WHO IS ABLE TO "JUDGE" ANOTHER?

              "Judge not that ye be not judged  For with what
            judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with 
            what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you 
            again."  Matthew 7: 1-2

    In the whole of Scripture. there is one judge, God the Father,
who will and does determine, in his own counsel, the righteous-
ness,  guilt or innocence of  person or persons.  There are none
who may make the determination and impose sentence with any
authority because "There is none righteous, (just) no not one.
   There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
 after God.  They are all gone out of the way, they are together
  become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, not not
   one.  Romans 3:10,11,12 

  (I cannot believe this condemns the actions of a court judge
  who hears cases, with juries, and makes decisions based on
  the law of the land and testimony. He must; however, be one 
  who judges fairly, without prejudice or favoritism.  He must
  have  no "personal"  interest in  the defendant,  prosecution
  or witness.)  
  
      How then, may one who fits the above description of all man-
kind, appraise,  measure or judge a fellow human being,   When
he, himself,  is reprobate without knowledge or purity.  Read the 
whole of Chapter three in the Book of Romans, and you will find
the one who judges is  just as guilty as one judged, and faces the
consequence of his judgment.  

    As we continue the passage Matthew 7:3-5, we find;  "And 
  why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt
thou say to thy brother, 'Let me pull out the mote our of thine
   eye;' and considerest not the beam in thine own eye.  Thou
  hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and 
then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy bro-
 thers eye." 

     I believe we must tread softly when we see a brother over-
taken  in a  fault or sin.  Scripture shows all to  be subject to
faults, mistakes and  outright sin.  We must, therefore, use a
soft touch when  we see one who needs correction.  Conside-
ring the fact of our own  failures,  we entreat a brother when
we find him to be fallible, as  well.  If we  take this  approach,
one is able to help a  brother without bringing a reproach on
our Lord,  or exposing ourselves to  contradiction.  Proverbs
25: 11-12, states:  "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold
in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament
of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear."
If we handle it right, correction can be a very positive thing,
without possibility of ill will.  
     
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