If we take a verse or a part of a verse out of its setting, we can make the Word of God appear to teach the very opposite of what it really does teach. Let this be a warning for us never again to take a text of Scripture out of its context. Many, who piously quote, Judge not, out of its context, in order to defend that which is false to God s Word, do not see their own inconsistency in thus judging those who would obey God s Word about judging that which is untrue to the Bible. The reason the professed church of Christ is today honeycombed and paralyzed by satanic Modernism is because Christians have not obeyed the commands of God s Word to judge and put away and separate from false teachers and false teaching when they first appeared in their midst. Physical health is maintained by separation from disease germs.
Spiritual health is maintained by separation from germs of false doctrine.
The greatest peril of our day is not too much judging, but too little judging of spiritual falsehood. The Bible never contradicts itself. To understand one portion of Scripture we must view it in the light of all Scripture. First of all, our Lord is talking about the world, not His Church the field is the world. When any of the children of the wicked one get into the professed church of Christ, as they have always done, a definite procedure for God s children is set forth in His Word.