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With What Judgment

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 17, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 46.

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With What Judgment

By Elihu, Jr.

ELIHU, JR.
Our future destiny depends on how we make decisions concerning our fellow men while we are passing through this life. If we refuse to forgive, we can not obtain divine forgiveness. If we fling our brother's faults in his face, God will cause ours to face us when it is too late to make amends. If we turn the cold shoulder to the sinner, or sneer at him, God will not allow us to enter his kingdom of love. If we publish the faults of our brother before an already corrupted world, God will cause ours to be proclaimed from the house-tops. There is no escaping the results of our own decisions. To use epithets shows that we have in our hearts the animus of hate, which, unless eradicated, will put us in danger of the Judgment. Sometimes the professed minister of Christ discharges his impatience in a volley of epithets. “Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” And “angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.”
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned.” “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” “Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.”
“Whosoever [minister or layman] shall say unto his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.”
Let us go out of this dangerous business, and get into the place where God can bless us and make us a blessing.