Five Judgments

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Five Judgments

• That Affect Christians

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1) Judging Yourself

• But let a man examine himself, and so let him
  eat of the bread and drink of the cup (1 Cor.
  1128)
• Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the
  faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know
  yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless
  indeed you are disqualified (2 Cor. 135)

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1) Judging Yourself

• And by this we know that we are of the truth,
  and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if
  our heart condemns us, God is greater than our
  heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our
  heart does not condemn us, we have confidence
  toward God (1 Jn. 319-21)

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2) Judged by Fellow Believers

• Paul Judged a Brother in Sin
• 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present
  in spirit, have already judged (as though I were
  present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the
  name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are
  gathered together, along with my spirit, with the
  power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a
  one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
  that his spirit may be saved in the day of the
  Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 53-5 cf. 1 Tim. 118-20)

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2) Judged by Fellow Believers

• Christians Must Judge and Discipline Other
  Christians to Keep the Church Pure
• 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 (2
  Thess. 36)

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2) Judged by Fellow Believers

• Christians Must Judge Between Christians
• 4 If then you have judgments concerning things
  pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who
  are least esteemed by the church to judge? 5 I
  say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is
  not a wise man among you, not even one, who will
  be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But
  brother goes to law against brother, and that
  before unbelievers! (1 Cor. 64-6)

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JUDGMENTS to be AVOIDED

• judging others with partiality (Jas. 21-4)
• judging others for sin that we are engaged in
  (Rom. 21-11, 21-24 Mt. 71-4)
• judging others over personal but permissible
  difference (Rom. 141-6)
• BEWARE false teachers claim Romans 14 allows us
  to differ over doctrinal matters!
• BEWARE other false teachers claim Romans 14 has
  no modern application regarding maintaining
  fellowship over differences!

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MDR Romans 14?
marriage, divorce and remarriage

• if brethren agree on the doctrine one man bound
  to one wife with only one exception for one to
  divorce remarryfornication (Matt. 199) then
• one may judge that adultery doesnt need to be
  written on the papers
• one may judge that the guilty fornicating mates
  speed to divorce doesnt affect the faithful
  spouses right to ever remarry
• one should be allowed to exercise longsuffering
  and patience to her unfaithful spouse!
• one may judge that a Christian can put away their
  mate for the kingdoms sake (reasons that were
  hostile to her faith) without sin as long as
  he/she does not remarry
• one may judge that death severs the put-away
  fornicators marriage bond

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Circumcision Model

• circumcision was commanded to the Jews, Moses
  therefore gave unto you circumcision. . . (Jn.
  722)
• some Jewish converts were demanding Gentiles to
  be circumcised in order to be right with God
  (Acts 151)
• note dogmatism
• was troubling (1524)
• was not commanded
• circumcision is nothing (1 Cor. 719)
• if Christians want their children circumcised
  today, they cannot condemn other Christians who
  chose not to!

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Reverence Model

• God is to be held in great reverence (Ps. 338
  897 1119 Lev. 103 Mt. 69)
• Our words are to be acceptable in His sight (Ps.
  1914 Col. 317)
• some brethren choose to use pronouns thy, thee
  thine in prayer
• others choose to use you, your in prayer
• both agree on reverence and both are reverent
• neither should condemn the other for being less
  reverent by binding a certain word
• none should seek to create a thy, thee thine
  faction.
• thy, thee thine are used for mortals and God
  alike in the KVJ (Gen. 121 1314 etc.)

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Sabbath Model

• God required Jews to keep the Sabbath Day holy
  (Ex. 208)
• God required to do no work (Ex. 2010)
• Jesus and the Pharisees agreed that the Sabbath
  was to be holy and that no work was to be done on
  it!

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Sabbath Model

• Yet, they differed on applications
• walking through the grain fields and rubbing
  grain in your hands didnt violate the Sabbath
  according to Jesus. . .but it did according to
  the Pharisees (Mt. 121, 2, 7)
• working good didnt violate the Sabbath
  according to Jesus (Mt. 1210-12)
• doing the laborious work of a priest in the
  Temple on the Sabbath didnt violate the Sabbath
  according to Jesus (Mt. 125)
• The Pharisees were wrong in condemning Jesus and
  His disciples over these applications!

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There is a Time to NOT Let Another JUDGE YOU!

• Was Jesus passive when falsely accused of
  breaking the Sabbath?
• So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or
  regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths
  (Col. 216)
• Let not him who eats despise him who does not
  eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him
  who eats for God has received him (Rom. 143)
• 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 (Jas. 411)