When And When Not To Judge

     Today we learn when and when not to judge. There are times christians should judge; but there are also times christians should not judge. On the one hand, Jesus said that spiritual christians should judge righteously in love at John 7:24 saying Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. And also pictured above 1 Corinthians 2:15 says But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. In other words Jesus is telling us that when we are spiritual we should judge and cry out in love against sin, warning people to stop sinning with righteous judgment. Speak out against sin while you love lost sinners by witnessing Jesus everywhere. Tell people everywhere how to be saved. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.

     But on the other hand, Jesus told us not to judge in anger as hypocrites noticing others faults when we have more faults. Jesus said at Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Jesus spoke this to sinful hypocrites (not spiritual christians) saying at Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Notice that Jesus spoke this to hypocrites and not to spiritual christians at Matthew 7:5 saying 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.

MICAH 3:8

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord,

and of judgment, and of might,

to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob,

and princes of the house of Israel,

that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

     Notice that Micah 3:8 tells us that when christians are full of the power of the spirit of the Lord, they have the power to judge in love and declare to sinners their transgressions and sins. When you are full of the power of the spirit, you also have judgment. In other words Jesus wants us to judge in love and speak out against the sins of same sex marriage, abortion, and fornication. Christians should not remain silent about these issues in order to save our children from suffering and hell.

     If we see anyone fornicating (having sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman), we should judge in love and warn the sinners about 1 Thessalonians 4:3 that says For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication (stop fornicating). That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence (desiring what is forbidden), even as the Gentiles which know not God. 

     Did you know that fornication usually is the first sin stated in most lists of the bible that God wants us to avoid. 1 Corinthians 6:18 says Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body (people that fornicate injure themselves and need to stop sinning). We need to judge in love and warn children that today many people have a sexually transmitted disease and many people die because they commit the sin of fornication.

     I tell young boys and girls to wait until marriage before they live together. Hebrews 13:4 says Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. But before people are married, 1 Corinthians 7:1 says Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. I tell young boys and girls to just talk to each other before marriage. After marriage by a minister and not a worldy judge, it's a blessing for a man and woman to have a family with children and teach them about our Lord Jesus. 

     Notice that Micah 3:9 tells us that when spiritual christians judge and declare sins to the people, the heads, princes, and leaders of a sinful country usually abhor judgment and pervert all equity (upright and holy laws). Sounds like America today where many Senators and Governors hate spiritual christians that speak out against the sins of same sex marriage, transgenderism, and abortion. These leaders in America pervert all equity. In other words they pervert and speak against anything that is right, just, and correct like the bible. Currently in the state of California, political leaders want to ban the sales of bibles because bibles say homosexuals and lesbians go to hell with reprobate minds (Romans 1:28 and Jude 7). And Canada is putting preachers in jail for speaking against the sin of same sex marriage.

     We see that many sinners in America abhor spiritual christians that judge in love and cry out against sin when they say the following statements. Don't judge me. Who are you to judge? Mind your own business. We're not a judgmental church. We accept everybody; No exceptions. They were born that way. God made them that way. Leave them alone; they're not hurting you (wrong, they are hurting millions by forcing their perverted lifestyles that send people to hell upon our children and killing 70 million babies with abortions). I'm going to cry out against these sins to save our children from suffering, death, and misery forever in hell. I can't remain silent and watch our young children suffer from ignorance about the truth. Evil reigns when good men keep silent.

     Pictured above we see that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, like many leaders today in America, got angry when Lot told the people that their homosexual sins of wanting to rape men angels was wrong. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah abhorred Lot's judgment and wanted to kill Lot. The angels saved Lot and blinded the entire city of Sodom and Gomorrah, allowing Lot and his family to escape.

     A blessed man will rejoice when he is corrected and judged by a spiritual christian. Proverbs 27:5 says Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Like King David say Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous (The Word Jesus spoken by any spiritual christian in judgment) smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

     Brother Bob tells Jesus whoop me when I need correction Lord Jesus to make me a better person. Romans 7:18 says For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. We need the Lord Jesus and the Word of God daily to correct us and stop us from sinning. It's a blessing when God corrects and chastens us with the Word of God to help us stop sinning so we can receive peace and blessings in this life. 

     Thank you Lord Jesus for showing Brother Bob at 1 John 3:15 that hate is murder, teaching my flesh to love my enemies to receive strength and peace because negative thoughts and words under our breath harm us. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Now Brother Bob tells his flesh daily on a crowded highway or a crowded line at Walmart to bless rude people when my flesh starts complaining and speaking negative.

     After reading Brother Bob's testimony above, rejoice and say Hebrews 12:5. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

     Notice the wise saying pictured above at Proverbs 15:10 that says Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. I pray in Jesus name that anyone reading this does not hate Brother Bob's reproof today so they can live and escape the wages of sin which is death. Brother Bob says repent and stop committing the sins of same sex marriage, transgenderism, hatred, and fornication. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again. 

     Notice the other wise saying pictured above at Proverbs 17:10 that says A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. In other words be wise and let the rebukes and reproofs of instruction from wise spiritual christians enter into you so you can become a better person, rejoicing with a life of holiness. Fools won't change even if they are whipped and corrected 100 times. 

     Proverbs 27:22 says Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. In other words if you place a fool in the company of a spiritual christian that tries to correct him, his foolishness will not depart from him. Lord Jesus help us to rejoice when spiritual christians rebuke and correct us in love because Proverbs 6:23 says reproofs of instruction are the way of life. If we change our sinful ways and live for Jesus daily, we escape misery, suffering, and death, receiving peace and blessed eternal life forevermore. 

     Remember that when we judge, we need to judge in love. Don't judge in anger thinking you are better than anyone. Philippians 1:9 says And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment. In other words let the love of our Lord Jesus be abundant whenever we judge anyone. We judge people because we love them and want them to escape the misery of hell. 

     Like Jesus our role model, we need to correct and judge people in love. Jesus corrected and rebuked the rich young ruler with love. Mark 10:21 says Then Jesus beholding him loved him (noticed that Jesus judged in love), and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. 

     Pictured above we see that God used a donkey to rebuke and correct Balaam from cursing God's people. The donkey spoke and warned Balaam about an angel with a sword ready to kill him if he cursed God's people. Balaam listened to the donkey's warning and lived by blessing God's people. Now if God can use a donkey to rebuke and correct Balaam, it doesn't matter who God uses to correct us. We should rejoice when any spiritual christian corrects us with the bible as a road map to guide us to a blessed peaceful life.

     Jude 11 discusses three people (Cain, Korah, and Balaam) who went down into the pit of hell. It is recorded that Korah went down alive into the pit of hell after the earth opened up her mouth and swallowed him up because he rebelled against Moses (Numbers 16:31-33). Jude 11 says that Cain and Balaam are also with Korah in the pit of hell. Woe unto them. for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core (Korah).

     Balaam was a false prophet who after he first blessed God's people caused the children of Israel to stumble by committing fornication with beautiful Midianitish women where 24000 Israelites died (Numbers 25). This is proven by Revelation 2:14 that says But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. Balaam loved Balak's reward money more than God and went to hell while he died with the Midianite enemies recorded at Numbers 31:8. And they (Israel) slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

     Note that Balaam tried to curse the children of Israel by sending Midianitish women to them to commit fornication. Balaam reaped what he sowed and died with five Midianite kings (five being the number for death). Balaam learned that when you curse Israel, you will be cursed. Concerning the nation of Israel; You can't curse what God has blessed. Genesis 12:3 says And I will bless them that bless thee (Israel), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. The Hebrew definitions for Balaam and Beor condemned Balaam to hell and the lake of fire. Balaam means not of the people and Beor means burning forever in hell and the lake of fire. Note also how the devil imitates the holy trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with the unholy trinity of Baal (like the Father God), Balak (like the Son Jesus who is a king), and Balaam (like the Holy Spirit who is a false prophet). 

     Balaam is the Judas Iscariot of the old testament who was like Judas and for money was willing to teach King Balac to send beautiful Midianitish women to the children of Israel to commit fornication and curse God's people. Both Judas Isacariot and Balaam are destroyed forevermore in hell and the lake of fire because they loved money and this world more than the Lord Jesus. Jesus condemned Judas to the bottomless pit and the lake of fire at John 17:12 saying While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition (Judas Iscariot who went to his own place in the bottomless pit and not hell according to Acts 1:25), that the scripture might be fulfilled. Jesus is God in the flesh. Judas Iscariot is the beast antichrist devil in the flesh who soon will be cast alive into the lake of fire with the false prophet. 

Saved Christians Will Judge Unbelievers and Fallen Angels

At The Great White Throne Judgment

     Unbelievers and fallen angels will be on trial at the Great White Throne judgment. Also all the saved saints will be at the Great White Throne judgment to be witnesses and not be judged on trial. The Lord Jesus and christians will be judges at the Great White Throne judgment.

     The scripture that proves that saved christians will be judges and witnesses present at the Great White Throne judgment is 1 Thessalonians 4:16 that says For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

     Note that if saved christians are ever with the Lord Jesus, wherever Jesus goes, the saved christians also go with Jesus. Jesus will be the Judge at the great white throne judgment and the saved saints are ever with the Lord Jesus to be judges and witnesses at the Great White Throne judgment. 1 Corinthians 6:2 says Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

     Jude 14 says that saved saints will be judges and witnesses with Jesus at the great white throne judgment. Jude 14 says And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

     Saved christians will be as the angels of God judging unbelievers and fallen angels at the great white throne judgment. Matthew 22:30 says For in the resurrection they (saved christians) neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Don't let any unbeliever tell you at the great white throne judgment "Why didn't you tell me about Jesus so I could get saved?" 

     Saved christians will weep for a thousand years when they cast unbelievers into the lake of fire because the saved christians were selfish and failed to witness Jesus while they enjoyed the fading pleasures of this world. This is why saved christians need to witness Jesus everywhere. 

     Eventually God will wipe away all tears in the kingdom of God where any bad memories or bad thoughts about unbelievers will be forgotten forever. Isaiah 65:17 says For, behold, I (Jesus) create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Revelation 21:4 says And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

     I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.