“YOU’RE JUDGING ME”
PASTOR MARK JOHNSON
NOVEMBER 20, 2011



INTRO: What does the Bible say about judging?

Is confronting judging?

I. OLD TESTAMENT (The primary Hebrew word means to pronounce sentence for or against, to punish, to govern.)

A. God Is The Just Judge Of All The Earth (Gen. 18:25b; 1Chron. 16:33b; Ps. 7:8a, 11; 96:13; 135:14; Isa. 11:4).
1. God is Judge of all the earth (Gen. 18:25b; Heb. 12:23).
2. The Lord is going to judge people (Ps. 7:8a, Heb. 10:30).
3. He’s coming to judge earth (1Chron. 16:33b; Ps. 96:13a).
4. God is a just judge (Gen. 18:25b; Ps. 7:11a).
5. God judges with righteousness and His truth (Ps. 96:13).

B. God Delegates Some Level Of Judging To Mankind.
1. The book of Judges (Judges 2:16, 18).
2. God used judges to settle disputes (Deut. 1:16).
3. Moses judged and delegated judgment (Ex. 18:13-26).
4. We’re all to judge righteously (Prov. 31:9).

II. NEW TESTAMENT (The primary Greek word means to decide, conclude, try, condemn, punish, sentence.)

A. The Father Committed Judgment To Jesus (Jn. 5:22-23).
1. He is ordained by God to be Judge (Acts 10:42; 2Tim. 4:1).
2. Jesus judges righteously (Jn. 5:30; 2Tim. 4:8; Rev. 19:11).
3. There is an appointed day He will judge (Acts 17:31a).
4. God judges through or by Him (Acts 17:31; Rom. 2:16).
5. God will judge sin (Heb. 13:4b).
6. God judges without partiality (1Pet. 1:17).
7. The works of the dead will be judged (Rev. 20:12-13).

B. Do Not Judge (Matt. 7:1-5; Lk. 6:37-38; Rom. 2:1-3; 14:1-4, 10, 13; Ja. 4:11-12).
*We’re not to condemn, punish, or sentence.

C. Do Judge (Matt. 19:23; Lk. 22:30; Rev. 20:4; Lk. 7:41-43; Jn. 7:24; Acts 15:19-20; 1Cor. 2:15; 5:1-3, 9-13; 6:1
5; 11:13a, 31-32; 14:29).
*We are to discern and decide, especially inside the church.

D. Principles Of Judgment: