09/19/17 REALLY IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ AND HEED

09/19/17 REALLY IMPORTANT. PLEASE READ AND HEED
(There is a plague of brokenness in our society, and very few healers. In fact, very few who are crying out against those who profess salvation, but refuse to be the peacemakers.)

How many broken relationships would be mended if the professed believers would live by the directives of Jesus to not judge one another? He clearly said that any judgment we render should be consistent with the facts of our own lives. We cannot condemn in others, what we allow in ourselves. A double standard of judgment is the same as being a false witness. When we are judging others, it is essential to get godly counsel from spiritual people to establish the justice and love and honesty of the situation.

The story of Jesus telling the people who were about to execute the woman taken in adultery illustrates the wisdom of Jesus here. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Don't miss the point, such judgment is a sentence of death. Also don't miss the thought that our words can be the stones that kill others.

The biggest difference in the illustration of the woman taken in adultery is that it was the woman who was about to die. When we judge others with prejudice or anger or self righteousness, we are condemning everyone involved in the situation to suffer death in some form.

Jesus did say that we need to make sure that we are fit to judge. If we fault someone and condemn their whole family for the same kind of thing that others see in us, then we are in error, as much as the person we are condemning.

God told Paul that judging others in this fashion will bring us into the same judgment. Let me point out, sometimes the judgment that we incur falls upon our house, our family, our children our grandchildren.

While there are rare occasions for people to withdraw from other people, there is never any reason to be unkind, unloving, insensitive, irreconcilable. Though children will not be condemned for the sins of their parents, children often suffer for the sins of their parents. Don't heap suffering on the children. God will not hold us guiltless if we harm children.

Children (of all ages) should seek the wisdom of spiritual leaders (pastors, parents, mature believers) concerning the legitimacy of withholding the offer of reconciliation from someone.

PLEASE, BE THE RECONCILER. IT IS WORTH THE COST. REMEMBER THE COST OF OUR RECONCILIATION TO GOD WAS THE TORTURE, PAIN, SCANDAL AND DEATH OF JESUS.

DON'T SKIP PAST THE DIVINE WITNESS AND WISDOM OF THESE PASSAGES. READ WITH HUMILITY, COMPASSION, SUBMISSION.

Matthew 5:23-26
(23) Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
(24) Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
(25) Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
(26) Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Matthew 7:1-5
(1) Judge not, that ye be not judged.
(2) For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
(3) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
(4) 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?
(5) 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.

Matthew 18:21-22
(21) Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
(22) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Mark 11:25-26
(25) And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
(26) But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Luke 6:37-42
(37) Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
(38) 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 mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
(39) And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
(40) The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
(41) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
(42) Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

Romans 2:1-3
(1) Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
(2) But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
(3) And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?