Judgment That Is Not Judgmental Pt. 2

Introduction:
This morning we began looking at FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF A JUDGMENT THAT IS NOT JUDGMENTAL.
The first characteristic we saw was this:
I. GODLY JUDGMENT IS GENEROUS (vs.1-2)
A. THERE IS A KIND OF JUDGMENT TO AVOID (vs.1)
B. THERE IS A KIND OF JUDGMENT TO BE AVOIDED (vs.2)
And now, beginning in verse 3, we see what is necessary to avoid those judgments.
II. GODLY JUDGMENT IS HUMBLE (vs.3-4)
The reason godly people are generous in their judgments is because they are very much aware of God's mercy to their own lives.
Our dealings with other people will manifest how we think about our own relationship to God.
If we think our relationship to God is explained by the uprightness of our own performance, we will look DOWN upon others.
If we know that our relationship to God is explained by AMAZING GRACE AND MERCY, then we will have COMPASSION upon others.
The illustrations here are taken from the world of the carpenter. What is pictured is simple, but it is powerfully instructive.
The person who is censorious, who is critical of their brother in a way that lacks generosity, also lacks humility. This lack of humility shows up in two ways.
A. THE ABSENCE OF HUMILITY ON DISPLAY BY WHAT WE SEE (vs.3)
Pride is characterized by exaggerating what is wrong in someone else's life, and ignoring, denying, minimizing what is wrong in my own life.
What is in my brother's eye, in this illustration, is a speck.
κάρφος, ους, τό (Aeschyl., Hdt. et al.; Gen 8:11) a small piece of straw, chaff, or wood, to denote someth. quite insignificant, speck, splinter, chip
What is in the accuser's eye is a log.