Welcome to the Daily Blade . The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit , the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil . Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson , and they stand ready to equip men for the fight .
Speaker 2Let's sharpen up All right , guys , welcome to a new week . For those of you that have listened to my show , the Undaunted Life Podcast , you've heard me talk about being raised in Oklahoma and kind of getting some of that country music theology , right . So you know grandmama went to church and you get baptized when you're a kid and you know your parents occasionally vote Republican and you listen to 90s country and you know God's pro , all those things . So you end up getting to go to heaven , right . So I got to hear some Bible passages , like kinda , as I was growing up , but then , at the age of 15 , I became a Christian and I began to study Scripture for the first time on my own . So I go to the Salt Cellar in Lawton , oklahoma , which is right next door to Hastings , and I'm going to go in there . I'm going to get me my own Bible this teenage you know extreme Bible or whatever and then there's a bunch of t-shirts and coffee mugs and you know bumper and bumper stickers with Scripture on it , okay , and so I guess you get a little bit of bumper sticker theology , right . The problem , though , is bumper sticker theology can be just as bad as country music theology , because people will use certain passages of Scripture . They'll take them completely out of context just to make a point , and they're just doing it to sell a T-shirt or to make a piffy statement , but they're not using it in exegeting the scripture properly .
Speaker 2So this week we're going to be doing a series called yeah , that's not what that means , okay . So I'm going to be going over five of the most common misapplied and misunderstood scriptures in all of the biblical canon , and today we're starting out with the words of our Lord Jesus , as recorded in Matthew 7 , verses 1 through 3 . So I'll read it now in the Christian Standard Bible Do not judge so that you won't be judged , for you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others , and you will be measured by the same measure you use . Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye ? Now , of all the most common misapplied and misunderstood sections of scripture that we will cover this week , this one is the most popular , by a sizable margin , because part of the reason is that it's misapplied and misunderstood by people that claim to be Christians , but it is , at the same time , misapplied and misunderstood by people that are not Christians ?
Speaker 2Because we hear people quote this all the time , like wait a minute , I didn't think you were allowed to judge . Hey , just let those people live their own lives . They were born that way . Why are you being so judgy , mr Judgy Pants ? Right , that's kind of what we hear from inside and outside of Christendom .
Speaker 2But again , if the scripture just says what it says , and if you only read this one little snippet of scripture , you could surmise that it's not our place to judge , regardless of the circumstances . Right , but therein lies the problem . When you pluck a single verse out of its context and neglect to consider to whom the message was being given to , and forget the overarching and overarching , rather narrative , of the entire Bible , you start running into some major problems . So , in a nutshell , the fundamental misunderstanding of these words from Jesus is the claim that Christians shouldn't make any moral judgments or pronouncements . And yeah , that's not what that means , because in its correct context , jesus is warning us against hypocritical judgment . And how do we know that so rapid fire time ?
Speaker 2Jesus' comments during this teaching don't start in Matthew 7 . They start all the way back in Matthew 5 . So God tells us through his word , via the apostle Matthew , that Jesus began teaching to a large group of people on the mountainside . So he starts out with the Beatitudes you know blessed are the poor in spirit , blessed are those who mourn , so on and so forth . And then he continues , as recorded in Matthew 5 and 6 , by talking about how Christians should be salt and might , how he came to fulfill the law , that we should turn the other cheek more on that later this week how we should love our enemies , so on and so forth . Then he gets to this statement on judgment . But in context , we are to judge , not self-righteous judgment .
Speaker 2Even just a few verses later , in verse 16 , we see an encouragement to be judgmentally discerning . So verse 16 , this is Jesus . Still , you'll recognize them by their fruit Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles ? And we see several other areas of scripture that encourage us to be judgmental and discerning . So here's Jesus in John 7, . This is verse 24 , stop judging according to outward appearances , rather judge according to righteous judgment .
Speaker 2Then in Hebrews 5 , 14 , but solid food is for the mature , for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil . And then Paul , in his first letter to the church in Corinth , said this this is 1 Corinthians 5 , verses 12 and 13, . For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders ? Don't you judge those who are inside ? God judges outsiders . So Paul's not only defending the practice of being judgmental , but he's teaching us precisely the people we are supposed to judge . So , as Christians , are we to judge , not lest we be judged In context ? No , we are to judge , but we have to make sure we're not judging hypocritically and with the express purpose of putting others down to glorify ourselves and puff ourselves up right . So hopefully that's helpful . Guys , come back here tomorrow where we will set the record straight on an often used verse about a millstone .
Speaker 1Thank you for listening to today's episode on an often used verse about a millstone .