Voddie Baucham - Passing Judgment

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, as we've said before, there is a new John
three sixteen. The old John three sixteen was John three sixteen.
That verse that everyone knew, that verse that was familiar
to all, That verse that you saw plastered all over

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the place, That verse to which people would point, that
verse that even people who didn't know the Lord had
somehow committed to their memory. John three sixteen, it was ubiquitous.
John three sixteen is no longer the John three sixteen.
The new John three sixteen is Matthew seven to one.

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Of course, the old John three sixteen people knew as
John three sixteen. They could tell you the address of
the verse. The new John three sixteen Matthew seven to one.
No one knows that it's Matthew seven to one. They
just they just know the principle found there in Matthew
seven to one. And they hold not themselves but Christians

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to this principle. It is judge not that you be
not judged. And we we have shorthand for the new
John three sixteen. And the shorthand is quite simply, don't
judge me. That's the shorthand for the new John three sixteen.

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Don't judge me. And that's what we believe both inside
and outside the church. That's our attitude. Don't judge me.
In fact, we use this as a baseline for establishing
genuine love. Genuine love is a love that doesn't judge.

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Genuine love is a love that receives me just as
I am. And so if you are judging me, you
are not loving me. Don't judge me. Well, here, in
Romans chapter fourteen, verses ten through twelve, we have what

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could be considered a companion passage to the New John
three sixteen, which is actually Matthew seven to one if
you join me there in verses ten through twelve. Here
we find another compelling passage of scripture that calls us
not to pass judgment, and it does so very clearly,

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beginning of verse ten. Why do you pass judgment on
your brother or you? Why do you despise your brother?
For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
For it is written as I live, says the Lord.
Every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall
confess to God. So then each of us will give

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an account of himself to God. Amen, hallelujah, Praise the Lord.
Don't judge me, it's there is it not well. I
want to do a couple of things. First, I want
us to look at this text and experience the full

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weight of it in its context. And then I want
us to balance it against those areas in scripture where
judgment is clearly called for. Folks, we pass judgment every day.
We make judgments every day. We could not survive if

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we didn't do this. What time do we need to
leave in order to make it to church on time?
It's judgment. We judge whether or not we have enough
gas to make it where we're going. We judge whether
or not we're wearing what we wearing is appropriate. We
judge whether to go to one church or another. We

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judge the music, We judge the sermon. We even judge people.
Is she a good person? Is he a good doctor
or a bad doctor? Is this a good accountant or
a bad accountant. Is this a trustworthy salesman or is
this not a trustworthy salesman? We judge every day, and

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we have to. This text is not about making judgments.
This text is about passing judgment. And there is a
difference between making judgments and passing judgments. See passing judgment
means you look beyond what a person says or does,

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into the very heart of the person, as though you
have the ability to discern number one why they do
what they do, and two the foundation from which it
is being done, i e. Whether they are genuinely saved
or not. That's passing judgment, making a judgment. This person

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is not a good salesman. I want another salesman. Passing judgment.
This person is not a good salesman. His heart is wicked,
his intentions are wicked. He is trying intentionally to harm
me and take advantage of me. And I know this
because I see what's in his soul. There's a difference

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between making a judgment and passing judgment. And we have
a tendency to do this, and no where do we
do this more. The better we know people, the more
likely we are to pass judgment on them. The closer
a person is to us, the more likely we are

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to assume that we know not just whether or not
what they did was wrong, but where it came from,
what the intention was, and more specifically, what the intention
of the heart was. That's passing judgment. This text doesn't

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allow for that. Why Well, first of all, we're not
allowed to pass judgment because we don't have the authority
to pass judgment. Notice what he says here in verse ten,
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Why do
you pass judgment on your brother? You don't have the

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authority to pass judgment on your You see, the brother
relationship is a relationship between equals. Passing judgment is the
act of a superior It is the act of a judge,
not a brother. I pass judgment on you because I'm
your judge. Paul says here, this is your brother. Who

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do you think you are to pass judgment on your brother.
You have no authority to pass judgment on your brother.
This is your brother, this is your sister. It is
not within the purview of your responsibility to pass judgment
on your brother or your sister. Make a statement about
what was said, make a statement about what was done,

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but to pass judgment you lack that authority. See this
in other Pauline writings, prime example Philippians two one through four.
So if there's any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love,
any participation in the spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete

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my joy by being of the same mind, having the
same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility
count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you
look not only to his own interests, but also to
the interest of others. That's the relationship that we have

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as brothers and sisters here in Romans Chapter twelve and
verse ten. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one
another in showing honor twelve sixteen. Live in harmony with
one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.

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Never be wise in your own sight fourteen thirteen. Right
after this next week, we'll look at this. Therefore, let
us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but
rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance
in the way of a brother. Romans fifteen five. May
the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live

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in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ
Jesus fifteen seventy. Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has
welcomed you, for the glory of God. Fifteen seven. I'm sorry,
same earth, so again there was a sixteen, but I
left the sixteen off. This is the attitude that we
have to one another. We're brothers and sisters in Christ,

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and the act of passing judgment on another is to
assume superiority over another. You don't have it. You don't
have the authority to pass judgment on your brothers or sisters.
More significantly, here Paul makes it clear the one who

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who has authority to do so is God himself in
an ultimate sense, and you are not God. You don't
pass judgment on your brothers and sisters because you don't
have the authority to pass judgment on them. Secondly, you
lack the insight necessary to pass judgment on your brothers

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and sisters. You don't have the authority, and you don't
have the insight. First of all, you don't know his heart.
You don't know why he did what he did. You
don't know if his intentions were evil or otherwise. You
don't know if it was an error or if it
was on purpose. You don't know that. You may think

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you know that, but you don't. In fact, you don't
even know your own heart. How on earth can you
know your brother's heart If you don't know your own,
your own heart is desperately and deceitfully wicked. You deceive
yourself all the time, and yet you have the audacity

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to pass judgment on your brother, like you know what's
in his heart. You don't, You absolutely do not. For
Samuel sixteen seven. For the Lord sees not as man sees.
Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks

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on the heart. The Lord looks on the heart. You cannot,
You can't Jeremiah seventeen nine and ten. The heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately sick. Who can understand it?
I the Lord search the heart and test the mind,

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to give every man according to his ways, according to
the fruit of his deeds. Hebrews four thirteen. No creature
is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and
exposed to the eyes of Him, to whom we must
give account. That's God, Luke sixteen fifteen. And he said

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to them, you are those who justify yourselves before men.
But God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among
men is an abomination in the sight of God. Not
only do you lack the authority to pass judgment on
your brothers and sisters, you lack the insight necessary to
pass judgment on your brothers and sisters. You can not

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see their hearts. You do not know why they do
what they do beyond what the scripture tells you. So
we can't pass judgment. We don't have the ability to
pass judgment. Here's the amazing thing. People can do to you,

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the same thing that you do to them. But when
you do it, you give yourself the benefit of the doubt.
When they do it, you know that their intention was
evil from the start. If you can't say amen, you
ought to say ouch. That's precisely how we are. That's

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exactly the way we live, and that's exactly the way
we treat one another. You did it to me because
you were evil. I did it to you because I
made a mistake. You did it to me because you

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hate me. I did it to you in spite of
the fact that I love you. And of course you
ought to know that. You lack the authority to pass
judgment on your brother, and you lack the insight to
pass judgment on your brother. Husbands. Do you hear me? Wives?

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Do you hear me? Sweetheart? I'm sorry, I forgot. Oh
you didn't forget. You're just evil. Yeah, but you see
last year you forgot. Yeah, well, of course I got
a lot on my plate. You, on the other hand,

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you're evil. Somebody laughed too loud over there. Thirdly, you
lack the purity to pass judgment on your brother. You
don't have the authority, you don't have the insight, and
you don't have the purity. Paul refers here to strong

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and weak, not right and wrong. Do you catch that
if you go back to the beginning, look at what
he says here in verse ten. In verse ten, he says,
why do you pass judgment on your brothers? Or you?
Why do you despise your brothers? Now go back to
the beginning of this As for the one who is
weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

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One person believes he may eat everything, while the weak
person eats only vegetables. Let the one who eats, I'm sorry,
Let not the one who eats, despise the one who abstains.
And then let not the one who abstains pass judgment
on the one who eats. Despise past judgment. What does

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he say in verse ten, despise past judgment? To whom
is he referring the weak brother? The strong brother. He
has not made a point about one being right and
the other being wrong. One is weak and one is strong.
He doesn't say one is right and one is wrong.

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There's a reason that the weak brother is weak in
the area where he's weak. There's a reason that the
strong brother is strong in the area where he's strong.
By the way, if we talked about another topic, they
can switch places, and the brother who's weak over here
could be strong over there, and the brother who's strong
over here could be weak over there. So this is
not a statement about one brother being righteous and the

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other brother being unrighteous. So it's not that one of
these has purity and the other does not. You're not righteous.
You cannot pass judgment on another because you are not righteous.

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You cannot pass judgment on another because you stand under
the same judgment and the same sentence. You are not righteous.
God is the judge, and you will have to stand

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before that judge, you who stand there passing judgment on
your brother, because you know and can see into his heart.
You are going to stand before God on that day.
And what you will not hear is you know what
we can do this real quick because you're righteous and

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people have always wronged you in spite of the fact
that you are righteous. God bless you move on so
I can get to those people who you had to
deal with all your life, who weren't as righteous as you.
There's seven judgments basically that we see in Scripture. One

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a series of judgments on the Earth and Revelation six
through eleven and fifteen through six. Two, the judgment of
the Beast and the False Prophet of Relation nineteen twenty
and twenty one through three. Thirdly, a judgment of the
gentile nations. We see that in Psalm II four, a
judgment of Israel. We see that in Ezekiel twenty the

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final judgment of Satan Revelation twenty one through ten, the
final judgment of unbelievers at the Great White Throne Revelation
twenty eleven through fifteen, and a judgment of believers at
the judgment Seat of Christ. Listen to James Montgomery Boyce.
These judgments involve God's punishments of individuals or nations for

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those people's specific sins. This punishment involves spiritual and eternal
death and health suffering. The last of these judgments stands
apart from the rest because it is a judgment of believers,
which means that it is not for sin and does
not involve spiritual death or suffering. Nevertheless, it is still
a real judgement in which the followers of Christ are

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to give an account for what they have done in
this life and are either rewarded or disapproved by God.
On that basis, You're going to stand before God. That
one that you are trying to pass judgment upon is
going to stand before God. And news flash, when you
stand before God and when they stand before God, you
will not make a hundred amen. Because the fact of

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the matter is, oftentimes when I judge the motives of another,
the reason I do so is because I'm wicked. You
did that to me because you're wicked. That's the spoken part.
Here's the unspoken part in the back of my mind
that I may not even realize I'm speaking, and I

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know that you're wicked, because when I do that to you,
I do it because I'm wicked. You lack the authority,

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you lack the insight, and you lack the purity to
pass judgment on your brother. And when you feel the
need to do so, how about instead of doing so,
you take a moment and pause and think about who

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you are and what that's going to look like before Christ.
That will absolutely transform your attitude toward your brother or
your sister. Listen to this from James Edwards. On that day,

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all pretense will be dispelled, All moral judgments and altruistic
pronouncements will be exploded as self serving masks of pride.
All gifts and sacrifices will be seen in the light
of their real motives. All strivings and hopes and goals
will be judged only from the perspective of whatever faith

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and love inspired them. Finally, you lack the occasion to

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pass judgment on your brother. You see, the occasion of
judgment being passed on your brother is the occasion when
your brother stands before Christ. That's when judgment will be
passed on your brother. You lack the occasion to do so.

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You lack the authority, you lack the insight, you lack
the purity, and you lack the occasion because you are
not Christ, who will judge the living and the dead
on the last day. And for you or me to

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stand in his stead and to prematurely pass the judgment
that only He can pass is an act of blasphemy
and an attempt to rob Christ of his very glory
by taking from him what is rightfully his and his

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alone on that day and that day alone. Therefore, we
must not past judgment on our brothers, but we have
to judge how do we balance that several things. One,

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remember the context here. Remember that Paul is talking specifically
to the church in Rome, and specifically a church where
Jewish and gentile believers are coming together in the first century. Now,
let me just put a little caveat here. He's talking

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about two things in particular. One he introduces later. It's
not the major part of the context, but the two
things that you're talking about, number one, eating of meat
sacrificed to idols, and number two the observation of certain
holy days. The third one is drinking alcohol or abstaining
from the drinking of alcohol. It doesn't fall into the

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same category as these two. We'll explain that when we
get to it. But the two main ones in the
context here is that he's talking about staining of meat,
sacrifice to idols, and to the observation of certain holy days. Now,
let's bring this context home a little bit more. He's
talking about this in the Church of Rome, that is

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mixed with first century believers, some Jewish and some Gentiles,
and none of them have a New Testament. Let me
say that again, none of them has a New Testament.
So he's saying to the gentiles, newsflash. That Jewish believer

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who's been a Jew all his life, who's eaten a
certain way all his life, has come to faith in
Christ and put everything on the line by coming to
faith in Christ, has been baptized publicly signing perhaps his
own death warrant because the Jews and the Greeks will
now want him dead. That individual has eaten a certain

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way his whole life, and it pricks his conscience if
he walks away from that, not because he doesn't love Jesus,
but because in his love of God, based on the

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very text that pointed to the Messiah who would come,
this is the way that he learned his whole life
to show his fidelity to God. And it's more than
a notion to just roll out of bed one day
and not do that. And it is not something that

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has been clearly set forth as being sinful. Do you
see the context there? And so he says to both
of them. He says, to the one who stains. He says, Listen, now, okay,
we get it. Hey, I get it. I'm a Jew,

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I understand, I get it. I get where you're coming from.
But let me help you understand the way that you
operate in respect to your brothers when it comes to this.
They're gentiles. Don't expect them to have the same convictions
about this peripheral issue that you do. Don't despise them

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to the gentiles. Listen, you know their background and where
they come from. Don't judge them. Don't judge them because
the fact of the matter is there's some practices in
your past that are going to be problems for you too.

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So don't look at your brother and say, look at
him eating that. Can you believe he's eating that? What
sinful behavior? What godless behavior? To sit there knowing that
that was sacrificed to an idol? How does he not
how does he not just get up and run out

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of that place? He can't be a real Christian passing judgment.
That's the context that's different than these two issues. Let
me raise them. Number one, rebuking sin. We're commanded to
rebuke sin. By the way, these are not peripheral issues.

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There's a difference between a peripheral issue and an issue
that is a sin issue. Abstaining from those meats was
not a sin issue. Eating those meats was not a
sin issue. By the way, could they become sin issues? Yes,
they could become sin issues. If I'm abstaining from these

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meats and I believe that I am gaining some merit
before God because I abstain versus my brother, Now that's
a pride issue. It's a sin issue. So yes, it
can become a sin issue. Matthew eighteen fifteen to twenty.
If your brother sins against you, don't judge him. No,

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if your brother sins against you, not if your brother
has a preference that is different than your preference. And
by the way, in order for us to make this
sort of tangible and put the cookies on the bottom
shelf as I've been thinking about this, Okay, let's put
the cookies on the bottom shelf and talk about an
issue right here in GFBC that's about to come up

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very quickly. Christmas. There's a group of people in this
church who do not and will not celebrate Christmas. I'm
one of them. Christ Mass any other Mass not going
to do it. There's another group of people in this
church never even thought about it that way. It is

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the tradition which which they've grown up. They don't mean
it as any sort of mass, they don't mean it
as any sort of active worship. It is almost a
completely and utterly secular observance. By the way, just a
footnote here, do you know the most expensive Christmas tree
in the world last year was in Abu Dhabi, a

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Muslim country in the Middle East. Because they see Christmas
as having nothing to do with Christ. There are people
in this church who are going to go all out,
already started decorating. You got your stuff. I mean, you're
gonna go all out. There are other people in this

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church who are not gonna do anything. They don't celebrate Christmas.
They don't love Jesus, they don't want to celebrate his birth.
That's passing judgment. They're celebrating Christmas. They're Pagans. Don't they

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know where there's traditions come from? Probably not? Probably not.
That's a real right here right now application of this
principle in Romans chapter fourteen. But there's a difference between

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this principle and the way that we do with things
that are sinful and clearly lined out in scripture. If
your brother sins against you, go and tell him his
fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you,
you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen,
take one or two others along with you, that every
charge may be established by the evidence of two or

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three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell
it to the church. If he refuses to listen even
to the Church, let him be to you as a
gentile or tax collector. Well, sounds like you're passing judgment.
Actually know watch this truly. I say to you, whatever
you bind on a should be bound in heaven. Whatever
you loosen er should be loosed in heaven. Again, I
say to you, have two of you agree on earth

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about anything they ask, it will be done for them
by the Father in heaven. For where two or three
are gathered in My name, there am I among them. Folks.
That's about the authority of the Church, which is the
body of Christ. Notice that you, as an individual don't
have the right to excommunicate another person. You gotta go

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bring others from the church, and then it goes before
the authority of the church itself, see you lack the authority,
and even then, even then the church is exercising the
authority that it has. But the church can't exercise final
judgment on a person and put you out of the church,

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but not out of the kingdom if you're truly saved.
One Corinthians five. We find the same thing, and Paul
even uses the word about the man who is who
is shocking up with his stepmother. Paul says, I pass
judgment on him already. When you guys get together, follow suit,

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kick him out, and then listen to this beginning of
verse nine. Often we stop reading in verse eight, verse nine,
and first Corinthians five. I wrote to you in my
letter not to associate with sexually and moral people, not
at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or
the greedy and swindlers or idolators. Since then you would
need to go out of the world. But now I

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am writing to you not to associate with anyone who
bears the name of brother, if he is guilty of
sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolatry, reviler, drunkard,
or swindler. Not even to eat with such a one,
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is
it not those inside the church whom you are to judge.
God judges those outside, purge the evil person from among you.

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She can't just ignore that and go with the new
John three sixteen of our day. Don't judge me as
though there's no context, and as though every time one
person says to another that's wrong, you violated the ultimate
principle of Christianity, which is, don't judge me not only

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not only sin, but also heresy, heresy and second John
John tells us if somebody comes to you and they're
denying the essential doctrines of the faith, don't let them
in your house. And I believe you speak is specifically

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there about hospitality and a certain kind of hospitality. But
regardless of our interpretation of what it means and how
far that goes, that the statement's pretty clear. When people
are holding to damnable heresies, we don't associate that's judging,

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But it's judging based on what I'm not judging, based
on my ability to look into your soul and to
tell you about your standing before God, and where that
comes from. I don't know where that comes from. I
don't have to know where it comes from. All I
have to know is that it's the exact opposite of
what the Bible teaches concerning the essential doctrines of the

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Christian faith. Not sure where that comes from. Don't have
to know where it comes from. Don't have to pass
judgment on you as an individual in order to say
that what you're teaching is heresy. It's unacceptable. I can't
accept it. Not based on my authority, not based on

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my insight, not based on my purity, but based on
what I'm commanded from the word of God. Now here's
the problem. The problem is when we take those preference
issues and treat them like sin issues or heresy issues.

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Come on, junior. We can associate with them, Why because
they're sinners. Why because that girl has on pants? Shame
on you. They have a television, shame on you. There's

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a difference. And here's what's ironic. There are people who
will associate with others and ignore significant doctrinal issues if
all the personal preferences line up. We've talked about that before.

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I can't tell you there are a number of occasions
where people have said, yeah, we're gonna get together and
we're gonna and we hear about this all the time.
You know, people, we're gonna together, We're gonna have family
and great church and have to peopeople are pedal Baptists
and half the people are creato Baptists baptism. That's significant.
People have died over the issue of baptism. That's significant.

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And people say, oh, no, no, no, We'll ignore the
question of how someone enters the church as long as
we can all agree on how long skirts have to
be and what your position has to be on television
and so on. So see, as long as we can
get together on these peripheral issues, we can overcome those
doctrinal things. See, that's getting it completely backwards, utterly backwards.

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That would be in Romans fourteen, like saying, listen, okay,
all right, you're wrong on the person and work of Christ,
but you agree with me on this meat eating thing.
So I'm gonna associate with you, not them, because what's
really important is that we have the same preferences. Here's

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what you just said. If you really want to know
a person standing before God and their rightness and their righteousness,
you look at the preferences, and not all of them,
just the ones that matter. Most to me, because God knows,
there's areas where I'm inconsistent. But hey, don't judge me.

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That does not honor Christ, Nor am I saying that
we don't talk about preferences even argue in the right
sense of the word. Okay, respectful disagreement about preferences, pointing
one another back to the word. That's wonderful. We need

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to do more of that, I believe. But where we
jump ship is when we elevate our preferences to the
essentials and relegate the essentials to peripheral status. Folks, what

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holds us together as a body of believers is the essentials,
the peripherals. That's what gives us flavor, and that's what
teaches us how to live like Christians with our brothers
and sisters. But the the fact of the matter is

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what most of us want. What most of us want
is a group of people who look, taste, smell, and
act just like we do, so that we don't have
to learn how to love. It's easy to love your

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neighbor as yourself when your neighbor is a mirror reflection
of you and all your preferences. It's quite a different
thing when you love Christmas and they won't put up
a tree. Amen, somebody. That's when we get down to it.

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That's when we're exercising Christian brotherhood, when there are things
that we prefer. And again we use that word so loosely. Again,
you and I've grown up a Jew and I'm just
I'm meet sacrifice to idols. I just there's no way

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in the world that I'm gonna eat meat sacrifice to idols.
And I'm sitting in church next to a gentile who
didn't just eat meat sacrifice to an idol and it
was Park. I mean, that could probably make a person
physically ill. You know what Paul says about that, Don't

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judge him. That's where he says it. Don't judge him.
Just close your eyes for a minute and listen to
him saying. And as you close your eyes for a

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minute and listen to him saying, think about who he's
singing to. Think about the fact that this gentile who
did not grow up with all the things that you
grew up with, who was a pagan, practicing pagan beliefs,
pagan religion, far away from God, has come to know

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and worship the Messiah, just like you have come to
know and worship the Messiah. Yes, there's things that he
does that are just going to turn you and tie

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you up in knots. But do you not realize that
this is a fulfillment of the promise that God made
to Abraham when he said all the nations of the
earth are going to be blessed. Did you not think
that there would be some pork coming with that. That's

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when don't judge me applies. Christ will judge. And if
your brother's heart is wrong on the meat thing, Christ
will judge him. But I guarantee when that happens, you
won't be rejoicing. You won't because in that moment you

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will have a clearer understanding of how selfish, arrogant, ignorant, prideful,
and absolutely ridiculous you were, and the way that you
held yourself up before others. That's what's coming. That's what's coming,

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and that's what ought to be on our minds when
we attempt to peer into the souls of others and
pass judgment. Heresy must be called out, and there there's
a responsibility to do that. Time and a place and
a way to do that. Sin must be called out.

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There's a responsibility to do that. There's a time and
a place and a way to do that. But even
when we do that, we're not passing judgment on our
brother and sister, but we are holding up falsehood and
sin to the light of scripture. As it has been revealed, clearly,

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there's a difference