The Pot Calling the Kettle Black! 7-25-24
Although this phrase is an idiom that is used among many people in different walks of life; even in some churches as part of a sermon, there is truth to it. This really adds up to judging others instead of looking at our own faults, which could be worse. As a matter of fact, to judge someone unrighteous is a sin.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own
eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye (Matthew 7:1-5).
When someone is talking down on another person, more than likely it’s because they’re trying to keep their sin from being revealed (exposed).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles H. Bennett's illustration of the saying (1860), with a coalman confronting a chimney sweep
"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection,[1] or hypocrisy.[2] Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behavior (rather than acknowledging the guilt of both) is the tu quoque logical fallacy.
The bottom line is this, turn the spotlight on yourself; sweep around your own door. Only the Lord God Almighty knows the heart of every person, therefore the only way we are allowed to judge is by someone’s actions.
Proof – Immorality Defiles the Church It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump? Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Immorality Must Be Judged - I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore, put away from yourselves the evil person.
It is sad to know the church is accepting whatever and whomever, and anything goes. I am not talking about unsaved people because the church is for those who need to be delivered. I’m talking about the church allowing people to function in different ministries. Remember that the church consists of a body of believers (saved people, those who are born-again.
Bless you,
Betty A. Burnett ~ Burnettministries.org
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