The Mercy Of Judgment By Luz Cintrón   December, 2002 Web Site:http://www.thepearlsofwisdom.net

 
 

 
The responsibility of judgment rest upon  us believers now and in the kingdom to come. Many times I have meditated about it and as far as I have been able to go, this is what I have come to believe.

When Paul exercised judgment and delivered that believer into the hands of Satan (1Cor 5:5) for his own redemption he did it centered and focused in the heart of God. Why is it that there are so few miracles in our midst? Oh yes there is the gold dust, and the healings here and there, but all of that just amount to a trickle of the measure He wants to pour on and through us. Why is it so little?

They both have the same answer.

The Lord has spoken to us in many different ways and He has brought forth the revelation of who He is. All that was needed was done and remains done. What is limiting us both in the mercy and in the judgment is one thing. I believe, as far as I can see now, that 2 Corinthian 6:12 is the key to open that door for us all. Paul said to the Corinthians:
 

O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us but you are restricted by your own affections (2Cor 6:11-12)

Because until we can say as Paul said:

"Yes and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all." Philippians 2: 17
 

all else is void.
 

And this pouring forth involves far more than just mere service and self sacrifice in the everyday labors. But it involves a willingness to be abased into nothingness and bear all things for the love of Christ in the souls of these, His little ones who are left behind to wait for His return and even those waiting to be born into the kingdom of God...

These men who were apostles and walked around bringing the gospel were men who had completely lost it all. They had not remained. To the Corinthians he speaks with boldness what is still truth:

"For I think that God has displayed us, apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men." (1Cor 4:9)

Because as he well said: the kingdom of God is not in word but in power. And power is what we lack. Otherwise we would not be running from conference to conference exchanging titles and stirring each other. Because there is a place and need for fellowship in the body, a purpose that is fulfilled through it, but something is out of place when the means becomes all,  and we live from conference to conference, from tape to tape. I do not know how to explain this better, but to say that something is missing because there is to be something else yet, more powerful and more real than all the conferences and tapes put together. Because what we are missing,  is intended to fill each vessel to the fullness of its measure and that is His glory and from there cause an overflow to heal the land and restore it all.

The man who was enveloped in His Savior so much that hankies taken from his apron were made to heal the sick was the man who could deliver the one who needed it into the hands of Satan for his own redemption ( 1Cor 5:5), for he saw that it was the only chance left to that soul and even that he did not do in his own heart, but in the heart of God, in brokenness, I am sure, he was more willing to bear such chastisement in the place of that soul, than to declare it and bring it down on him. It was in mercy that such judgment was uttered.

The man who uttered such judgment was a man who was taken to the third heaven and saw into the mysteries of the heart of God. A man changed and transformed through death. A man anointed and baptized in fire, and fire of the many sufferings lived daily in faith and perseverance for the glory of Christ and the good of His body. Then it was more like a burden to have to utter such words. Those words even before they were released had taken their toll on the apostle’s life already, because he had lived as an offering ready to be poured upon the sacrifice. He was a man standing between heaven and earth suspended from his own affections, living not His will but the will of His Lord, to that man then it was given to reach into heaven and bring down in intercession both; mercy and judgment which are both and one, mercy.

What am I saying? I say yes, there is the responsibility, yes there is the authority, yes there is the time these things will be again. I say, look unto the river of life and when you see its streams flooding His temple then you will see both.

But Woe of those who presumptuously care to utter such words, for ignorance has never been a deterrent to the spiritual laws. There is in the mouth of His prophets a sword placed there by the Savior, and it is a double edge sword. Just like our Lord they carry it with them it is part of their anointing whether they are aware of it or not. And it is double edged; it cuts the one who hears because before it has already cut through the one who speaks.

I guess that only those who understand the depths of His love, that have allowed Him to immersed them in the cross will be in the anointing to carry such ministration. Otherwise the sword will slay both and there will be no one left to remain.

In essence what I have come to believe regarding these things (so far) is that it will come to happen more in spite of ourselves than because we help it, for who can be so sure to stand that firm before Him? But there is mercy in Him.

 
 

Your servant in His love;
Luz Cintrón
Let us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour to Him: for
the marriage of the Lamb is come
and His wife hath made herself ready
...Revelation 19:7.