Morning Roads,
My friend, it seems to me, and I say this in all gentleness and love, that you and many on this site are overlooking our calling as born again children of God, members of His Church, Christ's body on Earth, as I have stated previously, we are called to be Ambassadors of reconciliation, ...not condemnation.
Jesus said,
He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him. John 14:22
The signification of the word has is to own, to be in possession of, to hold, so before we can keep His commandants we need to own them, that is receive them into our souls, our hearts, so that they can/will change our wills, only after we have fed on His Word will we be able to do His Will.
Now, what are His commandments, ...we are to love God with all of our spirit, soul, body and strength, to love our neighbor as are selves and to love the brothers and sisters in the Body, when we are born again we are given the Holy Spirit, He comes and takes up residence in our lives and He brings with Him the Agape love of God, we find the actions of that love to be,
Love (Agape) is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do. Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting. Love never fails! 1Co 13:4-8
Since this Agape love is given to us by the Holy Spirit, a type of love we didn't have in our lives before we were regenerated, then our lives, our walk should exemplify the Agape love that is empowering us to walk the walk.
So, if this Agape love in us is kind, patient, doesn't keep a record of wrongs, is always supportive, loyal then were does a judgmental attitude come from?
Since the foundational principle of the Kingdom of God is Agape Love, and the foundational principle of the kingdom of darkness, present on this planet, is commercialism/merchandising, then obviously judging must come from the kingdom of darkness.
The only people we find Jesus judging and condemning, while here on Earth, were the people that said they knew God, those that were teaching falsehood to lead the people away from the Truth.
Jesus taught us the reasons we are to judge is to expose false teachings which are harmful to His Body and to judge sin in the Body to keep it pure, ...always using the Word of God.
So, may I ask this question, if you are born again, filled with the Holy Spirit, do you have His commandments, do you own them in your heart, are you walking in His Agape Love, if so then how can you find fault, an action of judging that comes from the kingdom of darkness, with me or anyone else for that matter, ...is God really God in your life, you see, like I said, I'm not involved in the affairs of this world because I'm not called to be involved in them, my calling, the Church's calling, is to announce the Good News, not find fault with, expose the sins of a sick and dying world, the dispensation of law and condemnation is past, we are now living in the dispensation of Grace, it's our duty/obligation to dispense Grace, unmerited, unearned favor to those that don't deserve it (and that includes Israel). We need to let God be God, He started this thing and He will finish it, we need to concentrate on what He has called us to do, using the tools he has provided, urging those outside of what ever race to come in and join us, to rejoice in the mercy and grace we have received, ...so if we are constantly judging others, finding fault with others, why then would they even want to join us, those outside know they have faults, it's because of our unloving actions of judging them that makes them afraid we would find fault with them once they joined us that keeps them away, ...that is not the mission of the Church.
I'll end with these words from my Master,
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. John 8:7
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. John 8:10, 11
Blessings,
Gene