John 7:24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.

Context is everything. We must not cherrypick a verse without understanding everything that is being presented in context.

Jesus tells us not to judge but here he says to a type of people to judge rightly.

Who is Jesus answering? In John 7:1 it is the Jews that were seeking to kill him.

Why were they seeking to kill Jesus?

John 7:20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”

The crown is in denial. Their only defense is that Jesus is unlearned and unqualified (John 7:15) so He must be possessed by a demon.

What is right in this situation?

John 7:23 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?

Those who are angry with Jesus do not have a proper understanding of the law and have blinded themselves to the fact that only God can heal this way. If we look to the context of John chapter 7 nowhere in those passages did Jesus heal anyone on the Sabbath. That healing was in John 5 at the Bethesda pool.

John 5:18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Look closely at these words “all the more to kill Him”. They had already made up their minds that Jesus needed to die. They had pre-judged Him, that is prejudice. 

Right judgment can never be made where its roots are founded in prejudice.

Romans 14:13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

When someone tells you not to upset the apple cart, they are usually advising you to “leave well enough alone” or “don’t rock the boat”. The phrase implies that a situation is currently balanced, organized, or proceeding smoothly, and that interference will result in a big mess that ruins everyone’s plans. Source: NoSweatShakespear

To go one step further in connection with spiritual understanding, the cart is not yours and the fruit was gathered by another.

Over the years the Lord has shown me things that are to be shared and other things that are for my personal comfort and security. They are for my personal relationship with Him. I learned the difference between the two by making mistakes and “upsetting the apple cart”.

Here is a good rule to follow. This is how love acts.

1 Corinthians 13:5 (love is not) rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;