First Cast Out the Beam Matthew 7:5

Matthew shared how Jesus told His disciples, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? Jesus continued, “Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?”, and in chapter seven and verse five of his book, Matthew shared how Jesus told His disciples, “first cast out the beam out of your own eye” where we read:

You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye;

and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.

The verse reads, “You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye;” Matthew began with the words, “you hypocrite” or “you actor, stage player, dissembler and pretender”, “first cast out” which means “chief, principal, before and at the beginning drive, send out and expel” “the beam” or “the stick of timber” “out of your own eye” or “from the disciples' own personal eyes”. Jesus called those who looked upon the “speck” in others' eyes without considering the “log” in their own eye were living as “actors, stage players and pretenders”.

The verse goes on to say, “and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.” Matthew added the words, “and then” or “and afterward, therefore and at that time” “shall you see clearly” which means “will the disciples behold, looked fixedly and with full vision” “to cast out” or “to drive, send out and expel” “the mote” which refers to “the dry stalk, twig or speck” “out of your brother's eye” which means “from the disciples' fellow believers' fellow believers who are united to another by the bond of affection' eyes”. Jesus said after the disciples “cast out” the “beam” from their own eyes, they would then be able to observe the “specks” in others' eyes.

When we meditate upon Matthew's words in this verse, we see how Jesus told His disciples they should be concerned with their own “huge” faults before they begin to “see” the “faults” of others. God knows the “flaws” within every person, and because they have sinned against Him and His law, they all have need of a “Savior and Lord”. Jesus came to live “perfectly” according to God's ways, and when a person puts their “faith and trust” in Him, He shall save them from their sins, and they are to be “merciful” to the “sins” of others as well.

Next time Jesus instructs His disciples, “give not that which is holy unto the dogs” and more, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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