JUDGMENTS: "MY LORD AND MY GOD!"
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Judgments
a) People are always making judgments. You do it, I do it, we all do it. Good judgment is one of the qualities of successful people. Jesus warned against making false or hypocritical judgments. He encouraged people to "judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24).
b) Jesus himself was being judged by people, and needless to say their judgments were varied. In the Gospel of John you can find several judgments of Jesus. It was even said, “He has a demon”!
2. "My Lord And My God!"
John 20:28
28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
a) One disciple who was not going to believe anything without proof was Thomas. But when the evidence was presented to him, he came up with this judgment of Jesus: "[You are] my Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). This indeed is a judgment, like Peter's, that qualifies as faith in Christ. Nothing less will do.
b) One day Jesus is going to "judge the living and the dead at his appearing" (2 Timothy 4:1). This includes you and me, doesn't it? Now here's what it comes down to: How Jesus will judge you on that day depends on how you have judged him beforehand.
c) Unless your judgment of him amounts to a true faith, his judgment of you will be adverse. However, if your judgment of Jesus amounts to faith, his judgment of you will be entirely favorable. John sums it up at the end of his first letter: "And we know that the Son of God has come, and given us an understanding, that we may know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life" (1 John 5:20).
The End ...
1. Judgments a) People are always making judgments. You do it, I do it, we all do it. Good judgment is one of the qualities of successful people. Jesus warned against making false or hypocritical judgments. He encouraged people to "judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24).
b) Jesus himself was being judged by people, and needless to say their judgments were varied. In the Gospel of John you can find several judgments of Jesus. It was even said, “He has a demon”!
2. "My Lord And My God!"
John 20:28
28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
a) One disciple who was not going to believe anything without proof was Thomas. But when the evidence was presented to him, he came up with this judgment of Jesus: "[You are] my Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). This indeed is a judgment, like Peter's, that qualifies as faith in Christ. Nothing less will do.
b) One day Jesus is going to "judge the living and the dead at his appearing" (2 Timothy 4:1). This includes you and me, doesn't it? Now here's what it comes down to: How Jesus will judge you on that day depends on how you have judged him beforehand.
c) Unless your judgment of him amounts to a true faith, his judgment of you will be adverse. However, if your judgment of Jesus amounts to faith, his judgment of you will be entirely favorable. John sums it up at the end of his first letter: "And we know that the Son of God has come, and given us an understanding, that we may know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life" (1 John 5:20).
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