Righteous Judgment — Masters

“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24). The study door opens, and your own people come in — a brother overtaken in a fault, a sister carrying tales, an elder accused, a giver whose gold leans on the scales. This is no quiz: it is counseling, turn by turn. He speaks; you answer; and he answers back — opening under meekness, hardening under the hammer, or leaving comfortable in his sin under flattery. Hear him before you answer him (Proverbs 18:13). Deal with sin in God’s order (Matthew 18). Be firm where God is firm, and tender where God is tender. At the end of every soul’s matter stands the debrief: what he needed, what the Scripture required of his shepherd, and the governing verses in full. Change level