"Getting it Right" John 7 - Part 1

It's easy to take for granted that Jesus had a hard life, not just a hard death. His own people loved him, then hated him, (repeat...). This is probably because of the awesome miracles he performed (popular) and the incredibly hard teachings he gave after (extremely unpopular). Many years of doing the right things for the wrong reasons (AKA legalism) had kinda got the Jews in a rut, and that's why they needed Jesus to save them. They made judgements based solely on doing the right thing, even if it resulted in something bad. To this, Jesus says:

"Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment."

God judges by the heart and not appearances. Our faith needs to take us further: we need to do the right things with the right reasons in the right way. If anything you do doesn't measure up to each of these three things, stop doing it!