Judgement Day

and it goes on and on and on.

And don't say you haven't ever judged anybody on— by those very things, because you have. Everybody has. We're all guilty of it.

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People judging and the people being judged, they're all guilt. We're all guilty of it. We've all done it at one time or another. So I'll actually tell you a little story that hits kind of close to home. I had, uh, some neighbors for this, uh, for this show. I'm gonna call them Len and Lisa.

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And they were the best neighbors ever.

Greatest neighbors. You couldn't find better neighbors ever.

The best neighbors in the world.

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Uh, about 3 years ago or so, they moved out. They wanted to get out of the suburbs. They moved out to the country. They got them a big plot of land, several acres, and a nice house. It was a downsized house, but they were— they're happy out there. And we still keep in touch with them, but they were the greatest neighbors ever. Okay. That was Lynn and Lisa. Now, just across the street, kitty-corner from our business, was another— is another business. And there was a couple there, and they came in our store every now and then, and we, we would drink a couple beers together and whatnot. And they only live about maybe about 3 or 4 blocks from us, up on another street over and whatnot. And the other day, the— her husband was out working, and the girl, the wife called me. His wife called me and said, Jim, can you come and pick me up?

I just want to get out of the house. And she's not getting around too well.

She's had some surgeries on her leg and her foot and whatnot. So, and she didn't have a car. They're down to one car.

So I said, sure, I'll, I'll come pick you up.

And she wanted to sit on the porch and just visit with us. So I said, all right, well, she drinks a little bit. And, uh, my wife didn't particularly like me going over to pick her up. And was kind of pissed off, to be honest, and kind of mad about it. And I thought it's the right thing to do. You know, I don't feel one way or the other about it. I just thought it was a decent thing to go pick her up and, and let her sit over for a little bit. And then I took her home. And when I got back, I told my wife, I said, well, what if it was Lisa who had called me?

And she said, well, that's different.

And I said, well, and she's not totally wrong because like I said, best neighbors ever. But the point is, that's the very definition of judgmental. If you— I don't have a Webster's Dictionary on me, but, um, that's the very definition of judgmental.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that story.

But see, those— there's an old saying or a cliché or whatever you call it People in glass houses. It goes, people in glass houses should not throw stones, or something to that effect. Um, we've all heard that, that term, that phrase, uh, repeated before. But the thing, a lot of people think it's in the Bible.

It's not in the Bible.

Um, there's nothing about glass houses and throwing stones in the Bible. Um, there is a verse, however, in the Bible, uh, I think it's John 8, verse 7, somewhere in there. John 8:7. And it talks about some religious leaders back in the day when Jesus walked the earth.

It talks about them wanting to stone a woman for adultery.

Okay, that was, um, something they— that the religious leaders had decided on. And when they got down to it, Jesus was there and he said And I believe— and I'm gonna paraphrase, um, I don't know his exact words, but it's in the—

it's in the Bible.

He said, more or less, let him who is without sin be the first to cast a stone. And it kind of means the same thing as, um, what I'm talking about, judging other people and, and whatnot. It go—

it goes hand in hand with that.

Now I do believe that we do need to judge people, but not by their looks or by their skin color or by their wealth. I believe we need to judge people by their actions, because that's why we have laws. Laws are in place to, to hold people accountable.

There's got to be some kind of accountability, some consequences for bad behavior.

You can't just go around harming people and doing things that harm other people and it's, it's no problem. So we do need to judge those people, and judge everybody should, should be held to the same standards regardless of who you are or how much money you have. But that's not always the case. But the whole point is that we have these, um, the, the— we send these people to Washington to protect those rights And so there needs to be some kind of judgment there, and that's what judges are supposed to be actually paid for, to follow the laws and the Constitution of our United States. Now I'll bring you to another, um, thing. I'll talk about the Bible one more time. There's a thing in there called the, um, Ten Commandments. It's got to do with Moses and all this stuff, some Mount Sinai and stuff. I won't get into the details, but Moses, uh, supposedly got these tablets with the Ten Commandments on them. I don't know if you've ever heard of the Ten Commandments, but it's kind of a big deal, okay?

And Moses went ahead and, uh, got these down from the mountain and all that. But there's one in there that in particular, I believe it's number 6.