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Now let’s continue on in Ezekiel 14, and, we’re going to see, that
what God is talking about here is part of the four judgments that He has
which are called My four sore judgments. The first one is noisome
beasts. Now remember in all of these if Noah, Daniel or Job were there,
they wouldn’t deliver but only their own lives. The next one, verse 17,
is the sword, and God says, “Sword, go through the land.” And then
the next one is pestilence. And again, in each case He says,
though Noah, Daniel or Job were there, the three most righteous men this
side of the flood. Then let’s come down here to verse 21, which
gives us a summary of it. “For thus saith the LORD GOD; How much
more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and
the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from
it man and beast?” Now there’s going to be a remnant that He says,
yet He says, verse 21—now this is also part of the pattern in judgment
of God—which is this, whenever He brings correction and judgment there
is also a remnant that fear God, and He is merciful to them. Verse
22, “Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought
forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth
unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be
comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem,
even concerning all that I have brought upon it. And they
shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall
know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it,
saith the LORD GOD” (Eze. 14:17, 21-23, KJV). So none of
the judgments of God are arbitrary. Now we need to understand
that, whether it’s for an individual, whether it is for a nation,
whether we can say, a state here in America, and so forth, or a city.
Now, we’ll just summarize some of these things. When God announced to
Abraham what He was going to do to Sodom and Gomorrah, and this was the
final judgment upon it. And let’s understand something here, which is
this, God probably had Lot who was witnessing to them all the time,
because it says there in II Peter, that Lot was frustrated with the
behavior of the wicked, when he saw what was going on. So apparently
Lot was the one who warned them. So the Lord and two angels came, and
Abraham met them, and God said well we’re not going to withhold what
we’re going to do from our servant Abraham here. So He told them what
they were going to do, and then Abraham bargained with Him from 50 down
to 10, remember that? But the way that he approached God was this,
he says, “Oh Lord God the judge of all the earth, shall you not do
righteously?” See, so that was a good way to petition God.
Now let’s understand a very important thing concerning our life and
our existence, our creation as God made us. God made us to make
personal choices. And personal choices are a matter of judgment. And
personal choices apply then, all the way down through as we have seen,
from a nation, to a King, to individual, to groups of people. So what
we need to realize is this, that when we understand it, life involves
choices. And choices are judgment. So life is filled with
discernment, decisions, and judgments. Now a lot of people don’t
like the word judgment, but the truth is, those who don’t like the word
judgment, judge everyone else for judging them in their evil, you know,
that’s how it goes, see. So, the truth is, we have been made to
judge, to choose, to decide. Now in our daily life we have to make
a judgment, decision, when do we get up? When do go to work? What
do we wear? What food we buy? What do we eat? What we are going
to read, what we watch on television. When we pray, when we study, all
of those things are individual judgments. Then you have financial
judgments that you need to make and so forth, purchasing things, buying
a home, renting a home, buying furniture, buying a car, paying our
bills, and all of those are all choices or judgments that we have to
make. And of course one of the most important or the greater, as
it were, financial matters that we do, we determine our increase and
what we render to God and what we render to Caesar. That’s all a part
of it. Now likewise with our family, we’re always making decisions
and judgments, and husband and wife relationships, child rearing and
things like this. Now how about in our spiritual life, we make
judgments don’t we concerning our relationship with God. We must choose
to love God. Now remember this, every choice or decision is a judgment,
because God made us to function by choices, decisions and judgments.
Now whether we have the Spirit of God or not, but having the Spirit of
God, the first choice is, that we love God with all our heart, mind,
soul, and being, right? And that’s key to our relationship with God, is
it not? Yes indeed. So, we need to really understand that and
realize how that is. Now here’s a very important part of how God
explains this. And let’s understand this, no person alive can live or
function without choices, decisions, and judgments, whether they know
God, or whether they don’t know God. So let’s come back here to
Deuteronomy 30. Now I know we’ve covered this many times in the past,
but you see, this is important for us to realize so that when we come
before God in our relationship with Him that we always remember that God
is perfect, His way is perfect, His laws are perfect, His you salvation
is perfect, His grace is perfect. And so when we come before God, we
make the decision to love God, to pray to Him, to worship Him, to exalt
Him and His son Jesus Christ, and His way, and His laws, and His
Commandments, and His truth, and His faith, and His hope, and His plan
for all mankind, you see. Now, God sets this before every human being.
Now let’s read it here, and let’s see what else God has said. He has
not made it difficult. That’s why there are so many Bibles in so
many languages. Now let’s pick it up here in verse 8, and go
through, and let’s again see something very important, repentance is
always involved in Gods consideration of judgment, in our relationship
with God. That’s why the model prayer tells us that we’re to ask God to
forgive us our sins daily as we forgive others. Now that is also a
matter of judgment isn’t it, in both cases. God forgiving us and us
forgiving other people, you see. God does not like it when you come to
God and boo-hoo, boo-hoo and ask God to forgive you your sins, and then
you get up off your knees and you go out and you are self-righteous and
judgmental and condemning the people, giving no grace, no mercy, no
understanding or anything like that. You have just defeated the very
thing that you pleaded God to give to you. Very important, so
there has to be repentance. Now He says here, verse 8, let’s begin
in verse 8, “And thou shalt return…” That is after you’ve gone
through all the curses, the enemies, and the judgment of God, “…and obey
the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee
this day.” Now you can add to that everything in the New
Testament, alright. “And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous
in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit
of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will
again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:”
If! See it’s conditional what we choose in our judgment,
decisions, and choices to do. “If thou shalt hearken unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments in his statutes
which are written in this book of the law…” “If” again. So
there we have two of them right in a row, don’t we? “…and if
thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul.” That’s important to realize. Now, when we do that
that, is an attitude of repentance, because whenever it says “If you
return,” in the Old Testament that means, if you repent and come back to
God. Now then He makes it very simple, verse 11, “For this
commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from
thee.” Not like they have today, not like the book on Jesus
papers, or the Gnostic Gospels, or the Da Vinci Code, where they have
got to go find it. Hidden away some place, in some dark little
corner, the super dungeon four stories below the castle, and you find a
little box that contains the secret of God, and you’ve got to have
someone find it and decode it for you. Nor is it buried in the
desert of Egypt because God hates and despises the things of Egypt, so
what makes you think any good can come out of there, you see? No, God
hasn’t done it this way. The thing that is obvious in the whole world
that everyone is overlooking, how many billions and billions of Bibles
are there in the world? And it has remained the number one best selling
book, almost forever. Why? Because God promised that it
would be published in all the world. So it’s not hidden from
anybody. And if a person doesn’t happen to have a Bible at home they
can go buy one. They can’t afford to buy one, then they can go to the
library and they can read one there. It’s available to everyone.
It’s not hidden from you, neither far off, it’s not in heaven.
Just think of all the work, and money that would happen if it was said
“Ah, it’s on Mars. God has hidden His word and His purpose. Now
we’ve got to develop this great rocket. We’ve got to develop men and
machines to go up there, to search and to explore, and to find it.”
“It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up
for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and
do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth.”
In other words, it’s in the language that you speak. Now that’s a
judgment God has given so that when He sets before every human being,
what we’re going to read here in just a minute, that they’re going to
say, “God why didn’t you ever tell me about this?” He’s going to
say “I did.” Verse 15, “See, I have set before thee this day life
and good…” And that’s what God set before Adam and Eve, all those
people before the flood, that’s what God set before Abraham, and then
Isaac and Jacob, and then the children of Israel, and before us, and
before every human being on earth, right? “…Set before thee this day,
life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day
to love the LORD thy God…” So that’s the—you see, the commandment
to love, becomes the primary one from which everything else that God
does flows. “…To walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments
and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply:
and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest
to possess it.” Now today it’s not the land that we’re going to
inherit, it is the Kingdom of God, and inherit a position in the Kingdom
of God to rule on the earth. So that’s the choice. First of all
God says, love Me, keep My commandments, My statutes, and My judgments.
I’ll bless you. Add to that everything contained in the New
Testament. Verse 17, “But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt
not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve
them; I denounce unto you this day.” And God gives warning,
doesn’t He? And what does He say, what did He say to the prophet
Ezekiel? He said, “If I give a warning, you are to tell the
people. And if you don’t tell the people, I’m going to judge you
accountable for not telling them, and their blood shall be upon you.
But if you warn, the wicked men to turn from his way, then you shall
save your soul, and his blood shall be upon him.” So here we have
the same thing here. God says “Alright, you want to go your way,
you want to worship other gods, you want to add all the pagan religion
to My way, and create yourself a pagan way of God, and a pagan
Christianity, “…I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely
parish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the
land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.” Now
here’s what God sets before every human being, and there is no doubt,
even atheist recognize that there is the earth and there is the heaven,
right? Yes. Meaning you’re without excuse. God didn’t have
witnesses, like the Mormons say, where it’s all written down on tables
of gold, and then that was translated and put on paper, and then revised
and revised and revised and no one is ever found the golden tablets
claimed by Joseph Smith. The reason is because they didn’t exist.
God doesn’t operate that way. He lays it all out front, lays it out in
the open, and He uses the heaven and the earth as a witness against all
human beings. What He says here, “I call heaven and earth to
record this day against you…” Meaning you have no excuse.
You’re free to choose what you want to do. “… That I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Now notice again, how
did He start out. Command you love God. How did he end up? He
says that “…Thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey
his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is your
life…” Not only physically, but eternal life. Everyone wants
eternal life, no one wants to die. Yet they don’t realize there’s
only one way to eternal life and that’s through Jesus Christ. And since
that is true, you can’t have it both ways. It’s either going to be
Gods way or no way. And if you go your way which is no way, then
all these things are going to come upon you. But notice His appeal,
“That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest
obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he
is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in
the land…” and you can put in there, in the kingdom of God and live
forever. “…Which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them” (Deut. 30:8-20, KJV). Let’s
understand a very important thing as we connect this to Gods judgment
with the people of God today. See we’re being judged all the time. Now
you need not fear that, because God is merciful and loving and kind and
forgiving and gracious.
Now and we’ll see that in just a minute, but let’s come here to I
Peter the 4th chapter, and let’s see that upon the church, it says it
very clearly, the judgment is now upon the house of God. So let’s
see that, I Peter the 4th chapter and this will give us some
understanding of what we’re doing, where we’re going, and so forth.
I Peter 4, and let’s pick up here in verse 17, “For the time has come
for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if the first
begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey
the gospel of God?” And yes, with great difficulty we enter into
the kingdom of God that is true. Because we have to overcome self,
we have to overcome sin, we have to overcome Satan. And the way
that this world is. Now notice, verse 18, “And if the righteous
are saved with much difficulty...” Now the reason that God wants
it that way is so that we come to really love God when we see how futile
our ways are, which is a judgment, isn’t it? That we come to see
how much we need God, His mercy, kindness, forgiveness and His spirit.
And how much we really desire eternal life and that’s what the judgment
is for. And the judgment is for life. If we continue in the way
that God wants us to go. Now, “…if the righteous are saved with much
difficulty, what will become of the ungodly and the
sinner? For this reason also…” Verse 19, “…let those who suffering
according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in
well doing, as to a faithful Creator” (I Pet. 4:17-19, FV).
Now, let’s come back here to Romans the 2nd chapter, and let’s see
how God works. And of course, much to the chagrin of a lot of
people who they that the only thing that comes out of the book of Romans
is Gods graciousness, Gods—how shall we say—grace and mercy and
forgiveness, and once we have that done, everything is all accomplished,
and you have eternal security. No, let’s see what God says here for Jew
and for Gentile both. And then we’ll see something very important
in the way that God operates and the way that God judges. Now
let’s pick it up here in verse 4, “Or do you despise the riches on His
kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the
graciousness of God leads you to repentance.” Now that’s the first
of Gods judgment, isn’t it? When a person sins Gods judgment is
not to come in and punish and destroyed immediately, unless the sin so
grievous that that requires it the first thing, but what does He do?
He leads you to repentance so it can be forgiven. He does that to draw
you to Him. God leads you to repentance. Now if you don’t,
verse 5, as we have seen, this is consistent with what we read in the
Old Testament isn’t it? So what He is doing here, He is laying out
the judgment of God on a spiritual basis now, right? Yes. Just like we
read back there in I Peter the 4th chapter, the judgment now is on the
house of God. So He’s making the difference here. “But you…”
I’m speaking primarily to the Jews in this particular case, but it
applies to anyone. “But you, according to your own hardness and
unrepentant heart…” Now if you keep resisting God, and if you’re
stubborn against God, and if you don’t do the things that you need to
do, if you don’t maintain a relationship with God, if you just set your
jaw, and set your mind to go against God, what are you going to do?
“…Are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and
revelation of God’s righteous judgment.” There it is, right there,
judge righteous judgment, that’s what we saw yesterday that Jesus said.
Now we’ll cover that a little bit later when we get in more detail in
how to judge. Now notice this, “Who will render to each one
according to his own works.” So God is going to do it on what you
do, not what you intend, but what you do. Not what you think, but
what you do, because all of your actions are a result of choice, or a
decision, or a judgment. Now some may be impetuous, so forth,
whatever they be, but nevertheless according to his own works. “On
the other hand…” Now he gives the comparison. Now notice how this
follows along with Deuteronomy 30, about setting before you life and
death, blessing and cursing, so forth. “On the other hand, to those who
with patient endurance in good works…” you have to keep doing it, “…are
seeking glory and honor and immortality...” He’s going to give
them “…eternal life.” But you have to seek it Gods way, of course
with all your heart, and mind, and soul, and being. Now, what did
it say here, for those who are seeking glory, and honor, and
immortality, and eternal life, now what did Jesus say? He says, “Seek
and you will find, knock and it shall be open. Ask and you shall
receive.” And everything you need to change and grow and over come,
with the help and strength and power of God, with His spirit in you,
with His love and mercy and forgiveness that He wants to pour out upon
you, which is the judgment that He wants to give to you, you see, then
He’s going to give you eternal life. Now on the other hand, so we
have the one hand, verse 7, verse 8, on the other hand. “On the other
hand…” Now I want you to think about this, not only in
relationship to the world, but I want you think about this of those in
the church who many have attitudes in degree that have some of this,
which need to be repented of because they’ve made the choice to do these
things. “On the other hand, to those who are contentious and who
disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
tribulation and anguish—upon every soul of man who works out evil.”
God is judging everyone on the earth, right? God is judging
everyone on the earth everywhere, all the time, one degree or another.
He’s judging His people after one standard; He’s judging the world after
another standard, which is by the letter of the law. “But…” verse
10, “…glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, both to
the Jew first, and to the Greek...” Verse 11, very
important “…because there is no respect of persons with God.” like we
saw yesterday, what happened for those who really didn’t want to believe
Jesus Christ, didn’t want to obey the truth, what did they say.
“Oh, we’re Abraham’s seed, therefore God has got to respect us.
We’re his descendants, how can God do anything to us? Even though
our works are as evil as they are.” No! “To everyone who works good,
both to the Jew first, and to the
Greek, because there is no respect of person with God.” Verse 12,
“For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law;
and as many as have sinned within the end the law shall be judged
by the
law” (Rom. 2:4-12, FV). Which is perfect and righteous and
holy and good. That’s how God judges righteous judgment, we need
to see that.
Now, let’s move into the area of how to judge righteous judgment.
So first of all we need to look at how we are not to judge. Now
let’s come here, first of all to Matthew 7. We’ll begin here in
verse 1. This is an important thing to understand, there are times to
make judgment, there are times not to make judgment. And then we
are going to see the greatest sin that people do and you see it every
night on the television news. “What do you think? What did
you hear? What is the latest from the grapevine? What is the latest
from your leak? Tell us!” We’ll see that in just a minute
here. Alright, Matthew 7:1 starts out with the attitude. You’ve
got to have the right attitude for judging in the first place.
Verse 1, “Do not condemn others, so that you yourself will not be
condemned.” Now let’s understand something that happens with all
people, all the time, you’ve done it, I’ve done it, everyone has done
it, and in particularly women do this more than men. They look at
people, see what they’re doing, and immediately condemned them in their
minds. “Oh look at what this person is doing.” And what happens
is this, you think about it for just a minute. Say you go shopping
and you see someone, and you look at them and you make a judgment, see.
Now if you’re overweight and you look at some one thin and you say, “Oh
boy I wish I could be like that.” If you’re someone thin, you look and
see the overweight and say “Oh, look at those overweight people, they
don’t have any control or anything about them.” What are you
doing? You’re judging their heart, you see. I’m firmly convinced
of this, every person who has access weight doesn’t want it. And
you need to rather than condemned them in your mind, to exalt yourself,
which is what you’re doing when you do that, you feel sorry for them,
and realize they don’t want to be that way. But unfortunately because
of the things that they do and some of the choices that they make, and
the inheritance that they have, they’re that way. But you don’t
know the heart and the mind, do you? No, that’s important to
understand. Let’s continue on here, in Matthew 7, “For with what
judgment you judge…” remember this “…you shall be judged…” And
there’s another scripture what says “If you desire mercy, you give
mercy.” Because the merciful man will receive mercy, the
unmerciful man or woman will not receive mercy. And too many times
in our judgment of people we want mercy for us but not for them, because
we know better and we have repented, and these people are rotten and
nasty. Now you let God judge them. Is God capable of judging
them? Yes. So He gives this, “…and with what measure you
mete out, it shall be measured again to you.” Never forget that.
“Now why do you look at the sliver that
is in your brother’s eye, but you do not perceive the beam in
your
own eye?” That’s the biggest stumbling block in judgment, the
perception of self. Rather than Gods way, Gods truth, Gods love,
Gods mercy, Gods law, and all that should come first. Not yourself
condemning perception of other people of who they are and what they are,
and what they are doing. Now notice, verse 4 “Or how will you say
to your brother, ‘Allow me to remove the sliver from your eye’;
and behold, the beam is in your own eye?” You know,
you can just imagine that, “Oh, I see a sliver in there,” and you’ve got
this big beam, and you go bong, hit him on the head, you know, and you
knock him out, “Oh, oh I’m sorry, I’m trying to get the sliver.”
Bong, you hit him again. And you bend down to get it out and bang
you hit him right on the forehead and almost blind him, you see.
That’s what Christ is talking about. So before you approach any
kind of judgment with other people, He says do this, “Examine yourself.”
That’s what He’s saying. Verse 5, “You
hypocrite, first cast out the beam from your own eye, and then
you shall see clearly to remove the sliver from your brother’s eye”
(Matt. 7:1-5, FV). That’s what’s important to do. Now,
what happens when people don’t do that? I want to cover something
very important here that we find listed not only in the Old Testament
but it is also in the New Testament. Let’s come here to Leviticus
19:16. Now when you see or perceive a problem. Now we’re going to
talk about this in just a bit, when not to judge. Now we might not
get it until tomorrow, but hold on, we’ll get there. Leviticus 19, and
let’s come here to verse 16. Now here is a command, “Thou shalt
not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.” That’s one
of the greatest problems between brethren within the Church. “Have
you heard? Did you know? Guess what I saw? Guess what so and so
did.” And you have no basis for understanding why they did it, what the
problem was, what their state of mind was, and so forth. “Neither
shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I
am the LORD.” Now notice verse 17, “Thou shalt not hate thy
brother in thine heart” (Lev. 19:16-17, KJV). And that’s what
happens when a lot of these things come up. When people start
condemning as Jesus said here in Matthew 7, “They judge and hate the
brother in their heart.” Now, we’re going to see a little later on,
because God is God of love and mercy and truth, He always leaves the
door open for repentance. And what happens is this, we all want it
for ourselves, but rarely do we desire it for the other person. We
want to slam the door and cut them off. Now if there’s totally
evil that’s going on, then that’s what should be done. Let’s come
here to proverbs 11:3, let’s see what else it tells us about this, about
talebearing, and so forth. And what it causes. Now we also
need to realize, that within the churches of God there is a lot of
talebearing, gossip and things going on, which, when we we’re finding
out about all the evil that was going on within the church, it wasn’t a
matter of talebearing necessarily, but it was a matter of an underground
conveyance of truth so that we would know what’s going on, so in that
case you need to differentiate from that. Let’s come here Proverbs
11:3. Let’s come down to verse 13 instead of 3, I misread my
notes. Proverbs 11:13. Now notice, this applies to other things
too, “A talebearer revealeth secrets.” Now if someone confides
something to you, you are never to repeat it to anyone else. And I
make that an absolute rule in what I do in counseling people. I do
not discuss my counseling with any of the brethren, with anyone else,
unless I need wisdom from one of the elders. I do not discuss it
with my wife, I do not discuss it with anybody else in the church,
because if a person has a problem and difficulty they need to overcome,
they need the encouragement of understanding that when they come to a
minister they are not going to be embarrassed to have someone else tell
it back to them, because the minister has a big blabbing mouth, you see.
Notice what it says, “But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the
matter” (Prov. 11:13, KJV). While you are overcoming the
difficulty. Now this doesn’t mean that you are condoning sin.
This means that it is a matter that needs to be solved and you don’t go
blab it to everyone on earth. And of course today with the telephone,
with the internet, with everything we have, wammo, everything can be out
there and it can gain a life of itself, and it can burn, and it can
destroy. You need to understand that. I’ve been through all of
these things myself. I know what I’m talking about with it, and I
know what it is with people and the things they have, and the things
that they do. Let’s come here to Proverbs 18:8. Now remember
this, once you say it, you can’t take it back. And what does it
do? Now this is all a part of getting rid of the beam that is in
your eye, to help someone who has the sliver in his eye. “The
words of a talebearer
are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the
belly” (Prov. 18:8, KJV). Right into the innermost part of
your being. And how many relationships have been destroyed,
because people are tale bearers? They just can’t wait to run up
and down in the camp, with the phone, “Did you know? Did you to
hear? I’ve talked to so and so. Oh, did you see this?
Did you see that?” Now we’ll talk about that a little bit later
when we come to it.
Let’s come here to Proverbs 26:20. Something else that is also
important. Now what does all this cause, in addition to hurt
feelings and difficulties? Now verse 20, Proverbs 26, “Where wood
is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no
talebearer, the strife ceaseth.” And I’ve seen this and
experienced it in the church, right? Yes indeed. See,
because some talebearers, not only being gossips, become very
contentious. And I know when I was dealing with a very severe
matter, that there were people who were so impatient that they couldn’t
wait, and they wanted their judgment, rather than letting me take my
time to get all the facts, which we’ll talk about later, you see.
What did they do? They had to get on the phone, and they had to
call people in Canada, and they to call people in other states.
[Whispering] “Did you know? Did you hear?” And didn’t have
all the facts. Now they may have had some, but you see what
happens when you do this? You close the door for repentance, you
close the door for a person to come back, and you create strife and
contention. Now let’s read the next verse, “As coals are
to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to
kindle strife. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and
they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Burning lips…”
Can hardly wait to talk. “…And a wicked heart are like a
potsherd covered with silver dross. He that hateth dissembleth
with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; when he speaketh fair,
believe him not: for
there are seven abominations in his heart.” And we’ve also
seen that too, haven’t we? And how many times have talebearing
been lying? Do you know all the facts? Where you there? Did
you see it? Did you understand it? Did you know what was going on
in the mind of the person? Or did you assume it? Did you
make a judgment against it? What did you do? Now we’re going
to see, there are times not to judge. Now remember this, “A lying
tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it...”
Verse 28, “…and a flattering mouth worketh ruin” (Prov. 26:20-25, 28,
KJV). Because they do not have righteous judgment. Now we’ll
continue tomorrow and understand when we are not to judge.
Feast of Tabernacles – Day 4 – 2006
Judge Righteous Judgment #1
Scriptural References
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Revelation 20:4, FV
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John 5:27, FV
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Psalm 75:4-7. KJV
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Psalm 96:133, KJV
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Hebrews 12:22-23, FV
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Psalm 50:3-4, KJV
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Psalm 18:30, KJV
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Psalm 12:6, KJV
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Psalm 19:30-32, KJV
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Matthew 5:48, KJV
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Psalm 18:33-35, KJV
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Psalm 19:7-10, KJV
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Jeremiah 4:2, KJV
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Isaiah 61:3, KJV
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Psalm 11:4-7, KJV
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Jeremiah 18:7-10, KJV
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Ezekiel 14:17, 21-23, KJV
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Ezekiel 14:17, 21-23, KJV
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Deuteronomy 30:8-20, KJV
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I Peter 4:17-19, FV
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Romans 2:4-12, FV
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Matthew 7:1-5, FV
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Leviticus 19:16-17, KJV
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Proverbs 11:13, KJV
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Proverbs 18:8, KJV
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Proverbs 26:20-25, 28, KJV
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