Pastor John,
Jesus touched my heart through yesterday’s, Excerpt from the Father & Son Book: “Changes made by God’s life.”
I wrote down (below) what I was hearing in the Spirit, and then I went back and re-read the excerpt from your book. I saw then that all I did, in essence, was repeat what you had already written 🙂 It sure was good! It made me feel Jesus, and it sure is worth repeating:
Men, by their very nature as human beings, cannot judge this life from the standpoint of God’s righteousness. The fact that we are human means that our very “being”, is bound to the limitations of human nature, all of the time. We cannot escape that (by our own doing), any more than we can escape the flesh that’s wrapped around our bones.
But God’s life (the holy ghost) within us raises us above the limitations of being human. It elevates us to a place where all of humanity and its spiritual conditions and conflicts and dilemmas, are beneath us. It takes us to a place where we can rightly judge humanity, because we are no longer a part of it.
The Spirit is God’s nature in us, judging through us the intent and actions of men. And that judgment is available – necessary even, for all of God’s children. That is God’s doing, not ours, and it is real.
Jerry