A common confused and twisted text: "Doesn't the Bible say don't judge lest you be judged!"

Don't judge me you hypocrite! How often are we told that from others and how often do we reply in the same manner! It is our sinful nature to justify our rebellion against a Holy God. The great irony is that each of us makes moral judgments all the time. When we discipline our children, we are judging them because we have declared their actions to be unjustifiable and evil at heart. However, when oneself's sin is exposed, one tends to become defensive all of a sudden and break out the Mathew 7 rebuttal. I admit that I may not do this explicitly, but I do this implicitly all the time when I try to justify my sin. We all do.

When it comes down to it, man does not want to submit to any other authority source besides himself. This is why his position on judgment becomes so arbitrary. He judges but then doesn't want to be judged. When you multiply this over several billion people, you get sevaral billion different philosophies of life. These are just like the days of old in Judges 21 when there was no King in Israel and each man did what was right in his own eyes.

What then was Jesus saying? When understood in its proper context, Jesus was exposing the hypocrisy of judging with a proud heart as if we never sin either. Truly, we shall judge angels, so judgement is not evil; just remember the case mentioned above with child dicsipline. The difference is in how we judge. We are to rebuke with humility knowing that each of us is capable of the most heinous of acts. Concurrently, we are to rebuke in this life with the intent of seeing someone repent and come to the Lord for redemption.

Therefore, let us expose the false humility that is used to justify sin, but let us also confront and rebuek sin with all humility, mercy, and grace as God our Father does unto us.