What does First B Jackson teach about judging others?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First Baptist Jackson, the teaching on judging others starts with a simple observation: the standard you apply to others is the standard that will come back to you. Pastor Brian worked through Matthew 7 and pressed the point that condemnation belongs to God alone, and that everyone you meet is carrying a hard battle you know nothing about. That does not mean staying silent when a friend is on a path of genuine sin, but it does mean dealing honestly with yourself first. The log comes out before you reach for the speck.
Pastor Ray opened Romans 14 and made the case that a large share of the judging that happens in church life is aimed at disputable matters, things that are not sin at all, where reasonable believers land in genuinely different places. His framing was direct: each person answers to Christ, not to the Christian in the next pew. God has accepted the person you are evaluating on the same basis He accepted you, and He is able to make that person stand without your help. Ray called this one of his favorite passages in all of scripture because it cuts the legs out from under the kind of conditional welcome where someone is received and then quietly managed into conformity.
Romans 2 pushed the same truth from another angle. Pastor Ray worked through Paul's warning to anyone who judges others while doing the same things, and showed that Jesus's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount widens the category considerably: murder is anger without cause, adultery is lust in the heart. The subtle sins do not get a pass. What pulls a person out of that trap is not trying harder but grasping the weight of God's own kindness, because it is precisely that kindness that leads to repentance, and understanding it makes a person far more merciful toward others.
Taught from Matthew 7:1-2 · Romans 14:1-12 · Romans 2:1 · Romans 14:13 · Galatians 6:1
The passage taught · 1 Peter 4:10-11
10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- February 13, 2022 Where Else Would We Go The pastor walks through Matthew 7, the close of the Sermon on the Mount: judging others, the narrow gate, false prophets, and building your life on solid ground.
- February 13, 2022 Enter Through the Narrow Gate Jesus closes the Sermon on the Mount with hard words about judgment, false prophets, and building on solid ground. Pastor Carl walks through Matthew 7.
- November 13, 2016 Nothing Is Unclean in Itself Romans 14 sermon on disputable matters, stumbling blocks, and how righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit unite believers across differences.
- November 6, 2016 Worry About Yourself Romans 14 asks Christians to aggressively welcome those who differ on disputable matters, not to judge them, since every believer answers to Christ alone.
- November 6, 2016 Every Tub Sits on Its Own Bottom Romans 14 calls Christians to receive one another fully, reserve judgment on disputable matters, and remember that every believer answers to one master alone.
- March 6, 2016 Thou Art Inexcusable, Oh Man Romans 2:1 shows no one escapes God's righteous judgment by pointing at others. Pastor Ray walks through Paul's hard words about self-righteousness and God's kindness.
Mentioned along the way
- April 30, 2023 A Man Called Jesus Jesus heals a man born blind in John 9, and Pastor Carl traces how one encounter with Christ moved a skeptic from "some man named Jesus" to "Lord."
- November 20, 2022 Neither Do I Condemn You John 8 shows Jesus facing a trap: condemn a sinful woman or defy Moses. His answer challenges stone-throwers and offers mercy without excusing sin.
- November 20, 2022 No Condemnation for Those in Christ Jesus A woman caught in adultery, a crowd with stones, and Jesus writing in the dirt. Pastor explores forgiveness, condemnation, and what it means to start over.
- April 5, 2022 Monday, April 4th, 2022 Evening Service - Guest Speaker Nick Staron on Not showing Favoritism Nick Stern walks First Baptist Jackson through James 2:1-13, showing why believers are called to show mercy over judgment to everyone, regardless of wealth or status.
- February 22, 2021 The Coming One John the Baptist doubts from prison, Jesus proclaims rest for the weary, and a Wyoming congregation hears what it means to walk yoked to Christ.
- November 11, 2015 WWW Be Right (13) Romans 14 calls Christians to stop judging each other over nonessential convictions and to pursue unity, living by faith and love rather than personal freedom.
- August 17, 2014 What Do You Have That You Did Not Receive? Pastor Ray walks through 1 Corinthians 4, showing how pride fuels division, why every gift comes from God, and what faithful, humble service actually looks like.
- December 4, 2011 Caught in the Answer A woman caught in adultery, a crowd holding stones, and Jesus kneeling in the sand. See what grace really looks like in John 7-8.