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Benjamin Ng

Judge not

Father in heaven, Lord, thank you so much for this evening.

And Father, the fact that we're able to tune in live this evening, it shows that you've been merciful to us this past week.

And so Father, as we're coming together this evening, be with those that are still on their way or even considering or thinking of joining.

I pray that all those that do join in, all of us here, as we listen together, as we study together, may your Holy Spirit please grace us with Thy presence.

Draw us to Thy throne of grace and mercy to give us help in this time of need, Lord, for we are hopelessly lost unless You come and teach us.

And so Father, we invite your presence to be with us.

Please guide us now we pray in Jesus name.

Happy Sabbath to all those that are joining or that are here.

Don't forget to leave your comment of praise.

We are continuing our study on the Mount of Blessing.

We have gone through chapter 5 and chapter 6 already and we didn't start right at the beginning of this lockdown at Chapter 5 in our care group that we meet every Friday night at my house.

We studied together, we've been going through Matthew 5 until the lockdown came and then we switched it on to online.

But For all my care group members that have been coming to my house, all those that have been coming to my house every Friday night, I'm looking forward to that time we can meet up again soon.

And although the MCO was lifted a little bit, our group is still too big to be able to meet on Friday nights, but we're looking forward to that time when we can get back to normal again.

But for now, please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew 7, verses 1-5.

This is what we're going to be studying this evening.

The Bible says this, Judge not that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.

And Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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.

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.

Because they don't like people to judge them.

When sometimes people say things that the Bible seems to rub against them the wrong way and they go, hey, hey, don't forget, Sabbath is a holy day, let's keep it holy.

You know, We like to say things like that and get defensive and we tell people, don't judge me, you know.

And we like to use this text, judge not, don't judge that you be not judged.

But is that what really this text is saying?

Because, you know, it's very natural for all of us to judge.

Maybe as you got on the live stream you were judging, saying, how come nobody's there sitting at the chair?

How come the lighting is like this again?

It's because I only brought 1 light with me.

A person walks in and they're dressed a certain way, we judge.

We look from head to foot, we see the shoes are like that, we judge.

Judgment is really a very natural thing in our hearts and our minds.

So to tell a person, don't judge, it's very unnatural.

And that's not really what the Bible is referring to.

Does it really mean that we should never judge anybody?

Let's go to also a parallel passage found in Luke.

And I'm going to make sure I turn my Bibles there so that you're able to follow along.

The Bible says this, Judge not and ye shall not be judged.

Condemn not and ye shall not be condemned.

Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over shall men give into your bosom.

For with the same measure that ye meet with all, it shall be measured to you again.

This gives us a little bit of a different perspective.

Condemn not so that you won't be condemned, but forgive so that you'll be forgiven.

And we studied that before as well, 2 weeks ago.

Treat people the way that you want to be treated.

Treat someone, if you judge them, make sure that you're willing to take that judgment, it seems, in this setting.

And if you want to be forgiven, make sure you forgive.

You see, do unto others what you would like them to do unto you.

An eye for an eye it sounds like isn't it?

But look what would you, what you do to them they will do to you.

Let's turn our Bible to 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 3.

Let me tell you, this is not talking about just don't judge full stop.

1 Corinthians 6.3, know ye not that we shall judge angels?

How much more things that pertain to this life?

If we're going to judge heavenly beings 1 day, how can we not judge the things on this earth, right?

So those are heavenly beings, but on earth, they are smaller matters.

So yes, we will judge and judgment is Important.

What does the Bible say here about Moses?

And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses sat to judge the people and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

That was Moses' full-time job until he says, God, this is not good.

He had advice from his father-in-law, Jethro, and he says, look, you're gonna wear yourself out if you do this from morning to evening.

Find yourself some men and let God put his spirit on them and they can judge the small matters and you judge the big ones.

So from the very smallest of things to the biggest of things, we would judge.

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