It all comes down to the same thing; Jesus speaking to His DesciplesRead: Matthew 7:5:
You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your
brother's eye.
Then read:
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3709.0.htmlExcerpt from: Repentance Nashville Conference 2005
Repentance
Part 2
What I want you to see today is, that you are no better than this Hansan guy [when the audio began Ray was talking about this guy, but now is unable to recall his exact name] who killed and raped these little children. Your no better. Now I know you didn’t do it. But you are no better and that might be hard to believe, but I am going to try and show it to you.
You know the scripture that says, “Know ye that we should judge the world.”
And Paul says are you unworthy to judge in the littlest things? Don’t you know we will judge the world and you can’t even judge little things. You sue at the law, you sue your brothers at the law and so on, don’t you know we will judge the world?
Well let me ask you, if we are going to be judging the world one day, don’t you think we ought to be practicing? They say, ‘practice makes perfect,’ if we are going to do something.
We are the Lake of Fire, we will be judging man and the angels. Don’t you think we aught to have some practice at doing that then? Don’t you think we should be learning to judge now?
Well, we go to Matt. 7 and we read this, “judge not.” Is that a contradiction? “Know ye not that we shall judge the world and judge angels?” “Judge not.” Jesus Christ says in John 8:15, “I judge no man.” And He is the righteous judge of the world, but “I judge no man.” And in John 12;
John 12:46 I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes on Me should not remain in darkness.
v. 47 And if any one hears My Words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I do not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Well, how’s He going to judge the world if He says, I don’t judge any man, I didn’t come to judge the world and you should judge not. How does that fit? Does anybody have any ideas? Are these contradictions? Actually they are not.
As you judge, as you condemn. That sometimes, the same word can be used with two slightly different connotations. Though judgment can mean to do good and to set right, it can also mean to render a sentence. Which whatever you think you're going to render, it could be bad, because there’s always two possible sentences to be rendered, innocent and guilty right. Judgment means to render a sentence, it has no bias as to which way it renders the sentence, it just means to render a sentence. It could be guilty and it could be innocent. But this verse does not stand alone. We read this and it says;
Matt 7:1 “Judge not, that you may not be judged.
v. 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you shall be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, it shall be measured to you again.”
farther along we read:“When His disciples came unto Him.” He was up there in the mountains with only His disciples. Now understand Christ only talked to the masses in parables. But that doesn’t mean He didn’t also talk to His disciples in parables. He certainly did and here is a case of it. There are numerous parables in this, what we call ‘The Sermon On The Mount.” So what Jesus Christ is saying here, when He says, “And why behold YOU.” Who is the you? His disciples, these are not Pharisees and Pagans or the masses of Jerusalem and Judea or Galilee or whatever. These are His disciples. And He said, Why do you, you disciples of mine and maybe even at this point He was looking at one of His apostle’s when He said that. Because this is the very occasion where Jesus Christ picked his 12 apostles. It was at this time on this mountain, right here is where He hand picked 12.
“Mat 7:3 And why do you (My disciples) look at the mote in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam in your own eye?
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