Paul shows that even those living in rebellion against God cannot escape from the knowledge that there is such a thing as right and wrong. People cannot be people without this fact operating in them and permeating everything they think and do. When people judge, they are showing that they indeed do live in God's moral universe by the fact that they are unable to function in a world without morals. Paul uses this fact to expose the rebel who, in trying to escape from the awareness of his own sin, turns his attention to judging the sins of others. Paul argues that this activity proves their guilt before God and man. Judgment in God's Kingdom is only legitimate when it functions within God's defined, jurisdictional boundaries. Just because something is wrong doesn't mean we have the right to become the judge. Those who engage in unbridled judging, as Paul is talking about, are behaving as lawlessly as the perverse sinners they are judging.
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Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...