“Judge not that you be not judged.” How the guilty love to quote this saying of Jesus. They pretend this removes from them all responsibility. They use this saying of Jesus to set themselves free to continue in sin and to allow themselves and others to retain respect and acceptability.

Did Jesus really mean to teach us that we are not to judge anyone? Absolutely not. He is the one who told us to go into all the world and make disciples, to call all men everywhere to repentance. To preach and to call men to repentance rests upon our judging them guilty and in need of repentance. Jesus is the one who set up courts in the church to judge right and wrong among his disciples. Jesus taught us not to cast our pearls before swine. This certainly requires that we judge.