So fifty-three of them signed a petition calling for tighter traffic control in their neighborhoods. ), but 2 One man has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.3 Let not him who eats regard with contempt him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat 5 One man regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. For example, Jesus saidI speak as to wise men; you judge what I say. 9 f Pray then like this: g “Our Father in heaven, h hallowed be i your name.
Beware of such people, and judge them, not by their doctrine, but by their fruits. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another&&?” So again by another Apostle, “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. 4:5, R.V.). Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men (by suspending our critical powers which help to distinguish us from animals) but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God (by setting our selves up as judges) (Christ has made me an honest man and so with all these debts to pay, I can give only a few offerings above my tithe. And worst of all God will use the same standard. To correct that evil disposition, our Lord proceeds to shew the danger of indulging it. CHAPTER 7 Judging Others. Some actually misapply Mt 7:1 to avoid correction. If judged yourselves, “let it be a small matter to you to be judged of man’s judgment:” and be content to leave both yourselves and others to the judgment of a righteous God&&.] He is, therefore, very censorious of them, making faults where there are none, and aggravating them where they are. Let us not therefore judge one another any more&&.” “It is a righteous thing with God to recompense” good or evil unto men according to their conduct towards others&&: and these are solemn warnings: and, if we will not attend to them, we shall disobey them at our peril: for the express determination of God is this, “He shall have judgment without mercy who hath shewed no mercy&&.”][Those who are most inattentive to their own faults, are most observant of the faults of others, and most harsh in passing censures upon them. He only requires that our judgment be completely fair, and that we only judge others by a standard we would also like to be judged by. First, our Associates and Neighbours, whose characters and conduct are constantly passing in review before us; secondly, the Erring Ones, whose motes trouble us; and, thirdly, the Dogs and Swine, which stand for the notoriously vicious and profane.As to our Associates and Neighbours, Our Lord says:But the judgment prohibited by our Lord is altogether different from this, and is that spirit of censoriousness and unkindness which is always lying in wait for others, and making strong and uncharitable statements on the most superficial view of their words and actions, without trying to understand the motives by which they have been actuated or the difficulties of their position.The natural man is proud, haughty, and self-opinionated.

But we may zest assured that our fellow-men will usually exercise towards us: much the same judgment that we exercise towards them.Jesus explains that a judgmental critical spirit is like a boomerang in that whatever measure or standard you use to measure others with, that same standard will be used to measure you.
1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. The act which we condemn may have been wrong, and the principle may have been wrong also; but yet there may have been many circumstances to palliate the fault; and, if we do not take them into consideration, we shall load the offender with an unmerited degree of blame. The OT prophets were often very judgmental toward Israel, but the difference is that they were speaking God's words to His rebellious chosen people!Stop hypercritically judging others, in order that you may not be the recipient of similar judgment.He is saying cease judging others with a spirit which is censorious, carping (marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism), caviling (raising annoying, petty, trivial and/or frivolous objections), condemnatory, critical, disapproving, disparaging, fault-finding, hypercritical, scathing or severe. The other man has been up here and left his for the same reason. The evils we inflict on others, like the Australian boomerang, which becomes almost a speck in the sky, come back to ourselves. He was saying we must be very careful in making judgments. On the other hand, we are forbidden to judge the motives or attitudes of others for unlike God, we are not able to discern “the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (see note Would not God find this out?

Cf. If you are going to judge with a critical spirit - Don't. (7-11) The broad and narrow way.