Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

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