“I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.” John 12:47.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Today we will complete the conversation that Jesus had with His disciples and the crowd just after His triumphal entrance into the city on Palm Sunday before His final Passover seder on earth as one of you and then His judgment of condemnation and His death sentence as He dragged His cross as a criminal out of the city to Calvary.
But His death on Calvary did not end His mission, though it finished the work He had to do as one like you on earth to open the Kingdom to men. It was only the beginning of the best part of all, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit of promise and the raising up of His glorious Church, His body and bride, of which you who believe in Him and receive Him are all members. You are all living stones building your lives on the rock of the chief cornerstone, joining as a temple of the Holy Spirit as My royal priesthood offering spiritual sacrifice unto Me as you join in the intercessory prayer of Jesus, your great High Priest and Head of the Body.
And what should be your response to this wonderful work that I have begun in you that I will bring through to completion, to bring you holy, blameless and full of joy before Me on that final Day? Celebrate with Me in so great a salvation.
How do you celebrate? Well, did you ever notice how you must come to receive in prayer? To even enter My Kingdom to pray in the Holy of Holies with Jesus?
Come before Him with joyful singing. Know that the LORD Himself is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. Psalm 100:3-4.
With joy, thanksgiving and praise. Celebrate My promises with Me and the joy will come. You may feel dry and like a withered branch but once you celebrate with Me, the fountain of life will bubble up in you and give you joy unspeakable filled with glory. The joy comes in the celebrating your miracle before you see it.
You prepare your heart to receive by joy – come before Me with a JOYFUL SHOUT ready to receive. Put joy into your prayer and out comes the answer. The more joy you have over My promises (Word), the more miracles you will see. Why? Faith rejoices because it knows something that worldly people do not know. Faith comes by hearing and hearing My Word, to celebrate My promises you must know them.
The worst thing you can do in a bad situation or circumstance is complain, whine, and grumble, then the miracle cannot be received. You will spend the night there and how deep will the darkness be (lun in Hebrew means “grumble, complain,” and it also means “spend the night there”). The Hebrews had a bad night crying when they believed the evil report of the 10 spies that they could not take the Promised Land but I had promised it to them for right at that time. I had promised Abraham that his descendants would be oppressed in a another nation for 400 years and then I would bring them out, laden with silver and gold, and give them the land of Caanan.
I promised it to Abraham’s descendants, thus the “Promised Land.” It is not Me withholding it, it is that without faith you cannot connect with My power. The power is there for you, Ephesians 1:18, but, just like electricity, if you do not plug in to the source your appliance will not work because it has no power.
When you complain, grumble, are anxious, in fear and depressed you unplug from Me and plug into the devil. And he has no joy, answers, or resources to give you, only darkness.
My apostle Paul did not pray for you to have more power, he prayed you would know you have it already and use it. He prayed for you “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in Heaven.” Ephesians 1:17-20.
It is time for you to wake up to righteousness and stand up like an overcomer and celebrate.
And Jesus will celebrate with you because all My promises, as many and magnificent as they are, are “YES” to you in Jesus. Say “amen” to that.
At the point we are resuming the conversation with the disciples and the crowd that we have been considering, Jesus was ready to state the conclusion, in fact, it is so important that He cried out so all would hear in the crowd. And so He began:
And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.” John 12:44-45.
This statement had a tremendous impact on the crowd. He was telling them of His absolute oneness with Me. You cannot have Me without Him and you cannot have Him without Me. You believe in Him, you honor and believe in Me for I was in Christ reconciling all people to Myself, not counting your sins against you but reckoning them all to Him as your substitutionary sacrificial offering for your sins. I draw those who have hearts friendly to Me to Christ to be cleansed of sin and made holy, blameless and beyond reproach before Me, and then He draws them back into Me.
Jesus was telling the crowd what He again told His disciples at the Last Supper, “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.” John 14:7. Philip then asked Jesus to show him Me, the Father.
Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.” John 14:9-11.
Please understand this, Jesus and I along with the Holy Spirit are One. Jesus though has taken on your humanity and incorporated it into the divinity and incorporated the divinity into your humanity so all the fullness dwells in Him bodily. Thus you relate to Me through and with Him and I relate to you in the same way. It is direct communication because Jesus, the Spirit, and I are One, but it is in Jesus that you partake of the divine nature and are brought back into Me and you access us by the Holy Spirit within your spirit. You do not need to worry about this any more than you do your breathing process. It is very intricate but it all takes place within you without your even thinking about it.
The same is true about My communication with you. Jesus told you to address all your prayers to Me as “Father,” that is, “Abba,” and if you not that is what My servant Paul did even though Jesus would teach him and appear to him. The Holy Spirit also witnesses with your spirit that you are My child a joint heir with Christ so that you cry out, “Abba, Father.”
As you know this made the Pharisees angry when Jesus equated Himself with Me, but as I revealed to Peter, Jesus is the Messiah and My Son. But the Pharisees shut their ears and eyes to the prophecies and rejected Jesus as Messiah and Lord. Much to their loss. To reject Jesus is to reject Me.
So Jesus continued the conversation with the crowd, “I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.” John 12:46.
Jesus is the Light of the world and He is the way, the truth and the life. He is the only way to Me, the only way out of sin to newness of life. The world, as blinded to My glory by the devil, is in deep darkness even now. But when My Word penetrates the darkness, the darkness has to flee, for light always gets rid of darkness.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5.
My Word is a light to your path and a lamp to your feet showing you where to walk in life. The opening of My Word gives light, giving understanding to the simple. The more of My Word you put in your heart the more light fills your soul. And you too become a light in the world.
Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding forth and holding fast to the Word of life. Philippians 2:14-16.
If you answer the call from Jesus to come to Him and open the door of your heart to Him when He knocks, He will give you the light of My Word and My Word is truth. And truth is forever and is imperishable so that you will have eternal life. He gives you the Light of life. Let Jesus be your teacher as He shepherds you to the eternal Kingdom and the living water of the Holy Spirit.
When you know Jesus, you know everything. You will no longer be tossed about by every new wind of doctrine that comes along and reaches popularity with the worldly minded. Root and ground yourself in Christ and you will be unshakeable. Build your life on the foundation rock of My Word. And that rock is Christ.
And Jesus continued the conversation now to an even higher level:
If anyone hears My Words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words, has one who judges him; the Word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” John 12:47-50.
Jesus did not come to judge you. I had already judged you in Adam in the Garden of Eden when he dealt treacherously with Me and sinned. I sent Jesus to save you from the judgment and sentence to eternal death that had descended upon all Adam’s descendants according to the flesh, which you all are. When Adam rejected My Word and jurisdiction for the lies of the devil and went under his jurisdiction, I judged and sentenced him in accordance therewith. I am just and sin is lawlessness and must be punished. Adam murdered the eternal life in his flesh by sin in the flesh and was born again by the perishable seed of a lie.
But from the day Adam sinned I provided you with a way out of that judgment and sentence in Jesus, the lamb slain since the foundation of the world, the imperishable seed of My Word by which you can be born again from above. As Jesus told Peter the rock of revelation that Jesus is the Messiah and My Son is the rock on which all that will be forever is built. The Church is built on that foundation and so is everything in the world will not be shaken when I shake out all that is evil from the earth. And you too must establish yourself on that foundation by establishing your life on the Word.
Jesus came born from on High by My implanted Word and the Holy Spirit hovered and birthed that Word into the world in the flesh. And thus He had an eternal life in the flesh to give for the eternal life you had murdered and lost.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1-4.
And Jesus told the crowd that if they rejected My Word as spoken to them through Him, they were rejecting Me and they are still under judgment. And they will not need a second judgment for the Word will judge them. And My Word was the sentence of condemnation, for the wages of sin is death, and you can only get out from under that judgment in Jesus. If you reject Him, you are already judged from the foundation of the world.
Jesus told you to repent and believe in the good news for the Kingdom is at hand. And he told you that no one is more guilty in that sense than another, unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
“Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse debtors than all the men who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:4-5.
You all owed Me a tremendous debt, an eternal life for an eternal life you lost, that you could not pay. So I paid it for you in the death of My Son.
But even as there are different degrees of reward in Heaven by the works you have done in the body whether good or bad, so to in Hell there are different levels of punishment according to the deeds of the body.
Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day. Nevertheless I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.” Matthew 11:20-24.
And the final words of this conversation with the crowd were another verification of the eternal life that is there for you in My Word.
“For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” John 12:47-50.
My Words are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:22. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction. Psalm 107:20. I give you a lifeline, and it is My Word, for My Words are not idle words they are your very life.
I love you. Learn to listen to Me and speak as I tell you and your words too will give eternal life. And as I sent Jesus, so He sends you to seek out and save the lost and to go about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. As soon as you see a work of Satan, undo it. 1 John 3:8. I have freely given you eternal life, go and give the same. You are the light the world is waiting for.