Judging Righteously, Judging Always Good

This not only refers to a good judgment, but also a judgment that is in goodness and truth. To judge in truth is not only to see "positive" in all things, it refers to seeing all things as they truly are.

A judgment that is righteous refers to one that apply the truths, knowledge and wisdom of the Father. It is an example of understanding, temperance, patience and all good things that are the fruits of the spirit. It must give direction as well as the result of choices. The choices are of the judge and of the judged. In other words, the judge judges according to what "ye sow so, shall ye reap". The Father and his Son Jesus Christ always places judgment in accordance to divine precepts of truth that are spiritual, eternal and spiritually discerned. This is how the Father glorifies himself, establishing himself as always righteous, because the truth is spirit, in spirit and is life. The judgment is his word, which is God.

When a righteous man of God judges righteously, he does not represent himself. It is not his (the man's) will, but it is the will of the Father, even as taught by the Father through the Holy Spirit. The man of God judges according to God's word, taught in spirit, and in truth, which are God's precepts and truths, for even a judgment of God must be akin to a worship of God. Thereby a judgment by a man of God glorifies the Father, our God, at all times. A judgment does not glorify himself (man), not even glorifying himself as a Christian.

That is humbleness, one of a contrite heart and spirit.

IF a man judges because he declares he is a Christian, even by declaration of "a right", or by boasting of his authority, then he idolizes himself, taking the spiritual glory which is not his to have. He does not establish God in life or by judgment. He merely establishes himself and his own personal desires of his own heart. This is unrighteous judgment, because man, of his own merit, has no spiritual righteousness. Such righteousness comes only from the Father through his Son Jesus Christ our mediator, through the Holy Spirit. That is how the line of authority descends into this mortal, temporal and carnal world and only by that line of authority can a man judge. Then that man must exercise that authority properly, else he defiles it.

The act of judgment must be righteous, given in spirit and in truth, that which glorifies the Father, always.

Mark Warbinek