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XV.
Admonitions and Warnings
Chapter 170
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Judging
1. WHAT warning does
Christ give concerning judging?
"Judge not, that ye be not judged."
Matt. 7:1.
2. What is Satan called
in the Scriptures?
"The accuser of our brethren .
. . which accused them
before our God day and night." Rev. 12:10.
NOTE.-Then when we judge, accuse, and
condemn one another, we are doing the work
of Satan.
3. If we bite and
devour one another, what may we expect?
"But if ye bite and devour one
another, take heed that ye be not consumed
one of another." Gal. 5:15.
4. Before attempting to
judge, criticize, or correct others, what should
we first do?
"And why beholdest thou the mote that
is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the
beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou
say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out
of thine eye: and, behold, a beam is in thine
own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the
beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye." Matt. 7:3-5.
5. What did Christ say
He did not come to do?
"If any man hear My words, and
believe not, I judge him
not: for I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world." "For God sent not His
Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through Him might be
saved." John 12:47; 3:17.
6. What question does
Paul ask concerning judging?
"Who art thou that judgest another
man's servant? to his own master he standeth
or falleth." Rom. 14:4.
7. To whom are all to
give account?
"So then everyone of us shall give
account of himself to God." Verse 12.
8. What exhortation,
therefore, does the apostle give?
"Let us not therefore judge one
another any more: but judge this rather,
that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion
to fall in his brother's way." Verse 13.
9. Instead of railing
on His enemies, what did Christ do?
"Who, when He was reviled, reviled
not again; when He suffered, He threatened not;
but committed Himself to Him that judgeth
righteously." 1 Peter 2:23.
10. Wherein do man's
judging and God's judging differ?
"For the Lord seeth not as man seeth;
for man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh on the heart." 1 Sam.
16:7. "Ye are they which justify yourselves
before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for
that which is highly esteemed among men is
abomination in the sight of God." Luke
16:15.
11. How does Christ
tell us to judge?
"Judge not according to the
appearance, but judge righteous
judgment." John 7:24.
12. How, by whom, and
in what spirit should those having committed
faults be dealt with?
"Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a
fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such
an one in the spirit of meekness; considering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted." Gal.
6:1.
13. Of what are those
generally guilty who judge others?
"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." Rom. 2:1.
14. Whom are we not
likely to judge and condemn?
"For if we would judge ourselves,
we should not be judged." 1 Cor. 11:31.
15. What instruction
does James give regarding judging?
"Speak not evil one of another,
brethren. He that speaketh evil of his
brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil
of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou
judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law,
but a judge." James 4:11. See Titus 3:2.
16. Why is it safer not
to judge and condemn others? "Judge
not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not,
and ye shall not be condemned." Luke 6:37.
"For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again." Matt. 7:2. See
Ps. 18:25,26.
17. To what time are we
exhorted to defer judgment?
"Therefore judge nothing before the
time, until the Lord come, who both will
bring to light the hidden things of darkness,
and will make manifest the counsels of the
heart." 1 Cor. 4:5.
"JUDGE NOT;" the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see.
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure Bight may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
The
look, the air, that frets thy sight,
May be a token that, below,
The soul has closed in deadly fight
With some infernal, fiery foe
Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace,
And cast thee shuddering on thy face.
The
fall thou darest to despise-
Perhaps the angel's slackened hand
Has suffered it, that he may rise
And take a firmer, surer stand;
Or, trusting less to earthly things,
May henceforth learn to use his wings.
And
judge none lost, but wait and see,
With hopeful pity, not disdain;
The depth of that abyss may be
The measure of the height of pain,
And love, and glory, that may raise
The soul to God in after-days.
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