Dad-Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment-John 7:24
As the Sermon on the Mount drew to a close the Savior gave one of his most famous commands, "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye." (Matt 7:1-5). Pretty stern talk coming in the form of a direct command (judge not) followed simply by the karmic heads up that the results of our judgements will boomerang back to us. The Savior closes by condemning those who judge as hypocrites. Is he saying we simply shouldn't judge or rather that our judging is of the wrong kind? We start our inquiry in 1Sam 9, by reviewing the selection of Saul as King which brings the Lord's abilities to judge into sharp rel...