When should you confront someone about their sin?

[Barnabas]

Very practical! Someone should turn this into a list with verse references and put it on a notecard so Christians can always have a handy guide on how to deal with sin.

[JustIce-xpxn]

Judging Sin Inside The Church Is A thing We Can Do!!! Hello!!!

[andreasgeorgiou]

I rebuked my brother regarding a serious sin he did in a gentle way, he continued to mock me and hurt my family all for selfish reasons, yesterday I confronted him about his recent behaviour in a harsher way (to my shame) and the result was more damaging to me than to him. So I think it best to try and win your brother or sister in a Christ like way but if they do not listen then simply walk away

[mrmcgowan]

We're not supposed to judge unbelievers, but we are to hold other Christians accountable. If someone considers themselves to be a believer, but you know that by their behavior they are NOT, then how do you confront them?

[RezuSlasher]

"Confront" is a great word but most people think it means "making arguments." If they're willing to pray through it with you, that's the help they've been hoping for!

[leastoftheapostolicfaith]

Jesus rebuked the Pharisees.
John the Baptist rebuked unsaved common men and royalty for their sins.
How about the prophets????
They were all killed for speaking God's word.
God destroys people who don't listen to him, so He warns of their fate, eternal death, so that they may repent! If you love someone you'll tell them of their sin. And how will they hear to be saved if you don't tell them.

I'm personally very timid in confronting sin yet The Holy Spirit speaks by the example of the people He moved through in Scripture.

Lean on His Spirit and Word for understanding.

Jesus told his followers not to judge (condemn people to hell) by ignoring them because the Jews thought them self better then the Samaritans a.k.a. second-class citizens. Jesus taught that if a people refuse to listen after being warned and presented the hope of restoration to wipe the dust from your feet and MoveOn.

They condemn themselves by resisting the Holy Spirit

Furthermore, Paul tells us that if a "believer" refuses and continues in sin to abandon that person to Satan and not even to eat with them.

Thank God he is so patient with us and is faithful and just to cleanse us and forgive us when we turned to him and get honest about our fear; sins of omission or commission.

[lupeguadalupe]

The problem is that many people are professing to be believers and therefore are putting us as Christians in very odd situations when they are blackout arrogantly making excuses sin

[angloaust]

Keep yourself pure dont associate with worldly or religous people!

[ElleeZee]

Would like to hear more about what it means to take the log out of your own eye. I have never heard a robust explanation of this and folks seem to have various understandings of what that means.

[waytruthlifedisciple]

I would answer this question a bit differently. My answer would be to follow the examples of jesus' preaching. You won't win them all to Christ. Even he himself didn't reach everyone with his message that heard it. Preach the whole council of god and let the holy spirit do the rest, even if you don't see immediate results.

[reygillera]

Good day! I just have a question because I really don't know what to do. I want to correct some of my Christian friends because they have wrong beliefs and I'm afraid that I will sin against God for not rebuking them. Should I? It's harder since they don't base teachings from the bible.

[JustIce-xpxn]

I've done this and lost a sister. Ppl have already told her. She kept in it. She isn't that concerned unless it hurts her. She been messy. I first said in meekness but she kept shutting Me down but when I got tough she seemed to care more to give ear to it. She's the type that can correct you but u can't correct her.

[kimmankin]

When opening up to a spiritual morher qs a new believer and she dismissed me completely based on gossip About my past? I really looked up to her

[nw]

Choose the camera or your interviewer, but please don't go back and forth, either this is a sermon or it's an interview. Thank you for your service.

[pyuille]

Will Apostle Paul's advice to Timothy in 1 Timothy 5:20 be vilified in our cotton Candy day?

[jvolstad]

Is there a list of sins? If I don't know the law, how can I avoid breaking it?

[samuelmarte]

Still equipping the Saints 12 years later.

[judy]

Everyone has good advice! But what is the Truth? We are child of God's own family's! Love God with all our hearts and children of God 2nd? And in the family the son my brother is doing is no more sin than I am doing ? All are sin! Holy Spirit is kinda telling me to say something because my brother may die sooner than . What do I say? Without fearing God?

[discipleoftheLordJesusChrist]

instead of listening to men
leaning on their own understanding, perhaps you should obey what God's Word says:

First, let's establish that what
1st Corinthians 10:11-12 is true:

*Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.*

Second, 2nd Timothy 3, verse 13-17 is also true:

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

*And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.*

Third, in the old testament, Jeremiah 5:1 says, "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it."

Fourth, Zechariah chapter 8 verses 16 and 17 are clear commands:

*"These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, " saith the LORD.*

Fifth, Ephesians chapter 5 verses 11-13 is also a clear command(with a promise) from the Holy Spirit, which says,

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather *reprove them.* For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

*But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light* : for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

Sixth, Ezekiel chapter 3 verses 18 and 19 are very clear...

"When I say unto the wicked, 'Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."

Seventh, Jeremiah 48:10, is also very clear:

"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood."

Eighth, Jesus Himself said,
in John 7:24 – "Judge not according to the appearance, but *judge righteous judgment."*

Ninth, in 1st Corinthians 2:12-16 it is made very evident that if are born of the Spirit, *we are to judge all things.*

12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

*But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.*

16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? *but we have the mind of Christ.*

Tenth, in Philippians chapter 3 verse 15, it tells us again,

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
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Judgment begins in the house of God... but it doesn't end there.

As Jesus said to remove the beam from our own eye first, so we can then help our brother remove the speck from his, that is where it begins.

First, clean the inside of the cup, then the outside.

After the judgment is executed in the house of God, then we are to go and righteously judge our neighbor(s) who are outside of the church.

[WLDWESLEY]

I've witnessed a man who say him and his husband got a gay house and i stood there with no ammo in myself to properly stand for Jesus. I assume if I stand for Jesus or God he will have that against me. To a degree I wasn't afraid of losing my job but losing my connection with Jesus. I'm accusing myself of being a useless servant