Open rebuke is better than secret love (2)
Location : Bantayan Island , Philippines
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Proverbs 27 : 5
"Open rebuke is better than secret love."
1 Timothy 5:20
"Them that sin, rebuke before all, that others may also fear."
James 5:20
" Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from error of
his way , shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins."
In Nehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah cursed, struck and pulled out the hair of the
Jews who rebelled by having pagan wives. There were other incidences
where he forced people to stop lending money at interest, (Nehemiah 5:10-13)
and threatened people for breaking the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:19-21).
Nehemiah forced people to do the right thing. Jesus Also overturned
the tables of the moneychangers in the temple (Matthew 21:12-13).
These examples sound like radical, but that's how they did it in their times
when they rebuke people , even Jesus did it . There's no molly cuddling
with sin, like what many Christians do today. I'm no exception to sinning,
I am just cleansed through repentance and has regenerated and have
awareness of sin. The reason I always pray to the Lord to judge me heart
as it may be hibernating some little ugly sins I didn't realized they are there.
That we should always be on guard.
Here's from Ezekiel , If we don't warn someone in error to turn from evil,
we are partly responsible . This came as a shock to me !
Ezekiel 33:8
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;
if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked
man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
Ouch, this is even more worrying , as the Lord will ask us ....
Will you be able to reason out with the Lord ?
So should we keep quiet and zip up our mouths shut when one stands up and
ridicules us and our God Almighty , we have to hide and shut up in the name of
of PEACE ?
Or found our love ones doing what he/ she should not be doing is a blow.
Can we let go of the moment , never talk about it at all , don't like to hurt our love one,
and letting them go and continue to sin ?
It's can be very difficult . But we are given the command to rebuke .
No wonder WITCHCRAFT for instance is proliferating in this day
and age because many christians / churches like the cocoon of comfort of peace
and is ready to run away from significant issues regarding the threat to
the faith rather than to confront and make an official
stand against sin and judge lovingly in the open by
the word of God .
This might be easy said than done, but our strength is the Lord.
Pray before you do the rebuking and take the Spirit of God in control
of everything .
Open rebuke is better than secret love (2)
Location : Bantayan Island , Philippines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Proverbs 27 : 5
"Open rebuke is better than secret love."
1 Timothy 5:20
"Them that sin, rebuke before all, that others may also fear."
James 5:20
" Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from error of
his way , shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins."
In Nehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah cursed, struck and pulled out the hair of the
Jews who rebelled by having pagan wives. There were other incidences
where he forced people to stop lending money at interest, (Nehemiah 5:10-13)
and threatened people for breaking the Sabbath (Nehemiah 13:19-21).
Nehemiah forced people to do the right thing. Jesus Also overturned
the tables of the moneychangers in the temple (Matthew 21:12-13).
These examples sound like radical, but that's how they did it in their times
when they rebuke people , even Jesus did it . There's no molly cuddling
with sin, like what many Christians do today. I'm no exception to sinning,
I am just cleansed through repentance and has regenerated and have
awareness of sin. The reason I always pray to the Lord to judge me heart
as it may be hibernating some little ugly sins I didn't realized they are there.
That we should always be on guard.
Here's from Ezekiel , If we don't warn someone in error to turn from evil,
we are partly responsible . This came as a shock to me !
Ezekiel 33:8
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die;
if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked
man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
Ouch, this is even more worrying , as the Lord will ask us ....
Will you be able to reason out with the Lord ?
So should we keep quiet and zip up our mouths shut when one stands up and
ridicules us and our God Almighty , we have to hide and shut up in the name of
of PEACE ?
Or found our love ones doing what he/ she should not be doing is a blow.
Can we let go of the moment , never talk about it at all , don't like to hurt our love one,
and letting them go and continue to sin ?
It's can be very difficult . But we are given the command to rebuke .
No wonder WITCHCRAFT for instance is proliferating in this day
and age because many christians / churches like the cocoon of comfort of peace
and is ready to run away from significant issues regarding the threat to
the faith rather than to confront and make an official
stand against sin and judge lovingly in the open by
the word of God .
This might be easy said than done, but our strength is the Lord.
Pray before you do the rebuking and take the Spirit of God in control
of everything .