Uh Oh; I wonder how much attention this will get. Many people get offended when the Word of God comes forth, because their toes are being stepped on. Some even say this: “You judging” Some will say “The Bible says not to judge” or God knows my heart” These are the very people who do not study and can only quote a few scriptures and these are to justify their ungodly actions.
Let’s look at two scriptures- one that is quoted regularly when it comes to saying “We should not judge others” Judge not, that you be not judged. For what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and look, a plank is in your own eye?” Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye (Matthew 7:1-7).
The meaning is this: When someone else is guilty of something themselves, they wrongly accuse (judge) others to take the spotlight off of themselves. Another reason this kind of judgment is wrong- Only God knows the heart of each person.
This scripture is referring to the church (the body of Christ).
Immorality Defiles the Church- It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles [unbelievers]—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up [arrogant], and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Me- In other words, those who tolerate these type of people are arrogant, and it does not bother them. Not only are we accountable to God, but we are accountable to each other.
Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump? Paul is saying this: Leaven represents sin and it spreads if it is not dealt with. Strong's concordance: In the New Testament, "zumé" is used metaphorically to represent influence, often of a corrupting nature. It is commonly associated with sin.
Immorality Must Be Judged - I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexual immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
For what have I to do with judging those who are outside also? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside [the unsaved] God judges. Therefore, put away from yourselves the evil person [the person who is committing any immoral acts] (1 Corinthians, chapter 5).
What is even sadder when all this mess is tolerated in the house of God. If you fit in one of these categories, God’s Word is speaking to you and saying: “You need to change your lifestyle."
His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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