Re: What Should be Shouted from Rooftops?
"... then the Lord whispered to me in secret many of the evil things these hypocrites had done and instructed me to "shout it from the rooftop" why wouldn't I listen to the Lord?"
"The Lord has also made it plain that He may tell saints to shout these sins and hypocrisies from the rooftop."
Z,
No. the context of these verses give no indication that the Lord is whispering the sins and hypocrisies of brothers into your or anyone's ear and therefore provide no justification for shouting those sins and hypocrisies from the rooftops.
On the contrary, Matthew 18 gives clear unambiguous instruction on how to deal with brothers and in this chapter the standard of forgiveness is "70 X 7" offenses against you personally and the command to forgive your brother from heart with attending consequences if you refuse to.
Let me be clear: I am not saying that we bury our head in the sand to things going on and neither do the words of the Lord Jesus nor Paul's. I am saying that you and others are misapplying the words of our Lord Jesus in the treatment of genuine brothers and apparently ignoring the prescriptive process articulated by Him in Matthew 18 and Paul in Corinthians.
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Cassidy
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