[Gary Petty] This email was from T.D. He wrote, "If we are not to judge others, then what are we to do when others act unchristian or evil?" Good question, T.D.

We're not to judge, yet what if someone does something wrong. Now this is very important in understanding what Jesus meant when He talked about not judging others. We are to judge from God's viewpoint.

I mean, if God says adultery is wrong, then we can look at someone committing adultery and say that's wrong. Most importantly, we're to look at ourselves when we're doing something and say no, that's wrong because God says it's wrong. When He talks about judging others, He means that we can't pass judgment in terms of, "Okay, God finds you worthless because of your sins." 

We have to be very careful, or we can't judge people on our own standards.

Now many times we do that. I mean, people sometimes will decide that drinking any alcohol is a sin. Yet, we know in the Scripture that alcohol drinking is not condemned. Abusive alcohol is condemned. So we can judge the abuse of alcohol as sin, but we can't judge someone if they choose to drink in moderation. Also, if you choose not to drink, that's okay too. We can't judge those who don't use alcohol.

So it's very important to understand. Judging has to do with God's standards of right and wrong, not our standards. And, also recognizing that everybody can be a child of God and everyone has value to God Almighty.

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