Topic: Impaired Judgment [Our Daily Bread 19 Tuesday June, 2018]

Read: Matthew 7:1–6, Bible in a Year: Nehemiah 12–13; Acts 4:23–37

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. Matthew 7:1

I’ve been quick to judge anyone I saw walking in the street while staring at a phone. How could they be so oblivious to the cars about to hit them? I’ve told myself. Don’t they care about their own safety? But one day, while crossing the entrance to an alleyway, I was so engrossed in a text message, that I missed seeing a car at my left. Thankfully, the driver saw me and came to an abrupt stop. But I felt ashamed. All of my self-righteous finger-pointing came back to haunt me. I had judged others, only to do the same thing myself.

My hypocrisy is the kind of thinking that Jesus addressed in the Sermon on the Mount: “First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:5). I had a huge “plank”—a blind spot through which I judged others with my own impaired judgment.

“For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged,” Jesus also said (7:2). Recalling the disgusted look on the driver’s face that day, after having to make an abrupt stop when I walked in front of the car, I’m reminded of the disgusted looks I gave others engrossed in their phones.

None of us is perfect. But sometimes I forget that in my haste to judge others. We’re all in need of God’s grace.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me be quicker to console or encourage, and slower to judge someone else.

Be slow to judge others.

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This message was written By Linda Washington [Our Daily Bread Ministries.]

Topic: The Inescapable Judgment [Seeds of Destiny Tuesday June 19, 2018]

Scripture: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthian 5:10

Thought For The Day: God shall bring everyone and every work to judgment.

The Scripture makes it clear that it is appointed unto man once to die and after death, there is judgment (Hebrews 9:27). Many people think that when they die, life has ended; they are not aware that there is life after life. Death is not the end of life but the beginning of eternity – either in heaven or in hell.

So, there is judgement. But the most serious thing is that the judgement is an inescapable one.

Now, I will like you to take note of the following on the nature of this judgement:

1. It is a judgment before a judge who cannot be bribed
It is a judgment before a judge who cannot be bribed or compromised; it is a judgment before the Almighty God who created everything but was never created.

2. It is a judgment where the services of an advocate are not necessary
The service of a lawyer or a witness is not necessary in this inescapable judgement because the judge has every witness at his disposal.

3. It is a judgment after which there is no appeal
It is the final judgement; it cannot be appealed by anyone. For instance, if a person dies in sin, he goes to hell fire.

Some people have said that nobody can tell them how to live their lives; it is true nobody will control how such people live their lives now but someone will demand an account of how they lived their lives later in eternity. God shall bring everyone and every work to judgment.

Beloved, it is important to be aware of this inescapable judgement in order to live right on earth.

Remember this: God shall bring everyone and every work to judgment.

Assignments:

1. Live with the consciousness of the great judgment day.
2. Determine to live a life of purity and uprightness.

Prayer: O Lord, I ask that You give me the consciousness of the inescapable judgment. Let me always live my life with a high sense of accountability, Lord, in Jesus Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE INEVITABLE APPOINTMENT AND THE INESCAPABLE JUDGMENT.

Daily Bible Reading: 1 Kings 20:1 to 21:29, Acts 12:24 to 13:15, Psalm 137:1 to 9, Proverbs 17:16

Amazing Fact: The heart of a shrimp is located in its head

Today In History: 19/06/1910 – The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

Quote: How you live on earth determines where you will end in eternity. Culled from 10 PRINCIPAL SECRETS OF PRINCIPAL PEOPLE by Dr Paul Enenche.

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Topic: The Old Man Is Gone [Andrew Wommack Tuesday June 19, 2018]

John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Text: John 8:39-47

All of us were born in sin and were therefore “by nature” the children of the devil. That’s the reason we sinned. Our sins don’t corrupt our nature, but our corrupt nature makes us sin. That’s why we must be “born again” and become new creatures (or a new creation) in Christ.

The scriptures teach that everyone was born with a sin nature or old man. For the Christian, the old man is dead. We do not have a nature that is driving us to sin. If that is the case, then why do we seem so bound to sin even after we experience the new birth? The reason is that our old man left behind what Romans 6:6 calls a body. Just as a person’s spirit and soul leave behind a physical body at death, so our old man left behind habits and strongholds in our thoughts and emotions. The reason a Christian tends to sin is because of an unrenewed mind, not because of a sin nature.

Our old man ruled our thinking before we were born again. He taught us such things as selfishness, hatred, and fear and he placed within us the desire for sin. The old man is now gone, but these negative parts of his body remain. Until renewed, our minds continue to lead us on the course that our old man charted.

To experience the resurrection life of Jesus, we have to know that our old man is dead. Then, through the renewing of our minds, we destroy the body that the old man left behind. The end result is that we will not serve sin any longer.

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This message was written by The Association of Related Ministries International (ARMI) is an extension of Andrew Wommack Ministries (AWM). ARMI is a unique partnership committed to providing resources to help like-minded ministers succeed in a spirit of excellence and to draw from the experience and expertise of both the AWM and Charis Bible College staff. (www.awmi.net).

Topic: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder [Billy Graham’s Devotional Tuesday June 19, 2018]

. . . set your sights on the rich treasures and joys of heaven . . . — Colossians 3:1 (TLB)

Have you ever been separated from someone you love? A boyfriend or girlfriend whom you have not seen in three or four months? Wait until you see each other! My wife and I have said goodbyes to each other; but when we met again, it was a honeymoon all over again. And that is what it will be like on that glorious day when Jesus Christ comes. We will be caught up in the air to meet Him, and it will be like two lovers coming together. What hope we have!

Prayer for the day: Lord Jesus, when You come again, how many hearts will rejoice. Until then, with expectant anticipation I eagerly wait for that glorious day!

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Written by Billy Graham, Founder of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association(BGEA). BGEA exists to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ by every effective means and to equip the church and others to do the same.