Today's app from Jesus is a very unusual one.

It's double-edged. It's dual application. It's about an action that most certainly is going to produce reaction.

It's about throwing a boomerang and most definitely is going to boomerang back to you.

It's about cause and effect.

That's why it's very important.

It's a very important app.

And there's something about this particular app in Matthew chapter 7, verses 1 to 6.

These particular words of Jesus are the most misunderstood and abused and misinterpreted,

even by people who do not believe the Bible.

They know those words and they use or abuse those words.

You hear it in the movies. You hear it on television and you certainly hear a church and then you hear it in many professing Christians. I want to

explain it to you and you'll immediately get the point. Suppose someone living in an immoral

lifestyle and because they are created in God's own image,

they know deep down in their soul that they're going against the grain, that they're going against God's created order.

And so without even as having to say a word, they have that guilt still within them by the virtue

of creation.

And so when they are confronted, not necessarily with words, just you being there, they

immediately misuse these words of Jesus and say, don't judge me. Who are you to judge me? Didn't Jesus say,

judge not, lest you be judged? What are they doing? They are obscuring the word of God to cover up

their guilt. Instead of dealing with their guilt, they're covering it up. They are misusing the word of God as a defense mechanism to alleviate their guilt, which

doesn't work.

And that is why I need to explain to you what this app of Jesus is not, before I tell you

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