Judging

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Judging

• No one really believes judging is wrong
• To say someone is living in sin-will be lost-is
  teaching errorthats wrong
• To say someone is a good person-theyre going to
  heaventhats O.K.
• In both instances are judgments are made!
• The truth is many only want to eliminate the
  negative aspect of judging

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments Matthew 71-20
• Many like to misquote Matt. 71
• "Judge not, that you be not judged.

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• "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with
  what judgment you judge, you will be judged and
  with the measure you use, it will be measured
  back to you. And why do you look at the speck in
  your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank
  in your own eye? Or how can you say to your
  brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'
  and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite!
  First remove the plank from your own eye, and
  then you will see clearly to remove the speck
  from your brother's eye. Do not give what is
  holy to the dogs nor cast your pearls before
  swine, lest they trample them under their feet,
  and turn and tear you in pieces.

Matthew 71-6
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Judging

• Forbidden judgments Matthew 71-20
• Many like to misquote Matt. 71
• Jesus isnt condemning all judgments (6)
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs nor cast
  your pearls before swine.

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments Matthew 71-20
• Many like to misquote Matt. 71
• Jesus isnt condemning all judgments (6)
• Must judge false prophets (15-20)

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• "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in
  sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous
  wolves.
• "You will know them by their fruits. Do men
  gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from
  thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good
  fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good
  tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree
  bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear
  good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
  Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Matthew 715-20
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Judging

• Forbidden judgments Matthew 71-20
• Many like to misquote Matt. 71
• Jesus isnt condemning all judgments (6)
• Must judge false prophets (15-20)
• Condemns judgments that are w/o merit,
  hypocritical merciless and hasty (3)
• And why do you look at the speck in your
  brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in
  your own eye?

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments Matthew 71-20
• Many like to misquote Matt. 71
• Jesus isnt condemning all judgments (6)
• Must judge false prophets (15-20)
• Condemns judgments that are w/o merit,
  hypocritical merciless and hasty (3)
• Paul echoes this in 2 Cor 135
• Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the
  faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know
  yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments Matthew 71-20
• Many like to misquote Matt. 71
• Jesus isnt condemning all judgments (6)
• Must judge false prophets (15-20)
• Condemns judgments that are w/o merit,
  hypocritical merciless and hasty (3)
• Paul echoes this in 2 Cor 135
• We will be judged in the same manner that we
  judge (1-2)

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He
  who speaks evil of a brother and judges his
  brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the
  law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer
  of the law but a judge. There is one Lawgiver,
  who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you
  to judge another?

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• They were showing partiality towards the rich
  (21-4)

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• My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.
  For if there should come into your assembly a man
  with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there
  should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes,
  and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine
  clothes and say to him, You sit here in a good
  place, and say to the poor man, You stand
  there, or, Sit here at my footstool, have you
  not shown partiality among yourselves, and become
  judges with evil thoughts?

James 21-4
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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• They were showing partiality towards the rich
  (21-4)
• They were praising God and speaking evil against
  their brethren (38-12)

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• But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly
  evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our
  God and Father, and with it we curse men, who
  have been made in the similitude of God. Out of
  the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My
  brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a
  spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the
  same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear
  olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring
  yields both salt water and fresh.

James 38-12
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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• They were showing partiality towards the rich
  (21-4)
• They were praising God and speaking evil against
  their brethren (38-12)
• Filled with envy and bitterness (314)
• But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in
  your hearts, do not boast and lie against the
  truth.

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• They were showing partiality towards the rich
  (21-4)
• They were praising God and speaking evil against
  their brethren (38-12)
• Filled with envy and bitterness (314)
• Filled with worldliness (41-5)

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• Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do
  they not come from your desires for pleasure that
  war in your members? You lust and do not have.
  You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight
  and war. Yet you do not have because you do not
  ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask
  amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
  Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that
  friendship with the world is enmity with God?
  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the
  world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you
  think that the Scripture says in vain, The
  Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?

James 41-5
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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• They were showing partiality towards the rich
  (21-4)
• They were praising God and speaking evil against
  their brethren (38-12)
• Filled with envy and bitterness (314)
• Filled with worldliness (41-5)
• They were unjust (56)

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• James 56
• You have condemned, you have murdered the just
  he does not resist you.

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Judging

• Forbidden judgments
• James asks, Who are you to judge? James
  411-12
• They were showing partiality towards the rich
  (21-4)
• They were praising God and speaking evil against
  their brethren (38-12)
• Filled with envy and bitterness (314)
• Filled with worldliness (41-5)
• They were unjust (56)
• Judged the Law by willful violation (29-13)

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• But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and
  are convicted by the law as transgressors. For
  whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble
  in one point, he is guilty of all.
• For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also
  said, Do not murder. Now if you do not commit
  adultery, but you do murder, you have become a
  transgressor of the law.
• So speak and so do as those who will be judged by
  the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy
  to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs
  over judgment.

James 29-13
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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724
• "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge
  with righteous judgment."

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 723
• If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath,
  so that the law of Moses should not be broken,
  are you angry with Me because I made a man
  completely well on the Sabbath?

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724,
  23
• Righteous judgment is judgment based upon the
  word of God Psalm 119123
• My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation And
  Your righteous word.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724,
  23
• Righteous judgment is judgment based upon the
  word of God Psalm 119123
• Must judge when one is in sin
• Who is taken in a trespass Gal 61
• Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any
  trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a
  one in a spirit of gentleness, considering
  yourself lest you also be tempted.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724,
  23
• Righteous judgment is judgment based upon the
  word of God Psalm 119123
• Must judge when one is in sin
• Who is taken in a trespass Gal 61
• Who is a sinner Jam 519-20

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• James 519-20
• Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the
  truth, and someone turns him back, let him know
  that he who turns a sinner from the error of his
  way will save a soul from death and cover a
  multitude of sins.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724,
  23
• Righteous judgment is judgment based upon the
  word of God Psalm 119123
• Must judge when one is in sin
• Who is taken in a trespass Gal 61
• Who is a sinner Jam 519-20
• Who is wicked 1 Cor 513

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• 1 Corinthians 513
• But those who are outside God judges. Therefore
  put away from yourselves the evil person.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724,
  23
• Righteous judgment is judgment based upon the
  word of God Psalm 119123
• Must judge when one is in sin
• Who is taken in a trespass Gal 61
• Who is a sinner Jam 519-20
• Who is wicked 1 Cor 513
• Who is disorderly 2 Thess 36

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• 2 Thessalonians 36
• But we command you, brethren, in the name of our
  Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every
  brother who walks disorderly and not according to
  the tradition which he received from us.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Were to judge righteous judgments John 724,
  23
• Righteous judgment is judgment based upon the
  word of God Psalm 119123
• Must judge when one is in sin
• Who is taken in a trespass Gal 61
• Who is a sinner Jam 519-20
• Who is wicked 1 Cor 513
• Who is disorderly 2 Thess 36
• Who causes divisions Rom 1617-18

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• Romans 1617-18
• Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause
  divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine
  which you learned, and avoid them. For those who
  are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but
  their own belly, and by smooth words and
  flattering speech deceive the hearts of the
  simple.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Judge whether a person is teaching truth
• Try the spirits 1 John 41-6
• Search the scriptures Acts 1711
• These were more fair-minded than those in
  Thessalonica, in that they received the word with
  all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily
  to find out whether these things were so.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Judge whether a person is teaching truth
• Try the spirits 1 John 41-6
• Search the scriptures Acts 1711
• Reject those who do not bring this doctrine 2
  John 9-11, Gal 16-9

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• Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
  doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who
  abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the
  Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and
  does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
  into your house nor greet him for he who greets
  him shares in his evil deeds.

2 John 9-11
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• I marvel that you are turning away so soon from
  Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a
  different gospel, which is not another but there
  are some who trouble you and want to pervert the
  gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel
  from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than
  what we have preached to you, let him be
  accursed. As we have said before, so now I say
  again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you
  than what you have received, let him be accursed.

Galatians 16-9
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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Judge whether a person is teaching truth
• Try the spirits 1 John 41-6
• Search the scriptures Acts 1711
• Reject those who do not bring this doctrine 2
  John 9-11, Gal 16-9
• Judge who is weak
• Uphold the weak 1 Thess 514
• Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are
  unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the
  weak, be patient with all.

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Judging

• Judging is commanded
• Judge whether a person is teaching truth
• Try the spirits 1 John 41-6
• Search the scriptures Acts 1711
• Reject those who do not bring this doctrine 2
  John 9-11, Gal 16-9
• Judge who is weak
• Uphold the weak 1 Thess 514
• Receive the weak Rom.141
• Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not
  to disputes over doubtful things.

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Righteous Judgment

• That which is required
• That which seeks to edify
• That which makes distinctions based upon the word
  of God
• That which is done only after careful
  self-examination
• Its Gods word that judges