{"id":456,"date":"2017-02-24T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=456"},"modified":"2017-03-28T07:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:18:40","slug":"judge-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Judge Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Judge%20Not\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Luke 6:37 (NLTse) \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[37]<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a significant difference between judgment and discernment<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;God commands us not to judge others, but He does want us to be discerning. Jesus said we would know people&#8217;s spiritual condition by the fruit of their lives <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Mt 7:16)<\/span>. He said grapes are not produced by thorn bushes. If a person&#8217;s life produces thorns, we can assume that person is not a grapevine! Are we being judgmental? No, we are being discerning. Scripture commands us to avoid associating with scoffers or fools <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Pr 22:10;17:12)<\/span>. Unless we are able to identify scoffers and fools, we cannot obey God&#8217;s command. That is not being judgmental; it is being discerning. <strong>As Christians, we have been instructed to observe the lives of others so that we can help them while avoiding any sinful influence<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #0070c0;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Matthew 7:16 (NLTse) \u00a0[16] <\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #0070c0;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Proverbs 22:10 (NLTse)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-left: .375in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #0070c0;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[10] Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-left: .75in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; color: #0070c0;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Quarrels and insults will disappear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Judge%20Not\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Luke 6:37 (NLTse) \u00a0[37] &#8220;Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven. There is a significant difference between judgment and discernment&#8230; &#8230;God commands us not to judge others, but He does want us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-excerpts-from-experiencing-god-day-by-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}