"You can't judge me!" The Biggest lie the World has accepted

Could it be that the most quoted scripture on judgment is also the most misunderstood? Join me, JJ, as we unravel the true essence of "Judge not, lest ye be judged," and discover a path towards self-awareness and spiritual integrity. Through scriptural insights, we dissect the delicate balance between rightful judgment and the pitfall of hypocrisy. We shine a light on the nuances of Jesus' teachings about the mote and beam, correcting misconceptions and guiding you toward a more reflective and righteous practice of discernment. This episode promises to peel back layers of religious rhetoric, revealing the heart of accountability and personal growth within the tenets of faith.

Navigating the call for honesty within the church is no easy feat, especially when it comes to confronting sin with love and steering the collective journey towards salvation. In an in-depth conversation that cuts to the core of spiritual responsibility, we explore the imperative for church leaders and members to embrace accountability without falling into the trap of judgment. Unpacking the Biblical perspective on these matters, we challenge the silence that often accompanies witnessing sin and invite you to consider the transformative power of addressing wrongdoing in a spirit of compassion. Together, let's embark on a quest for truth that transcends mere surface-level interpretations, fostering an environment where growth and repentance are not only possible but encouraged.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:23

These episode. My name is JJ. This is Walk With Me and I'm your host today. It's so good to have each and every one of you here with us today, so good that you are joining the Walker family and we are on our way to heaven and a better place. It's so good that. Thank you all so much, thank you, thank you. Thank you have saying it's so good that you guys are liking and sharing this podcast and sending questions, and this episode is one of the results of you sending questions.

Speaker 1: 0:57

I tried to, if it's, if you're sending a question and it involves more than like a couple scriptures and for a lot of typing and we're just making an episode and this is just like this. Now you're asking yourself or how do I send questions? We send a question to walkwithmebibelstudyatgmailcom Walk with me Bible study at gmailcom, and I do answer questions and, like I said, this is one of them. A quick shout out to our sponsors, two bars and lyricists who donated a lot of the sound equipment the improved sound equipment that you're hearing right now, this mic that he gave and watching him progress in his walk with God is an amazing thing and also his quasi-creations, who's been making cups for the program and some people have requested cups and we will get right to those. And thank you all so much for the platforms that you're listening to iHeartRadio, spotify, apple Podcasts. I've just got an email about being on other podcasts, so wherever you listen into this podcast, I appreciate you, I love you and welcome to the show.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Like I mentioned earlier, today is a answer session. Okay so, and I promised this one last week and I generally don't do that because you never know what God's gonna tell you to talk about but this one is a little bit special because it will kind of a follow-up to a previous show where I talked about the biggest lies that the Christians fell for. So I think the person who sent it was being a little bit sarcastic, like what's the biggest lie the sinners fall for? Well, there are several. There are several, but one of the biggest lies that both sinners or people in the world, people who haven't been born again and people who say that they're born again say that they're Christians the biggest lie that people fall for in general is where people will say to you judge, not let you be judged. Now you're probably sitting in your, in your room or in your car and you're saying to yourself wait, that is actually in the Bible. Yes, it is, but one of the things that we have as a as a model for this show is read a verse or two above, or verse or two below, and prefer, and preferably, the whole chapter. This is an ex a prime example why you do that.

Speaker 1: 3:53

Now, the reason why this is a lie that he will fall for because when people say this to you, it generally is because you have said something to them that they don't like and they use this as a sort of a A basis for saying that if you don't judge anyone, then you won't be judged. Meanwhile, that's kind of like low key saying just don't judge me, only God can judge me. We see that in tattoos, everywhere. We see that on different social media sites, different memes and stuff like that Only God can judge me. But here's the problem when you read Matthew 7 and 1 and this is where you find that verse Matthew 7 and 1. Judge not unless you. And if you go ahead and turn to that Matthew 7 and 1. Now, I'm actually turning that with you Because I want to make sure I get it all right. All right, so it was Matthew, chapter 7, verse 1, and it reads like this Judge not that you be not judged.

Speaker 1: 5:14

Now people like to stop right there and they like to say, ok, that's, that's a doctrine. And if you've been with this show at any time, you probably kind of figured out by now that when you build a doctrine, a doctrine, any doctrine around one verse is a problem, and the Bible will tend to actually condemn you for that or correct you for that in other verses, because then you start to think that the Bible contradicts itself. But if you continue reading Matthew, chapter 7, it says but with what judgment you judge, shall you be judged? And with whatever measure you meet, it shall be measured until you again. Now people like to stop there too and they say well, you're going to be judged by the same standards that we are judged by. Well, that's not the quite, that's not quite the same doctrine that you just tried to apply in verse one Don't, don't judge me, so that you won't be judged. Well, if you keep reading, in this very paragraph, as it were, the same verses of the verse of five, you'll see that judgments are in fact present.

Speaker 1: 6:34

And what, why we're saying, is because Jesus is talking about two people with problems. He's letting us know that these two people have problems. One of them has a moat in their eye and the other one has a beam in their eye. Now Jesus is calling this a hypocrisy moment. Not necessarily that they shouldn't be judging each other, but the fact that they're not judging each other, but the fact that it's a hypocrisy moment because the person with the bigger problem is telling the person with the smaller problem that they have a problem, while ignoring their bigger problem, the moat in your brother's eye, while you got a beam sticking out of yours.

Speaker 1: 7:23

Verse three and why, behold, is now the moat that is in your brother's eye? But consider, is not the beam in nine, oh nine? So you're looking at someone else's sin, while your sin is so much worse, so much bigger. And how would I say that, brother, let me pull out the moat in your own eye and behold, a beam is in nine, oh nine, I'm sorry, in nine, nine, your beam is in your own eye. You, hypocrite, first cast out the beam in your own eye. You shall clearly see to cast out the voting. Nine, brothers. I now this is actually a judgment to. This is actually a judgment saying judge yourself first, judge yourself. You know you got that thing in your eye and then when you go and you pull that out, then you understand what it's like to a allow that problem get as big as it did and be how to get rid of it before it gets to that problem.

Speaker 1: 8:27

Now, and that's what's hypocrisy, because people are will do a sin and they get so upset that someone else has a sin and not consider themselves. Now, but this is how this line gets contradicted only in the Bible. And I'm not, I'm not gonna, we're not gonna talk about big sin, little sin, anything I use as an example today. Please understand, the Bible refers to all sin as being equal. So, except for one, which is blasphemy, please understand that. So we're going to take a quick walk through and we're going to talk about how their all sin is bad. There is no little sin, there's no big sin, except for blasphemy. So we're going to go to Ezekiel, chapter 33. And I was supposed to make a joke that this is in the Old Testament, in case you didn't know. But it said Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse eight and nine.

Speaker 1: 9:36

Now let's back up to verse seven and then so that, oh, son of man, I have set the washroom to the house of Israel. Therefore, you shall hear the word of my mouth and warn them from me. So, basically, god is telling us that there is somebody who should be watching out for us. Whether it's your pastor, whether it's your brother or your sister, god is could be talking to someone in an effort to reach you, because you are adhering him. When I say into the wicked and this is verse eight when I say into the wicked oh, wicked man, thou shall surely die. There's a judgment right there. You're wicked, you're going to die.

Speaker 1: 10:27

Continue the verse If thou does not speak to warn the wicked from his way. In other words, hey, man, god said you shouldn't be doing that because you're wicked and you're going to die. Now, now his word. Someone says you can't judge me, only God can judge me. And then there's the problem, because God is already telling you that you are wicked and you are going to die. Is that the judgment you really want? I guarantee you that's not the judgment you want. You're not getting away with this thing that God is telling you not to do anymore. Now, continue the verse. If thou does not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity. So God is telling us, if you don't speak to the wicked thing that you are seeing, then that person is going to die in their sin. But wait a minute, jj. You just said, take care of your own mode or your own being first. Well, yes, these things do not contradict each other, because God is going to speak to you while speaking to them.

Speaker 1: 11:41

One of the weirdest things I have had ever since accepting this call to ministry and, yes, I don't know like he truly called accepting this guy kind of like chased me down and told me this is going to happen. So one of the things that I've noticed, that there have been times when God has given me a message and, in the fact, in the process of giving me a message, has also convicted me of something I need to stop doing. And even if I forget that God is telling me to do not do or to say this message, I'm also convicted again when I'm speaking it, when I'm delivering it. So this will happen. Continue in the verse that wicked man shall die his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand, nevertheless, if you warn the wicked from of his way to turn from it. If he does not turn from it, he shall die his iniquity. But you have delivered your soul.

Speaker 1: 12:38

Wait a minute. So God is not telling me that my soul is in danger If I do not tell you that? Hey, man, what you're doing is wrong, absolutely, because this is what God tells us to do. Clearly, he's telling us to warn people who are being wicked and the consequences if we don't. Now, how fair that is. Is that to you? Because when you, please understand something let me just pause, right, because I feel like I'm getting ahead of myself. Please understand that if I came to you and said, hey, this is a sin, I'm not judging you, no one is judging you there. This action is being judged. Now, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 1: 13:37

There are people who can't, who don't communicate well, and they'll say something to you like I don't know, and they'll say something to you like, oh, you ain't nothing, you ain't no good. That's sort of a judgment and that's judging too. So you got to be careful of how you deliver that Just because the person is a thief doesn't mean they're no good. It just means that they're in sin and God has allowed you that opportunity to say that to them hey, man, I think you need to stop stealing, because stealing is wrong. That doesn't mean you are that you're wrong, that you're nobody, that you're a piece of trash, that's not. That's not that. There's a completely different scenario than saying, hey, this thing that you are doing is wrong and needs to stop. So clearly we can be judged.

Speaker 1: 14:29

Now let me just make another policy of the station identification. I think I would rather be told that this thing that I'm doing, like like I recently started, you know, using two sticks again, I've always liked two sticks, but if someone came to me and showed me in the Bible where Eating two sticks was wrong, I Would rather find that out now than when I'm standing in front of the great white throne of judgment. There's no repentance there. You're not repenting of anything at that point. That's your judgment. And if you look all through the Bible, you will see where God has issued judgments and that judgment comes with a punishment. Even when, when, like when Nathan, when it spoke to David and Deliver the word of God to him, nathan did not judge David. And, by the way, this is where David took bestieva from your, from the former husband, and got her husband killed. So now he's committed murder and adultery. So now Nathan comes in, he talks to David. He's not issuing a judgment, he's telling you hey, man, which did was wrong? David repented. I mean, there were still some consequences that had to come, but those consequences did not come from Nathan, they came from God. So it's important to understand what the judgment really is versus a warning.

Speaker 1: 16:04

Is Now Matthew, chapter 6, sorry, we'll go back to Matthew, chapter 7, and this is going to be verse 7 through 15, and I'm just going to highlight it for, for you know, sorry, 16 through 20, matthew 16 through 20, and it also talks about another series of judgments, and by this way of judgment, I mean this is another set of explaining what a person is. Beware of false prophets. Well, there's a judgment you are telling the person that that they are a false prophet which come to you in sheep's clothing. Now you are. There's another judgment this person is being deceptively a false prophet. You shall know them by their fruits. Or wait a minute, what is the fruit? The fruit is their outside manifestation of what they are doing. Does man gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?

Speaker 1: 17:12

Even so, every good tree bringing forth good fruit, in other words, a good person is going to do good things, a corrupt tree or a wicked person is going to bring forth evil fruit or do wicked things. This is a series of judgments. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. A good person can't do evil things. And the evil tree can bring forth good fruit. A wicked person can't do good things. Now I know we get a lot of pushback where people think well, I could just do my good, cannot weigh my bad, and I somehow get into heaven. This is not how that works, because you are still bringing forth the evil fruit and the good thing that you are doing. A lot of times we will have something wicked in it, like, say, for example, we sort of idolized Robin Hood. Robin Hood is a folk hero and his whole thing was robbed from the ridge and give to the poor. Well, he gave to the poor. That's good, but he robbed to do it.

Speaker 1: 18:22

I had a sergeant major in the army and he used to call it the half play and I was bad at that time of my life in the half play, where you do something bad to have a quote, unquote good outcome and then the good outcome gets diminished by the bad thing that you did. Here's a good example I well, I had done something dumb and I was on restriction, and when you're on restriction they have your pay and my 30 day tag of my car went out. Now I knew I still had to get back and forth to base. I knew I still had to get back and forth where I had to go because I had a wife who wasn't working at the time and I was basically taking care of everything. So I went out and I stole a plate. So I stole the plate and put it on the car because I had to get to work. I had to do the good thing, but I did a bad thing to do the good thing. Well, guess what? When I got pulled over, all that good thing I did went out the window. All that working and serving my restriction and all that stuff I did for the military, all that went out the window because of that bad thing.

Speaker 1: 19:38

And this is this is what the Bible talks about a lot. So, matter of fact, we will talk about that where it says in your iniquity, your iniquity will wipe out the good that you've done. Now, when we start to understand that Jesus was talking about never attending the overlooked sin. Let's look at first Corinthians, 6 and 6 through 10. First Corinthians, 6, 9 and 10. Know you not that the righteous, the unrighteous, shall not inherit the kingdom of God? There's another judgment right there. So we can't say that God is not going to judge us or not. God is not telling us to judge us, because it's right here in the book Just for us to read, not only to ourselves but to each other.

Speaker 1: 20:39

Please understand that the Corinthians, everything after the book of Acts, was written to an actual church, a church building. Romans, corinthians, galatians, hebrews, so forth and so on, all the way to Jude, was written to a church. So know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Now here comes a whole bunch of judgments. Neither fornicators nor idolaters, adulterers or effeminate or abusers of themselves, mankind, nor thieves nor conventures nor drunkers, nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Speaker 1: 21:20

This laid out a whole bunch of sin and that people do. It actually called the people who did these sins by their sin. So let's just say I was a pastor somewhere and I am having adulterers referable to organists. Well, guess what? I am not a pastor anymore. I am an adulterer because the sin has become me and people don't understand. And this is where this is where I think people get really upset when you tell them, hey, you should not do this. But and then it continues, and such were some of you, but are washed and are sanctified and are justified. Now they say, oh well, now look, we're sanctified and justified. You're not justified in that sin. The verse says you were washed first. That means all those things are taken off of you. You've repented of it, you've been baptized. All of that is washed away. You are no longer these things.

Speaker 1: 22:31

But this actually addressed the underlying hypocrisy in the original line Judge not lest you be judged. You ever noticed that the only time you hear that is when you tell people that they're doing something wrong. You never hear that when people say you are a good person. That's a judgment. Oh, you are so honest. That's a judgment. You are so loyal? That's a judgment. Wow, you got straight A's and you're a report card. That's a judgment. You must really be studying that's a judgment.

Speaker 1: 23:12

If people like to hear that, people like to hear compliments oh my, you've lost a lot of weight, that's also a judgment. You've got a degree and you've built yourself up. You've become such a person. You've really turned yourself around since you got out of jail. That's also a judgment, but people want to hear that. So you're not going to hear. Judge not, lest you be judged when you say stuff like that. And that is where the real hypocrisy is. That's where the real problem is, because people only want to hear. People who quote that to you only want to hear when they're doing good. And the Bible clearly is not a praise book, it's not hate. And we get a lot of buildings that was talking to a coworker last night. We get a lot of buildings where people come in and they sit down and the person standing behind the pool just pets you on the head and strokes your back a little bit. Oh, you're such a wonderful person, you're so strong and no weapon formed against you should prosper.

Speaker 1: 24:24

They say all the nice positive, reaffirming buzzwords and get you all hyped up until a frenzy and then you go right out the same way you came in. This would be like getting in the flu and you go into the hospital and they give you a sugar pill and then they discharge you. You didn't get better, you just got discharged. You didn't even get treated. You just got a sugar pill that made you feel like you were doing something and you walked right out and then you got sicker, you got sicker, you got sicker and then you died because you got the flu. And then you were bedridden and then you got pneumonia and then things just progressively got worse.

Speaker 1: 25:07

The Bible specifically tells us how to address these things and how to get our lives right, and it also puts us in a position in order to get that done. Now, as a matter of fact, one of the big things that we don't talk about how the Bible says I believe it's in Galatians Let me make sure it's there and I believe it says was it Galatians or 1 Peter? Let me go to 1 Peter, chapter four, and let's go from about verse 17. That's it 1 Peter, 4 and 17. For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. Wait a minute. You can't judge me. Only God can judge me, but the house of God. We're talking about the church. Judgment begins at the church you should be.

Speaker 1: 26:16

If you're a pastor or you go to a church, you should, every once in a while, be told what sin is. You should be told that this is wrong. That is wrong and you should not be allowed and you have to weigh what you're saying to or what you hear it to, because there are some places and I've just heard, and I've heard for a long time but it's really been I'll come into a forefront for like the last 10 years or so where people will wrap a political agenda into scripture and that's completely wrong and that's to me in my, in the book of JJ. That's an abomination. But and I it irks my spirit so much to hear that. But let me move on.

Speaker 1: 27:11

They, they want to tell you what they think is wrong, rather than what the Bible says is wrong. Yeah, that's the better way of putting that. They want to. They think that this thing is wrong, but the Bible says that something else is wrong. So what does that mean? Like, for example, we're going to go back to the beam versus the mode. I'm going to stand up here and preach that you should not smoke cigarettes while I smoke crack. It doesn't make sense, right? And the same being.

Speaker 1: 27:48

And so what happens is preachers convict themselves sometimes. Passes, even passes, or so-called passes, will convict themselves sometimes. So then they wouldn't. It will stop preaching against the thing. Oh, adultery is wrong. But I'm here, I am in an adulterous affair with the organist, so I'm we're not gonna preach against adultery anymore because we don't want to feel bad. We don't make ourselves feel bad, we don't want to make the organist feel bad. We don't want to make anyone in the congregation who's also engaged in adultery, because this is how the spirit works. You don't want to make them feel bad because they're gonna stop paying tithes. You see how that goes.

Speaker 1: 28:28

So again, for the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin with us, where shall they end of them? Be that obey not the gospel of God. So what if and what if? And I'm not saying every service. You should get beat upside down. I probably get sold after a while.

Speaker 1: 28:50

But how is it if? If you and I are sitting in? You and I are in a church and you know that I'm a thief, you know. You've seen me understanding it one more, you've seen me, you know, picking up stuff and put it in my pocket. You see me stealing from my job. But then I come and telling you you need to get right with God. What do you? What is the first thing that just popped in your head? Not by you, not by you, you a thief. And then you lie about, because every time you steal you a lot, because someone will say hey, I saw you do that, no, I didn't. Now you got a lot so, and we can go on and on with this, but we're getting close to the time limit here.

Speaker 1: 29:41

The basic line is, first of all, your brother and sister cannot actually judge you, and physically impossible. There's no way I can put anyone into hell, and it's also physically impossible for me to rescue anybody from him. At the end of the day, the only thing we can do and what we should do is what God tells us to do is say, hey, brother, jimmy, that is wrong and you really should stop doing that. Come on, repent and let's look to God, to for other, for it together. Come on, kathy, or come on tisha, let's, let's stop this nonsense you doing right here. The Bible says and here, here and here and here that we should not. We, you and I should not be doing this. And you know what? Now that I see that, let me go and correct something within me too and let's pray through and live for God together, because we are on this, we on this journey together.

Speaker 1: 30:44

No man is gonna make it by himself, no woman is gonna make it by himself. We need each other. That's why deep, that's why Jesus said straight is the way. Now, when he's talking about that word straight, it doesn't mean you know a geometric concept, you know how, like roads are straight. That word straight s t r a I t is means difficult. It's difficult, it's a difficult way, and narrow. We need each other to get over that straight. We need each other to guide each other through that narrow way. And and that's how, it's the only way we're gonna make it. I know I'm over time, but that's fine. It's the only way you and I are going to make it.

Speaker 1: 31:36

Yes, if you see me doing something, by all means Tell me. Come and tell me. Jj, bro, that's bro. That ain't Christ like, that ain't Christ like. And let me go repent of it, because I, at the end of the day, want to be saved. I would rather, I Would rather be judged at this point, while I'm still alive on earth, but in a point where I can do something about it, and standing in front of the white throne where there's nothing you can do anymore. That being said, I love you all. I do this Podcast because God tells me to, and I do it because I love you, each and every one of you that listen, like, share and tell somebody about it. You guys see you guys next week. I love you all, god bless.