FEBRUARY 15 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 15  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, I pray today that Your Spirit will move among all families and that all

 hurt and all separations will be dissolved so that a Great Healing will begin

 in each and every family. Lord, there is no hope for mankind if mankind 

remains removed from the family unit established by God and those 

institutions set up for the good of the family by the Creator God and 

Everlasting Father. Jesus, You said that You and the Father are One and 

You prayed that we could be One with You and the Father, so Lord that

 is my prayer today, that Your Spirit will unite all families that we can be 

One with You, and the Father, and the Holy Spirit of God!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS is the Great Physician and the only One qualified to do “I Surgery” 

(see February 14) and successfully remove the “speck” in our brother’s eye

 and the “plank” from our own! We examined ourselves on the aspect 

of “judging” as we began looking at JQ#04, Jesus points out to us that

 we are in danger of becoming worse off ourselves than the one we have

 tried to “judge” when He asks,

 

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) 

Jesus immediately followed that Question with an identical Question 

just in case we didn’t get it the first time: 

“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck

 from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:4)  

Two Questions back to back (JQ#4a & JQ#4b) from Jesus and both demand

 we stop and consider what is happening in our life BEFORE we stop

 and try to “judge” what is going on in someone else’s life! The language 

Jesus uses always makes it clear what His meaning is and in this 

case Jesus immediately asks the Questions and then before waiting for 

an answer He uses the word “Hypocrite!” He makes it clear that He is calling 

the one that “judges others” without first looking at himself IS the “Hypocrite!”

 Jesus makes this evident when He states:

 “Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye…” (Matthew 7:5a) 

leaving no doubt that the “Hypocrite!” is the one that fails to see that we 

should seek to be righteous before God before we try to judge the

 righteousness of others.  Jesus gives us a reward for doing things 

as He commands for He states that if we will first examine 

ourselves and resolve our own issues 

“…then you will see clearly to remove 

the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:5b)

 Jesus is saying if we do not judge others then He will give us discernment

 to actually help others instead of judging them! Doing things from the

 Jesus Perspective keeps our attention on Proper Priorities and it is

 only Proper Perspective when we keep a right-relationship with God as 

the first order of business! We are to continually examine ourselves and

 our motives and when we are sure that we have taken care of spiritual 

business in the order and manner which God commands, then and only 

then can we be useful in doing God’s work and help others

 instead of judging others. 

God always holds those that want to serve Him to a higher standard 

so we must be aware of the responsibility of being called Christians!  

Each JESUS Question points to a Spiritual Standard: 

JQ#01 - “…glorify your Father (Creator) in Heaven…” 

JQ#02 - “…therefore you shall be perfect…(strive to improve)” 

JQ#03 - “…seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…” and now in 

JQ#04 - “do not judge…” but [remove our own unrighteous] “plank” 

from our lives before we try to [remove the unrighteous] “speck” from theirs.” 

The next verse I still struggle with and I pray for God to direct my heart 

on Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs…” ——— 

surely it somehow ties in with Matthew 7:1-5!!!