Being amongst others who are compelled to "abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good", means that a greater intensity of scrutiny is present also. And this scrutiny not only scrutinizes the usuals sins of humanity, but also the ways reproofs, rebukes, and admonitions are handed out.
If one finds this too intense, they can go out into the secular world, where most folks are more accepting in general, but who are also usually more indifferent to our spiritual needs.
And so each of us must choose, do we stick with the sticklers, (being somewhat of one our self), or do we roam with the wayward, who really could care less for all this "technical/instructional stuff".
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. <-----> 1st Corinthians 5:9-13
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. <-----> 2nd Timothy 2:24-26
The spirit of judgment is much stronger within the church than it is outside it...because we are under a greater measure of being refined/prepared to face/meet our Maker.
But outside of the church, that intensity wanes, which can make it more comfortable to go on living with our sinfulness...but that's not in our own best interest in the long run.
For even as long is the opposite of short, what we would have in the short term, is contrary to what we would have in the long run.
It all comes down to where our priorities lie...easy now, hard later, or hard now and easy later.
May The Name of The Lord Be Blessed !
wm
If one finds this too intense, they can go out into the secular world, where most folks are more accepting in general, but who are also usually more indifferent to our spiritual needs.
And so each of us must choose, do we stick with the sticklers, (being somewhat of one our self), or do we roam with the wayward, who really could care less for all this "technical/instructional stuff".
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. <-----> 1st Corinthians 5:9-13
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. <-----> 2nd Timothy 2:24-26
The spirit of judgment is much stronger within the church than it is outside it...because we are under a greater measure of being refined/prepared to face/meet our Maker.
But outside of the church, that intensity wanes, which can make it more comfortable to go on living with our sinfulness...but that's not in our own best interest in the long run.
For even as long is the opposite of short, what we would have in the short term, is contrary to what we would have in the long run.
It all comes down to where our priorities lie...easy now, hard later, or hard now and easy later.
May The Name of The Lord Be Blessed !
wm
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, scroll past em or ignore em. I would use it as practice, b/c you are likely to find the same thing if you set foot in traditional churches today and it is much harder to take face to face, when they use every weapon from you family to friends--to backstab and criticize you.
