For those who say "don't judge" whenever someone is exposing a false teacher or wicked person, I would like to show the silliness of this mantra.
God tells us this about judging:
Matthew 7:1-5 “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Notice in the passage that says “don’t judge” the context is that we are not to judge someone for something they are doing when we are doing the same thing we are judging them for.
Notice too that God says to correct our own sin before going to correct someone else’s. Nowhere in this passage does God say never to judge at any time.
Romans 2:1 “Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.”
God says in this passage that we will be judged according to whether or not we judge hypocritically while doing the same sin.
In the matter of narcissism, the narcissist often accuses others of the very thing the narcissist is doing and the others are not. They do this to throw the focus off of their sin and place it on someone else. This is a devilish tactic that is used commonly in our days of apostasy.
Those who say “don’t judge” any person often do not follow their own assertion.
If we are never to judge someone in a negative way then we are also never to judge them in a positive way either. No one can know a person’s heart merely by having superficial contact with them. We cannot know the heart of celebrities no matter how good their deeds sound.
There are many people who know how to pretend in public but are raging angry people in the privacy of their own homes.
If someone is doing something good we can say that it was good but we must never say “what a good person.” If someone has done something wicked we must speak to their deeds which do often reveal who they are. The person who does good may be doing it to manipulate perception, and for the person who does evil we know this is the real them. No one who does evil could do it if they were good, and the one who does good deeds can hide their real selves to appear good. So I say stop judging superficially and stop commanding others not to judge.
The Pharisees did this very thing often. They did their good deeds to be seen by others but in their hearts, they were walking dead men.
Matthew 23:26-28 “…26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. 27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.…”
So the final thought, we have been commanded to judge righteously according to God’s Word. We are also indwelt with the Holy Spirit Who shows us the heart of a man through evaluation of the Fruit of His Spirit.
John 7:24 “24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
When someone refuses to see the sin in their favorite person they are judging wrongly, they are judging someone the way they would judge a god, as perfect without flaws according to their own desired belief about them. This all by itself is sinful judging.
When we judge according to the leading of the Holy Spirit and according to God’s Word we will see things that reveal the truth.
Again; many people can manipulate our perceptions of them to appear righteous and still be Pharisees, walking dead men.
Be careful to judge righteously and through prayer. Never say “don’t judge” when someone is being exposed, that is just another way of refusing to see sin, defending a false god.
The “don’t judge” mantra is a ploy of the devil to silence anyone who is exposing sin. Do not be intimidated by this manipulative ploy.
Seek the Holy Spirit continually so as not to be sucked into the lies and bondage of the devil.
