JESUS said that we shouldn't attempt to remove the speck from our brother's eye until we had removed the beam from our own.
Even dedicated servants of the LORD must learn that lesson, for indeed, we cannot preach to others about shortcomings that we indulge in ourselves.
On his journey to meet Charles Haddon Spurgeon for the first time, a nearly 400 lb. Dwight Lyman Moody passed a billboard featuring Spurgeon holding a big, black cigar. When they met, Moody indicted Spurgeon, “Do you know what you’re doing to the temple of the Holy Spirit with those big, black cigars?”
Spurgeon retorted, “I suppose the same thing that you’re doing with your knife and fork.”
Spurgeon later gave up cigar smoking,
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