BLESSED BY THE CONSCIENCES OF YOUR ENEMIES

My Dear Precious Child, When Jesus Christ ministered to people in the earth He often said that their sins were forgiven and they were healed and He often said to be healed and they were healed. His disciples were confused. They were learning from observation of Him how to effectively minister to people. One of the disciples asked Jesus which was right, to say to be healed or to say that the person's sins were forgiven? Jesus told them that both are right because they are the same. (Matthew 9:5-6) When the Pharisaical Jews brought a woman to Jesus whom they had caught in adultery, they decided to put Jesus to the test and try to trap Him because Jewish law declared that the woman must be put to death by stoning. (Leviticus 20:10) The Pharisees wanted to make sure that Jesus Christ, who it was claimed that He was My son, would obey the Law of Moses and declare that the woman be stoned in the marketplace. Those Pharisees were surprised at the result of their accusations. (John 8:1-6) The disciple John wrote in his gospel of the Good News that instead of accusing the woman who was an adulterer, Jesus Christ bent down and wrote something in the dirt on the ground where her accusers could see what He wrote. After Jesus saw that the Pharisee accusers of the women read what He had written in the dirt, Jesus said to the accusing men that the man among them who had no sin should be the first one to cast a stone at her. When the Pharisees continued to question Jesus, he bent down and again wrote something in the dirt. Then the audience began drifting away from the spectacle which required that the woman be stoned to death. The accusing men began to walk away from the gathering one by one, the oldest one first, having been convicted by their own CONSCIENCE. (John 8: 7-9) Jesus said to the woman, "Where did your accusers go? There's no one to condemn you." The woman who had been caught in the sin of adultery, according to Jewish law, told Jesus that there was no one to condemn her left. Jesus assured the woman that He didn't condemn her either. He told her that she was free to go, telling her to go and refuse to commit that sin again. (John 8:10-11) It was in this setting that Jesus Christ professed that He is the Light of the world and that no follower of His needs to ever walk in darkness. He professed His attitude toward religious law breakers. He told the remaining crowd that they, themselves, pass judgment on people according to outward appearances, but He said that He passes judgment on no person. (John 8:15) His words were ground-breaking utterances coming from a man who it was claimed was the Son of God. The people had been taught that the breaking of any of the Mosaic Laws required stoning. When Jesus wrote His insight into the dirt of the ground, the accusers of the adulterous woman were convicted of their own sins by their own CONSCIENCES. In that activity involving Jesus and the adulterous woman, it was obvious that Jesus Christ was establishing a new law, that being His words of forgiveness. In Jeremiah's prophesy of the coming into the earth of My new covenant with humans it was proclaimed that not only with My new covenant came the miracle of My coming to live inside of people, writing My words on their hearts and minds, but also that I would be their God and they would be My people, that they would no longer need to teach people to know Me because they would have a Tutor inside of them to cause them to know Me, from the least to the greatest. Also, an additional perk was that I would remember their sins no more, which was a monumental change in the knowledge of My relationship with people. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) The old covenant instituted punishment for sins; the new covenant instituted My forgiveness for sins. What person would not choose forgiveness instead of punishment? Yet the Pharisees did because of the veil that was over their hearts and minds which is still there in your day. In My new covenant with people, which is the covenant that Jesus Christ made possible, instead of punishment for sins I give My Holy Spirit to My children. He empowers My children to refuse to follow the temptations of the devil; but, if you do succumb to the temptations, then you summon the Holy Spirit's forgiveness and His rehabilitating power to change your actions and reactions into obedience to His guidance. It is a monumental change in abilities and desires. He also gives to My children the authority to forgive the sins of other people. He said that whose sins you forgive are forgiven and whose sins you retain are retained. In other words, I give to My children the same power that Jesus Christ had, the power to forgive sins of other people, as demonstrated in Jesus' forgiveness of the woman who, by the Law of Moses, deserved punishment but by the covenant of the Holy Spirit, who lives inside of My children, they have My authority to forgive the sins of people just like Jesus forgave the adulterous woman. (John 20: 19-23) The law of Moses in the minds of the religious Pharisees originally condemned the woman and later it condemned the Pharisees of their own sins, causing them to refuse to execute the woman by stoning. Jesus Christ forgave her, as an example of My new covenant with people, and also He gave to her the power to refuse to sin again by adultery. My Power is in the person of the Holy Spirit. When He lives inside of you, you have all of the power that Christ Jesus exhibited. He forgives your sins and enables you to forgive the sins of other people. Your Father of Complete Forgiveness