The Truth About Judging: What Most Christians Get Wrong 2026

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Are you convinced the Bible says you should never judge others? Think again! In this transformative teaching, we shatter common misconceptions so you can walk in true wisdom, discern with unwavering clarity, and align your life directly with Yahweh’s word.  For too long, confusion around Matthew 7 has kept sincere believers from exercising the righteous judgment commanded throughout Scripture. In this teaching, we examine what the Bible says about judging others, explore the difference between righteous judgment and hypocrisy, and challenge you to reconsider what you may have been taught.  So come along with us as we examine the Scriptures and learn the God Honest Truth about judging!  Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and click the bell icon so you don't miss our next teaching! Join us as we continue pursuing biblical truth and learning to walk in obedience.  #BibleStudy #BibleTeaching #BiblicalTruth #ChristianLiving #Faith #Judging #JudgeNot #Judgemental #NewBeliever #GodHonestTruth  Video Chapters: 00:00:00 Teaching Introduction 00:01:16 Video Start 00:05:41 Judging  00:05:19 What is Judging? 00:07:06 Yeshua the Judge 00:12:16 Other Judges? 00:20:16 Judging in Context 29 52 31 00:40:39 Judging Brethren 01:11:03 Summary  Resources from God Honest Truth: Get the full notes, drash slides, and transcript for this teaching: https://godhonesttruth.short.gy/Judging2026  Find more resources to help you in your walk of faith: https://www.GodHonestTruth.com  Patreon: ⭐https://www.patreon.com/GodHonestTruth⭐  Venmo: ⭐https://account.venmo.com/u/GodsHonestTruth⭐  Paypal: ⭐https://paypal.me/GodHonestTruth⭐  Social Media Links: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/connect-socially/  Music: TheFatRat - Kingdom Come Watch the official music video: https://tinyurl.com/tfrkingdomcome Listen to Kingdom Come: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/warriorsongs Follow TheFatRat: https://ffm.bio/thefatrat  —-Disclaimer: The information presented here is for documentary, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Any imitation or application of the content is done at your own risk. Neither the creators nor associated platforms shall be liable for any injury or damage resulting from such use. This content is freely accessible; please report any unauthorized attempts to charge. By viewing or flagging this content, you acknowledge and accept these terms.  Fair Use: Any inclusion of third-party audio/music, video, or images is used under Fair Use for commentary, parody, and educational or documentary purposes.  This video may contain content that is unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs.

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00:00:01you can't judge me only god can judge me remember the bible says judge not lest you be judged

00:00:10that's the common interpretation that most people have and truthfully enough that's what the bible

00:00:15says if you take one short little snippet out of context but does the bible prohibit judging

00:00:22full-scale blanket prohibition no judging whatsoever well no not really in fact it talks

00:00:31about several different people being called a judge and judging in various different contexts

00:00:37and it goes so far the bible itself goes so far as to not only command us to judge but

00:00:44it guides us

00:00:45and trains us and teaches us how to judge all of that coming up in this particular video on the

00:00:53god honest truth channel we are now about to learn the god honest truth about judging

00:01:17but anyways this draw usher this teaching is going to be all about the subject of judging as it comes

00:01:22from scripture the correct way of interpreting it and learning from it and knowing about it

00:01:27from scripture itself instead of just what some talking head or a preacher says we're going to

00:01:31bring you all the information we're going to bring you all the scriptures that go along with it

00:01:35or the vast majority of them anyway make sure to definitely stay tuned for the information coming

00:01:40up and like always we can't present every single thing regarding the subject some of the stuff we

00:01:45don't know some of the stuff we just cut out for the sake of brevity so if you want even

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00:02:25and that'll take you directly to the article post on our website all very very convenient and that

00:02:31description i'm sorry that link in the description should be down there whether you're watching on a

00:02:35video platform or an audio podcasting platform it'll still be down there all the same so you've probably

00:02:42heard certain things about judging all your life you may have heard one thing or another but probably

00:02:49the most common thing that you've probably heard and most people probably heard when it comes to

00:02:53judging is the quote from the book of matthew something you've probably heard ad nauseum actually

00:02:59this comes from matthew chapter 7 verse 1 and this is how it's commonly quoted and they say

00:03:06do not judge lest you be judged and they leave it there now for a prudent student of the word

00:03:17word you

00:03:18should automatically have something jump out at you right there okay that is very very short and the

00:03:24bible is very very big even the book of matthew is very very big very short snippet that should

00:03:29automatically start setting off red flags in your mind about possibly being taken out of context but

00:03:35regardless this is the what most people quote and put out there a lot of the times and

00:03:42more often than not it's used as a method of weaponization during modern day discussions

00:03:49nowadays and it's usually quoted out of context like i said before it's usually quoted out of context

00:03:55in order to shut down any form of accountability or even moral discussion because nowadays people don't

00:04:01really want to have a discussion about morality especially around where i live probably you

00:04:06probably know places like that as well so a more i guess you could say summary or translation or more

00:04:14modern rendition of this particular section of text that's been quoted from matthew chapter 7

00:04:21is this someone might say something like don't judge me only god can judge me

00:04:30and in translation they don't actually mean that what they actually mean what they're actually trying

00:04:36to say is don't judge me don't make me feel conviction just let me sin in peace that's basically

00:04:44what they're saying in a nutshell so the um basis or the background to this the reality behind this

00:04:51particular phrase when they put it out there like they do most times is it's rarely a theological appeal

00:04:57to like sovereignty or uh theological appeal to scripture or the correct form of judgment they're just saying

00:05:05leave me alone i want to do what i want to do without any accountability to anyone that's basically what

00:05:11they are saying there they will be left alone to their unrepentant state and their unrepentant life

00:05:17that they're currently living in so when we talk about all this judging stuff and they say well only god

00:05:23can judge me or you know the bible says don't judge lest you be judged what does this whole thing

00:05:29about

00:05:29judging actually mean what is judging anyway let's look at a secular definition to see if we can at least

00:05:38get a start on figuring out what exactly judging is this is going to come from the website called

00:05:45dictionary.com pretty on the nose website name it looks like anyways there are multiple entries and

00:05:53multiple sentences in which this can be taken so there's a certain range as to what judging can mean

00:05:59now that's important too as we go forward because even when we look in the bible we're going to see

00:06:04different contexts or the meaning of the word judge or judging but the ones that are relevant here from

00:06:11this dictionary.com entry for judge we look at number eight it says to form a judgment or opinion

00:06:17of or decide upon critically number nine to decide or settle authoritatively for a judge number 10 to

00:06:25infer think or hold as an opinion conclude about or assess number 14 to form an opinion or estimate

00:06:33number 15 to make a mental judgment these this is just uh five selections from a list of about

00:06:4115 on this particular entry on dictionary.com but the one that's going to be most i get relevant it

00:06:48seems

00:06:49like to me for this particular discussion is number nine where it says to decide or settle authoritatively

00:06:54a judge and i think that really fits with a lot of what scripture is telling us about how what

00:07:01when

00:07:02who to judge when it comes to judging going on and we think about judging in scripture and there's all

00:07:11kinds of judges i'm gonna go ahead and spill the beans i'm gonna let the cat out of the bag

00:07:14there are all

00:07:15kinds of judges in scripture but the one particular single specific judge that we really should be

00:07:23worried about and concerned about and have in mind as we go through this particular discussion on judging

00:07:28is the judge yeshua yeshua as our judge and in fact yeshua wasn't always the judge of our salvation

00:07:38he was appointed by yahweh himself to judge our salvation and when it comes to judging salvation

00:07:46it's yeshua and only yeshua who has that authority and ability he's the only one who has the authority

00:07:54and ability to judge our salvation we look at acts chapter 10 verse 42 and he commanded us to proclaim

00:08:00to the people and to witness that it is he who was appointed by elohim to be judge of the

00:08:07living

00:08:07and the dead so take it this verse and there's other verses that go along with us too and we'll

00:08:14look at some of those coming up as we go throughout this particular rosh or teaching but number one it

00:08:20says here that it's talking about and he commanded us to proclaim to the people and to witness that as

00:08:25he who is this he talking about yeshua here and it says he who was appointed by elohim now the

00:08:32implications and we can draw out of that is obvious hopefully for those of you who aren't

00:08:37holding to a golden calf in church tradition this should be obvious is what it's saying right

00:08:41here it says that yeshua jesus was appointed by god by elohim by yahweh to be judge of the living

00:08:49and

00:08:49the dead if someone is appointed to something that means that at some point in time they were not

00:08:56holding that position that they were eventually appointed to make sense so you can take various

00:09:01verses and various passages and learn all kinds of things regarding various subjects here but i just

00:09:07wanted to point that out too but the main thing for our subject here is that yeshua is the judge

00:09:13of our

00:09:13salvation among other things but he's the only one who's going to be the judge of our salvation

00:09:19and we will all stay with me all appear before messiah the judgment seat of messiah second corinthians

00:09:28chapter 5 verse 10 for we all have to appear before the judgment seat of messiah in order for each

00:09:35one

00:09:35to receive according to what he has done in the body whether good or evil another thing we can take

00:09:41off of this uh tangential to our current subject is that we will be judged and receive according to

00:09:48what we have done here in this life again salvation is not about works you don't earn your salvation

00:09:54but works are a good thing and we should be doing works this if you just read straight through even

00:10:02only the new testament you get this but there's still this tradition out there that we shouldn't

00:10:09have to do any works we don't have to worry about works the works been done away with it's solos

00:10:13scriptura which i agree with and by faith alone etc etc and we don't have to worry about work but

00:10:20you know yet they still go ahead and talk about works but the bible does too let it be known

00:10:26that

00:10:26we should be doing works and we will be rewarded according to our works this is just one verse

00:10:31among many that says the exact same thing as that but we will all appear before the judgment seat of

00:10:37the messiah the righteous the unrighteous at the end times and we will all be judged according to our

00:10:43salvation by messiah himself because he was the one appointed by yahweh to be the judge of our salvation

00:10:52again yeshua is our salvation it's not us who judges other people's salvation it's yeshua

00:10:59acts chapter 17 verse 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world

00:11:05in

00:11:05righteousness by a man whom he has appointed having given proof of this to all by raising him

00:11:12from the dead now there's various pronouns going on here and not a single specific name whatsoever but

00:11:19if we look at surrounding context we can easily figure it out because he has set a day on which

00:11:23he is going to judge the world who is this he is talking about here this is yahweh they're talking

00:11:27about here what modern church entity would refer to as god but it says this is referring to yahweh

00:11:35because yahweh has set a day on which yahweh is going to judge the world in righteousness

00:11:39by a man whom he has appointed who is this man that they're talking about this is yeshua

00:11:46it says that this man was appointed by yahweh in this particular verse so again we can take

00:11:52tangential things off of this but again going back to the point and the subject at hand it's going to

00:11:58be yeshua who is the judge of our salvation and we will all go before yeshua to be judged of

00:12:04our

00:12:04salvation at the end of days now even though it talks about yahweh judging the world and it talks

00:12:12about yeshua judging our salvation and judging the world and stuff like that did you know that the

00:12:18scriptures also speak about other judges as well shocker right i know some people who are

00:12:28diehard fundamentalists say there's only one judge and that's jesus and any other judge was just

00:12:33blasphemy and stuff like that maybe no not really and that's nothing get into a subject or a um

00:12:40a discussion with them on the godhead and start talking about how the bible speaks of multiple gods

00:12:46oh boy man that gets heated real quick then you get into explaining it and there's like deer in

00:12:52headlights but anyways i'm getting off on a different subject anyways bible does speak about other

00:12:57judges and what judges are we talking about here well have you ever heard of the book

00:13:02of judges itself there's actually a whole book about judges anyways we look here in judges the

00:13:09book of judges chapter 2 verses 16 through 18 then yahweh raised up rulers who saved them from the hand

00:13:16of those who plundered them however they did not listen to their rulers either but went whoring after

00:13:22other mighty ones and bowed down to them they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers

00:13:26walked and obeying the commands of yahweh they did not do so and when yahweh raised up rulers for

00:13:32them yahweh was the ruler and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the ruler

00:13:38for yahweh had compassion on their groaning because of those who oppressed them and crushed them

00:13:45now if you're just listening to this you may have thought well i didn't hear the word

00:13:49judge anywhere in that and that's because we normally quote and read from a translation called the

00:13:56scriptures 2009 when this particular passage from the scriptures 2009 they don't use the word judge

00:14:02they use the word rulers and that's fitting in a sense i think but that's just the way they

00:14:08translated it other translations do translate ruler as judge actually and the other translations that do

00:14:17that are many many many but just a few of those we've got the coverdale the matthew geneva

00:14:23do it davay rams king james britain lisa julia smith we have the um let's see here the lsb the

00:14:30legacy

00:14:30standard bible the english standard version the tree of life version uh the complete jewish bible etc etc etc

00:14:38lots of translations use the word judge instead of ruler and other translations use the word leaders

00:14:45but most are probably what you're used to and they use the word judge so other people are described as

00:14:52judges and scripture now these judges are different than what you would think of as um judges nowadays who

00:15:00sit on a court and decide matters of law and things like that they did do that but they also

00:15:07did other things in addition to that and a judge was a temporary position if we contrast a judge back

00:15:16during that time with a king which came later on a judge was only a temporary title they held when

00:15:24a

00:15:25foreign nation come in they need to be smacked around and straightened up a judge would be raised up

00:15:31take care of that foreign entity foreign nation and then they wouldn't be judged anymore

00:15:37a judge also did not levy taxes taxes a judge did not levy taxes a judge did not have a

00:15:45standing army

00:15:45like a king would or anything like that and plus a judge technically was not um in charge of the

00:15:53entire nation of israel a judge was only in charge of that particular area that needed to be addressed

00:16:00at that time such as the northern part of israel if a northern kingdom came and was oppressing them

00:16:09or the southern part or the eastern part i mean you get it right it wasn't the entire nation it

00:16:13was just

00:16:13that certain area the judges were for a certain amount of time only for a certain area only for a

00:16:20specific

00:16:20circumstance they did not levy taxes they did not have a standing army and there's some other nuances as well

00:16:26which separate them from the position of king which would come later on king on the other hand

00:16:33was for life generally once they obtained that particular leadership role they levied taxes they

00:16:41held a standing army they pretty much uh coerced or forced labor i mean think about solomon building

00:16:48the temple there was pretty much forced labor there so yeah and all sorts of things so that's the

00:16:55difference between a judge and a king but a judge back during that time would also

00:17:02judge matters of law decide between people disputes and things like that also now knowing that knowing

00:17:10that yeshua is our ultimate judge and judge of our salvation not other people and that there's also

00:17:15other people who are described as judges but they didn't judge salvation so keep that in mind

00:17:19but the bible talks about other people who are regarded as judges as well are how do we fit in

00:17:27all

00:17:27this are we the ones that are going to be judged by these other people and other circumstances that

00:17:31are not salvation wise or how does that work let's look at matthew chapter 19 verse 28 and yeshua said

00:17:39to

00:17:39them truly i say to you when the son of adam sits on the throne of his esteem you who

00:17:43have followed me in

00:17:44the rebirth to also sit on 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of israel in this particular passage it would

00:17:51seem to me at first reading that it he's actually referring to probably the 12 disciples but there's a

00:17:59little kink in that because the original 12 disciples they didn't stay 12 forever right judas fell out

00:18:10because he was the betrayer and he went and hung himself so they went down to 11 they went back

00:18:14up

00:18:15to 12 and then they got all so it had been technically about 13 disciples so take this particular passage

00:18:24in

00:18:24matthew 19 as you will maybe it's talking about the disciples the 12 disciples that yeshua picked or

00:18:32maybe it's talking about us and those who are um the faithful who stood by yeshua i don't know but

00:18:41just know that judges does refer to not just yeshua not just yahweh not just gideon and samson and deborah

00:18:52and all those back in the book of judges but it also can refer to other human beings after that

00:18:58up to

00:18:58and including us sometimes as well let's go on and again look in luke chapter 22 verses 28 to 30

00:19:06but you are those who have remained with me in my trials and i covenant for you as my father

00:19:12covenanted for me a rain to eat and drink at my table in my rain and to sit on thrones

00:19:19judging the 12

00:19:20tribes of israel this is another one just like the previous one from the book of matthew chapter 19

00:19:26this could be talking about the 12 disciples but probably in this particular passage uh

00:19:34this comes across to me as referring to us more so than the 12 disciples but you take it for

00:19:41how you

00:19:41will but the point is there are other judges besides yeshua that are mentioned in scripture

00:19:47as being judges they're not always judges of the same thing or in the same context

00:19:53obviously because yeshua is the only one who is the judge of our salvation however we are to judge

00:20:00and be judges even nowadays before the end times come don't believe me well let's go ahead and look

00:20:07at some more scripture some more evidence to come and see what that actual uh see what the truth of

00:20:14the

00:20:14matter is in other words looking at judging in context especially as it comes from scripture

00:20:21we go back and look at the original passage that we began with and that was matthew chapter 7

00:20:26and especially verse 1 we look at matthew chapter 7 verses 1 through 5 for a greater context and it

00:20:33says here do not judge lest you be judged for with what judgment you judge you shall be judged and

00:20:40with

00:20:40the same measures you use it shall be measured to you sorry about that and why do you look at

00:20:47the

00:20:48splinter in your brother's eye but do not notice the plank in your own eye or how is it that

00:20:52you

00:20:52say to your brother let me remove the splinter out of your eye and see a plank is in your

00:20:57own eye

00:20:58hypocrite first remove the plank from your own eye and then you shall see clearly remove the splinter

00:21:04out of your brother's eye so here notice that yeshua does not say never look at your brother's eye

00:21:13get that you see that anywhere in this particular passage it's because it's not there he doesn't

00:21:18say don't ever judge in any form any context whatsoever don't ever look at your brother's eye

00:21:25he doesn't say that also well let me back up before i get too far ahead

00:21:33yeshua isn't telling us to never judge at all in fact to the contrary he is actually teaching us

00:21:39how to judge so that comes in a different light now that we take it in context break it down

00:21:46and

00:21:46take a lot slower so we can better grasp everything that's going on here he doesn't say never judge

00:21:52he's teaching us how to judge and how is he teaching us to judge by not being hypocritical about it

00:21:58in this particular example he says you first remove the plank out of your own eye then you can see

00:22:05to

00:22:05remove the speck or the splinter out of your brother's eye for instance in our day and age a

00:22:12modern analogy might be um let's say you're an alcoholic and you go up and you start talking to

00:22:19someone else about their drinking problem that's being hypocritical if you're uh taken by the drink

00:22:27as it were and you're an alcoholic and you can't you know break from it and you're still doing that

00:22:32you have no business trying to tell other people about their own alcoholism first take care of your

00:22:39own alcoholism take care of your own addiction then you would be even more equipped to help those

00:22:45who are still within the darkness of alcoholism same thing goes for sexual perversion such as

00:22:52homosexuality transgender things like that too most of those don't tell within their own group you know

00:23:00they shouldn't be like that obviously but you get the point when you see a wrong you see a sin

00:23:06you

00:23:07want to address it but if you're doing the same thing that's being a hypocrite and yeshua says don't

00:23:12be a hypocrite correct yourself first look to your own soul look to your own life before you go and

00:23:19try

00:23:19to judge and help correct someone else this command here is not saying don't ever judge whatsoever

00:23:27this command condemns hypocritical judgment even hypercritical judgment and it's actually

00:23:35talking more in line with discerning judgment as opposed to a prohibition on judgment which most

00:23:43people think of and put forth when they just talk about judging and especially the bible and stuff like

00:23:48that in fact when you judge someone and this is pretty obvious but it bears repeating when you judge

00:23:54someone you need to have a standard by which to judge them by well the standard that we judge our

00:23:59brothers and sisters by is the word of yahweh the scripture the bible right and that is what we

00:24:05judge people by we should judge our own selves by if we just make it up as we go that's

00:24:10really no

00:24:11standard whatsoever so our standard is the bible that is our yardstick as it were and as one person

00:24:18put it that i was looking into they said make sure that your yardstick doesn't become your boomerang

00:24:25and come back and hit you from being hypocritical about the way you judge for instance look at let's

00:24:31look at romans chapter 2 verses 1 through 3 therefore oh man you are without excuse everyone who judges

00:24:38or in which you judge another you condemn yourself since you who judge practice the same wrongs and we

00:24:46know that the judgment of elohim is according to truth against those who practice such wrong and do

00:24:52you think oh man you who judge those practicing such wrongs and doing the same that you shall escape the

00:24:58judgment of elohim again paul is not writing here to the romans don't ever judge he's saying the exact

00:25:05same thing that yeshua said earlier don't be a hypocrite because you're going to be judged by the exact

00:25:12same thing that yardstick is going to turn into a boomerang and come back and hit you it's not going

00:25:17to be pretty take care of yourself take care of your own life look to your own ways before trying

00:25:23to

00:25:24judge other people it can be done is done all the time i have zero problem with alcoholism i have

00:25:32zero

00:25:33problem with homosexuality so that frees me up to go forth and judge those kind of matters right but those

00:25:40who may be in that kind of thing that would be hypocritical for them to do that hopefully that

00:25:45makes sense now we saw already we saw yeshua what he said about judgment a little bit anyways i also

00:25:53saw

00:25:53a little bit about what paul says about judging them both saying pretty much the same thing is that

00:25:58don't be hypocritical when you judge but we're still getting the um implication to judge all the same

00:26:06however there is also a direct command to judge from yeshua himself in john chapter 7 verse 24

00:26:14do not judge according to appearance but judge with righteous judgment notice there how we are

00:26:22commanded to judge judge with righteous judgment make sense so again as you can see already i mean just

00:26:34from a few verses that we looked at in context and some other verses that go along with it and

00:26:38especially pertaining to this particular subject we're told or we can see that the bible instead

00:26:45of prohibiting judgment or being judgmental bible actually trains us and guides us and commands us

00:26:52in how to judge fairly interesting right may not have picked up on that from a mainstream church entity

00:26:59preaching but you go through and looking at scripture itself things start lining up and making

00:27:05a lot more sense righteous judgment as we kind of intimated earlier righteous judgment is based on

00:27:13a standard a holy righteous standard which is the word of yahweh and not just what we make up ourselves

00:27:20some kind of surface level bias that if you're like me sometimes your your standards might change from

00:27:28day to day you might be fairly strict on most days but other days when you're tired and you're stressed

00:27:33out you're like oh kids just go do whatever you want to just don't you know bring the blood you're

00:27:37fine

00:27:39so yeah your standards might be lax on some days but yahweh's standard never does lax up it's going to

00:27:45be

00:27:45the same forever it's same yesterday same today it's going to be the same in the future that is the

00:27:51standard by which we judge people by now again proverbs chapter 31 verse 9 open your mouth judge

00:27:57righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy so here we're getting into some more aspects

00:28:04and some more guidelines for how to judge not a prohibition against judging but how we should go

00:28:12about judging and here we're told to plead the cause of the poor and the needy and to judge

00:28:16righteously again we're not to show partiality whatsoever in regards to status or wealth or

00:28:23anything like that we are to judge righteously and use just measures as it were looking at

00:28:30leviticus chapter 19 verse 15 do no unrighteousness in right ruling do not be partial to the poor

00:28:36or favor of the face of the great but rightly rule your neighbor in righteousness once again

00:28:42we are commanded in how to judge we are guided and regulated in how to judge and we are told

00:28:48do not show partiality in your judgment it doesn't matter if it is the president or the ceo

00:28:55or the homeless guy on the street we're to judge them all the same with all the same standard

00:29:01but judging righteously is actually a direct command as opposed to what we normally hear of do not judge

00:29:08whatsoever we are to be pleading the case of the poor and the needy the widow the fatherless people

00:29:16like that we're not to show partiality in our judgment when we do judge now when we talk about

00:29:23this whole business of us judging stuff like that it's obviously going to come down to a time

00:29:29sometime or another when we are judged by other people but is it the right people who should be

00:29:37judging us and should we take what they say to heart well let's look at the words of paul when

00:29:43he

00:29:43talks to the church at colossi colossians chapter 2 verses 16 through 17 let no one therefore judge

00:29:49you in eating or in drinking or in respect of a festival or a new moon or sabbath which are

00:29:54a

00:29:54shadow of what is to come but the body of the messiah this is one you probably heard before and

00:30:01we

00:30:02briefly went over it when we looked at um the sabbath series we got to looking at sunday arguments

00:30:09stuff like that but this is fairly popular especially when it comes to mainstream churchianity

00:30:15versus messianic you know kind of way of thinking but the traditional churchianity way of viewing this

00:30:22and interpreting this is they will come across and they will say oh you can do whatever you want you

00:30:27can eat whatever you want drink whatever you want do any sort of sabbath do any sort of festival or

00:30:32no

00:30:32festival or no sabbath it's all good don't let anyone judge you because jesus paid it all right

00:30:40i mean that's how it's usually viewed and interpreted by mainstream churchianity but that's not the truth

00:30:44of the matter that's not what the bible is saying looky here it says let no one therefore judge you

00:30:50in eating or in drinking or in respect of a festival or a new moon or sabbaths which are a

00:30:54shadow of what

00:30:55is to come but the body of messiah notice that middle part right there which says all these things

00:31:00are a shadow of what is to come these things that they're a shadow of have not yet come according

00:31:09to

00:31:09all they are still yet to come they are a future um projection i guess you could say or a

00:31:15future

00:31:16instance that we haven't yet seen and he says that these things that are currently going on he says

00:31:21they are currently are currently present active still ongoing they have not been done away with

00:31:28if they had been done away with like modern churchianity interprets he would have written

00:31:33these were a shadow of things that we have already saw come to pass that's not what he writes he

00:31:39says

00:31:39these things are current present active and ongoing things are a shadow of what is to come which hasn't

00:31:46come yet so in contrast to what modern churchianity teaches this does not say that you can do whatever

00:31:52sabbath you want whatever festival or holiday or eat whatever you want drink whatever you want

00:31:57nothing like that notice also here the bookends and the front part and the latter part of this

00:32:04particular passage says here let no one therefore judge you but the body of the messiah

00:32:13doesn't that make it a lot more clear about what it's actually trying to say let me read it again

00:32:18just those two ends right there disregarding the specifics in the middle it says here let no one

00:32:24therefore judge you but the body of the messiah let no one judge you but or except the body of

00:32:33messiah

00:32:34so who is to actually judge us those who are within the body those who are other believers those who

00:32:41are brothers and sisters in messiah but we're not to let anyone else judge us for what we do

00:32:47when we follow scripture right because scripture tells us what to eat what we can drink what kind of

00:32:53festival or new moon or sabbath or whatever when we follow that we're following yahweh's standard yahweh's

00:33:00rule and those who are outside have a lot of things to say about that mostly negative maybe some

00:33:06positive but mostly negative but none of that should matter us their opinion about keeping yahweh's

00:33:14word does not matter to us that's why paul says let no one therefore judge you let no one who's

00:33:21on the

00:33:21outside judge you those who are on the inside those are the ones who are supposed to be judging you

00:33:27in what you eat or drink or festival or holiday you keep or new moon or sabbath

00:33:33that's who should judge you and how you keep these things it's the body of messiah the believers your

00:33:38brothers and sisters in messiah themselves those are the ones who are supposed to be judging you in

00:33:44such things then we look at you know if we are to judge ourselves speaking of those of us who

00:33:55are in

00:33:55the body then who is it that judges those who are outside well this is yahweh who judges those we

00:34:02look

00:34:03at first corinthians chapter 5 verses 12 through 13 what have i to do with judging outsiders do you

00:34:09not judge those who are inside but elohim judges those who are outside and put away the wicked one from

00:34:16among you as hard as it is we might look at someone on the street who's not a believer and

00:34:22say

00:34:22you're wrong you're a sinner blah blah blah you know

00:34:29it's not really our place to do that not saying you're wrong for whatever it is you're saying because

00:34:34i don't know what it is you're saying but we can see here from scripture is yahweh who judges those

00:34:39who are outside the body of messiah so you know it's not your department in other words it's not part

00:34:46of your responsibility it's not in your job title to do that it's only those who are inside that we

00:34:52are

00:34:52to help judge now we can tell the people that they're wrong all day long but as far as judging

00:34:57them condemning them stuff like that that's not for us to do that's going to be the end times thing

00:35:02for yahweh and yeshua to handle not us so it's yahweh who judges those who are outside whereas what we

00:35:10can get from scripture is that we should judge ourselves we should judge uh the brothers and sisters

00:35:15in messiah not those who are outside and don't let those who are outside judge us don't let their opinion

00:35:21bother you all it is is smoke and it flies over like water off the duck's back don't worry about

00:35:27their opinion and how you keep torah let it go we look at the standard again and i know i

00:35:36said that

00:35:36our standard is yahweh's word but the scriptures actually say such thing in no uncertain terms in

00:35:45other words we look at second timothy chapter five i'm sorry second timothy chapter three verses 16

00:35:51to 17 all scripture is breathed out by elohim and profitable for teaching for reproof for setting

00:35:56straight for instruction and righteousness that the man of elohim might be fitted equipped for every

00:36:02good work so scripture is what we got our lives by what we got our doctrine and our beliefs by

00:36:09not the

00:36:10preaching of some talking head on the internet not by the preaching or opinion of some guy in the

00:36:15pulpit on you know sunday morning you know nothing like that it's scripture that is our standard and

00:36:22that is what is profitable for teaching for reproof for setting straight for instruction and righteousness

00:36:27that we may be fitted and equipped for every good work now one thing i want to point out here

00:36:32real

00:36:33quick and this is uh especially for those of you who are new to the messianic way of thinking

00:36:38but consider this we take things in their cultural and historical context and doing that with this

00:36:45particular passage in second timothy the context here especially in its cultural and historical setting

00:36:50is that when this was written they did not have a new testament

00:36:58shock i know to say there was a time when there was no new testament yeah i get it right

00:37:04it can be a

00:37:05shock sometimes but they did not have a new testament back then they might have had a letter here and

00:37:10there especially the uh maybe the churches of that paul was apostling but they did not have a new

00:37:17testament like we think of new testament nowadays so when they talk about scripture and scripture being

00:37:23breathed out by elohim what are they actually talking about then if they didn't have the new testament

00:37:26they had the septuagint they had the tenor which is the torah the prophets and the writing

00:37:37that's what they had that's what they're referring to here when they say scripture

00:37:41so their scripture for the first century church their scripture was the tenor not the new testament

00:37:49that comes as a shock i know to those of you who are so used to the mainstream churchianity way

00:37:56of

00:37:56thinking and i was too for a long long time so i get it i was there i understand but

00:38:01when you start

00:38:01thinking about this in its historical and cultural context it talks about all scriptures breathe out

00:38:06when they first read this and when it was written to them it was about the tanakh not the new

00:38:13testament

00:38:13or we consider the new testament nowadays but again the scriptures time and time again state that the

00:38:20standard for us to live by and judge by and to guide our lives by is this word of yahweh

00:38:26itself we look

00:38:28at romans chapter 15 verse 4 whatever is written before was written for our instruction that through

00:38:35endurance and encouragement of the scriptures we might have the expectation again yahweh's word is

00:38:44our standard by which we go by and by which we judge ourselves by first and then judge those brothers

00:38:51and sisters in the body that's what we judge them by as well our standard the torah regardless and in

00:38:58contradiction to mainstream churchianity teaching the torah is good it's not a burden it's not a curse

00:39:05the torah is good and scripture actually says that as well psalms 119 verses 102 through 105

00:39:14i have not turned aside from your right rulings for you yourself have taught me how sweet to my taste

00:39:20has your word been more than honey to my mouth from your orders i get understanding therefore i have

00:39:26hated every false way your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path and for

00:39:33those of you who don't

00:39:34know if you want to read what the bible has to say about the torah and about the word about

00:39:40the stock

00:39:40go check out psalms 119 that is i believe in standard canonization it's about the middle of the bible

00:39:50it's also the longest chapter in the bible whatsoever and of course psalms the book of psalms is the longest

00:39:57book in the bible but yeah psalms 119 is all about the um virtues and the greatness and the blessings

00:40:06and the

00:40:07wonderfulness of the torah which runs in stark contradiction to the catholic tradition handed down

00:40:14nowadays by mainstream protestantism which says that the torah is you know a burden it was a yo

00:40:19no one could do it no one was expected to do it it was you know all these bad things

00:40:25now go read your

00:40:27bible see what the bible actually says regarding that particular subject as well as every other

00:40:32subject too but you'll see what the bible says and what mainstream churchianity says are two opposite

00:40:38and completely different things now we saw that's number one yeshua is the judge of our salvation

00:40:44that no one else is not me not you not hope not you preacher whoever they can't judge your salvation

00:40:51that's just belonging to yeshua and that was granted and pointed to him by yahweh we saw there were other

00:41:00people who were referred to as judges besides yeshua and we also saw that we are not to allow others

00:41:07who

00:41:07are outside the body to judge us but it's us within the body who are to judge ourselves and especially

00:41:13our own personal selves first so when we go and we start talking about judging the brethren and

00:41:19instead of judging those who are outside what kind of rules and what kind of regulations can we pick up

00:41:25on when we talk about judging our own brethren those who are within the body of messiah well first of

00:41:33all

00:41:33sorry first of all i can't even talk tonight oh first off let's go ahead and look at proverbs chapter

00:41:4210 verse 17 he who eats discipline is in the way of life but he who refuses reproof goes astray

00:41:50when we talk about judging and we get into the realization the bible tells us that we are to

00:41:56actually judge instead of you know prohibiting judgment whatsoever it kind of comes easy for us to

00:42:04think about judging other people we look at our brother or a sister who goes to church with us or

00:42:12synagogue with us or whatever you'll call it and it's usually easier to think about judging them

00:42:18and what they're doing wrong and how they got their life somehow askew and it's a lot harder to look

00:42:24on

00:42:24ourselves and a lot of times we don't want to be judged and we don't like to be judged we

00:42:30don't like

00:42:31to have that conviction on us but it's it'd be a good thing and most of the time it usually

00:42:36is from

00:42:37someone who is loving us and wants us to be better and have a closer walk with yahweh and that's

00:42:45a lot

00:42:46of times what these scriptures tell us when it talks about you know us getting reproof here in psalm i'm

00:42:53sorry proverbs 10 17 it says he who needs discipline is in the way of life but he refuses reproof

00:42:59goes

00:42:59astray we are human we make mistakes number one okay i make mistakes just about every single day

00:43:06i need reproof i need setting straight and somehow whether it's cooking whether it's in interpretation

00:43:12of scripture uh whether it's in parenting you name something and it's usually having to do with uh road

00:43:20rage when i get on the road but this is subject for another time well we all need reproof we

00:43:26all need

00:43:26to be um adjusted from time to time and scripture tells us that he who he's disciplined is in the

00:43:33way

00:43:34of life and it even goes on in certain parts to say that it's yahweh who reproves those whom he

00:43:40loves

00:43:40he reproves and chastises his children so it's a good thing that's why we discipline as parents that's

00:43:48why we discipline our children it's not going to hurt them but it sets them straight it helps to

00:43:52guide them and straighten them out into the way they should be going even the bible says you know

00:43:57spare not the rod you spare the rod you spoil the child so i am definitely in the realm of

00:44:05you know

00:44:06discipline your children but we should also look upon ourselves look at that person in the mirror

00:44:12and accept that we need guidance and reproof and discipline from time to time as well and we need

00:44:19someone in our lives that we can trust who we know has our best interest at heart to be able

00:44:26to do that

00:44:26to be our what they call a lot of times accountability partner whatever you want to phrase it as but

00:44:32we need

00:44:32that sometimes so don't reject it especially when it's coming from a brother or sister who has your best

00:44:38interest in mind accept it or at least seriously consider it anyway going on and again looking at

00:44:46proverbs chapter 12 verse 1 whoever loves discipline loves knowledge but he who hates reproof is stupid

00:44:54don't be a teenager in other words don't think that you know everything there is to know and you can't

00:44:59learn anything else you still have things to learn till you're dying day we all do and that's something

00:45:06i love about life that's one of the aspects of life that i absolutely just you know get all about

00:45:14get all excited about is something to learn something to expand my knowledge on that's why i'm so addicted

00:45:19to like history and church history especially and the bible and everything else because there's always

00:45:26something to learn i may be thinking oh i know this because i've taught on it before i've done a

00:45:31research

00:45:31on it before but still there's still things to learn and i do that every single time even things

00:45:37that i revisit i try to learn something new and present something new uh regarding that particular

00:45:43subject so there's always something to learn don't ever turn away knowledge don't ever turn away

00:45:49education or wisdom stuff like that continue to learn all throughout your life whoever loves discipline

00:45:54loves knowledge along with learning comes discipline from time to time again accept discipline when it

00:46:01comes from a trustworthy source who has your best interest in mind so how do we handle those

00:46:08we're talking about ourselves a little bit now but those in the brethren those who are in the body

00:46:15if they are sinning against us or they are sinning in general how do we handle that kind of situation

00:46:21but we start off by looking at matthew chapter 18 verses 15 through 17 and if your brother sins against

00:46:28you go and convict him between you and him alone if he hears you you have gained your brother but

00:46:33if

00:46:33he does not hear take with you one or two more that by the mouth of two or three witnesses

00:46:38every word

00:46:39might be established and if he refuses to hear them say it to the assembly and if he refuses to

00:46:45hear even

00:46:45to hear the assembly let him be to you like the nations and a tax collector that is very very

00:46:53foreign to the way things operate nowadays for those of you who are like me and you've been you know

00:46:59rejected and kicked out of congregations and fellowships in the past you know it doesn't

00:47:05happen like this like it should and uh congregations um yeah anyways goes on and uh yeshua is telling us

00:47:13here that if your brother sins against you and the way i'm taking this is that you personally or you

00:47:18know does something against you but i'm taking it it could also be against you know what we would

00:47:24interpret to be as the scriptural teaching as well but says go and talk to him just you and him

00:47:30one-on-one discussion work it out or do your best to work it out anyway and maybe you have

00:47:37luck there

00:47:38maybe you can help him to see the error of his ways another aspect to take in mind and to

00:47:43keep in mind

00:47:44is that if you're trying to do this you're going through this process understand that you may be in

00:47:49the wrong here when you go to try and correct them but when you start talking about it it may

00:47:53be you

00:47:54that gets the light shown on instead of that other person so accept that and you know listen to what

00:48:02they have to say and seriously consider it but go and bring up the case between you and him alone

00:48:08one-on-one that's the first step number two if he hears you have gained your brother but if he

00:48:14does

00:48:14not hear you then you take another one or two brethren with you so that by the mouth of two

00:48:21or three

00:48:21witnesses every word might be established and go talk to him then then try to have a discussion

00:48:27so that's step two if step one didn't step two is you go with some other brothers uh in the

00:48:33faith

00:48:33and try to talk to the person themselves if that doesn't work then number three it goes on and he

00:48:39says and if he refuses to hear them say it to the assembly this is huge right here this is

00:48:45something

00:48:46that they seriously do not do nowadays and they are absolutely terrified of doing this think about

00:48:56this for a minute one of the churches that i got um kicked out of was for the subject of

00:49:03plural marriage

00:49:05and um i didn't even get to talk with the main guy the rabbi there when he found out that

00:49:11you know

00:49:12i held to the biblical standard of marriage which does allow for a man to have more than one wife

00:49:17when he found that out as soon as i came in the door one saturday he came up from the

00:49:24pulpit up in

00:49:25the very beginning where the whole ark and the tourist scrolls kept everything else he was up there and

00:49:29he saw me come in the back door he starts briskly walking back straight towards me and ushers me out

00:49:36of the little uh synagogue congregation thing there he would not have a conversation about it he did not

00:49:42bring two or three other people with him and he certainly would not have wanted me to get up in

00:49:47front of the congregation so it was completely unbiblical the way he did it but it is what it is

00:49:53you can't change something right but that's what a lot of these congregations are absolutely scared of

00:49:59they don't want you getting up and putting forth your case they don't want the uh issue to be

00:50:05discussed in front of other people because it might go against what they say and draw others away

00:50:10they want to keep that power they want to keep that membership they don't want to lose it they

00:50:16scared that they might be wrong about something you might be right and they will never i've never heard

00:50:21of anyone ever being brought in front of the assembly before they were kicked out and i've known a lot

00:50:25of

00:50:25people who've gotten what's called the left foot of fellowship just like me so yeah anyways if you're

00:50:32doing it the biblical way get back to scripture here we're doing the biblical way then step three

00:50:36if you can't resolve it by you and him speaking alone together one-on-one then bring two or three

00:50:42more that's step two and if you can't work it out between the person who has sinned against you

00:50:47and you and the other two or three that you brought with you then bring it in front of the

00:50:52congregation

00:50:52in front of the assembly and then if he still refuses to hear even the assembly then you let

00:51:00him be like the nations and a tax collector and this is speaking in reference to those who are

00:51:05outside the body said let him be to you like those kind of people and how are we to treat

00:51:10those kind of

00:51:11people we're to let number one yahweh judge them and we are not to let their opinions influence us

00:51:17when they try to judge us for the way we're keeping the word of yahweh makes sense hopefully

00:51:22it's a little bit clearer now i love breaking things down and there's components and taking

00:51:27it slow and maybe it's just me and my edd but it makes more sense when you kind of break

00:51:33it down

00:51:34and go a little bit slower like that and we've talked about you know judging ourselves first looking

00:51:38at the person in the mirror and correcting them before we go out and judge other people and how

00:51:42mainstream churchianity teaches that you shouldn't judge at all but we're actually commanded to judge

00:51:48our brethren those who are within the body of messiah we have a command to actually judge them

00:51:54we look at colossians i'm sorry galatians chapter 6 verse 1 brothers if a man is overtaken in some

00:52:01trespass you the spiritual ones set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness looking at yourself

00:52:07lest you be tried to yeah we're told here that if one of the brethren one of our brothers and

00:52:15sisters

00:52:15messiah goes astray they are one off into some kind of trespass in life and you know is going against

00:52:24torah it's going against what we see in scripture that we are to go we are to judge them we

00:52:29are to set

00:52:29them straight in a spirit of meekness and spirit of humility and we are to again not do it hypocritically

00:52:37we are to first make sure that we aren't ourselves tied up in that kind of sin or that kind

00:52:44of error

00:52:45or even adjacent to it before we go and try to correct our brethren so yeah pretty much the same

00:52:52thing that yeshua was saying earlier don't be a hypocrite when you go and judge but we're told here

00:52:58by paul we're told to go and set a brother or sister straight if they get off in there in

00:53:05a

00:53:05trespass they get off into alcoholism now again bible does not prohibit the consuming of alcohol

00:53:11you want a glass of wine you want a beer you go for it there's nothing simple nothing wrong about

00:53:17that even tells us to do that sometimes but being addicted to alcohol being a slave to alcohol that

00:53:25is alcoholism and that is a sin we're actually prohibited from doing that particular aspect

00:53:30of uh consuming alcohol so if they get into alcoholism go and correct them do your very best

00:53:37try and save them and bring them back into the right way of doing things and yeah if you can

00:53:42do

00:53:43that you have saved a brother but do it for the right reasons do it because we are instructed to

00:53:49by the scriptures do it because you have a love for your brother or for your sister don't do it

00:53:55because

00:53:55you want to elevate yourself and make yourself seem right you don't do it because you want to be right

00:54:02you want to do it because you want to redeem the other person from whatever error they may be in

00:54:07at

00:54:07the time make sure your motives are correct as well and again whenever we go and we try to judge

00:54:14others we should first be making sure that we judge ourselves make sure we have ourselves

00:54:19straighten out before we go and try to correct other people we look at first corinthians chapter

00:54:2411 verses 31 through 32 for if we were to examine ourselves we would not be judged but when we

00:54:32are

00:54:32judged we are disciplined by the master that we should not be condemned with the world again look to

00:54:40yourself straighten yourself out before you try and go and straighten others out don't be a hypocrite

00:54:45when you go to judge but again there's no prohibition against judging whatsoever there are rules there

00:54:53are regulations there are guidance but we are to judge we are commanded to judge actually now there is

00:55:00also wisdom and discernment in judging as well not everything that comes up needs to be adjudicated or

00:55:07judged at that very moment some things we should not judge immediately if something comes up a rumor

00:55:15about a particular person or a ministry or is this and that and the other definitely don't judge

00:55:22immediately and we have such a bad habit of doing this from social media nowadays you see one post

00:55:28about a political candidate or about a preacher or a minister or things like that and we automatically

00:55:34jump to conclusions and make a judgment but we shouldn't do that we should instead wait for the full

00:55:39context of the evidence to come out before we make that judgment not everything needs to be immediately

00:55:46addressed not everything needs to be immediately judged we look at second timothy chapter 2 verses 23

00:55:52through 26 i refuse foolish and stupid questions knowing that they breed quarrels and a servant of the

00:55:59master should not quarrel but be gentle towards all able to teach patient when wronged in meekness

00:56:04instructing those who were in opposition lest somehow elohim gives them repentance unto a thorough

00:56:10knowledge of the truth and they come to their senses out of the snare of the devil having been taken

00:56:15captive by him to do his desire so even when judging and righteously judging there's not everything that

00:56:23needs not everything that comes up needs to be judged and now everything needs to be judged immediately

00:56:28some things don't even bother with and what is those some things right here says here in second

00:56:34timothy the foolish and stupid questions that only breed quarrels don't even worry about them just let

00:56:41them go like water off a duck's back just let them go and you've probably run across this many times

00:56:47in

00:56:48your life you run across a uh atheist or someone online or something like that and they might try to

00:56:55trick

00:56:55you or the trick question and one of the more famous traditional trick questions is well can god

00:57:00make a rock so big that even he can't move it and that's supposed to be a gotcha question but

00:57:06it's not

00:57:06there for any actual intellectual exercise or you know it's just there to breed quarrels to try and

00:57:16be a gotcha kind of thing it's not even a relevance or just question to begin with but you can

00:57:23see the

00:57:23point i'm making not everything needs to be addressed now everything needs to be addressed

00:57:26immediately to take those two points into consideration when you think about judging and

00:57:32scripture and things like that we really need to consider um correction or judgment from those who

00:57:39are mature in the faith like i said earlier you can have someone you really should have someone

00:57:44who um you trust who is knowledgeable who is wise who is mature that can help to hold you

00:57:52accountable who can help to guide you and educate you and provide that iron sharpening iron kind of

00:57:58situation when you need it we all need that kind of person and if you are a man then an

00:58:05older gentleman

00:58:05would be the one that would be advised if you are a woman an older lady would be one that's

00:58:11advised

00:58:11there um but you get what i'm saying you need someone who is um you can trust who is wise

00:58:19and mature

00:58:19who can help correct you when you need correcting and we all need correcting from time to time we

00:58:25look at hebrews chapter 5 verse 13 through 14 for everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced in the

00:58:31word of righteousness for he is a babe but solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained

00:58:37by practice to discern both good and evil when you first come into the faith you're starting out and

00:58:43you're learning pretty much the basics and the foundation stuff like that you're learning you know

00:58:49first few books of the bible first few books of the new testament you learn about creation account

00:58:56the story of the flood the tower of babel moses and the exodus from egypt the ten commandments

00:59:03very basic stuff like that right but then as you mature in the faith you start getting even deeper

00:59:10into it you start learning things about well the sabbath as we've just been going through a particular

00:59:15series the ins and outs and the details uh regarding the subject of the sabbath you start learning the

00:59:20ins and outs and the nuances of a subject like the godhead or the feast days or the traditional

00:59:26holidays of the church and etc you know things like that that's the kind of meat you learn later on

00:59:33but

00:59:33when you're first starting out you've got to you know get the basics first before you can really get

00:59:37into that deeper stuff and that's what it's referring to here says those who are you know inexperienced

00:59:43they drink the milk or they partake of the milk but solid food is for the mature that's what's

00:59:49saying here and this kind of goes along with the principle of getting someone who is mature in the

00:59:53faith to help educate you to help hold you accountable to help judge you and correct you

01:00:00and discipline you we all need it so try to find someone like that and also try to be that

01:00:07person

01:00:07for other people and the way to do that is to continue to advance in your education continue

01:00:13to advance in your walk and your experience and stuff like that as you go through your own life

01:00:18so that you can be that accountability person for someone else who may be younger than you are

01:00:23i want to say younger or older i'm not referring to actual physical age i'm referring to specifically

01:00:29here the walk in the faith he could be 80 years old in a babe in the faith whereas someone

01:00:36who is 30

01:00:37is older in the faith than that person who is 80 physically make sense anyways going on um

01:00:46some of the assembly we talked about you know judging ourselves about how yeshua is the judge of our

01:00:52salvation not anyone else not any you know one of us or anything like that and how to judge

01:00:58brethren try to set them straight uh go and talk to them first alone one-on-one then taking brethren

01:01:04with you then before the assembly and we are to judge those who were within the assembly but from

01:01:11time to time and this has happened over the years and it will happen again from time to time there

01:01:16will

01:01:17be people who the bible tells us to not have fellowship with and to lack of a better term be

01:01:25parted with

01:01:25let's look at first corinthians chapter 5 verse 11 and now i have written to you not to keep company

01:01:33with anyone called a brother if he is one who whores or greedy of gain or an idolater or a

01:01:40reveler or a

01:01:41drunkard or a swindler not even to eat with such a one so sometimes people are so

01:01:50enslaved to whatever vice they have in their lives whether it be sexually related whether it be

01:01:58sexually related whether it be financially related whether it be spiritually related with idolatry

01:02:03things like that whether it be you know with alcohol or whatever have you says here the list

01:02:10it gives here in this particular passage one who whores greedy of gain idolater reveler drunkard or

01:02:16swindler these are people that you should not have fellowship with according to scripture now

01:02:24engaging wisdom and using what we've already learned if people are if you notice people doing this

01:02:31you don't just automatically part ways with them i do not believe that saying that when you take

01:02:36everything into context is not saying that instead i think these people that's listening here

01:02:42what it's referring to is first trying that process of redeeming them trying to you know

01:02:47correct them stuff like that by going to them one-on-one and taking you know two or three with

01:02:52you and then going to the assembly and if they are still going about these particular things especially

01:03:00then you're not have part uh fellowship with them that's when you part with them but don't jump to

01:03:06the ostracization right off the bat in other words when addressing a brother overtaken in one of

01:03:11these trespasses do so in humility and also with meekness but make sure to also keep watch over

01:03:18yourself so that you're not you know overlooking their error just for the sake of being nice not

01:03:26overlooking their error just for the sake of unity of some things break the unity and this is a list

01:03:32of

01:03:32things right here so when you go and you address someone like this do so with humility and meekness

01:03:38making sure to address yourself first but try to do it um with the right motives again not because

01:03:45you think you're better than them not because you want to be right but because you have a heart for

01:03:50them get themselves corrected it's them that you're worried about not yourself when you're trying to

01:03:55correct someone else all right so we've looked at judging ourselves making sure that we're not

01:04:00judging others hypocritically we've looked at yeshua being the only judge of our salvation not anyone

01:04:05else not us or nothing like that we've also looked at other people who are referred to as judges and

01:04:11judging brethren and not letting those outside judge us or you know taking their opinion even seriously as

01:04:18to how we're following the torah and the scriptures so now let's move on and let's look at you know

01:04:26some people are so caught up in trying to judge other people's salvation when they really shouldn't

01:04:33be number one yeshua is the only judge of salvation not me not you not pastor or pope or priest

01:04:39or

01:04:39whoever there's no one else except yeshua but a lot of people are hung up on trying to judge other

01:04:45people's salvation and that's really not something we should be doing now anyways as yeshua tells us

01:04:52in a parable that he told his disciples we look in matthew chapter 13 verses 24 through 30

01:04:59another parable he put forth before them saying the rain of the heavens has become like a man who

01:05:05sowed good seed in his field but while men slept his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and

01:05:10went away and when the blade sprouted and bore fruit then the darnel also appeared and the servants of

01:05:16the master of the house came and said to him master did you not sow good seed in your field

01:05:22from where

01:05:23then does it have the darnel and he said to them a man an enemy did this and the servants

01:05:29said to him

01:05:30you wish then that we go and gather them up but he said no lest while you gather up the

01:05:36darnel you also

01:05:37uproot the wheat with them that both grow together until the harvest and at the time of harvest i shall

01:05:44say to the reapers first gather the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn down but gather the wheat

01:05:50into my granary now what he's getting at here is that there's going to be believers and unbelievers

01:05:57saved and unsaved if you want to put it that way within the assembly right now and it's hard for

01:06:02us if

01:06:02not impossible sometimes to tell exactly who it is because some people do put on a good show no doubt

01:06:08but it's not for us to try and weed them out because if we do judging by the lessons we

01:06:15learned here

01:06:15we could be interrupting a actual true believers faith and cause them to lose the faith and or you

01:06:22know slide back in their walk and we don't want to do that so what yeshua advises here and tells

01:06:29us to

01:06:29do is to leave them alone and then at the end times which means armageddon you know when the angels

01:06:36come

01:06:36down all that stuff at the end times that's when everybody will be separated and who does the

01:06:43judging of salvation at the end times that's yeshua so you can have your speculations about people

01:06:50here in the now and present but it's going to be yeshua who judges our salvation not any particular

01:06:57man here on earth right now not the pope not someone who disagrees with you on the godhead

01:07:03not someone who disagrees with your particular denomination or the translation that you're using

01:07:09nothing like that it'll be yeshua at the end times and then everyone will be separated out

01:07:16by yeshua believers from the unbelievers the wheat from the darnel simple enough

01:07:23now another reason that we don't want to go on like some sort of witch hunt or some sort of

01:07:31heresy hunt things like that is because it also creates division and you've probably seen this a

01:07:38lot of times yourself before with various congregations you might have been a part of beforehand

01:07:43where something will come up and people just cannot allow others to have a differing opinion

01:07:51so they've got to be divisive about it happened a lot in my own life and it's unfortunate it's

01:07:57happened but it does happen so trying to judge someone else's salvation right now is going to

01:08:03be divisive and that's not a good thing in fact the bible warns us against being divisive and something

01:08:11that yeshua speaks on as well in mark chapter 3 verses 24 to 25 and if a rain is divided

01:08:19against itself

01:08:19that rain is unable to stand and if a house is divided against itself that house is unable to stand

01:08:26so if you have disagreements that's fine if it's not a salvation issue let it go

01:08:32issues like the godhead the oral marriage versus monogamy um the sunday the sabbath question

01:08:41there's lots of things that we can disagree on and still have fellowship and still be unified over

01:08:48it's not worth being divisive and here yeshua is telling us if you are divided you cannot stand and

01:08:55i've seen i don't know how many ministries fall once they start getting divisive over non-salvation

01:09:01issues this is also you know goes along with the whole judging brethren um aspect of this subject

01:09:11as well we're told or we looked at earlier some various reasons to not have fellowship with someone

01:09:16and being divisive is also another one that you the um scriptures tell us to judge within the brethren

01:09:25as well in fact in titus 3 10 it says this reject a divisive man after the first and second

01:09:33warning

01:09:34so again there's a process to go through you got the first warning and then the second warning

01:09:39and then you reject the person who's trying to be divisive but you don't do it straight off the bat

01:09:45give them the chance to repent give them a chance to redeem themselves give them a chance

01:09:49to correct their ways of being divisive but if they don't do that then after the second time after

01:09:55the second warning then reject them don't have fellowship with them so there's another reason

01:10:01for a possible disfellowship with somebody and that is if they are being divisive now and this whole

01:10:09appeal to unity and not being divisive is a major theme especially within the brit hadashah going

01:10:17look at paul writing to the corinthians in first corinthians chapter 1 verse 10 and i appeal to you

01:10:23brothers by the name of our master yeshua messiah that you all agree and that there be no divisions

01:10:29among you but that you be knit together in the same mind and in the same opinion so again an

01:10:35appeal

01:10:35a call to unity not divisiveness in fact it says after the first and after the second warning if

01:10:42someone's still being divisive then disfellowship with them but there's that process to go through

01:10:48first the main theme is to be unified to be brethren and be one part of the body and not

01:10:56to try and

01:10:57go along with the metaphor amputate various pieces of the body of messiah so in summary and just to take

01:11:05a few points of what we've looked at so far in this lesson just to as part of a wrap

01:11:11-up and then

01:11:11we'll sum it up some of the helpful tips and lessons that we've gathered along the way so far

01:11:16number one we should judge the action or the result and not the person it goes back to the whole

01:11:21concept

01:11:22of love the sinner but hate the sin well we're not judging the person you should not and cannot do

01:11:29that that's for yeshua but we can judge the action that the person is taking and the result that comes

01:11:36by it such as homosexuality or alcoholism various sins like that but we don't judge the person we

01:11:43judge the actions being taken we should not and cannot judge motive and the vast majority of the time

01:11:51we can't do that because we don't know the inner workings of their heart what's going on through their

01:11:56mind and things like that so not only do we not should not judge the person but we cannot judge

01:12:02the motive either person who cuts you off in traffic not because they're an idiot it's not because they

01:12:10hate you and they're trying to make you wreck you know don't judge their motive because a lot of times

01:12:15it's going to be something as simple as stressed out over a family illness or a death in the family

01:12:20or

01:12:20late to work something like that you're probably the last thing on their mind but they still cut you off

01:12:25all the same so yeah you get the example anyways judgments are not required to be made immediately

01:12:32and sometimes it's wiser and more prudent to not make a judgment immediately until you have more

01:12:39additional information about the particular situation or person or whatnot correct judging goes hand in

01:12:47hand with loving your enemy think about it judgment should be done for the purpose of correcting an

01:12:55uplifting another person judgment should not be done because you want to elevate yourself in fact

01:13:01judgment is not about you being right judgment is more about them being redeemed and corrected

01:13:08judgment is not about condemnation or rather about restoration restoring them to fellowship with the

01:13:14body restoring them to the correct walk and their path on that wall about restoration not condemnation

01:13:22when you're judging other people you don't have to be perfect to judge if it required us to be perfect

01:13:29no one could judge and the bible would not command us and direct us and regulate us to judge so

01:13:35you

01:13:36don't have to be perfect in order to judge but you cannot judge an area of someone else's life that

01:13:41you are

01:13:41still struggling with again we go back to the issue of alcoholism or thieving stealing things like that if

01:13:50you're a smoker then don't go trying to judge and correct other people for their smoking habits

01:13:57make sense correct your own self first then you can help others in correcting themselves and judging them

01:14:05take care of yourself first and foremost don't be a hypocrite that's what yeshua and paul and

01:14:11scripture time and time again tells them take care of yourself first before you try and correct other

01:14:18people now in summary of what we've learned during this particular teaching judging in context we saw a

01:14:26few different nuances of how you can take judging in scripture but in context judging means either a

01:14:34governing a group of people be pointing out an act that is against scripture or c determining the

01:14:43salvation and final reward of someone again just to reiterate the final salvation the final reward

01:14:50of someone is to be judged by yeshua alone not us biblical judging is not condemning eternal salvation

01:14:58hypercritical or hypocritical condemnation or judging by external appearances again you don't show

01:15:05partiality remember biblical judging is however about scriptural discernment so you guys keep being

01:15:13educated and you've got to be wise and experienced before you start really judging other people for

01:15:19their biblical way of life biblical judging is also about loving reproof of a brother in meekness and

01:15:27humility and finally biblical judging is upholding yahweh's standards within the community that's

01:15:33what judging within the brethren is all about we are to judge without hypocrisy judging ourselves first

01:15:40we are to judge righteous judgment not according to appearances we are to judge according to scripture

01:15:46and that is the word of yahweh not church councils not church tradition not anything that man's made up

01:15:53and i don't care who says it if they come up with a creed and says that you cannot be

01:15:59saved unless you

01:16:00hold to this creed they are false teachers and that is not about salvation because scripture is sufficient

01:16:08for salvation i don't care what the catholic church says even if they come up with a creed and say

01:16:13that you

01:16:13have to adhere to this creed or you're not saved they're lying no skin off my back shouldn't be any

01:16:20skin

01:16:20of yours we are to judge according to scripture not man-made creeds or church tradition

01:16:29we are not to be divisive divisive remember these scriptures continuously and repeatedly appeal to unity

01:16:38and we are not a repeat we are not the judge of someone else's salvation salvation is a judgment call

01:16:48for yeshua and yeshua alone not us and that's just the god honest truth so thank you for joining us

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