Matthew 7
Judging Others
1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Three components of judgement
1) Gather information: assessment of your surroundings, and people
2) Assess the information
3) Render a verdict
Types of judgements
1) Protective Judgements -you are making these to protect those that God has entrusted to you
2) Corrective Judgements -
3) Judicial Judgements -discerning the difference between right and wrong
4) Accuracy Judgement
5) Moral Judgement
The Gospel is Judgement
John 3
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
When someone says to you, "do not judge", what they are really saying is, "do not tell me your verdict."
1) Why should you render a verdict on what you do. So
2) You can grow and conform to the image of Christ.
3) To protect those around you.
Render your verdict based upon the tools that God has given to you, the word of God, the Bible.
Share your verdict when it affects the advancement of the Gospel, and when it affects those who cannot help themselves.
How to share your verdict;
1) Share it with conviction
2) Be sure that it loves others
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