I have been judged in the past month or so for making a point to avoid lairs and thieves who claim to be Christians. There are four to be exact. I have even stopped going to the church where three of them go, which is where my wife and I have been attending. The pastor even disagrees with me about removing these people who are deliberately walking in sin and claiming to be Christians.
1 Corinthians 5:5-13
5 I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day the Lord Jesus. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people. 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters’ for then you would have to go out of the world. 11 But actually I wrote to you not at associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, for a reviler or a drunkard, or a swindler–not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM YOURSELVES.
1 Timothy 1:8-11 NASB 1995
“But we know the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which I have been entrusted.”
Revelation 21:8 NASB 1995
“But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
In the verses you just read, LIARS ARE LUMPED IN WITH the lawless, rebellious, ungodly, murderers, immoral, homosexuals, perjurers, cowardly, unbelieving, sorcerers, and idolaters. And they all will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
The people I am referring to are liars and thieves. I have several witnesses to their lying and stealing from me, some of them are victims as well. These people lie and steal without giving it a second thought. It is as though they have no conscience.
In closing, I wish to say I have forgiven each one of them and don’t expect to get a dime back. However, the Lord has not forgiven them because they continue to maintain their lies and thereby refuse to admit their wrongdoing and maintain they have no sin of which to repent.
I have wrestled with this for months and I am finally taking a stand for the truth. Allowing these people to continue pretending to be Christians is a sin in itself. There are no liars or thieves in the kingdom of God. We must take a stand in order that they will find themselves abandoned by true Christians in order that they will consider making a choice to admit their sins and get right with God and His true children, 1 Corinthians 5:13.
May God give you understanding of what I have just written.
Jon David Banks, God’s most unworthy servant
P.S. Matthew 5:23-24,
“23 If therefore you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
24 leave your offering there before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”
It stands to reason and common sense that only a hypocrite would present an offering at the altar without first going to the brother or sister he or she has willfully sinned against.
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