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okay there's something I've been

thinking about a lot um recently is we

have to check our hearts because in a

world that's ever increasingly

divisive um pmic do we find our heart

slowly slipping into being

judgmental uh you know divisive finding

it difficult to forgive finding it

difficult to be compassionate judging

people and I think that's one of the

greatest temptations that we Face to put

ourself in the position of Judge whereas

that's not a position that God gives us

as children of God whilst we're on this

Earth it's not our place to judge

because God is the judge and I think so

many of us maybe consciously

subconsciously find ourselves slipping

into that judgmental position what what

can you say about this H what is

Judgment well when we judge someone's

motives or think that we know the reason

why someone does something and and say

whether it's good or bad thank you for

saying motive we need to understand when

it comes to

judgment Jesus standard of judgment is

different from man's

judgment that the Lord does not judge

what we say what we do on Face

Value the lord always looks our heart to

judge the motivation why we are doing

this and that's the purpose that brings

God's approval or the reprove of God in

our actions and decisions every day as

you said

today God is all about relationship we

should not forget that the heart of the

matter of this Bible is to restore the

relationship between God and man and

that's a love relationship absolutely

not only between God and man between man

to other fellow human beings I say

mankind today relationships are under

repair everywhere not only towards God

but towards our neighbor towards our

brother towards our sisters towards our

friends and towards even those who are

not our friends why we are saying this

Jesus said you should love the Lord your

God with all your heart with all your

mind with all your strength and love

your neighbor as yourself good as

yourself that love starts first with the

love of God

and that's the love of God in us as the

Bible says is poured by the holy spirit

in our heart Romans

5:5 that overflows if I have a cup of

water you cannot quench my thirst with a

cup of water share with me that's why

Jesus said if you know who is speaking

to you and what is the gift of God in

John chapter 4 you would have ask me and

I will give you living water Living

Waters and the water I give you will

well up within you will well up overflow

to everlasting life oh my God God has

set a table before us and he want us to

be blessed abundantly so we can have

something to share with

others means our request when we come

before God should not be self-centered

if we ask for God's sake the blessing

will

overflow if you ask for God's sake God

know you not asking just for you but for

your neighbor that means one of the

major obstacles is actually selfishness

absolutely and that makes us also want

to judge people that is the problem we

have that's why James say when he come

in God's presence you ask and you don't

receive because we ask wrong wrongly why

we ask for selfish classic and matal

reason the motivation God approves when

the reason behind the action is for

God's sake and it's only s God that can

see that motive we can't see thank you

people's motives God can only see it and

that's what is important because we not

asking man we asking God you want God to

hear you you want God to answer our

prayers so remember when we come to him

with our lips he listens to our heart

then we go to that Mathew chapter

15:8 that will lay down the principle of

this message Matthew chapter

15:8 let's listen to what Jesus Christ

the righteous judge said but don't

forget the Bible called calls Jesus the

judge of the living and of the Dead

let's listen to Judgment of Christ these

people draw near to me with their mouth

and honor me with their lips but their

heart is far from me good and in vain

they worship me teaching as doctrines

the Commandments of men in vain we pray

in vain we ask when we come with our

mouth alone but our hearts far from God

how sad that is that people think

they're worshiping but actually it's in

vain yes because our heart is far from

God means when we come to God we should

bring our heart first before our mouth

we should not be too quick to speak when

you bring your heart when you engage

your heart before God the scripture say

we don't know what to ask we don't know

what to pray for Romans 8 2627 that's

why the Holy Spirit intercedes

absolutely in words we cannot yes go

ahead those you cannot we cannot

comprehend thank you when the Holy

Spirit Come he will take you to God's

presence first and then will help you

how to pray and what to pray for we

often hear that Prayer Changes Things

and that's not entirely true yes prayer

changes us prayer changes us and Faith

changes things Faith causing things to

happen let's break that run down prayer

changes me because it takes our Focus

off ourself we all enter God's presence

because we have trouble because nobody

comes to Jesus in Comfort am I right

very often we come because of our burden

but the Bible say don't don't be too

quick

to ask for solution try to find out what

God is saying in the matter that's why

we bring all burdens before Jesus to God

and asking to know God's opinion on the

matter it is God's opinion on the matter

that will reveal his will on the matter

Jesus walking towards the cross was not

for

himself it was for you and I for

humankind because he said nobody takes

my life I lay down myself I have the

power to give my life and to take it

back that's the command of my father so

it is the motivation that is important

when Peter heard what Jesus said I'm

going to Jerusalem they will arrest me

they will spit on me and they will kill

me on the third day I will rise Peter

say what God forbid never happened to

you why

selfishness Peter was focusing on

himself on the natural side with emotion

with love for Jesus but Jesus was

thinking the thoughts of God not the

thoughts of man so when we judge

situations and others from a human point

of view it's actually a selfish attitude

is that right absolutely because very

often we judge people because we have a

mindset a negative mindset prejudgment

against others and that is not good

remember in John chapter 8 verse 11 when

they brought the adulterous woman before

Jesus the Pharisees the Sadducees the

the teachers of the law who brought that

woman to Jesus for judgment that's why

they brought her for judgment because

the law of Moses said anybody who commit

a sin must be ston to death so the

decision was made

already they had a prejudgment on woman

already they judg her in their hearts

already they just want confirmation and

when they brought it to Jesus said

Master the law of Moses said if you

catch any person on the act of doing

adultery that such person should be

stoned to that's what the law of Moses

say yeah they were trying to trick him

you what do you

say so when we take the situation on

literal senses on the letter you're

going to Stone the woman that's what the

letter says that's why even a judg when

you go to any court today no judge will

go by the face value they do

investigation to find out what was the

motivation of the person you will never

condemn any person if you realize the

person has psychatric

problem the first is the person has his

own mind

has he done this act willfully

consciously with all his mind that's

when guilt can come because if the

person is out of his mind because he has

psychc problem you canot say he Express

his will he doesn't know what he's doing

so rather than judge him take him to

prison they will take him to hospital

for treatment and that was the right

judgment right but in the case we're

talking about when they brought the

woman to Jesus Jesus looked at him said

if any of you has not never committed

sin be the first to throw the

stor I just love that word that Jesus

spoke because it just shows that Jesus

is the father of every heart every heart

from now till the end of the ages and

everyone has to answer to him whether we

understand it or not or we realize it or

not we do have to answer to him and that

is why he he knew what had happened in

each person's heart because he knew the

motive and that's he only he was in the

position to say that judgment rightful

judgment is to get into the heart of the

matter and you can't do that without the

Holy Spirit no you because the holy

spirit always gets into the heart of the

matter he never judges situation by Fai

Val or by hear say or by what situation

looks like he looks beyond to the heart

to find up the motivation of the person

behind that action we should not be

quick to judge not be too quick to judge

judge if the rightful judge who sees a

heart does not rush into judgment why

should we rush into judgment that's why

many relationships have been

so

strained because we we we judge people

on on today okay and we don't know what

tomorrow brings husband and wife today

we have many if I ask if we are honest

we have so many marriages relationship

marri to relationship that are strain

today because of this

mindset marriage is a Unity of heart and

purpose and mind the heart agrees right

if our heart agrees we should not have

any division in our hearts and that's

why God said in the Book of Malachi

chapter 2 I am the witness of your

wedding that's what God said be careful

that in your heart you will not betray

your wife or your husband the heart

that's why Jesus say if a man looks at a

woman it his heart without saying any

words

but desire to have relation with a woman

he has committed adultery in his

heart Jesus always gets into the heart

of the matter the heart and he said if

anyone of you has not committed any sin

be the first to throw he just

demonstrated with just that sentence

that he's the father of every heart

absolutely by saying this the motivation

what brought that woman to that act

however sinful it is the same Temptation

everybody's faced today the hierarchy of

sin can only be determined by Jesus sin

sin lying is sin killing is sin the sin

of Adam just disobeying to

Adam the SE of Adam that disob eating a

food and say how can this bring death to

him not only to him but to the whole

world what matters is not the action but

the motivation behind the action we have

time to talk about it in in depth but if

you see yeah because he willfully

disobeyed God and he had chance to

repent and he didn't good if I see you

doing something which does not seem

right to me which does not

seem instead of me praying over it or

asking you I come to a conclusion

because I expect you to do right thing

so I said ah what she did it seems

strength to me instead of inquiring from

God or finding out you come to Quick

mindset and judgment that's why mindset

is a problem negative mindset negative

mindset bad feeling towards others

prejudgment which is fed by pure

ignorance can come to a judgment wrong

judgment that's why I was thinking at

the I said at the beginning that we as

Believers you know we we are supposed to

be with a difference we're in this world

but not part of it so we should refrain

from allowing our hearts to be drawn to

division to

judgment um to anger to bitterness when

we see or hear things that's happening

around us and rather we should we should

do what is good to change the bad we see

be a force for love judgment is is

double edged sword you can judge what is

not

right but you must have a sense of

judgment to do what is right and that is

what I want to say if I have judgment is

not just to say this is bad this is bad

but the rightful judgment say this is

good this is what you should

do yes it's a double side what I mean

okay when I enter into relationship with

the

person what is the motivation to say

this is the person this is this before

you go the Bible says inquire from God

when you inquire from God you have the

rightful Judgment of anything you do you

will know the right place to go the

right type of people to meet the right

type of job to have that's rightful

judgment we need to have the positive

side of it if we have rightful judgment

and that cannot happen without inquiring

from the Holy Spirit then we should

guard against judging people

because no one is righteous not even one

without Holy Ghost we cannot get into

the heart of the matter if you ask

anyone who is honest and sincere what

type of person I want to marry I want to

live in they will mention criteria that

are all based on the

outside beautiful beautiful eyes

beautiful nose beautiful body tall

whatever everybody has his own how how

do you call it

preferences but

the most important is the inside who we

talk about the heart a man or woman that

fears God that's the

heart our heart does things before our

mouth that's the

motivation that's why the Bible say when

you think

negatively you are bound to speak

negatively and act

negatively that's why the Lord warns

everybody in that Matthew chter

15:8 that what defiles us is what comes

from our mouth all our motivation anger

resentment divorce separation attack

always come from the heart of a

person that's why remember what Peter

said to ananas in act chapter

5 that's that's a clear example of

judgment let's take the example at early

church in the

beginning the disciples were selling all

their

properties and bring it in common in the

treasury so anybody who's in need

receive help right yeah we have Anan and

sa Safa they came to the they sell their

property it was their own property they

have the right to do whatever they want

to do it they sell their property let's

say the house is 1 million they say

let's tell them the house is half

500,000 he came they say okay our house

was sold 500,000 this 500,000 and the

less they kept it that's what they did

it was a property

could have said okay I give him 500 if

they said to Peter the house is 1

million I get 500 and I give nothing

would have happen I really believe

because you're free it's your free will

offering from your heart but they were

trying to but they came to say they're

entirely from Jesus the house is sold at

this

price Peter was a man led by the Holy

Ghost with rightful

judgment inquire from the Holy Spirit

the Holy Spirit revealed to him the

truth that the P of house is not what

they said this the real

price when Peter heard this what did he

say he said you have sinned against the

Holy Spirit why you allow Satan to fill

your heart so that you can lie to the

Holy Spirit you have not lied to man but

to God that was a judgment and when we

read the Bible we got scared by the

Judgment they came and immediately what

happened to they fell dead yeah anytime

that P I got extremely scar say thank

God we don't have this but there was a

sense of Judge rightful judgment which

was extremely clear on motivational

actions and also knowing that the holy

spirit is there in every single decision

that you make every single thought in

your heart the holy spirit is witnessed

to that thank you for saying this now if

you have awareness if I have awareness

the Holy Ghost is inside of

me I should be extremely careful of my

thoughts first before I talk about my

words because everything starts in the

thoughts m

that's why as a Christian a Believer

should be careful of what he looks at

what he sees what he touches that can

influence his

thoughts bad feelings negative thoughts

start from here you don't need to

express it but God hears it and it

matters to the Holy Spirit that's why

when we have the sensitivity of God's

presence in our heart through the Holy

Ghost anytime our mind begin to drift

towards something that's not

right your conscious will dud

immediately because of who because the

Holy Ghost will prompt your heart before

you step into action that's why we need

to be always be sensitive to the voice

of our conscience because that's how the

Holy Spirit speaks to us absolutely

that's why Jam say nobody can tempt God

canot be tempted but sin is when we are

attracted by our own Desire by our own

will that we then we are enticed to fall

into the temptation of prejudgment Jud

judging others the question is the

person you are judging today no matter

how bad the person may seem Look to You

on human

judgment ask yourself what does Jesus

think about that person because we we

are not God we have to keep reminding

ourselves that God's standard of

judgment is different from our own God

tests our heart to reward us because

he's his focus is the motive behind what

we do exact Soul we know Soul we know

Soul who was soul well Saul was the one

who was persecuting all the Christians

yes terribly in a very harsh weight

forces them to

blashe he was his chosen vessel yes no

when he was going to persecute the

people in Damascus having letters of

recommendation from the teachers of the

law Steven he stood there as Steven was

killed and stoned to death yes that was

his Zeal but he had a Zeal for the law

of Moses but Zeal marked with with

ignorance of spiritual

things he judges the situation on the

letter we judge but the word of God we

approach it in the letter we have the

wrong judgment there's a letter of the

word there a spirit of the of the word

wait say that again there's the letter

of the word and we have the spirit of

the word the Divine meaning of the word

so you can be very

committed zealous for towards the letter

of the word and yet completely missing

the point if it's not spirit is not in

truth and so it's all nothing that's

what Jesus said to them if you know that

I Del like Mercy you will never condemn

innocent people that's what Jesus said

Jesus met ananas one of the disciples

who knew who Soul was in the dream and

when Jesus mentioned the name of Saul he

say hey Lord this man is a wolf he's a

terrible person no I mean just think

about it in today's society if someone

who's

publicly persecuted in people that

believe in Jesus and then suddenly God

reveals to you that oh this is actually

the one I want to use as my chosen

vessel wow and that's what happened and

I mean yeah motivation behind the action

of Soul was pure ignorance he had a Zeal

without knowledge and he even said it in

that book of Timothy chapter 1 but now

what was the answer of Jesus to him he's

My Chosen vessel God does not consider

our now our past to determine our future

we need to understand that because Jesus

is a tomorrow thinker he has Vision

thank you Jesus is looking at your your

tomorrow thank you even even your 10

years from now thank you your 20 years

from now this is what matters to Jesus

but we're so concentrated on now now now

and even not even now yesterday the pain

of the past the the the Betrayal of the

past the disappointment of the past the

scars of the past we're so full of all

these scars that we find it difficult to

even live today let alone trust our

tomorrow in the hands of Jesus and yet

Jesus knows what we can become tomorrow

if we fully submit to him and that's

what he's looking at I always remember

you know Prophet T josua was such a man

of vision you know he looked at us a

situation where when we came so many

years ago there was no way all of this

was in our mind no we just wanted to to

not miss salvation yet God knew God knew

because God knew the plan he he had for

every single person Jesus never never

never considers your past to determine

your

future Jesus came to change our lives to

change our Focus we humans we keep

record of the offenses of the

past we keep a record of every wrong

done to us that's why we find it so so

difficult to

forgive you have done it again

again you will keep record of the past

but the Bible say loves keeps no record

of

wrong when Jesus looked at you and I as

it for Samar woman his purpose is to

give you a new focus of

future Satan the devil we all know

always speaks about our past our

unworthy

past no one was born righteous not no no

one but Jesus has come to remove that

past and give you a new future and if

can do it for you he can do it for

someone else as well that you're

currently looking at with the eyes of

judgment if Jesus can remove our past

and point us to the Future then he can

do it for everyone that is why we

shouldn't judge anyone on account of

today because tomorrow is a mystery so

when the Pharisees brought that lady

they were considering her

but you say rightfully that tomorrow is

a mystery that only God knows when Jesus

is correcting you and me all of us it's

because of the

future when God say don't do

this you may not do it today but you may

do it tomorrow correction judgment

everything God has spoken through the

mouth of the Prophet as a warning is for

the future when God said to the Prophet

Jeremiah tell them that if they continue

to do this I will send the enemy

nebukadnezar will come he will burn the

city he will kill everybody but God was

saying this to trigger a sense of

repentance say hey God sorry we come

back we stop doing evil we come back to

you that's true because it's how we

respond to that correction or that

judgment that is actually what Jesus is

looking at as well that will determine

your

future your response to correction this

ter is your future and when we talk

about correction here we mean correction

in the power of the Holy Spirit

absolutely you

when you read your Bible and something

comes to your heart that can be God

correcting you you know because the word

of God has power power for converting

power purifying power it's a

double-edged sword so good you mentioned

correction how do you correction

correction is not judgment there's a

difference between correction and

judgment

judgment is a mindset a preset judgment

in your mind already you have decided to

judge the person already but correction

is to help someone is to help the person

to change how do you correct the person

don't say hey this is bad you are this

you are this that's condemnation do what

is good in the sight of the person to

change the bad you

see that's why the Bible tells us in

Galatians six that we should be gentle

yes in our correction that is be a

little by example example mean let your

character show let the person see in the

way you speak act a reason to come to

you say I'm sorry

do what is good in the sight of God to

change the bad you see if the person is

an angry person be gentle let him see

your gentleness so you can say I'm sorry

if the person is pride we don't respond

by Pride let him see humility let your

humility convince him to say ha I'm

sorry to wrong canot make what a right

so what do you do the weapons of

righteousness the Bible says when we see

a situation don't be too quick to judge

you should find out from God's

perspective what is the mind of God

about the situation we judge today we

arrogate the position of God to judge

people correction is our duty but

judgment is God's Duty correction in

love in love of course and with the

right motivation correction not to see

someone fall down but to help someone in

fact I really really appreciate all

those throughout my journey who took

time to correct me for God's sake I

really see the the product of that the

the consequence of that the result of

that and that's why the Bible says in

the Book of Proverbs you know if you're

wise you should not despise correction

you should appreciate correction in the

power of the Holy Spirit what do you say

the power of the Holy Spirit mean

judgment lead to punishment right but

correction leads to Amendment repentance

and

Reconciliation there are two ways of

approaching this Holy Bible Jesus his

attitude was constant

correction showing God's standard of

doing things when the Pharisees was

opposing him asking him question Jesus

responded with the wisdom of God he

spoke what is right in the sight of God

when you think right speak right and act

right in the sight of God you are

correcting everybody people are reading

you we talk about Prophet iosha well

right his lifestyle was a constant

correction to everybody

El why correction

you will see the way he attended to the

simple people to the poor to even those

offended him his reaction towards them

you will never see him fighting people

answering back never his attitude

humility doing what is right in the

sight of God to change the Bible to see

so now the weapons of righteousness are

the fruit of the

spirit so exercise the fruit of the

spirit in the face of the fruit of the

Flesh and that's the change we talking

about let your character reflect Christ

character if people insult you don't

insult back if you insult back what's

the difference Jesus said if you love

only

those even those who say that inj they

love their children anybody can do but

love your enemy pray for those who

persecute you bless do not curse that's

the weapons of righteousness we're

talking about and that will actually

disarm those who have a bad uh Judgment

of you you know this does not mean

correction will not take place

correction is our duty if we see

something wrong correct in

Love by telling the truth by showing the

truth leadership by example that's what

bring change you know that person will

now listen to the voice of the holy

spirit in their heart prompting their

conscience to know that what they're

doing is

wrong Christian mean Christ likeness

Christ likeness okay the question

anytime you fa a situation of opposition

ask

yourself how would Jesus react in such a

situation somebody embarrass you insult

you remember Jesus was

embarrassed

constantly insulted constantly opposed

constantly they even say he cast demon

by Bel they even say he's de he's

possessed he's demonized there's nothing

that you not say against Jes Jesus but

how did he

responded he responded with

forgiveness and Truth was ignored

ignorance of the truth the truth is

hidden truth not intellectually need to

be perceived spiritually so your

integrity no matter how good you are on

the inside can never be perceived

intellectually it has to be discerned

Integrity cannot be understood perceived

intellectually but spiritually mean you

canot know the heart of man if you're

not held by the Holy Ghost ask God to

help you to get into the heart of the

matter of a situation before coming to

judgment ask them to show you the heart

the motivation of the heart of person so

you can have rightful judgment this

being said we have the Avenue the

weapons of righteousness that can heal

your relationship with

everyone service your relationship

absolutely service it we need to we talk

about that do you service your

relationship you have to take care of

each

relationship you should not take it for

granted

because life what gives

us joy

wealth Health in life it's all about

relationship how do you service the

relationship how do we service it it's

true but how do we serice you know your

vehicle you drive your vehicle and you

have a computer tell you in in 100 miles

you have to take it to the garage

computer will helping you to take it for

service to change the oil to clean this

to keep it to maintain relationship need

to be maintained M when you don't wait

till situation

emerged to

act love never waits for situation to

come

anticipate that's why we need to service

don't wait for the person to ask you to

do this do that do it spontaneously for

God's sake don't ra someone to ask for

help do it spons from your heart ask God

what can I do to help somebody everybody

want to change somebody they don't know

how to go about it but did you yield

your heart to be a servant for Holy

Ghost to use you to bless others

remember what makes us human is what is

not our ability to think but our ability

to love which kind of love everybody has

somebody to love but every has somebody

say I don't love this person I don't

like this when you look at person on the

outside it will not take long to see

something you don't like nobody's

perfect but it takes a lifetime to see

the beauty in the heart of the person

beyond what you can say you say don't

reject anybody because of today tomorrow

is Mystery okay when ananas was saying

Paul was a bad person but Jesus saw the

future the future Apostle you say He's

My Chosen

vessel God is not looking at our

kindness our obedience now but obedience

in 20 years in 50 years to go somebody

can be good today but

tomorrow the mystery can be

bad you pretend for a long time but

eventually the real wonderful tomorrow

the real character will come out that's

why we should rush into decision to

judge too

quickly people judge Jesus on the

outside in John 7:2 some say he's a good

person some say he's a bad person he

deceased person even those say he's good

and welcome at P Sunday hosana hosana

the same people said crucify him crucify

him crucify him so we we shouldn't yeah

that's another thing we shouldn't be so

concerned about people's opinion about

us even people that we don't know what

should matter to us is God's opinion

about us and God tests our heart to

reward us the purpose of the Gospel of

Jesus Christ the purpose of

Salvation the purpose of the Holy Bible

can be summed up in one word

righteousness what is righteousness

right standing before God not right

standing before man right standing mean

rightful judgment for God's sake God

said to Abraham walk before me

blamelessly by doing what is right

thinking right speaking right acting

right according to the mind of God every

single day of Our Lives we are meant to

be like Jesus we have to behave like him

and the task is huge that's why Jesus

say carry your cross and follow me what

is your cross your cross is not the wood

the cross is your body the cross is

myself self self my self will that's

always wanting to go opposite to to what

God wants

absolutely if my flesh is crucified and

I carry the cross ask Jesus to help me I

will walk in the footstep of Christ in

righteousness every single day of life

if you do so you will have capacity to

bless people around you you will never

destroy any relationship Beyond repair

for tomorrow is Mystery there will

always room for forgiveness and your

marriage your relationship your friends

you will never lose a friend you will

never destroy any relationship being

repair people may may leave you but you

will never leave anybody but Jesus Will

service that

relationship thank you amen so thank you

so much for joining us and uh how to

service our relationship how not to

judge on a human level but correct in

God's love we can't do any of this

without the help of the holy spirit so

let's continue to ask the Holy Spirit to

give us more of him and take more of us

in Jesus name thank you that's the right

prayer take take more of me and give me

more of you Holy Spirit take more of my

lies and give me more of your truth Holy

Spirit of Truth forgive my lies help me

to be truthful Holy Spirit of humility

forgive my pride and give me your

humility lead me to humility these are

the things we should pray

for to put on Christ as our

righteousness every single day and in by

doing that you're servicing your heart

and if you service your heart then

definitely your relationships a service

because you relate with others through

your heart by doing so you are asking

Holy Ghost to fill you and when he fills

you he will fill you and that love will

overflow to others in Jesus name amen

amen