It is written that redeemed of the Lord in Christ Jesus will be judges over nations.
I want to speak to those preparing to be judges.

My first reminder is that any judge in the court of heaven will judge to uphold the purpose of salvation in Christ Jesus, Yeshua Messiah.
To define what that means, I will begin by describing the antonym; the accuser, Satan, seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. This is his purpose. How that applies to his definition of the concept of justice is to accuse any human being of committing a sin, no matter how small, and using it to argue to God the person must be condemned, lest God be shown as unjust liar.

Conversely, the purpose of Christ Jesus is salvation. You can think of this as an opposite. But its’ opposite is from the salvation end of the weights of judgment. What I mean is, judges for Christ seek excuses to save; for reasons as small as the devil seeks to destroy, we seek to save.

Jesus set the standard low at the giving of a drink of water to someone who askes for water. Because he saved the planet and all generations with complete dominion over all flesh and having authority over sin (to remove it) and death (in resurrection) and life (giving it to whom he pleases) Jesus of Nazareth declares that the smallest kindnesses shown to his people will be counted as having been a kindness shown to himself. And the only thing needed for salvation into everlasting life is friendship with the King: if you treat him like a friend, you will be treated like a you were always his friend.

Judges need to never remove from his or her sights the sacrifice of the Son of God on the cross with his blood spilt, on purpose, for the sack of his people’s redemption from sin and death because we need to be afraid of forsaking his purpose in exchange for the purpose of the accuser. We are set into place, established as judges in heaven, not to condemn and seek out “unworthiness” like the voice of the accuser, Satan. We are to seek out redeemableness. And I think, for me, the standard must remain as low as possible for God to heal and redeem and restore, which is a measure that looks at a dead body and says, “Yeah, I can resurrect that.” So, if death in spirit and in truth is not dead enough to keep a person away from God’s love, and death is the reward of the consequence of sin, then what sin, being a lesser barrier than death, can stand in the way of a human soul asking for forgiveness and favor from God? Nothing, nadda, zilch.

So, I think, we as judges in the kingdom of God will not be set out in search of those asking for God’s forgiveness, but some of us will be chosen and sent out in search of the lost, whose lost-ness includes a hardness of heart that is preventing any form of trust or want toward Almighty God and help provided by Jesus of Nazareth the Son of God.
How can those who haven’t asked for God’s help be saved, one might consider.

First, I want to address a misconception about the state of heart called “hardened.” The first time I encountered this concept was as a child listening to the story of Moses telling Pharaoh to let God’s people go. It is written that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he wouldn’t let the Hebrews go, which resulted in the ten plagues that befell Egypt. The Bible speaks more on the subject for other groups of people in a variety of circumstances, but what is conclusive about the nature of a hardened heart is that it is in opposition to God, it prevents God’s salvation, and its end is eternal damnation.

This concept is terrifying, in my opinion, and is not a condition one wants to remain. What is the experience of a hardened heart? Is there hope for redemption for a hardened heart?
I speak from experience, having revealed understanding from God in a vision, that the heart must fully harden prior to spiritual removal of the dead and stone cold, useless heart. So, I will start at what it feels like to have a stoney heart in the process of dying.
For me, it felt like trying to praise, worship, and serve God with the little energy I had left but instead of feeling rewarded by God with sustenance, love, peace, or joy, instead I felt pain and sorrow and fear. I felt like I had jumped with both fists in the air and bloodied my knuckles on a hard cave ceiling. For whatever action caused me pain, I would eventually feel exhaustion. The Exhaustion was the last feeling before that area of my heart was fully dead. As long I had a tiny bit of resolve to try, again, the piece of my heart has a bit of life and needed to be exhausted. So, the Holy Spirit, in my vision, showed me that it was Holy working to get me trying different ways to praise, worship, and serve God until I was completely and utterly exhausted.
Once I was thoroughly exhausted, my heart was a full stone with no energy remaining to try, at all, or to care or to feel or to cry or to want to cry or have the energy to think about anything that should cause emotion because emotions were painful for a stone heart. Thinking was almost painful for a stone heart. But I was too tired to try, and I thought it was all my fault. I thought I was lost to God, because it seemed like all the preachers were telling me; if I had a heart of stone that was supposed to mean I had turned my back on God and thus I was supposed to have had “fallen from grace” so that, finally, the accuser was supposed to be able to boast over me that Jesus had, indeed, finally, probably, lost a soul that had belonged to God in the first place, giving the accuser a laugh in Jesus’s face. But in my vision, the Holy Spirit said to me that it would be cruel of God to remove a heart while there was any life in it, and I was invited to think about it like the removing of a baby tooth. Because God hates pain and no pain comes from God, the Holy Spirit must be careful not to allow a nearly dead heart to be plucked or else it will cause pain, in much the same way that a nearly fallen-out baby tooth that’s dangling by a nerve would cause pain to a person if plucked out by a hand. It is very important to God that people do not associate his work with any resulting pain, because he lacks the need to cause pain and because he can do everything needed by a method without causing pain, he gets to choose to do that, and because Jesus did everything people need in order to arrive at heaven in the heavenly realm and made completely perfect before him on judgement day, nothing is required of his follows because he just buys them one-by-one and all at once from death, since the means through which he chose to save his people is through purchasing like slaves from the hand of death through his sacrifice into his hand, nothing at all is required, except an “Amen.” But people seem to think that even the smallest thing can separate them from being purchased if they can’t cause an “Amen” to shout out in praise from a dead heart. It’s not required. But it is helpful, if the person seeks to live in an emotional and mental capacity for peace and knowing of enteral safety, in this life before getting the next, where the stone heart isn’t a problem. So, it’s not required of the person for salvation, because by purchase and vocal acceptance into salvation, the Holy Spirit enters as a seal of approval, done and done, before any changes on the person’s behalf are felt. Me personally, I want peace in my every moment and every breath, to know God is with me, so am being brought through this process.

So, the Holy Spirit competes the work of ensuring the stoney heart is not partly or mostly stoney, but works to ensure that it is a fully dead stone heart before beginning the removal.

In my vision, the removal of my heart was shocking; the Holy Spirit ate it.

I was repulsed and begged the Holy Spirit to stop eating something so disgusting, to which the Holy Spirit offered me a bite, and informed me that someone must eat it, while informing me that it’s poisonous to anyone except God, which includes it being poisonous to me. I was concerned about God’s health, and so in compassion the Holy Spirit showed me all the stars in the universe and said that God is all that fire and more. “How small is your heart inside all the fire?” the Holy Spirit ask me. And I was comforted knowing that my heart was barely the size of a fleck of dust. So, I submitted to watching the Holy Spirit eat my dead, stone, poisonous heart until it was all gone.

At that point, it felt strange to not be dead. I felt lost in all the universe and like I could float away, forgotten. But the Holy Spirit comforted me that I can not be forgotten any more than a mother could forget the baby nursing at her breast. But I didn’t like the sensation. Once I was calm, the Holy Spirit said I was getting a new heart, but not like the one I had before because that kind is corruptible and God doesn’t have to let me go through watching my heart be eaten, ever again. So, I was going to be given God’s spirit as my new heart and that is not corruptible and can’t decay or get tired or worship wrong (one of the fears of my stone heart.)

At that point, I watched golden light fill my body, inside. Then the Holy Spirit stood me up and declared that it was the Holy Spirit’s next task to teach me to dance. Jesus danced before me, and the Holy Spirit played the sound bite, “When I move you move, just like that. When I move you move, just like that.” The Holy Spirit moved my left side and had me practice mimicking the movements on the right side of my body until I flowed with a natural connection to myself and confidence. It was still strange to feel like I was mimicking the Holy Spirit, but I was comforted when I understood that the Holy Spirit guides me to myself, as well as to Jesus and to my next steps in life, sort of. But wholeness is part of “operating in the Holy Spirit” and that means wholeness in my mind as to living in my confident personality. And from there, I can begin to receive more, which will result in my experiencing joy in addition to peace and comfort.

My punchline is this; don’t worry if the Holy Spirit reveals to you, you have a stone heart in process of dying. Without changing anything about the way you’re doing worship or life, hope during the process in the work of the Holy Spirit with you because you don’t need to be afraid of a stone heart. God will finish as much as you ask him to, this side of heaven. The result is better inner quality of life, which we are promised will increase the quantity of gifts God gives for free into our daily lives. His work is joy and life, in the end. He doesn’t want you to be afraid during the process. I ask for visions and dreams. And I rely on visions and dreams for comfort. I am telling you, for those who can hope from testimonies. Even when it feels uncomfortable or strange, you can hope before you can trust. That’s enough.
Having a stone heart is not evidence of damnation because the seal of the Holy Spirit is enough to save you.

If you’re going to endure the process of being born-again by having your stoney heart removed, it must die, first. This is going to involve a process. If you want to feel more of God’s presence and you want to heal, fully, you have to understand that you’re entering into God’s standard of living, which is an impossible experience for a stone heart. That just means it must be removed. This is not a reason to be afraid. But, while the uncomfortable death of the stoney heart is in process, lean into Jesus, remember my testimony and keep receiving the comfort of the Holy Spirit, expecting to feel like a failure for a minute, right before the heart is removed. This means his comfort will feel far away. But, take heart, and lean into the word of God as Jesus said to the disciples before be was crucified, “I am going to go away but then I will come back – you’re not going to understand now, but you will understand – I’m going to prepare a place for you”

In this case, the “place” is within you because the dead stone heart must be removed in preparation for the filling by the Holy Spirit.
It will not be painful.

But it will, probably, feel different: like novocaine during a surgical tooth removal, you’ll be aware that stuff is going on but not informed of the details, requiring trust in the surgeon, and there’s an equally strange time of the spiritual recovery from a spiritual type of novocaine I like to call “comfort” before the fullness of sensations will be returned to the mind and heart because it will be spirit, and that’s a new life experience and a new operating system. And so, I can’t tell you precisely what it will feel like for you, individually, only that it’s strange. So, having that in mind, once you’re ready to trust the spiritual surgy to the Great Physician through his Holy Spirit this is a process that will be done to you, for you, on your behalf, and to a reward of new life that includes a greater capacity to receive the goodness of the God.
The purpose of Christ Jesus is to give life and to give into a state of abundance, by God’s standard of the term abundant, which is more than we can hope, think, or imagine.
To understand salvation and the purpose of a judge in Christ one must be born-again. The first thing a future judge will learn is how utterly uninvolved the person is in salvation, transformation, and sanctification. By this understanding we can know that nothing is between a person and God’s love. Everything required is accomplished is Jesus Christ, so there’s no barrier, there. And everything wicked is in the heart, and the Holy Spirit will remove the heart when it’s death is complete so that no pain will occur in the removal. So, a stone dead heart isn’t a barrier either.

A soul is saved before being born-again.
But in order for the soul (mind and heart) to “enter into the kingdom of God” in this place (the land of the living,) one must go through this process of being born-again so that the experience of being alive can be radically different.

It’s not a factor of ensuring eternity in heaven. That happens by human choice to want the good things of heaven to be given. Salvation is a choice. And it’s not chosen by proving by good works, with an idea in mind that God doesn’t want people, because he wants us and he’s just asking if we want to live where he lives. As soon as we want to live in his country, which is good and heavenly, we get to choose heaven.

Being born-again simply changes how we as human-beings can experience and interact with the reality that surrounds our condition and frames our emotional reactions to the circumstances and the events in the world that surrounds us, because it changes everything to know and be aware of the fact that inside us God is there and all around us, acting as an ever-present shield, God is with us and his favor follows us all of our days. This is when worship can begin because this is a very easy truth to cause any heart who can know this fact, to rejoice. Although it’s true for the stone, it’s just that a stone can’t know it’s true. If it could know and be aware of this fact as true and an always true fact because it’s a life circumstance that has good consequences in our favor simply on the effort of us being loved by an eternal and all powerful God who likes calling himself our Father and gets excited about boasting in all the ways his provision makes his children glad into the depths of their souls, then the stone heart would rejoice, but it’s stoney so it must be removed so that a person can know this already true fact about how much God can and will help those who ask for his help. It’s not the cause of God’s help. Asking for help is what allows God, who already wants to help you, to help you.

It’s a matter of perspective. It’s not a matter of changing God’s attitude about us.

And, when a judge of heaven has all this in his or her pocket, then they can really judge as one’s in favor of God’s salvation, knowing if any work needs to be done, God is able to do it on behalf of the person being saved.
But salvation is choice into the method by which a person gets good things: BY God or BY hope in the self.

And this should be the focus of evangelism: God is a worthy reward and gifts at no cost to us. Why should people choose God? To receive good things for free, forever, on the back of Jesus of Nazareth.

After that it is vitally important for any judge to not mistake his or her status as a judge for that occupation of Great Physician to avoid praying prayers, which may or may not solve the situation around an exhibiting symptom while it neglects solving the problem causing the symptom, but leaving that job in God’s capable right hand; Jesus of Nazareth. And that idea will be discussed at later time.

Prayer
Father, I bless the name of your Son, Jesus of Nazareth, and I bless his kingdom of righteousness on earth as it is in heaven, forever and ever. I pray blessing over anyone who is seeking and longing for more of your conversation and presence and life of joy in daily and hourly replenishment, day and night, to live in abundance in this life, not waiting on the next as the fearful idea that heaven is the only realm to feel wonderful and to feel at home and to feel strong and to get to walk with you, let them be born-again, quickly. And let your name be glorified.