If you'd open up your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7, we're going to skip ahead this morning to Matthew chapter 7, 1 through 5.
Matt Sear next week is going to come back and come back to that wonderful passage in which Jesus addresses our anxiety.
And so I will be preaching out of Matthew 7, 1 through 5.
I was hoping to get to verse 6, but I just, there's not enough time.
So let me read this for you.
You've heard this.
This is the words of Jesus.
Judge not that you be not judged, for with the judgment you pronounced, you will be judged.
And with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your brother, let me take the speck out of your eye when there is the log in your own eye?
You hypocrite.
First, take the log out of your own eye.
And then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
We are a judgmental bunch.
We have a knack for finding fault in each other.
In fact, there's a story of two pastors.
They didn't know they were pastors, but they happened to be down by the marina together,
and they kind of bumped into one another.
And one of the pastors started a conversation with the other, and it went something like this.
Are you saved or are you unsaved?
Well, I'm saved.
Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!
Do you believe in believer's baptism or infant baptism?
Well, I believe in believer's baptism.
Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!
Do you dunk or do you sprinkle?
We dunk.
Oh, hallelujah!
Praise the Lord!
Are you a Calvinist or an Arminian?
Well, I lean towards Calvinism.
Praise the Lord!
Amen!
Are you a complementarian or an egalitarian?
Well, I'm a complementarian.
Amen!
Praise the Lord, brother!
Are you a continuationist or a cessationist?
Well, I'm a continuationist.
Praise the Lord, brother!
Are you old earth or young earth?
Well, I lean towards old earth.
Oh, praise the Lord, brother!
All right!
Are you pre-mill, post-mill, or aw-mill?
Lean towards pre-mill.
Amen, brother!
Are you hymns only or contemporary worship songs only?
Well, we're both.
Amen, brother!
Are you committed to expository preaching or do you topical stuff?
Well, we do both, but we relatively emphasize expository preaching.
Amen, brother!
Amen!
Do you do small groups or Sunday school?
Well, we do small groups right now, but maybe Sunday school.
Amen, brother!
Do you observe communion weekly or communion monthly?
Well, we observe communion monthly.
What?
And you call yourself a pastor?
And he walks off.
We have a knack for finding fault in each other, don't we?
If it's not doctrinal matters, it's what we wear to church.
If it's not what we wear to church, it's what we sing at church.
And if it's not what we sing at church, it's who's the candidate you're going to vote for on November 8th?
That can be a source of some fault finding.
This morning, Jesus is telling his followers that they are not to be characterized by judgmentalism.
We're not to be harsh in our judgments.
We're to hold our opinions, even our theological convictions, with humility.
So whether it's about what you dress, or the worship music we think we should have, or how are you going to vote,
or whether you're pre-mill, post-mill, or ah-mill, Jesus calls us to a clear-eyed humility.
And this morning, we're going to see Jesus kind of walk through an argument.
So four steps in this argument.
And there's these key words.
He starts by saying, judge not.
A cease and desist order from our king.
So judge not.
And then he says, for, in verse 2.
And he gives us the reason why we're not to judge.
And then he does this whole speck in the eye, log in the eye.
By this kind of ridiculous kind of example.
But he's making a point.
And then, in verse 5, he lands this plane.
And the word, you.
You.
Jesus' followers are not to be characterized by a prideful judgmentalism.
We're to be marked by humility.
And really help people.
So, let's dig in.
Matthew chapter 7, verse 1.
Two words.
Judge not.
These two words are carrying a lot of weight.
They're coming off the lips of our king.
Judge not.
It's a cease and desist order.
Do you know what a cease and desist order is?
If, like, you're putting a, something on the back of your house.
And you're digging in.
And the city of Kenosha says a cease and desist order.
This is for you.
That means you immediately need to stop your work.
So that they can bring people in.
Make sure it's okay.
Then you can start up again.
Well, this, judge not, is a immediate, urgent, cease and desist order for Jesus' disciples.
Not just in the first century, but in the 21st century.
For us.
He, in all of his authority, is commanding us to stop judging each other.
You'll notice the word brothers repeated throughout this.
He's thinking in-house, among the family.
But here's the deal.
We need to answer this question.
What does Jesus mean by judge?
When he says judge not, what does he mean?
Is he talking about all judging in general?
Or just a certain kind of judging?
Well, that word judge in the Greek language has a range of meanings.
And it all has to do with evaluating.
Sometimes it means discretion.
Sometimes it means condemning somebody.
Sometimes it means judgmentalism.
This over-the-top, critical, kind of dealing with the detail of my new things and making a big deal about it.
And what Jesus is addressing here, and what he is forbidding, is that judgmental spirit that can show up in many of us.
That critical spirit.
Judgmentalism is a manifestation of pride.
Ungracious and unloving.
Judgmentalism is a manifestation of pride.
It comes from the inside.
It's a manifestation of pride that shows up in a quickness to find fault in others.
And if that's not enough, finding fault in others with no intent to help.
Judgmentalism is a readiness to find fault in others.
So what Jesus is forbidding here is this prideful attitude in evaluating one another.
Lifting yourself up over someone else in judgment.
So the question we need to ask now is, how do we know that's the case?
How do we know that that's what Jesus is forbidding right here?
Well, there are some compelling clues from the context that make it clear.
And so if you look at verse 5, we read, you hypocrite, first take the log out from your own eye,
and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
So what Jesus is saying here is, get the log out so you can judge clearly.
So he's not forbidding all judging here.
He's forbidding a certain kind of judgment.
Log-eye judgment.
And then in verse 6, he goes on to say,
do not give dogs what is holy and do not throw your pearls before pigs.
He's talking about people.
Dogs and pigs.
He's asking us to exercise judgment for those people who are resistant and hostile to the things of God.
It's like, don't give them what's holy.
They don't want it.
In fact, they'll turn on you, shred you, if you do.
He's calling us to exercise judgment.
In chapter 7, verse 15, Jesus tells us to watch out for false prophets
with the expectation we'll be able to judge between true and false prophets.
He's calling us to exercise discretion, to make a judgment, clear judgment.
Perhaps the most compelling clue is back in verse 5.
It's the very beginning.
He says, you hypocrite.
You hypocrite.
First, remove the log from your own eye.
What Jesus is forbidding here is hypocritical judgment.
I mean, he's been going after hypocrisy all throughout the Sermon on the Mount.
We're going to come back to that when we get to verse 5.
So, it seems like the clues from this context are making things pretty clear
that Jesus is forbidding a judgmentalism, not just all judgment.
Which is relieving.
Because that means we still get to exercise wise, loving judgment in discernment.
We just need to steer clear of this prideful judgmentalism.
So, the kind of evaluation that we're being told not to do is fault-finding, selfish, unloving.
Jerry Bridges in his book, Respectable Sins, calls judgmentalism
when we equate our opinions with truth.
We elevate our opinions to a point where we think that they're right all the time.
Judgmentalism is an elevation of oneself over another.
And oftentimes this takes place in majoring on the minors,
making mountains over molehills,
breaking fellowship over how many times a month
you observe communion.
In the middle of this word pride,
because at the heart of judgmentalism is pride,
and at the middle of that word pride,
five-letter word, is the word I.
I is at the middle of pride.
Me is at the center.
Judgmentalism is a manifestation of pride.
And God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
And so, consider the effects of a judgmental critical spirit.
It demeans the one being judged.
Does God want that?
No.
It puffs up the one who is doing the judging.
Does God want that?
No.
Judgmentalism results not in building up other people,
but tearing them down.
It's not constructive.
It's destructive.
Does God want that among his people?
No.
Over time, a critical spirit will have a withering effect
on those closest to you.
It exasperates people either into forced compliance
or fierce rebellion.
It's either the shrug soldier effect
or it's the raised fist effect.
Does God want either of those?
No.
He wants peace for his people.
He wants unity held together by a bond of peace.
He wants there to be love among his people,
even when we disagree.
We can disagree.
We can disagree in love.
What we can't do is go judgmental on each other.
So what is Jesus commanding us here?
He's saying, judge not.
Do not be quick to find fault in each other.
Now, if you're sitting there in your pew right now
and you're saying,
whoa, I think Jesus is speaking to me this morning,
what you need to hear is that cease and desist order.
You need to stop that now.
Jesus is saying, judge not.
Stop it.
Are you starting to feel the weight of it?
So that's the first move here.
Jesus says, cease and desist this judgmentalism.
It has no place among my people.
The next step is that Jesus provides a reason
why we're not to be judgmental with one another.
And it's clued in by the word for in verse 2.
So Jesus says, judge not that you be not judged for,
it's a reason,
for with the judgment you pronounce,
you will be judged in the measure you use,
it will be measured to you.
So Jesus is saying this,
don't be merciless in your judgment of others
because you will be judged without mercy.
That's the reason he's giving.
It's a sober reason.
It's a warning.
Jesus is emphasizing this with a play on words
and he can't see it in English.
You can see a little bit of it in English.
In English, we read,
for you, for with the judgment you pronounce,
you will be judged.
You see how the word judge is repeated.
And then we read,
and with the measure you use,
it will be measured to you.
And so you see how the word measure is repeated.
And essentially, judge and measure
are being used synonymously
to talk about this judgmentalism.
But in the original language,
it reads like this.
For with the judgment you judge,
you will be judged.
And with the measure you measure,
you will be measured.
It's even more emphatic.
It's a play on words.
It's a repeating of ideas.
To judge and to measure
are getting at the same thing.
It's a kind of evaluation
with which you evaluate others.
What you evaluate others with,
you will be evaluated with.
So how do you evaluate others?
How do you judge others?
With what do you measure others by?
And then we've got to ask,
well, who's doing the evaluating of me
if I'm evaluating of others?
Is it other people?
Well, it could be.
There's a tendency
when we're critical of others
that other people tend to be critical of us.
Is that who Jesus is talking about?
Well, it's kind of vague.
Because it can also mean God.
And if we keep with the overarching
kind of theme and motif of the passage,
it most likely is God.
And if it is God,
then it should give us considerable pause
when we render judgment on someone.
We are to be slow to judge.
What Jesus is saying here is,
in keeping with what he said
in Matthew 6, verses 14 and 15.
Remember that?
He says,
For if you forgive others their trespasses,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
And what he's warning his followers is,
what will happen if they're not forgiving of others?
It's God will not forgive them
because their unforgiving spirit
reveals that they're not followers of Jesus.
And a similar principle is in play here.
If someone persists in judgmentalism,
it reveals their heart
and God will be merciless in his judgment.
He will judge them with the kind of judgment
they have judged others.
Dr. Don Carson,
who is a professor down at Trinity,
said it this way regarding this verse.
A judgmental attitude excludes us from God's pardon
for it betrays our unbroken spirit.
It reveals we have a critical spirit,
not a poverty of spirit.
Blessed are those who are poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of God.
Now, this kind of judgmentalism
has been happening in churches for a long time.
If you trace it all the way back
to the first century in Rome,
there was a Christian church in Rome,
a bunch of believers.
And they were kind of sniping at each other
because of different foods.
Some said you should eat.
Some said you shouldn't eat.
Different holidays.
Some said you should observe them.
Some said you shouldn't.
In Romans 14.10, Paul rebukes them all.
He says,
Why do you pass judgment on your brother?
Or why do you despise your brother?
And so he's linking this judgmentalism
with despising your brother.
It's unloving.
And then he goes on to remind them,
For we will stand before the judgment seat of God.
So then each of us will give an account
of himself to God.
Each of us will give an account
before our Father.
God himself.
So what we need to keep in mind
and why this reason is so sobering
is that how we treat other people now,
how we judge them and measure them,
that's going to be part of our judgment
when we go before God.
It's really sobering.
Let me illustrate it this way.
So we have these repeated plays on word.
Jesus says,
For with the judgment you judge,
you will be judged.
With the measure you measure,
you will be measured.
So there's these six repeated words.
And here's how I want you to think about them.
Think about these six repeated words
as those orange and white sawhorses in a road.
And they're put there to say,
Watch out!
And what Jesus is saying
with these repeated words is,
Don't go down the road of judgmentalism.
Don't go down that road.
In fact, what he's saying is,
Turn around.
Stop.
Turn around.
That is not a road you want to go down.
You're going to have to face God someday.
So let me ask you this.
Let's say someone calls
your favorite presidential candidate a moron.
What would happen
if when you were tempted
to be critical back,
what came into your mind
was standing before your God
and having to give an account.
This word for
is a sober reason
to stop our judgmentalism.
So Jesus moves from
this sober warning for
to a rather ridiculous example.
In verses 3 and 4,
let's read it.
Why do you see the speck
that is in your brother's eye,
but do not notice the log
that is in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your brother,
Let me take this speck out of your eye
when there is the log in your own eye?
It's almost cartoon-like.
One commentator talked about it
as being Jesus' employing humor here.
But it would be funny
if it were not for it being about judgmentalism,
which is not funny.
What Jesus is saying here
with this very creative illustration
is that those who are being judgmental,
they don't see things clearly.
their view is obstructed.
And even worse,
they tend not to be aware
that they've got a log in their eye.
They're unaware of their obstructed sight.
So if you look at verses 3 and 4,
there's this brother with something in his eye.
Jesus calls it a speck.
It's probably a speck of sawdust.
Remember, Jesus was a carpenter by trade.
He knew what it was like to cut wood.
And I'm guessing he probably got
a speck of sawdust in his eye.
And so what Jesus is not denying
is there's going to be situations
where we need to help one another
get specks out of our eyes.
And so Jesus is saying
there's not a place for that.
There is a place for that.
But the problem is
that the one who volunteers to help,
look at verse 4,
or how can you say to your brother,
let me take the speck out of your eye.
The problem is the one who volunteers
has a log in his eye.
Now that word log
is not referring to a 2x4.
It's referring to a support beam.
A support beam.
In a first century Palestinian home
that held up the roof,
it would be the equivalent for us
as an eye beam.
Or two 2x12s nailed together
in order to hold
a considerable amount of weight.
It is a ridiculous picture to imagine.
Someone walking around
with an eye beam in their eye?
A support beam?
Jesus is obviously making a contrast
between the speck and the beam.
And in the contrast,
what it's bringing out is
the seriousness of judgmentalism.
Because that's what the log is.
And notice that though the brother
with the speck in the eye
apparently knows he's got a speck in his eye,
the brother with the log in his eye
is completely unaware of it.
That's the effect of pride.
Pride blinds us.
Those who are judgmental
are often blind to their own judgmentalism.
Let me ask you a question.
Of those two brothers,
which one is in the greatest need?
The one with the log in his eye.
That's the worst problem of the two.
And what's crazy about this
is that the one in greatest need
with the eye beam in his eye
is actually trying to help out
the one with the speck in his eye.
It's completely ridiculous.
And that's Jesus' point.
For a Christian who is blinded
by their own judgmentalism
to try to help a brother or sister in Christ
with a speck in their eye,
it's ridiculous
because it's presumptuous.
So from these two verses
we can draw out that judgmentalism,
this quickness,
quickness to find fault in one another.
It's a serious problem.
It's eye beam problem.
It blinds Christians from seeing themselves.
It's what pride does.
It prevents Christians
from really helping one another.
Do you really think that someone
with an eye beam
is going to be able to help someone
with a speck in their eye?
So let me ask you a question.
Have you ever thought about judgmentalism this way?
Are you starting to feel the weight of it?
How serious this is in God's sight?
So in this ridiculous example,
Jesus' point is
how ridiculous judgmentalism is in God's eyes.
I mean, after all,
God alone knows what's going on in each of us.
So now in verse 5,
Jesus in this last step
calls us to a clear-sighted humility.
The solution to log-eye syndrome,
this judgmentalism,
is a humble repentance.
So in verse 5, Jesus says,
you hypocrite.
First take the log out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly
to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
So let's just say that you're sitting there
and you're realizing you have a tendency
of being judgmental with other people,
with other Christians.
And with that growing sense,
you have this also kind of growing weight
that that is grievous in God's sight.
That's actually a good thing.
God is doing a work in your heart.
He wants to help you.
He wants to rid you of something.
That's his kindness to you.
And so you're realizing you tend to rush
into making harsh,
unmerciful judgments about others.
Remember, judgmentalism is,
it's a temptation common to man
because it's got pride at its root.
We equate our own opinions with the truth.
So we've got to ask the question,
what must we do?
What step do we take
in order to obey Jesus'
cease and desist order?
What do we need to do
in order to judge not?
If the heart of judgmentalism is pride,
some kind of inflated view of yourself,
the solution will be humbling yourself,
seeing yourself as God sees you.
So Jesus calls us to humble himself.
And this passage,
he says something that is difficult to hear.
Remember, Jesus is speaking to his disciples.
And Jesus, in the movement of this passage,
he starts in verses 1 and 2 by saying,
y'all.
He's talking to all of his disciples.
And then in verse 3,
he goes from y'all to you.
And in verse 5, he says,
you hypocrite.
If you're being judgmental,
regularly giving vent to critical,
a critical spirit to others,
or gossiping about others,
Jesus is saying,
you are a hypocrite.
Now, can you imagine Jesus himself
calling you out as a hypocrite?
If you are judging others ungraciously,
that's exactly what he's doing.
And what you need to understand is that
judgmentalism is hypocrisy.
Let's ask this question.
It's a basic question.
What is so hypocritical about judgmentalism?
Do you remember the word hypocrite
comes from the Greek theater
in which actors would change from character to character
by putting different masks over their face?
And so they would put a different face on
depending on who their character was.
So what Jesus is saying is
judgmentalism is putting on a false face.
It's thinking that you are healthy
and able to help others with their specs
when in fact,
you're the one in greatest need of help.
You're the one in greatest danger.
You've got the bigger problem.
That's the hypocrisy.
And it would do us all well to take heed of it.
If you struggle with judgmentalism,
and I have, I do,
the first thing you need to know
is that it is hypocritical.
But it's not enough to know it.
There's a step of humility
of confessing it.
Confessing it to God.
Keith, earlier when we were worshiping,
quoted 1 John 1.9.
If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
We have an advocate, Jesus.
He is our propitiation.
That word confess,
it literally means same word.
If we call judgmentalism
the same word that God calls it,
we're confessing it as sin.
And what does God call judgmentalism?
He calls it hypocrisy.
And so the first step of humility here,
after being confronted with this,
you hypocrite,
is to confess it.
Is to say,
oh Lord Jesus,
you are right.
You're right.
I'm prone to it.
Even I've given myself to it.
You're right.
It's wrong.
It's hypocritical.
So you call it sin.
And then you realize
what this same Jesus has done for you.
This same Jesus,
who says you hypocrite,
on the cross,
said,
it is finished.
I paid for that.
Forgiven in full.
So you call it sin.
You call it forgiven.
And you call on God to change you.
And so the next step,
after confessing it to God,
calling it what it is,
the next step
is to take the log out of your own eye.
Once you've confessed it,
you've positioned yourself
to remove it.
Because if you don't see
judgmentalism
as sin
against God,
you're not going to be compelled
to do anything about it.
But if you see it
as God sees it,
you're going to be compelled
to get rid of it.
Or what the Apostle Paul says,
to put it to death.
It's a step of humility.
It's a step of coming under
what God says.
So when we remove
remove the log
out of our own eye,
we are repenting
of judgmentalism.
And in order for you
to see the log,
I want to help you.
I want to help you to see it.
I want to help you see
judgmentalism in your own life.
So I've got three questions for you.
Three questions that are
intended to help you see
judgmentalism in your life.
In your life.
Don't be thinking
your spouse's life.
Don't be thinking
your children's life.
Don't be thinking
your pastor's life.
Be thinking your life.
Evaluate yourself.
Three questions.
First one is this.
Ask yourself,
what are the topics
in which I'm tempted
to be quick
to find fault in others?
What are the topics?
Maybe it's politics.
Maybe it's social issues.
Maybe it's sports.
Someone says something
about your pack
and man,
you are like
pulling your sword out.
Maybe it's how you dress
on a Sunday morning.
Maybe it's the songs
we sing on a Sunday morning.
Maybe it is your favorite
theological point.
Maybe it's the roles
of men and women
in the church.
Maybe it's do the gifts
exist or not.
Maybe it's you hear
the word predestination
and you want to fight.
Here's a big clue
as to paying attention
of where you will be tempted
to be critical.
What are the things
that you value most?
What are the topics
that are near and dearest
to your heart?
Be paying attention
to those things.
Second question.
Ask yourself,
who are the people
I'm tempted to harshly
criticize most frequently?
Who are the people?
Do you have a regular
set of targets?
Your spouse,
your children,
your church,
your elders,
your life group leader?
Maybe it's your supervisor
at work.
Maybe it's your parents
or your siblings.
Maybe it's your teachers.
Or maybe it's your
government officials.
Or maybe it's your Facebook friends.
Who are the people
that you're tempted
to harshly criticize?
That will help you
kind of narrow the field down.
It's an area to consider
when you'll be tempted
to criticize.
Third area.
Ask yourself,
what's going on inside of you
when you're tempted
to be critical?
For example,
are you tired?
Or are you stressed out?
Are you impatient?
When you are sharp,
when you're harsh,
when you're rash,
ungracious,
what's going on inside of you?
Do you feel insecure?
If you feel insecure,
sometimes the way
that you push back
is by unfair criticism.
Do you feel angry?
Do you feel out of control?
Are you disgusted by someone?
Do you feel overlooked?
Are you offended?
These are all ripe opportunities
to get critical real fast.
Now, if you're experiencing
any of these,
do not be surprised
that you'll be tempted
in those moments
to react harshly
and to criticize
in a manner
that's unpleasing to God.
Oftentimes,
the first thing we go
when we're not getting
something we want
is we want to blame somebody.
You're the reason for this.
So we've identified
some areas where
you'll likely be tempted
to judge sinfully, right?
And if you take that
whole list together,
it might be overwhelming.
So just pick one.
Start somewhere.
Start paying attention to it.
And now what I want you to do
is I want to help you
to know how to humbly fight
this prideful judgmentalism
because I'm guessing
it's going to come up
later today
or sometime this week.
I want to help you to fight.
Humbly fight.
But before I do,
let me just say this.
This is about removing
the log from your eye
so that you can see clearly
and help people out.
So God wants to get
something done here
for the building up
of our body.
So with that said,
I'm going to wrap up
by pointing you to
four things,
four recommendations
to remove the log
out of your eye
so you can help others.
First one is this.
Ask God to weed out
your prideful,
critical spirit
and to plant in its place
a poverty of spirit.
Ask God to weed it out.
To remove the pride
and replace it with humility.
Remember,
a critical spirit
and a poverty of spirit
do not coexist.
Kick one out
so that God
can cultivate the other.
Blessed are the poor
in spirit,
the humble,
for they shall see,
for theirs is the kingdom of God.
So ask God
to weed it out
and to plant in humility.
Two,
slow your judgment down.
Slow that train down.
If you're quick
to find fault
in other people,
humility means
slowing it down.
Believe the best.
Seek to understand.
Get the right weight
on the issue.
If you find yourself
harsh,
humility means
being gentle.
A tender hearted.
See others
as God sees them.
Not as your enemies.
Don't demonize them.
See them
as God sees them.
Get perspective.
Slow the judgment train down.
Third recommendation.
You know,
we went through
that list of people
that you would be tempted
to be critical of.
You know that list?
Start praying
God's fullness
of blessing
and peace
on that person.
The person
you're tempted
to be critical of,
ask God
to bless them
richly.
Go number six,
24 through 26,
that God,
would you cause
your face
to shine upon
this person
all the days
of their life?
Go show them
your goodness.
It's really hard
to be critical
and angry
with somebody
you're praying
for like that.
You're seeking
to love them
with your praying.
finally,
remember this
and remember
this often
that you yourself,
you were under
God's holy judgment
for your judgmentalism.
He sees it
for what it is.
And Jesus
bore all
of God's wrath
for your
critical spirit.
The one
who spoke
the words
you hypocrite
also spoke
the words
it is finished.
Paid and full.
Jesus died
for your
judgmentalism.
He hung
on the cross
for it.
Remember
the gospel.
Major
on the major.
First things
first.
Paul says
in 1 Corinthians 15
I present
to you
that which
is of first
importance.
Christ died
for your sins
was buried
and on the third
day was raised
from the dead
according to
the scriptures.
That's the main
thing.
Keep the main
thing
the main thing.
And it puts
what we
have opinions
on
whether it's
what we
wear
or the
kind of
music
we
want
to
sing
by
our
preferred
candidate
or our
theological
hobby
horses
it puts
it in
the right
perspective.
So when you
remember often
what God
has done
for you
in Christ
that's the
sweet spot
that will
keep you
humble
and that
will help
you remove
the log
so you
see clearly.
Let's pray.
Lord Jesus
would you
help us
to remove
the logs
in our
eyes
so that
we can
see clearly
and so
that we
can actually
help one
another
and build
one another
up.
God we
entrust this
to you
in the name
of Jesus
we pray
Amen.