Monday, August 31, 2015

We Are Commanded To Rebuke

We are responsible to rebuke, exhort and admonish believers to help them grow in holiness. We are also to be open to and appreciative of others who challenge us to evaluate our beliefs and actions. We are to do this with one another daily. We must make judgments in order to discern whether there is a need for this. Of course our judgments can never be on guesses or gossip, but what we see and with witnesses.
When we see people using the verse in part, "do not judge" it is a deliberate omission of the rest of the passage which commands us to be sure we are not doing the same sin, BEFORE we go to our brother to correct him. Notice God does not say not to go to our brother, but to be sure we are not hypocritical in our actions.

2 TIMOTHY 6 All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, 3:17 That the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

2 TIMOTHY 4:2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.

2 TIMOTHY 2:24,25 And the Lord's bond servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, 2:25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth.

MATTHEW 7:3 And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye ?
7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye and behold, the log is in your own eye ?
7:5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

2 THESSALONIANS 3:14 And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that man and do not associate with him, so that he may be put to shame, 2:15 And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

1 TIMOTHY 5:1 Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, 5:2 the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

PROVERBS 6:23; 3:12; 23:13; 29:17; Jer 30:11; TITUS 1:13; 2:15; 1 TIM 5:20; REV 3:19; LUKE 17:3

1 THESSALONIANS 5:21-22
21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every [a]form of evil.

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