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The Judgement of the Cross - Because He is the Son of Man

Now is the Judgment of the World – Because He is the Son of Man
We have been looking for several weeks at the Judgment of the cross, and Jesus saying, “Now is the Judgment of the World. Now shall the prince of this world be cast out,” John 12. He makes another profound statement concerning Judgment in John 5:27 “And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.”
The Father gave all judgment to the Son, because He is the Son of Man. Why did Jesus say this? The reason for this goes back to Adam in the garden. In Genesis 1, it is recorded that God gave dominion to Adam. Adam was to rule the earth. In the Book of Psalms 8:6 and 115:16 the Bible declares that man was given dominion in the earth. As Adam fell, He brought that whole creation of man under the authority of sin and death. “Through one man’s sin entered into the world and death through sin,” Romans 5:12.
So, Jesus had to come as the Son of Man to rescue us from death’s dominion. He came as a man to die the death of the cross. By becoming a man, He brought judgment upon the order of the old man and put it to death that He could bring us into His life. When He was raised from the dead, Jesus declared that all authority was given to Him in heaven and earth. This is a powerful statement, and a reality for us to come to in Christ.
The Old Man, and His order was put to death. This is the separation that is made at the cross. The old man is put to death. Jesus never died in disobedience. He died to it and was raised out from it. When we receive Him, we are Baptized by the Spirit into His death, and brought forth in His life. Everything is by Him and through Him.
He did this as the Son of Man, judging sin in the flesh. He came as a man to die the death of the cross and was raised out from that old creation. This is our salvation! We come to comprehend what He did, and live in it. His work is our provision. His dominion now rules over us.
We no longer have to fear the wages of sin or death. Jesus is our Lord. These are not our Lord. I love what the writer says in Hebrews 2, “He destroyed Him that had the power of death, that is the devil.” This is the power of the cross. Death is defeated we are living by Him. Glory to God!

The Judgement of the World IV - The Prince of the Word Cast Out

The Judgment of the World
“Now is the judgment of the world. Now shall the prince of the world be cast out?”
Who was the prince of ruler of the world? By studying scripture, I would conclude that the ruler of the world was Adam or the natural man. In Genesis 1, the Bible says God gave dominion to man. In Psalms 8, the Bible asks what is man that God would visit him. Here in this Psalm, again the scripture speaks of man’s dominion.
Man had dominion of the world, or orderly arrangement of the earth and mankind. The order of the world was through mankind. This order became plagued with sin and death. Through his disobedience all died. All men came to abide in death and darkness under the realm and rule of Satan.
Death, darkness and decay was not of God’s nature, but came into man as Adam became disobedient to God’s word. “The day you eat you shall surely die.” This is the reality of the natural man. Job said that man born of woman are a few days and full of trouble. This again is the natural man.
However, the Apostle Paul said in I Corinthians 2, that we speak wisdom among those who are perfect. Paul was speaking of the wisdom of the cross. He goes on to say had the rulers of the world known the wisdom of the cross they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Through the cross of Jesus Christ, death, hell, Satan, and the old man lost their dominion. These have no dominion over the new creation in Christ Jesus.
Paul writes that Christ is the Head of the Body who is the church in Ephesians 1. This is a powerful statement. The head of the believer is not Satan. It is not the law or sin, and it is not death. Jesus Christ became Head. “He destroyed him that had the power of death that is the devil,” Hebrews 2.Jesus is our ruler. He is the Head of His Body, the church. This is what we must comprehend. As it is in Christ, so it is in the Body. Let this be our reality in the earth. Glory to God.

The Judgment of the World III

The Judgement of the World III
“I am crucified to the world and the world is crucified to.” This glorious judgment must ring in our hearts. I am crucified with Christ to live unto Him. This is the answer to all my problems. This is the answer to my frustrations. I am crucified with Him!
In Ephesian 2, Paul writes that we are quickened with Christ. This word means made alive. We have been made alive from the world. We are not made alive with the world but with Christ Jesus, who was raised alive out of the world. Jesus was quickened out from the dead. He was not just raised again, but He was raised out from the dead.
Paul says in Ephesians 2 that we were dead in trespasses and sins and walked according to the course of the world. The reality here is we WERE dead. We ARE made alive with Christ. Do you see the separation? In time past, we were of the world. We lived in the world. It held us. The world had its grips on us. Here is where we had our conversation.
Now through Jesus Christ, God’s great mercy appeared. We who have received Him are made alive with Him. Through God’s saving grace, Paul writes we are made alive with Him, raised with Him, and seated with Him. This reality is not set forth to be just some positional truth that we are waiting to be real some futuristick day. This has happened to us because how it happened to us is NOW in us. The how is a person, Christ Jesus the Lord.
We have received Christ Jesus the Lord to walk in Him, to be rooted and built in Him (Colossians 2). This separation or division of the cross is real, and it is made real through the person who performed the work being revealed in our hearts. Jesus did the work. He completed the work God gave Him to do. His work separated us from the world. We are in the world, but we are not of it. The world dos does not possess our souls, Christ does!
We are the church which is His body the fullness of Him who is far above all principality and power (Ephesians 1). I love this statement. He is above all powers, all authorities, all rulers, all laws, anything we can think or imagine, Christ Jesus is above. Or we can simply say He is Lord. Jesus is Lord, our Ruler, our King.
We are seated with Him in heavenly places in Christ. To get ahold of this is to understand He is above. He is seated above rulers and powers at the right hand (power and authority) of God. We that are His body are seated with Him in His glorious work to manifest Him and His completed work to the earth. This is the purpose of the church to manifest Him, whose body we are.
Let this become our hearts, let this become our identity, “the church which is His Body.” We are the Body of the Lord to express the Lord wherever we go in the earth. We are to be His expression. We are to bring His aroma into all situations. WE ARE HIS!
 

The Judgement of the Cross - The Judgement of the World II

 
The Judgment of the World II
The primary scriptures we are dealing with is “John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” In this, we are looking at the judgement of the world as it relates to the Lord Jesus Christ. His judgement at the cross, must become a judgment that is real in our hearts as believers in Jesus Christ.
In Ephesians 1, Paul writes that Christ has been raised above all principality and power and might and dominion. Christ is the head of the church, who is His body the fullness of Him that fills. This statement must affect our deepest thought. Christ is the Head. He is above all principality, and the church is His Body. He fills the church with himself.
Now with this said, many in the church do not comprehend that Christ is Head. They do not see this judgment. He has all things under His feet, which includes the devil, sin and death. The devil does not have authority over the church, or the believer. As a young man, this was a predominant thought that the devil is continuously affecting us. The reason for this is the lack of the comprehension of Christ. If His work is not comprehended by me and real in me, I could be subject to many things, without the ability to rid myself of them.
The truth is, we are His Body, the fullness of Him. As His Body we are subject to Him, and not to the world. As we comprehend this, as HE becomes real in us, we can move forth and put things under our feet. Even this statement, our feet is loaded with understanding. We are His Body. As His Body we are subject to His feet. John saw His feet as burning brass in the Book of Revelation, speaking of the judgment of the cross.
Through the judgment of the cross we are to walk in the earth as the Body of Jesus Christ, subject unto Him and not ourselves. “As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk ye in Him.” This is the truth. This is His judgment. We are dead to the world. The prince of this world was cast out. We are seated with Christ in heavenly places. His dominion is in us, as we are His Body to be exercised in the earth.
This does not simply mean we walk around and continuously cast out devils and heal the sick. I absolutely believe we do those things, so don’t misunderstand me. We comprehend Him and live in that comprehension towards one another. If we comprehended Him, this would get rid of envy and strife in the Body of Christ. We would automatically be subject to one another. We would automatically respect, love, and be kind to each other, because we would see ourselves as His. We would understand that each of us are part of Him, and that we are not our own.
Comprehending Christ would bring oneness throughout the Body. We would minister Him to one another. This is the strength of the judgement of the cross. We are dead to the world to live unto Christ! Hallelujah!
 

The Judgement of the Cross - The Judgement of the World

The Judgement of the Cross – The Judgement of the World
In John Chapter 12, Jesus makes a statement that should challenge the hearts of all believers. “John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”NOW was now over two thousand years ago. In Christ it is still now to us who come to see Him and understand His judgement.
What does He mean Now is the Judgement of the World? If He be lifted up, He will draw all mankind to himself? This is the Judgement of the Cross. The Apostle Paul writes in Galatians 6, “I am crucified to the world and the world is crucified to me.” Catch what He says, I am crucified. He doesn’t say I was crucified as He did in Romans 6, when He declared we died with Christ at the cross. The judgement that had come in Paul’s heart was I am crucified to the world and the world is crucified to me.
What does that mean? It means I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me. However, is that our concept of life that the world has no hold on us? Now as I say this, I have to define the world. What is the world? It is not simply planet earth. This word used for world is kosmos, (2889 in the Strong’s), which means the orderly arrangement. The orderly arrangement of the world was sin and death, the law, the pride of life, the functions of the flesh, etc. The arrangement had to do with everything in the old man.
Paul is saying that He is crucified to the world, to its arrangement and order. Then He said it is crucified to Him. Now Paul was not crucified. Even those who were crucified literally, could not say what Paul did. Only one could make this statement true and real. The one who is the Lord Jesus Christ. In Paul’s knowing of Christ, he had come to the seeing and comprehending of being dead to the world and the world being dead to him through the work of Jesus Christ, and through the reality of Christ that was in him.
The only way this becomes real to us is through the knowing of Jesus Christ and His judgement upon the world at the cross. In His powerful work of the cross Jesus took me and you with Him and He died, pronouncing judgement on the world! In this judgement we are to come in our hearts to living unto Christ and not to the world.
Unfortunately, many of us have no concept of this. We have been taught that we live the best lives we can, and someday Jesus will take us away from the world. At the cross He did just that. He took us in His death, and brought us forth in His resurrection to be a people who manifest Him and not the world. If we do not understand this, and see this by the Spirit of God, we will not manifest Him. He must be revealed in our hearts. We must come forth unto Him. Glory to God!
 

The Judgement of the Cross - He Shall Bring Forth Judgement Unto Victory

The Judgement of the Cross – He Shall Bring Forth Judgement Unto Victory
 
In Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 12:20 the scripture reads, “A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. With the idea of judgement in much of the Christian Church, what does this mean?  How would Jesus send forth judgement to victory?
 
To understand this, we would need to comprehend the judgement of the cross, and we would have to understand the cross in the reality of the Person of Jesus Christ.  At the cross much more happened than just Jesus dying for our sins.  While this is a tremendous truth, that He died for our sins and they were laid upon Him, the fullness of this is not understood by most believers.  At the cross Jesus died to sin.  He judged sin in the flesh through His death (Romans 8:3).  He brought us into His death to sin, freeing us from its penalty and bondage. 
 
John writes in I John 3:5 “And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.”  This is a powerful statement.  Jesus was manifested to take away our sins.  It is fitting that John also wrote in His Gospel, “Behold the lamb of God that taketh away our Sin.”  In the seeing of this statement, Jesus not only died and forgave my sin, He took it away.  I am no longer bound to sin through His glorious work. 
 
Therefore, we must understand the judgement in the death of Christ and our union in His death.  He that is dead to sin is freed from sin.  The word judgement used often throughout the scripture is the Greek word Kreesis 2920 in the Strong’s dictionary.  It has in its definition the meaning of a decision for or against, and to separate.  The death of Christ is a separation from sin and its root.  Through the work of Christ we are separated out of sin.
 
One of the words for sin (Strong’s 264), means to miss the mark.  It is this word used in 1 John 3:6.  John states that whoever abides in Christ does not sin.  I could consider this as to mean, that we who abide in Christ do not miss the mark.  In Romans 3, the scripture tells us that all sinned and fell short to the glory of God.  We should consider the Glory of God as the mark or the goal for man. 
 
He that abides in Christ shall not miss the mark of God’s Glory.  In John Chapter 17, Jesus makes it clear that those who are His are to behold His Glory.  Read this Chapter closely.  Jesus prays to be glorified with the Glory He had before the world.  He then declares that He will be glorified in the believer, and at the conclusion of the Chapter, Jesus states that the believer will be one with Him as He is one with the Father, that they may behold His Glory.  This is through Christ being in you. 
 
Much of our teaching has robbed us from the reality of God’s Glory in a people.  The “some-day” mentality that we have been programed to believe has kept us from the reality that He is in us right now.  All Christians who are truly born again say Jesus is in my heart, but many do not understand the power of that statement.  When Paul writes “when Christ who is our life appears in Glory, then we shall appear with Him in Glory (Colossians 3),” many do not consider this as an inward appearing.  This is what Jesus says in John 17.  He declares that “they may be one as we are one, I IN them, thou IN ME, that they may be made perfect in one.”
Through the judgement of the cross we are dead to sin with Christ, and we are made alive with Him.  Here in His life we are waiting, watching, expecting His glory to appear.  This appearing is not on the outside, but it is inward, and in it we are transformed to the same image as Christ to be His expression.  Now this is a glorious judgement that brings us to victory.  Glory to God!
 

The Judgement of the Cross - The Great High Priest - He Tasted Death for Every Man

 The Great High Priest - He Tasted Death For Every Man
One in the midst of the seven candlesticks clothed with a garment down to the feet and girt about the Paps with a golden girdle.  Our Great High Priest.  Seeing Jesus and His Priesthood is one of the most glorious realities I have ever began to see.   In our relationship with God, He is our Priest. 
 
In the simplicity of that understanding we do not come to the Priesthood of Aaron or to the Priesthood of man, period.  We come to the Priesthood of Christ, and the summation of His Priesthood (Hebrews 8:1).  This is what we must set our hearts on the sum of His Priesthood.  What does it account for?  What does it do?
 
By one offering He has completed forever, them who are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14).  The offering is in Him.  The completion is in Him.  The sanctification is in Him.  All these things pertain to Him and His Priesthood. 
 
Under the law, none could come to completion.  Year after year the comers to the atonement would have to wait for their sins to be covered by the Blood of an animal.  They never could come to a clear conscience before God.  They could never fully enjoy His presence.  Those animals pointed to one who was going to bear our Sin and put it to death.  Jesus did just that.  He became sin, and died, making His grave with the wicked. 
 
Jesus not only died on Calvary, He entered death.  In Psalms 16:9 and Acts 2:27, it speaks of Christ and says He cried out thou shalt not leave my soul in hell.  The word for hell in your Bible is a Greek word Hades, and means the unseen.  In the Old Testament it is Sheol and means the place of the dead.  Jesus entered into the unseen place of the dead and brought forth victory.  His soul was not left in hell but came forth in the light of life. 
 
In Revelation Chapter 1, it is recorded that Christ says to John, I am He that lives and was dead.  He tasted DEATH for everyman.  Then He continues I am alive forevermore.  The entirety of our salvation rests with those words.  The entirety of scripture points to those words.   The cross of Christ.  His death to Sin, His burial putting Sin away, and His resurrection in Newness of Life.  To us this is the cross.  Jesus died and rose again. 
 
In that statement I find life.  He died for me and as me and brought me to death.  He rose in the power of the Spirit and brought from the tomb a New Man.  This man is of Spirit and Life.  This is our completion, and the completion of all those who believe.  We must give our hearts to the knowing of this man.  Glory to God!
 
 

A Lamb for a House - The Light of the New Day

A Lamb for a House III – Light of the New Day
 
When Israel departed Egypt heading to the promise land, they went out the blood-stained door in the light of a new day.  For 430 years they had been kept in Egyptian bondage.  This day was a new day for them.  In regarding this day, natural daylight had not changed.  Natural light had not changed but everything around the day had changed.  The perception of their reality was new.  No longer were they under the rule of Pharoah, but they had come out of Egypt to be under the rule of God, through the leadership of Moses, to be a people unto God in the earth.
 
This is the reality in which believers must come to in Christ.  When we enter the Door, who is Christ and partake of the true Passover lamb our day immediately changes.  Like the Israelites the natural day did not change but the Day we walk in changes.  No longer are we under the rule of Sin and shame, but we have come out to the Light of Christ.  We are to walk in the understanding as it is in Christ Jesus.  No longer in the understanding as it is in the Old Man. 
 
When the woman caught in adultery was brought before Jesus her accusers set her forth in accusation of the Old Covenant law.  Jesus stated that he that is without sin should cast the first stone when He was questioned what should be done with the woman.  The only one in the midst without sin was Jesus Himself.  All had become guilty before God in His presence.  Jesus stooped, wrote on the ground twice, and told the woman to go in sin no more. 
 
The hand of God touched the earth, which we see in Jesus Christ being made a man.  The empowerment to overcome sin is Christ Himself, and not our own abilities.  God writes His Living Word, who is Christ, in our hearts.  Paul declares the church to be the epistle of Christ written of God to be read of men.  The Light of the New Day is how we understand the Word of God that has been written in our hearts.  We do not understand this Word by the natural understanding, but by the Spirit of God.
 
At the completion of the encounter of Jesus with the woman caught in adultery, Jesus makes the statement, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12).  This is light, whereby we can see and not walk in darkness.  Through His light we see the power to overcome sin and death.  Through His work on the cross they have already been overcome.  This blood-stained Door we entered, brought us out in the power of His victory, and the Newness of His Life.
 
The prophet Isaiah prophesied of a Day where the sun would not be the light.  Christ, Himself, is that day you will find being declared in the prophets.  He is the Day star rising in our hearts to give the Light, understanding, of the New Day.  He is the Day that when we see it approaching, we gather together in the knowledge of Him.  We understand we are His, bought with a price, to be filled with the nature of God.  Like Israel of old we come out from under the rule of bondage to be under the rule of God.  We see the glorious freedom we have from sin, shame, and death, and the New Life to be grasped in Christ. 
 
So many hearts are looking for a physical day to appear where there is righteousness, peace, and joy.  This Day is seen NOW as we see by the light of the knowledge of Christ, who is the glory of God.  This light is in us, even as many believer sings, “This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine”  I believe we should change the words to the song, “This great light of mine, I’m going to let Him shine.  Shine in the brightness of the glorious New Day. I’m going to let Him Shine.   Let Him Shine, Let Him Shine, Let Him Shine!”  Glory to God!