Sermon on Judging – Motes and Beams
Categories: Sermon Outlines, Textual Sermon OutlinesMATTHEW 7:1-6
SUBJECT: Passage
TITLE: Motes and Beams
PROPOSITION: To set forth the Lord’s teaching regarding fault finding.
OBJECTIVE:That we not be fault finders.
INTRODUCTION:
1. Read: Matthew 7:1-6.
2. Regarding the text:
1) Do you think Jesus is a liar?
2) John 7:24.
3) Do you believe Jesus is a liar?
4) When a passage of Scripture is given which condemns some action or attitude, many resort to the first two words in Matthew 7, “Judge not!”
5) If these words forbid any and all discerning, discriminating, judging, then it contradicts John 7:24 and in one or the other of these places, Jesus lied.
6) Actually, Jesus never said, “Judge not (period).”
7) As we look at the context, Jesus is forbidding some hypocrite engaging in “fault-finding” as a ploy to cover his own sin.
8) Jesus said in verse 6 that we are obligated to make determinations, judgments, as to the character of people: are they dogs or swine.
3. Reference to Subject, Title, Proposition and Objective.
DISCUSSION: In this passage we see –
I. FAULT-FINDERS. THEY ARE:
1. Never good fact finders [Doctors never treat self/family].
2. Not honest [Prejudice/bigotry “more light closes pupil].
3. Are destructive [Proverbs 5:22-23].
4. Unable to benefit from brotherly correction [Proverbs 9:7].
II. HYPOCRISY.
1. The hypocrite never intends to be what he pretends to be.
2. Romans 12:9.
3. “Mote in brother’s eye/beam in own eye.”
4. Humor can help us understand. My dirt is clean, yours is not.
III. REPENTANCE.
1. “Cast out the beam” one can not keep sin.
2. Psalm 66:18.
3. Acts 17:30.
4. Acts 24:24-25.
IV. HELPFULNESS.
1. Galatians 6:1.
2. Galatians 6:10.
3. James 5:19-20.
4. Philippians 4:2-3.
V. HONORING GOD’S WORD.
1. Psalm 119:160.
2. 1 Corinthians 4:6.
3. 2 John 9-11.
4. John 17:17.
5. Psalm 119:11, 89, 97.
CONCLUSION:
1. In this passage we have seen:
1) FAULT-FINDERS;
2) HYPOCRISY;
3) REPENTANCE;
4) HELPFULNESS and
5) HONORING GOD’S WORD.
2. Romans 16:17-18.