01/03/25 CHURCHES SHOULD NOT FALL VICTIM

01/03/25 CHURCHES SHOULD NOT FALL VICTIM 

If you buy into the destructive gossip of a disgruntled person who is badmouthing another person (which may actually be a very kind and deeply committed Christian), then don't be shocked when that disgruntled person turns their guns on you, your family and your church.

The Bible tells us not to put our approval on other people too quickly. When you align with malcontents you are encouraging their meanness, promoting their divisiveness, attacking the innocent, following darkness, subjecting your loved ones to blasphemous attacks, jeopardizing family unity.

This kind of wisdom and discernment is expected to be found in mature Christians and especially in pastors. It is the obligation of adults, parents, mature believers and pastors to protect the young and the immature believer from divisive, destructive people and influences. Whole families and churches are being destroyed by wolves in sheep's clothing.

The Holy Spirit, speaking through Paul, told the elders of the Ephesian Church (and told believers in future generations...
Acts 20:28-32
28 'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
29 for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
31 'Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;
32 and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

We cannot stop individuals from falling prey to demonic attacks, but we can guard the flock.