If there is any verse from the Bible, if there's any teaching of Jesus that everyone knows,

whether they're Catholic or not, whether they're Christian or not, whether they've even been

in a church or not.

Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Essentially Presents.

This one is in Matthew Chapter 7, where he says, stop judging that you may not be judged.

Jesus, while he said, do not judge lest you be judged,

do not condemn, lest you be condemned, I don't think it means what you think it means. When Jesus is

saying, do not judge, does he mean we cannot basically call balls and strikes? When Jesus says,

do not judge, does he mean that we can't actually say, okay, that behavior is wrong

or that behavior is right?

And the answer is no.

That's not what Jesus means.

Not only does he say, move the wooden beam from your own eye so that you can help move the splinter

from your brother's eye.

That means you have to notice there's a splinter in your brother's eye, and you want to

help him.

So we have that. But in the very same chapter, in the very same teaching,

Jesus goes on to say, do not give it as holy to dogs. Do not throw pearls before swine? Well,

you have to judge, or at least another word is, you have to assess, am I throwing pearls before

swine, or am I throwing or giving pearls to someone who actually will receive it?

So there's a little bit of assessment going on.

In the same chapter, chapter seven, he goes on to say, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but underneath are ravenous wolves.

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