“There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.”
Proverbs 18:24 NLT
How do friends destroy you? They can gossip, incite you to partake in sexual sin, violence, corrupt practices and more.
Have you heard the saying, ‘choose your poison!’ This is perhaps what many do. Do we assess friends and the damage they can do to us? Are we tolerant of sinful ways, failing to confront the sin? Scriptures tells us that those who fail to confront their brother’s sin is guilty of their damnation (my paraphrase).Ezekiel 33:7-12.
We are responsible to confront sin, but if we are not heard, Jesus tells us to take along another person, if then he fails to listen tell it to the church, if he refuses to listen to the church let him be as a tax collector or gentile to you (Matt 18:17,18). The hard part is following this protocol as we are reticent to confront.
Do not be compromised by the sins of another! Amen!
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