It is obvious that we all have moral standards which we expect others to follow.  However, people often excuse their own sins while condemning similar things in other people.  What we expect of others, we should insist on of ourselves.  

This is what Jesus warned about in His (commonly abused and misused) words in Matthew chapter 7:1-5: “Judge not, that ye be not judged (my note- many people only know that one sentence- that is even the entire Bible knowledge of some- continuing though).  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?  Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?  Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”  

Jesus was not saying do not judge at all. 

Yet now a person who confronts another about their sin is often called a hypocrite- whether they’ve removed the beam from their own eye or not.  Ironically, people who are quick to call others who reprove them hypocrites are influenced by the very attitude that Jesus warned against here- being quick to reprove others while refusing to properly judge one’s own self.  Later on in Matthew chapter 7, Jesus would warn about false prophets and show how we should recognize them (see Matthew 7:13-20).  This obviously requires judging.  

Jesus would even rebuke the multitudes for not judging rightly on another occasion.  It’s interesting that the ones Jesus called hypocrites here are the ones who were not judging what is right. 

Luke 12:56-57: “Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?  Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?”  

It’s not hard to see that the “judge not” mentality is an attack on Biblical Christianity and an assault on common sense and decency in society.  It paves the way for the infiltration of every type of sin and error.  

The true God is wiser than we are.  In His love, He has put restrictions and limits upon us for our own good.  When people do not receive the Bible’s verdicts and judgments about things, they are replacing God’s wisdom with something else and claiming to know better than Him.  

Isaiah 5:20-21: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!  Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”

The people who go around crying “don’t judge” also surely come into conflict with each other.  The people promoting gay marriage and saying two consenting adults should be able to marry probably aren’t going to take it well if some adult they personally know marries one of their very own parents or grandparents.  If they were to yet question who they were to judge in such cases, then we should judge them to be fitting subjects for an insane asylum.

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