Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
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… If you want to cross reference to that, look at Matthew 18, which is a little more stringent. Verse 15, yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. Try to win them back. Confront them. use measures of accountability for restoration. Count them as a brother, not an enemy. Now, verse, what verse are we on? I think we're going to make it. Should I do another show of hands? Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace always in every way. What a great benediction. The Lord be with, he's from the south, y'all. Lord be with y'all. the salutation of Paul with my own hand which is a sign in every epistle so I write remember Paul would often dictate his letter to a amanuensis that is a scribe or a secretary but he would always sign the last few letters words sentences and his name the salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is a sign in every epistle. So I write the grace. This is where he started. So he ends the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. …
… points too. 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6. He warns the church to keep away from a brother. brother. 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 14 and 15. Take special note not to associate with this particular brother. 2 Timothy 3 5, Titus 3 10. 2 Timothy 3 5, Titus 3 10. Having nothing to do with this brother. I want us to realize something. This is the exact opposite of what we think, isn't it? Like we think this is totally reversed. We think it is humble to welcome everyone as members of the church. We think it's a sign of humility to say, it doesn't matter what you continue to do in sin, you can still be a member. We think that's humble. In fact, we think it's prideful to do anything different. We would certainly call any church that's casting out members because they continue unrepentant and sin, who do they think they are? Holy, holier than thou people? Talk about legalism. That's what that church is all about. …
5. “But is it not expedient, however,” one might naturally ask, “to converse only with good men, — only with those whom we know to be meek and merciful, — holy of heart and holy of life? Is it not expedient to refrain from any conversation or intercourse with men of the opposite character, — men who do not obey, perhaps do not believe, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ? The advice of St. Paul to the Christians at Corinth may seem to favour this: “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.” (1 Cor. 5:9) And it is certainly not advisable so to company with them, or with any of the workers of iniquity, as to have any particular familiarity, or any strictness of friendship with them. To contract or continue an intimacy with any such is no way expedient for a Christian. It must necessarily expose him to abundance of dangers and snares, out of which he can have no reasonable hope of deliverance. But the Apostle does not forbid us to have any intercourse at all, even with the men that know not God: “For then,” says he, “ye must needs go out of the world;” which he could never advise them to do. But, he subjoins, “If any man that is called a brother,” that professes himself a Christian, “be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;” (1 Cor. 5:11; ) now I have written unto you not to keep company’ with him; “with such an one, no not to eat.” This must necessarily imply, that we break off all familiarity, all intimacy of acquaintance with him. “Yet count him not,” saith the Apostle elsewhere, “as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother;” (2 Thes. 3:15; ) plainly showing that even in such a case as this we are not to renounce all fellowship with him. So that here is no advice to separate wholly, even from wicked men. Yea, these very words teach us quite the contrary. …