God has been showing the house to the house for some time bringing forth truth so that we become like Christ and not like the Pharisees, judgmental. Many have become like the Pharisees, the fault finders. They were trying to find fault in Jesus, and today, under the same spirit, many try to find fault in others. They keep judging the outward appearance. They become critical and judgmental. We live a black and white Gospel. We have rules and regulations, but sometimes we need to wait on the Spirit to bring conviction on the matter. Or we become like the Pharisees. Our job is to preach the Gospel. The Holy Spirit does the rest. He goes home with us. He is the one that has the power to convict, to change, and to illuminate our ways.
Sometimes people are rebellious against the “this and that.” They are rebellious. We can see it because we test the spirits, and we need to keep testing the spirits in people and judging the fruits. If we judge by the Spirit, the judgment will be true and right. It will not be critical and fault finding. This is a mission from hell. When we always are looking for the bad, we will miss a lot of good.
Pharisees are fault finders. They were walking out their own righteousness. When we do the same, we put pressure on people to change or to do what is right. We can’t reproduce righteousness. Let the prophets and seers do their job, but it is not for every member of the Body to be doing their job. So many move out of grace because they are looking for perfection, but they don’t look at themselves in a mirror.
If God is not convicting someone, but you are the one trying to convict, it soon turns into condemnation. For example, God told you: “Don’t do this, don’t do that.” And then you starting telling everyone, “Don’t do this, don’t do that.” And if they do, in your eyes, they are sinning. But God told you not to so we start enforcing our personal convictions on others when it is not our place. I'm not talking about bible rebellion but character issues and personal setting apart unto holiness. I’m not condoning sin and not condemning the sinner.
God told me that most people who are judgmental and finding fault are insecure in their own relationship with God and with the Body of Christ. Those that were judgmental are very insecure in their own walk and in their own relationship with God. We need to judge spirits but not people because everybody is on a different level with God. Self-righteous people don’t come to the altar because they don’t need to. You may have a speck in your eye and your brother has a beam, but both have something in their eyes. When in the scripture God said to take a beam out of our eyes, we should do the same even if it is just a speck. You still need Jesus. You still need help.
Consider the beam. Consider the speck. Consider all. And don’t become self-righteous. Don’t try to remove the beam out of your brother’s eye when you have a speck. Because that little speck that you see in your eye may be seen by God as a beam.
People may have a big beam in their eyes trying to remove a speck in their brother’s eyes. What you may see as wrong, God is not even bothered about it at all, but it bothers you. The things that God winks at, you are building a case on someone. In this case, God is building a case on you for judging your brother. The bigger the platform, the bigger the persecution. So this is why so many are being attacked. Because they are chasing fame and fortune, not allowing God to give them the platform they can handle.
We judge all and everything by the Spirit. A lot of error is around us, but we start pointing fingers at everything we see around us and in others. Let the prophets, the ones watching over the house, do their jobs. They were ordained to do it, and they have the grace to show what God wants to, not being led by religious devils but by the unction of the Holy Spirit.
People are falling away. We are following His way. We are wasting our time when we try to change others or even ourselves. Repentance and submission do work. We are working ourselves up, and it is an exhausting job when we go too far. We need to be led by Him, in all things. Jesus is not in the business of showing everybody’s flaws. There are specific people to set the house in order. Not a job for everybody.
Sometimes the strange voice is your own voice. We begin to hear our own thoughts and start saying, “God said it.” If it is God, then do it and do it in love like He said. Help someone. And if what He told you to do is not working for you anymore, that is where the cross comes in. You need to bear it. If it is not God, repent and turn around. Many say it’s not God as soon as things get tough. When did the Bible say anything was easy?
Sometimes all we need to do is to discern. People will say, “Look at David dancing naked.” But God is saying, “He is not perfect. But He is the one I chose.” If God shows you something, you better have mercy and grace. Go and pray for your brother and not judge. Don’t make a big deal out of it. But God will say, “Look at David’s heart.” God is concerned about the heart.
Pride never wants to ask for help. It will blame. It will complain. Even our self-righteousness will not let us ask for help. Because we really think we are standing in righteousness. Jesus was not complaining when He was on the cross. He endured until the end. You should have the same attitude: “I knew I was supposed to be here, to do this, to do that.” Or you won’t be picking up your cross. When you are secure in Him, you will be secure with Him.
The right attitude should be: “I rather put up with the ripping on my back than stay away from the cross.” When we stop complaining and being critical, we start growing. People are pointing out all the sin of people in the World. What got me saved was that deep conviction and the hate of sin. The fear of the Lord came and hit me. Like David sinning, God sent a prophet to help him to repent. David found out that he was the one unrighteous. He respected the man of God. He humbled himself. God will use strategic people to expose sin, but he won’t use fault finders. But the enemy will. David could have killed the prophet, but David loved righteousness. His own self-righteousness blinded him for a season, but God was more interested in David than all the people around him. So it was not people screaming at me, “Repent,” or a sign on the side of the road calling me a fornicator and a liar that convicted me of all my sins. It was the Holy Spirit with His blessing called the fear of the Lord that brought me conviction and led me to repentance.
People that love the Truth must love mercy and grace. Grace gives us the power to handle the Truth, and mercy will allow us to receive it in a long-suffering way. Man does not save man. God does.
Do you look at the outward appearance? The Spirit looks at the inside first. God will speak to you first, and if there is resistance, He will be using someone else. Those humble people will receive dreams from God. God will give a dream about you to people that He can trust, with a pure heart, to help you, but self-righteous people get mad at the prophet as if they were the one to make the movie. People get offended at the messenger and end up missing the message. This brings divination.
If God deals with us, we don’t have to deal with spirits later. But if we resist God, we will have a battle ahead of us because we are allowing spirits to operate: pride, religion, python, leviathan, Jezebel, and on and on. When we reject God, we invite these other gods or spirits.
Don’t compare yourselves to others but to Jesus. If you do, you are taking the risk of being self-righteous. “I don’t do this, I don’t do that.” We are foolish if we compare ourselves with others because you are keeping your eyes on yourself. When you judge others, you are sitting on the throne of self-righteousness. The Pharisees are full of it.
Self-righteous people keep exalting themselves beyond measure, and they expect the others to do the same as them, but this is a work of the flesh.
Love is not suspicious.
Self-righteousness creates its own righteousness. They are blind and become blind to many things, including the specks and the beams in their eyes. Their garments are filthy rags. The only garment that is righteous is Christ. Maybe you think you are righteous in your own mind, but this is unbiblical and blasphemous.
Put on His, not your, breastplate of righteousness. You can’t shod your own feet with the Gospel. He is the one that does that. We are incapable of being perfect, but in Him, we are perfected. Pride will keep people away. They will see one day that it is better to live in an imperfect family than with the swine. Sooner or later, they will realize that picking on someone’s weakness is a fruit of their own self-righteousness. These people are very critical and become their own god. We can’t be critical or judgmental. God will bring a prophet to show you this and that, but it is not based on their knowledge of scripture. It is based on God Himself that is exposing this.
Start living in front of a mirror instead of looking at everybody else. The Pharisees were exposed by Jesus, and He called them hypocrites. They were straining at gnats and swallowing a camel, making a big deal out of little things and neglecting the matters of the heart. People started judging Moses. God took care of the people. God is a righteous judge. Don’t let Him use you as an example of unrighteousness. We are not supposed to judge people, their weaknesses, or their flaws. The judgment according to the Word of God is right. Only that. We test spirits. We judge the fruits. We judge doctrine. We stay away from those that are workers of iniquity. This was and is a word about judging honorable people that are trying to work out their salvation like you are.
Don’t be a private investigator in your brother’s life. Nobody wants to be like that. Nobody wants to be around people like that. We can’t live under somebody else’s conviction, but certain things concerning sound doctrine and holiness cannot be negotiated. But who has the power to convince someone? Nobody but the Holy Spirit! Only the humble one can be convicted by Him in a matter of a second. The prideful need prophets because they are hearing only themselves.
Don’t try to convince someone by your flesh, by your wounds, and by your own conviction. We are all called to do the works of the evangelist, but everybody is not called to do the works of a prophet.
Stop focusing on the little things. God will require more from the leaders, but there is none perfect. Our imperfections mean nothing to God, but people will stone you for that. The Pharisees could never give honor to anybody because they were expecting perfection from others. The problem of a self-righteous one is that they are always looking for a perfection that they can never find in another, let alone in themselves. Under this critical spirit, they can even find fault in their perspective as they did with the perfect Christ because their judgment is not sanctified.
In the end, it is not even about you preaching the Word of God anymore. You are being judged for not being perfected. Because of what they do, what they say, many are doing the same that the Pharisees did: They killed the sons of man and the son of God! Many became judges of the messengers of God. Jesus said, “You are so self-righteous that you will say you would not do what your Fathers did by killing all the prophets of old knowing even that they will kill the perfect messenger of God, Christ Himself.” The same spirit – from the blood of Abel to the blood of Christ – to the blood of the saints, the spirit of Cain is alive and at work. Our faith is in Him – Him alone. He promised to keep you!
There is a judging that is right called righteous judgment. Some people don’t even judge anything because they know they are not perfected, but the problem about that is they will never be able to judge anything. Judging is a right of authority given to us by Christ: judge between right and wrong; evil and good; clean and unclean. Don’t judge the flaws, imperfections, and flesh.
Self-righteousness has a right standard for others but not for themselves. The self-righteous never have the need to repent. They always think they are better than others.
Self-righteous people trust in themselves. They do this and that. Some people read the Bible all day long. I don’t, but I choose to obey Him all day long. Religious people wink at stuff that God does not wink at, like judging your brother’s imperfections and flaws and making a huge deal out of what God is winking at. The right attitude is to keep beating your chest if you walk outside His will and holiness. That is how you get His breastplate of righteousness back on.
Two people come in the church today. One never goes to the altar of God. The other looks like they got it all together. This one was evangelizing all week, fasting and on the top of the fame. Then the other comes in with the head down, beat up by the devil. This one approaches the throne of grace beating his chest saying, “God, have mercy on me, I need forgiveness. God help me with this in my eye.” And the other says, “Thank God I am not like this sinner, imperfect and full of flaws of man.” Which one of them stands right with God on that day? Which one of them went home with God next to them? Do you see the difference? These messed up people are crying out for help, but they don’t see them. They only see the speck, not the beam if messed up and not crying out to God. Believe you need to get them because the devil will.
Look at you, scribes and Pharisees, and get your eyes off others! There is something in your eyes, and you can’t even see it. It may be a speck. It may be a beam. But humble yourself, and you will have eyes to see! Woe is me if I look at everybody else but me! My brother and sister will help to guide me into the Truth and not to judge me because of the Truth. Bring repentance and the fruits of it today. Stop looking at others and keep your eyes on the prize, Christ. He will perfect those that you are judging as imperfect. If you humble yourself, He will perfect even you. This is how much He loves us all. What is imperfect now, He will perfect. Let’s stay little in our own eyes, and behold only Him within us all! Amen.
Mark 7 – 2 Corinthians 10 – Matthew 9 – Matthew 23 – Luke 18:9-14
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