It's becoming harder and harder to tell who is born again and who is not in the church, so many claim they are but they lack the fruit of the Spirit that sets them apart from the tares.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
1 Corinthians 3:14-16 "…14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as one being snatched from the fire. 16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?…"
No one is without consequences for sin, saved or unsaved. I have recently made the decision not to worry about who is saved and who is not, it's too confusing anymore.
God told us not to pull up the tares in the church because we might be tearing up the wheat. This suggests to me that there are wheat in the church who look a lot like tares. God will sort it all out, but my new stance is to warn people that they may not be saved because they look like tares, they should go to prayer and ask God. Sometimes we can see if someone is not born again, but many times we cannot tell who is who.
Matthew 13:28-30 "…28‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ 29 ‘No, he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At the proper time I will tell the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”…"
We are to tell the truth all the time, God knows what each one needs.
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