Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Call Them Out and Expose Them

There are those who cannot tolerate correction, they become angry when anyone is called out for false doctrine or exposed as a false preacher. Many believe we should not speak against anyone because there might be some good in them.

It is not the good that needs exposing, it is the evil. Everyone can see the good they want to see, but the evil is often cloaked in the good to hide real intent and insidious sin.

Whenever we hear a warning from someone we ought to pay attention. Paul warned others about false teachers and even named them.

There are those who would say all day long that we should not judge, this is opposite of what God tells us. We are to discern a right or wrong spirit in someone, it helps us to decided whether to endorse them or not. If we do not judge anyone then we will not be able to discern right from wrong in many areas of life.

Let's be careful not to mock and attempt to intimidate those who walk in discernment through meaningless and unbiblical mantras. They are not useful in being able to judge righteously. Instead of criticizing someone for making a decision about a false teacher, we ought to be going to research to find our for ourselves if it is true. We are to be wise and sensible using the discernment of God to be able to accept or reject those who are walking disobediently.

Titus 3:10-11 "Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned."

In order to reject a contentious and false teacher, we must be able to judge that they are that. We can only do that through knowing the Word of God. In politics we must know the word of God so well that shining the light of it against the backdrop of the unbelievers life we will prevent us from ever becoming infatuated with those who do not line up with God's Word.

1 Corinthians 2:14-16 "…14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.…

2 Timothy 3:8-9 "8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was."

2 Timothy 2:17-18 "…17 and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some. "

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