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You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Romans 2:1
 
Question:
I wonder how many times we have seen or heard someone do something and we said, “I really don’t understand why they did that!  What possessed them!  If it was me, I would.....”

Wait a minute.

The verse says if it were us, we would do the same thing.

We may not do it in exactly the same way as the person we are judging, but if we were in a circumstance that tugged at the flesh in a certain way, we might be in danger of doing the same thing.

Our ‘thing’ - our incorrect response is not better than the other person’s incorrect response.  It’s all incorrect.  It’s the same.  Same old same old. 

Our genes have the same originator.  We all came from Adam. Anything we judge about anyone else comes from the same source that anyone else can judge us on, Adam.  Same old same old.  The source of our physical nature is the same as everyone else’s.  Adam’s action in the garden communicated that God, who is all sufficient, was not sufficient enough for him.

That is the condition we are all born with.  All sin that all people commit comes from that one instance.  It all comes from the same first sin. It stems from Adam communicating that God was not sufficient and that we should put Him in second place (or lower). 

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus...... he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.
Romans 3:23-27

All of us have sinned and fall short.

The new law that has been given us – our only hope – is not the law of works.  Our works are insufficient.  Our new law is the law of faith – faith in the finished work of Christ.

If our law is faith in Christ and we are not in a position to boast about ourselves, then we are also not in a position to judge or criticise others.  What are we comparing their actions against?  Certainly not our own?  We are all in the same position, in the same boat, in need of the same Saviour for the same reason.

Steve Harewood


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