Do Not Judge One Another
Miles Seaborn
Romans 14:13
''Let us not, therefore, judge one another anymore.''
A great deal of judging goes on, doesn't it. Sometimes it's hard to know what is judgmental and what is spiritual- fruit pinching!
ILL. Dr. Vance Havener says that Amos the prophet was a fruit pincher. ''By their fruits shall ye know them.'' And after looking at God's peoples lives, Amos said in 4:12;
''Prepare to meet thy God.'' He didn't go up to Bethel to make their preaching acceptable; he went up to make it available. He didn't go up to make them like it; he went up to see that they got it.
ILL. Someone said to ole Billy Sunday one time, ''You're rubbing the fur the wrong way. You're preaching too hard.'' He said, ''No, I'm not - let the cat turn around. When the cat's headed in the right direction, you're stroking the cat. It's just when the cat's headed in the wrong direction that the sparks fly.
Now what does the Bible mean when it says: ''Judge not one another''?
I wonder sometimes if judging one another as brothers and sisters in the Lord is not the chief indoor sport of many of God's people. Paul laid down some important guidelines for Us in Romans if we're going to be the kind of Christians who care and the kind of Christians who touch a lost world.
I. WE MUST HAVE DISCERNMENT
Christian love is not blind. Paul prayed for the Philippians in Phil. 1:9-11:1:
''An this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and the praise of God.''
His prayer was that they might have discernment - loving discernment - careful discernment - gracious discernment. Christians have to exercise discernment. We don't walk around with our eyes closed.
ILL. Of King who wore no clothes. There ...
Miles Seaborn
Romans 14:13
''Let us not, therefore, judge one another anymore.''
A great deal of judging goes on, doesn't it. Sometimes it's hard to know what is judgmental and what is spiritual- fruit pinching!
ILL. Dr. Vance Havener says that Amos the prophet was a fruit pincher. ''By their fruits shall ye know them.'' And after looking at God's peoples lives, Amos said in 4:12;
''Prepare to meet thy God.'' He didn't go up to Bethel to make their preaching acceptable; he went up to make it available. He didn't go up to make them like it; he went up to see that they got it.
ILL. Someone said to ole Billy Sunday one time, ''You're rubbing the fur the wrong way. You're preaching too hard.'' He said, ''No, I'm not - let the cat turn around. When the cat's headed in the right direction, you're stroking the cat. It's just when the cat's headed in the wrong direction that the sparks fly.
Now what does the Bible mean when it says: ''Judge not one another''?
I wonder sometimes if judging one another as brothers and sisters in the Lord is not the chief indoor sport of many of God's people. Paul laid down some important guidelines for Us in Romans if we're going to be the kind of Christians who care and the kind of Christians who touch a lost world.
I. WE MUST HAVE DISCERNMENT
Christian love is not blind. Paul prayed for the Philippians in Phil. 1:9-11:1:
''An this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and the praise of God.''
His prayer was that they might have discernment - loving discernment - careful discernment - gracious discernment. Christians have to exercise discernment. We don't walk around with our eyes closed.
ILL. Of King who wore no clothes. There ...
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