Sermon Tone Analysis

*                                        Judge Not With Hypocrisy*

*    Mt.

7:1-5                             1~/7~/07 a.m.*

                                                  Sermon on the Mt.

–Message Series

*Mt7:1 *   “Judge 1not, that you be not judged.



Jesus did not forbid us to judge others, but to condemn others, for careful discrimination is essential in the Christian life.

*Christian love is not blind *

*Phil.

1:9–10* 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in *knowledge and all discernment*, 10 *that you may approve the things that are excellent,* that you may *be sincere and without offense* …, 11 being *filled with the fruits of righteousness* …..,  to the glory and praise of God.

The person who believes all that he hears, and accepts everyone who claims to be spiritual will experience confusion and great spiritual loss.

Judge –   Condemn  (not discernment)

 

*Judge* *2919 *

* to pronounce an “**/opinion”/ concerning right and wrong*.

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*opin•ion*

*1*     *a*      *: *a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter

     *b*      *: *approval, esteem

*2*     *a*      *: *belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge

     *b*      *: *a generally held view

*/syn/* opinion, view, belief, conviction, persuasion, sentiment

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*Condemn* *2613 *From 2596 and a derivative of 1349; TDNT 3:621; TDNTA 418; GK 1463 and 2868; Five occurrences; AV translates as “condemn” five times.

*1* to give judgment against (one), to pronounce guilty.

*2* to condemn.[3]

*con•demn*

damn

*1*           *: *to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil usu.

after weighing evidence and without reservation 〈a policy widely /condemned/ as racist〉

*2*     *a*      *: *to pronounce guilty *: *convict

     *b*      *: *sentence, doom 〈/condemn/ a prisoner to die〉

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*       Damn*

*            Only Christ can damn the man and the soul;*

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*MT.

10:28 *28  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.

But rather  fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in 8hell.

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*convict*

*            Only Christ can pronounce someone guilty*

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*John 5:22 *22 For the Father judges no one, but  has committed *all* judgment to the Son,

 

*Sentence *

*            Only Christ can sentence someone*

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*MT.

16:27 *27 For  the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father  with His angels,  and then *He will reward each according to his works.*

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*ROM 14:4,7-8,10  *4 Who are you to judge another’s servant?

*To his own master he stands or falls.

* 7 For  none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

8 *For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.*

*Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.*

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10 But why do you judge your brother?

Or why do you show *contempt* for your brother?

*For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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The context makes it clear that the thing here condemned is that *disposition* to look unfavorably on the character and actions of others, which leads invariably to the pronouncing of rash, unjust, and unlovely judgments upon them.

What our Lord aims at is *the spirit* out of which they spring.

This doesn’t mean we are to condone the sin and wrong done by others or that we are to look the other way.

What it means is that we aren’t to have a condemning, fault finding, finger pointing, and mean attitude toward others.

While we are not to be mean spirited & */condemning of others/* */in our judgment and~/or our opinions,/* we are to make righteous judgment as to the right or wrong, the good or bad of words and~/or actions.

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*The scriptures bear this out.*

*LEV.19:17

*17 ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart.

 You shall surely 2*rebuke* your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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*Eph.

5:8-12 * …., but now /you are/  light in the Lord.

Walk as children of light 9 (for othe fruit of the 2Spirit /is/ in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather *3**expose* /them./



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*John rebuke Herod*

*LUKE 3:17 *19 But Herod the tetrarch, *being rebuked by him* *concerning Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,* 

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*Jesus rebuked others*

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*MARK 8:33 *33 But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, *He  rebuked Peter*, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan!

For you are not 5mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

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*MARK 16:14 *14 Later He appeared to *the eleven* as they sat at the table; and *He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart,* because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

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*The benefits of rebuke *

*JAMES 5:19 *19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone  turns him back, 20 let him know that *he who turns a sinner from the error of his way  will save 3a soul from death and  cover a multitude of sins.

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*TITUS 1:13 *13 This testimony is true.

 Therefore *rebuke *them sharply, *that they may be sound in the faith,* 14 *not giving heed to* Jewish *fables and commandments of men* who turn from the truth.

*Our manner of rebuke*

 

*v2 For with what 2judgment  (Condemnation)you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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*GAL.6:1

*Brethren, if a man is 1overtaken (caught) in any trespass, you who /are/ spiritual restore such a one *in a spirit of  gentleness,* considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

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*2 TIM.

4:2 *2 ……..  Convince,  rebuke,  exhort, *with all longsuffering and teaching*.

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*/The Woman Caught in Adultery/*

*JOHN 8 *

7 ….,  “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”

And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go 2and sin no more.”

*/Christ to the Woman at the Well/*

*/JOHN 4   /* Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

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*/Christ to Saul/**/ /*/  /

*Acts 9:4    *“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

 

*He didn’t ignore their sin, He acknowledged it but w~/o condemning them*

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*Self examination rather than condemnation*

 

v3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

4 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?

5 Hypocrite!

First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

This was the sin of the Pharisees,

        They were haughty in justifying themselves, were scornful in condemning others.

*Example;*

 

They were condemning of  Christ’s disciples for /eating with unwashed hands,/

which was scarcely a /mote,/

While they encouraged men in a contempt of their parents,

which was a /beam./

*The Tax Collector & The Pharisee*