sin in dealing with sinners because he "did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth" (1 Peter 2:22, Isaiah 53:9). His communication with sinners was pure and never encouraged them in sin.
Example when we see a stranger in trouble we try to help them, that does not mean that we were his friends, it means that compassion to help.
We also know that Jesus hates the evil in Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond your companions. "Our sins, but He came to die for our sins and give us the power by the Spirit to overcome sin.
Compassion does not equal tolerance and friendship, especially when the sin is concerned. As to be in the company of sinners, Jesus also gave his reason for it: the sick need a doctor. He ate with sinners, not to adopt its style of life, but to call them to repentance (Luke 5:29-32).
We must not make excuses for our sins, nor should we hide our sins (Psalm 32:5) but we must confess our sins to the Father (1 John 1:9) and maintained faith in Jesus alone can wash away our sins.
I tell you the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. (Luke 15:7)
Similarly, we I say there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. (Luke 15:10)
I things in common. Everything 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 states. Only after the sinner repents of sin in response to the mercy of God can such characteristics of the friendship how are you is possible. The truth is primarily learned by the contrasts and James 4:4 against friends and enemies of God is clear. Finally, the only two men as friends of God sanctioned in the Bible were Moses and Abraham.
The Scripture holds many events that God does not walk with a permanent smile on everyone, here are some of the verses:
Psalms 5:5: "… Do you hate all evildoers.
Rom 2:5-6:5 But because of his stubbornness and unrepentant heart "The Son of man will send his angels and gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and cast them into the furnace of fire; and bring those who know him. Jesus said: "Like everyone I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."
by everyone in the city to be a sinner. notable change had begun to take place in the heart of Zacchaeus?
He hurried and came down, and received Him gladly more times. "
Zacchaeus was sorry! Christ was in honor of the repentance of Zacchaeus by their presence as a guest in the house of Zacchaeus.
Without But unrepentant citizens of Jericho were not willing to recognize the evidence of change of Zacchaeus repented. They saw it as a "sinner", focusing only the apparent sins of his past.
Let's look first at a time when Jesus describes friendship ..
John 15:14-15: You are My friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends, because everything I've heard from my Father I have made known.
Here we see Jesus saying, "those of you who love and live in sin, which is my friend. Disobedience to Christ is not the friendship with him. He shares his life with friends of his obedient. There are plenty of people who justify their sins noted did it to preach the gospel to them, to call them to repentance, and not to participate in their evil deeds of darkness. When the Pharisees asked Jesus why ate with the wicked sinners, Jesus said in Luke. 5:31-32 "It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not been to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. "
Jesus hated sin and hated worldliness. He put the sin of men to call sinners repentance.We can even build relationships with the wicked to call sinners to repentance and evangelism them, but never to enjoy your sin or sinful lifestyle. Paul said this to the Ephesians in Eph. 5:3-8, II Cor. 6:14-17, I Cor. 15:33-34, II Tim. 2:16-18.
with the promise of freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. Peter explains that those who promise freedom and "Christian liberty" are already overcome by sin and enslaved to it.
John 15:14: "Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Here we see that also does evil, and sin is lawlessness.
There are many people who twist the words of God and make Jesus a "friend of the sinners "and claim innocence before Christ.
Let's see Luke 7:33-35:33 "John the Baptist, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and say, ' He has a demon! "34" The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and say: 'Behold a man gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! "35" But wisdom is justified, the Baptist "He has a demon"
Jesus was a man "greedy"
Jesus was a drunk "
Jesus was a "friend of publicans and sinners"
How anyone can argue that the allegations are true. To take just one of the four charges against Christ and claim it is true, is twisting the Scripture, taking it out of context, but men with smooth words deceive multitudes doing the same thing.
You see, if we say that Jesus was a "friend of sinners", then we conclude that allegations are true, then it is also a drunk and a man gluttonous, and John the Baptist had a demon (God forbid). Certainly none of these things are true, so we can conclude that Jesus was not a friend of sinners, and he was not a drunkard, or a gluttonous man, nor John have a demon. have such a high priest: holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens;
Let's look at Luke 15:1-2: Now all collectors tax collectors and sinners were coming near him to listen. And both the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
Here in this verse, we see once again that words are an indictment of a pharsee.
God does not recognize repentance. "But if the wicked man turns away from all his sins that he, because of his righteousness that he has practiced, he will live.
"I have perhaps the death of the wicked, saith the Lord, "rather than to be his good deeds he has done will not be remembered for his betrayal he has committed and his sin he has committed to they will die.
"But you say," The Lord's way is wrong. "Hear now, O house of Israel is not my right way? Is it not your ways that are not perfect?
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity that he has committed, he will die.
"Once again, when a wicked man turns from his wickedness he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life. Because he considers and withdrew from all his transgressions that were committed, he shall surely live, not die.
"But the house of Israel says:" The way of the Lord not right. "Are not my ways right house of Israel? Is not your ways that are not perfect? Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to their conduct, "declares the Lord GOD." Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become an obstacle for you. Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! To find out why you die, O house of Israel? To avoid I take pleasure in the death of any person who dies, "declares the Lord GOD." Therefore, repent and live. "(Ezekiel 18:20-32)
In all the parables that Jesus was a friend of sinners shows that "once again emphasizing Jesus Christ is great, merciful God and loving respect for the repentance of those who sin.
Let's examine some cases in which it is recorded that Christ ate with men unrepentant – although it is clear that men were imagined to be fair!
We are not to socialize with people on all those who, having passed part of the Church of God, are practicing sin. Jesus had compassion for sinners, because Christ came into the world to save sinners. He did not come to that sinners feel good about themselves.
Some people try to justify his wrongdoing, saying, for example, that Jesus refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery and that he spent much of their time eating and drinking with sinners.
The words of Jesus to women adulteress: "Neither do I condemn you" (John 8:11), are full of forgiveness, no tolerance. She knew her own sin, and He knew she did it, while aspiring stone-throwers were not thinking about them. So Jesus had to deal with them first. But after he forgave the woman, note that Jesus did not say, "Go, follow your feelings, celebrate diversity, and try not to hurt anyone." He said: "Go, and sin no more. "At the paralytic, he added a further warning:" Sin no more, lest something worse happen to you "(John 5:14). God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the word of reconciliation.2 Corinthians 5:19
God hates everyone who does not first. "God is not angry merely against the sin and the sinner abstract, but against the sinner when himself.Eg says that God hates the theft, but loves the thief. He abhors adultery, but is pleased with the adulterer. This makes no sense. Sin is not an moral, apart from sinners. also know that God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. "(Psalm 7:11)
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in his own eyes, yet is not washed from their filthiness.
God hates sinners so much that " cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, the idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death. (Revelation 21:8)
Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet are quick in running to mischief, a false witness who spreads lies and he who sows dissension between siblings.
Whoever is born of God commits sin. And the saints are made free from sin to become servants of righteousness. The word of God, prayer keeps away from sins and also need to maintain as far as possible from places of sin and sinners corrupt good manners.
1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God does not sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can not sin, because he is born of God.
1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God does not sin, but he that is born of God is saved, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
When God says who hates sinners, not to say that going to tolerate sinners or sinners unpunished. Love for sinners not a reason to keep silent about sin. The Bible says always sin must be confessed, cried, hated, he left, avoided even the appearance of all shapes, shoulder be guarded, which is prayed to ward off and released of sin, to ask God when the sinner is purged of his sinful nature. God will receive any sinner repent that comes through Jesus Christ. True love a sinner is telling the truth in love, correcting him, to rebuke sin and not allow a person to live in sin or to continue their sinful lifestyle. The godly sorrow we must change our mind about the way they acted and lived in the past. Our sorrow should make us decide to stop doing what is wrong and start doing what is right. This is repentance.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:6-8 to when we were still weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Certainly scarcely for a righteous man will one die, and yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, and should have turned from their evil way, and the evil of their doings.
The evil people encourage themselves in sin and those who commit Delight sins. to tempt others and they blame others or God for their sinful nature. They have become spiritual Blinded is caused by the effect of sin, a work of the devil and leads for all ills. When God's people do not obey him, he allows the spirit of blindness ahead of them.
Psalms 64:5 themselves in an evil: the commune secret trap laying, say, Who sees them?
Isaiah 3:9 The showed their faces testifies against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, not they hide. Woe to the soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.
Proverbs 14:9 Fools mock at sin: but among the upright there is favor.
Psalm 10:11 says in his heart, God has forgotten that he hid his face and never sees.
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and not cease from sin, enticing unstable souls: an heart they have exercised in covetous practices, curse children:
Proverbs 10:16 The labor of the righteous is for life the fruit of the wicked to sin.
We also know that true love to God is to hate evil.
People who know the will of God and who love justice will hate sin and evil.
May those who love the Lord hate evil, because the life guards and rescues his faithful the hand of the wicked. Psalm 97:10
Hate evil, love good, maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty have mercy on the remnants of Joseph. Amos 5:15
A fear of the LORD is to hate evil: I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Proverbs 8:13
We need to eliminate our self with people who constantly encourages us to sin that sin and refuse to repent and whose lifestyle reflects their transgressions. We must be very careful who we become friends.
The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the path of the wicked makes them astray. "(Proverbs 12:26)
The Bible says that bad company corrupts good morals (1 Corinthians 15:33).
God has called us to pious walk and keep away from sin. A godly friend will lead to God, the Church, holiness, holiness and truth.
can not be friend to all. The word of God says – friends ill, friends will corrupt wicked.
Their feet run to evil, are swift to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their ways. The way of peace they have not known, and no justice in their paths, which are made crooked, and it takes thus does not know peace "(Isaiah 59:7,8).
"There is a way that seems right to man but its end is death" (Proverbs 14:12).
Do not get in the way of the wicked, and walk in the way of evil. Do not travel on it; turn away from it and move on. Because they do not sleep less who have done wrong, and his dream is removed unless someone manages to crash. They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous is like the sun shines that shines ever brighter until the perfect day. The path of the wicked is like darkness; do not know what makes them stumble "(Proverbs 4:11-19).
You can not be friend of the world and God. If we have friendship with worldly friends that encourages us to live in ways the world and encourages us to sin and we are going to stop listening Word of God. forms of the word of God and the holy is God? Whoever therefore wants to be friends of the world is the enemy of God.
We can identify friends of evil in our lives, by their fruits. The bad friends are are full of anger and bitterness as lifestyle, goals, lessons, moral conflict with the word of God, who offers advice wrong with wrong motives, that gossip, which is its only in good times and run when you fall.
Every sin has its own consequences and demands very high price. The end result of sin is death and destruction. "The wages of sin. Is death" (Rom. 6:23). Some examples are:
1) Ham and Noah (Genesis 9:20-27) in order to consider both the naked body of the son of Ham, Canaan and his descendants are cursed (future Canaanites)
2) The angels taking human wives (Genesis 6:1-12, Jude 6-7, 2 Peter 2:4), who gave serious sexual immorality with "strange flesh" and as a result the Earth was corrupt and full of violence, God determined to destroy mankind by a flood.
3) Sodom and Gomorrah (Jude 6-7, Gen. 18:16-33, Genesis 19:1-29, Ezekiel 16:48-50) was involved in LGBT, Pride, Gluttony which resulted in two cities and the surrounding area were destroyed by God.
4) Lot and his daughters involved in incest (Genesis 19:30-38), because their daughters did not have faith that God would provide for them which led to descendants (Ammonites and Moabites) became hated enemies of the people of God.
Gods word saying "I wrote in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people – not what people mean in this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case, would have to leave this world. But now I'm writing what not to associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With a man even eat. What business is mine to judge those outside the church? You to try not inside? God will judge those outside. Eject the evil from among you "(1 Corinthians 5:9-13).
It is actually reported that there are sexual immorality among you, and of a type that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. And you're proud! But rather are filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? … When assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit and power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan, so the meat can be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 5:1-5)
Dear friend, do not imitate evil but good. Any person who does what is good is of God. Anyone who does evil has not seen God. 3 John 1:11
It is best if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than doing evil. 1 Peter 3:17
Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you do not share in their guilt. Leviticus 19:17
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