Roman 7:1 Continued

Even the Father judges no one, for He has given all judgment (the last judgment and the whole business of judging) entirely into the hands of the Son, John 5:22

Our Father has given all judgment over to Jesus. This is a glorious thing, because Jesus is our High Priest and He knows what it is like to be human, Hebrews 4:15. When Jesus was here on the earth as a man we repeatedly were shown how He judges. Jesus forgave and let an adulterous woman go free, John 8:11. He forgave the very people that were killing Him, Luke 23:34. He forgave a sick man His sins and the man was restored to health, Matthew 9:2. Jesus told us to always forgive, Matthew 18:22. The glorious Truth is that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8. There is also another powerful Truth here with these examples of Jesus’ judging style: none of the people being forgiven by Jesus were asking to be. This shows us plainly how Jesus will judge on Judgment Day because He never changes. He will judge with pure grace, all freely given and all completely underserved!

There is also another Truth that many people do not know and that is that we will sit in judgement with Jesus on Judgement Day, 1 Corinthians 6:2. 

Do you not know that the saints (the believers) will [one day] judge and govern the world? And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice?

In Revelation John saw the Thrones of the Judges, not the Throne of the Judge.  

Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years. Revelation 20:4

As we talked about in our Study of Romans 7:1, so many in religion try and fear us into acting right by threatening us about the consequences of our actions on Judgment Day. The Truth is that we are raised up, transformed to be just like Jesus, 1000 years before Judgement Day. We actually rule with Him for the 1000 years prior to Judgment Day. So for us to be judged on Judgment Day doesn’t make any since. Jesus would actually be judging Himself and His actions, because we are now members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. The Truth is that we have already passed from judgment and now live a new life in Christ Jesus. This is the Truth that allows us to live righteously and honor our Father and our Kingdom, not that we have to fear. 

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life. John 5:24