SHOULD I REMAIN SILENT ?
One of the questions I sometimes
ask myself is: “Should I remain silent?”
I have in many occasions and from
various individuals received nasty and mean letters accusing me of being hate
mongers, simply because I have lifted my voice to warn about those who are
apostates or compromisers. I am accused of not loving, often by those who show
no love at all in their vitriolic accusations.
It makes me wonder if our life
would not be à lot easier if I just kept quiet about these matters and if I
asked the lord to take care of the false prophets and the false teachers.
Wouldn’t it be easier to be
positive rather than negative, to just preach the Gospel and not worry about
the liberals, just like the Ecumenists and the compromisers do? The answer to
such à question is simple, Yes, it would be much easier to remain silent or to
be positive.
But what orders has our Lord
Jesus Christ given us through His apostles ?
Jude fancied to write about the common salvation but found it needful to warn about “certain man who crept in unawares” (Jude v.4) Paul spent three whole years with the Ephesians warning them night and day with tears about the grievous wolves from without and the perverters from within. Paul exhorted us to tell the truth “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.” Ephesians;4;25. Paul preached the Gospel and did not remain silent about false teachers or disobedient brothers.
Yes it would be easier to remain
silent and never be negative, but to follow that policy would be to disobey the
Word of God.
May the lord help us never to
give needless offense but to remember that our responsibility is to please God
and not men.
The ones who disagree with our
biblical position will sometimes come up with the following statement. “God is
blessing the ministry of so and so, and God would not bless him if he were
doing wrong.” That is human reasoning, but it is not the word of God.
Jesus Christ told us that God
“Maketh His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just
and on the unjust.” Matthew;5;45
God used Samson, , but that does
not mean that God endorsed the character of Samson or all his acts.. God
blessed and used David but that does not mean that God approved of David’s sin
with the wife of Uriah. David suffered for that.
Too many religious persons flee
controversy, and wish truth to be stated without reference to those who hold the
opposite errors. Controversy and a bad spirit are in their estimation
synonymous terms and to oppose what is wrong is considered as contrary to
Christian meekness.
It is a serious thing to be a
watchman, for the destiny of precious souls are at stakes Ezekiel: 3;16-21, and
Ezekiel;33; 1-9. The watchman must be very alerts to every opportunity
and must not be afraid to sound the alarm.
Blind watchman are not faithful
for it is written in Isaiah;56;10-12; “His watchmen are blind, they are all
ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping. lying down,
loving to slumber.—Yes they are greedy dogs which never have enough,…they all
look to their own way, everyone for his gain…”
Paul was a faithful watchman
who was able to say; “Wherefore I take you
to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men---For I have not
shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” Acts;20;26-27
Even though, the Bible declares
in Proverbs;10;20, that “The tongue of the just is as choice silver.”, most of
the times à trumpet blower is despised and hated, just like it happened to
Ezekiel; “And He said unto me, Son of man go get thee unto the housed of
Israel, and speak with My words unto them. “For thou art not sent to à people
of strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.” “Not to
many people of à strange speech and of hard language, whose words thou canst
not understand, Surely had I sent theee to them, they would have hearkened unto
thee.” “but the house of Israel will hearken unto thee; for they will not
hearken unto Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and
hardhearted.”
WHAT IS LOVE? HOW IS IT
MANIFESTED?
True love originates from God, God is love manifested through the Lord Jesus Christ who “loved us and washed us from our sins with His own blood.” God love is pure, powerful and eternal, but there are many satanic and human counterfeits of God’s love such as perverted concepts of love promoted by popular religious denominations.
The ecumenical movement uses love
to justify collaboration and cooperation with false teachers and religions, and
more recently the Charismatic movement used love to justify an unscriptural
position and actions.
In the name of love, the
Christian soldier is asked to put down his sword, the watchman is instructed to
be silent, the shepherd is told he must not warn about the wolves in the flock.
Those who truly love the Lord and manifest His love to others are specifically
instructed to separate from false teachers and disobedient brothers. We are
also instructed to exercise the Scriptural ministry of reproof and rebuke.
Many call it negativism, but God calls it OBEDIENCE.
Whenever love is re-defined to
rule out the ministry of admonition and rebuke, the devil rejoices and Satan is
given à protected sanctuary inside the church, Christ’s Church.
It is better to be divided by the
truth than united by error, it is better to speak the truth that
hurts and then heals, then falsehood that comforts and then kills, it is better
to be hated for telling the truth then loved for telling a lie.
It is better to stand alone with
the truth, than to be wrong with the multitude.
Jesus Christ said: “I am the way
the truth and the life.”