Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Thurs 2nd July – Read James 4:11-12
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Thurs 2nd July – Read James 4:11-12
V11: Again, believers are warned against ” bad-mouthing” one another – in any way. For how easily we may yield to this temptation in so many forms. This is, in effect, to say we have the right to judge others, see ourselves as superior to them. To do this is to deny or reject the real teaching of God’s Law, so to set ourselves up over it and thus ” judge” the Law itself. This is not to be a “doer” of God’s Word but a judge over it, as if we could pick and choose what to obey. Again, verses from the “Sermon on the Mount” are relevant here – Matthew 7:1-5.
V12: The only true Judge is the One who gave the Law and Whose Law it is (and see Genesis 18:25.) He alone can save – or condemn. Surely, we think here of the Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, one with the Father – for we are told HE will be the Judge all will face on the last day (2 Timothy 4:1.) He will receive to Himself all who are trusting in Him as Saviour, but – how solemn- will condemn (“destroy” is the word we must take seriously!) those who are not. Knowing this, how can any who profess to know Him set themselves up to judge others? – And James is clear, that we do just that when we speak ill of them.