Is it a need to forgive ... or a need to free yourself from that person?

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

Some people keep trying to forgive a rebellious person when what they really need is to avoid that person, especially if that other person identifies himself as a Christian while he disobeys God by rejecting scripture.

Titus 3

10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

God teaches HIS people by HIS Spirit.  If a person says he is a Christian but he is "ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth", that person is not being taught by God.

You can't help that person.

All we can do is warn him once or twice, and then leave him alone, don't try to keep teaching him, for if you keep doing this, he will eat you alive by his disobedience.

I once said to my mother:  "You can go down.  But I won't go with you."

My mother then straightened up and began agreeing with scripture and stopped doing that which had been against scripture and she was born again.

We must not continue teaching them when they have rejected the scriptures. 

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