Page 61 Do not judge according to appearance, but JUDGE with righteous JUDGMENT. (John 7:24, NKJV) TEST all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. (1 Thess. 5:21-22, NKJV) CONSIDER what I say, and may the Lord give you UNDERSTANDING in all things. (2 Tim. 2:7, NKJV) See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as WISE, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but UNDERSTAND what the will of the Lord is. (Eph. 5:15- 17, NKJV) I speak as to WISE men; JUDGE for yourselves what I say. (1 Cor. 10:15, NKJV) JUDGE among yourselves . . . (1 Cor. 11:13, NKJV) Let the two or three prophets speak, and let the others JUDGE. (1 Cor. 14:29, NKJV) In sum, to make decisions regarding God’s moral will . . . to find the parking lot . . . we have the witness of the indwelling Spirit, the
[T]here is nothing in us or done by us at any stage of our earthly development because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only “when we believe,” it is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live… It is always, on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. There is never anything that we are or have or do that can take His place or that take a place along with Him. We are always unworthy, and all that we have or do of good is always of pure grace.
B.B. Warfield