Matthew 7:1 “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 For the way you judge others is how you will be judged — the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you. 3 Why do you see the splinter in your brother’s eye but not notice the log in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ when you have the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite! First, take the log out of your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter from your brother’s eye!
6 “Don’t give to dogs what is holy, and don’t throw your pearls to the pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, then turn and attack you. (Complete Jewish Bible)
Jesus actually got in trouble for his refusal to be judgemental toward people who everybody else (especially religious leaders) judged.
We must rain ourselves to hold people responsible, discuss their failures, and even assign penalties where that's an appropriate without attacking their worth or forgetting their dignity as human beings.
Matthew 7
Verse 2
[2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you — Awful words! So we may, as it were, choose for ourselves, whether God shall be severe or merciful to us. God and man will favour the candid and benevolent: but they must expect judgment without mercy, who have showed no mercy.
Verse 3
[3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
In particular, why do you open your eyes to any fault of your brother, while you yourself are guilty of a much greater? The mote - The word properly signifies a splinter or shiver of wood. This and a beam, its opposite, were proverbially used by the Jews, to denote, the one, small infirmities, the other, gross, palpable faults. Luke 6:41.
Verse 4
[4] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
How sayest thou — With what face?
Verse 5
[5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Thou hypocrite — It is mere hypocrisy to pretend zeal for the amendment of others while we have none for our own.
Then — When that which obstructed thy sight is removed.
Verse 6
[6] Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Here is another instance of that transposition, where of the two things proposed, the latter is first treated of.
Give not — to dogs - lest turning they rend you: Cast not - to swine - lest they trample them under foot. Yet even then, when the beam is cast out of thine own eye, Give not - That is, talk not of the deep things of God to those whom you know to be wallowing in sin. neither declare the great things God hath done for your soul to the profane, furious, persecuting wretches. Talk not of perfection, for instance, to the former; not of your experience to the latter. But our Lord does in nowise forbid us to reprove, as occasion is, both the one and the other.
Verse 7
[7] Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
But ask — Pray for them, as well as for yourselves: in this there can be no such danger.
Seek — Add your own diligent endeavours to your asking: and knock - Persevere importunately in that diligence. Luke 11:9. (John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes)
Will we remember what the message is about?
Verse 2
[2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you — Awful words! So we may, as it were, choose for ourselves, whether God shall be severe or merciful to us. God and man will favour the candid and benevolent: but they must expect judgment without mercy, who have showed no mercy.
Verse 3
[3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
In particular, why do you open your eyes to any fault of your brother, while you yourself are guilty of a much greater? The mote - The word properly signifies a splinter or shiver of wood. This and a beam, its opposite, were proverbially used by the Jews, to denote, the one, small infirmities, the other, gross, palpable faults. Luke 6:41.
Verse 4
[4] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
How sayest thou — With what face?
Verse 5
[5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Thou hypocrite — It is mere hypocrisy to pretend zeal for the amendment of others while we have none for our own.
Then — When that which obstructed thy sight is removed.
Verse 6
[6] Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Here is another instance of that transposition, where of the two things proposed, the latter is first treated of.
Give not — to dogs - lest turning they rend you: Cast not - to swine - lest they trample them under foot. Yet even then, when the beam is cast out of thine own eye, Give not - That is, talk not of the deep things of God to those whom you know to be wallowing in sin. neither declare the great things God hath done for your soul to the profane, furious, persecuting wretches. Talk not of perfection, for instance, to the former; not of your experience to the latter. But our Lord does in nowise forbid us to reprove, as occasion is, both the one and the other.
Verse 7
[7] Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
But ask — Pray for them, as well as for yourselves: in this there can be no such danger.
Seek — Add your own diligent endeavours to your asking: and knock - Persevere importunately in that diligence. Luke 11:9. (John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes)
Will we remember what the message is about?
Basically, do not judge!
Judging - the main content of the sermon.
Judgementalism is sneaky where we judge others.
Jesus says that there is a zero tolerance to judging.
Luke 11:43-46
Luke 11:43-46
Judge not.
Jesus was completely non judgemental wit sinners, judge those who judged others.
In Jesus life, there is not much condemnation.
Jesus spoke to tell people how good they are, not how bad they are.
The church should be the one place that is full of Grace, not a place of judgement.
Religiousness should be one of Grace, not judgementalism.
The most holiest person with no sin when he walked the earth was not judgemental.
When King David sinned in raping a married women, he had her husband killed. When David was approached by tge Prophet Nathan of his sin he repented his sin.
We must recognize the ability to speak up about their sins without condemning them as a person.
Example is how Jesus treated the woman at the well or the demon possessed man who Jesus healed both without judging.
Being non judgemental is not being walked over or mistreated. For me this is a fine line to speak up or be quiet and let God handle the person or situation.
God loves everybody the same.
Another example is the story of the prodigal son from demanding from his father what is his then went away and waisted everything then returns to be his father's servant but his father received as a son again. Then the elder son complains about the treatment of the returning son rather than a party for him because he was always with him. This is judging. Self righteous Christians do this same thing. Too often tragedy is taken by us as dramas that we believe we are better than those affected by tge tragedy.
How does the church community talk about rejection or condemnation? How we talking about these things? How we judge others as Jesus said we will be judged.
Do not judge, so you will not be judged.
Story of Peter who hears Jesus saying that all of them will run away, but Peter said he will not because he will deny Jesus three times before the rooster crows.
For us to be non judgemental we have to forgive the past and even the present where we may have judged rather than extend God's Grace and Mercy.
May we really be the church that loves. Amen.
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