If someone in a church group turns from a portion of scripture and goes another way, that person will bring "evil communications" to us in his way of life.
We cannot stay around such a person as this unless he will correct himself if we admonish him with godly correction.
I Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
If we warn that person and he rejects our warning, we will be pulled down in grief over him, and we must not deceive ourselves into thinking that we will be able to help him by being with him.
It is God who teaches each of us.
If a person is not being taught by God, we will not be able to reach him.
The fact that God is not teaching him means he is not of God.
We will waste ourselves if we keep trying to give him instruction from God. Instead we must do the following:
Titus 3
10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Don't keep trying to send messages to him. If he rejects the first or second message, just walk away from him. It is so important to our safety to learn to stop sending messages after he rejects one or two messages. Just do the above scripture!
Words spoken by people stick inside us like a seed and at some point bear fruit in us unless we choose to root up the concept by that given us by God.
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Example: Pam Padgett's car title. (a fun story ... but a very good example showing the power words have to grow and to develop in you and to cause you to act on those words at a later time.)
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Catholic friend who calls "Priest" Father:
Jesus said:
Matthew 23:8-9 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
I went to Barnes and Nobel book store and looked at a Catholic Bible to see if verse 9 is in their Bible. It is! I was shocked that the Catholics put this verse in their Bible since they teach their people to call their own ministers "Father."
I sent this scripture to that Catholic friend.
After about 3 weeks, she wrote to me saying: "Thank you for your message."
But she didn't change her way. She kept going to Catholic church and continued calling these men "Father". She showed she did not care what Bible says. This is antichrist. I'm no longer communicating with her.
I felt God saying to me: "The day she comes telling you that she did something because of a specific scripture, pay attention to her."
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I once told my mother, "You can go down. But I'm not going with you."
After that, my mother changed her way to conform to scriptures.
I'm sure she was born again before she died.
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James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
(friend: one who supports your ways and assists you in the way you are going. We will not be able to approve people when they go in worldly ways because these ways are opposite to the ways of God. Therefore to try to be a friend of this world will make us into an enemy of God. )
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Ways shown us by scriptures:
* Matthew 5:32 The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
* Romans 7:1-3 The divorced woman who remarries shall be called an adulteress.
* Matthew 5:32 The man who divorces a faithful wife causes her to commit adultery and will be guilty of her adultery if she remarries after he divorces her.
* I Corinrhians 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
* Romans 1:26-27 God turns both homosexuals and lesbians over to "vile affections" for which they will be judged in the day of judgment, receiving "meet" for their acts unless they repent and turn from such.
* I Corinthians 6:9-10 The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
* I Corinthians 6:15-19 When you have sexual intercourse, you become one flesh with that other person even if she is a prostitute.
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Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
We measure our words by this:
If I speak this, will it cause people to glorify God? Will it cause the listener to be built up in things of God?
If I speak this, will it cause people to glorify God? Will it cause the listener to be built up in things of God?
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Proverbs 1
15 Walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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