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Judge Not?The following is from our book JUDGE NOT! IS ITLEGALISM TO JUDGE SIN AND ERROR? This book is areply to 21 of the most common charges that are broughtagainst a fundamentalist Bible approach to Christianity.These are the challenges that every fundamentalist BiblebelievingChristian must learn to deal with, because there isno part of the world so remote that the believers there willnot be confronted with this thinking. This very practicalmaterial would make a good series of study for SundaySchools at the Junior High level or above or for Youthmeetings or Bible Institutes. The sections of the book are asfollows: The Bible Says We Should Not Judge; Love isNonjudgmental and Tolerant; Being Strict about BiblicalIssues is Legalism; Fundamentalists Are Pharisees; JesusTold Us Not to Forbid Others; Why Don’t You FollowMatthew 18? We Should Heed Gamaliel’s Advice; WeShould Leave the Tares until the Harvest; We Should NotTouch the Lord’s Anointed; If We Don’t Stand Together WeWill Hang Separately; The Christian Army Shoots Its OwnWounded; God Does Not Look on the External Appearance;We Will Be in Heaven Together; The Christian Life ShouldBe Liberty and Fun; We Should Be All Things to All Men;Denominational Divisions Should Be Erased; It is NotPossible to Know That Your Doctrine Is Right; Loving JesusIs All that Is Important; Fundamentalism Is a Belief in theFive Fundamentals; We Should Limit Our Message toBroaden Our Fellowship; We Should Be Balanced.This is one of the free eBooks available from the Way ofLife web site.________________124
The following are some of the key passages on judging thatare widely abused today:MATTHEW 7:1-5 -- Judge not, that ye be not judged.For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: andwith what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to youagain. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thybrother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is inthine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Letme pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, abeam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast outthe beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou seeclearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.”First, if we examine the context of this passage we see thatthe Lord Jesus is not condemning all judging; He iscondemning hypocritical judging (Mat. 7:5). To forbidsomething in another person that I allow in my own life ishypocrisy, and it is a great and deep-seated sin among men.For a parent to tell his children not to listen to rock musicwhen he listens to Country-Western music is hypocrisy. Totell my children not to smoke when I smoke, or to attendchurch when I don’t attend church, or to be serious aboutGod’s will when I am not that serious about His will, or to bekind to others when I am not kind to them or to their mother,or to obey me when I don’t obey my husband, is hypocrisy.This is the type of thing that Christ was warning about.This is not to say, though, that Christ forbade judging ingeneral. That He is not condemning all judging is evidentfrom the context. In the same sermon He warned about falseprophets.“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep'sclothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shallknow them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes ofthorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree125
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