 Did Jesus come to judge or not? Now there are passages that say such as John 9.39 where Jesus says that he comes for judgment. But then we've got other passages that seem to say that he did not come for judgment. You've got John 8, you've got John 5. And so what is it? What's the answer? Because it seems like this might be a little bit contradictory, right? Well, we don't believe the Bible contradicts itself, do we? And that's not the case here either. The issue is what context that Jesus is talking about and what time. For example, he speaks in John 9 and he says, for judgment I have come into the world as well as in John 5 when he says that he has committed all judgment into my hands, he's not speaking about this current moment. He's speaking about what he's going to do at his next coming. But when he says, I did not come to judge, he's speaking about right now. What's that issue here is Jesus is speaking about the reason for his present or at that time his present coming. He's coming to say, now a byproduct of him coming to save is that people are going to be judged because of that, however that judgment is not going to take place until later. The fact also is this, that Jesus has said that many of them have already been judged. Now we won't get into that what that means in terms of soteriology, but suffice it to say when Jesus talks about him not coming to judge and then turn around and saying that he has come to judge, he's speaking about two different time frames. One, his earthly ministry, it was not his intention to come to judge, that was not the purpose. Now, did he make any sort of judgments on character or as far as sin is concerned? Yes, that's not what he was, that's not necessarily what he's referring to when he said he did not come to judge. We'll all make those sort of judgments in terms of what sin is or if someone is involved in sin or ourselves. But then Jesus also speaks about when he comes the last time for judgment. That's not the judgment that you want to be a part of. Amen.