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哥林多前书：5:12-13: 12因为审判教外的人与我何干？教内的人岂不是你们审判的吗？13至于外人，有　神审判他们。你们应当把那恶人从你们中间赶出去。

       你会经常听到人们这样说：“圣经教导我们不要彼此论断。”实际上这样说并不完全正确。耶稣在《登山宝训》里教导我们不要用错误的方式或出于错误的原因去评判别人。他告诉我们，在批评邻舍眼中有刺之前，先把我们自己眼中的梁木去掉。他警告我们不要像法利赛人那样评判别人，毫无怜悯之心，只是想让自己自我感觉良好罢了。

             耶稣也的确告诉我们，有时候我们应该评判别人。同样是《登山宝训》，他警告我们要防备假先知。他们外面披着羊皮，里面却是狼。揭穿他们的错误教导，就是一种评判。在《马太福音》18章，耶稣告诉我们当指出弟兄的罪，这样我们就能为基督的国度重新得到这个弟兄。这也是一种评判，但这是出于正确的动机，出于对我们弟兄的灵魂的爱。当耶稣将兑换银钱的人赶出圣殿时，他就是在评判他们。

             保罗进一步阐述他的观点。他说评判教会以外的人不是我们的事，我们只负责评判教会内部的人。试想一下。当我们在餐桌上谈论这个世界有多糟时，我们对这个世界产生不了任何影响。这只会让我们感觉自己是多么公义。与其指出这个世界的罪恶，到不如我们先对自己负起责任来，这样会更有益处。

            但最终，有一个标准来区分好的评判和恶意的评判。只要我们以基督的心为心，以基督的爱为爱，我们的评判就永远是好的，不会是邪恶的。 祷告：主耶稣，如果我评判别人的目的就是为了自我感觉良好，请阻止我如此行。与此同时，如果我看到邪恶的罪，请赐我勇气指出来，并传福音给那些愿意听的人。阿们。

1 Corinthians 5: 12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.” (EHV)

You will often hear people say, “The Bible teaches us not to judge one another.” That’s not really true. Jesus teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount not to judge people in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons. He tells us to remove the plank from our own eye before we criticize our neighbor for the speck in his eye. He warns against judging others like the Pharisees did, without showing mercy, and for making themselves look good in their own eyes.

         Jesus also tells us that there are times we SHOULD judge people. In the Sermon on the Mount, he warns us to look out for false prophets, who dress like sheep, but are wolves on the inside. Exposing false teaching is a form of judging. In Matthew 18, Jesus tells us to point out our brother’s sin so that we might win him back for the kingdom. That’s judging, too, but it is down for the right motive, out of love for our brother’s soul.  When Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple, he was judging them.

         Paul gives us more insight.  He says it is not our business to judge people outside the church, but inside the church. Think of it.  All those things we say over the dinner table about how terrible the world is has not effect on the world at all. It only makes us feel more righteous in our own eyes. It’s more beneficial to hold ourselves accountable than to point out the sins of the world.

         But in the end, there is one thing that separates judging which is good from judging which is evil. If we have the mind of Christ and the love of Christ, our judging will always be for good and not evil.

Prayer:   Lord Jesus, keep me from judging others just to make myself look good in my own eyes. At the same time, give me courage to point out evil when I see it and to proclaim the gospel to those who would hear it.  Amen.