"Thou Shalt not Judge" Where is that in the Bible?

Matthew 7:

1"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. 6"Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Luke 6:

36"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

37"Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. 38"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure--pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."

Romans 2:

1Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

4Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

1 Corinthians 6:

2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

Most Christians read judge not so that you will not be judged" and make it say"thou shalt not judge" changing it into a commandment. Not.

Judge yourself first taking the log out of your own eye then you can help with the speck in the sheep's eye. We don't always know the sheep from the dogs or the pigs. When you repent you become righteous and your judgments become holy. When you say to a sinner "you're living in sin" the dogs will ignore you. Or when you show someone that his world view is wrong the pigs will turn and attack you. The more we teach the truth the more they will attack us pressed down, shaken together, and running over. You say the same things to a sheep living in sin or believing what is wrong and he will repent.

Judge not that you be not judged is a warning not a commandment. It is impossible to say to someone "you need to repent," without first judging him.

The fact is Jesus wants us to judge ourselves first so we can be kind to the sinner showing the mercy of God so through His goodness we call everyone to repentance.

Speaking in Tongues and Praying it the Spirit

Edify Yourself.

Jude 1:20
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 14: 4

4 Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church

Edifying one's self is more important than most people think. I have never seen anyone operating in the power gifts; miracles, gifts of healing; who does not also speak with tongues. Praying in the holy Spirit is speaking with tongues which builds up or edifies you. It is like an air compressor building up pressure so your pneumatic nail gun or impact wrench will work. Or charging your battery so your screw-gun will work. It is true you can build a house without power tools but it takes much longer.

Power tools in the hands of a child are dangerous. You can cut off a thumb or shoot a nail through your hand. The gifts of the spirit are for the mature to build the house of God, the body of Christ. Tongues is the lesser gift of the Spirit but it is also the one that edifies us to the point where we can walk in the higher gifts.

Praying in the Holy Spirit is valuable in two ways.

#1 Interceding in prayer

Romans 8:26-28

26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

The Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; for we do not know how to pray as we should. and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. That is when "God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."

#2 In spiritual warfare.

1 Corinthians 14:2 (New American Standard Bible)

2 For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

In WWII the Americans used a code that the Japanese never broke. They sent messages from and to the front lines that the enemy could not understand. They used the language of the Native American Navaho tribe. One of the smallest peoples alive today. "For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries." In our war against Satan and his minions we send and receive messages in a language that our enemy does not understand. But God understands better than we do an He causes all of creation to work for us.

1 Corinthians 14:13-15 (New American Standard Bible)

13 Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

15 What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

Singing in the Spirit is valuable in Worship.

I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

God is Greater than our words can describe. When we sing in the Spirit we can express what our known language cannot and give Him the credit that is due.

The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin

1 John 1:7
Walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

In order for something dirty to be cleaned something clean has to get dirty. I wiped the rag against the glass. The glass became clean but the rag was dirty. In the washer the rag is cleaned the water gets dirty. The water flows through the pipes to a filter. The water is cleaned the filter is dirty.

In the body, blood transports fuel and oxygen to the cells after the fuel is burned it transports the exhaust (water and carbon-dioxide and other waste products) to the kidneys and the liver, the body's filters. The kidneys filter excess water and other waste products from the blood. The liver filters poisons from the blood such as alcohol.

In the Bible there are three purifying agents water, blood, and fire. Water and blood clean by transporting the dirt and sin; while fire burns it away.

2 Corinthians 5:21
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Some time during the trial of Jesus he became sin. This sin flowed through his veins and polluted the filters in his body.

Romans 6:22-23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Exodus 29:12-14

12"You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

13"You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.

14"But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Micah 7:19

He will tread our iniquities under foot Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea

Psalm 103: 12

As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Numbers 31: 23

Everything that can stand fire, you shall make go through fire, and it shall be clean.

Isaiah 43: 2

When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.

When Jesus died His blood kidneys and liver carried the sin, sickness, and sorrows through the fires of hell. The flames could not touch Him because He was sinless but the flames burned the sin, sickness and sorrows away in the sea of God's forgetfulness the lake of fire.

John 20: 17

17Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father

Hebrews 9: 12-14

12and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

After His resurrection He carried his blood, purified by fire, to the holy of holies in heaven and offered it on the alter.

This is how Jesus saved us from our sins, not merely the result of our sins but sin itself. We don't have to sin anymore.

Mustard Seed Faith

Matthew 17:20

Amplified Bible:

"Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."

NASB:

"Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."

I have heard many people talk about this verse saying that tiny faith the size of a mustard seed will move mountains. Was this really what Jesus was saying? Tiny faith could move a mountain but little faith couldn't cast out a demon? Was he referring to the size of the faith or the size of the seed with faith?

Little faith couldn't keep Peter walking on top of the water yet tiny faith can move a mountain?

The Amplified captures the real meaning of what Jesus said. "if you have faith [ that is living] like a grain of mustard seed."

Jesus did not compare the size of the seed to the size of faith He compared the size of the seed to the size of the disciples. If they would stop relying on themselves and only rely totally on God, they could move mountains.

Look at the mustard seed.

It is so tiny.

What does it have within itself?

Nothing?

An avocado seed is big. It can start growing without light or water and live without for a while.

All the mustard seed has is life and faith.

It has to depend on the wind from the Holy Spirit to carry it to where the water of the Word can root and ground it in Love so it can grow to receive the Light of Life in Jesus Christ.

Have the faith of a mustard seed, and like the two Gentiles that Jesus complemented saying, "you have Great Faith," your mountain will move.

Depend on the wind from the Holy Spirit to carry you to where the water of the Word can root and ground you in Love so you can grow to receive the Light of Life in Jesus Christ.

God Does Not Want to Use You He Loves You

God Does Not Want to Use You He Loves You

What? Ever since I was a little kid people told me that God wanted to use me. I hear it almost every time I go to church. God really used me. Or God wants to use you.

God does not want to use you He loves you. So is the church wrong?

I don't know about you but I don't like it when people use me. Employers use their employees. Workers use their employers. Husbands use their wives; wives use their husbands. We love our cars. We love our houses. We are supposed to love people and use things. But we use people and love things.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 13 & 14

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

So is it scriptural that God uses us?

Jesus used parables and words but He loved people.

For if these qualities (LOVE) are yours and are increasing, they render you neither USEless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1: 8

"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,' then his master shall bring him to God, ... ; and he shall serve him permanently. Exodus 21: 5 - 6

Peter, Paul, James, Jude, John, and many others were called bond servants of Christ. Being a bond servant implies that we can be of use but only if we are responding with love because we are loved. But it gets better.

"we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God." Galatians 4: 5b - 7

So our Daddy "so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son," John 3: 16

"We love Him because He first loved us" 1 John 4:19

When respond to his love and allow His Love to flow through us we will do His work.

Respond to his love.

The 4th Dimension

His love is so deep it compelled Jesus to carry our sins to hell.

His love is so High it caries us to heaven.

His love is so wide it spreads through all the world to enter our hearts.

His love is so long it lasts FOREVER.

That You May Not Sin

"My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin" (1 John 2:1)

What words did John write that give you power over sin? Only 2 verses before, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1: 9) one of the most misused scriptures in the Bible. Grace people turn this verse into a license to sin saying, "ask God, He'll forgive you," which it does not say. The holiness movement use it as a fire escape confessing real and imaginary sins every moment of the day fearing hell if they die with one unconfessed sin. Not.

"You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;" (Psalms 45: 7a) Confess that you hate your sin even if you don't and soon you will. Agree with God about your sin, "He is faithful and righteous to forgive," and He will also "cleanse you from all unrighteousness." Forgive and cleanse? Forgiveness saves you from hell. Cleansing washes the iniquity from your heart.

"Confess our sins" was written "that you may not sin." Confess means speak same and agree with not ask or admit. Say what God says,"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him," (2 Corinthians 5: 21). When we say what God says we do what God did nailing our sin to the cross.

The fact is "you nailed" Jesus "to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death" (Acts 2: 23) when you sinned. If you were there who would you be? Peter, who denied Him; John, stood silently as the crowd yelled "crucify Him." Would you have been in the throng yelling? A priest inciting the people? Or Pontius Pilate? You might as well be a Roman Soldier pounding the nail through His wrist. Your sin killed Him. Say out loud with your mouth, "He became my sin. I nailed it to the cross." then sin will be a thing of the past. It will be harder for you to sin than to be holy.

"8 If we say that we have no sin," "10 If we say that we have not sinned, (1 John 1: 8a & 10a) Sin is now a thing of your past.