Guilty

[Guest]

Beam and splinter time.

I'm reminded that when another persons' actions are getting on my nerves to ask myself if I'm doing the same thing. Our minds are funny that way. Sometimes when I stop and ask myself that question, the answer can be somewhat unpleasant.

[nebula]

Another friend posted this on FB -

"Religion focuses on a person's faults and short-comings and usually walks away all in the name of "god". Relationship focuses on a person's potential and speaks life, truth, hope, and faith into those faults and short-comings all the while walking with you in the Love Of God."

In your desire to correct someone, are you speaking life into them?

[BFP]

I think that since psychology has become a major factor in our everyday lives, it has really had it's toll on the way the gospel is preached. Just 30 years ago things were much different than they are now...people weren't so against the idea of being corrected, or being 'wrong'

These days nothing is really 'wrong' it all depends on how you see it:>) Love is not always sweet and kind and accepting...sometimes it is tough.

[saucy]

I know im guilty of things too awful for here:b,but rom.8:1 is like my lifeverse,there is now no condemnation to those who are n christ jesus,who walk not according to the flesh,but in the spirit,which is what im striving to do every day

[Guest man]

Another friend posted this on FB -

"Religion focuses on a person's faults and short-comings and usually walks away all in the name of "god". Relationship focuses on a person's potential and speaks life, truth, hope, and faith into those faults and short-comings all the while walking with you in the Love Of God."

In your desire to correct someone, are you speaking life into them?

James 5

19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

[nebula]

Another friend posted this on FB -

"Religion focuses on a person's faults and short-comings and usually walks away all in the name of "god". Relationship focuses on a person's potential and speaks life, truth, hope, and faith into those faults and short-comings all the while walking with you in the Love Of God."

In your desire to correct someone, are you speaking life into them?

James 5

19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

But are you speaking life to them with your words?

Are your words "full of grace seasoned with salt"? Or are they full of condemnation and seasoned with sulfuric acid?

[Guest man]

But are you speaking life to them with your words?

If you speak the truth, yes.

Are your words "full of grace seasoned with salt"? Or are they full of condemnation and seasoned with sulfuric acid?

That would depend on the motivation of the speaker. Am I truly trying to help or am I boasting of my knowledge of the scriptures.

If the listener is wise, he will consider the words, regardless of how they are delivered.

[nebula]

If the listener is wise, he will consider the words, regardless of how they are delivered.

Have you ever wondered why Nahum confronted David with a fake story rather than telling him straight up that he was an adulterer and murderer?

[Guest man]

If the listener is wise, he will consider the words, regardless of how they are delivered.

Have you ever wondered why Nahum confronted David with a fake story rather than telling him straight up that he was an adulterer and murderer?

Nathan?

Nathan told that story to show David that he was pretty much a hypocrite. David judged the man guilty of something that he himself was guilty of. Covetousness. He wasn't satisfied with what he had, he wanted more and what he wanted belonged to someone else.

When David judged the man guilty, he was basically passing judgment on himself.

2 Samuel 12

5 So David

[nebula]

Nathan - right.

OK, why would David need to see he was a hypocrite? Was hypocrisy his sin? He commits adultery and murder, and Nathan thinks it is important to expose hypocrisy?

That makes no sense to me.

If hypocrisy was the problem, why was the hypocrisy not given a punishment. In actuality, he was given mercy for this, for David was not given the death sentence on himself he proclaimed.

No, for David to repent, which was the goal, it was more beneficial for the sin to be exposed in his eyes for what it was. For him to have gone on for about a year without having repented, he obviously needed a different approach other than direct confrontation.