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Service #619

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8-31-2008 Sunday Service of the Church Within #619
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Today's Service is offered by: Pastor Daniel J. Megow

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Humor of the Week
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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
(Steven Wright)

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Welcome by: Pastor Daniel
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Greetings my Beloved Sisters and Brothers, and welcome once again to the Church that is Within.

Sometimes it is good…
Sometimes it is bad…
At times it seems like it doesn't even exist…

The topic of today's Sunday Service, #619, is Judgment (or the Lack of)…

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The Sermon
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A Lack of Judgment indicates…

Inexperience---the person has not yet encountered an experience similar to what would be necessary to gain enough Wisdom to use Good Judgment.

A Failure to Learn from Past Experience---the person has had the experience before, perhaps several or even numerous times, but for some reason was unable to gain the Wisdom needed to avoid making the same mistake again… and again. Fear not… the person will be given unlimited, although progressively painful, opportunities to learn the particular lesson. The more painful it gets… the less Wisdom perhaps actually gained from the lesson.

A Refusal to Learn from Past Experience---the person is actually purposefully lying to themselves and/or to others for some fearful or selfish reason. [Look up: pride, sin or iniquity for further details.]

All have shown a Lack of Judgment at one point or other in their lives. While still a human being, it is most likely that we each will show a Lack of Judgment again.

Constantly in life we are given opportunities to use our, sometimes painfully and rarely easily acquired, Wisdom in the task of Using Good Judgment. No matter how experienced we are, there will always be instances where we will not have enough personal experience in order to completely avoid making mistakes in Judgment. The more Wisdom we have attained (and use) from our past experiences, the less likely we are to repeat painful mistakes.

We are each capable of judging which of the three “Lack of Judgment” indicators is applicable to our own learning situations. We are each capable of adjusting our choices using whatever Wisdom we have so far learned and acquired in our lives up to this point.

We are not qualified to make those same mistake free judgments about anyone other than ourselves though… for that is the other kind of judgment… the kind that belongs to God alone.

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Quotes
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(From: Barry LePatner)
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-3 Section-5)
Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.

(From: Sidney Madwed)
Since every judgment is only an opinion based on the limited information at hand, filtered through one's personal value system, it might be safe to assume no two people will judge anything exactly the same. Even concepts of right and wrong, good or bad, good or bad morals and ethics are only opinions, for what may be good in one case may be a disaster in another.

(From: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax)
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

(From: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-103 Section-2)
        When a moral being chooses to be unselfish when confronted by the urge to be selfish, that is primitive religious experience. No animal can make such a choice; such a decision is both human and religious. It embraces the fact of God-consciousness and exhibits the impulse of social service, the basis of the brotherhood of man. When mind chooses a right moral judgment by an act of the free will, such a decision constitutes a religious experience.

(From: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged)
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

(From: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

(From: The Urantia Book - Paper-118 Section-1)
        In the maturity of the developing self, the past and future are brought together to illuminate the true meaning of the present. As the self matures, it reaches further and further back into the past for experience, while its wisdom forecasts seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the unknown future. And as the conceiving self extends this reach ever further into both past and future, so does judgment become less and less dependent on the momentary present.

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The Prayer
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Dear God,
        Remind me to actually think about using good judgment rather than old habit.

You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,

The Creator's Infinite Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel

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