the need for selfishness of all kinds. We are discovering that as we learn to abide in Jesus and the Father’s love, we have lost the need for selfishness. God’s love becomes our foundation and our entire makeup.
God has been saying to me that righteousness in Christ’s covenant simply means to be a son. So living in righteousness just means to live as a dearly loved son receiving love from our Papa. This is exactly what Jesus paid for. This is the right relationship for any who believe on Jesus. If righteousness is sonship, then unrighteousness is not living as a dearly loved son. This is not for condemnation. As we surrender to Father’s love and the leading of the Spirit, They lead us into sonship. This is why we have relationship with God, to know Him. And the result is that we will never thirst again.
When we embrace the righteousness of Christ, we are embracing our position as dearly loved sons. We are saying “yes” to the Father, the Spirit, and to Jesus. We are saying “yes” to God’s love. We are saying “yes” to His delight over us. This is the position that we must learn to stay seated in. Being seated means that we have fully accepted who we are and will not be moved. We must become seated sons, seated in Christ Jesus at the Father’s right hand. We must become seated in God’s love for us. We must learn to not waver about who God is, as our Father, lover, and friend. We must learn to not waver about who we are, because God has decreed our position in the heavenlies. If we manifest that declaration on the earth, we will be manifesting Christ.
When we become fully seated sons, God will authorize us to judge as a fully seated son. This is what it means to judge from the seat of righteousness. God back judgments made from the seat of righteousness. As we learn to live only as sons, as we learn to let go of our human identity and see ourselves from Father’s perspective, then we will be living in righteousness. As sons who know the heart of God, who move in harmony with the Spirit, and who are reflections of their Best Friend, Jesus; as sons who are immersed in God, our judgment will therefore come from God’s heart of love. We will be ambassadors of God’s heart releasing the kingdom in power wherever we go. Our judgments will no longer be for our benefit. Instead we will judge bondage so that others can go free. We will judge darkness, cancer, depression, poverty. We will judge sickness, diseases of all kinds, and we will judge death so that life will spring forth. We will even judge the futility of the earth that abundance can come forth. We will judge blessings where there was only curses. We will judge to life where death was imminent. And we will find our fulfillment in God’s heart for us.
Sons find their fulfillment in God.
John 6:35 TPT
[35] Jesus said to them, “I am the Bread of Life. Come every day to me and you will never be hungry. Believe in me and you will never be thirsty.
Let us learn to come.
We are being called to a life where we never thirst again. What have you been thirsting for? For love? For acceptance? Jesus says that we can find this in Him. He even says that it is available every day. The secret to sonship is that every emotional need will be met in Christ as we come. Do you hunger for healing? Come to the bread of life. The passage above is a direct reference to the Passover lamb. Those who consumed all of the Passover lamb were made well. This is what God instructed. And there was not a single weak or feeble person among them.
Psalm 105:37-41,43-44 NKJV
[37] He also brought them out with silver and gold, And there was none feeble among His tribes. [38] Egypt was glad when they departed, For the fear of them had fallen upon them. [39] He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night. [40] The people asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven. [41] He opened the rock, and water gushed out; It ran in the dry places like a river. [43] He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness. [44] He gave them the lands of the Gentiles, And they inherited the labor of the nations,
These are the ways of sons. They are led by the Spirit, by the cloud and the fire. Their ways are illuminated regardless of the darkness. They receive strength like the eagles. They live in fulfillment, being fed by God. They never thirst nor hunger for what their labor can offer, nor what men bribe with. They are fully satisfied daily by the Father and their life is notated with the abundance of joy. They are even given dominion over what the godless control.
Let us learn to come, come and become sons.
John 1:18 TPT
[18] No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God’s splendor except the uniquely beloved Son, who is cherished by the Father and held close to his heart. Now he has unfolded to us the full explanation of who God truly is!
Proverbs 4:20-22 TPT
[20] Listen carefully, my dear child, to everything that I teach you, and pay attention to all that I have to say. [21] Fill your thoughts with my words until they penetrate deep into your spirit. [22] Then, as you unwrap my words, they will impart true life and radiant health into the very core of your being.
Quite time from 5-8-2022:
John 8:50-51,54-55 TPT
[50] I never have a need to seek my own glory, for the Father will do that for me, and he will judge those who do not. [51] I speak to you this eternal truth: whoever cherishes my words and keeps them will never experience death.” [54] Jesus answered them, “If I were to tell you how great I am, it would mean nothing. But my Father is the One who will prove it and will glorify me. Isn’t he the One you claim is your God? [55] But in reality, you’ve never embraced him as your own. I know him, and I would be a liar, like yourselves, if I told you anything less than that. I have fully embraced him, and I treasure his every word.
“Very few will treasure My every word. But you do. You have placed My words over your own. You have elevated My word. You have chosen to find your rest in Me. I give you access to My resting place and pour out My Spirit upon those who choose to find rest in Me. The authority to judge from righteousness is found only in My resting place. Find your home here. Access My Spirit and live in His delight. Those who judge in righteousness have ceased from their own works.”