“Ye shall not respect persons in judgment…”  (Deuteronomy 1)

“But he that is spiritual judgeth all things…”  (1 Corinthians 2)

 

Reader,
Many Christ-ians have been told by the Biblically ignorant and pride-filled sinner “Judge not lest ye be judged” in a high pitched voice, while they cock his or her head sideways, and raises an eyebrow and furrows and crinckles the forehead that fronts a spiritual mindlessness sinner   Is this what Christ meant when He teaches us not to judge lest we be judged?  No, Not at all.

Judge not lest ye be judged is the warning that God will use the same standard of judgment upon you that you that you use upon others.  If you judge a certain a certain action to be bad or wrong then God will consider you to have done something wrong or something bad. For example, if a liberal and leftist senator sits in judgment upon a Supreme Court Justice nominee for doing something wrong or bad and is guilty of the same wrong or worse wrong, then that senator should know that God will use the senator’s own hypocritical judgment upon that hypocritical senator.

If you say a person that steals should have his hand cut off, you are setting a standard of judgment that God should use against you, if you are ever caught stealing.  Another example:  Ted Kennedy sat in hypocritical judgment of others when he was guilty of letting a woman drowned in an accident due to his own drunk driving. Basically, if you set a standard of judgment for others, you are setting a standard of judgment that will be used to judge you.  It’s that simple, that is what Christ meant by, “…lest ye be judged.” Judge not lest ye be judged is a means to keep you from hypocritically indicting yourself with that same standard of judgment.

However, if you are using an already set standard of judgment to judge a situation, you are not guilty of going against the Words of Christ.  If you say that it is wrong to bear false witness against an innocent person, you are using an already decided standard of judgment and you are using an objective source for that judgment and not creating a new standard that you will be judged by. Everybody judges all the time in everyday life..

If you choose to purchase one (1) product over another, you have made a judgment. If you vote for a candidate for governmental office, you have made a judgment. Whenever one makes a choice over another option, one is judging. Enery person makes countless judgments every day.  If you believe Dr. Ford and disbelieve Judge Kavanaugh, you have made a judgment. If you believe Kavanaugh and do not believe Dr. Ford, you have made a judgment.  Iff you watch Fox News and not Cnnn, you have judged a matter.  My point is this: Every person judges everyday.  If you woke up this morning and got up out of your bed, you have judged that as the right thing to do.

Paul, in his first (1st) epsistle to the Corinthians, tells them, “he that is spiritual judgeth all things.”  Christ-ian reader, you have been called by God to “judge all things.”  It is your Christ-ian duty and duty to “judge all things,”  not somethings or a few things, but “all things.”  Paul says, in 1 Thessalonians 5, “Prove all things.”  John, in his first (1st) epistle, says. Try the spirits.”  Both apostles are teaching you and me to judge “all things” and to judge to spirits. In Revealation 2, Christ is pleased with the Ephesus church for judging the teachings of false teachers as false teachings.

Reader, every Christ-ian is called to be a judging saint, but is not subject to the judgments of others (1 Corinthians 2).  The Christ-ian is not to make judgments upons intents or motives if these are not apparent. The Christ-ian should not set a standard of punishment upon a person.  The Christ-ian should not have a judgmental spirit or a contentious spirit…the Christ-ian should not be “judgey” in their judging.  The Christ-ian should not judge a matter from a high and exalted throne, while looking over his glasses and down his nose. The Christ-ian is to “judge all things,”  “Prove all things,”  and to  “Try the spirits” (Or to put the spirits on trial).

What is the Christ-ian to judge?  The Christ-ian should judge what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false, and what is bad andwhat is good.  Upon what authority should the Christ-ian judge?  The Christ-ian does not use his opinion on matters; the Christ-ian uses the Word of God, the laws and ordinances of man to judge “all things”

How does the Christ-ian or the spiritual “judge all things,” prove all things,” and “test the spirits?”
*Judge without respect of persons.  “Lady Justice”  is blind. Why? Justice does not make objective and righteous judgments based on a repsect for any person.  Neither does the Christ-ian respect persons in judgment.  The person is merely a unit in the matter of judgment.

If you are called upon to judge between a friend and an enemy, neither person matters in the judgment, you are to judge the act, thought, or opinion, itself.  Your judgment is upon the act, the thought, the opinion and whether it is right/wrong, true/false, good/bad.  The person is to be considered as right’wrong, true/false, good/bad. Though the right/wrong, good/bad, true/false of a person does give an insight to the person.

When Christ called Peter, (s)atan, Christ was making a judgment upon Peter’s words and thoughts.  When Paul confronted Peter for his dissimulation Paul was judging Peter’s inconsistancies as being fale, bad, and wrong.  I know it seems like Christ and Paul are judging their respective persons in judgment.  However, neither are judging their subjects, in terms, of passing a sentence upon them.

When a Christ-ian judges a matter, he is given the opportunity to first (1st) judge himself, his own person, to remove the 2×4 from his eye so he might see right and clearly before removing the tiny speck from another’s eye. The call to judge all matters is a means of grace, given us from God whereby we might examine ourselves and keep our hearts pure and our Holy Spirit inhabited conscience clean before a Holy, Just, and Righteous God that “judgeth all things righteously.”, therefore…………

Therefore:
*The Christ-ian is called to “judge all things,” to “prove all things, ” and to “Try the  spirits’*
*The Christ-ian is to judge the right/wrong, the true/false, the right/wrong of all things; if   not the Christ-ian, then who?
*The Christ-ian must not be “judgey” or judgmental or superior and condescending in   their judgment upon matters.
*The Christ-ian is to use the already set standard of judgment, which is the Word of God.
*One should judge one’s self and confess all sin and sins before God before judging “all [other] things.”
*Being called by God to judge “all things,” is a means of grace whereby we might examine ourselves and to bring you and me into a spirit of repentance and confession before Him.

Depending upon the way a person represents of presents himself or herself, s/he should expect to be judged by that presentation. The fair-minded is not being judgey by making a judgment in accordance with the person’s representation of his or her person. If you see a person with dyed black hair, black make-up and is wearing black clothing and is rapped in a long black trenchcoat and is wearing black boots, what are you seeing?

If a person makes certain deductive observations when reading another person he is making a judgment but is not making any kind of judgment upon the person themselves.

If you go the a fast food restaurant at lunch time and you notice a person with dirt and grass stains upon his pants around the knees, if this person has dirt on the sould of his shoes, if he has a st of pruners in a sheath and has dirt under his finger nails, what kind of trade do you think this mans makes a living in?

If you see another person wearing jeans, his knees are a bit dusty and worn out, he has work boots on and dusty and wood shavings in the treads of his boots, had a  tape-ruler clipped to his belt, has rough looking hands, short nails and rough skin in the webbing between his thumb and forefinger, what does he do for a living?

If you see a studious looking lady and hear her use the words, “turn in” instead of return or give back, If this ladt seems to have a personality of dererence, what do you think she does for a trade or living?

If you encounter a man that has good posture, has a respectful and yet  authoritative carriage of his person, If his hair is very high and tight, say a crew cut, Is very measuref in his movement, if this man seems to be vigilant and pays attention to his surrounding, if he has children that are respective and deferring in personality, what would you conclude about his back ground?

Did you make any conclusions on the examples given above? If so you made a judgment. The first (1st) example is a “goth.,” the second (2nd) example is a landscaper, the third (3rd), a carpenter, the fourth (4th) is a teacher, the last is a military man.  If you deduce the careers of the above you judge but you did not judge the person themselves.  You could not conclude that the goth is a bad person, you did not conclude the landscaper is a good man, you know not if the carpenter is a good carpenter ornot. The teacher is not being judhed of her skills, and the military man is not being judged in term of his political leanings.

The imaginary persons above are not being judged by you, in terms of their intents, motives, thoughts, or their personality or intelligence.  You, as a discerning person, are making deductions based on small details and inferenences as the means to make sound and logical conclusions.

Do you see the wisdom of God in this matter?  By calling us to judge all things, God is granting us a means whereby we might purify our hearts and keep a clear conscience before Him and before man. I am humbled by the wisdom of God and the mercy of God in His calling us to judge all things.

The Christ-ian trades in judgment which is mixed with mercy and these objective judgments are based upon God’s truth, God’s commandments, God’s precepts, God’s statutes, and God’s law; these are without a respect of persons. The judgment of the Christ-ian is a righteous and objective judgment which is based upon and from God’s authourity and standards of judgment.

Godspeed.