JUDGE
By G. W. S. Ware
June 8, 1937
Man and woman are prone to judge others adversely, but reserve themselves for
self-laudation. Both of these habits are wrong. To judge correctly requires the attributes
of God; and to laud self, God forbids it. "Let another man praise thee, and not thine
own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips" (Prov. 27:4). Both of these commands,
to judge not (Matt. 7:1) and not to praise self, cut into man’s nature and hurts bad,
but blessed is the one who suffers most. Both are painful to bear on earth, never hard in
heaven, and hell is full of them. Happy the man who outweights his judgment of others and
praise of self. A man so outweighted is unhappy, looking down on his own folly.
Hypocrites can prove many things correctly, but cannot render righteous judgment, Lu.
13:56,57. Hence, unrighteous judgment is the taint of Satan in human character.
Any pastor is tempted by Satan to withhold the judgement of God on the outbreaking sins
of his members, lest he lose popularity, pastorates and living. "Be thou faithful
unto death and I will give thee a crown of life," Rev. 2:10. Hence, here is a
dangerous place for unfaithfulness to show its ugly form. I think I have lost pastorates
by holding up the will of God on his one-tenth of what his people made, and stressing for
the church to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly (2 Thes. 3:6).
The world has no authority to judge God’s people, but the saints are appointed to
judge the world and angels, 1 Cor. 6:2,3. The only possible for a sinner not to be judged
by Christians is to become one himself. Good angels need no judgment; hence, demons are
referred to but it is not revealed what their sentence will be. As these demons made the
pilgrimage of the saints hard through the world, who knows but that they will turn them
into hell (Ps. 9:17) never again to be molested by them?
