You know, but they'll take what he says, they'll take what any pastor says at this conference
and they'll say, see, those people are being violent.
They hate Jews and they hate homosexuals and they hate X, Y, and Z.
It's violence just because we're passing judgment.
Churches even speak about it in a negative light.
Obviously we expect the unsaved to not understand what we're talking about, to hate what we're
saying.
But you know, when you have so-called churches and Christians who get up and criticize us
for preaching the word of God that they claim to believe, you got yourself a problem there.
The truth is judgment is a necessary virtue for Christians, churches, and even a nation.
Go with me if you would to 1 Corinthians chapter number six, 1 Corinthians chapter six.
The Bible repeatedly emphasizes the importance of judging.
Let me say this, when I say judgment, when the Bible talks about judgment, a simple way
to understand this word is just means to discern.
To be able to discern between good and evil, that which is holy and profane, that which
is clean and unclean.
The Bible tells us you're in 1 Corinthians chapter six, I'm going to read to you from
Proverbs 21 verse 15 says this, it is a joy to the just to do judgment, but destruction
shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Psalm 37 verse 30 says, the mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of
judgment.
Ezekiel 44, 23 says, and they shall teach my people the difference between the holy
and profane and cause them to discern between unclean and the clean.
By the way, you know, you think of King Solomon in the Old Testament, one of the most profound
prayers that we see in the Old Testament is Solomon asking for wisdom for what?
To judge his people.
You know, it's interesting, he asks God for wisdom to judge the people of God.
I didn't hear God say, Whoa, you're judging, why are you doing that?
You know, hey, judge not lest ye be judged.
King Solomon.
No, and in fact, he not only gives them wisdom, you know, to be able to judge, but he even
gives them riches, honor, and everything he didn't ask for, because that's exactly
what God wants us to ask for.
He wants us to go to him in prayer and say, Lord, help me to judge righteously.
Help me to know the difference between right and wrong, to know what is pleasing in your
sight, to know what is filthy and perverse, the things that you hate so that I can hate
it too.
That's what he wants from us.
He doesn't want people to just, you know, oh, I'm just gonna accept every Tom, Dick
and Harry and every false ideology out there.
I don't want to be controversial.
That's not a person of judgment.
King Solomon asked for judgment and God gave him wisdom to be able to judge matters.
Can you, I mean, think about what kind of nation we would have if there was no judgment
at all.
Oh, wait, we live in that nation, huh?
You wouldn't basically have every man doing that, which is right in their own eyes, which
is pretty much what we have today.
If there's no standard of right and wrong, they begin to blend it.
Morality becomes relative and evil men begin to bear rule and the innocent are violated.
And look, you don't have to look far to see some of this stuff.
Just go on TikTok.
Don't go on TikTok, but you know, it takes one video from TikTok to know how stupid this
world is, how wicked and perverse and disgusting this world really is.
Why is it important for Christians to learn how to judge?
Well, look what the Bible says in first Corinthians chapter six and verse number one.
Here in first Corinthians six, of course, the Corinthian church had a lot of problems.
They had doctrinal issues, they had problems between brethren, they had sin in the church
taking place and the apostle Paul saw it fit to write two letters, you know, to address
all these issues.
And in particular, we see in first Corinthians six that essentially brothers were suing each
other, they were going to the unsaved to sue each other for some quarrel that they
had.
Okay.
And he's rebuking them for this and he says in verse number one, dare any of you having
a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints.
So again, apparently we see here that we have brethren who, you know, they have some financial
quarrel, whatever it may have been, and they're going to law.
In other words, they're going to some judge that's not saved to settle their conflict
that they have.
And he's saying, you're going before some unsaved person who doesn't know the word of
God and you're refusing to go before the saints referring to save people.
He says in verse number two, do you not know that the saints, listen to this, shall judge
the world and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?
Now, what is he referring to when he says that we are Christians, Bible believing Christians,
save people that they shall judge the world?
Well, I believe this is referring to the millennial reign.
Okay.
Because if you study the Bible, you see that the millennial reign referring to the day,
the time where Jesus Christ begins to rule and reign on this earth for a thousand years
physically, the Bible tells us that the government shall be upon his shoulders and the Bible
tells us that he that overcometh and keepeth my works until the end, shall rule the nations
with a rod of iron.
They're going to rule the nations.
They're going to judge the nations.
Some will be given 10 cities, some five cities to bear rule over and essentially regenerated
believers during that time are going to be given the privilege to judge people on this
world and to essentially help people resolve conflicts and tell them what the word of God
says and resolve issues in that manner.
And he's basically telling them, don't you know that in at the end of the world during
the millennial reign, you're going to be judging nations.
So you're trying to tell me that you can't resolve a little conflict with your brother
in church, but you expect to be placed in a position of leadership and authority in
the millennial reign where you're supposed to judge multitudes of individuals.
You're used to bear rule and rule the nations with the rod of iron, but you can't even forgive
your brother.
You can't even defraud yourself.
You can't even get rid of, you know, the little sins that people have or whatever it may be.
You can't judge the smallest of matters, but yet you expect to be a judge in the millennial
reign.
He's rebuking them for this.
He says in verse number three, knowing not that we shall judge angels, how much more
things pertaining to this life.
If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are the
least esteemed in the church.
What does he mean by that?
He's saying, look, you're better off asking some brother in Christ who's read the Bible
once how to resolve an issue than going before some unjust person in the court system who
doesn't love God, doesn't love the word of God, who's going to pervert judgment, who
doesn't care about equity.
He only cares about getting paid.
You have, you know, a greater chance to resolve things biblically if you just go to a brother
who's the least esteemed in the church.
He says in verse number five, I speak to your shame.
Is it so that there's not a wise man among you?
Are all of you stupid?
Is there not like just a little bit of wisdom in this church?
I'm not talking about this church.
I'm talking about the Corinthians.
There's not any wisdom in this church that you guys can't just resolve these small issues,
these small matters.
I speak this to your shame.
Is it so that there is not a wise man among you?
Know not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren, but brother goeth to law with
brother and that before the unbelievers.
So what does the Bible tell us here?
You know, the Bible doesn't teach us don't judge at all.
Don't judge anything.
Don't judge anybody.
Don't pass judgment on them.
Don't be mean to people.
Don't call out people for their sins.
Don't call out people for their stupid ideologies.
Don't opinionate on certain situations.
He's saying you should actually be able to judge of the smallest matters.
Why?
Because these are like the precursors before we go into the millennial reign.