Once again I am seeing on facebook, the agony of parents who are contending with rebellious and arrogant adult children. It is a sign of our times. Sadly though, many people place pressure on the agonizing parent to remain in contact with these devils, as though just hanging around to be a punching bag will cause these ungrateful ones to become born again. In some cases this may be true, but it's not the method, but God who works. In most cases God clearly says we are to remove ourselves, He can do the job without us.
Isaiah 26:10 "10 Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD."
2 Timothy 3:1-5 "3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
God does not require us to maintain relationships with those who hate us and hate our God, just the opposite. It is lack of faith to think that we must remain to be abused, in case the person changes. That thinking is nothing more than humanistic theology. God tells us to be at peace and to do that we must remove ourselves from those who refuse to hear God.
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