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Tuesday, December
11, 2007
Right Back At You
Matthew 7:1-2 Judge not, that ye be not
judged. (2) For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (KJV)
Why is everyone so concerned about
everyone else’s business? Did you reach some point of perfection, that now
you can go out and analyze everyone else’s walk and tell them how to live?
Have you ever heard the verse, he that is without sin can cast the first
stone?
James 4:11-12 Speak not evil one of
another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his
brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge
the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. (12) There is one
lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest
another? (KJV)
Let me ask this question, that thing you
spoke about behind someone’s back is it something you could have said to
their face? Or possibly it is something that should have been said to their
face, before you decided to say it to everyone else’s. How many times have
you got all worked up and excited about confronting someone, only to find
out that when it came time to deliver the message, it came out completely
different than what you thought? That’s called imaginations, which the Bible
says we are to cast down, not entertain and speak out on, especially
against the brethren, God’s people. Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. So
if you are not able to speak it face to face, then like the old saying
goes, ‘if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all’.
Galatians 5:15-16 But if ye bite and
devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (16) This
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh. (KJV)
Did you ever see the poster of a bunch of
wolves disguised in sheep’s clothing, and the one takes his mask off and
realizes there are no more sheep left, only wolves. That basically sums up
what happens when the Church is no longer walking in the spirit, but in the
flesh, and making judgments based on their own carnal thinking and no
longer in line with God’s. So eventually what goes around, comes back to
bite you. So if you have been backbiting, it won’t be long before you get
the same in return.
Psalms 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his
neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart
will not I suffer. (KJV)
The Lord doesn’t think to highly of those
that make false accusations against His people, and if you don’t obey His
rules you will find yourself in contempt of His court and will be asked to
leave. There is one judge and one lawgiver who wrote the book and is the
author and finisher of our faith, so unless you think you can do a better
job than Him, you might well leave it to Him to handle judgment.
Matthew 7:3-5 And why beholdest thou the
mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in
thine own eye? (4) Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the
mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? (5) Thou
hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. (KJV)
Oh my, you have all the answers except
one, how to live your own life and walk a walk that is pleasing to the
Lord. So just about the time you decide to judge others and straighten them
out, the Lord comes right back at you and says, ‘hey hypocrite, just
possibly that thing you see in someone else is actually a reflection of
yourself, and that is why it is irking you so much’. So before you decide
to clean out someone else’s closet, make sure you got all the skeletons out
of yours first, and then you will see clearly how to handle the situation
in love and not anger.
1 Corinthians 4:3-5 But with me it is a
very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea,
I judge not mine own self. (4) For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not
hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. (5) Therefore judge
nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light
the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the
hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. (KJV)
Do you know that sometimes we are our own
worst critics? Sometimes we sell ourselves short because of what others
think of us, or have said about us. Did you ever stop and think that the
Lord doesn’t even want us to judge ourselves, but rather leave that to Him
as well? Now true, there are those that think more highly of themselves
than they should, and are what is referred to as legends in their own
minds. You too can sell yourself short and miss your calling, because you
try and compare yourself with others and how they walk, rather than
realizing God made you unique, and has a calling and a place in the body of
Christ that only you can fill. Without you being in the place He would have
you be, you rob Him the opportunity to bless you the way He intended. Like
Paul himself wrote, ‘it is so small and trivial what others think of me, or
how I am judged by them, because it is only by the Lord’s standards that I
am justified’; because of that attitude God was able to use him to write a
good portion of the epistles.
Romans 3:3-4 For what if some did not
believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? (4) God
forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That
thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou
art judged. (KJV)
Just because others don’t believe the
word of God, will you let that affect you? Just because others judge by the
outward and are more concerned with pleasing man than God, are going to let
that affect you? Come the judgment day you will pass or fail by one
standard; I chose God and His word to be true above and beyond what anyone
else thought or said and let man be the liar; or I will believe man and
call God the liar.
Galatians 6:1-3 Brethren, if a man be
overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the
spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. (2) Bear
ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. (3) For if a man
think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. (KJV)
Will you react in the flesh, or respond
in the spirit? The fact that God is a spirit, then only those that serve
Him and worship Him in spirit and it truth will God use to bring about
healing and restoration to situations that arise in the body, which will be
based on His judgments and love and not some condescending self righteous
attitude. So it’s your decision this day, choose who you will serve,
because with what measure you put out, is what is coming right back at you.
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