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Okay, I've come across this admonition a couple of time recently (sorry, can't remember the verse), but the gist is that God tells someone in the Old Testament that He will hold them responsible for not admonishing a sinner. If the sinner continues to sin, it will be on the sinner to suffer, etc...but if the person receiving the message to God fails to warn the sinner, he too will be held accountable.
In reality, the sinners (I have some in mind) would laugh off any such warning. Maybe there's a better way of getting the message across.
Of course there is a better way to get "The message across". Christians should NEVER admonish any unbeliever about their sins. It's futile and unbiblical. Our Lord whom we should try to emulate as closely as possible said, "I did not come to judge the world but to save the world". Jesus gave His followers a commission and it's the only remedy for sin. Preach the gospel to the world. That is the only remedy for sin. It's by hearing the good news that people get saved and at that point they voluntarily put themselves under the authority of the Church. The church definitely has a responsibility to admonish our brothers and sisters, {in love} regarding their battle over the flesh. The holy spirit begins to work in the lives of those who come to faith and between Him and the Church people advance along the road to sanctification.
Christians who are always trying to bring the secular into conformity with the Law of God are very misguided. Do they suppose that in terms of eternity it helps the unbeliever a single iota to give up whatever their own particular sins might be? That my friends if purely secular work and you might as well be Oprah or Dr. Phil as that pursuit is exactly what they are always attempting to do. Finally, as you are tempted to point our the sins in others, consider your own sins and pray that God would empower you to defeat your own weaknesses.
No, trust me, I have no desire of even speaking with these people. I just have run into this Bible verse a couple of times recently and was wondering if God was trying to tell me something.
I don't think it would do any good to tell them what they've done is wrong. It's actually horrendous, and I don't think they're going anywhere good after their lives are over on this planet. That's the sad part.
The scripture is Ezekiel. I would not use the word admonish to teach. It depends on the person. If it is a relative or friend that takes advantage of you and you find out let them know that what they did was wrong and part ways. But this takes knowledge of sin. This is the meat of the word. A Watchman for Israel
…18"When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19"Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. 20"Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.…
No, trust me, I have no desire of even speaking with these people. I just have run into this Bible verse a couple of times recently and was wondering if God was trying to tell me something.
I don't think it would do any good to tell them what they've done is wrong. It's actually horrendous, and I don't think they're going anywhere good after their lives are over on this planet. That's the sad part.
No, trust me, I have no desire of even speaking with these people. I just have run into this Bible verse a couple of times recently and was wondering if God was trying to tell me something.
I don't think it would do any good to tell them what they've done is wrong. It's actually horrendous, and I don't think they're going anywhere good after their lives are over on this planet. That's the sad part.
Yes he is warning you to quit condemning others that they are sinners and to tell them he sent his son in peace with a message of Reconcilation that God is not holding their sin against them. Now can you do likewise.
Okay, I've come across this admonition a couple of time recently (sorry, can't remember the verse), but the gist is that God tells someone in the Old Testament that He will hold them responsible for not admonishing a sinner. If the sinner continues to sin, it will be on the sinner to suffer, etc...but if the person receiving the message to God fails to warn the sinner, he too will be held accountable.
In reality, the sinners (I have some in mind) would laugh off any such warning. Maybe there's a better way of getting the message across.
Anyone with experience in this predicament?
I laughed recently at a you tube on the Islam forum about self -appointed sin -censors of just the kind you are postulating.
They call them the 'Haram police'.
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