NO PARTIALITY IN JUDGEMENT
Many Christians are looking to their pastors and leaders to take strong stands on all types of issues with no compromise. The Church may lose a few people at the outset for offending them, but the word will then get out that we are preachers that will not compromise the truth and Word of God, and we will then end up drawing more people to enter the Kingdom of God as a result.
The verses below state that the true wise man of God will not show partiality in judgment on topics such as these, especially if you are in a position of counseling or leadership within the Body of Christ.
Proverbs 24:23 “These things also belong to the wise: IT IS NOT GOOD TO SHOW PARTIALITY IN JUDGMENT. He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” him the people will curse; nations will abhor him. But those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and good blessing will come upon them. He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.”
Proverbs 28:21,23 “TO SHOW PARTIALITY IS NOT GOOD, because for a piece of bread a man will transgress … He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward than he who flatters with the tongue.”
Romans 2:11 For God shows no partiality.
We are working for God, not for man. The only thing that matters is that we speak God’s Truth as leaders within His body, and not what the people want to hear. Study the prophets of the Old Testament – not one of them used any mixed words of comfort counseling when God had them to call out the evil that His people were engaging in.
2Timothy 4:3 The time will come when people will not listen to the true teaching. But people will find more and more teachers who please them. They will find teachers who say what they want to hear.
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. 17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'"
Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.
Many church goers are going into captivity and are being destroyed for lack of knowledge and guidance from their pastors and counselors. The truth will set these people free – but we first have to tell them what the truth really is before it can start to work to set them free.
Firstly, the Gospel of Repentance saves souls and the Gospel of Grace keeps them. Yet we hear both in church so the church goers can leave with a satisfying conscious about their relationship with God. The word “saved” does not mean a person convert their religion to Christianity; neither does it mean to truly “know” Jesus died on the Cross for your sins. To be saved means to be truly converted by sorrow and repentance to receive Christ as your Savior. In other words to be born-again and received the Holy Spirit so you can now life the new life with Christ in you.