PERFECT JUDGMENT

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

“You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, My decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent Me.”

John 8:15-16

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Put your hand up if you have ever been judged?

If your hand isn’t in the air, then maybe you should think about the question a little bit more because unless you have completely sequestered yourself from society, then you have been judged by someone at one time or another. And further, I could almost guarantee that everyone who has been judged by another has also been guilty of judging someone themselves. It seems to be in our human nature.

So given that almost every person has judged another, it would make sense that more than a few people have judged sinfully, that is in a way that is in violation of God’s word and thus displeasing in His sight. We see it today and as we continue our study of John 8, we see it happened in Jesus’ time as well. Look again at our two scripture verses for today:

“You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, My decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent Me.” John 8:15-16

You’ll recall that Jesus had told the people gathered to listen to Him teach that He was the Light of the world and anyone who chose to follow Him would never walk in darkness but rather have with them the light of life (John 8:12).

In response to Jesus’ claim, the Pharisees immediately attempted to discredit Jesus by saying His words were untrue because He was speaking on His own behalf with no witnesses. As they had done for His entire ministry, the Pharisees were passing judgment on Jesus, mostly based on their own opinions. They hated Jesus so much that they never entered any encounter with Him with an open mind to consider His ways over their own. Jesus was always judged as the adversary.

Well, Jesus first attacked the Pharisees assertion that He was testifying without substantiation by ensuring the Pharisees knew that God was His witness, the One who had sent Him to earth in the first place (John 8:17-18). In other words, the very God the Pharisees professed to serve, the very God who was truth personified, was Jesus’ witness and so Jesus was perfectly validated.

And it was this point that completely invalidated the Pharisees’ judgment, the next point Jesus made to them.

“You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, My decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent Me.” John 8:15-16

The judgment levied by the Pharisees had no foundation point in God. Jesus made it clear that they were using human standards in drawing their conclusions about Him and so it was their assessments that lacked validity and truth.

Conversely, Jesus, who not only stood (and still stands) with the Father but was grounded in Him, would always judge in truth because His judgments were as one with God as He was.

In the end translation, Jesus was perfectly validated and anyone who chose to reject that validation would experience perfect judgment for there is never injustice when God renders the verdict.

Such will be the case when Jesus returns. Those who placed their belief and hope in Him as Savior will be perfectly validated when He comes back, taken away into eternal life with Jesus, while those who rejected Him, those who criticized and condemned Him will find themselves perfectly judged, receiving the verdict of everlasting damnation.

There will be no third option. A person will either be saved or not on the day of perfect judgment when God once again sends His Son Jesus to earth.

What will happen to you?

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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