Yeah I'm Not Really Into Cancel Culture!!!! 🙌

In a world quick to cancel and slow to forgive, Jesus' words in Matthew 7:1 hit home harder than ever: “Judge not, that you be not judged.”

This episode unpacks what Jesus actually meant—not a call to ignore truth, but a warning against hypocrisy, harshness, and self-righteousness.

🔥 What you’ll hear: ✅ Why cancel culture clashes with Kingdom culture ✅ How to correct with compassion instead of condemnation ✅ Why self-examination must come before confrontation ✅ How judgment done right restores, not shames ✅ How the Church can heal from—and avoid—“church hurt”

💡 “Truth without grace will crush. Grace without truth will deceive. Jesus calls us to both.”

✝️ Let’s learn to judge less, love more, and grow together in the ways of Jesus.

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Episode Transcript

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One of the most common ways in America to get ahead of whether it's in a job or it's
in your company versus another company is to tear somebody down in order to lift yourself
up.
And we see this as a biblical principle that is clearly outlined in Matthew chapter seven,

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yet so many of us struggle with it.
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Matthew chapter seven, verse one.
I touched on it a little bit when Brent was doing the tour of the kingdom series, but
I felt like we should just kind of isolate this and more of a practical, not just in
a exegetical and topical element.

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Judge not that you will not be judged.
Matthew chapter seven, verses one.
It does not mean you can't tell me that I'm wrong.
That's not what Jesus is saying.
He wasn't forbidding you to judge.
He wasn't forbidding all judgment.
He wasn't forbidding all discernment.

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He wasn't encouraging you not to be discerning.
There's countless scriptures where judgments and discernment and things like that are asked
for.
There are counsel and ways to do so because we also see a few verses later in Matthew
seven, six and verse 15, he tells his followers to recognize false prophets and not to also

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throw pearls before pigs, both of which would require us to discern what is a real prophet
versus a false prophet and also then how to judge whether something is a pearl and something
is a pig.
So what does this verse actually mean in context?

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Jesus is actually warning us against something that has happened throughout all humanity
and very much was happening from the religious leadership and the culture of the first century.
It's also something that we see a lot in our modern culture 20 centuries later.
He's warning against hypocritical, harsh or self-righteous judgment, judging somebody

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else in a manner by which you are not willing to judge yourself.
And these are the types of things that would cause you to elevate ourself while condemning
others for the same thing.
It would allow you to place judgments or convictions or requirements on individuals while you would

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ignore your own faults and judgments and convictions and practices.
It also tells us that God's standard is shame rather than restoration.
And we know that's not the case.
There's countless other scriptures, especially when you get into the writings of Paul and
the first century church, it's not about shame.

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God is not here to pass judgment or to give discernment so that you can shame another
person or that you would be shamed.
It's about restoration.
We also see this in Matthew 18 where ultimately in a conflict, the last element of that is
to place somebody outside the camp.
And we say, "Oh, see, there's a time and a place where we should kick somebody out

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of the church or we should do this."
Yes, yes.
In context, there is a portion to that.
But the reason they put them outside of the camp, the reason why that was the discernment
and that was the judgment was so that they would recognize what they had and they would
turn away from their sin.
They would repent.

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They would seek forgiveness and they would be restored to the community.
So in other words, Matthew 7.1 is telling us, "Don't play God in someone else's life.
Allow God to be God of your life and God of their life that you may not be judged."
This is a warning.
Jesus is reminding us that the standard that we will use on others, we will also receive.

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It will be used upon us.
So if we lack in mercy and we lack in forgiveness or we're very quick to condemn another person,
then we potentially will see the same exact thing come upon us.
We see that in Matthew 6 verses 14 through 15.
So Jesus isn't telling us that we're to throw out truth.

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Jesus isn't telling us that we are to compromise His word.
He's telling us that any judgment or any discernment by which we use, we need to operate in the
gifts that He gives us, which are the same way He operates.
He operates in judgment with humility and grace and self-awareness.
We're called to help each other grow.

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We're not called to tear each other down.
Truth without grace will crush, yet grace without truth will deceive.
And Jesus calls us to both.
Matthew 7 verses 1 is very deeply relevant to what we experience today because our culture
is marked by quick outrage, quick division, and a cancel culture.

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And so this is how this verse speaks to our modern moment of time.
In an age of social media, people are often judged instantly based upon a post or a clip
or a headline.
Sometimes we lack any type of context or compassion.
And Jesus reminds us, as we're interacting on social media, pause before you post, examine

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your heart first, and respond with grace and mercy, not just with your opinion.
When culture is quick to cancel, we have to understand that God wasn't here to destroy
someone or to destroy their reputation.
Accountability matters.
Jesus calls us to practice mercy before our condemnation.

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Don't cancel, correct.
And how do you correct in love?
Because sometimes we're like, "Well, speak the truth in love."
And so I'm speaking the truth in love.
Did what you say really bring love?
Guilty as all get out here.
I'm definitely working on this myself.
For the church and our Christian community, many people have wounded other people or been

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wounded by Christians who have judged too harshly, who have cast them out, who have
condemned them, have brought guilt, shame, and condemnation.
And then we see this whole term, church hurt.
This verse should remind us that it wasn't Jesus who hurt you.
It was misguided individuals who lacked in grace and transformation who decided that

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they were going to put legalism and shame.
So let's be a people who help people grow, not just guilt them into silence.
In our own personal relationships, judgment breaks trust.
When we judge somebody incorrectly, we will break trust, whether it's in your marriage,
your friendships, whether it's with you and your children.

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Jesus teaches us that humility, empathy, and forgiveness is how we should lead in all of
those.
So maybe before making a statement like, "What's wrong with them?"
Maybe you should ask the Lord, "What's going on with me?
And why did I have that response?"
One of the things I see a lot of times is a lot of the people who act with such outrage

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in situations that maybe don't warrant that are wrestling with the same problem inside
themselves.
And so it's easier to lash out at somebody else than it is to walk in humility and ask
for forgiveness yourself.
You know, kind of clean out your own closet before you decide you're going to go clean
somebody else's out.
And then ultimately Jesus calls all of us into a lifestyle of self-examination.

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Walk out your salvation with fear and trembling.
We're to walk humbly before our God.
And this verse shifts the focus from other people into ourself.
And so God is inviting us to look inwardly before we point outwardly, to deal with our
own brokenness first before we call out the brokenness in another person, and to extend

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grace to others that we so desperately need.
In a world that loves to judge people, Jesus calls us to love.
Not a blind acceptance or not accepting sin, but wisdom, humility, and a redemptive truth
that we could judge less, love more, and grow together for the kingdom of God is at hand.

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