"Fulfilled - Judge Not, Matthew 7:1-6" Aug, 19, 2018

The most known Bible verse of my generation was John 3:16.  Whether you learned it in Sunday school or from the rainbow colored wig man at a baseball game, you were familiar with it.  Our world has turned its attention to another verse in the Bible that is now its most familiar teaching.  We find that verse in this text… “Judge not.”  You hear this verse constantly quoted in churches, political speeches, and especially from our educational institutions.  Our world has adopted the idea of relativism, which is a system where there is no absolute truth or right way of doing anything.  Instead, we must assimilate what all cultures and sub-cultures value as true.  The worst thing you can be deemed in our societal melting pot is someone who is “intolerant” of other ideas, which is by the way… a judgment.  Anytime, Christians find themselves disagreeing with others we are told, “don’t judge me.”  Is this what Jesus was teaching in Matthew 7?