Class Action Law Suit

Jesus invites every person to join His class action lawsuit against Satan. If we are willing to believe the truth that God declares about the cause of our sinful condition, we can sign up to participate in the lawsuit to vacate the sentence for our punishment on grounds that the charges relied on to convict us are based on a fraudulent premise. We have been manipulated under duress and misinformed, and thus the charges must be vacated while the accuser himself is to receive the punishments he demanded against us. This is according to the requirements of the legal system he put in place to punish us.

If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you. Your eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (Deuteronomy 19:16-21)

If we join this lawsuit against the archenemy of our souls, we must also be willing to be brought into harmony with the design of heaven, meaning we must consent to allow the Spirit of God to realign our thinking and living until we harmonize with the principles of selfless love.

Agreeing to be conformed to the image of God in no way implies that our behavior or opinions, either good or bad, define our identity or value. Rather, it means we choose to exclusively believe the truth of our identity defined by Jesus alone. As we continue to choose to depend on Jesus as our true representative, our defense attorney, our source of identity and our example of how to think and act like our true selves, our condition will be transformed so that our character becomes more and more like His until there will be no discernible difference between our motives and His.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. (1 John 3:1-2)

To join this class action lawsuit involves allowing Jesus to define for us who God is and how He feels towards us. It means to incessantly defer to Jesus to define truth for us more than our feelings or anyone else’s opinions. It means choosing to allow Jesus to define what it means and looks like to live as a normal human being, simply reflecting the image of the true God. It means we rely entirely on embracing everything Jesus says as the only source of how reality functions. It means allowing His Spirit to challenge every aspect of our present belief construct and all our assumptions, giving God’s Word higher priority and authority for us than anyone else, including ourselves.

This class action lawsuit was initiated on God’s behalf, not primarily for our benefit. We need to realize that God is the primary target of the charges that are being challenged in the court of public opinion. We have merely been caught up in the arguments over the interpretation of the evidence and what the evidence means. The core issue in the original trial is not our condition or destiny, but rather God’s condition, character, integrity and legitimacy to govern the way He chooses.

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.' "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius? Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?' (Matthew 20:8-15)

This countersuit against the father of lies challenges the legitimacy of Satan’s claim that he is the rightful prince of this world due to Adam’s surrender of dominion over this world to the serpent. When Adam knowingly chose to disobey God’s instructions to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Satan laid claim to Adam’s position of representative of humanity in the assembly of the sons of God in heaven. When Adam obeyed Satan, Satan immediately installed his form of government on this planet and established his system of justice, laws, economy and hierarchy as the standards by which everyone is measured, assessed and defined. With that came condemnation, manipulation through reward and punishment and a merciless justice that is abhorrent to God.

This way of maintaining social order is so deeply entrenched in our psyche that we feel little resistance to viewing it as normal. The problem is we believe it originated with God, and that these methods of maintaining order and executing justice are normal and godly. But Jesus has been challenging their legitimacy from the very outset of the insurrection in heaven long before the creation of this world, only at first He conducted the war against Satan as Michael the arch angel, defending God’s reputation among the angels until He came as Jesus Christ becoming a human being to live among us.

The Godhead created this world and humanity in part to refute the allegations against God of injustice, unfairness and assertions that God is not only light, love and truth. Satan accused God of disinformation about the origin of the consequences of sin, insisting that it is God who executes punishment for sin rather than death being a natural, inevitable outcome of sin. God created humans as physical, emotional and spiritual reflectors of Them in order that Satan’s allegations would be exposed as false. But when Satan seduced Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit in the Garden, and then Adam chose to willingly join her in turning away from allegiance to God, Satan insisted this proved his allegations to be proven right, and because God had said if they ate from that Tree they would die, the only option left for God was to back up what He had said and execute them in order to prove He was truthful.

What we fail to take into account is that such arguments against God’s integrity had extensive effect on minds all over the universe and influenced the way other created beings viewed God. Such powerful insinuations and assertions against God’s integrity undermine confidence in God’s government that is under intense assault by Satan’s compelling arguments on many fronts. Thus his counterfeit form of government had to be allowed to fully mature in order that all the universe may come to finally see for themselves whose version of reality is really true and who is the false witness in God’s trial.

To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:" (Revelation 3:14)

What is the basis of this class action suit against the accuser? This suit does not merely challenge the legitimacy of the charges against us but goes exponentially beyond that to challenge the legitimacy of the entire design of law relied on by Satan who asserts it originated with God. When we fail to see that Jesus challenges the very premise upon which the charges against us are based, we are confused about what Jesus has done to save us. We continue to view God as the enforcer of Satan’s legal system when in truth that whole way of defining reality has to be exposed as counterfeit and a fraud.

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. (Colossians 2:13-14 NAS95)

This word translated canceled out, literally means to erase, to wipe away with anointing oil. This is not the same as a pardon as many presume, for a pardon assumes the legitimacy of the charges behind an offense being pardoned. To cancel out charges means the charges themselves are refuted, not acknowledged as having any legitimacy.

We have been forgiven all our transgressions, not when we repent but when we are still dead in our sinful way of thinking and living. This is exponentially different from the kind of gospel messages circulating today, purporting that the death of Jesus satisfied demands by God’s law that sin requires the death penalty. That assertion actually originated with Satan and is part of his subtle distortions that twists the truth to confuse everyone about the nature of law itself. Satan insists that selfless agape love itself cannot exist, for to admit that it does would be to undermine his whole concept of harsh justice based on good and evil, reward and punishment, earning and deserving.

To argue that this passage is referring to God’s ordinances would be to align ourselves with Satan’s allegations that God has a dark, sinister side to Him meant to keep us serving Him out of fear of punishment. This passage says the decrees that are against us are hostile to us. When we insist these debts and decrees are of God, then we must assume that God is hostile towards us, something Satan asserts. But Satan is a false witness who is also the great accuser, and all his accusations are predicated on insistence that his system of enforcement for laws is how justice is defined. Yet this verse says God has cancelled out all of these charges, meaning their very legitimacy is refuted.

If it is true that Satan’s charges against sinful human beings are all predicated on false premises, and the legitimacy of the charges held against us is based on fraudulent, does that mean no one will die in the end? What implications might this have for us? Is it possible that everyone (maybe even including Satan himself) will ultimately be restored and recovered from all the consequences of sin? There are some who insist this is the truth, yet what is missing in their line of logic is the core ingredient of freedom, that each one is free to choose whether or not to participate in God’s circuit of life as designed in creation, or can they be allowed to disconnect and follow a path of selfish indulgence at the expense of others free of experiencing any negative consequences.

But issues raised here go even deeper, for it is not merely an issue of getting away with evil without having any consequences or punishment, but rather how reality itself is designed to function and how the concept of law is defined under God’s design.

The charges brought against us by the great accuser assume the legitimacy of his entire legal construct of artificial law that requires imposed punishments to enforce those laws. His demand that every sin must be punished in order for justice to be satisfied, is riddled with underlying presumptions that must be challenged. This is exactly what Jesus has done. He came to prove Satan’s allegations and assertions as fraudulent, and to do so He allowed Satan’s legal system to execute its so-called justice against a completely innocent person, and in the name of God and religion no less. This exposed Satan as self-contradictory and revealed his true character as sinister and evil. Yet only in this way could the true nature of Satan’s character be exposed so the whole universe could see how Satan’s system is incompetent and to convince any who are willing to see, that God’s ways are very different and superior to Satan’s counterfeit definition of justice used in this world.

So again, what implications does this have for our eternal destiny? Does this mean that because the charges Satan brings against us are based on fraud and are thus cancelled, that we can continue to live in sin with no fear of death or negative consequences? Here is how Paul put it:

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned. (Romans 3:7-8)

'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.' Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead. (Acts 17:28-31)

To repent actually means to change the way we think. What needs to change is not merely who we imagine God feels towards us, but how we perceive the very design of His government. What does it mean for God to judge in righteousness? Actually God’s version of justice is the foundation of how real judgment happens rather than the system of so-called justice carried on here on earth. In other words, God does judging the right way, the way Jesus describes in His definition of judgment in John 3.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. (John 3:19)

So does this bring us to understand how we are to respond to the wonderful news that all charges against us have been dropped and all debts that were against us have been cancelled? Are we to assume, as Satan would have us do and many are teaching today, that it no longer matters what we do because we have been given blanket forgiveness? Again, it goes back to how we perceive law itself; is law something that has to be enforced in order to achieve justice, or is law self-enforcing and simply describes how reality is designed to operate?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? (Romans 6:1-2)

While this class action law suit against the great accuser will prove successful, it offers no credence or legitimacy or excuse to continue in resistance to God’s design, particularly after we have been enlightened and made aware of the true nature of God’s design for life that is based on freedom of choice. When a man sins ignorantly, God overlooks that as done in immaturity or lack of awareness. When one has no clue what is true or right, they are not held responsible for something they don’t know. Otherwise God truly would be unjust.

But it is an entirely different matter when we choose to sin knowingly, willfully, presumptuously violating the law of liberty after coming into an awareness of the truth about reality and have experienced true love – this is where the real danger lies. Rather than live in constant fear of punishment for past sins of ignorance, the real danger is from consequence of violating known principles in defiance of warnings and appeals of love in truth. This is where current choices can move us from freedom through debt cancellation, into deliberate rebellion because we choose to knowingly ignore cause and effect.

Willing choices that defy heaven gives fresh and actual legitimate authority for Satan to gain access to our heart, mind, soul and body that can eventually become impossible to reverse if we fail to seriously heed urgent warnings from heaven. This is the greatest danger we need to fear, not punishment from God as Satan would have us believe, but rather the tragic consequences of natural law as well as the imposed punishments from Satan’s legal system enforced by those under his influence.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. (Hebrews 10:26-27)

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. (Hebrews 6:4-6)

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this. All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him. (1 John 5:16-18)

So, how may I join this class action suit against the legitimacy of the debts held against me by Satan? I choose to believe the truth as it is in Jesus. I choose to receive a love of the truth to be implanted inside me by the Spirit of truth and love. I choose to let go of resistance to the love generously poured out continuously on me by the Godhead. I allow full access for Jesus to dwell in me richly so that God’s reputation may be exonerated by the transformation God wants to accomplish in me if I consent.

Making these choices every day signals the supernatural forces as to who I choose to align my life with, who I choose to serve, worship and believe. This is how I am saved by grace through faith, by choosing to believe (faith) that what God says about my identity is true regardless of what anything else thinks or says. This is how the truth sets me free indeed.