Basildon Healing Mission
(Eastside World Outreach Ministries)
Reg Charity 1115487
DO NOT JUDGE
Matt 7:1 DO NOT judge {and} criticize {and} condemn others, so that you may not be judged {and} criticized {and} condemned yourselves.
Matt 7:2 For just as you judge {and} criticize {and} condemn others, you will be judged {and} criticized {and} condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.
This is not a suggestion this is a commandment it is as important as love your neighbour as yourself believe me there are many angles to love, one of the greatest is to forgive and not Judge.
It is so easy to sit in Judgment on other people to criticise others to look at there life styles their families their way of doing things.
To be impatient and set high ideals for them to be disappointed when they do not measure up to your ideals for them and to judge them as less than yourself. Where do you get the measuring stick from how have you mapped it what are the markers, How many points do people need to score to be accepted by you? How rich do they have to be, how well spoken do they have to be? How should they be dressed to fit in with your ideals?
There is an old expression never judge a book by its cover but how we do that, in a few minutes of meeting people we are already thinking do we really like them. Something about them irritates us so we condemn them.
But what give us the right to sit in Judgment on others.
When we do this to others we should not then be surprised if they too sit in judgment on us.
How do you like being judged by others being talked about behind your back being looked down on criticized because you are different and do not quite measure up to their expectations of you?
Maybe you have spoken to someone on the phone and you have an idea in your head what this person is like but when you meet them their not what you expected and even though in the phone conversation you had made plans with them upon meeting them now you are not so sure.
Why should what someone looks like make a difference to how we treat them?
Jesus warns about this when we offer the best seat in the house to the wealthy well dressed person and struggle to allow the smelly tramp in at the back. When the well dressed person is probably here to sit in Judgment on you and the tramp is searching for the Lord. Who does God want to hear from more, but then how can we judge that situation?
What we need is not to judge but to be impartial and treat all people as we would like to be treated without Judgment – AMEN!
We have not been given authority on earth to sit in Judgment of others that is what he is telling us not to do but to remove all strife and to stop pointing the finger and accusing others of things or cursing them by saying they will always be like that, never living up to much, always in Sin, always unemployed, always a drunk, always a loser, etc etc and they will never change.
Is 58:9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, {and} wicked speaking,
Matt 7:3 Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of {and} consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?
Matt 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam of timber in your own eye?
Matt 7:5 You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye.
We have to gird ourselves with the truth and see how our actions measure up with the word of God. How is your view perfect with how do you measure when you look at the problems in your brothers life have you stopped to consider how you are with the Lord. Are you considering what is best for your brother because it’s what you would do or if it is what Jesus would do.
The problem is that people don’t realize the power of the spoken word we are warned by Jesus about its use in that it can bless and condemn us. Man is in fact not made impure by the things that he eats but the things that he says for his words reflect what is within his heart.
Matt 5:22 But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother {or} harbours malice (enmity of heart) against him shall be liable to {and} unable to escape the punishment imposed by the court; and whoever speaks contemptuously {and} insultingly to his brother shall be liable to {and} unable to escape the punishment imposed by the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, You cursed fool! [You empty-headed idiot!] shall be liable to {and} unable to escape the hell (Gehenna) of fire.
The issues in our own life our sins can cloud our judgment even when we are trying to help others we must try to be non judgmental and look at the situation from all angles not letting our own thoughts cloud what is actually the right thing to do but looking to the word of God it easier than you realize but so hard to actually do pray for the Lord to change you fist take out the plank of wood from your own eye so you can see clearly.
Ask yourself What Would Jesus Do?
John 8:3 When the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court and put the case before Him.
John 8:4 Teacher, they said, This woman has been caught in the very act of adultery.
John 8:5 Now Moses in the Law commanded us that such [women--offenders] shall be stoned to death. But what do You say [to do with her--what is Your sentence]?
John 8:6 This they said to try (test) Him, hoping they might find a charge on which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger.
John 8:7 However, when they persisted with their question, He raised Himself up and said, Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.
John 8:8 Then He bent down and went on writing on the ground with His finger.
John 8:9 They listened to Him, and then they began going out, conscience-stricken, one by one, from the oldest down to the last one of them, till Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing there before Him in the centre of the court.
John 8:10 When Jesus raised Himself up, He said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned you?
John 8:11 She answered, No one, Lord! And Jesus said, I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and from now on sin no more.
The Pharisees had judged and condemned the woman as just a sinner caught in adultery whose only punishment was death by stoning; they were not looking at the woman herself. The person behind the situation the one they were judging. Jesus saw the woman, he saw the situation he saw her heart and there heart and what they were doing was way off line they had lost the plot. Jesus saw through the red mist of their anger and hatred and said “let him who is without sin cast the first stone”. This is very important if we truly kept a perspective we would realize that in judging others we are in fact truly condemning ourselves. Matt 7:1-2
Matt 7:1 DO NOT judge {and} criticize {and} condemn others, so that you may not be judged {and} criticized {and} condemned yourselves.
Matt 7:2 For just as you judge {and} criticize {and} condemn others, you will be judged {and} criticized {and} condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.
Are we not just chaff blowing in the wind a flower which withers and is no more how have we any right to judge?
John 5:30 I am able to do nothing from Myself [independently, of My own accord--but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders]. Even as I hear, I judge [I decide as I am bidden to decide. As the voice comes to Me, so I give a decision], and My judgment is right (just, righteous), because I do not seek {or} consult My own will [I have no desire to do what is pleasing to Myself, My own aim, My own purpose] but only the will {and} pleasure of the Father Who sent Me.
Prayer
Lord Jesus I come before you now and ask that you forgive me for judging others Lord take away this spirit of judgment from me so that I may walk continually in forgiveness and not in condemnation of others.
Lord teach me to forgive and not to hold criticism or falsely accuse or Judge others but to learn to walk as you have commanded me.
I ask you to forgive my sins which I know are many. Thank you Lord Jesus
AMEN
Matt 6:14 For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matt 6:15 But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses.
Rom 14:13 Then let us no more criticize {and} blame {and} pass judgment on one another, but rather decide {and} endeavor never to put a stumbling block {or} an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother.
God Bless
Bishops Tony and Marilyn