Well here we are with part 3 of the series “Who are you to Judge?  It was questionable whether or not I should take the few minutes and right this out.  Right now my wife is in the hospital with the possibility of our second child coming early.  Our first Sarai was born at 30 weeks and now Micah just over 30 weeks seems to want to come out.  But I have a quick break and thought I would do part 3.  Once again this is all coming from  Matthew 7:1-6
We have covered alot of ground but today I want to look at verse 3 which clearly tells us that the judgmental critical person fails to look at themselves.  This person is very inconsistent in how they criticize and judge others as they refuse to look within first.  Here is the problem all too often we continue to look at everyone else’s failures and shortcomings, and we criticize, and backbite, and love to engage in the bad news.
You see when we do this we show that we have a very serious problem and that problem is this there is a giant beam in our own eye. Â We are blind to the truth that we are no better than anyone else. Â We too fail and fall short and we do it often. Â
In Matthew 7:5 we are call hypocrites for not taking the beam out of our own eye
In Romans 3:10 we are told no one is righteous so why do we think we can judge?
In 1 Corinthians 11:28 we are told to examine ourselves not examine others first.
In Isaiah 53:6 we are told that every last one of us has gone astray. Yet we want to judge others that have gone astray?
If “Christians” would stop looking at everyone elses faults and stop making feeble attempts to judge their motives and their thoughts and why maybe they did a certain thing and we just focussed on show the world that we are the disciples of Jesus Christ by our love for one another (John 13:35) then maybe we could make progress. Â Until then it will be much more of the same.Â
Come tomorrow when we hopefully have part 4. Â We will see how the critical, judgmental person is deceived about themselves.
