In light of last weeks message on the forgivness of sin it’s the perfect time to connect the dots and paint a picture of judgment and what it’s all about.

I love it when a plan comes together.  You know how it feels when your putting a puzzle together and the pieces start coming together and you can see the picture clearly.  I love it when the pieces of the gospel come together and you can see it clearly for what it is.

The forgiveness of sin is a great segway to judgment.  They go hand in hand when it comes to God serving people with eternal life.  The forgiveness of sin is about God drawing people to Himself so they can partake of their inheritance.  And God’s judgment is unto the manifestation of eternal life.  

Joh 9:39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Joh 9:40  And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. 

This judgment will cause you to see something you don’t see.  This judgment is for the purpose of giving you sight.  

Give very small summary 

Just to give some context to what’s going on here.  Jesus and the disciples had just come upon a blind man.  Jesus heals the man’s blindness, and says the reason he restored the man’s sight is so Gods desire to love people unto life can be manifest.  

The disciples wanted to know whose sin is responsible for the blindness.  Jesus says that’s not relevant here.  He says the reason we’ve come upon this blind man is so that in his sight being restored, you might see into the heart of God, and in seeing the beauty of His thoughts towards you and your life, your blindness can be healed, and you can see that God is with you to comfort you from your affliction, and to be a Father to your life.

Now this all comes on the heels of the previous chapter, and Jesus standing in the midst of the temple on the last day of the great feast and declaring himself to be the light of the world.  So in the previous chapter John records Jesus saying he is the light of the world, and now John records Jesus saying its for judgement he is come into the world.  

If we put those 2 things together Jesus says the light has come into the world for judgment.  Or for judgment the light is come into the world.  We can even say the light is the manifestation of judgment.

What is the judgment Jesus talking about?  

If we are going to understand the judgment properly we need to go back to chapter 1 of John’s gospel.  John introduces us to the judgment he is talking about in the first chapter of his gospel.  

John begins his gospel by saying in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God.  What Johns getting at is everything there is to know about God is contained in this word.  He’s saying within this word is contained the knowledge of God.  Within this word is contained the knowledge of who God is and what He’s all about.  Within this word is contained the knowledge of how God gets down and the way in which He manifests Himself.  

And the word that contained everything there is to know about God was made flesh, and dwelt among us so we could behold the glory of the Father in him.  

Jesus says in John 5 the Father has given all judgment unto the Son.     

The thing Jesus is getting at there is the Father is wanting to be known.  He is wanting to be known according to the goodness that is in His heart towards the world, but the world is not knowing Him.  God is all the time wanting to be a Father to us, but we are not knowing Him as Father.  Now because the world is not seeing that God is with them to be a Father to their lives, He has given it into the hands of Jesus to make Him known to the world.  

John 1:18 says no one has seen God but the Son.  He is come from His heart.  He has seen into the depths of Gods heart and seen that God is Father.  

John says no one has seen what it means for God to be a Father to them and their life but the Son.  Jesus is come to declare God.  He is come to interpret God for the world.  He is come to declare what He has seen about God and Gods desire to be a Father to the world.  He has come to make God known to the world.  

Jesus said if you’ve seen me you’ve seen the Father.  He said he doesnt do anything he doesnt see the Father doing.  In other words you can know God and His heart towards you by looking at Jesus.

If we put all these things from johns gospel together ...

Jesus says for judgment I am come into the earth.  I have seen the Father, and I am come to declare Him to you.  I am come into the earth to interpret God for you so you can also know Him.  I have been in His heart.  I am come to bring Him out of the shadows of the carnal mind.  I am come to declare a decree concerning God, that He is your Father, and the thing that is in His heart towards you is to Father His indestructible life in you free from your works.  I am hear to tell you God is longing for you to know Him as the one who will Father your life so you dont perish but partake of everlasting life.  That’s the judgment.  

Explain judgment

Judgment is unto life not condemnation.  The judgment Jesus brought into the earth is not in the sense of condemnation or condemning someone, its in the sense of issuing a decree about a matter.  In this instance the matter is God.  Jesus entered the world to issue a decree about God.  

John said previously in chapter 3 of his gospel that God didn’t send Jesus into the world to condemn the world but to save the world.  The way Jesus would save is by issuing a decree that can cause people to know God is with them to be a Father to their life.  Jesus said in John 17 eternal life is found in knowing God as Father.  

You know there was this food beckie and I got that wasn’t exactly fresh ... well don’t you know, I was blind to the fact that the food was sour so I kept eating it, and my stomach began to hurt.  

The way judgment would look is Beckie comes and says to me the food is sour.  Here i am standing in the condemnation of stomach pain from the sour food.  It isn’t Beckies judgment that condemned me to the stomach pain.  I was already standing in condemnation.  My stomach was already hurting before Beckie said anything to me about the food.  For judgment Beckie came to me, not to condemn me.  She came to tell me about the food so my blindness could be healed and I could be saved from the condemnation I was already standing in.  

Its the same way with Jesus ...

Jesus is the light that entered the world, and the reason the light came into the world is for judgment.  And this judgment is for the purpose of healing mankinds blindness.

Jesus entered a world that is not knowing God as their Father.  He entered a world where mankind is not living as little children because their mind is filled with caring for their own lives.  Jesus came into a world where mankind is carrying the burden of caring for their own lives because they cannot see God is with them to Father His love and His peace and His joy in them. 

Its for judgment Jesus came into the world.  The life that manifested in the flesh of Jesus when God raised him from the dead is the judgment.  And the judgment sounds like, God desires to be with you, to be a Father to you.  The judgment is God is with you to Father your life.  The life that manifested in Jesus is the revelation of God as Father.  The judgment is God is with you to care for you and nurture you with His life free from your works.  

When God raised Jesus from the dead it was the declaration that God is with us to be a Father to our lives.  

A Father is someone who nurtures their child with their life.  They have a life in themselves and that life is the provision that cares for the child and protects the child from harm, so the child is able to flourish.  

Our lives require a certain kind of care.  We require a certain type of nourishment for our lives to prosper.  We are in need of being clothed upon with life.  We are in need of someone to serve us with peace and love and joy.  We need our lives to be preserved from the death thats in the world.  We need to be comforted from our affliction.  We need someone to defend our name from the accusation of the evil one.  We need someone to justify us.  We need the death that sin manifested in our flesh to be healed.  

God raised Jesus from the dead by manifesting the glory of his life and immortality in Jesus’ physical body.  When God raised Jesus from the dead what happened there is it issued a decree to the world that God is as He ought to be as Father.  It told us God is with us to Father our lives.  He is with us to give us the kind of care we need.  

Jesus is the son of man the same as us.  We can see ourselves in his face.  We see Jesus on the cross and we see he is in need of the same kind of care we are needing for our lives.  In the resurrection we see God caring for Jesus.  We see God raising Jesus up out of the grave in glorified human flesh never to be able to taste death again.  We see God was with Jesus to prove His Sonship in the midst of the world coming against him.  We see God rebuke satans accusation against Jesus by glorifying Jesus with His immortality... and that shines a light into the earth, revealing God as Father to all people.  It issues a decree about God.  It issues a judgment about God, that He is with us to be a Father to our lives.  It tells the world God is with us to be the Father we have always dreamt of.  It issues a judgment to us that God is not a deadbeat Dad.  He is with us to Father His peace in us.  

Explain judgment is to heal the world of its blindness.

For judgment I am come into the earth, and the point of the judgment is that they which did not see might see.  The point of the judgment is to restore mankinds sight.    When Jesus healed the blind man it brought judgment into the world.  Jesus healing the blind man is the manifestation of judgment.  

If we look at the blind man Jesus healed.  The blind man is not just about that guy.  Its about all of us.  Its about the world.  The world was blind.  We were blind.  We couldnt see God with us to be a Father to our lives and care for our needs.  

Jesus says for judgment I am come into the earth, that mankind might see God is with them to Father their life and Father His peace and love and joy in them, free from their works, and their sight can be healed. 

Prayer