Posted on 08/09/2021 12:19:51 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding” (Proverbs 9:6).
“Go from the presence of a LOST foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge” (Proverbs 14:7).
“Go from the presence of a LOST foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge” (Proverbs 14:7).
Is that what it says? No. It says, “Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge” (Proverbs 14:7).
You’ve got Christians that are hanging out with people that don't know what they're talking about. They say stupid things, they like stupid things, and they make silly damaging decision. This is not saying that you shouldn’t go and try to recover an erring brother, it is not saying you can’t go in meekness and reprove somebody. We’re not talking about that at all. We are talking about having intimate fellowship where you feel completely at comfort with someone, where you can just get to the lower your guard and not worry about anything because we're on the same page. I recall spending some time with a brother in the Lord that started telling the most offensive jokes you’ve ever heard. He could tell that I was uncomfortable, and he said, “It’s okay, we’re off the clock right now.” I’m afraid that is the story with too many of God’s children, unless it is Sunday morning and they are wearing their nice clothes, they are simply “off the clock.” Believer, I’ve learned it the hard way, we are never off the clock! You have to be careful to be on the same page with God.
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them” (Romans 16:17).
W. B. Riley writes of this experience in the ministry, a sad one.
"I was walking through a Baptist church in the city of Philadelphia where they were putting down a hardwood floor. The deacon apologetically explained that I might not approve, as they were arranging this for a dance room, then added, “The Doctor thinks we must get hold of the young people.”
"I responded, “My church house is crowded with young people, and I would lose nine out of ten of them if I introduced such a feature, and the tenth that remained would have no respect for me.”
"Not many months since, a church in the city of Minneapolis, professedly belonging to an evangelical denomination, put on what was called a Congo circus and advertised in the newspapers with a two-column cut of two young women dressed only in shorts, posing with hands clasped and uplifted knee to knee!
"If Jesus Christ was angered when He found in the temple “those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting,” and with a scourge of small cords, “drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables” in His righteous wrath, saying, “Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise,” what would He say if He came back to these modern churches and found them sitting before a Sunday night picture show, or decorated with primeval forests and Indian garb and Indian life dramatized, or, if you please, sitting through the mazes of a semi-nude Congo circus?"
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