Stop Judging One Another
The definition for judging has to do with forming an opinion about something or someone.
Matthew 7:1-29… “Stop judging that YOU may not be judged; 2 for with what judgment YOU are judging, YOU will be judged; and with the measure that YOU are measuring out, they will measure out to YOU. 3 Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the rafter in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to extract the straw from your eye’; when, look! a rafter is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First extract the rafter from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to extract the straw from your brother’s eye.
The point the Christ is making here is that we all have problems, none of us are perfect and none of us can measure up to God’s standards that is why forgiveness is needed. None of us should be looking with a critical eye at our neighbor and our friends that is just wicked.
Learning the Value
6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw YOUR pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open. 7 “Keep on asking, and it will be given YOU; keep on seeking, and YOU will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to YOU. 8 For everyone asking receives, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking it will be opened. 9 Indeed, who is the man among YOU whom his son asks for bread—he will not hand him a stone, will he? 10 Or, perhaps, he will ask for a fish—he will not hand him a serpent, will he? 11 Therefore, if YOU, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to YOUR children, how much more so will YOUR Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him? 12 “All things, therefore, that YOU want men to do to YOU, YOU also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean.
We need to learn what is valuable in this life. Then share it with those who deserve it. Not everyone will appreciate the valuable things that are holy. That is why we should seek from God the things that he considers valuable and cherish them.
The Road of Life
We should never seek to take the easy way out when faced with life problems. Problems of this life help build our character, and it tests us.
13 “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it. 15 “Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep’s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16 By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? 17 Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; 18 a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. 19 Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Really, then, by their fruits YOU will recognize those [men].
Lord Jesus warned us that not everybody associating with us is going to be for God and his Kingdom. He gave us a clear direction to check out what these people teach, do, and see what the fruitage of their work proves itself to be.
Workers of Lawlessness
There will be people claiming to be on the Lord side. He will not be fooled, the qualifier for being on the Lord’s side has to do with following the will of God.
21 “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. 22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness.
If we are not working in harmony with God than we are truly against him it’s just that simple.
The Discreet Person
A discreet person is someone who is wise, has understanding in the depth of perception of the reality that surround them. So, Christ cautions us to be discreet.
24 “Therefore everyone that hears these sayings of mine and does them will be likened to a discreet man, who built his house upon the rock-mass. 25 And the rain poured down and the floods came, and the winds blew and lashed against that house, but it did not cave in, for it had been founded upon the rock-mass. 26 Furthermore, everyone hearing these sayings of mine and not doing them will be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. 27 And the rain poured down and the floods came, and the winds blew and struck against that house, and it caved in, and its collapse was great.
The Lord Jesus warns that the judgment is coming in the form of tribulation, floods, and downpours as the acts of God. When we seek to do what the Christ is teaching us. Then we are establishing ourselves upon this rock mass that is unmovable and is a raised platform above the floodwaters of this life.
Astonishment
28 Now when Jesus finished these sayings, the effect was that the crowds were astounded at his way of teaching; 29 for he was teaching them as a person having authority, and not as their scribes.
The teachings of Christ are astonishing and by reviewing them over and over again we are putting on the mind of Christ. As we rework the thought processes of our brains it begins to align with Christ. So, that are mode of action, our thought processes proved to be that of righteous people, a people seeking God’s holiness then we would truly be blessed.
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