초등부 11/8 (Who are we to judge?)
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Our lesson for this Sunday was from Matthew 7:1-5 & John 8:1-12. We learned why judging people is bad and makes God unhappy.
We met one woman who was brought to Jesus by the teachers of the law and Pharisees. She was caught in the act of adultery and punishment for adultery is death by stoning in Jewish law. The reason they brought this woman to Jesus was because they wanted to trap Jesus into saying something against their law that enabled them to accuse and attack Jesus.
However, Jesus did not show them how she would be punished but how she would be forgiven by saying “If anyone of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
We must know what is right and what is wrong by learning God’s law. He does not want us to use His law to judge and condemn each other. The ultimate reason God gave us the law is to bring us to Jesus. Religious people cared about the law itself and their own righteousness but what Jesus cared about most was us, our life, and God’s glory.
Application: When we are in a situation where we are about to judge someone, we must remember two things:
1. Judging others is sin! A Sinner can’t judge another sinner (Romans 2:1 says that “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.”)
2. There’s only one judge! Jesus is our judge and He is their judge as well. (James 4:12 says that “There is only one lawgiver and judge, He who able to save and to destroy.”)
