JESUS SAID WE MUST JUDGE… WITH RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT Many people state that we must not judge anyone at all referring back to when Jesus said in Matthew 7:1-2 “Judge not, 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"  Jesus was talking about those who were living unrighteously, in unrepentant sin and judging others like the compromised Pharisees….they had pride and religious spirits….they had logs in their own eyes that they needed to remove first before they could accurately judge. Righteous judgement is good and required. Jesus judged righteously the hearts of people.  The Pharisees were angry with Jesus for healing on Shabbat because they called it work and no work should be done on Fridays after sunset - not even healing people miraculously from lifetimes of paralysis or leprosy and doing what was right which they never did. Jesus talked a lot about the need to judge righteously throughout the book of John.  So Jesus said we need to judge from a righteous, godly standard. The problem is most Christians are not delivered from demons so they can’t…

RELIGIOUS PHARISEES OF TODAY ARE BLIND TO THE TRUTH & HURT PEOPLE When Jesus came to earth He had to correct the Pharisees because they added over 600 laws to the Bible that most could not obey or live up to (not even themselves) and many were ridiculous and hurt many. Jesus purposefully healed people miraculously on Shabbat to provoke the Pharisees to prove a point of how ridiculous their man made law was to observe of not doing “any work” during Shabbat. They were more concerned with people obeying their laws than actually getting people healed or helping them. They shamed people and made them feel less than. Who would not save a lamb that was in danger of dying just to observe a law they made up? He also called them out personally for not helping people and walking in pride, taking the best seats in the synagogue, making it known to all for show when they were fasting, as Jesus called them white washed tombs and vipers.  Today there are many modern day religious Pharisees who don’t have the love of the Lord in their hearts for people and have no godly common sense and want a…