Transcript Judging Others

Love your neighbor
Matthew 7:1-12
Matthew 7:1-2
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“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the
same way you judge others, you will be judged, and
with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
For if you forgive other people when they sin against
you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if
you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not
forgive your sins. Matthew 6:14-15
How do we judge?
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Discrimination (favoritism): My brothers and
sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus
Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a
man comes into your meeting wearing a gold
ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy
old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special
attention to the man wearing fine clothes and
say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the
poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor
by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among
yourselves and become judges with evil
thoughts? James 2:1-4
Pharisee and Tax Collector
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Comparison: “Two men went up to the temple to pray,
one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The
Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you
that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers,
adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a
week and give a tenth of all I get.’ 13 “But the tax
collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up
to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have
mercy on me, a sinner.’ 14 “I tell you that this man, rather
than the other, went home justified before God. For all
those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those
who humble themselves will be exalted.” Luke 18:10-14
Selfishness
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You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on
someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you
are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do
the same things. 2 Now we know that God’s judgment against
those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So when you, a
mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the
same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
Romans 2:1-3
Matthew 7:3-5
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“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your
brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your
own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me
take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there
is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the
plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly
to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
A judgmental person cannot admit he is wrong since
that would make him fallible just like those he judges.
God looks at the heart
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When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and
thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed
stands here before the LORD.” 7 But the
LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his
appearance or his height, for I have
rejected him. The LORD does not look at
the things people look at. People look at
the outward appearance, but the LORD
looks at the heart.” I Samuel 16:6-7
We should encourage others to
overcome their weaknesses
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Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught
in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should
restore that person gently. But watch
yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Galatians 6:1
Matthew 7:6
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your
pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under
their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the
wise and they will love you. Proverbs 9:8
Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent
words. Proverbs 23:9
Matthew 7:7-11
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone
who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the
one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him
a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your
Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
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God wants to give
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Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires
of your heart. Psalms 37:4
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than
all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at
work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in
Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and
ever! Amen. Eph 3:20-21
For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless. Psalm 84:11
Golden Rule
So in everything, do to others what you would have
them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the
Prophets.
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the
second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All
the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I
have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this
everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love
one another.” John 13:34-35
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Golden Rule
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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing
debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has
fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not
commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not
steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command
there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love
your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to a
neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Romans 13:8-10
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love
your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you
show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as
lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet
stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
James 2:8