FEBRUARY 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#04 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

 

FEBRUARY 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

   JQ#04  

“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye,

 but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” 

(Matthew 7:3)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS, each day as I start my day with the thought of “Jesus”, there is 

a Peace that cannot be explained — but LORD I need no explanation

 and that amplifies my Peace. There is no name like the Name of Jesus 

and there are no thoughts like thinking about Jesus! 

Each morning as I rise and go to Your Holy Word there is an eternal Hope

 for my life and then I write the Name “JESUS” and my soul knows that 

You are the Light of men and that Your Light is THE  LIFE. Jesus forgive

 me of my daily shortcomings and carry me until I finally become 

One with You, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS is the Master Teacher and He has been Teaching these first

 four Lessons in a specific order therefore He has a specific overall objective

 because each Lesson builds upon the last Lesson and points us to the

 next Lesson while keeping us focused in the direction of “Light” 

that He is leading us into.  This section on “Judging” has been a struggle for

 me and my spirit feels violated by the world. Jesus was always 

Teaching Lessons that are “universal” in that every soul of every generation

 can apply EVERY LESSON THAT JESUS TEACHES to their daily lives! 

In other words — “Each Lesson Jesus Taught was relevant 

when Jesus first spoke His Words and they are just as relevant today

 as we read His Words for the first time in our lives!!!”  

I know that every thing that I read about in God’s Holy Word 

points to Jesus and 

when we focus on Jesus we can see God’s Love being poured 

out on all generations through the Great Sacrifice and 

Obedience of the Only Begotten Son 

yet when I read this command from Jesus as written in Matthew 7:6 I struggle,

 not because I struggle with following Jesus but because I struggle with the fear 

that I am not understanding the True Lesson Jesus is trying to Teach

 when He says: 

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs…” (Matthew 7:6)!!

 Yesterday the Holy Spirit led me to consider that this new age of unbelievers

 are in the process of “re-defining God’s Moral Standard” by which 

God has commanded us that

 “we should judge our own actions 

and let God Himself judge others”, 

and it is through that process of “re-defining God’s Moral Standard” that

 the new unbelievers have removed all that is “Holy” from the 

“judgment process established by God” thereby making the 

New Age Moral Standard “relative” to the reigning political thought 

of what is best for the political beast to retain power! 

I gave two instances: (1) Abortion and (2) Same Sex Marriage. 

If we look at “Abortion” from its “re-definition perspective” then we see that

 the “politics” of abortion is what is driving the “re-definition” of abortion

 which is now defined, not from God’s Moral Standard but from the

 political viewpoint which our modern society is told is 

“the woman’s right to choose”. There is a great conflict with God’s Holy Word

 with this modern re-definition of “abortion” as a “woman’s right” to take the life

 of the new “unborn” human growing within the mother’s body designed by 

God to give “life” to the unborn growing in her womb!  

God grants each individual “life” and God does not give the “right”

 to anyone to take that “God-given life” from the individual God gave life to.

 Only by taking the “Holy” aspect away from life can they “re-define” abortion!

 You cannot show a single abortion that has not deprived an individual 

of that individual’s “God given right to life”!! 

The same is true with “Same Sex Marriage” — Two people of the same sex 

have been given by those seeking “political power” the “?legal?” right to 

marriage but there is no “Biblical Justification by God’s Moral Standard”

 that same sex couples can enter into “Holy Matrimony”. The political 

“re-definition” of marriage has removed the “Holy” element of marriage,

 therefore “Holy Matrimony” is impossible when “Holy” 

has been “politically” removed from marriage!  

Again this has been done to “politically re-define”

 those terms that have always kept our common moral compass 

pointing to the “Truth of God”. 

Jesus is Teaching us on “judging” in Matthew 7:6 that 

we must not abandon God’s Laws 

and we should always “judge” as led by the Holy Spirit of God and not

 by some “politically motivated re-definition” of men seeking to remove

 that which is “Holy” from “God’s Moral Standard”! 

Our society today has lost our direction and has strayed from the 

TRUTH OF GOD’S MORAL STANDARD as determined by God 

to be the True Definition of “Right and Wrong”. 

Each society must come to the TRUTH that God is Eternal and 

His Holiness is UNCHANGING — God Himself and His Holiness 

must NOT be removed from the laws of our society — 

for without God’s Holy Moral Standards we are left with man’s standard 

which has demonstrated that we are “fallen” from God’s Holiness and we are

 left living in an un-Holy Godless Society without a Moral Compass

 for our Guiding Light — and where there is no “Light” to guide us, 

we always end up in darkness!   

Tomorrow we will start looking at JQ#05 in Matthew 7:7-12 

which will return “Holy” to our judgments.

FEBRUARY 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#04 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

 

FEBRUARY 16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

  JQ#04 

 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, 

but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” 

(Matthew 7:3)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord this is my prayer of thanksgiving — of all the things that I could

 be doing and all the places that I could go, I have chosen to start each and

 every day by writing the Name above all names — JESUS! 

Lord, over the years as I have tried virtually every thing under the sun,

 nothing has ever given me peace nor made me a better person than 

calling on  the Name of Jesus!

 There is Truth and there is Hope,

 

and there is the Assurance that what God says He Will Do, He Does — 

Lord, Your Word is Holy and Your Way is the True Path of Righteousness

 so I pray for Your Guidance and Your Presence to lead me forward

 keeping my eyes on Your Glory.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS started this section by giving us a command to 

“Judge not…” (Matthew 7:1a) 

and there is a gnawing in my spirit that is linking this command to today’s

 new age definition of “tolerance”. Like so many other words used to control

 our thought process (by whoever it is that thinks that the average man

 cannot think for himself) the new meaning of “tolerance” does not carry

 the same meaning that I grew up with. These verses from the Holy Bible

 are being used against Christians in this new age of “tolerance” as we 

are accused of being “intolerant” if we don’t accept people that have made

 different life choices than we as Christians have made under the guidance

 of the Holy Spirit and living a life as commanded by God Himself. 

When we look at “tolerating” people, the new age definition has rewritten

 the definition to mean that we completely accept them without passing 

“judgment” on them and we have been led to believe that “total acceptance”

 is the “right thing” to do and they are using this command from Jesus

 “not to judge others” as proof that Jesus would have accepted them. 

The problem I have with that thinking 

is that if we “tolerate” the ungodly

 as defined by God Himself 

then we are putting man’s definition of

 “tolerance” above the Godly Moral Standard!?!?!

 

By accepting the world’s definitions generated by men then we have

 effectively made “Tolerance” our “new god” as we substitute God’s Moral Standard

 of “do not judge” with new age “total acceptance” of every type of behavior

 in the name of “new age tolerance”! 

What is being overlooked in this

 passage IS THAT GOD IS NOT SAYING 

that the sinner will “not be judged”, 

God is saying that we are to leave the “judging” 

to the Fair, All Knowing God

 who is the Righteous JUDGE of ALL! 

We are to study what God declares as “Moral or immoral”

 and we are to “tolerate” what God “tolerates”, 

not by what moral standards man thinks

 God should “tolerate” — 

for everything THAT God does NOT “tolerate”, 

GOD DECLARES is an ABOMINATION! 

The “new age” definition of “tolerance” would leave us to believe that God

has changed His mind about what behaviors are “abominations” — 

in reality God is saying that we are 

“to leave judging others to Him

 and we should accept 

His judgement as our standard”!!  

So if God writes in His Holy Word 

that homosexual behavior is an “abomination”

 then we should take God at His Word 

instead of “caving in” to some

 New Age definition of “tolerance”!  

We have allowed our society to crawl

 out onto a very slippery slope by “accepting” without question

 these new age definitions that are being imposed on our social philosophy. 

Two instances: (1) Abortion and (2) Same-sex marriages.

 When did we as a society drop our Moral Standards based on

 God’s Holy Word and allow a government appointed representative 

body of 9 people (all lawyers) to decide what is “morally acceptable” 

by a simple majority of as little as 5 people and to declare what

 is “legal” behavior for millions of people? 

We as a society have allowed the establishment of a new godhead in the

 government that is “appointed” by the sitting administration and we are

 letting them use whatever “politically correct” standard they chose to

 establish as “morally acceptable” for our entire society?! 

“The LORD is the everlasting God, 

the creator of the ends of the earth…” 

(Isaiah 40:28) 

and yet the government in their thirst for “power and control” will soon

 be passing legislation to outlaw the use of God’s Moral Standard and new laws

 will be written to support this new age moral standard based on this new age

 definition of “Tolerance”! Talk about a “double standard” —they will outlaw

 the Bible first (using the separation of Church and State) but then use

 the Bible (by quoting Jesus saying “judge not” taken completely out of context)

 to justify their new “Tolerance” law because Jesus said “Judge not…” !?!?! 

This discourse on letting the world establish the Moral Standard is in my opinion

 the result of Christians “… giving what is holy to the dogs…” and

 “casting our pearls before swine” because I see the future of Christians

 (if we stay on this slippery slope) “trampled under [the government’s feet]” 

as they “turn and tear [Christians] to pieces…” (Matthew 7:6) 

Surely we must “educate” our government that “judge not” is to be 

applied to “everyone that is not God”, and that includes the entire 

government, for the government is NOT GOD, 

the government is elected 

and appointed BY OTHER MEN! 

If we abandon 

GOD’S MORAL STANDARD 

and replace it with an “majority opinion” from 

the “supreme court” (which is 

comprised of “justices appointed (by man)”, 

 a 5-4 decision that our society cannot use 

God’s Moral Standard to make laws,

 THEN THERE IS NO JUSTICE!!!