SHORT AND SWEET, PRATICE WHAT YOU PREACH! (PT III)

Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:


AS WE CONTINUE IN THIS SERIES, WE WILL PROGRESS IN THE ORDER OF LUKE THE PHYSICIAN.

YOU WOULD EXPECT THE PRACTICAL AND RATIONAL FROM THE SCIENTIFIC MIND OF A DOCTOR, AND LUKE DOESN'T DISAPPOINT.

HERE THE NATURAL PROGRESSION OF EVENTS AS WE HAVE NO DOUBT WITNESSED, OR BEEN GUILTY OF COUNTLESS TIMES UNFURLS BEFORE US.

INITIALLY WE JUDGE, THOUGH WE ARE INSTRUCTED NOT TO, WE OFTEN CONSIDER OURSELVES AS GOD'S ONE EXCEPTION TO THE RULES.

THIS OF COURSE IS DUE TO OUR PRIDE FILLED SELF-PERCEPTIONS, AND OUR SELF EXALTATION TO gODLIKE STATUS.

ONCE WE HAVE JUDGED LIKE WE SO DISLIKE BEING JUDGED, WE THEN INCREASE THE DOUBLE-STANDARDS BY WHICH WE LIVE, BY GOING SO FAR AS TO CONDEMN.

WE WHO NEVER WANT TO BE JUDGED BY PEERS, FREELY JUDGE, AND WE THAT NEVER WOULD ALLOW ANOTHER TO CONDEMN US, RACE TO CONDEMN OTHERS.

HAVEN'T WE WONDERED WHY THE PASTOR DIDN'T REMOVE HIM/HER FROM THEIR POSITION, OR HOW THAT JUDGE EVER ALLOWED SOME INDIVIDUAL TO EVER BE FREE AGAIN ?

WE WANTED THEM REMOVED IN OUR SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WE WANTED THEM TO RECEIVE LIFE, BOTH BECAUSE WE HAD ALREADY CONDEMNED THEM IN OUR MINDS.

DO WE EVER THINK THAT WIFE SHOULD HAVE LEFT HIM LONG AGO, OR HE DESERVED BETTER THEN HER BECAUSE SHE WAS A THIS OR A THAT ?

ONCE AGAIN, WE THINK SHE SHOULD HAVE LEFT, OR HE DESERVED BETTER BECAUSE WE HAD ALREADY CONDEMNED THEM IN OUR MINDS.

ALL OF THESE ARE FORMS OF CONDEMNING ANOTHER, AND ALL OF THESE ARE WORDS WE WOULD NEVER WANT TO HAVE SPOKEN IN REFERENCE TO US, WHETHER WE DESERVED IT OR NOT.

YET WE DO IT, AGAIN AND AGAIN.

HOW IS IT THAT WE WHO ALWAYS SEEK MERCY, ARE SO QUICK NOT TO EXTEND IT ?
NOT ONLY DO WE DESIRE MERCY FROM OTHERS, BUT FROM GOD AS WELL.

WE WILL EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO JUDGE GOD !

WHAT DO YOU THINK WE ARE DOING WHEN WE SAY " I DON'T KNOW HOW GOD LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THAT" ?

DON'T WE REALIZE THAT IS MORE THEN SOME MERE QUESTION, IT IS AN ACTUAL JUDGING OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUS, AND JUST NATURE!

WE CAN'T ACTUALLY CONDEMN THE ALMIGHTY BUT HE CAN CONDEMN US.
OUR CONCERN SHOULDN'T BE IF LUKE WAS REFERRING TO MAN CONDEMNING US, BUT WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT GOD'S CONDEMNATION.

LUKE PLAINLY STATES THAT IF WE DON'T WANT TO BE CONDEMNED THEN WE ARE NOT TO CONDEMN.

SINCE MAN CAN NOT CONDEMN A SOUL, I MUST BELIEVE THAT IF WE CONDEMN ONE ANOTHER, WE RUN THE RISK OF FACING ETERNAL CONDEMNATION BY THE ALMIGHTY!

IN CLOSING BROTHERS AND SISTERS LET'S BE CAREFUL AND DO UNTO OTHERS AS WE WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO US.

WE DON'T WANT TO BE JUDGED AND CONDEMNED BY THE UNJUST, SO WHY SHOULD THEY WANT US IN OUR UNJUSTNESS TO JUDGE AND CONDEMN THEM ?



2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WE MUST ANSWER TO THE LORD NOT MEN, AND WHATSOEVER WE ESTABLISH WHILE WE'RE ON EARTH WILL FACE US IN ETERNITY.

IF WE SHOW MERCY, GRACE, PEACE, AND FORGIVENESS HERE, WE WILL RECEIVE IT
OVER THERE.

THE LESS WE SAY, THE LESS WE HAVE TO LIVE UP, OR DOWN TOO!

OUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO KEEP IT ALL SHORT AND SWEET, AND PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH.




I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !






G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON