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Design Pattern: Judgment

This is an overarching note that explores the theme of judgment as it exists from Genesis to Revelation. Judgment in John’s Gospel The first use of the word ‘judgment’ is in John 3:19, when the author says that people’s rejection of the light that has entered the world is their judgment. Then in John 5:22-24 Jesus says that the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son so that people honor him equally.…

Judgment of others is aroused by shared behavior

The behavior I judge in others usually exists unnoticed and unrepented of in myself. My judgment of others is aroused when their sin resembles my own. The teenager addicted to heroin draws no judgment from my heart, for I do not share the teen’s addiction. But watch how fast ire arises when I see a proud man! His pride is a vivid reminder of my own and, seeing it from outside, his preening attitude not only makes him look foolish, it exposes how ridiculous I appear when I act with pride.…

After this(1) there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate(2) a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids–blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years(3). When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?…