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- MOV:"Judge them" (from Sound Doctrine Church)
-
- Please read this very carefully. Jesus has some very important
- things to say about your church or some member of your church. This
- tract is about God's will for you concerning your dead church or your
- hypocrite Christian friend.
-
- It is to these scriptures we hold you accountable to live out by the
- power of the Holy Spirit. God is speaking only about those who claim to
- know God, but are liars. As Titus 1:16 says:
-
- "They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They
- are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good."
-
- But you say, 'We are not to judge. At least that is what our church
- teaches.' Those are the very people and churches you are to leave, for
- scripture very clearly says in 1 Corinthians 5:12,
-
- "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are
- you not to judge those inside?"
-
- LEAVE THEM
-
- What you are reading are not the words of some preacher or church
- but the very words of Jesus. For Jesus says,
-
- "'Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled
- up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides.'" Matthew 15:13.
-
- Therefore, to stay in those churches or to listen to those teachers
- is sin! You will be in sin if you do not obey this! Don't be blind
- yourself in not being able to see who those worthless teachers and
- churches are.
-
- YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH
-
- You are not strong enough to stay close to the Lord in the midst of
- such people. After all, who can disobey the Word of God and expect to
- be close to Jesus?
-
- "Don't be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character'" 1
- Corinthians 15:33
-
- "Jesus said to them, 'Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees
- and Sadduces.'" Matthew 16:6.
-
- "Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works
- through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast..." 1
- Corinthians 5:6.
-
- That is why Paul pleads saying... "I urge you, brothers, to watch
- out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way
- contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For
- such people are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
- appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive
- people." Romans 16:17-18.
-
- Let all who claim they are full of the Holy Spirit and who follow
- the Word of God be able to boast with David when he says,
-
- "I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites;
- I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked."
-
- Psalm 26:4-5
-
- LOVE
-
- Oh, how many complain that this is not loving like Jesus. People
- think true love is to not judge but to "just look at Jesus".People
- think love is to always look past the bad and to look toward the good.
- Yet Paul did not know that kind of love and Paul was a man who was
- "just looking at Jesus".
-
- "You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! In fact, you
- put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage
- of you or pushes himself forward or slaps you in the face. To my shame
- I admit we were too weak for that!" 2 Corinthians 11:19
-
- HOW FAR SHOULD YOU LEAVE THEM?
-
- Just how far should you remove yourself from them. The answer is
- found in 1 Corinthians 5:11.
-
- "But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone
- who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an
- idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler.
-
- With such a man do not even eat."
-
- We plead with you to have God open your eyes to all the "greedy" and
- "idolaters" that are in the church. Let the Holy Spirit make
- judgements, then obey those judgements.
-
- WAKE UP !
-
- Mark the following scripture well in your heart and live it by the
- power of the Holy Spirit.
-
- "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
- People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud,
- abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without
- love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
- lover's of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure
- rather than loves of God - having a form a godliness but denying its
- power. HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM." -2 Timothy 3:1-5.
-
- How many churches and Christians this fits! According to this,
- finding a true godly church is indeed a rare find. Most of all though,
- notice what you are to do. Notice what you should obey. We will repeat
- it if you missed it:..."Have NOTHING to do with them."
-
- VAIN WORSHIP
-
- Jesus says that we can worship him in such a way that it is vain
- worship.
-
- "They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by
- men." - Matthew 15:9.
-
- Does your church teach the doctrines of men that rob God of His
- power? (i.e. Catholicism, musical instruments are a sin, once saved
- always saved, that all must speak in tongues etc.) If so, be praying
- earnestly what you must do, because it is VERY possible that their
- worship is in "vain"! Especially be on guard against those who preach
- the Word of God but without the power of the cross being in it, (1
- Corinthians 1:17).
-
- DOES ALL THIS FIT YOUR LIFE OR CHURCH?
-
- Be careful of those who cry "Holy Spirit" but follow "natural
- instincts", (Jude :19). Beware of those who will be saying "Holy
- Spirit" but are really walking in the power and feelings of the flesh.
- Do they claim a grace that doesn't produce "self control"? Do they deny
- the power of the Holy Spirit with its gifts and speaking today? Do they
- substitute emotionalism for discipleship? Does G O D consider your
- church to be a "lover of pleasure", "money" or a lover of self
- (psychological teaching)? Then "have nothing to do with them." These
- are all the marks of "terrible times" and God is warning you to " LEAVE
- THEM " . Will you? Your soul is at stake. Do you really love God
- enough to obey him? Do you love others enough to obey these scriptures
- by the power of the Holy Spirit?
-
- You must leave such churches, Christians and teachers! "For the time
- will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
- suit their own desires they will gather around them a great number of
- teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." - 2 Timothy 4:3
-
- ONE THING YOU CAN BE SURE OF
-
- If you're not too sure about all this, then let us leave you with
- something that you can be sure about in the Lord.
-
- 'But among you there must not be even a hint of sexually immorality,
- or any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for
- God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or
- coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of
- this you can be sure: No immoral impure, or greedy person-such a person
- is an idolater -has ANY inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of
- God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such
- things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore,
-
- DO NOT BE PARTNERS WITH THEM.'
-
- -Ephesians 5:3-7
-