In this case the same harsh and unsparing judgment awaits ourselves. The sin is not in judging and condemning, but in doing so without reason-carelessly, unjustly-for the sake of condemning, condemning without mercy and without fear. Man’s unreasonable judgment.-We must all judge often, and sometimes condemn. It is there, for the most part, that this law will have its fulfilment, and the measure be measured back to men. And the fearful thing to think of is that, for the most part, this is to be in another world-where all things will be different-so much greater-for blessedness and for anguish-where what is to be is to be for good, and for ever. All we know is that, some time or other, a man’s deeds will be returned upon him, and he will find out what God his Maker and Judge thought of his dealings with his brethren by what happens to himself. It lies in the awful darkness of the time to come. ( b) The other is that, while we feel the certainty of the law, we cannot see how it will be carried out. Can any imagine that they may deal with men harshly, but that God ought to deal with themselves tenderly? This then is one thing that makes these words so awful, that we see for ourselves that it must be as they say. If we believe in a Judgment at all, then we must look to be dealt with in the same spirit, by the same measures, according to the truth and generosity which we have shown, when it was our turn to show mercy, to pass opinion, to help and share and give. ( a) They are so plainly the words of that justice which all men acknowledge, that we not only believe, but feel, that they must be true. God’s rule in judgment.-‘With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.’ Those words must surely seem to us some of the most awful words in the Bible, for. Thus, we are now choosing the rule by which we shall be dealt with by-and-by. But between this life and that other comes the Day of Judgment, when we must give an account of the things done in the body, and of this Judgment this is one of the great rules: with what measure men have measured to others, it shall be measured to them again. ![]() Here we see the rule of God’s judgment in matters between man and man-‘With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.’ Thus, we see that, for the present, God is to us all, even to the unthankful and evil, what He would have us also to be. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.’
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