REJECTION
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REJECTION
REJECTION
But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.
Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,
knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.
When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.
Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing.
And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful.
All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
Main Idea: Rebuke the divisive and stay focused on the mission.
Main Idea: Rebuke the divisive and stay focused on the mission.
Key Question: How do I know when to rebuke or reject?
Key Question: How do I know when to rebuke or reject?
1. Refuse to be distracted from the mission. (v. 9)
1. Refuse to be distracted from the mission. (v. 9)
But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.
Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
2. Reject anyone who distracts the church from its mission. (v. 10-11)
2. Reject anyone who distracts the church from its mission. (v. 10-11)
Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,
knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.
“Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’
And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
“Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”