Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged?-Part H

Hello World:
Some preachers have said that preachers and Christian believers should not judge another church or what other churches are doing. Now when those preachers said that, they made a blanket general statement. In other words, the way they put it, regardless of whatever the church may be doing right or very wrong, they should not be judged by other believers. I disagree with all of that.

One thing, I want to put in here is that there is something called the Judgement Seat Of Christ. There are scriptures where the Apostle Paul mentions that Christian believers will be judged at the Judgement Seat Of Christ. Now that is very important. I will mention a few things now about the Judgement Seat Of Christ and the great white throne of judgement; and then I will mention them both again later on, as I need to discuss something else about hell. The Judgement Seat Of Christ is actually an event for born-again, raptured believers only.

It is believed that The Judgement Seat Of Christ will take place after the Rapture. It is DIFFERENT from the Great White Throne Of Judgement, which will take place after the millennium or thousand year reign of Christ on earth. I will present scriptures on both judgement events soon.

However, it is important that a FEW CHOSEN men and women OF GOD are sent by God to judge things pertaining to the church, or churches, and things pertaining to all believers in the kingdom of God now. That is not for every believing Christian to do that judging. Every believing Christian who is living righteous DO have authority to judge the unrighteous and the secular society. However, again, pertaining to the church and kingdom of God, God will and HAS CHOSEN A FEW, and given authority to a FEW to judge those things.

Scripture Reference 1 Peter Chapter 4: Verse 17; "For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"

In addition to that above scripture, I ask everybody to refer back to the scriptures from 1 Corinthians Chapter 2: Verses 11 through 16, that I mentioned in a earlier post in this series.
Those scriptures are also relative to what I am saying here today. You can not, or no person can rule out people chosen of God and sent forth to judge things in the church and things outside the church in the secular world.

Several of those chosen and sent of God were called Judges and Prophets in the Old Testament of the Bible. Today, they do not have to be, but quite often, especially involving the church they would be or can be considered Prophets. If people say that no one should judge or you can not judge, they are muzzling and eliminating a major part of the five-fold ministry of the church; which is Apostles, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastors, and Teachers.

Scripture Refrence Ephesians Chapter 4: Verse 11; "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;"

Verse 12; "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:"

I talked about the role and duties of prophets before, and I mentioned that prophets do not only tell or predict or prophesy about the future, like people think or what they have been known to do, but prophets also go about judging all things; especially the things of God. They usually are the ones who fill the role that Paul mentioned in the scripture from 1 Corinthians Chapter 2: Verse 15. That is why I ask everybody to refer back to those scriptures from the recent post.

That is one of the major things that a prophet does. He is constantly being in tuned with the will of God and the spirit of God, and is making sure that the things of God and people of God are in proper order. Prophets are making sure that things are being done right according to how God wants things done. If things are not right, it is up to the prophet, when he or she hears from God on what to say or do, to be obedient to God, and say something or make sure something is done to correct the person or situation. There is more I need to go into, so I will return very soon.