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Tuesday, December
11, 2007
Right
Back at You
Matthew 7:1-2 Judge not, that
ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and
with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (KJV)
Why is everyone so concerned
about everyone else’s business? Did you reach some point of perfection,
that now you can go out and analyze everyone else’s walk and tell them how
to live? Have you ever heard the verse, he that is without sin can cast the
first stone?
James 4:11-12 Speak not evil
one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth
his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou
judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one
lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest
another? (KJV)
Let me ask this question,
that thing you spoke about behind someone’s back is it something you could
have said to their face? Or possibly it is something that should have been
said to their face, before you decided to say it to everyone else’s. How
many times have you got all worked up and excited about confronting
someone, only to find out that when it came time to deliver the message, it
came out completely different than what you thought? That’s called
imaginations, which the Bible says we are to cast down, not entertain and
speak out on, especially against the brethren, God’s people. Whatsoever is
not of faith is sin. So if you are not able to speak it face to face, then
like the old saying goes, ‘if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything
at all’.
Galatians 5:15-16 But if ye
bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of
another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the
lust of the flesh. (KJV)
Did you ever see the poster
of a bunch of wolves disguised in sheep’s clothing, and the one takes his
mask off and realizes there are no more sheep left, only wolves. That
basically sums up what happens when the Church is no longer walking in the
spirit, but in the flesh, and making judgments based on their own carnal
thinking and no longer in line with God’s. So eventually what goes around,
comes back to bite you. So if you have been backbiting, it won’t be long
before you get the same in return.
Psalms 101:5 Whoso privily
slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look
and a proud heart will not I suffer. (KJV)
The Lord doesn’t think to
highly of those that make false accusations against His people, and if you
don’t obey His rules you will find yourself in contempt of His court and
will be asked to leave. There is one judge and one lawgiver who wrote the book
and is the author and finisher of our faith, so unless you think you can do
a better job than Him, you might well leave it to Him to handle judgment.
Matthew 7:3-5 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. (KJV)
Oh my, you have all the
answers except one, how to live your own life and walk a walk that is
pleasing to the Lord. So just about the time you decide to judge others and
straighten them out, the Lord comes right back at you and says, ‘hey
hypocrite, just possibly that thing you see in someone else is actually a
reflection of yourself, and that is why it is irking you so much’. So
before you decide to clean out someone else’s closet, make sure you got all
the skeletons out of yours first, and then you will see clearly how to
handle the situation in love and not anger.
1 Corinthians 4:3-5 But with
me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's
judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet
am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore
judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to
light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of
the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. (KJV)
Do you know that sometimes we
are our own worst critics? Sometimes we sell ourselves short because of
what others think of us, or have said about us. Did you ever stop and think
that the Lord doesn’t even want us to judge ourselves, but rather leave
that to Him as well? Now true, there are those that think more highly of
themselves than they should, and are what is referred to as legends in
their own minds. You too can sell yourself short and miss your calling,
because you try and compare yourself with others and how they walk, rather
than realizing God made you unique, and has a calling and a place in the
body of Christ that only you can fill. Without you being in the place He
would have you be, you rob Him the opportunity to bless you the way He
intended. Like Paul himself wrote, ‘it is so small and trivial what others
think of me, or how I am judged by them, because it is only by the Lord’s
standards that I am justified’; because of that attitude God was able to
use him to write a good portion of the epistles.
Romans 3:3-4 For what if some
did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when
thou art judged. (KJV)
Just because others don’t believe
the word of God, will you let that affect you? Just because others judge by
the outward and are more concerned with pleasing man than God, are going to
let that affect you? Come the judgment day you will pass or fail by one
standard; I chose God and His word to be true above and beyond what anyone
else thought or said and let man be the liar; or I will believe man and
call God the liar.
Galatians 6:1-3 Brethren, if
a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one
in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear
ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man
think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. (KJV)
Will you react in the flesh,
or respond in the spirit? The fact that God is a spirit, then only those
that serve Him and worship Him in spirit and it truth will God use to bring
about healing and restoration to situations that arise in the body, which
will be based on His judgments and love and not some condescending self
righteous attitude. So it’s your decision this day, choose who you will
serve, because with what measure you put out, is what is coming right back
at you.
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