Is there anything in the bible concerning busybodies or gossipers?
Are we supposed to like, mind our own business or push our way into others business?
So Paul is chastising a man for having his father's wife, but wasn't he BOASTING about it in the church? How did they know?
1Co 5:1
It is reported commonly
that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1Co 5:2
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1Co 5:3
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done this deed,
1Co 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1Co 5:5
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
ESV: And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
We know that this "sin" is according to the law of Moses. And Paul says to turn him over to those who hold that rod. The worldly authority.
And this man was a part of the church, he was in the "in crowd" . And was to be put out.
Most of the people we pointing fingers at are already out, and apparently the world has judged that it's fine.
Apparently the new neighbors with rainbow T-shirts are not in this church these Christians with cookies are offering.
So is it our duty to warn those outside the church?
1Co 5:9
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1Co 5:10
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
1Co 5:11
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1Co 5:12
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
1Co 5:13
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Do we have boundaries?
Is it our job to save the world, or should we be concentrating rather on unifying the church we reside in?
Rom 1:26
For this cause
God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in
their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
If God is the one who gives them up, are we able to reclaim them?
This world is a mess and we know it. And we been told about it. We also have been told how to deal with it.
And it is God who opens and closes doors and chooses his sheep and opens ears and hearts.
Are we greater than God?
We should offer our new neighbors with rainbow T-shirts cookies and when they ask us to wear rainbow T-shirts, then we can explain why we choose not to.
I don't believe we should go out into the world ready to battle those things that God has already put aside for his own purpose.
He sends whom he will to join the church. And then it is up to them to change their ways if it is in their heart to do so.
And if it is not in their heart to change, then they are not welcome unless and until they do.
If a group of people want to have an LGBTQ assembly and call it a church, God will judge that church.
Ours is not to partake in things which we know goes against God.
Not to burn their church down because we don't agree with it.
God will handle it. And God's ways are much more efficient and long lasting than our own.
There are two closets. One is in darkness and the other is well lit.
People choose which closet attracts them and enters therein.
And God puts in their heart a desire to enter the light and if they resist then it is on them, not us.
If you don't want homosexuality in the world, then don't be a homosexual.
You have power over your own space. God has power over others space.
So we aught to Mind Our Own Business.
Those my thoughts
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