Logs, Dogs, and Hogs
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Chapter 6- 1-4 Sacrificing the need to be seen by people
Chapter 6:5-12- Coming to the Father to be seen by Him
Chapter 6:16-18 - Sacrificing the Physical
These two passages are tied together
Chapter 6:19-24- Sacrificing earthly things- Be generous
Chapter 6:25-34- Do not worry about your life after all the sacrificing your pride, your iu
Logs, Dogs, and Hogs
Today I am going to be preaching from the most popular, the most well known verse in America. Does anyone want to take a stab at what verse I am speaking of?
Used to be , but today in America this is the most well known verse
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.
The Great Theologian of the 90’s Tupac wrote a song Only God can judge me and since then a wave of of New Religious thought has swept over America. Tolerance has become a bludgeoning tool to silence opposing views. It used to be that tolerance meant that I can have a view and you can have an opposing view and it was ol. I tolerated your opinion. You have a right to believe what you want. There was room for discussion. Room for debate, and at the end of the day we can still disagree and its ok.
But the word tolerance has been changed to mean something else all together. Now it has become a silencing tool to the opposing views. tolerance used to mean we could disagree. Now tolerance means if you don’t except my lifestyle, you don’t accept by sexual orientation (not put up with, but except as good and normal) if you accept my radical viewpoints on abortion, politics, drug use, ectetra excetra, if you don’t accept those as true, normal, healthy and morally right you are not being tolerant,
in fact the verse they will quote is this verse in Judge not, lest you be judged..
The most recent example of this came just last Sunday with the Superbowl. And if you are not on Facebook you probably didn’t see the firestorm of opinion that it generated. And I was really surprised by the opinions of some, others I was not surprised. Now can we all agree that the World is going to do what the world does? But listen when did we lose our right to speak out against those things that are inherently wrong. When did we lose our right to speak out against a thoroughly lewd performance on a stage, the Superbowl that probably brings in more sex trafficers into a city than any other event in the World. And how many little girls do you think were sold to grown men for probably things too dishonorable to even speak of.
The New tolerance of America says if you don’t like too bad, shut up and turn off the TV like a good little boy, and by the way don’t judge us lest you be judged! I am sorry but this new form of tolerance has out us on a fast track to losing precious freedoms, namely the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion that few others around the world get to Experience. That freedom to speak out against evil has been in large part has kept us into moral erosion and God’s judgement.
When we lose those freedoms, or like most Christians today you just quite speaking against the evil in your day, and you buy into the new tolerance of the day and just shut up.
Is this what Jesus meant when he said Judge not lest you be judged?
Well when you are studying your bible it is important that you read things in context. And it is important that you read things holistically. In other words, if Jesus meant to never make judgement about anything , or to never use your voice to speak up when you see injustice or evil, then there should be no examples of His life that would contradict that.
Judging others
not forbidding all judgments
24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
Ok what about speaking against evil. Evil defined by God word. Strangely enough it is also in John 7
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Ok so Jesus said don’t jusdge by appearances, so we can also add that to Judge not lest you be judge. Obviously whatever judgemnet jesus is talking about has to do with judging just by what can be seen from the outside. I remember when i was a teenager, I brought over a kid that I hung out, and a very religious woman that I knew but she didn’t know him, later told me that my friend was nothing but trash.
The way he is using world. He is speaking of unreemed, only once born npot twice born people who are being led by the evil one. And here we have jesus testifying against the World. To testify means to speak out against something when it gets wayward. Do you know there are lots of people out there that want to completely do away with restraint of anykind. They want to legalize drugs, they want to legalize prostitution, they want to change the sex -age laws, they want to legalize gambling. They want to completely tear down the structures without understanding why those structures are there. That is the reason we have laws because there are certain things that will absolutely destroy lives.
You legalize drugs and you will see the death toll of people overdosing grow exponentially. Well the argument is, well it doesn’t matter they should be free to do what they want, and if they die that is their problem. No its not it’ll be the little babies that they left behind that Grandma and grandpa now have to raise. Itll be those kids that have to live with the shame and the anger for the rest of their lives.
Whats wrong with JLO grabbing her crotch on national television, and a bunch of men dancers around her who are dominated by a spirit of lust. How does that effect anybody? If they are offended then thats a personal problem.
No its not because millions of little girls, teenage girls and young boys and men seen that and they think its OK. On top of that how many men had their desires thrown into overdrive and abused a child, or acted in some other way. So just setting back and shutting up, and being tolerant AKA just accept it , don’t speak against it.
SHOW PIC OF A MILLSTONE
Jesus said whoever cause a child to stumble, to stumble in sin, it would be better for a person to tie a mill stone
matt 7:1-
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 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. 6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 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. 6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Matthew
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 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. 6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Doesn’t negate discernment
This is the worlds favorite verse of scripture. They hate the rest of it about God being holy, when it addresses morality and truth
When jesus gave this verse of scripture he wasn’t giving a way out for you and I and others just to live
Doesn’t mean that we don’t identify what is sinful
Don’t judge doesn't mean doesn’t mean, don’t think or don’t make distinctions.
Don’t judge doesnt mean
Sometimes parents make this mistake in parenting. Listen if your teenager brings somebody around that you don’t sense any wisdom, truthfulness or character, listen yo me you better tell that that other kid to not let the door hit them on the butt on the way out
If Jesus was warning us not to make distinctions with people, why did he say
The Same Bible also says
33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
If Jesus was warning us not to make distinctions with people, why did he say say in this passage to not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before swine lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you
Now he is speaking to the character of people when he calls them dogs and hogs. And he was speaking of them in the worst possible way, for to the Jew, those were considered unclean animals
6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Matt 7:
The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Matthew 7. Judging, 7:1–6
Stott remarks that the command “is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous,
So what does jesus mean when He says do not judge?
So what does jesus mean when He says do not judge?
He is saying don’t sit on the judges seat ready to bring a final judgement as if you could control their future. How do you know what God is going to do in that persons life later.
He is warning against making hasty condemnations
2. Do not judge refers to the passing of harsh, adverse verdicts on the conduct of our fellows; it does not forbid the use of our best critical thinking (which may be done in a spirit of tolerance and helpfulness and which Jesus elsewhere commands as a help to others, 18:15; for that matter how can we avoid casting pearls before pigs [v. 6] without a process of discrimination?).
2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
whatever you sow you will reap… That is a law that God has put into place that governs the affairs of humans
Whatever measure you will give to others you too will be given that same amount of scrutiny
And people that struggle with a judgmental spirit suffer silently . If you could have a tape recorder on their thoughts you will
Morris, L. (1992). The Gospel according to Matthew (p. 164). Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press.
First take the Log out of your first eye
Do you know who is the most critical, judgmental, gossipy in the world. people that haver sin in their own life,.
When God called out David in the old Testament after he murdered Uriah, and commited adultery with Bathsheba. God sent a Prophet named Nathan to rebuke David of his sin. But the prophet did it in a way that David was not aware of what was going on. Nathan came and reported to him a story, a parable of David. He told him a story of a rich man who stole a poor mans pet lamb, to sacrifice to a guest. now the rich man had plenty of lambs, but took the poor mans pet lamb and sacrificed it.
David who has been backslidden from the Lord now for over a year, responded with hasty judgement and said that man should. He said As surely as the Lord lives this man deserves to die, that man with pay fourfold. And Nathan looked at David and said you are the man!!
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 14
1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
2 One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
3 The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
7 For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;
8 for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
11 For it is written,
“AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME,
AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD.”
12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
16 Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19 So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.
21 It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
22 The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.