Inigo Montoya: Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged?

You know, we should really refrain from criticizing or critiquing other preachers and their theology because Jesus said in Matthew 7 verse 1,

Judge not lest ye be judged. That's a very good answer.

He didn't fall? Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

You keep using that verse. I do not think it means what you think it means. Welcome to the program, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Justin Peters. I hope that this finds you and your family doing well today. I want to thank you so much for joining me for the program.

The first thing I'm going to address, you might notice I'm wearing a bit of a unique shirt today.

A shirt that you've not seen before and I'm wearing it for the first time and I will explain what this shirt is a little bit later in the video because it actually does connect directly to our subject matter at hand.

So I'll explain that in just a little bit. So what do we do with Matthew 7 verse 1?

Judge not lest ye be judged. That is the King James Translation with which we are most familiar.

I'll be reading from the Legacy Standard Translation which says do not judge so that you will not be judged and I wish

I had a nickel for every time someone has come up to me and said judge not lest ye be judged or someone has written an email telling me not to judge and they cite

Matthew 7 1 or comments that I see in the comment section of my YouTube videos. Oh my word,

I wish I had a nickel. So what do we do with this? Well, what we do with it is we look at it in its proper context and the context becomes very clear just by reading the next verse actually.

So let's look at this Matthew 7 Beginning in verse 1 do not judge so that you will not be judged for with what judgment you judge

You will be judged and with what measure you measure it will be measured to you

So very clearly the context is hypocritical judging

Judging someone for doing something that maybe we are really doing ourselves That is what

Jesus warns us against and so the only way to use myself as an example, the only way that I would be running afoul of Matthew 7 verse 1 is if I were doing the same things that The people that I critique on this channel are doing the false prophets and false teachers.

So if I were giving false prophecies or If I were putting words in God's mouth that he did not say or if I were manufacturing fake signs and wonders like Todd White does with the

Leg lengthening routine and all of the others due to fake signs and wonders if I were to be exploiting

The poor the sick and the desperate and the widows for my own personal financial gain if I were to be telling poor people

Oh, you're poor. Well the way you need to Get out of poverty if you're in debt you the way you get out of debt will send me money, of course

Even that little you have left give it to God Sow a seed into my ministry so you can reap a harvest.

Oh, you're sick. Oh, that's too bad Well, if you need a miracle of healing then what you need to do

You see is sow some seed give me your money and God will give you a harvest and he will heal you

You've you've got a child with cancer That's pretty serious.

And so the bigger miracle you need the bigger monetary seed you'd better you better So so I recommend you really emptying out your pockets

Open up that wallet and send a hefty seed into my ministry so God will give you that miracle of healing that your child needs so desperately if I were doing stuff like that then yes, absolutely,

I would be running afoul of Matthew 7 verse 1 because This is what

Benny Hinn does. This is what Kenneth Copeland does. This is what Andrew Womack does This is what

Jesse Duplantis does This is this is what all of these false teachers and false prophets do if I were claiming

Angel feathers falling out of the sky in my church services Like Bill Johnson does and by the way, there will be more on that in a soon upcoming video

Lord willing so yes, if I were doing these things absolutely, I would be running afoul of Matthew 7 verse 1 and I would be in a very dangerous place before the

Lord If you for example say say if you go and start criticizing people for using profanity

But you yourself have the mouth of a sailor then Yeah, you would be running afoul of Matthew 7 verse 1.

So this is a prohibition against hypocritical judging not all judging in general

Let's look continue here verse 3 Jesus says and why do you look at 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 and behold.

The log is 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 So very verse 5 is very helpful for us as well because Jesus says you hypocrite

Hypocritical judging this is what he's talking about But he says first take the log out of your own eye and then you will see clearly

To take the speck that is out of your brother's eyes. So even in that verse Jesus absolutely says that there is a time and place for Taking the speck out of your brother's eye.

You just better make sure you don't have the log in your own eye As you endeavor to do so, so this is a prohibition against judging hypocritically

Not all judging in general. So let's look at a few more verses Proverbs 27 verse 5 says this better is reproof that is revealed than love that is hidden What is reproof?

Well, it is rebuke. So there is a place for rebuke Proverbs 31 verse 9

Open your mouth judge righteously Well, there's a direct command from Scripture open your mouth and judge just judge righteously

Matthew chapter 18 now if your brother sins go and show him his fault between you and him alone if He listens to you.

You have won your brother So if you have if you know of some brother or sister in your local church

That is in some serious habitual egregious sin then you need to go to that person and go to that person first in Private and if he listens to you, he or she listens to you.

Wonderful. Praise the Lord. You have won your brother Don't talk about it anymore Now for time's sake

I'm not gonna go give you a full Exposition of Matthew 18, but this is this is church discipline

Matthew 18 15 through 20 and the steps end up If the person does not repent then you end up telling this sin to the entire church

This is the very first command that Jesus gave to the church that of church discipline in Matthew 18 just as much a command by the way as Is the

Lord's Supper and believers baptism and yet hardly any very very few churches actually do this

So let's go to John chapter 7 verse 24 Jesus words here do not judge according to appearance but judge with righteous judgment.

Oh so Jesus himself says Judge with righteous judgment.

Those are the words straight out of the mouth of Jesus We are not to judge according to appearance, but we are to judge with righteous judgment 1st

Corinthians 5 verse 12 Paul says for what have I to do with judging outsiders?

Are you not to judge judge those within the church? Here again is a command from Scripture inspired by the

Holy Spirit of God We are to not be judging outsiders But we are to judge those within the church or at least those who profess to be within the body of Christ 2nd

Timothy 316 all scripture is God -breathed Theonoustos and profitable for teaching for reproof for correction for training in Righteousness, so the

Word of God is profitable for reproof for rebuke for Correction this is why we have the

Word of God it is profitable for all of these things and One of them is judging sin judging deception within the church

Roman 16 verse 17 Paul writes now I urge you brothers to keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and stumblings

Contrary to the doctrine which you learned and turn away from them So Paul here is saying keep your eye on those mark those who cause divisions and Hindrances contrary to the doctrine which you learned and stay away from them

Titus chapter 1 verse 9 Holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching the doctrine

So that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to reprove those who contradict it so An elder of a church a pastor shepherd elder those terms are used interchangeably one of his most solemn duties is to teach sound doctrine and refute those who contradict it

And some of you may be thinking well, okay, okay, okay, so I guess we are supposed to to judge sin and judge false teaching and false prophecies and all that but But we should do so only in generalities we should never name names right now

There is a biblical precedent for calling out false teachers by name

The Apostles did so on multiple occasions and they did so quite publicly

Notice Demas was called out by name by jealous Hermogenes by name

Hymenaeus and Alexander by name Philetus Balaam diatrophies

By name so the Apostles Peter John Paul, they all called out false teachers

Publicly and they did so by name Now we should not call someone a false teacher if they differ with us on some

Relatively minor secondary or tertiary theological issue. That's not what we're talking about But when someone has been teaching objective heresy and has been giving false prophecies

For years year after year after year many of them decade after decade after decade

They've been called to repent and yet they refuse to do so or give false repentance

Benny, hen I'm looking at you. Yes, there is a biblical precedent for calling out false teachers by name

Ephesians 5 verse 11 and do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead

Even expose them so dear friends These are clear clear commands from Scripture We absolutely are to judge but we are to do so with righteous judgment on matters of doctrine on matters of theology we absolutely are to judge on these things in fact a little bit of Bible trivia for you here

Every single book in the New Testament Except for one and that's Philemon but 26 out of the 27 books in the

New Testament directly warn about false doctrine and or false teachers and the great majority of those books do so on multiple occasions and there's there's some books that are even in almost entirely

Dedicated to warning about false doctrine and false teachers like Jude for example and so there are literally dozens upon dozens upon dozens of commands in Scripture to judge

To call out false doctrine to call out false teachers sometimes by name 26 of the 27 books in the

New Testament have these commands have these instructions So we absolutely are to judge but we're just to do so with righteous judgment

So now on to my shirt, I am wearing a barong and this is like the official

Shirt for men in the Philippines. They told me the history. I don't remember all the details, but one of their previous presidents officially named the barong as the official shirt for Filipino men, so I They gave me a couple of these shirts and so that's why

I'm wearing this because I've just returned from the Philippines I was just in the Philippines Preaching there and I've been there.

This is either that was either my third or fourth I think it was my fourth visit to the

Philippines. My first visit was in 2015 and then of course my most recent just returned from so Over a span of a decade here and this is the family that I was with This is

Armand with the gray hair there and his wife Jackie on the far left and their children

Leon next to Jackie and then the boys Zach and their oldest daughter

Abigail And so I've known them for nine years now and have been with them a number of times

Precious precious people. I just can't tell you how much I love this family. They are some of the sweetest folks

Filipinos in general are some of the sweetest people I've ever been around but this family just so so precious and They mean so much to me.

This is a picture of Armand. I snapped this real quick We are this is it one of the airports where we were in a number of different places

Going from island to island and I snapped this picture Armand is there at the counter

We're trying to get my scooter figured out there at the with the people that work at the airport But Armand is passing out gospel tracts to the people who work at the airport

So very evangelistic and just a precious precious brother. So at any rate

Some of the people that I met in previous trips to the Philippines When they first heard of me, they first came to the conference

Some of them came out of sheer curiosity not really knowing what to expect

Others came with the intent of refuting me because they were in charismatic churches they were in churches, maybe with female pastors, which are always charismatic and So they came with you know mixed motive some of them not

Armand's family. I'm talking about just people in general, but the when they heard the truth the truth actually prevailed upon them not all of them, but a number of them because This most recent trip from which

I just returned some of these people that heard me for the first time nine years ago six seven years ago whenever I was

They came up to me just now just recently and said Justin when you were first here.

I was in a bad church I was in a charismatic church. I was in a church with female pastors and I spoke in tongues.

I did all these things But the truth that you presented Had an impact on me and now 2024 they're in good churches

Led by biblically qualified men. These are just a couple of pictures

This is a man named Eric and Eric is one of these when he first heard me some years back

He was in a bad church charismatic church and his wife was actually not even converted yet By God's grace the

Lord used the truth that I just has nothing to do with me dear friends but the Lord simply used the truth that I was privileged enough to present and It prevailed upon both of them in Eric's case now

He is in he's moved from bad theology to good theology and his wife who was not converted at the time is now converted because anytime

I Do my seminar clouds of that water engage false teachers I always always always give the gospel and the gospel prevailed upon her.

So She say they're they're both now in a day and their families They're in a good church

Rock of Refuge churches actually Armand's Church and he leads in music their

Precious precious people and this is a another young man similar story

This is this is a man named Jose and I met Jose this was not in Manila This was the last this was a completely different island, but right before we left to come home final conference there

Jose came up to me and Jose Told me that he is a pastor Southern part of the

Philippines, which is heavily Islamic and he came up to me and he said Justin I I hope you don't mind

But I've been taking your teaching some of your videos up into the mountains in Southern Philippines where there's some other churches and he said these churches most of them are charismatic, but I've been taking taking your teaching to these churches and it has had a tremendous impact on a lot of these pastors and churches there and here's a picture of a group of these men

And I scratched out the name of the church just for their own safety Just want to be careful because they are in in a predominantly

Islamic area So anyway, but this is a picture of some of the men. This is a picture of the inside of the building and Jose told me that the teaching has had a tremendous impact on many of these pastors and So funny said

I hope you don't mind as a whole brother Praise the Lord. No, I don't mind at all.

I just it made my day Just thrilled my soul to hear that and again, this is as this has nothing to do with me

It's just the power of the Word of God the Word of God doing what? God has decreed it to do per Isaiah 55 the

Word of God will not return to God void it will accomplish the task for which

God has decreed it and Now jumping back to the Philippines. I mean to fill means back to Manila This is the first conference that we were at and this was the largest conference our first conference and here's a picture now

It kind of looks like that's a mirror in the back. But no, it's that actually that Room extends way off into the back there.

There's about 1100 people in this photograph and So I was one of my two messages at this conference was on the history of the charismatic movement, and I just talked about some of the generals

God's generals that charismatics today look to and revere as some of their spiritual forefathers and foremothers and Talked about Amy Semple McPherson and Katherine Kuhlman and as a minor part of my presentation

I simply made the comment that if you you know, both of these women claim to be pastors

And I said if you go to a church pastored by a woman Then you have neither a pastor nor do you have a church?

And I briefly talked about first Timothy 3 qualifications for an elder that an elder is to be the husband of one wife

And I said ladies you can't be the husband of one wife God We are of equal value before God as men and women

But we do have different roles and God has ordained it that men are to be the spiritual leaders in Both the home and the church and women cannot be pastors.

And so it wasn't a major point I just spent one or two minutes on it and what

I didn't know is that in the back of this room there apparently was a group of female pastors and a

Man came up to me a couple of days later He said Justin when you were teaching He said there was a group of female pastors there in the back and one of them was convicted by what you said the truth that you presented and She resigned.

I mean like Immediately she resigned her role as pastor of the church that she was at the

Word of God prevailed upon her and she did what you would expect a Christian to do when you see the word of and when you see the truth from God's Word you bend the knee to that truth and so she resigned and Praise the

Lord, you know, that's that's evidence of a regenerate heart So, you know stuff like that.

So all of this to say dear ones is When we obey the commands of Scripture When we mark those who are teaching

Contrary doctrine when we expose the evil deeds of darkness when we call out false teaching false theology false doctrine

False teachers false prophets when we do these things that Scripture commands us to do it will bear

Good fruit to the betterment of those people who hear it and ultimately for the glory of Christ so All of this to encourage you

Yes judge Just don't judge hypocritically judge with righteous judgment

It's the most loving thing that you can do for someone if if you want to hate someone

See that they are in error and say nothing about it. Just leave them in that error But if you truly love someone love them enough to tell them the truth

It is not up to us how that truth is received, but it is up to us to communicate it

Speak the truth speak it in love per Ephesians 4 15, but speak it nonetheless

You do the right thing before God trust God for the results and it will bear fruit for the glory of Christ Okay, dear ones.

Thank you very much for joining me until our next time together May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of his