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Judge Not

Judge Not (part three)

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Can there be a true breach of righteousness in Christianity? A good study of Scripture points abundantly otherwise. That which makes one a born again Christian – child of God – is never earned as a result of an individual’s righteousness. It is strictly a Divine gift after one has genuinely accepted the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Does a Christian dwell in righteousness by his good deeds? Philippians 3:9 “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” shows clearly that my human righteousness cannot account for the soteriological quiddity. Romans 5:21 says, “That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” Can we not see very clearly that the righteousness question has been theologically met in Christ Jesus? The Book of John explicitly told us in the verse that happens to be the microcosm of the entire Bible that on account of the love God showered on those who believe in the finished work the sanguineous Golgotha, He gave to us what is called eternal life.Read More

Judge Not (part two)

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I have always maintained that, “If I see you, and hear you do a thing, I’ll judge you.” When I see two unmarried male and female in active coition, my judgment is simple, “You have committed the sin of fornication.” You entered another person’s apartment and you came out with the owner of the apartment’s phone, and the person asked, “Who made an entrance into my flat,” wanting to know who had taken his phone and you keep mum. I ask you what you went there for, and you brazenly tell me, “I didn’t go there;” I will call you a thief. Why? I saw you when you entered and when you walked out pocketing the phone which you and I know is not yours. If you happen to be seated by me in a public transport and receiving a phone call, you tell the caller, “I am standing at the Local Government Council Chairman’s door; call me in two hours’ time,” I will judge your act, and call you, “A liar!” I will judge you when I see you and hear you loudly and clearly; and I will not be running into any misbehaviour because my judgment is not a rash one. This is what we should be talking about: unrighteous judgment. We can judge as long as it is in strictness of righteousness.Read More

Judge Not (part one)

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Verse one of Matthew chapter 7 is, number one, the preamble to what Jesus actually wanted to enrich man’s faculty of understanding with. Number two, verse one is not the conclusion; the concluding wholesomeness of this teaching is in the second verse. Half truths can be dangerously misleading. True contextual paraphrase of the two verses is like this: “Do not tag another with rash criticism, in order not to deserve sharp criticism. Because the degree of your wrong judgement will your criminality be.” We always forget that verse one does not stand alone. It is only complete in the next verse two. Jesus is, from this part of the long Sermon on the Mount, warning against censoriousness. “Don’t judge” is one of the didactic faux pas that thrives unnecessarily, and quite disappointingly, on various pulpits. Scriptural facticity points to righteous and unrighteous judgements. There are not three types of judgements. There are only two and they are righteous and unrighteous judgments. Read More