James | Come Off The Throne - Season 5, Episode 125
Why is it so easy to see the flaws in a fellow believer and so hard to see our own? In James 4:11-12, Pastor Dorrell confronts the critical spirit that turns church family into defendants and ourselves into judges. Drawing on the royal law of James 2:8, he shows that gossip and condemning speech reveal the condition of our own hearts and set us above God's command to love our neighbor. Discernment still calls sin what it is, but only the one Lawgiver has the authority to pronounce a verdict. Listeners are challenged to come off the throne, speak words that build up, and meet others' failures with the grace they will need themselves.