Sd#315

[theironhorse]

Sunday Dispatch #315


The sentence "Judge not, that ye be not judged" is usually quoted out of context. Christ did not enjoin us from ever judging.

What he went on to say in the next four verses is that we should judge ourselves before we judge others-not that we should never judge at all.

"Thou hypocrite," he said, "first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shall see clearly to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye."

Recognizing the potential for evil in moral judgements, he instructed us not to avoid making them but to purify ourselves before doing so. Which is where the evil fail. It is self-criticism they avoid.

We must always remember the purpose for which we judge. If it is to heal , fine. If it is to enhance our own self-esteem, our pride, then the purpose is wrong.

"There but for the grace of God , go I" is a reflection that should accompany every judgement of another's evil.

~ People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck

[HeavenBesideYou]

Right on!

A lot of people miss the mark on this one...

Heaven

[HeavensOnFire]

Quote: (Originally Posted by HeavenBesideYou)

Right on!

A lot of people miss the mark on this one...

Heaven

AMEN AND AMEN, GLORY TO GOD, and as long as they miss that meaning in there Lifes, THE LORD THY GOD SHALL BE THERE JUDGE, my pholisphy David, IS TO LOVE,EM ALL AND LET GOD SORT,em OUT, Glory To God, THE WORD NEVER FAILETH, Back To Old Test, We Can Back The Words Of Our Brother A Lord Jesus Christ,

[HeavensOnFire]

AND, I Turned To Myself To Behold Wisdom, And Madness, And Of Course Folly For What Can The Man Do That Cometh After The King, Even That Which Hath Already Be Done, AMEN Then I Saw That Wisdom Excells Folly As Far As The Light Excells The Dark The Wises Man Eyes Are In His Head, But The Fools Walk In Darkness, Of The Spirt In Fact Of THE CHRIST OUR LORD, And I Myself Perceived also that one event happeneth to theme all, then i said in my heart as it happend to the fools so has it happend to me, and why was i then more wise or any better than they Then I Said In My Heart This Is Also Vantiy AMEN, For There Is No Remembrance of the wise MORE THAN OF THE FOOL For ever Seeing That Which Nowe Is In The Days To Come Shall All Be Forgotten And How Dieth The Wise Man As The Fool, therefore i hated life because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me for all is vantiy and vexation spirt, AMEN AND AMEN,

[HeavensOnFire]

Oh Yes The Precious Teachings OF JESUS CHRIST KING OF KINGS, I SAY WOE, two men went up to the temple to pray, the one PHARISEE,And The Other a publican THE PARISEE Stood And Prayed Thus With Himself GOD I THANK THEE THAT IM NOT A SINNER AS OTHER MEN ARE EXTORTIONERS , Or Even As This Publican Oh I Fasted twice this week i give tiths of all that i possess, and the publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as eyes unto the heavens, but smote upon his breast Saying GOD BE MERCIFUL TO ME A SINNER, I TELL YOU THIS MAN WENT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER THAN THE OTHER FOR EVERYONE THAT ALTETH HIMSELF SHALL BE ABASED AND HE THAT HUMBLES HIMSELF SHALL BE EXALTED, Luke 17, 9 ,14,