Proverbs 21.7 says, the robbery of the wicked shall destroy them because they refuse to do judgment. If there's one thing the wicked don't want you to do is judge. Of course, it is correct that we shouldn't judge unrighteously. Jesus told us clearly in John 7.24, judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. But that's why the wicked are always yelling, don't judge, because they don't want to be judged according to God's word. because they refuse to do judgment. And that's the theme of this modern generation. Don't judge or judge not. And the Bible says that the refusal to do judgment is what ultimately causes them to be destroyed. First notice that like Satan in Genesis 3, they're quoting Matthew 7, 1, but only using the first two words of the text in the King James Version. They don't want you to go on and read the full verse in light of the whole context which runs through verse 5 of Matthew 7. They use variations like don't judge from the International Children's Bible or the World English Bible or do not judge from the NIV and Christian substandard, New American substandard, and legacy substandard versions, and the New Catholic Bible, or stop judging from the international substandard version. Regardless of the exact phrasing, when someone responds to your declaration of biblical truth by ordering you to judge not, then you know what you're dealing with. Someone using the Bible like Satan does. the wicked. Any saved man or woman who is spirit-filled and walking in the word, they aren't going to say, judge not, but will instead ask you to show them chapter and verse in the scripture for the basis of your judgment. We want to be challenged if we're doing something that's against God's word, but not so with the wicked. They lie, cheat, and steal. They're dishonest in a myriad of ways, and their robbery of things not belonging to them destroys them because they refuse to do judgment. If the wicked person would follow what comes after the words judge not in Matthew 7.1, they would see that the point is found only by reading all of what Jesus says. Verses one and two of Matthew 7, he says, judge not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. And with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again. The point is not to judge at all, The point is not to judge unfairly and not to judge as a hypocrite, guilty of your own sins while you're condemning someone else. Verses 3 and 4 ask why you're worried about a moat or a small thing in your brother's eye while you have a beam, a bigger sin in your own eye. Don't be hypocritical and unfair, judging unrighteously with a double standard. As Matthew 7.5 says, Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. In other words, take care of your own sins first, then judge with clear vision, unobstructed by your own issues. And that's what the wicked refuse to do. They refuse to reflect on their own sin in light of God's word. They refuse to repent, and that is what eventually destroys them. That's the whole gist of our proverb. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them because they refuse to do judgment. And to believers, the message is clear. Don't be like the wicked. Don't be that guy. Judge beginning with the one you see in the mirror. Then judge biblically, motivated by love for the sinner, fueled by the love of Christ to help the sinner, not to condemn. Our desire is to see them repent and be right with God. For as John 3, 17 quotes Jesus saying, for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Motives matter. Why are you confronting someone with their sin? It should be because you want to see them saved.