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Insights on Clearing Your Sight: Lessons from Matthew 7:1-6

Discover the importance of shunning sawdust, examining timber, and warning about firewood in Matthew 7:1-6. Learn how to keep a critical spirit at bay and be a fruitful inspector of others' conduct. Realize the significance of self-reflection and maintaining discernment.

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Insights on Clearing Your Sight: Lessons from Matthew 7:1-6

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  1. CLEARING YOUR SIGHT Today’s text: Matthew 7:1-6

  2. CLEARING YOUR SIGHT • Shunning the sawdust • Realizing your mistaken approach • “Judge not” is about attitude more than anything else. • Risking your own reckoning • The way to keep the saw dust out of your eye is • to keep a critical spirit out of your mind and heart.

  3. CLEARING YOUR SIGHT • Examining the timber • Universal planks • Utmost arrogance • Unreserved analysis • Examine your own life first • .

  4. CLEARING YOUR SIGHT • Warning about the firewood • Maintain discernment • Make judgments • Christians are to be children of light • .

  5. Saw dust will affect your vision: In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to establish a memorial to him. With that in mind, they met with Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University. Eliot received the modest-looking couple into his office and asked what he could do. After they expressed their desire to fund a memorial, Eliot impatiently said, “Perhaps you have in mind a scholarship.”We are thinking of something more substantial than that… perhaps a building.” The woman replied. In a patronizing tone, Eliot brushed aside the idea as being too expensive and the couple departed. Then the next year, Eliot learned that this plain pair had gone elsewhere and established a $26 million memorial named Leland Stanford Junior University, better known today as Stanford. • Those most qualified to help another remove the splinter from their eye are those who have experienced the extreme pain of facing their own demons and found victory. • Caution: We are not to judge motives, but rather conduct and words. One is inward and the other is outward. Jesus says, A good tree cannot produce bad fruit nor can a bad tree produce good fruit - you will know them by their fruits. So we are not judges but fruit inspectors. AMEN Things to remember and practice

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