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The words judge not are often 
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being corrected for their 
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It is used in an attempt to make
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biblical principles turn their 
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While they partake in their 
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Lifestyles and that could be 
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Whether it is same-sex 
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about a moment ago whether it be
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manner of sin in the world, the 
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Let us live our lives in the 
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In fact, what gives one person 
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And so the impression is that we
should never make moral 

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judgments and what we see in 
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ourselves tonight. 
Is that true? 

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Is that supported by Bible fact?
Is that what Jesus meant when he

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said, when he said these words 
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1 through 6, are we never to 
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and wrong even though right and 
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wrong and others, can we point 
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I am persuaded tonight that the 
Lord statement is often misused.

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And that Jesus in fact, taught 
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must judge, there are times when
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the faults that are in others. 
And so the question is, it wrong

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to judge is the question that's 
before you and I tonight Write 

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the proper answers. 
Do come from a closer look at 

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the context and what Jesus meant
in the meaning of those words in

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Matthew chapter 7, verses 1 
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But first of all, let's look 
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frequently misused his words are
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of judgment. 
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There are people today that say 
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criticism. 
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criticism is unfavorable 
pointing out a fault and someone

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else, even if it to be truly 
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If it's negative, people say 
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that because Jesus said not to 
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Say that we cannot exercise 
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for any reason at all because 
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judging negatively in a negative
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I also notice this, when one 
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sort, it requires judging the 
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spiritual condition. 
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involved, some feel that verses 
one, and two of our text rule 

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out any sort of church 
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Another example of people that 
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they say, you cannot expose 
anyone who would teach error You

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know, admittedly it requires 
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consider whether someone is 
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How in the world, can we not use
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If someone is teaching something
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teaching something that is 
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Therefore, some people also, 
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and 2 believe that, we cannot 
speak out against those things 

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and against those individuals 
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self again tonight. 
Is this really what? 

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Jesus was, teaching must. 
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When we see people overtaken in 
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and look, the other way, when we
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the good name of Jesus Christ. 
Should we say absolutely 

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nothing. 
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blatantly teaching that, which 
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the Bible there, for teaching 
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Well, in light of these 
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The following number one. 
Jesus did not rule out all forms

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of judgment. 
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to realize. 
He did not rule out all forms of

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judgment. 
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I meant to say this in the, in 
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I'll say it. 
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am talking about and I have 
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that are in the world, whether 
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people that aren't religious, 
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I'm talking about people in 
Heidi, they have come up with 

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the idea of don't judge and they
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would stand for anything. 
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someone else is made, okay? 
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know that people say that we all
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Society of people and they're 
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affecting me. 
Go ahead and do whatever it is 

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that you please. 
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We all have you heard this? 
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our own moral code. 
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long ago saying this, it doesn't
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Or I'm right, or this one's 
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Because really, we are all 
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our own moral standard, our own 
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Now, we know that that exists in
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It is all around us, it is Is 
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incidentally how things have 
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is not to be changed at all 
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And when we accept things that 
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know, brother Darren said 
something interesting years ago.

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It's a rather interesting 
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as we were discussing one day. 
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were the things that we were 
against fifteen and twenty years

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ago, really wrong things that we
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accept now, that's an 
interesting question. 

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Were they not wrong then? 
Therefore, we can do them now or

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have they always been wrong, but
we become desensitized and so 

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therefore, we've accepted it and
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But it's as wrong as it's ever 
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And you could just take anything
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and do with it. 
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My point is this, though, my 
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our society we have been 
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things and we have begun to 
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Now that we would have never 
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would have, we wouldn't have 
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It, we wouldn't have permitted 
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saying, except this person 
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and do not judge. 
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be a religious person standing 
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They believe in said all that to
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Folks, it's the first thing. 
It's the first thing that people

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want to say, when they want to 
quit the church, That's what 

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they want to say. 
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that I have painted as a 
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I painted it in a - vein it is 
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And anyway, every way it is not 
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Bible found. 
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has used to support their 
actions and stand against people

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that would follow the Bible. 
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all things, a person that has 
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has lived their lives for a 
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on the Lord. 
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Had it said to me, just the 
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don't judge. 
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can't stand for what's right? 
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say things are wrong. 
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Is that what he said? 
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accepting concept is not adopted
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Let's not allow that stuff that 
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to funnel in among our ranks, we
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that are wrong. 
We must never accept the things 

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that are wrong ever, regardless 
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note, first of all in the 
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must understand the scriptures 
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written some base doctrines 
based on one verse here, or one 

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verse there. 
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salvation, you can take a 
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about believe and people say 
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believe. 
I'll pick that one. 

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And I'll choose that one. 
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baptism and not that it's both 
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Salvation. 
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Matthew chapter 7, some cases of
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Proper judgment. 
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7 and verse 6. 
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Which is holy unto the dogs. 
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Ye the Pearls Before Swine lest,
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feet and turn again and Rend. 
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this verse, we find that it 
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Who are the Hogs, who are the 
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How we going to know. 
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in verse 6. 
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Before Swine. 
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who the swine are without making
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How you going to know not to 
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don't know who the dogs are, you
know, how you know who the swine

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are? 
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one way. 
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Now, we're going to talk about 
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The way we go about it in a 
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point. 
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scripture and say, Jesus said 
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End of story. 
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But Jesus right here in the 
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words said that we have to 
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swine, and who are the, and who 
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made, how are we going to know 
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Holy to dogs, who they might be,
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cast our Pearls Before Swine? 
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Beginning in verse 15, will read
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Jesus after saying, what we've 
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false prophets, which come to 
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inwardly they are ravening 
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Ye shall know them by their 
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thorns or figs of thistles even.
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forth, good fruit, but a corrupt
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Evil fruit. 
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evil fruit. 
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Good fruit is hewn down and cast
Into the Fire wherefore by their

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fruits ye shall know them. 
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you, and I even today that we 
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determining who is a false 
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are considered A false teacher 
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them. you know, Shahi 
Illustrated agriculture this 

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morning. 
He talked about the vine and the

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branches, he talked about 
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know, I'm a tell you something, 
my fruit Is what I am. 

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Because the fruit is the 
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And what I do. 
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something that I am not. 
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And I'm going to tell you this 
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world has fruit. 
It is either good fruit or it is

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bad fruit. 
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acceptable. 
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acceptable. 
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you shall know them. 
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be a person to that's 
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A person that not, that could be
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manner of wonderful things. 
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differently. 
We have to make judgments 

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regarding that very thing in the
remote text which speaks of 

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times when judgment must be 
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We find that. 
Remember one verse of scripture 

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must, never be used to 
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If we think that we see a 
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lack of understanding, that's 
all that approves. 

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The Bible says that God is not 
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Peace Keeping this in mind, John
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according to the appearance but 
judge righteous judgment You 

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know, Jesus is teaching that we 
should never judge things by how

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they appear on the surface. 
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the matter compared to the 
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judgment accordingly another 
place where a Christian must, 

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much judge is in the local 
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Notice what Paul said in First 
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Corinthians chapter 5 and this 
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church as a whole, and all of 
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chapter 5 beginning there in 
verse 9. 

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Paul said, this, I wrote unto 
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company with fornicators, yet 
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fornicators of the world or with
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idolaters for then must, ye 
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But now I have written unto you 
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If any man that is called a 
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Covetous, or an idolater, or a 
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extortioner with such an one. 
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Eat for what have I to do to 
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Also that are without do not, ye
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them that are without God 
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among yourselves that Wicked 
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This is a, this is a time when 
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must make a judgment. 
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chapter in chapter 6. 
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I have seen it. 
I have seen a brother go to law 

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Jesus, basically, as I 
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in-house take care of these 
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say, don't air out your dirty 
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The church needs to remain pure.
The church needs to remain that.

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The pillar of the light in 
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in darkness, that surround the 
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our life in such a way that 
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I talked about that when I talk 
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the light, Light of the world. 
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We are to be seen. 
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the courthouses. 
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You know what? 
The Bible teaches us, the Bible 

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teaches in matters among 
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We must judge not that you can 
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must judge. 
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words, dare any of you having a 
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the law before the unjust, and 
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And so the word of God teaches 
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those that are inside the local 
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matters before. 
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place in the scriptures were 
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As found in 1st. 
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When John the Apostle of Love by
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You know, all the people that 
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except everyone love is all that
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You know, I was talking to this 
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door, she had read some things 
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I hope I say this, the way she 
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Well, it's rather funny to me, 
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stuff about Proposition 8 and 
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supporting that type of 
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That sort of arrangement said 
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there is no sin. 
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In other words, as long as there
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with anything now. 
Think about it, love and sin are

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opposite. 
Things, love is a command that 

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the Bible tells us we must have 
now we know about different 

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kinds of love. 
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That is easy to do. 
That is naturally that that is a

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natural emotion. 
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feel is love for my family but 
love is the command agape. 

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A love not necessarily phileo 
agape love which is telling me 

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that I got to love those. 
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command It is 100% diametrically
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To sin because the greatest 
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and the greatest thing that we 
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We must love those things above 
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But the Bible says this, and 
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Beloved believe, not every 
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This is the Apostle of Love. 
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every Spirit, but try the 
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God, because many false prophets
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Now, in light of these passages 
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understand. 
There's no contradiction as we 

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continue with our text back in 
Matthew chapter 7. 

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Jesus actually defined. 
The type of judging that was 

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being condemned. 
Number one, judging when one is 

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blind to his or her own faults, 
I'm going to tell you something,

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folks. 
We need to be careful about that

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one because we all fall short 
sometimes without one in other 

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Words, I am going to point out 
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But what are we do? 
Sometimes many times, we garnish

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our own traits. 
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tarnish the traits of others, we
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That's what Jesus is saying. 
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judging that's wrong, is because
judging in itself is not wrong. 

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In fact, on circuit and 
circumstances in places and all 

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of that, we not only can judge, 
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So what's the wrong kind of 
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One Jesus says, the first thing 
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you're blind to your own faults 
at the same time and refused to 

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take care of those things first.
I don't know that anyone has 

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ever lived ever that's not been 
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Little kids. 
He did it. 

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Not my fault. 
I had nothing to do with it. 

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Not accepting fault, it starts 
when they're, it starts when 

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they're very young, no doubt. 
Jesus pointed this out. 

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Because this is a very easy one 
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I want to go straighten out a 
shot. 

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Hey, and I got a few things. 
I want to talk to him about. 

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Okay, I got all kinds of 
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them. 
I'm blind. 

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Devoe's man, I can see clear 
about his though. 

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Now picture of this way, if I 
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extent that I feel like I don't 
have any faults and I can come 

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to him in a condescending 
manner. 

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Now, the Bible does say, I have 
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Okay. 
If he's got that spec back to 

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that in a minute though, what's 
wrong? 

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Is when I go to him blind of my 
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When my problems are far more 
glaring that is Or even equally.

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So, It's wrong to judge when you
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backyard. 
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have to take care of, when there
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straighten up. 
How many times has somebody 

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said, if we let me paint this 
picture, this person here goes 

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to talk to this person about 
this person's activities, the 

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things that they're doing, okay?
And then this person turns back 

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and says, yeah, what about you? 
And then starts to list off the 

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things that they're doing wrong.
It's just like that. 

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Now, that's why we really have 
to be the light. 

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That's why we really have to 
clear out the eye. 

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That's why we've got to do all 
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instrumental in talking to that 
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So that person cannot turn and 
respond and say, well, what 

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about you? 
Let's talk about all your 

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problems. 
You hardly ever come to services

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either? 
Stay out of my backyard? 

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You see what I mean? 
We have to be careful with our 

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own backyard. 
Let's not garnish our own traits

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and tarnish. 
The traits of another, this is 

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like when Paul taught the 
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introspection, when helping 
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verse 1 Brethren, If any man, be
overtaken in a fault. 

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Now, wait a minute. 
Somebody just told me today. 

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They don't judge. 
Don't judge. 

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A Christian. 
Me read that again. 

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Brethren. 
If any man be overtaken in a 

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fault. 
Do nothing and don't judge. 

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Sit back and let it go by. 
Don't worry about it, accept 

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everybody for who they are. 
No, it says ye which are 

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spiritual restore such an one 
how in the spirit of meekness 

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doing what considering thyself, 
lest thou. 

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Also be tempted. 
We can't have in these cases the

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idea that it could never, ever. 
Ever happen to me, I'm gonna 

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tell you something, folks. 
If you go to somebody with the 

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attitude and the heart that it 
could never happen to me, shame 

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on him. 
But Imma get him, right. 

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Oh that's the wrongful attitude 
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said that goes against what 
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You know what happens? 
When we don't take an 

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introspective view of our self 
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the attitude, we have the 
attitude or the heart that it 

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could never happen to us. 
How many times have you heard a 

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Christian talk about? 
Somebody else that made a 

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mistake and say, I can't believe
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I can't believe he did that. 
I would never do that. 

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Years ago. 
I had made the statement about. 

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Bob, I, we were talking. 
I don't remember what it was all

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about, but I said, I said, 
you'll never fail. 

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You'll never fall. 
He said anyone can fall and I 

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said, no, I'm not going to let 
you. 

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It was kind of a kind of a 
little joke. 

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Also extending kindness, loving 
my brother. 

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Here's the point. 
It can happen to anybody. 

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And when you go that are 
spiritual restore, such an one 

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old, be very careful do. 
So with the spirit of meekness 

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and consider thyself lest thou 
also be tempted, if you got the 

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attitude it could never happen 
to you. 

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You know what you are, you're 
the Pharisee standing there with

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the public and over there and 
all he's thinking about is all 

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the rotten things that not only 
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world does I'm so glad I'm not 
that guy. 

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Jesus said, humble yourself. 
To be exalted. 

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Don't exalt yourself. 
Bible says you'll be a based 

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humble yourself. 
In all that we do take the 

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proper introspection first. 
Second thing Jesus said this is 

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another thing that's condemned 
not judging. 

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Now the first thing we just 
noticed is judging without 

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taking a look at yourself. 
Second thing Jesus said is to 

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judge without mercy and without 
love the Lord hears condemning. 

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This judging too harshly to 
judging self-righteously 3, 

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judging, without mercy. 
And for judging without love, 

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notice a parallel passage is 
found in Luke chapter 6, 

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beginning in verse 36, Where 
Jesus says be ye therefore 

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merciful as your father also is 
merciful judge. 

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Not and ye shall not be judged 
condemn, not. 

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And ye shall not be condemned 
forgive and ye shall be 

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forgiven. 
James, also you remember, warned

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against making judgments without
Mercy in James 2 and 13 James 

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said, for he shall have 44, he 
shall have judgment without 

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Mercy that he has showed no 
mercy and Mercy, Rejoice, if 

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against judgment. 
I don't know about you. 

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But wouldn't it be awful? 
Wouldn't it be the worst thing? 

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Isn't it true that the harder 
you try? 

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The heart of your really try. 
To put the Lord first in your 

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life and live the Christian 
Life. 

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Isn't it true that the older you
get in the harder, you try? 

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The more you see the reality of 
your frailties and your 

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shortcomings. 
Listen, folks, When We're Young,

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that's that's when we're 
invincible. 

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Oh, but we get a clearer picture
of the older. 

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We get oh far more clear. 
You know, like like that song 

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says, I think I've told you that
modern country song that I know 

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so much more now than I did 
back, when I knew it all. 

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In that true. 
You know, I'll tell you 

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something. 
I can't fathom standing before 

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my maker. 
And having it put back to me the

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manner in which I judged another
because that's what I'm going to

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get, what I'm getting is, what I
gave. 

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What I'm going to get is what I 
gave and if what I gave was no 

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mercy. 
No love, no compassion. 

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I didn't take a look at myself 
and consider myself. 

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I stood in a condescending 
fashion looking down on my 

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brother, I acted like it could 
never happen to me. 

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What's the matter with you? 
I acted like that and that's the

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way that I cast judgment. 
That's the way that I passed 

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judgment. 
Guess what? 

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Folks, if I don't fix that 
before I die that's what I'm 

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going to get. 
And can you imagine standing 

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before the Lord realizing our 
frailties, the fact that we make

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mistakes? 
The fact that we're not perfect 

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and have Jesus. 
The righteous judge give us no 

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mercy to I'ma tell you 
something, folks, without mercy 

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and Grace were none of us are 
getting in. 

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None of us are getting in. 
You know it's true about works. 

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00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:10,000
We have to work or lost. 
We don't Merit or warrants our 

453
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,800
star salvation, Merit Oriole 
works. 

454
00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:15,800
But we have works of obedience, 
that's all true, but make no 

455
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,600
mistake, we fall from grace, 
when we go against what the word

456
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,100
of God teaches we fall from 
grace when we sin, but it's 

457
00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:27,700
Grace, that's going to save us. 
Unmerited, favor, something you 

458
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,300
Didn't earn, and neither did I? 
And the only reason, the only 

459
00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:32,800
way that I can have it. 
The only way that I can have 

460
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,100
that kind of Grace is to obey 
him. 

461
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:40,900
And the only way that I'm going 
to find Mercy on that day, is if

462
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:46,600
I extended mercy and my 
judgments to, when I lived in 

463
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,800
this life. 
Oh, can you imagine Not having 

464
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:55,200
the mercy of God. 
Jesus said in verse 2, back to 

465
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,200
our text for with what judgment 
ye judge ye shall be judged. 

466
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,400
And with what measure ye mete, 
it shall be measured under you 

467
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,300
again. 
And so the lesson so far is not 

468
00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:07,400
that we should never judge but 
when we do judge remember that 

469
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,700
we shall be judged by the same 
standards that we use. 

470
00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:14,800
And that being the case. 
We must let love, and mercy, 

471
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,100
temper, our judgments But 
finally, Jesus implies that 

472
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:26,200
there are times when we must 
must make judgements. 

473
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,600
And the first thing that we do, 
we must make judgements. 

474
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,100
When we have corrected, or after
we have corrected, our own 

475
00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,500
false. 
When we first remove the beam 

476
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:43,500
from our own eye, when we have 
done this, we are going to be 

477
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,600
able. 
Jesus says, you'll be able to 

478
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,400
see clearly the respect that is 
in thy brother's eye. 

479
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,500
That is one of the most 
misunderstood passages of 

480
00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:57,800
scripture of all that Jesus 
taught there. 

481
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:03,300
I've heard people say, look what
he's saying, is we all got beams

482
00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:06,600
and we all got specs. 
We all got things in between. 

483
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,200
So here's the thing, I'll just 
keep my being don't lie. 

484
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,600
And you leave me alone and I'll 
leave you alone with your spec. 

485
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:15,800
Another words don't judge, we 
all got problems. 

486
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,600
That's not what he said. 
That's not what he said at all. 

487
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,800
What he said is. 
He says Don't go and try to make

488
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:27,300
judgments it before you have 
taken an introspective view of 

489
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:32,000
yourself, Galatians 6 and 1 as 
Paul pointed out, clearly, what 

490
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,400
did he say? 
He says, if you got a beam, you 

491
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,600
got a log, in your eye, in other
words, you got a big problem, 

492
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,100
you got a big thing in your 
life, you got to fix. 

493
00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:45,600
He says get rid of that first. 
He says, take care of that 

494
00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:47,700
first. 
Why? 

495
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:56,200
why one reason, when must we 
judge, When we've removed our 

496
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,800
beams. 
To do what so that we might see 

497
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:07,500
clearly to do what help your 
brother get the speck out of his

498
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:12,300
eye. 
I have to do that another words,

499
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:15,800
that's not just something that I
can do, or it's permissible for 

500
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,900
me to do. 
It's something I must do. 

501
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,000
I got to get the beam out so 
that in other words, I have to 

502
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,200
remove that because listen, if I
got a beam, I'm in trouble. 

503
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,400
If my brother has a speck 
talking about sinful things. 

504
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,100
He's got trouble. 
Okay. 

505
00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:36,400
We gotta get rid of the trouble.
Jesus says, don't go to him for 

506
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,900
you, get the beam I get the beam
out first. 

507
00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:44,200
So you can see, clearly to help 
your brother with his spec, we 

508
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,900
must do that. 
We must help those that have 

509
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:53,600
been overtaken. 
In a fault. you know, the 

510
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,900
saddest thing is when somebody 
who is once been enlightened by 

511
00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:02,100
the gospel turns back, You know,
this morning. 

512
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:11,400
Was read a passage of scripture.
when there was a time, when 

513
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,500
Jesus was preaching some things 
and even some of those that 

514
00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:22,500
consider themselves disciples or
followers of Jesus, Even those 

515
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:24,900
that considered themself a 
follower and I'm not talking 

516
00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:29,700
about people that just hurt him 
for the first time and said, ah,

517
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,400
I'm a I'm not buying any of 
that. 

518
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,800
It says that the disciples there
were disciples, they were men 

519
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:42,000
that had followed him before 
that day but when he spoke the 

520
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,800
words that he spoke, it was too 
much that they could bear and 

521
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,300
they just said, no, it's too 
much. 

522
00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:50,500
They no longer followed the 
Lord. 

523
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:53,800
I'm going to tell you something,
folks. 

524
00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:58,500
That's the greatest mistake that
they ever made. 

525
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,700
That's the greatest mistake that
you or I will ever make. 

526
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,000
But I love the response when 
Jesus and you can just picture 

527
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
the scene. 
Can you just imagine how 

528
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,000
heartsick? 
Jesus must have felt. 

529
00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:18,699
The Lamb of God gonna die for 
the sins of the world going to 

530
00:34:18,699 --> 00:34:22,100
die for their sins. 
Watching them walk away and then

531
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:24,400
turn back to his disciples and 
say to them. 

532
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,900
Also, will you also go away? 
Can't you just hear the tone in 

533
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:34,500
his voice? 
What about you? 

534
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:41,900
You going to? 
But then the response to whom, 

535
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:45,600
shall we go? 
For thou Hast the words of 

536
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,699
eternal life. 
Folks, I'm here to tell you 

537
00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:52,900
this. 
We do everything we can, but 

538
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:56,199
don't grow discouraged when you 
turn from one side of the other.

539
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,200
And you see that there are 
people no longer following the 

540
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,500
Lord. 
It has always been that way. 

541
00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:05,400
Now, it's always been just as 
sad. 

542
00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,500
It's awful. 
Just consider yourself now. 

543
00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:13,900
Go get live, the life that you 
need. 

544
00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,800
That we need to live. 
Let's go, get em. 

545
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,200
Let's go. 
Try to restore him back. 

546
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,700
Let's go get him back. 
Paul says, if a brother be 

547
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:22,400
overtaken in a fault ye which 
are spiritual restore them, do 

548
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,700
all. 
You can just don't grow 

549
00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:27,000
discouraged. 
If you see people that are 

550
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,800
quitting, their walk with the 
Lord and stopping following the 

551
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,400
lord, it's always been that 
there are people that chose to 

552
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,400
do so. 
Just don't let it get you down. 

553
00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:42,800
And you quit, because the Lord 
saying what about you. 

554
00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,300
Every time somebody says, I'm 
not following the Lord anymore. 

555
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,200
You know what? 
When you're considering that the

556
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,200
Lord saying to you as it were 
what about you? 

557
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,100
What about you? 
Especially if it's a loved one. 

558
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,900
I'm always, isn't that hard? 
A family member quits? 

559
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:05,900
The Lord is asking what about 
you? 

560
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:12,800
We also go. 
Let's respond by saying, where 

561
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,100
am I going? 
To Whom Shall I follow now, Whom

562
00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:21,400
Shall I go? 
For thou Hast the words of 

563
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:28,100
eternal life. 
Well as we read already we need 

564
00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:30,300
to read again. 
Paul said in Galatians chapter 

565
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:33,100
6, verses 12 to Brethren. 
If a man be overtaken in a fault

566
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,400
ye which are spiritual restore, 
such an one in the spirit of 

567
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,000
meekness considering thyself 
lest thou also be tempted and 

568
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,900
bear, ye one another's burdens 
and so fulfill the law of 

569
00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:44,300
Christ. 
Again, Jesus said that we must 

570
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:47,600
judge between those that are 
worthy and those that are hogs 

571
00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:51,200
and those that are dogs. 
Also in verse six, back on our 

572
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,800
text, Jesus says, give not that.
Which is holy The Underdogs 

573
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,400
neither cast you before Pearls 
Before Swine lest, they trample 

574
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,100
them under their feet and turn 
again and Rend. 

575
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:04,400
You simply put, there are those 
that are not worthy. 

576
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,700
Jesus said that there are those 
that are not worthy. 

577
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,400
How we going to know. 
Making a judgement. 

578
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,400
That's how we're going to know. 
You can't no less. 

579
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:28,300
You make a judgment. 
Now the Bible clearly states, 

580
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:35,100
how we do that, what kind of job
we determining, who is which 

581
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,800
requires judgment our part with 
those who are receptive to the 

582
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,600
gospel. 
We are to be long-suffering and 

583
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,900
trying to help them come out of 
air. 

584
00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:47,100
Come out of, there are quickly. 
2nd, Timothy 2, beginning in 

585
00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:52,300
verse 24 and the servant of the 
Lord must not strive, but be 

586
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:56,000
gentle unto all men. 
Apt to teach patient in 

587
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,100
meekness. 
It patient, meekness, 

588
00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:02,000
instructing, those that oppose 
themself if God, peradventure 

589
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,800
will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth. 

590
00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:07,700
And that they may recover 
themselves out of the snare of 

591
00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:13,400
the devil who are taken captive 
by him at his will. 

592
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:16,600
But for those that are not 
receptive. 

593
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:21,100
There comes a time when we stop 
wasting time and we don't give 

594
00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:23,000
dogs. 
Holy things in cast Pearls 

595
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,800
Before Swine, we need to make a 
judgment on that part. 

596
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,700
We judge not according to the 
appearance, we've already 

597
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:33,200
already read that judge, not 
about how things appear but 

598
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,200
judge righteous judgment. 
The only way I can do that is to

599
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,400
compare it with this. 
If somebody is doing something 

600
00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:44,600
that is opposite to this, I can 
lay open the pages of Divine 

601
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,300
inspiration, and compare that 
activity. 

602
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:52,100
And if it's wrong, I can make a 
judgment on that if somebody's 

603
00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:55,900
teaching error and it's compared
to this, the perfect law of 

604
00:38:55,900 --> 00:39:00,100
Liberty. 
I can make a judgment about 

605
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:02,700
that. 
I'm going to tell you something 

606
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:05,900
else, folks. 
There's a difference between 

607
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:10,200
someone who just needs a little 
more information and someone 

608
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:15,400
that is a dog or a hog. 
There's a difference. 

609
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,300
There's a difference between 
someone who really could be 

610
00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:25,600
receptive, may be receptive, 
later, maybe a little receptive,

611
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,200
maybe you planted the seed. 
Maybe down the road may be did 

612
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,300
down the road. 
The Harvest is going to come. 

613
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,500
there's a difference between 
somebody like that who just 

614
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:41,300
needs more of our attention and 
more of our teaching and more of

615
00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:43,800
our preaching, there's a 
difference between that is kind 

616
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,400
of like this in sales in sales 
you have some people that 

617
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,900
they're saying no But what 
they're really saying is they're

618
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:56,800
not really rejecting it 
completely or rejecting you. 

619
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,900
They're saying no because 
they've not received enough 

620
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:02,600
information yet to realize that 
they need to have it. 

621
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,400
Because once they realize they 
need to have it, then they're 

622
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,700
going to want to have it. 
That's a good receptive. 

623
00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:11,800
Lead there. 
That's a good Prospect. 

624
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,700
Sometimes they say no. 
A whole lot of times, in fact, 

625
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:18,600
people say no more than they 
say, yes. 

626
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:22,800
I'm talking about those that by 
that's true when I was in sales 

627
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,800
very few times, very small 
percentage of the time that I 

628
00:40:26,808 --> 00:40:28,600
give a presentation. 
They okay. 

629
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:36,000
Amen. no, it took more, it took 
changing differently, it took 

630
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,500
showing them more value, it took
a lot of that, the gospels, the 

631
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:45,200
same way, it takes time, it 
takes effort, but we need the 

632
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,300
judge those though that are not 
worthy those that are not 

633
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:54,300
interested, those that want 
nothing to do with the Lord in 

634
00:40:54,308 --> 00:40:56,700
Matthew chapter 10, beginning in
verse 12, and I'm almost 

635
00:40:56,700 --> 00:41:00,900
finished To sum up what? 
I just said the words of Jesus. 

636
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:04,500
And when you come into an house 
salute it and if the house be 

637
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:07,100
worthy, let your peace come upon
it. 

638
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:11,200
But if it be not worthy, let 
your peace return to you and 

639
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,100
whosoever shall not. 
Receive you nor hear your words 

640
00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:17,600
when you depart out of the house
or city shake off the dust of 

641
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,500
your feet, verily. 
I say unto you, it shall be more

642
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,700
tolerable for the land of Sodom 
and Gomorrah in the day of 

643
00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:28,200
judgment than for that City. 
Remember an example of this In 

644
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,800
Acts 13 and verse 46, where it 
says, then Paul and Barnabas wax

645
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,600
bold and said it was necessary 
that the word of God should be. 

646
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:41,400
First have been spoken to you 
but seeing you have put it from 

647
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,600
you and and judge yourselves. 
Unworthy of everlasting life 

648
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,800
low. 
We turn to the Gentiles. 

649
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,200
Not taste of the folks when 
people reject the gospel. 

650
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,400
There comes a time when we move 
on. 

651
00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:03,100
And we have to make a judgment 
when that time is. 

652
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,300
Not long ago. 
There were someone that had this

653
00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:11,900
was a young college student 
going to be a lawyer one day I 

654
00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:15,600
guess. 
So he says And he had written 

655
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,900
some things about criticizing 
the Church of Christ in 

656
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:24,200
criticizing the Lord's Church. 
Criticising Christianity 

657
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:32,100
criticizing all manner of things
like that. and, Considered us as

658
00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:35,600
like robots and Nazis and all 
manner of things. 

659
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,400
And you know, I felt compelled 
to respond in defense of the 

660
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,000
church or one-time defense 
defending the church in the good

661
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,700
name of our Lord. you know, the 
bottom line is this when 

662
00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:56,500
somebody like that, rejects God,
rejects the Bible. 

663
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,700
Rejects the Lord Jesus Christ. 
As the Saviour was all part of 

664
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:05,300
it. 
Rejects obedience in anyway or 

665
00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:08,800
structure and religion in any 
way shape or form. 

666
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,400
Folks dust your feet off and 
move on. 

667
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,000
Make the judgment. 
Why? 

668
00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:24,500
Because he judged himself, 
unworthy, because he was not 

669
00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:28,400
receptive to the truth. 
That's different than somebody 

670
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,000
that just needs more 
information, more study and more

671
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,700
sermons more Care on our part 
how we going to know who they 

672
00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:39,700
are. 
By making judgments not 

673
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:44,600
according to the appearance but 
judge righteous judgment. 

674
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:49,800
Is it wrong to judge know the 
manner in which we judge is in 

675
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,000
question? 
Certainly, but folks we must 

676
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,200
stand for what's, right? 
We must stand for what's, right?

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And judge things that are wrong 
outside of the church and things

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that are wrong among God's 
people to, but consider yourself

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and get the beam out. 
So we can help everyone help 

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each other. 
Either get to heaven. 

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One day. 
I'm finished tonight. 

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Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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Our service times are on Sundays

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at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
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