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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner and my friends,
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today you and I are gonna return to the subject
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What Jesus Said About Being Judgemental.
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You do not want to fall into the category
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of being a judgmental person,
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and Jesus had a lot
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to say about judgemental people,
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but this is a 5-part series:
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so you can read the material
while you are seeing
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or hearing the whole series. I really want you
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to get this material down deep inside you.
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And I wanna mention to you Denise's book called Unstoppable.
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If you feel you've been judged by others
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and their opinions have stopped you from making progress,
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you need to read Denise's book called, Unstoppable.
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It will set you free
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and will enable you to push
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through all those negative opinions and keep going forward.
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And Jesus is really going to do what needs
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to be done in your life.
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And so call that number or send us an email,
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but I want you to reach for your Bible.
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And today we're gonna be
going to a lot of scriptures
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and I also want you to reach for a piece of paper
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and something to write with.
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And today we're gonna see what the word -
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rackon means in regard
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to being judgmental.
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That is a word which Jesus used.
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And when people read it, they think,
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what in the world does the word RAA mean?
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Well, today we're going
to find out, it's going
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to be very enlightening.
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But every day this week
I want to give to you
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what is the difference between
judging and being judgmental.
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Now if you say, Brother Rick,
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you've already told us this
in the two previous episodes.
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Well I'm wanting to make
sure you really get it.
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And I'm gonna give it again
in the next two episodes
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because I believe it is that important.
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So what is the difference between judging
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and being judgemental?
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What does it mean to judge? The word, judge,
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pictures discernment, perception or evaluation.
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And by the way, it's
required for every part
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of life, but let's continue.
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It involves forming a decision
or opinion about something
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or someone particularly after
a careful consideration.
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So this is not rushing into a judgment.
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This is really giving your evaluation
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or your perception of a matter
after considerable evaluation
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and really pondering the subject.
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Judgment is an essential
skill for decision making,
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navigating complex situations,
making informed choices,
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and gaining insight into oneself and the world at large.
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Maintaining a healthy
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and balanced sense of judgment is crucial
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for personal development,
achieving success,
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avoiding danger and fostering
meaningful relationships.
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Without such judgment,
life would be fraught
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with tragic events,
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but healthy judgment is vital
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for a balance fulfilling insecure life.
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And I've given you many examples of
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where we are required to judge in life.
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There is nothing wrong with judging.
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Judging is a component of life
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that is required if you're
going to have a good life.
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But being judgemental is a
completely different issue.
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So what does it mean to be
judgemental? Here it is.
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Being judgemental involves
viewing others in a negative
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light, often using derogatory
language to describe them
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and quickly forming opinions
based on superficial
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observations or limited evidence.
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A judgmental individual tends
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to develop opinions about
many people, usually harsh
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and critical, and is
often based on exteriors
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or insufficient knowledge
of the other person.
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This attitude usually
stems from the belief
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that one's own opinion
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and values are right while
others are deemed to be bad
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or wrong, and it leads to a sense
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of superiority over others.
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But individuals with a
good sense of judgment
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are typically not regarded
as being judgemental.
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Now let's go back to Matthew 7:1
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which really is the foundation for this series.
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A verse which many people misconstrue. Jesus says in Matthew
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7:1 - Judge not that you be not judged.
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Jesus is not saying that it is wrong to judge.
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Judge is a component that is required
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for every feature of life.
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You have to judge everything.
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You have to judge how much you eat.
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You have to judge whether or
not a person is good for you.
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It doesn't mean you're
being judgmental of them,
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you're determining whether
they're good for you.
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Sometimes you gotta judge whether
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or not your kids are telling you the truth
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or whether your kids are lying to you.
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Judgment is just a feature
of life that is required.
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But in this verse, that's not
what Jesus is talking about.
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He's talking about being judgmental of others:
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just locking them into a category saying that's
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who they are, that's who they'll always be,
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giving them no mercy, no belief that they could ever change.
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Aren't you glad that Jesus doesn't deal with you like that?
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He always gives you mercy and believes the best about you,
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but a judgmental person
doesn't believe the best.
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And here Jesus says, judge,
not that you be not judged.
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And the word that in
Greek is really important
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because it is the word hina.
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It means in order of that.
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And it shows that being
judgmental sets a process
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of a judgmental harvest in place.
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In other words, if you're
gonna be judgmental of others,
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you need to know it's
gonna come back to you.
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And Jesus here says, if you do not want
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to experience the brunt
of judgmental attitudes,
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then judge not in order that
the process will not come back
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to you, that you be not judged.
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And the word judge is importantly the Greek word krino,
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which depicts a self-righteous condemnation.
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This is not discernment,
this is not correct judging,
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but this is somebody who
takes upon themself the role
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of judge and jury,
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they're just being judgmental.
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And Jesus just tells us,
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this is the law of sowing and reaping.
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If you're going to be
judgmental of others,
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you're gonna set into process a harvest
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of a judgmental attitude
coming from somebody
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or multiple people coming back at you.
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And that's why he continues to say in Matthew 7:
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2 - For with
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what judgment you judge you shall be judged.
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And in Greek, the word for is the little word gar.
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It means for it is just a fact.
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And here Jesus uses this little word gar
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to dramatize the point for it is just a fact -
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with what judgment you judge you shall be judged.
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And when Jesus says with
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what it literally means in
exactly the same amount,
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you are judgmental.
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And here the word
judgmental, the word judge
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is not the word krino,
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it's the word krima.
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And the word krima is a little bit different.
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It describes a condemnation, a damning sentence,
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a denunciation, a judgment, a sentence
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or a verdict.
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This is a person that just has a damning
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condemnation of you.
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They've categorized you, they've issued their own sentence,
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their own verdict about you.
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And Jesus says, for with
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what verdicts you issue about others,
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you in the same way
are going to be judged.
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And the Greek literally means
you will be brought into the
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same condemnation and judgment of others.
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So if you do not want
to experience the brunt
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of a judgmental attitude,
then don't be in the business
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of being judgmental of others.
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That doesn't mean you can't
judge whether they're good
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for you or bad for you, or
whether they're lying to you
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or whether they've been deceptive.
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All of those judgments are required,
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but don't just wrap them up
and say they can never change
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and put them into your judgmental prison.
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Do not do that. That's what
Jesus is talking about.
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And Jesus says again in verse 2: For with
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what measure ye mete, it shall be measured
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to you again.
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Wow. With what - in Greek means in the very same amount.
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And he says that what measure you mete -
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now pay attention
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because this word mete means to distribute,
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to dish out, to dole out to measure
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or to mete or whatever
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you dish out to others, it shall be measured to you again.
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And guess what? The Greek literally says -
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what you dish out to others, what you dole out
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to others is precisely what's
gonna be dished out to you
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or dolled back to you.
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So before you get into the
judgemental business, you need
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to ask - wait a minute - if the law of sowing
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and reaping kicks into action,
I'm gonna be the recipient
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of the same attitude from someone else
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or a group of other people.
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Do I really want this?
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You need to put on the breaks
and really think about it
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before you fall into
a judgmental attitude.
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And then in Matthew 7:3, Jesus continues
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to say - And why beholdest thou the mote
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that is in thy brother's eye.
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And it's interesting that the word 'why' is the little tiny
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Greek word 't'.
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It describes the most
minute, minuscule detail.
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And it pictures a person that is really
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fixated on something minor
in somebody else's life
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that they don't like, but
it has just become a major
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mountain to them and they're
fixated on this little tiny
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flaw in someone else's life.
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And Jesus says, why beholdest thou the mote
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that is in thy brother's eye.
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The word beholdest is a form of the Greek word blepo.
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It means, why are you aware?
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Why are you looking at, why are you so observant of the mote
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that is in thy brother's eye?
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and it is the word, karphos.
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a speck or a splinter.
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to denote small infirmities
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or faults in a person's
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and serious faults.
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describing a person who's
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nitpicking about somebody else's tiny, tiny flaws.
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that is in your brother's eye.
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It's where you get the term ophthalmology.
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That's the science of healing the eyes
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or the medical science of the eyes.
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The eyes have vision.
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It gives you the ability to see.
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So what you really have
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of somebody who says - You know what?
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You've got a very serious flaw
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the Greek word 't' is just a tiny little thing.
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It's minute, it's minuscule,
it's a speck, it's a particle,
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it's just a little splinter,
but you're obsessing over it
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and you're saying to that person - You know what?
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You can't see it because it's in your eye.
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You do not have the ability
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but considerest not the beam that is thy on eye.
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a border, or a log: particularly is a large piece
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of square timber
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that was usually used
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and conceal it correctly,
it could block your view.
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complaining about your friend
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having a very little speck in their eye
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and they're not able to see
it when in fact you've got a
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huge beam in your own eye blocking your own vision about you
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and your own issues.
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That's really what Jesus is saying here.
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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother,
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let me pull out the mote out of thy eye
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and behold, a beam is in your own eye.
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or how will thou say thou. Thou say,
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in Greek is really a form
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of a word which describes
a flowing spring.
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And here it describes a person
that is running at the mouth,
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there's running at the mouth.
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In other words, they're
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and on about the tiny little
speck in somebody else's eye.
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And Jesus says, this person
is saying, you know what?
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You can't see your issue,
so let me help you.
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Let me pull out the mote out of thy eye.
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you got a beam in your own eye.
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The word behold the form of the Greek word idou,
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which carries the idea of
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or shock, it could even be
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Jesus says, Wow - you're not even aware of the fact
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that you've gotta beam so big in your own eye
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that you can't see your own issues.
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How are you gonna help somebody else when you've got bigger
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issues going on in your life
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somebody else's life?
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You hypocrite. First - cast out the beam out of thy
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own eye. And then he continues to say - and then.
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thou shall see clearly to cast the moat out
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of thy brother's eye. My friends,
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when you're tempted to be very fixated
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on issues in somebody else's
life, maybe you need to run
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and look in the mirror and see
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what issues you've got
going on in your own eye,
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in your own life that you can't even see.
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But then we come to Matthew 5:21,
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where Jesus says - You have heard that it's said by them
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of old time, thou shalt not kill. This word,
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kill, is a form of the Greek word, phoneuo.
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A pictures murder
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and it refers to the breaking of the 6th commandment
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of the 10 Commandments, which is thou shalt not kill.
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And here Jesus says, thou shalt not kill
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and whoever shall kill shall
be in danger of judgment.
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The word danger means will be
legally liable of judgment.
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And the word judgment
here is the word krisis,
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which means if you murder
someone, you're legally liable
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to be dragged before the
court a public opinion,
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and it's gonna be a big
serious crisis in your life.
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But then Jesus adds in verse 2 -
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But I say unto you. The word -
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but, is the Greek word, de, which means however.
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Now Jesus uses it to dramatize the point -
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However I say unto you.
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Jesus is drawing attention to himself.
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The word lego means - I say.
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When you use these 2 words together, it means Jesus,
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as a phrase, was saying - now hear me,
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it is me speaking to you.
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voice to really dramatize
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what he is about to say:
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continuing in verse 22 - that whosoever is angry
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with his brother without
a cause shall be in danger
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of the judgment.
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The word whoever is the Greek word pas.
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It is all inclusive.
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It leaves no one out, which means
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what Jesus is saying in this
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The word, angry, is a form of the Greek word, orgidzo.
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whosoever is being angry,
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being angry with his brother.
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It pictures, anger, exasperation, or rage.
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This word orgidzo here translated anger really describes one
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that is bent out of shape, twisted and just wrathful.
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This person is in danger, legally liable,
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of the judgment.
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And the word judgment again is the Greek word krisis,
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which means if you allow your
rage to get the best you,
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you're gonna end up
spoiling your own reputation
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and you're gonna be judged by
the court of public opinion.
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But then Jesus adds in verse 22:
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And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca
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shall be in danger of the council.
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Okay, what in the world does this word, Raca, mean?
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Well, here it is. It is a word
expressive of great contempt
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and injurious language.
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Essentially it means to call someone brainless,
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empty headed, good for nothing, stupid
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with no sense or worthless.
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It is abusive speech of any kind.
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And Jesus uses this word - Raca -
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to illustrate the gravity of abusive speech
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and to elevate the 6th commandment from external action
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to internal action.
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Which means - you may not physically murder someone,
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but internally with your words, you have abusively,
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verbally slew them.
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And Jesus says, it is the equivalent
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of breaking the 6th Commandment
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and it's also going to
get you into trouble.
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Wow, this is just amazing.
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And Jesus says - Whosoever shall say to his brother,
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raca, shall be in danger of the council.
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The word danger again means to be legally liable.
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The word counsel is really the word for the Sanhedrin,
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which was a group of religious leaders in Israel,
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approximately 71 of them.
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And if you got dragged in front of them,
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you were really in trouble.
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But Jesus here is teaching
us that what you doll out
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to others is going to be dished back to you.
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And if you use really bad language judgmentally
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to categorize a person
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or a whole group of people,
my friends, you are about
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to reap the same thing in your own life.
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Now, I'm thinking of Christians, some of them my own friends
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who use really derogatory language to describe people
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of another political persuasion.
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You know, you can disagree
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with other people without being abusive with your speech.
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We are never called as Christians to call other people
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with horrible names.
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What is the benefit of that? Jesus didn't do that.
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And if Jesus didn't do it - we shouldn't do it.
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That's the equivalent for using the word, Raca: calling
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somebody an idiot saying -
now there are just a bunch
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of morons.
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That's exactly what
Jesus is talking about.
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And in fact, Jesus goes on to say -
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And whosoever shall say, thou fool
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shall be in danger of hell
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fire. The word fool, the Greek word moros, means
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to call somebody a blockhead, a dumb wit, a fool, an idiot
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or a moron.
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My friends we're called to live above that.
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You can disagree with somebody else very civilly
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and very kindly, very politely.
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But we're never called
to be in the business
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of using derogatory language
to describe other people.
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And when we do that,
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it shows we've moved into
a judgmental attitude.
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Now we've just touched this word, raca,
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but when we come back in the next program,
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we're gonna go a little deeper about this.
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It's going to be important.
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So please don't miss the next episode.
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Then I'll be back in just a moment
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and I want to pray for you.
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When you carry a judgmental attitude,
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it locks the people you
are judging into a certain
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category in your mind.
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And this can make it difficult
for you to let them change.
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However, a certain level of
healthy judgment is also vital
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for a balanced, fulfilling,
and secure life.
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Being Judgmental, you will discover the difference
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To strengthen those who are diseased in any area
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of their lives - To bring healing to those in need
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of any type of healing - To bind up those
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who are broken in any area of their lives -
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To bring back those that have been driven away -
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To reach the lost and to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth - To shepherd the flock that God has caused
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to hear the voice of this ministry
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and - To help them grow in their relationship with Christ
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and become powerful, Bible-based believers equipped
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for these last days -
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And - To thank and minister
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to partners whose sacrificial gifts have enabled this
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ministry to fulfill its call around the world.
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And we are very committed
to these principles.
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And if you're a partner,
you know we're very
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serious about that.
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But hey, right now we're trying to pay off this facility.
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So would you please become a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Giving Team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and then keep taking the gospel to the ends of the earth
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and my friends together, we can do this.
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And I want to say - Thank You - so much.
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Well, today we have covered
a lot of material about
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what Jesus said about being judgemental.
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Don't be judgemental. That
doesn't mean you can't judge.
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You have to judge all kinds of things in life.
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But judging and being judgemental are two different things.
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And that's why this series,
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What Jesus Said About Being Judgmental, is so very important
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for us to hear, to study and to understand.
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And by the way, this
five part series comes
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with a great study guide
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and my wife's book called
Unstoppable would be good
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for anyone who has dealt
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with others who've really had
a judgmental attitude of them.
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Maybe you feel like you've been stopped
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because of the opinions of others,
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other people have categorized you,
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and as a result, you've
just become stuck in life.
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Well, you need to become Unstoppable.
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And that's what Denise's book is about.
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It is just so wonderful and I want you to have it.
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But you can find out about these resources by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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And please remember, we want to pray for you.
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And if you feel that you're suffering the brunt
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of somebody else's judgmental attitude, we wanna pray
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for you to get set free.
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And if you've been judgmental
of someone else, we want you
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to be forgiven of that
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and for you to walk free of
being judgmental of others;
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it will set you free.
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You'll set them free from your prison
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and you'll walk out of your own prison.
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And we would love to pray with you.
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So call us or send us an email.
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But Father, we thank in the name of Jesus
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for this very important
teaching, that we understand
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what Jesus said about being judgmental.
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Help us Lord not to fall into that category
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and being guilty of being judgmental of others,
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in Jesus' name - Amen.
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Well, I'll see you in the next episode,
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but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there really is power."
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Hey friends, this is
Rick Renner and Denise
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and I are coming to the United
States for a brief trip,
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and we want to invite you to come to some
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of our meetings. On Sunday, April 19th,
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we'll be ministering at Vertical Church in West Haven,
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Connecticut with Pastors Ken and Kathy Vance.
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Then on Wednesday - Sunday, April 22nd - 26th,
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I'll be speaking at Perry Stone's -
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Wonderful 2026 Prophetic Summit - in
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Cleveland, Tennessee.
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Then on Sunday, May 3rd,
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I'll be speaking at Resurrection Life in Grandville,
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Michigan with Pastors Duane and Jeanie Vander Klok.
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Friend, if you can come to
any of these meetings, Denise
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and I would just be so
thrilled to see you.
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But please go online
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or give us a call to make
sure none of the dates
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or times have changed.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life
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Amen. If you just prayed the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.