THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. Matt. 5, 6, 7 (43)

January 5, 2019

20-11-18

Key: SCHAFF: “When the Lord open his mouth, we should open our ears and hearts” 

MUTUAL MISJUDGMENTS. Matt. 7:1-6

This is direction on how to conduct ourselves in reference to the fault of others. The Lord was actually using his reproof to the scribes and Pharisees, who are very rigid and severe, very magisterial and supercilious, in condemning all, they are proud and conceited in justifying themselves as a basis to warn people of the kingdom. See Lk. 18:9-11; 16:14-16.

  1. Matt. 7:1-6. “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what Judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again…”
    1. There are those whose office is to judge-magistrate and minister. He is not forbidden these official judgments in courts.
    2. JUDGE NOT. Mat. 7:1-5, Rom. 2:1, 3, 17-29; Lk. 6:46. It does not mean: That preachers should not preach against sin. Lk. 24:47, Act.2:36-40, Act. 17:22-31
      1. That every doctrine is correct, and we shouldn’t correct unbiblical ideas. 2Jn. 7-11, Rom. 16:17, Mat. 7:15-17, Jude. 4, 10-`9.
      2. That sinners and backsliders should not be corrected. Jas. 5:19-20, 1Cor. 5:9-13.
    3. IT MEANS: Judge no man unless it be a duty to do so, and do not condemn the innocent. Mat. 12:7, Jn. 9:24
      1. Do not complain, find fault, and criticize when a beam is in your eyes. Matt. 7:3-5, Rom. 14:1-16, 1Cor. 4:5, Jas. 4:11-12. Never judge at all without remembering your own sinfulness, and the ignorance and infirmities which may extenuate the sinfulness of others.
      2. Speak in love, with sympathetic and fraternal kindness Gal. 6:1, 2Tim. 2:25, Eph. 4:15, with no harsh, undiscriminating judgment of their faults and with no real or apparent assumption of being without faults ourselves. 1Tim. 5:1-2, 19-22, 24-25.
      3. As far as may be, judge the offence. Confine your judgment to the earthly side of faults, and leave their relation to God, to him who sees the heart. 1Tim. 2:18-20, 3Jn. 9-10.
  2. Matt. 7:6 “Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you”
    1. Dogs is used to represent Gentiles-the unclean, the abominable Matt. 15:26, Rev. 22:15, Phil. 3:2.
    2. Swine also represents the unclean, the abominable. Lev. 11:7, Is. 65:4, 2Pet. 2:22.
    3. Pearls are precious and valuable material. Matt. 13:45, 1Tim. 2:9, Rev. 17:4; 21:21.
    4. To put pearls before swine is to put valuable things before the abominable. Pr. 9:7; 16:22; 23:9; 26:6. Paul warned the Church not to go before unbelievers to seek justice. 1Cor. 6:1-10