(Romans 14:4-5) Who are you that judges another man’s servant?
To his own master he stands or falls.
Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.
One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Can you sit where they sit? Can you live the life they live? Can you suffer what they suffer in life? Can you walk a mile in their shoes?
Brothers and sisters, today I took a self-examination of my life, and I looked at my own life from GOD’S perspective!
And all I saw was an abundance or grace, an abundance of mercy, a righteous judgment, and an abundance of love which covers a multitude of my sins!
I saw my savior JESUS who suffered in life like no other man suffered, I saw a savior who could sit where I sit, who can live the life I live, and can walk more than a mile in my shoes, and he can relate to my life, because he learned obedience from the things he suffered in life!
(Hebrews 4:14-16) Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Brothers and sisters, I am not here to judge, condemn, ridicule or point the finger at no man or woman, because even though I have been through some things in my life, and I suffered some things in my life, that still does not mean I can sit where you sit, live the life you live, suffer what you suffer in life, and walk a mile in your shoes, because You might have been through more than I have been through in life, and suffered more than I have suffered in life!
And even though I am an ex drug dealer, gangster disciple, whore monger, 4 time felon, a man who has been to jail for murder, a man who has been to the penitentiary 3 different times in my life, a man who has been addicted to porn, an uneducated man, a whore monger, a career criminal, I have been kicked out of churches for JESUS name sake, and I been persecuted for the sake of the true gospel of JESUS CHRIST, but that still does not give me the right to judge another man or woman’s life!
All my failures, sins, shortcomings, mistakes, disappointments, and sufferings of life, only cause me to be more humble in life, and more understanding when it comes to the lives of other people!
I used to be angry, and I use to teach with anger, preach with anger, and proclaim the truth of GOD’S word in anger, until I learned the life of JESUS, I learned that JESUS sat where I sat, JESUS lived what I live, JESUS suffered what I suffered in life, and JESUS walked more than a mile in my shoes, and yet he still does not judge me before the time!
(John 12:46-48) JESUS SAYS, I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.
And if any man hear my words, and does not believe me, I do not judge him: for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
He that rejects me, and does not receive my words, has one that judges him: the same word that I have spoken to him, the same word shall judge him in the last day.
(Matthew 7:1-5) JESUS SAYS, Judge not, that you be not judged.
For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
And why do you behold the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye.
Brothers and sisters, My greatest desire is to be like JESUS, and to understand life from GOD’S perspective, that I might love like JESUS loves, and live life like JESUS lived life, so I can sit where you sit, cover you in love, show you the grace and mercy of GOD inside this life of damaged goods!
(Romans 9:14-2 For What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
Will you say then unto me, Why does GOD yet find fault? For who have resisted his will?
Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
Have not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
As he saith also in Isaiah, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Again I ask, Can you sit where they sit? Can you live the life they live? Can you suffer what they suffer in life? Can you walk a mile in their shoes?
(Ezekiel 3:15-27) Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, AND I SAT WHERE THEY SAT, and remained there astonished among them seven days. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
Brothers and sisters, in my life I been to hell and back, and I suffered some great trials, tribulations, persecutions, and sufferings of life, but if you have not been through what I been through, suffered what I suffered, lived what I lived, walked a mile in my shoes, and sat where I sat in life, then you cannot judge me, condemn me, or tell me anything about my life or the issues of concerning my life, because you lack personal experience!