Bible Questions Answered:
“...two of this man's children don't
talk to him any more, and his business went into foreclosure last
year, I tell my friends, clearly this man is under the judgment of
God, and should not be teaching our adult sunday school class!...”
Helen/ Berlin, Germany
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Two very important Greek words here,
Krino, and AnaKrino.
Luke 6:37 KJV
Judge* not, and ye shall not
be judged*: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned:
forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
*Judged-Greek-Krino (Kree-no):
Prop. To distinguish, i.e. decide (mentally or judicially); by
implication to try, condemn, punish:-avenge, conclude, condemn, damn,
decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to ((sue at the( law, ordain,
call in question, to sentence.
Romans 12:19 KJV
Dearly beloved, avenge not
yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith The Lord.
“No,” Christian can claim this
verse is his! And why is that,...this verse plainly tells us
“Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith The Lord.
Vengeance and, judgment, belongs to The
sovereign Lord!
And now another use of the word Krino.
I Corinthians 2:14-15 KJV
14 But the natural man receiveth not
the things of The Spirit Of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual
judgeth* all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
*Judgeth-Greek-Anakrino
(An-ak-ree-no): To scrutinize, i.e. (by Implication) investigate,
interrogate, determine: ask, question, discern, examine, judge,
search.
A spiritual person, has divine
“spiritual judgment” (insight-discernment), by The Holy Spirit,
not to condemn, or to sentence an individual, but to discern, to be
aware of men and events, whether they be of God or not. And that
discernment (judgment of knowing), comes by The Word Of God,
through the power of The Holy Spirit.
A spiritual man has God given
insight-discernment, whereas the natural man cannot understand the
things of God. He cannot know (judge, or know) the spiritual man, or
the things he believes or does.
Psalm 92:6 KJV
A brutish man knoweth not; neither
doth a fool understand this.
Micah 4:12 KJV
But they know not the thoughts of
The LORD, neither understand they His counsel..."
Matthew 13:13 KJV
Therefore speak I to them in
parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not,
neither do they understand.
Acts 17:10-12 KJV
10 And the brethren immediately sent
away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into
the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those
in Thessalonica, in that they received
The Word with all readiness of mind,
and searched The Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed;
also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
Myrid are the
number of books written under the title “Why do good people
suffer?” And even though that is the case, yet more are written
every year. But as Christian people, we must be careful how we judge
a matter!
A case in point,
Job a man that lived 1520 B.C. (Bishop Usher), in the land of Uz. A
man who many verbally castigated and vilified.
Surely, said they,
this man has sinned!
Signs of
Judgment?
Job
1:14,15 The Sabeans carried off, Job's 500 oxen,
and 500 donkeys, and his servants were slain.
Job
1:16 Fire fell from heaven and kill his 7,000
sheep, and slain his servants.
Job
1:17 The Chaldeans carried away Job's 3,000 camels, and
slain his servants.
Job
1:18,19 A great wind, killed his 10 children.
If this wasn't
enough....
Job
2:7 Job came
down with boils from the top of his head to the sole of his feet.
Job
2:9 Job's wife told him to “curse God and die.”
Job
2:11 Three
Friends of Job arrived, miserable comforters all.
But what did God
say of this man?
Job 1:1 NLT
"...He was blameless—a man of
complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.
Christian people,
must never, be guilty of ”shooting first, and asking questions
latter”!
Everyone was
sincere, yet they were sincerely wrong!
We many “Anakrino”,
search out to know, but we must never “krino,” sentence!
Romans 12:19 KJV
Dearly beloved, avenge not
yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith The Lord.
So the question, was Job a sinner?
Job 42:7-17 KJV
7 And it was
so, that after The Lord had spoken these words unto Job, The Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that
is right, as My servant Job hath.
8 Therefore
take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to My servant
Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job
shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after
your folly, in that ye have not spoken of Me the thing which is
right, like
My servant Job.
9 So Eliphaz
the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went,
and did according as The Lord commanded them: The Lord also accepted
Job.
10 And The Lord
turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also The
Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then came
there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they
that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him
in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the
evil that The Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a
piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So the Lord
blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had
fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke
of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13 He had also
seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he
called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second,
Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
15 And in all
the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and
their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this
lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons'
sons, even four generations.
17 So Job died,
being old and full of days.
The screaming crowds, had been wrong, dead wrong.
Here's another man, who has had a life filled with hardships.
He was in labor, stripes, prison, death. Five times had 39 stripes, 3
times beaten with rods, stoned,
3 times suffered shipwreck, adrift at sea, long journeys, in dangers
in rivers, in danger of robbers, in dangers from fellow country men,
in dangers from other groups, in danger in the city, in danger in the
desert, in hunger and thirst, gone without food, shivered in the
cold without enough clothing, plus the burden of those who he had
come to help.
My, this man, surely must have been a great sinner! No, this man was
The Apostle Paul, a servant of
The Living God.
II Corinthians
11:22-28 NKJV
22 Are they
Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of
Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they
ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more
abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in
deaths often.
24 From the
Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25 Three times
I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was
shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 in journeys
often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own
countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in
perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false
brethren;
27 in weariness
and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings
often, in cold and nakedness—
28 besides the
other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the
churches.
Does it mean, that one is “out – of the will of God,” if they
experience great difficulties in life?
No!
Neither does great wealth, etc. prove that one is blessed of God!
Luke 6:36,37 KJV
36 Be ye
therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37 Judge not,
and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be
condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
