Dear Precious Child,
There was a heavenly action of Jesus before His death that was very necessary because of the impending work that laid ahead of Him. The heavenly action was to forgive the sins of the people who had crucified Him. As an act of His will, Jesus needed to forgive the people of such a dastardly act before He would be able to go to hell for the sins of the whole world and be raised from the dead for the sins of the whole world. (I John 2:1-2)
Think about it, if He had held onto the sins of His prosecutors in His human mind there would have been a veil of judgment there and He would not have been able to yield to the power of My Holy Spirit sufficiently to be raised from the dead.
Since forgiving a person releases that person from your judgment, if you refuse to forgive a person then records of their infractions are still present in your mind and you are subjecting that person to punishment from hell because you are prosecuting the person in your mind. All of your persistent thoughts are to wish evil actions upon the person who opposed, injured, embarrassed, robbed, killed or destroyed something or someone whom you love. Jesus knew the importance of forgiving His prosecutors and asking Me to forgive them while He was present in the earth in His human body.
When Jesus asked Me to forgive his prosecutors and accusers, His human mind was cleared of any judgmental "logs," meaning secret sins which might interfere with His assigned duty, which was to go to hell for the sins of all humanity and then to be raised from the dead by the power of My Holy Spirit. He needed the entire, full power of My Holy Spirit to be raised from the dead but with judgmental thoughts in His human mind His spiritual mission would have been negatively affected. That action of Jesus in forgiving the sins of the people who killed Him gives even more importance to His words after He was raised from the dead when He appeared to His followers, breathed My Holy Spirit into them and told them that whose sins they forgive are forgiven and whose sins they retain in their minds are retained, meaning there would still be a record of them in the earth in their minds, the only records in existence because I have forgiven them, wiped them away. (John 20:22-23)
When you refuse to forgive someone, there is a mental video playing over and over in your mind by the devil, a video of the person's evil actions against you. It gains power over your mind every time it is relived. The result of the negative video playing in your mind is that anger increases and a desire for retribution increases. You forget the admonition of Jesus to first get the "log" of judgment out of your own eye before you attempt to get the "speck" out of the eye of anyone. (Matthew 7:5)
Jesus knew the importance of forgiving the sins of his prosecutors and accusers so that the power of My Holy Spirit would not be diminished in Him. The full power of My Holy Spirit was present to do His work in the important situation because of the words of Jesus as He asked Me to forgive His prosecutors and accusers. His human mind was cleansed of any thoughts of retribution, blame or judgment. (Luke 23:34)
In an earlier teaching Jesus had told My children that if you are at the altar giving alms and you remember that someone has something against you, that you are to leave the altar, make peace with the person, and then return to the altar to give your alms. He was saying that allowing My Spirit to cleanse your mind of all unrighteousness will enable your prayers to be answered more quickly because there are no barriers between us from your mind, for instance no record of your retaining the sins of anyone. (Matthew 5:21-26)
If you persist with thoughts of bitterness and anger, holding the sins of anyone in your mind, then My Spirit is grieved because He cannot continue His mission of delivering My kingdom benefits into your life, (Ephesians 4:29-32)
Do what your Brother Jesus did. Forgive everyone and you will be free of the mental torture placed there by the devil. I want you free, free indeed by your taking My advice in all situations.
Your Forgiving, Loving Father
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