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Hey, guys, good morning. It is Friday. Hopefully you can hear me.

Let's do a little quick check in the chat if you're there in Rumble.

And see what's going on. Man, I hope you guys are doing well.

I am literally in the little cabin of the woods

this morning and trying to make sure that the audio is working let me see some of those dancing

bananas if you guys are there in the rumble chat good morning good morning it is Friday

it is Friday the 13th it is February February 13th, 2026. Hope everybody is doing,

just having a fantastic week, looking forward to a fantastic weekend. So I'm just here on my

laptop this morning, and I just want to hang out with you guys a little bit. We've been working our

way through the book of Matthew. If you are just joining us, we're just hanging out here, wallowing in the word, having a good time with it. And I did not want to, I was going to pre-record this, but then I decided no, I just, I'll just do it from here in the cabin. Isn't that beautiful? That fire back there? It's great. and so I'm glad you guys chose to join us if you're watching on Facebook,

watching on X, watching on YouTube, so glad you guys chose to join it. If you're watching on Facebook,

watching on X, watching on YouTube, make sure you hit like, hit subscribe, share this. We're going to

deal with one of the most confusing, misquoted, misunderstood passages. People love to use this passage,

but very few people truly know what it means. And so we're going to deal with judging others. Judge not lest you be judged. How many times do you see that? We see it on social media all the time. And people just love to quote that. What does it really mean? Are we just not supposed to judge at all? Well, we'll talk about all of that here in a little bit. So if you guys are on here, if you're hitting like, if you're hitting those dancing bananas, they're in the Rumble chat. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We are down and dirty today. Look at that. I just can't get past it. Anyway, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, little cabin, and just enjoy being with you guys this morning on a Friday. All right. So Matthew chapter 7 is where

we are. We've been working our way through it. Verse one, you guys can probably quote it. It says,

judge not that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged. And with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Why do you see the speck that's in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that's in your

own eye? How can you say to your brother, let me take the speck out of your eye when there's a log

in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you

will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. Do not give dogs what is holy,

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