Usually, on a weekly, if not a daily basis I will come across one that will tell me it is wrong to judge those that drink, gamble, take drugs, curse, homosexuality, living together without marriage and any other vice you can name. Even to the point of judging the president of the United States. One man at work, when I spoke against the president and his immoral policies, told me in no uncertain terms that he was my president and I am not to judge. Even now, some in the Lord’s church will tell you, regardless of what the unscriptural practice is or Authority for such, that you are not to judge, and it doesn’t say that you can’t do the practice they are advocating. Proof text does not seem to be in their vocabulary. Authority of Scripture is old fashioned to them.

The world may not know where to find the following Scripture but they know what it says and they use this Scripture to justify what they are doing.

“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Matthew 7:1

There seems to be a conflict between the former verse and the following verses, but God’s Word does not contradict itself.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” I John 4:1

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15

”Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
Matthew 7:16

“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” John 7:24

From these Scriptures we find that God does not condemn all judgment. There is a righteous judgment and a hypocritical judgment, but it is up to us to study His Word to be able to discern the difference.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth.” II Timothy 2:15

“Use discernment. The devil comes in many forms.”

Eileen Light