Way back in the day when I was just getting started out on YouTube, I did a series that I'm still very proud of called

Matt Whitman Ruins Treasured Verses of the Bible. Yes, that is a little bit presumptuous,

but I still did it and I'd like to think that some good things were in

there what I was really looking at are these passages in the Bible that

everybody knows that was Criteria number one and then Criteria number two

was they're constantly tortured passages to get ripped out of context used in

weird ways and particularly weaponized to often mean the exact opposite of what

the text actually means and one of my favorite from that series

was the one on the passes that we're looking at today

in Matthew Chapter 7, the one about judging.

And I talked about how this thing is used as the proverbial ping shield

of childhood, where somebody shoots their invisible gun at you while you're playing guns in the backyard and you're like ping what was that I have the shield

Well, I shoot you again then ping ping yeah, I have a double shield though, I can't get through.

I am beyond your mortal bullets, peon, nothing can affect me.

And I think the whole don't judge passage in Matthew Chapter 7 often gets used the same way.

Anybody wants to say anything to me in a religious context.

All I have to be is like, don't judge.

Ping-Ping!

Didn't work, didn't affect me in any way.

So Jesus here, he says the following thing. You probably wonder what I'm talking about here let's actually read the passage Matthew 7. 1 don't judge or you two will be judged for in the same way you judge others you'll be judged and with the measure you use it'll be measured to you.

Why do you look at the spec sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the

plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother let me take the

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