Do you ever find yourself reveling in your success at the expense of others who are less fortunate?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reveals how keeping a scorecard exposes flawed thinking.

Drawing from Romans chapter 2, he shows that when we judge struggling people,

we're actually revealing our own spiritual poverty.

The antidote isn't self-improvement, it's humble dependence on God.

In this study, we'll be challenged to replace our scorekeeping with compassion, our criticism

with kindness, and our self-righteousness with gentle humility.

Chuck titled today's message, Judgment for the Judgmental.

Already we've learned two things about God's judgment.

Number one, it's inescapable, verses one to four.

Five through eleven, we learn it's righteous.

It's righteous.

It's right.

Another motive is in verse eight, 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. It's a good time for me to pause and describe the scene here. A couple of things I think need to be clarified.

First, what's the underlying theme of this section, chapters one and two? It's clearly the

judgment of God. The righteous judgment of God. And in case you haven't thought about it lately, let me teach a little theology.

And I do that. God is all seeing. So he misses nothing. He ignores nothing.

God is absolutely just and right and fair and true. his judgment is all of the above, and third, God is completely,

verse 11, impartial. Doesn't favor one over another, as we'll learn next time, not even the

Jew is favored over the Gentile when it comes to this matter of depravity.

When your life is characterized by grace and prompted by love, judgment flees away.

You're not the boss.

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