Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners

Dr. Joan Boney, Jesus Ministries ...

If someone in a church group turns from a portion of scripture and goes another way, that person will bring "evil communications" to us in his way of life.  

We cannot stay around such a person as this unless he will correct himself if we admonish him with godly correction.

I Corinthians 15:33   Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

If we warn that person and he rejects our warning, we will be pulled down in grief over him, and we must not deceive ourselves into thinking that we will be able to help him by being with him.  

It is God who teaches each of us.  

If a person is not being taught by God, we will not be able to reach him.  

The fact that God is not teaching him means he is not of God.  

We will waste ourselves if we keep trying to give him instruction from God.  Instead we must do the following:

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.

Don't keep trying to send messages to him.  If he rejects the first or second message, just walk away from him.  It is so important to our safety to learn to stop sending messages after he rejects one or two messages.  Just do the above scripture!

Words spoken by people stick inside us like a seed and at some point bear fruit in us unless we choose to root up the concept by that given us by God.

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