Message Notes- Matthew 7: 1-6
by Scott Hamilton on Tuesday, 1st April 2014
Sin in others is more noticeable because it tends to annoy us. We tend to see these things in inverse proportion: the speck in someone else appears a log, my log as a speck.
Jesus is interested in your heart: It is dangerous for my heart to be expressing my opinion about your sin without first opposing my own.
Behind spiritual self-confidence hides the capacity to spiritually self-destruct.
When Jesus says don’t judge, He is not talking about a resistance to extending grace but a resistance to experiencing grace. You need God’s help for what is in your heart.
When we are busy pointing out the sin in others then it is likely that pride is busy strengthening sin’s position in our own hearts… and that is a problem.
Repentance is a process which you can only assist others in once you have stopped resisting it yourself.
Evidence that we understand who we are in relation to God is shown in how we react to sin in others.
I am not the standard of righteousness to which everyone should aspire…
But that doesn’t mean that there is no standard of righteousness that is required
The truth about who I am? Without Jesus more lost than I could ever explain, with Jesus more loved than I could ever imagine.