Yes... You Can Make A Judgement About People
When we think of the word Judge. Most people lean on the way judge or judgement is used in our society. In our society...a court of law... when a verdict is rendered a penalty is assessed by the judge. The verdict was made based on the weight of the evidence presented. The judge issues the penalty based on the verdict. The verdict IS condemnation. The judge issues the penalty. So when people hear the word JUDGE they think about the entire process of condemning based on our experience with what we see in the land.
Many people who see people doing things that God says not to do are quick to say "I am not going to judge that person." They say that because they are thinking of their own issues they have not been willing to let go of... so they don't want someone to "render a verdict" on them for still being in bondage to that vice. The word of God has not set this kind of person free yet because this person has not fully embraced God's will and way. We overlook the compelling evidence which is what we see demonstrated before us. We turn a blind eye to it because we want others to turn a blind eye to what we are demonstrating. This is what we call the blind leading the blind. Some people choose to be blind even when the truth is right before them. They choose to be blind because they want God to ignore what they choose to do opposite of God's will and way. But God does not work that way. He doesn't turn a blind eye to those things. There is a FINAL JUDGEMENT which must come to pass.
The word of God sounds the alarm before final judgement which only He can administer. The Bible is Righteous Judgement. In other words, this is God's contract with us. There are some things we must do and there are things He must do. And it is spelled out in written form so everyone can be clear. Now, when what we do does not line up with what is written... what is written assesses (makes a judgement) where a person is at this moment before final judgement. The written word sounds the alarm (this is the assessment or judgement) but it is not final judgement. It's a notification of sorts to get our attention and then show us the right way. If we choose to ignore what is written and continue on demonstrating (walking it out) the things that are not pleasing to God.... Our demonstration (how we live) will be the evidence that determines whether or not we fully embraced Jesus' way or a Galatians 5:19-21 world's way, For it is written that we can not serve two masters. We can not be lukewarm to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. For it is better that a person chooses to be cold or hot... but not lukewarm. Lukewarm is the same as being cold of God's way because a person in this position has not fully embraced God's way....yet the person who is lukewarm thinks straddling the fence will get Him greener pastures if he plays both sides of the fence. Hence... the attempting to serve two masters..
Remember: the word of God is RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT. Study it to see what it says. Look around you to see who is living what it says. But first we must look at ourselves to see if we are living it before looking around us. When we are LIVING IT... now we have the eyes to see things God's way. For it is written, those who have the ability to naturally do what is written, has the word of God written in their hearts. This is because that person has genuinely repented and invited Jesus in who will be the High Priest over your life.
When we fully embrace his will and his way... we are now only serving ONE master. God through Christ Jesus. Here's what happens when we have a genuine repentant heart and a contrite spirit that wants change in our lives... For it is written that Jesus sends us the Holy Spirit to dwell in us. It's the power of God through Christ Jesus that gives us the ability to overcome anything that had us in bondage. This happens because we have completely embraced His will and His way. Not a half will and half way... but a FULL WILL AND WAY. We are OBEDIENT to His Word and now we have the power of Grace to lead us out of what had us in bondage. Grace is the POWER Jesus demonstrated while on the earth. It's that power...GRACE... which overcomes this world (Carnal Nature). We did not earn it, therefore it was freely given to those who completely embrace His Will and His Way. And now we will LIVE IT. This means what people see in the land from us behind the scenes and in front of everyone will be that which is written in our hearts. God's Holy Spirit dwells in us because we were genuinely ready to embrace His way.. His will for us. His will is that none of us should perish. But we have to choose to do it His way for it is written.
Now.. back to judging. For it is written that those who have His Spirit (the word written on their hearts) can judge all things. It did not say you can render a verdict. It said to make a judgement about what you see. You can only do that when He is in you... His word written on your heart because His word is RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT. But those who do not have Him in their hearts (EMBRACING HIS WAY COMPLETELY) can not make judgements about people because they don't want anyone to point out their lukewarm status. They don't have His word in their hearts yet so their assessment will be based on their own understanding influenced by a Galatians 5:19-21 world.
But those who have fully/completely embraced His will and His way can make judgements about what they see.. yet the one who does not embrace His way completely can not make a judgement/assessment about where that person is at the moment because He is torn between two masters. The reason so many people find themselves devastated by those they let in their lives is because they either chose to ignore what the people are showing/demonstrating before their eyes... or they too are embracing that way of life. Either way... straddling the fence puts you opposite of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10-16
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy[d] Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”[e] But we have the mind of Christ.
Vincent J. McCaskill - Senior Pastor
By God Inspired Community Church - Southaven
Bygodinspired.org
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