Don't Judge Me

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Welcome to a Biblical Perspective Podcast where God's point of view matters.

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Well greetings family.

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Welcome to another episode of A Biblical Perspective.

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I am your host, Prophet CT Johnson and today's perspective topic is don't judge me.

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Who are you to judge me?

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Have you ever uttered those words to someone who was condemning you as it were and you

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became enraged, indignant, upset and your response to them was who are you?

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Who do you think you are to judge, to condemn me?

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Only God can judge me.

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Have you ever said that to someone who was judging you so you thought and you said again

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enraged who are you?

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Only God can judge me.

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Well is that a true statement?

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Not true based upon culture, not true based upon secularism, not your truth but is that

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statement only God can judge me?

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Is it scriptural?

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Is it biblical?

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So we're about to dive in to today's perspective topic.

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Don't judge me and we're going to dissect judgment what it means to judge from God's

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perspective.

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Grab your Bibles, grab your note taking devices or paper and pencil because we're about to

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get into it right after this.

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Alright today's perspective topic don't judge me who are you to judge me all of us I would

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venture to say we have uttered those words sometime in our life and we are especially

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within the church of today this statement is one that is used multiple times is used

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consistently when people feel as though they are being judged and so I want us to enter

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into the etymological understanding and meaning of what judgment actually is because when

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most make that statement don't judge me in essence they're saying don't condemn me or

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when they say who are you to judge me they're saying in essence who are you to condemn me

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and so unfortunately what we have done is we have used the words judge judgment and

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condemn to condemn or condemning or condemnation let me say that way we have used the words

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judge judgment condemn and condemnation interchangeably synonymously and they actually don't mean

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the same thing now depending on the context of the situation the context of the circumstance

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you might be able to utilize those words interchangeably but there are distinct meanings and distinct

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differences in meaning I should say there are distinct differences in meaning regarding

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the word judge judgment condemn condemnation so what does it actually mean to judge etymologically

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what is the meaning of the word judge alright well 12th century judge in verb form from

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etym online it means to examine to appraise make a diagnosis now that's interesting because

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to make a diagnosis is not only from the medical and or the scientific perspective but it also

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to make a diagnosis also means to discern and or to distinguish okay so right out the

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gate we are entering into a broader understanding a broader comprehension of what the word judge

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actually means we have relegated the meaning of the word judge to condemning and or condemnation

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and again when people make the statement don't judge me who are you to judge me only God

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can judge me they're really saying who are you to condemn me only God can condemn me

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you don't have the authority you aren't in the position required to condemn and in actuality

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they are right but as I have already shared with you the word condemn and or condemnation

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isn't necessarily synonymous with the word judge or judgment so let's go further in our

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etymology shall we judge also means to conform and opinion about and all of us catch this

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all of us are judgmental in that regard all of us have opinions about everything and there

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is nothing sinful as it pertains to possessing an opinion and or even even sharing or conversing

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your opinion or having conversation pertaining to what it is you have an opinion of and so

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to form an opinion about that's also the etymological meaning of the word judge now as we go further

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to judge also etymologically it means to inflict penalty upon and or punish and that's where

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we get hung up because again many people are narrow in their comprehension in their understanding

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of what it means to judge and so when people are examining their life their lifestyle and

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or appraising the circumstance and of the situation that surrounds them when they are

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discerning and or distinguishing between what is happening transpiring what they're experiencing

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their interactions with an individual because again people are one tracked in their understanding

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and comprehension of what it means to judge they jump right to the more common definition

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and that is to punish or to inflict penalty upon and so in that instance no one outside

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of God has the authority has the right to inflict penalty or punishment upon as it pertains to your eternal existence and I want you to get that I want you to really

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let what I just said sink in because judge means to inflict penalty upon and or to punish

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and in our society and in our country in the United States we have a judicial system we

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have a system that has been established to inflict penalty upon and or punishment upon

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those who what break the law those who decide to go against what our laws what our government

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rather has legislated as law as it pertains to violating the rights of others there is

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a penalty you will be arrested you just can't go up to anyone and assault them there are

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criminal charges criminal charges are brought against those who murder who steal who rape

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who abuse and so again we can no longer allow the culture secularism to redefine the origin

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of words because the truth be told God is not the only one that has the right or is

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in the position of authority to judge from the standpoint of inflicting penalty upon

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and or punishment now he's the only one that can do that again as it pertains to your eternal

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existence based upon the decisions and or the lack thereof that we make concerning him

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however in this earth realm there are laws there are do's and don'ts that have been established

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by our judicial system and if you do in other words comply with the laws that have been

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legislated then you are good to go but if you don't if you violate those laws if you

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break those laws the speeding the speed limit the speed limit if you break the speed limit

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then the sheriff the police department that has jurisdiction in the area in which you

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broke the speed limit they have the right they reserve the right they have the authority

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to inflict penalty upon you and or punishment whether that's paying a fine whether that's

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showing up in court pleading your case before the judge giving you a ticket so to inform

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an opinion about that's one of the etymological meanings of judge but also to inflict penalty

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and or punishment upon and the last I want to examine here is make a decision to judge

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is to make a decision and so let me help us for all of you who ignorantly say I'm not

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judgmental that's not true or to say I don't judge yes you do every day we are afforded

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the opportunity by God to wake up you and I make judgment calls we make decisions you

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made the decision to listen to today's episode you made a judgment call as it pertains to

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listening to a biblical perspective when you receive that notification through your phone

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or through your electronic device wherever you listen to the podcast you made a decision

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to listen you made a decision to wear the color shirt that you are wearing today you

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made the decision to have cereal for breakfast or to have bacon and eggs so to judge means

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to make a decision it means to decide on something it means to think or suppose and so I want

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us to understand that there is more than one meaning to the word judge and so now that

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we have established this understanding let's go further and find out from God's perspective

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is he in alignment with judgment and or judging here in our earth realm is it is God for judgment

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is God for judging general let's talk general for a moment generally speaking well again

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to judge recap examine appraise make a diagnosis make a diagnosis discerning distinguishing

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to form an opinion about it also means to inflict penalty upon and or punishment to

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make a decision decide think or suppose well of course when you understand what it means

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to judge I think we all would agree that God is not against judging because of what it

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means now depends on the circumstance the situation depends on what is going on that

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will determine the type of judgment the level of judgment the severity of judgment but what

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I want us to understand is that possessing the ability to rightly judge rightly examine

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rightly discern rightly distinguish is beneficial but most of us we judge according to feelings

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in other words we make appraisals we form opinions we make decisions based upon errant

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information based upon erroneous information based upon how we feel in the moment we don't

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take the time to properly assess judge because assess is a synonym for the word judge we

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don't take the time to properly assess we don't do our homework we don't do due diligence

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we make a decision awful whim we make a decision off the cuff many of you unfortunately you

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married someone that you did not properly vet you didn't take that person to the Lord

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in prayer you did not discuss it with God you did not have conversation with God you

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did not peel back the layers of that onion and now you are suffering the consequences

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of bad judgment so is Jesus down for judging because again back to my opening statement

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that many have made I've made it I've said it in my ignorance early on in my Christian

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walk who are you to judge me after all Jesus said judge not did he not Jesus said that

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we are not supposed to judge and in my 30 years this December of ministry having pastored

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counsel I have heard people ignorantly but boldly make this statement well prophet who

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are you to judge me only God can judge because Jesus himself said judge not and when you

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actually read and study not just take a excerpt out of Matthew 7 verses 1 through 5 where

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Jesus actually others the words judge not there's context behind it but most people

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who use scripture to validate or to preface support their opinion they are they use it

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out of context and they don't have right understanding of the totality of Jesus's statement and so

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in actuality Jesus was not saying in the statement judge not that he was anti judging or anti

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judgment that he was against us judging that he was against us judging each other because

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that's another incorrect interpretation of Matthew 7 well Jesus says that we are not

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to judge one another no he did not Jesus did not say that you don't believe me well let's

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read it don't take my word for it let's go to the book let's go to the Bible Matthew

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7 verses 1 through 5 King James new King James judge not that you be not judged now let's

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stop there verse 1 judge not comma not period Jesus says judge not that you be not judged

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in other words he's letting you know don't judge others don't form an opinion concerning

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others as it pertains to their livelihood as it pertains to their lifestyle as it pertains

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to their choices don't make a decision or don't examine their life don't appraise their

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life don't initiate a diagnostic test concerning their life unless you are willing yourself

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to be judged accordingly judge not that ye be not judged he says so if you are willing

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to assess examine and appraise others then expect them to do the same unto you judge

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not that ye be not judged verse 2 for with what judgment you judge you will be judged

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and with the measure you use it will be measured back to you you reap what you sow in other

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words so Jesus is not saying that one he is against us judging each other that he is not

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for us assessing relationships in other words when you are presented with an opportunity

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to connect with someone to enter into relationship with them to bring them into your personal

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space and vice versa you should judge that person you should assess whether or not this

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person their belief system their ideology their concepts are in alignment with yours

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their convictions their faith and array of other elements you need to righteously and

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we'll deal with that term in a moment righteously judge and assess whether or not you and that

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person are compatible and I'm not speaking only or solely as it pertains to marital relationship

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I'm talking about relationships in general I'm talking about business relationship business

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ventures and things of that nature you just if you have good sense you just don't jump

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in a relationship with anyone whether it's a friendship whether it's a partnership business

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wise it does not matter if you have good sense you assess everything and everyone that's

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connected to this opportunity of us fusing our lives together joining our lives together

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fusing our businesses together fusing joining our finances our resources together so Jesus

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says again Matthew 7 verses 1 through 5 we're still in verse 2 but he says for what judgment

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you judge you will be judged okay so the same measuring tool you use to judge someone else

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is the same measuring tool that's going to be used to judge you verse 3 and why do you

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look at the speck in your brother's eye but do not consider the plank in your own eye

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so now Jesus is progressing in his dialogue in his conversation here he says obviously

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text or text in context Jesus is saying that he supports assessing judging of others but

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there is criteria there's criteria there's criteria to assessing there's criteria to

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forming an opinion about people brothers sisters okay in the Lord your neighbor there's criteria

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and Jesus is giving us the criteria for judging he's giving us the criteria for assessing

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and he says that you don't have the right why because you're not in a position to discern

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properly or to be fair in your assessment pertaining to your brother and or sister because

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you are guilty sir ma'am of the very thing you are critiquing them about that's called

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hypocrisy that's called self-righteousness and that's what Jesus is addressing here in

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verse 3 and why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye but do not consider the

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plank in your own eye and then in verse 3 Jesus is actually distinguishing between what

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you have going on that is of more concern than what you are judging your brother and

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or your sister or someone else about he says you are ignoring the plank the beam the King

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James says in your eye but you are so in tune and so engulfed about the speck of dust in

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your brother's eye now if you have ever been a victim of getting dust in your eye you know

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that as small as a speck of dust is it will irritate your cornea it will irritate your

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pupil it will irritate every aspect of your eye until you get it out if you've ever gotten

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an eyelash caught in your eye it hurts it's painful but on the flip side have you ever

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been hit in the eye by someone's fist have you ever been hit in the eye by a two by four

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that hurts more and causes greater damage than getting a speck of dust or an eyelash

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caught in your eye and so Jesus is breaking this thing down here for us okay and I'm breaking

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it down to redact and extract the excuse from some of you that Jesus said we are not to

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judge each other Jesus never said that he never said that there was no period behind

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judge not that you be judged judge not comma that you be not judged Jesus is laying down

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the criteria and again in verse 3 he rolls out the specificity the details of the criteria

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as it pertains to judging verse 4 let's finish up Matthew 7 1 through 5 verse 4 or how can

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you say to your brother let me remove the speck from your eye and look a plank is in

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your own eye hypocrite verse 5 hypocrite first remove the plank from your own eye and then

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you will see clearly see your vision is is impaired here you are trying to assess someone's

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life and what you are assessing them on is the very same thing that you're jacked up

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concerning you're assessing them you're critiquing them you're forming an opinion about them

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about their smoking cigarettes when you smoke marijuana you are critiquing them as it pertains

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to their lascivious lifestyle when you are doing the same thing hypocrite first remove

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the plank from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the plank from your

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brother's eye in other words when we assess one another we need to ensure that our lives

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are not under scrutiny that that that that that that we are not in a position of reproach

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that we are not condemning punishing someone that we're not afflicting inflicting a penalty

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upon someone for the very same thing that we're doing that's when you enter into hypocrisy

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all right that's when you enter in to hypocrisy and so again Jesus gives criteria for judging

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and we have brought you into the understanding the totality etymologically of what it means

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to judge because the truth be told you who ascribe to that erroneous errant teaching

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that we're not to judge anybody that only God can judge us that's not true because you

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are judged by your employer employers companies have appraisals they have progress reports

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in regards to your duty your responsibilities in regards to your position in regards to

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what they are paying you to do in the military in the Air Force in particular we have what's

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called an EPR an annual EPR which stands for EPR stands for enlisted performance report

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so annually my senior NCO and not only annually but really every six months before we get

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to the annual EPR we have what's called a feedback and the feedback is a verbal one-on-one

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with you and your supervisor and what is that one-on-one what is that feedback all about

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it's about judgment it's about them judging you them assessing you and then the annual

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EPR the enlisted performance report is again them judging listen newsflash in our school

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system what do you think a report card does a report card and a progress report when I

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was coming up it is a way for your teacher to assess your work to assess your progress

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to assess your learning experience are you retaining the information are you returning

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rather retaining the subject matter are you understanding are you comprehending are you

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digesting this material can you regurgitate this material so for all of you who are against

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being judged then you need get off the planet and let me help you if you're a parent you

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judge your children if you are parenting properly you assess them hmm oh this is good here don't

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you you appraise them and you inflict penalty upon them and or you punish them when they

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go against the rules of the house don't you and if you are again a good parent you teach

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your children how to properly judge how to make right decisions how to think and process

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through opportunities how to think and process through dilemmas and circumstances and situations

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so see we have really messed up in the church community we really messed it up within Christianity

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as it pertains to this don't judge me who are you to judge me no my position depending

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on what it is depending on the level my position warrants from time to time periodic intermittent

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judgment and or throughout the entire supervisory process role and responsibilities again as

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a parent as an educator we have the responsibility to judge and Jesus in Matthew 7 gives the

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criteria or I should say he in Matthew 7 it is the criteria but it's not the sole criteria

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Jesus because we're going to look at some other scriptures here where Paul talks to

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us where James talks to us so again there are a variety of criteria there there there

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there's a there there's a variety of criteria for judging depending upon the circumstance

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and or the situation now we opened up something when we closed out Matthew 7 in verse 5 where

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Jesus says you hypocrite so I want to talk about hypocritical judgment let's look at

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Romans 2 verses 1 through 3 the apostle Paul talks to us here and he says therefore have

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no excuse or defense or justification oh man whoever you are this is new King James who

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judges and condemns another okay for imposing as judge and passing sentence on another you

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condemn yourself listen to this because you who judge are habitually practicing the very

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same thing that you censure and denounce now you all forgive me I think this is I said

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new King James but I think this version I'm reading from is actually the Amplified Bible

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let me double check here because I didn't annotate on my PDF notes and I'm going to

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well I do it now for those of you listening make sure that you in the show notes there

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is a link in the show in the show notes where you can receive a copy of the PDF notes that

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I am teaching from all right and so I just want to make sure that I have the right I'm

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quoting unto you the right version so if you hear some pages in the background that's my

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paper Bible because I'm paper Bible see you need an electronic rather you need a hard

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back hard copy paper Bible as well those of you who only have an electronic Bible you

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need to upgrade all right that's a side sidebar but yes this is the Amplified Bible the Amplified

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classic edition which is the more reliable version of the Amplified so what I just read

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out of Romans 2 verses 1 is the Amplified Bible the Amplified okay so let me recap or

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reread therefore you have no excuse Paul says you have no excuse or defense or justification

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O man whoever you are who judges and condemns another for imposing as judge and passing

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sentence on another you condemn yourself why why do you condemn yourself you're not condemned

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solely because you judged someone you're not condemned there will not you you won't be

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punished solely because you assessed you discerned you gave an opinion about someone else no

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that's not why you're being punished you're being punished because you did it as Jesus

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talked about Matthew 7 you're doing it because you operated in the spirit of hypocrisy you

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don't have the right to correct someone in regards to something catch this that you yourself

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have not made correction in now Paul is not saying that you can't correct someone for

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something that you have done because all have sinned and fallen short so there's going to

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come a time when all of us are correcting when we're judging when we're forming an opinion

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when we're assessing as it pertains to something that we may have done past tense if you did

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it that's one thing however if you're still doing it that's where we have the problem

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and how many people have the audacity to form an opinion and get on social media and express

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that opinion about a circumstance situation an individual and you yourself with your hypocritical

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self have not made the corrections that you are endeavoring to correct someone else on

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that's what Paul is talking about and Paul says for that you're going to be condemned

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you're going to be judged because you habitually you are still doing it you never stop doing

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it you habitually practice the very same thing that you censure that you denounce you're

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denouncing it and you're censoring it publicly verbally but in the back in the booth in the

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closet in the dark you are still participating in it verse 2 but we know that the judgment

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adverse verdict sentence of God listen to this falls justly see that's another prerequisite

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for judging judging justly not judging biasly not judging hypocritically not judging sentimentally

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but or emotionally judging justly he says we know that God's judgment the judgment of

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God that verse verdict the sentencing of God falls justly and in accordance with truth

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now I could do a whole podcast on that whole episode accordance with truth not with lies

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and fallacy and philosophy but with truth upon those who practice such things so he

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says if you don't get your act together then you are setting yourself up your positioning

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and posturing yourself to be the benefactor of God's just judgment that's in accordance

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to his truth because of you refusing to change but have the audacity to talk to someone else

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about making a change that you yourself refuse to make let's close Romans 2 verse 3 and

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do you think or imagine oh man when you judge and condemn those who practice such things

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and yet do them yourself that you will escape God's judgment and elude his sentence and

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adverse verdict don't think that you will because you won't because God's judgment

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is just okay so we have received Jesus's perspective on judging we have received the apostle Paul's

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perspective and it's all from a biblical perspective now let's look at another apostle his perspective

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and this is why we must rightly divide the word because when you wrongly divide it it

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seems as though that there is contradiction among scriptures authoring mantles the apostles

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and the prophets and there is not okay we've already in our teaching thus far we see that

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Jesus and Paul they are in alignment they are in agreement and now let's look at James

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does James agree or disagree with Jesus because in James chapter 4 verses 11 through 12 it

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can appear that James does not agree what does it say in James 4 11 through 12 new king

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James do not speak evil of one another brethren he who speaks evil of a brother and judges

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his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law but if you judge the law you are not

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a doer of the law but a judge there is one lawgiver who is able to save to destroy who

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are you to judge another so see there are some who read that passage of scripture and

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extracted those two verses out of James 4 and came back and said who are you to judge

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because the Bible says you know how we get to preaching when we think we got a revelation

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and then we're wrong you don't have a revelation you have misinformation and people come back

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the Bible says judge not well no no no no this is why it's crucial for you to do your

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homework in regards to your translation because there is an attack a satanic attack out on

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the scriptures there's an attack a satanic attack to literally change to alter to defame

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to destroy the word of God because there are other versions that mistranslated the word

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the words speak evil the new King James says and even King James let me the King James

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says speak not evil and the King James I'm sorry King James says speak not evil new King

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James says the same thing it just says do not speak evil in verse 11 new King James

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says do not speak evil King James says speak not evil so the point is the word here is

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evil but other translations have translated the word evil to judge and that's not what

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the the writer originally stated because again in verse 11 let's look at it verse 11 James

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4 verse 11 new King James do not speak evil of one another brethren he who speaks evil

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of a brother and judges so to speak evil in the text is not synonymous with judge because

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he places and he distinguishes he says he who speaks evil of his brother and judges

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he didn't say he who judges and judges he who speaks evil so speaking evil means one

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thing and judging here in the text means one thing okay so to speak evil he is saying do

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not malign your brother do not malign your brother don't slander or defame your brother

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that's what James is saying and so James is not in contradiction with Jesus he's not in

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contradiction with what we read in Romans but James is saying do not slander do not

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defame one another because he who defames he who slanders his brother and judges and

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judge here does not mean assess form an opinion to discern or distinguish judge here means

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to condemn means to inflict punishment he says don't inflict punishment upon your brother

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when you are in error of your assessment because what you're stating obviously is not is not

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true because you are guilty of maligning them you're guilty of slandering them you're guilty

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of defaming them so we don't see contradiction with what we read in Matthew 7 we don't see

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contradiction with what we read in Romans 2 nor do we see it in what we just read with

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James 4 now let's talk about I mentioned this earlier on righteous judgment let's see what

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John says about righteous judgment do not judge according to appearance but judge with

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righteous judgment so again I am debunking the myth and the lie that we are not to judge

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that Christians are not to judge each other that we are not to judge people in general

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no that's not true that's culture that's secularism that's your pastor who's culturally modified

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and not teaching the Bible if it's coming across the pulpit that we are not to judge

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and we are just to love everybody and love one another yes we are to love one another

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however we have the responsibility depending well let me say this we have the responsibility

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as the Ecclesia as the elect of God as the bride of Christ to judge the house of God

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and we're going to close here in a few moments with me clarifying that statement we have

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that right so when people ask me especially Christians those who are supposedly of the

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household of faith well Johnson who are you to judge my response to them one I'm a prophet

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that's a part of my my my job description okay that's a part of my mantle that's a

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part of my responsibility and duty as a prophet of God to judge within the house of God because

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prophets are God's legal team we're God's lawyers but now righteous judgment John is

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not John does not tell us we are not to judge he says how we're not to judge not that we

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aren't supposed to judge he is giving criteria for how to judge did you catch that John is

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not saying in John 724 he says do not judge according to appearance appearance superficially

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arrogantly don't judge don't solely assess according to the surface according to what

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you see according to your arrogance according to pride no he says you are to judge according

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to righteous judgment judge make an assessment according to the right standards or the right

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measurements which are provided and given by who God by way of his word by way of the

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scriptures that's how we ought to judge as Christians in every circumstance every situation

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we ought to judge righteously we ought to judge according to the right measurements

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the right standards of eternity we are to judge assess make a decision distinguish make

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diagnosis based upon the metrics the measurements of eternity now this is necessary this is

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significant this is important because of what we are facing even now in our world in our

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society in our country as it pertains to abortion as it pertains to the presidential election

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many people are going to go out here next year and vote superficially you're going

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to judge according to appearance as it pertains to the presidential candidate and when we

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don't judge righteously we mess up Galatians 1 6 to 10 I marvel that you are turning away

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so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel different

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gospel which is not another there's not another gospel other than what Jesus preached the

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apostles preach but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ

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verse 8 but even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you then what we

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have preached to you let him be accursed as we have said before so now I say again if

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anyone preaches any other gospel to you then what you have received let him be accursed

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verse 10 for do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I still

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please men I would not be a bond servant of Christ prophet why did you read that I read

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that because the only way the only way for us to operate in the admonishment of the Galatian

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writer here as it pertains to being presented with another gospel you have to have the ability

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to judge so are you seeing the benefit of being able to properly judge assess and discern

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you won't be able to differentiate between false gospel doctrines of devils if you lack

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the understanding of truth and you therefore aren't able to rightly judge you have to have

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knowledge of eternity's metrics in order to utilize it and to appropriate it so that you

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can rightly divide the word so that you can make a distinction between that's false that's

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philosophy that's man's ideology that's your truth but that's not that's not God's truth

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that's not eternity's truth see many of us we lack judgment we lack the ability to make

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decisions wisely because we don't have the capacity of sagacious wisdom we don't have

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the wisdom of God you have the wisdom of men you have foolishness bound up in your heart

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but the wisdom of God the sagacious wisdom of God that only comes through not just ingesting

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but digesting the word and allowing the word of God to cellulate in you and becoming the

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biotics of Jesus Christ being conformed to his word that builds the capacity in you to

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rightly judge functioning without judging is detrimental put that in your notes functioning

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without judgment is detrimental first John 4 1 through 3 ok first John 4 y'all write

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that down first John 4 1 through 3 beloved do not believe every spirit but test the spirits

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whether they are of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world well

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how can you test the spirits to see if they are of God without judging are you seeing

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this how can you test the spirit to see if it's of God without assessing you can't judge

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the spirit if you don't possess the ability to distinguish between the spirit of Satan

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and the spirit of God verse 2 by this you know the spirit of God for every spirit that

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confess that Jesus Christ has come into the flesh is of God and every spirit that does

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not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirit

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of the Antichrist well in order for you to be able to differentiate and distinguish between

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the spirit of Christ and the spirit of Antichrist you have to be able to rightly judge second

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John 1 9 through 10 old today you're getting scripture today that's right you're getting

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scripture today I have nothing for you today well I never have anything for you other than

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the Bible second John 1 9 through 10 whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine

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of Christ does not have God he who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father

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and the Son if anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine do not receive him

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into your house nor greet him well how will you be able to determine whether or not they

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are bringing you the doctrine of Christ you have to have the ability to judge so away

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with this myth we are not to judge who are we to judge only God can judge me no God will

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judge you ultimately and in the end but he's not the only one there are persons of authority

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there are offices within the threefold and the fivefold that have been established that

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have been placed in the church in the kingdom of God for the purpose of judging now I close

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with this the coup de grace and I may have mispronounced it the grand finale first Corinthians

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5 verses 9 through 13 because again I am busting this myth that we have no right to judge it's

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not true and Paul in first Corinthians 5 9 again criteria criteria there's criteria there

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is criteria there's criteria and so those who have been placed in position of authority

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within the kingdom within the government of God okay first Apostles secondarily prophets

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thirdly teachers first Corinthians 12 27 28 and then the fivefold Ephesians 4 11 and he

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gave some apostles prophets evangelists pastors and teachers for the perfecting listen to

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first Corinthians 5 verse 9 I wrote to you in my epistle this is amplified not to keep

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company with sexual immoral people yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people

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of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or adulterers since then you would need to

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go out of the world oh that's a powerful statement in other words Paul is saying in my instruction

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for you in my instructions for you not to keep company with sexually immoral people

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he said I wasn't talking about the sexually immoral in the world the unsaved unregenerated

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I'm talking about the sexually immoral in the church he says because if I was talking

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about the unsaved then the only way for you not to be in their company is to leave the

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world because the world is filled of sinners such were some of us if it had not been for

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Christ verse 11 but now I have written to you not to keep company with any one named

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a brother so he's talking about quote unquote Christians who is sexually immoral or covetous

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or an adulterer or a rival or a drunkard oh I'm cussing so for you adulterers for you

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rivalers that means you people who always keeping up trouble you drunkards you drinking

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Christians talking about Jesus drank no he didn't and we'll do a podcast on that to

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help deliver you drunken drinking saints or an extortioner not even to eat with such a

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person he said don't even eat with them don't even have lunch with them don't break bread

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with them and he's talking about in the church so we have responsibility to judge within

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the church we have the responsibility to condemn because etymologically condemn is to inflict

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punishment inflict penalty so we have the responsibility when I say we I'm talking about

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God's officials I'm not talking about you laity and you're not backed by the institution

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I'm not talking about you who are not in position I'm talking about the apostle the prophet

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talking about the the teacher I'm talking about those whom have governmental authority

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in the kingdom of God pastors and senior leaders okay I'm not talking about you laity not

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talking about you ushers outside of your jurisdiction because if you're the president over the usherboard

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then you have that right to keep the ushers in line all right verse 12 for what have I

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to do with judging listen to this listen to this for what have I to do with judging those

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also who are outside Paul says those who are outside of the church those in other words

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outside of Christ let me use the Christ versus church those who are outside of Christ he

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says we don't judge them catch this we don't condemn them we don't inflict penalty or punishment

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upon them because they're already punished all of us enter into the world already condemned

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Christ gets us out of condemnation he says so there's no need for the church to judge

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the world or judge sinners because sinners the world they're already judged he says do

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you not judge those who are inside we ought to judge keep order ensure that there is structure

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to dispel the mayhem and the confusion that we are unfortunately seeing all up and through

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the church of today therefore put away from yourselves the evil person Paul says don't

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keep company Paul says don't eat with them Paul says put them out put them out put them

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out and so we have to as Christians as God's elect we have to ensure that we are that that

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our point of view let me say it this way we must ensure that our point of view and our

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perspective aligns with God's John 318 last scripture he who believes in him is not condemned

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this connects with first Corinthians 5 he who believes in Christ is not condemned you

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won't be punished eternally because you have been crucified with Christ hence you now live

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and the life you live you live through Christ and by Christ but he who does not believe

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is condemned already the sin is condemned already that's why Paul said we don't judge

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outside of the church because or outside of Christianity or outside of Christ because

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those outside of Christ are already condemned but he who does not believe is condemned already

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because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son so as the elect of God

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who are we to judge we are a whole lot to judge well I want to encourage you to share

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