A Witness to All Nations - Ellet J. Waggoner
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Sodom and Gomorrah than for them.<br />
No Judging Now<br />
The servants of Christ are not <strong>to</strong> judge now, but<br />
<strong>to</strong> leave all judgment till the time that God has<br />
appointed for it. "Judge nothing before the time,<br />
until the Lord come, who both will bring <strong>to</strong> light<br />
the hidden things of darkness, and will make<br />
manifest the counsels of the hearts." (1 Cor. 4:5)<br />
"For God shall bring every work in<strong>to</strong> judgment,<br />
with every secret thing, whether it be good, or<br />
whether it be evil." (Eccles. 12:14) The judgment is<br />
not conducted according <strong>to</strong> human powers of<br />
forming decisions. It is written of Christ, that the<br />
Spirit of God "should be His understanding and<br />
knowledge," and He shall not judge after the sight<br />
of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His<br />
ears. But with righteousness shall He judge the<br />
poor." (Isa. 11:3, 4) This word shows that judging<br />
after the sight of the eyes and the hearing of the<br />
ears is not righteousness. If it is unrighteous, and<br />
not put away by confession and repentance, such<br />
judging will bring him who does it before the<br />
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