Executing Judgment

[Matthitjah]

Grace to you,

When the Bible asks us to Judge Righteously and to Execute Judgment what is the measure with which we are to use?

In order to Execute Judgment we are going to have to Judge Righteously.

How do we reconcile that with a world that tells us not to Judge?

Peace,

Dave

[MorningGlory]

I was under the impression that we are not to judge, lest we be judged. I don't get the context....like judge satan? Judge other people or what?

[Matthitjah]

Grace to you,

We are to exceute judgment and in order to do that we must judge righteously.

Here is an example;

Zec

[Honeybee88]

The Words of our Father are the only standard we have with which to judge aright...

[Bryanfromiowa]

Matthew 7

Judging Others

1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from the other person's eye.

Edited March 2, 2009 by Bryanfromiowa

[Matthitjah]

Matthew 7

Judging Others

1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from the other person's eye.

Grace to you,

No one said anything about Judging others.

How are you to live Righteously if you refuse to make Judgments? How will you Execute True Judgment without making a Righteous Judgment?

Peace,

Dave

[MorningGlory]

Matthew 7

Judging Others

1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from the other person's eye.

Grace to you,

No one said anything about Judging others.

How are you to live Righteously if you refuse to make Judgments? How will you Execute True Judgment without making a Righteous Judgment?

Peace,

Dave

Oh! There's the disconnect...I thought you were talking about judging other people too. You're talking about making judgements about issues, problems and the like. Now I get it.

[ayin jade]

Actually Bryan, folks use that all the time to claim we cant judge, yet the bible also tells us:

John 7:24 Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

Paul has an example in 1 Corinthians 5. The whole chapter btw is applicable. Please note how we are to use judgment in this case.

1 Corinthians 5

1 On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

3 For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;

4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, with my spirit; also, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ;

5 to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators;

10 yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world.

11 But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

12 For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

13 But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.

The bible doesnt tell us never ever to exercise judgment, but to do so in the proper way.

[Matthitjah]

Matthew 7

Judging Others

1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone else's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from the other person's eye.

Grace to you,

No one said anything about Judging others.

How are you to live Righteously if you refuse to make Judgments? How will you Execute True Judgment without making a Righteous Judgment?

Peace,

Dave

Oh! There's the disconnect...I thought you were talking about judging other people too. You're talking about making judgements about issues, problems and the like. Now I get it.

Grace to you,

I'm talking about making Judgments on all manner of issues pertaining to this life. I'm talking about Executing True Judgment.

We must make Judgments daily and this may or may not involve others.

Our Lord was talking about Judging anothers heart, that we may not do, but we should and we must Judge their behavior.

Peace,

Dave

[Matthitjah]

Actually Bryan, folks use that all the time to claim we cant judge, yet the bible also tells us:

John 7:24 Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

Paul has an example in 1 Corinthians 5. The whole chapter btw is applicable. Please note how we are to use judgment in this case.

1 Corinthians 5

1 On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

3 For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;

4 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, with my spirit; also, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ;

5 to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

7 Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

8 Therefore let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators;

10 yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you must go out of the world.

11 But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

12 For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

13 But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.

The bible doesnt tell us never ever to exercise judgment, but to do so in the proper way.

Sister, your talking my language but somehow I don't believe that the Church by and large is doing this today partly because of a misunderstanding about what Judgment means and how we are to employ it.