Saturday, September 27, 2025
Correction the New Hate Speech
In our culture, it is considered a personal attack to correct or rebuke someone who is sinning or off base in their theology.
It is not an attack to correct someone in error.
Proverbs 27:5 "Better is open rebuke than hidden love."
1 Timothy 5:20 "As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear."
Titus 2:15 "Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you."
2 Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching."
The irony of those who feel attacked is that they correct others all the time, playing the hypocrite to allow themselves the right to correct, but not allow others to correct them if the correction is toward them. They will correct us for correcting, irrational at best.
Luke 17:3-4 "Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Notice the criteria for extending forgiveness is repentance. Relationships cannot be mended without the offending party caring enough to be sorry about their offense to confess it.
1 John 1:8-10 "8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us."
It is not an attack to correct someone in error.
Proverbs 27:5 "Better is open rebuke than hidden love."
1 Timothy 5:20 "As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear."
Titus 2:15 "Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you."
2 Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching."
The irony of those who feel attacked is that they correct others all the time, playing the hypocrite to allow themselves the right to correct, but not allow others to correct them if the correction is toward them. They will correct us for correcting, irrational at best.
Luke 17:3-4 "Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Notice the criteria for extending forgiveness is repentance. Relationships cannot be mended without the offending party caring enough to be sorry about their offense to confess it.
1 John 1:8-10 "8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us."
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