Have you heard? Apostle has been deceiving us, he's been sleeping around with women o. Ah, this news coming after Evangelist’s
saga! Shame! Wicked, false brethren..
Jud 1:4, 13(ESV) For certain
people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this
condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality
and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ... wild waves of the sea,
casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of
utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Why are you telling me about them? I don’t
think you are responding properly. You are so excited, even happy at their
downfall.
How will I not be happy? All these people who spoil
the name of Christ must be exposed and disgraced. For too long has the way of
truth been blasphemed because of them.
Is that the way you see it? Gal 6:1(ESV) Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are
spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself,
lest you too be tempted. Shouldn’t we rather seek their restoration?
Restore what? Don’t you know how many
so-called restorations have swept sin under the carpet and exposed sincere
sheep to ravening wolves? Wait, are you sympathetic to sin?
I doubt it, my sister. Have you considered 1Cor 5:2(ESV) And you are
arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed
from among you.
Now you are talking. All
such must be removed from among us!
Don’t jump. The
first thing is for us to mourn, not be excited and rejoice. Evil has overtaken
someone and enslaved them. Mourn. You know, in hindsight, those who rejoice
over the downfall of these ministers, and trumpet it, have quite frequently
followed suit in falling...
Those ones were in secret
sin as well, brother. Their own day came.
Can you listen to
me? Our attitude is guided by Gal6:1. The command to
keep away from their company in 1Cor5:11 is designed to bring them to repentance, not showcase my own holiness. 2Th 3:14, 15(ESV) If anyone does
not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing
to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but
warn him as a brother. We must mourn, fast and pray, talk less to man and much more to God. Then
launch into what will both recover the fallen soldier and protect the sheep.
When the Corinthian disciplinary action made the offender sober and repentant, we
were told in 2Cor
2:6, 7(ESV) For such a one,
this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to
forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow
That is it, when he
repents. They probably were never believers in the first place.
Let heaven be the
judge of that. I know that, but for grace and mercy, I also would have fallen
like them. No, don’t look at me like that. He has kept me from such all my
life. I just know repentance is a work of grace and mercy, which are released
as we mourn and pray. Shaming, though necessary, can’t by itself bring a permanent change 2Cor 2:11(ESV) so that we
would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.
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