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    Talk Together:: One Reason Is It Can Cause Us To Wrongly Interpret What Is Happening in Another Person's Life

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    Jesus teaches against hypocritical and self-righteous judging of others. He tells a story about not focusing on small faults in others while having large faults of our own. We should avoid judging and instead focus on removing faults from our own lives first before trying to help others.

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    Talk Together:: One Reason Is It Can Cause Us To Wrongly Interpret What Is Happening in Another Person's Life

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    Jesus teaches against hypocritical and self-righteous judging of others. He tells a story about not focusing on small faults in others while having large faults of our own. We should avoid judging and instead focus on removing faults from our own lives first before trying to help others.

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    Jesus teaches against hypocritical and self-righteous judging of others. He tells a story about not focusing on small faults in others while having large faults of our own. We should avoid judging and instead focus on removing faults from our own lives first before trying to help others.

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    Talk Together:: One Reason Is It Can Cause Us To Wrongly Interpret What Is Happening in Another Person's Life

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    Read Together:

    Matthew 7:1-5
    “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For in the way you judge, you will be
    judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look
    at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own
    eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and
    behold, the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye,
    and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

    In the first 2 sentences Jesus gives a very clear statement…“ Do not judge” and then He gives a clear
    reason why “so that you will not be judged” Jesus’ command not to judge others is given as a
    motivation for us to avoid judgment ourselves.
    Let’s listen to the illustration Jesus used to clarify even further what He meant when He said “Judge
    not.” Matthew 7:3-5 “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log
    that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’
    when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and
    then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”
    Jesus did not teach against judging. He taught against a specific kind of judging. The type of judging
    he spoke against was a blind, ignorant, hypocritical, self-righteous judging that overlooks one’s own
    faults, failures and sins and only sees faults, failures and sins in other people.
    The issue Jesus is going after is the pride that was in the people’s hearts which made it easy for them
    to see other people’s faults, but be blinded to their own. And notice what Jesus called them “you
    hypocrite.”
    Jesus was telling people not to be a hypocrite when they judge. He had been speaking to a crowd
    about what true righteousness is. He had been talking about issues of the heart and about what
    makes a person pleasing before God. He was teaching against people having a critical, condemning,
    self-righteous, judgmental attitude toward other people.
    The truth is, If we are honest, we find ourselves being critical people by nature. We tend to think that
    we see things rightly and that others are wrong. We tend to think that our reasonings and our
    perspectives are at least just a little better than people we disagree with. We seem to be quick to find
    fault and condemn people.
    All of us can find reasons for judging others, but the reality is that many of those times our judgment
    has been hindered because pride or ignorance blinded us from seeing things rightly.
    Talk Together:
    1. Why do you think Jesus tells us that we should not judge others?
    One reason is…It can cause us to wrongly interpret what is happening in another person’s life.
    Maybe there’s a girl who never talks. It’s easy to judge her as stuck up or full of herself. But if there’s
    one thing I’ve learned as a pastor, it’s that we all wear masks. We all have pain.  You don’t know if she’s
    been abused or if her father has cancer or if she’s weighed down with financial debt. We should be slow
    to judge others, because we can wrongly interpret what’s happening in another person’s life.

    4. Based on verses 3-5, what should we do instead of judging other people? What
    should be our focus?
    Conviction:
    I will not be too hasty in passing on judgment to others.
    Application:
    How will you apply this principle in your relationship with other people?
    Pray Together:
    Heavenly Father, help us to not become judgmental towards others by the power of
    the Holy Spirit. We strive to be more loving and patient towards them and that we
    exercise the right discernment in all our interactions. In Jesus Name, Amen.

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