Turn with me, please, to Matthew 7 and get ready to come up, get ready to be blessed and be empowered to be a blessing.

For some weeks now we've been on the subject.

We're calling mercy over judgment.

And that there's a reason why, some very, very significant reasons why we should immediately and completely stop judging.

In Matthew 7 in verse 1, the master said, Jesus said, read letters, judge not.

Why?

That or so that you be not judged. You't be judged what's the main reason here he told us not to judge for our own personal benefit and protection so we won't be judged Can a believer be judged in this life?

Yes.

Do you care if you get judged or not?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, you should.

He says, for with what judgment you judge,

you shall be judged.

Ever how we judge another person, Jesus said, we're going to be judged like that.

And with what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you again.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye?

This is a graphic illustration of judging, how one person judges another.

Why are you looking at, focusing on considering the moat, a moat would be a speck that's in your brother's eye?

So it's a speck is something that ought not be in your eye.

Right?

So the speck is not good.

But the speck's not in your eye.

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