Be careful in Judging Others.

Romans 2:1 – 2 “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things…But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.”


As Christians we must always be careful in how we judge others, we could find ourselves being judged of God. We must always have grace and mercy when looking at others and their actions in life. God does not prohibit our judging of others, but He does warn us to use caution. We always must never forget that we to are sinners and if it were not for Gods grace and mercy on us, we would be doing that same thing. We must always remember that we do not know everything about other people and therefore our judgment may not be “according to truth”. We sometimes “jump to a conclusion” only to find later that there were facts we did not know. When we judge other, we need to make sure it is righteous judgment, that is judgment used with proper facts and according to God’s word. It is always a good practice to think about whether or not we would like to be judged in the same way. We always need to remember “The Golden Rule” “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12 Judging can sometimes be harsh and wrong, and it can also be hateful and hurtful, and hatefulness or acting in hurtful ways is ungodly.  God reminds us in John 7:24 “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” Sometimes things are not as they seem, we can only see what is before us, God see’s and knows everything in truth. We all need to understand that only the unbelievers are going to hell, and before we judge others and put them there, we should think about God’s grace to those who are sinners. Not every sinner that does not attend church is lost and not every soul that attends church are believers in Jesus Christ. Let us all be careful in judging others remembering that God will judge us and if we miss-judge others He will judge us for it. “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.” Proverbs 17:15

How Christians Ought to Treat Other Christians.

Mathew 25:31 – 46 


Every single Christian one day will stand before Jesus Christ in judgment, not for our sins but for how we obeyed God’s word and exercised His Commandments. Our sins were paid for by Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. Every single drop of His blood was spilt for the sins of every saint of God who believes. Therefore, the only judgment we have left is our works, and our works are according to the commandments of the bible. Therefore, all Christians need to understand God’s Word, and obey what God says. If we do not listen and hear Gods word and His commandments for us, we will lose rewards in Judgment. Paul wrote about our judgment in 1 Corinthians 3:11 – 13 “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ…Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble…Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.” So, Christians here is our WARNING from Jesus Christ about that judgment, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” (Revelation 3:22) Here in our text passage, Jesus is talking about us being rewarded because of how we have treated Him, “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in…Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Vs 35 – 36 But notice their response to Jesus, “Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?” V. 37 They said Lord, we never saw you hungry, or naked, or sick, or in prison, Lord we were never able to do these things for you, so what are you saying? Now here is Jesus response, PLEASE DO NOT MISS THIS RESPONSE, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” V. 40 What Jesus has just said is “whatever you do to another child of God, you have done it to me. Please take the time to let this sink into your heart, whatever you do for another Christian you are doing it for Jesus. When you help another Christian in need it is like you are doing it to Jesus, also whenever you hurt another Christian it is like hurting Jesus, whenever you are loving other Christians it is like loving Jesus. Never, ever, forget those words. How much will you do for Jesus, if Jesus was in need how much would you help Him, then if you see another church member, or a fellow Christian in need then help Jesus! That is not my words, that is not worldly wisdom, that is not an Arminian Preacher begging for money, that is a COMMANDMENT of Jesus Christ. It is a disgrace to see some Christians do without daily essentials while other church members and other Christians failing to help. If you saw Jesus doing without would you help Him, helping another Christian in need is helping Jesus! We will all learn in our judgment day that we were so wrong on so many things, so when we see in God’s word ways to correct wrong, take the opportunity to obey the Lord. The church, your Pastor, and every believer in Jesus Christ you should do for as you would do for Jesus Christ. If you have and do not help, you will lose in judgment, the fire will burn-up your works like wood, hay, and stubble. Folks, if Jesus Christ is important to you, then take care of Jesus’s earthly possessions, His church, His Pastors, and your fellow brethren and Sisters in need. If Christians are so mindless that they will not see a need and help, then their loss will be in judgment day. Please give this some thought and obey the Lord and your reward will be eternal. Look for a need and help, this is opportunity, do not miss opportunity.   

The Promised Victory in The Battle Between Good and Evil.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15

 

In this verse we have a glorious promise from God, “…it shall bruise thy head…” the word “it” being Jesus Christ the seed of the woman. Here we see the first promise of redemption shortly after we saw the destruction of mankind. Satan had just used the weaker vessel of the two to cause Adam to sin and to bring condemnation to the entire human race. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (1 Corinthians 15:22) Once Eve eat of the fruit in believing Satan’s lie over God, it was this power that cause Adam to also eat, because of his love for his wife. “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” (Genesis 3:6) Satan knew that the way to Adams heart ran thru the woman that God had given him for his wife. The effects of this was catastrophic, it destroyed mankind’s relationship between God and mankind, causing mankind to be eternally at enmity with God. Every child born from the seed of these two (which includes the world’s entire population) would be born hostile to God. Mankind was so destroyed that God said, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Romans 5:12) In Roman chapter 3 God gives a very strong condemnation of mankind, verses 1 – 20 and in that passage God used this language, “Destruction and misery are in their ways:” (Romans 3:16)  or that is their mind set because they are Satan’s children and not God’s, that being the world’s entire population. Mankind after the fall, as a result of the fall become the children of Satan and are such in conception. “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalms 51:5) When the Lord speaks of Satan’s seed in Gen. 3:15 He is speaking of the entire population of the world. When God speaks of “her seed” He is speaking of the same gender that Satan used to cause Adam to sin, would also deliver to the world a Saviour in the man Jesus the Christ. Jesus the natural Son of God is the promised seed of the woman who will crush the head of the serpent. Satan only bruised Jesus’s heal in the crucifixion but in the end, Satan will be forever destroyed in the hottest part of hell, prepared for him and his angels. “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:10) I love to point this fact out, notice God said Jesus would “it shall bruise thy head” the word “bruise” means -to gape – which means to crush its head wide open. God knew how to kill a snake. However, the end results of Satan’s work were the sinfulness of mankind, causing all of mankind to be eternally separated from God. God would never accept a child of Satan into His family. “Ye (all mankind) are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44) Satan thru his sinful actions in the fall has absolutely blinded the entire population of the world from being able to see or hear the saving words of redemption. “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost…In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”  (2 Corinthians 4:3 - 4) Satan would have won this battle if God had not chosen to send His Beloved Son Jesus to redeem a remnant of the worlds condemned population. The victory is in Jesus, not in mankind, man being blinded cannot self-redeem no more than a dead person can self-resurrect themselves. All of those folks who believe that somehow they can save themselves by works, baptism, or any other self-matter is believing the devil’s lie and will be asking Jesus at the Great White Throne, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?” (Matthew 7:22) John wrote, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him… For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:1) Folks, the victory is in Jesus Christ not in fallen man, believe on Jesus Christ as Saviour that you might have life eternal.

People are haters of God.

“Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me…For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD…They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof…Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” Proverbs 1:28 – 31


People in general hate God, they may love “a god” but the God of the Bible they hate. Mankind has been a disappointment to God since creation. Every time God has blessed mankind they have (metaphorically speaking) spit in God’s face. In creation Cain killed Abel so God sent Seth, Seth’s children got with the people of the world and it was so bad that God said, “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Genesis 6:5 – 6 So God graciously saved eight souls on the ark and killed every living soul, and creature on the earth. It was not long after the landing of the ark Ham had sinned again, “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent…And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.” Genesis 9:21 – 22 it is believed the sin here is homosexuality by Ham desire to have his father. Then God graciously elected a Nation to be His chosen Nation and her name was Israel. Israel has failed God on almost every part of their existence, with their largest sin being the rejection of Jesus Christ God’s Son and mankind’s Saviour, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” John 1:11 In the New Testament The first church was commanded to go into the world and preach the all important message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15 They never left the church site in Jerusalem so God allowed Saul of Tarsus and other to scatter them so they would do as God commanded. “And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles…As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison…Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.” Acts 8:1, 3 – 4 The church was told to remain idol until the Holy Spirit had empowered them, a church cannot move alone, God must be present. But the church appointed a 12^th Apostle to replace Judas (who betrayed the Lord Jesus), “And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.” Acts 1:26 and Matthias is not mentioned in elsewhere in the entire bible, no recorded work. I do not believe the church had this authority, Jesus was not here, the Holy Spirit had not yet come, and Jesus never authorized the church to pick any Apostles. And ever since people, Christians, and even churches have disobeyed God and His word. But how blessed are Christians and churches, our sins are forgiven, but lost peoples are not, they will account for their sins. Just because a person calls themselves a “Christian” does not mean they are a Christian, and the same goes for churches. If what they teach is not biblical truth, then it is hearsay. The world is full of fake churches who call themselves worshipping the Lord but are simply worshipping self, turning God’s truth into a lie to worship themselves, Romans 1:25. These places of worship hate the God of the bible, they do not recognize a Sovereign God, they do not recognize a God and Saviour that saves sinners, they do not recognize the facts of the bible, they do not worship God because they worship self. God said, “they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” They reject the bible in reality and teach things God out right rejects, with the worst being works for salvation, “Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:9 Any organization that teaches works for salvation is not a church and is not teaching God’s truths. These people are not just mistaken they hate God’s truths, everything about Him and His word. They do not want God’s counsel, they do not want God’s word, they do not want the Sovereign God of the universe to control them. God rejects them, He gives them nothing and does not care to hear from them. God said “For that they hated knowledge” that means they hate the knowledge of the bible. Remember what Paul wrote in Romans chapter 3: 10 - 12 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one...There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God...They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."