What You Don’t Know, Let Go

by admin ~ October 11th, 2019. Filed under: Brandenburg.

If you don’t know, then let it go. Scripture is plain. It is not intended to be mysterious. There are mysteries, but what scripture says is not a mystery, which is why Paul said, “And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15). A child knows the holy scriptures, which are the Old Testament, and include Leviticus. He can know. Scripture was gives to us to know and to keep, so it must be understood. When you go to judge, be sure of what you are judging. Don’t assume. The point for judging anyway is to help, not condemn. It’s not to “catch” someone having done something wrong. If there is something wrong, and you know it, can attach scripture to it, then the point is to help the person, like Galatians says, restore and bear burdens. When that occurs, usually the approach is entreaty, and required with an older person. If a person won’t listen, then he might become an unruly person, and he must be warned. Warning sometimes must occur, but even that is so that someone won’t be hurt or worse, destroyed, by whatever it is. He may not react in the right way and the situation could change. Furthermore, remove the beam from the eye, like Jesus required in Matthew 7. This is why Paul in Galatians writes, “he that is a spiritual,” as a prerequisite. What is the point if there is nothing wrong? It’s not good. This is where Paul’s teaching on forbearance, forgiveness, not wrath or malice.

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