Title: John 8:16 - True Judgment
Contents
If I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but the one who sent me is with me.
But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.
1. What God Does
God does not judge people harshly. The reason God does not judge people recklessly is because God's judgment is directly related to human suffering and death as well as eternal punishment. God is the One who can give people pain, death, and eternal punishment. Depending on how God judges, a person can live in pain or go through no pain at all. God's judgment is manifested in each person's death, and sometimes life comes. God's judgment can punish a person with eternal punishment or make them dwell in eternal life. God's judgment can have such a profound effect on a person. On the other hand, people's judgments do not only appear as personal results. This is because if even a person judges carelessly, he or she may be subject to suffering, death, and eternal punishment due to that judgment. Because even if God judges, he judges only after seeing people's judgment first. This is because God does not make judgmental judgments without seeing the consequences of human judgment.
Although they are only creations made by God, the reason that man's personal judgment leads to suffering, death, and eternal punishment is because when God created man, he made man in God's image and in God's likeness, unlike other creatures. It is because God gave the breath of life, which he had not given to other creatures, so that he became a living soul. Because of this special creation, He even gave us the command to rule and keep it. Therefore, people can make arbitrary judgments, but they are responsible for the consequences of their judgments. If you ask yourself why God made it that way, you will have no choice but to become an unreasonable beast that was originally destined to be caught and killed. In fact, they were human beings who were very good in God's eyes, but the result of that judgment is that they are not the only ones who are living the lives of unreasonable beasts that are originally destined to be caught and killed.
Jesus also imitated God's judgment. If Jesus had tried to judge like the Pharisees, he would have judged. But Jesus never judged people recklessly. Moreover, Jesus did not judge by appearance, nor did he judge only by visible results. That is why Jesus did not entrust His body even to those who believed in Him because He knew the insides of men. Jesus knows every single person. He knows every single sin. But while Jesus was on this earth, He did not uncover the sins of anyone. He did not accuse, condemn, or judge anyone's sins. On the contrary, Jesus said that you are the light of the world and gave the opportunity of repentance to those who belong to darkness. He even gave us hope that we can receive the light of life as long as we follow Jesus, no matter how serious we are in darkness.
Jesus did not judge carelessly and even stopped judging, but even if Jesus judges, Jesus' judgment must always be true. The reason Jesus' judgment cannot but be true is that Jesus judges like God. This is because, like God, he judges only after seeing the results of man's judgment. Even such a judgment is based on God's Word as a principle, so the judgment of Jesus is inevitably true. The judgment of Jesus is a judgment that must always be consistent no matter what time it is applied to anyone. Jesus, who became a friend of tax collectors and sinners, does not change because of different peoples, nations, and nations. However, not all tax collectors and sinners become Jesus' friends. He opened the way for even rich people to become friends of Jesus, so anyone can become a friend of Jesus as long as they follow the principles of the Word.
(1) If I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone.
It is because Jesus is not alone that Jesus’ judgment is as true as God’s judgment. Jesus never does everything alone. Jesus has always walked with God, has done, and will continue to do so. There were already many witnesses to Jesus. All the prophets and servants God sent before Jesus were those who testified about Jesus. Nevertheless, the Pharisees did not receive the testimony of these prophets. The reason the Pharisees did not receive the testimony of the prophets and servants about Jesus was because whenever God sent prophets and servants, they killed, beaten, and imprisoned them. They usually did that, but when Jesus, the Christ, came, they beat him even more, imprisoned him, and even killed him.
Jesus was not alone in any case. Jesus was not alone before He came into this world, and He was not alone when He came into this world. Even after ascending to heaven, Jesus is not alone. Nevertheless, the Pharisees thought Jesus was alone. The reason the Pharisees thought Jesus was alone was because they thought that there would be no more prophets and servants by beating the former prophets and servants. They have been doing this since their ancestors, so they were not accustomed to preaching the word as Jesus did. If we had served the prophets and servants that God had sent in advance from our ancestors and obeyed their commands, then when Jesus, the son, came, he would have paid fruit as a vineyard farmer. Because this is not the case, even the kingdom of God will be taken from the Jews and the people who will bear the fruits of that kingdom will have no choice but to receive it.
(2) If I judge, my judgment is true, for the one who sent me is with me.
Jesus appears to be alone on the outside, but he is never alone. Jesus was always with the one who sent him. It is God the Father who sent Jesus. Jesus was with God the Father who sent you. In order for Jesus, the Son, to always be with God the Father, he must obey the Word of God the Father. We must do what God has told us to do. We must preach only the word that God has delivered. If Jesus, the Son, had made a decision and acted alone regardless of the Father's command, he would have had no choice but to be alone.
Jesus was not alone because he was faithful only to the word of God, the one who sent him, so that the one who sent him had no choice but to be with him. That is why, even when he judged, he did not make judgmental judgments, but judged like his father. He judged only after seeing the results of human judgment, and even that judgment was judged according to the principles of the Word. That was not enough, and Jesus used his Father's mercy and mercy more often than judgment. It was Jesus who used forgiveness more often than condemnation or judgment. Jesus was able to do this because he was always with the one who sent him, God. Because the Father did not cease to be in Jesus and the Father in Jesus. Not all the words Jesus said were of his own accord. Because the Father is in Jesus and is doing his work, Jesus' judgment must always be true.
2. The heart of God
He wants to imitate the true judgment of Jesus.
God wants His people to imitate Jesus' judgment. He wants to be a person who only makes true judgments like Jesus. Every judgment in this world is either a false judgment like the Pharisees or a true judgment like Jesus. Those who claim that there is a middle ground or a middle ground are those who pass on the habit of accusing the devil. God never created a middle ground. You either judge like Jesus or judge like the Pharisees. To become a judge like Jesus, he wants to judge only after seeing the results of human judgment like Jesus, and when it is insufficient to judge, he wants to be a judge according to the principles of the Word. Since that is not enough, He wants to be a person who uses forgiveness more often than condemnation or judgment.
Matthew 12:18 “Behold, my chosen servant, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased, I will give my Holy Spirit, and he will make judgment known to the Gentiles.”
God fulfilled all the words spoken through the prophet Isaiah through His Son. Behold, he is my chosen servant, the one in whom my heart is pleased. Jesus said that he would be filled with the Spirit of God and would make judgment, judgment, known to the Gentiles. Jesus' judgments, judgments, are not quarrelled or chastised, and no one has heard his voice on the road. He said that he would not break a bruised reed, nor quench a smoldering wick, until he is judged and overcome. In fact, Jesus fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah. Also, the reason that even the Gentiles wanted that name is because Jesus' judgment was a judgment of justice that did not discriminate between nations and nations.
3. Who God is
He is the one who imitates the true judgment of Jesus.
God is the one who made everyone know what Jesus' judgment was in order to make his people imitate Jesus' true judgment.
4. Traces of Jesus (Confession and Sharing)
(1) The blood of Jesus - Failure to imitate the true judgment of Jesus
(2) The life of Jesus - choosing to imitate the true judgment of Jesus
5. Prayer
Even if you tell me what the true judgment is
I judged according to my personal values.
In addition to judgment, condemnation and judgment
forgive me
Help me to imitate the true judgment of Jesus.
Let it be a judgment without contention
Let me be a judgment that is not open to you
Let me be judged by no sound on the road.