THIS WEEK WAS A SAD WEEK... THE LOSS OF HEATH LEDGER MADE ME SAD! SUCH AN AMAZING ACTOR, FATHER, AND SUPPORTER OF CIVIL RIGHTS. A RUGGEDLY GOOD LOOKING GENTLEMAN, HE COULD PLAY THE KNIGHT OR THE GENTLEMAN, THE SUAVE LOVER OR THE CLOSETED COWPOKE. TO THINK SUCH A TALENTED YOUNG MAN WAS FIGHTING WITH INSOMNIA ISSUES THAT LED TO HIS DEATH WAS VERY SAD TO HEAR....
WHAT IS EVEN MORE SAD IS TO HEAR THAT REV. PHELPS AND HIS BAND OF IDIOTS ARE PLANNING TO PICKET THE FUNERAL. THAT THIS IS THE WRATH OF GOD BEING SERVED UP TO THOSE WHO ARE GAY OR IN THIS CASE SUPPORTED AND "ACTED" GAY. AS IF GOD IS SITTING, WAITING TO PUNISH SOMEONE FOR THEIR PART IN A MOVIE, A PLAY OR MUSICAL. WHAT KIND OF SMALL-MINDED IDIOTS DO WE SHARE THIS GLOBE WITH?
I AM SO TIRED OF GOD BEING USED FOR THE BENEFIT OF WHAT MAKES EVERYONE FEEL SUPERIOR. FOR THE USE OF PASSING JUDGEMENT OR GETTING THEIR AGENDA ON THE BILLBOARD. WHEN CHRIST WAS ON THIS EARTH, HE THREW PEOPLE LIKE YOU OUT OF THE TEMPLE!!!!
"BE NOT DECEIVED, GOD IS NOT MOCKED" GAL 6:7
AND WHAT A MOCKERY IT IS THAT PEOPLE LIKE REV PHELPS USE THE NAME OF GOD TO JUDGE OTHERS. TO PREACH HATE!! TO DEMEAN THE MEMORIES OF GOOD PEOPLE HERE ON THIS EARTH. WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE? I SAY HYPOCRITES!!!
JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED!!!
Let's look at the passage in its context:
MATTHEW 7:1-5:
"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. 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 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 the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Clearly, it is hypocritical judgment that this Scripture condemns. (Look at verse 6, and 13-15 to see that Christ actually instructs them to make judgments!) A hypocritical judgment is judging something for something of which you are also guilty - LIKE TELLING ME NOT TO JUDGE WHEN YOU ARE JUDGING ME! This passage means the opposite of what hypocrites often interpret it to mean! Jesus’ point is for hypocrites to pluck the beam of sin out of their own eye so that they can see clearly to cast the mote out of their neighbor’s eye.
Let's look at some other Scriptures...
JOHN 7:14: "Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
LUKE 12:57: "Yea, and why not even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?"
PSALM 37:30: "The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment."
PROVERBS 31:9: "Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."
LUKE 17:3: "Take heed... If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him."
LEVITICUS 19:15-17: "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor. Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him."
EZEKIEL 22:2 & 23:36: "Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations... The Lord said moreover unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? Yea, declare unto them their abominations."
ISAIAH 58:1: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins."
MATTHEW 3:2,7: John the Baptist preaching, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
MATTHEW 23: Jesus publicly rebuked the hypocrites, "Woe unto you... hypocrites!...ye blind guides...fools...full of extortion and excess...whited sepulchres...full of hypocrisy and iniquity...Woe unto you...Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
ACTS 7:51: Deacon Stephen said to the mob that ended up stoning him, "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." (Read the whole chapter - No fear-of-man patty cake here!)
ACTS 13:10: The Apostle Paul says to a man who hindered the Gospel, "O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?"
ACTS 8:20-23: Here the Apostle Peter severely rebukes a baby Christian who commits one sin: "Thy money perish with thee... Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitter-ness, and in the bond of iniquity."
I CORINTHIANS 2:15; 6:2-3: "He that is spiritual judgeth all things... Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world 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?"
JOHN 3:18-19: "He that believeth on Him (JESUS) is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already,because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
JOHN 12:48: JESUS CHRIST said, "He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day."
SO WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE GOD! WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TAKEN CARE OF ALL THE ISSUES IN YOUR LIFE... CALL ME UP, SEND ME AN EMAIL..
AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS AGAIN!
UNTIL THEN... ALL YOU ZEALOTS OUT THERE, KEEP YOUR IGNORANCE TO YOURSELF!!
AND WORK ON CLEANING YOUR OWN DOORSTEP, LEST IT BE YOUR TURN FOR GOD TO UNLEASH HIS WRATH ON YOU.. OR ALL YOUR NUMBER!!!
TILL THEN...
PEACE TO ALL
AL
