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PAUL AND JESUS: CONFLICT?

“But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.”
1 Corinthians 2:15 KJV
http://bible.com/1/1co.2.15.kjv 
To many people, this verse seems to conflict with what Jesus said in Matthew 7. Let's read it ourselves: "Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
Matthew 7:1 KJV
http://bible.com/1/mat.7.1.kjv 
This is the very verse that many people use to get away from the Gospel. 'Don't teach me; doesn't your Bible say not to judge?' But you see, you have to address what Jesus was talking about and who he was talking to. 
Answer me this; when Jesus was talking to these people, were they not sinners? Or had they been saved? 
The answer is NO! They were sinners! How can a sinner lead another sinner...didn't Jesus say they would fall into a ditch? “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
Matthew 15:14 KJV
http://bible.com/1/mat.15.14.kjv 
What about the logs and specks: “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 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.”
Matthew 7:3-5 KJV
http://bible.com/1/mat.7.3-5.kjv 
As Christians, we now can judge others, AS CHRIST WOULD JUDGE. In the last verse of 1 Corinthians 2, verse 16. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:16 KJV
http://bible.com/1/1co.2.16.kjv. 

You see, Christians are supposed to have the mind of Christ. Remember this...and let Christ lead you. Always ask, how would Christ do this?

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