Love not Judge
Jesus when asked,
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied: " ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Matthew 22:36-40
Jesus also said,
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1,2.
I read an article the other day the article was on the church, in the United States. It noted how especially evangelicals have wandered well into the field of politics at the cost of their Christian principles.
What the whole article boiled down to was that the church needed to;
“Get back to the business of loving your neighbour instead of judging your neighbour.”
I would agree. Even here in Canada where I live I see many especially in the evangelical wing of the church passing judgement on those outside the church. And while many within the church do truly love others that love is masked by those who would judge anyone they disagree with.
The apostle Paul wrote,
"What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you." 1 Corinthians 5:12,13.
What Paul is saying here is simple. We are not allowed to judge those outside the church that is Gods job.
Our job as believers in Christ Jesus is to see that what those inside the church are teaching is correct and lines up with the scriptures.
We have no right to say where anyone will spend eternity.
Billy Graham the late American evangelist said it best when talking about Christians he said,
“It is the Holy Spirits Job to Convict,
God’s job to judge
and my job to love.”
Billy Graham
Thus my question to you. If you consider yourself a Christian. A Follower of Christ Jesus do you love or do you judge?
Please think about it.
