splinter in your notice the beam of wood in brother’s eye but don’t your own is humorous but it is also pointed, direct and eye?” This convicting. Your brother has a small splinter in his eye but you have beam of in yours, and you are going to try and help “a wood” (correct!) him? Really? Verse four follows up with a second question: how can you say to your the “Or brother, ‘Let me take splinter out of your and a beam of wood in your eye,’ look, there’s own question drives home the point, asking in essence, eye?” This how can you even attempt to do this? Why would you even try? Those who take on the assignment of spiritual Peeping Tom, spiritual garbage inspector, spiritual Gestapo are deaf, dumb, and blind to the enormity and magnitude of their own sin. Ferguson says, “So deeply has his sin conquered him that he has become blind to it. Sensitive to sin in others, he has been desensitized to the sin in his own heart” (Ferguson, 152). Perhaps there is no greater example of this in all of the Bible than the day the prophet Nathan confronted King David over his sin with Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11:1-17). The confrontation ended with the are the (2 Sam. 12:1-7). Before we stinging indictment, “You man” burn in our hearts with unrighteous anger toward others, we would do
splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?” This is humorous but it is also pointed, direct and convicting. Your brother has a small splinter in his eye but you have “a beam of wood” in yours, and you are going to try and help (correct!) him? Really? Verse four follows up with a second question: “Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye?” This question drives home the point, asking in essence, how can you even attempt to do this? Why would you even try? Those who take on the assignment of spiritual Peeping Tom, spiritual garbage inspector, spiritual Gestapo are deaf, dumb, and blind to the enormity and magnitude of their own sin. Ferguson says, “So deeply has his sin conquered him that he has become blind to it. Sensitive to sin in others, he has been desensitized to the sin in his own heart” (Ferguson, 152). Perhaps there is no greater example of this in all of the Bible than the day the prophet Nathan confronted King David over his sin with Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11:1-17). The confrontation ended with the stinging indictment, “You are the man” (2 Sam. 12:1-7). Before we burn in our hearts with unrighteous anger toward others, we would do