Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, guys, welcome to a new week. For those of you that have listened to my show,

The Undaunted Life podcast, you've heard me talk about being raised in Oklahoma and kind of

getting some of that country music theology, right? So, you know, grandmama went to church

and you get baptized when you're a kid and, you know, your parents occasionally vote Republican

and you listen to 90s country. And, you know, God's pro all those things. So you end up getting to go to heaven, right? So I got to hear some

Bible passages, like kind of as I was growing up. But then at the age of 15, I became a Christian,

and I began to study scripture for the first time on my own. So I go to the salt cellar in Lotton, Oklahoma, which was right next door to Hastings. And I'm going to go in there. I'm going to get me my own Bible, this teenage, you know, extreme Bible or whatever. And then

there's a bunch of t-shirts and, you know, bumper stickers with scripture on it. Okay. And so I guess

you get a little bit of bumper sticker theology, right? The problem, though, is bumper sticker

theology can be just as bad as country music theology, because

people will use certain passages of scripture, they'll take them completely out of context,

just to make a point, and they're just doing it to sell a t-shirt or to make a piffy statement,

but they're not using it and exeating the scripture properly. So this week, we're going to be doing

a series called, yeah, that's not what that means. Okay? So I're going to be doing a series called,

yeah, that's not what that means. Okay? So I'm going to be going over five of the most common misapplied and misunderstood scriptures in all of the biblical canon. And today we're starting out

with the words of our Lord Jesus as recorded in Matthew 7 verses 1 through 3. So I'll read it now in

the Christian Standard Bible. Do not judge so that you won't be judged,

for you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured

by the same measure you use. Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but don't

notice the beam of wood in your own eye? Now, of all the most common, misapplied, and misunderstood sections of scripture that we will cover this week, this one is the most popular by a sizable margin.

Because part of the reason is that it's misapplied and misunderstood by people that claim to be Christians, but it is at the same time misapplied and misunderstood by people that are not Christians.

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