Ever caught yourself keeping score of other people's sins?

Well, you might think, at least I'm not that bad.

But today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reminds us that our sinful nature is the ultimate equalizer. His bold claim

comes from Romans chapter 2, where the Apostle Paul levels the playing field. When we judge others, Paul

declares, we condemn ourselves. So how do we overcome the temptation to inflate our self-importance?

It starts with an honest look in the mirror,

examining our own hearts before pointing out the faults in others. Chuck titled today's message,

Judgment for the Judgmental. Let me read for you, please, the first 16 verses of Romans chapter 2.

If you have brought a Bible with you, and you will find the outline for today's message in your worship folder.

Just place it in Matthew chapter 7 and have it available there.

But I'll not read from Matthew, but from Romans chapter 2, beginning at verse 1.

Therefore you have no excuse every one of you who passes judgment.

For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself for you who judge practice the same things.

And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.

But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that

you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you think lightly of the riches of his kindness and

tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are

storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

who will render to each person according to his deeds. To those who, by perseverance and doing good, seek for glory and honor and immortality,

eternal life, but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth,

but obey unrighteousness, wrath, and indignation, there will be tribulation and distress for

every soul of man who does evil, the

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