Some people say that the Bible is truth.
To be precise, the Bible is a book written in letters containing truth in it.
Reasonable words are not truth.
I assure you, the person who overuses the word "truth" is another expression of not knowing truth.
I say it again and again, but the truth is the principle in which human beings become one with Christ in the Holy Spirit and communicate with God practically.
Therefore, the word truth cannot be attached to anything other than Christ and the Holy Spirit.
So the truth is that only the Lord Jesus Christ who redeemed us from sin through death on the cross and resurrection, and the Holy Spirit have the title of truth.
The body has physiology, matter has physics, and human beings have loyalty, that is, ethics and morality.
There are principles in the universe, but there is truth between God and man.
Therefore, by knowing the truth, we are freed from sin, death, the flesh, and the world, become one with Christ in spirit in the Spirit of truth, and invade the kingdom of heaven with the truth.
Q. Why should we not judge others?
“Therefore, you have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things”. (Romans 2:1)
A. It's because judging others is the same kind.
God first sets us up as sinners.
Therefore, even if there is something good about him, he must quickly give up and destroy it through the cross of Christ.
Many people think, like King Saul, that God will like it if they like it.
This is an illusion.
God says to destroy what ought to be destroyed.
Nevertheless, because people cling to the good things that ought to be destroyed, that is, their own righteousness, God's righteousness does not appear in them.
Like in the case of King Saul.
Because we judge others with our own righteousness, we are also trapped under that judgment and judged.
You who judge others, this was the apostle Paul himself.
He was an expert judge who pursued christians to Damascus to arrest them.
In the past, when Paul judged others without knowing God's will, he himself was God and he himself was the judge who sat in the seat of Moses.
If you misinterpret the bible, it won't apply.
In inductive bible study, there is observation, interpretation, and application.
However, no matter how well I observe, the moment my greed comes in, and the moment I think 'I should use this word like this' as a standard for self-judgment, , the interpretation fits my thoughts perfectly.
So, you can never succeed in disciple training by studying the bible by topic.
If you set a topic and study the bible by dragging and applying Bible verses here and there, you cannot know the truth, so the way to God cannot be opened.
If you do not go to the throne of God's grace, the words you hear will not have any effect or benefit in your life because the words you hear will not be mixed.
On the other hand, in proper teaching, those who have the spirit of revelation give revelation to the listeners and testify to the Word so that they can know the truth by becoming one with Christ and going to God according to the grace of redemption on the cross.
As a result, they have faith based on the revelation, and that faith becomes reality.
Therefore, you must first have the faith to open the Word with the light of revelation.
It should be the faith that God opens up to you, and your faith is inconsistent.
Paul says that we are also judged in the judgment we make based on our own standards.
'Even if the interpretation of the word is correct, if you judge others based on that word, isn't it yourself included in that judgment?'
It means this.
Therefore, teachers who judge and teach others must worry about the truth.
Those who judge others mean those who form a party and continue to do these and each other approve even after knowing the fact that God has ordained that it is worthy of death, as in Romans 1:32.
Didn't you guys do the same thing? Weren't all people like this, like the apostle Paul? (Rom 1:18-32)
We were all doomed to failure, so we are told not to dare to judge others.
Q. What is God's standard of judgment?
“We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against theme which commit such things”. (Romans 2:2)
A. God's judgment is according to truth. It's not according to the law.
It is not judged by people to be unanimous by the principle of majority rule, but God's judgment is only according to the truth.
God saves and cuts off in the truth.
To understand God's judgment, it is helpful to look at the example of farming.
Farmers judge twice. He is once at the harvest and once at the threshing.
Then, will God's judgment take place at the end? Will it happen now?
When a farmer binds the wheat and tares in bundles in the field, the judgment is already being made.
Then they are threshed, the grain goes into the barn, and the chaff is burned.
In John 3, those who believe in the only begotten Son will have eternal life, but those who do not believe will be condemned and judged. (John 3:18)
Here, the sheaves of the wheat and tares are tied.
Those who have gained eternal life in the truth are bound with the bundle of truth, and those who disobey the truth with unrighteousness are bound also.
After that, it is the final judgment that separates the grain from the chaff.
Usually, only the Last Judgment is known as the referee, and we don't know that we are currently separated.
But God always judges according to truth.
The truth is important because we can gain life through the truth and with the life we can go to God the Father (John 14:6).
Currently in christianity, they are judged, challenged, or awakened by sermons, and they go further and repent, but why doesn't a change in nature take place?
It is because they believe in Jesus under the law and try to correct themselves by receiving the judgment of the Word.
However, the Lord says, 'about sin, because people do not believe in Him as Lord in the Lord ; about righteousness, because people are coming to God in Him, and about judgment, because the prince of the world is judged'. (John 16:9-11).
Therefore, only when we who died with Jesus and become one with Christ rose again and judge ourselves according to the truth can we discern whether we are living according to the spirit or according to the flesh, and we will have true repentance and true obedience.
so word of God are fulfilled in us and manifested in deeds.
That's why it says that God judges by truth.
God's standard of judgment is whether Christ is present in the person, whether the Spirit of truth sent by the Lord is working within the person.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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