"'If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity….'"
Leviticus 5:1
We like to pretend that we have no responsibility for someone else and the error of their ways. We would like to believe that our silence is due to our maturity, love, and kindness, when it is due to our evil ways.
To watch someone sin and do nothing is just as bad as if you were participating in that sin yourself. To call yourself a friend of one who is sinning and say nothing makes you more of an enemy than a friend.
Satan has been able to work many definitions throughout history. Thinking that "friendship" has to do with enabling rather than empowering is one of his most masterful lies.
When writing to young Timothy, Paul told Timothy (2 Timothy 4) to preach the Word in a way that was reproving, rebuking, and exhorting. He told him to be patient, for it is well understood that this "growth" thing is a slow process.
God is not tolerant, but He is patient. We are often tolerant. |
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