Who Am I To Judge, I Will Tell You

By Morgan McGee

I am going to confess something right off the bat. My theory is not water tight, it just better then everyone else that I have heard. To the verse
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:” Luke 6:37 King James
I quote these verse King James because these verse, in King James, is the most quoted by people with not one spiritual bone in their bone. It is usually followed by some blatantly shameful act that would, so they would escape uneasiness, drop a conviction stalemate. (As an aside, it is odd that the oldest English translation is used.) Next the speakers says. “You don't know me.” That argument is bad because if, I don't know you, you don't know me, then you don't know that I don't know you. Therefore it is possible that I in-fact know you.
But putting this aside. These words Yeshua HaMassiah, glory be the Name, spoke, was not said in a vacuum. Inessential people, who speak in a way in which we should never use our experience, understanding of cultural signaling, is to give everyone license to do what ever they want without the slightest repercussions.
“Yeah, I know this guy that was a millionaire but dressed in shaby clothes.” True enough, but how many penniless beggars are in Armani. “Well people can change.” No one like change. No one like radical change. People make plans. People like security. Plans and radical change do not mix. You build monkey wrenches into the mix. Yes change happens in the world, Praise be to GOD that He can change us. I am not the same guy I was when I was 21. But I share a lot with the guy I was yesterday. We use generalities because there is too much information in the world. We use categories to short innovatory. We don't throw everything in a hemp.
Through out the Bible there is warnings about the company you keep. From mockers, fools and wayward women in Proverbs, to Paul Castigating Peter. The Law itself establishes judges to settle disputes.
Now to the verse itself. We are a boastful creature. We want to glorifies ourselves. This sin that is in the Soul of man does not want to be humble. It wants to put itself above everyone else. In boasting in ourselves we make distinction between us and other people. These Distinctions are works. If it was actual faith we would not boast in it. If you are boasting in it, it is not faith. Sanctification is a process in which the believers is humbles and the high we go the more slippery the trail. Better the person greater the temptation. You may have the will to overcome a lesser man's temptation, but one designed for you always takes GOD.
Perhaps the “Judging” has more to do with us not to glory in works then treating everyone the same and have zero discernment. Maybe it has more to do with Peter not going to the unclean Gentiles, then me not taking a stranger at his word that they will bring my car right back. But then again, who am I to judge.