Friend and Enemy
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Men do not need to be told that they have friends and they have enemies, and yet many modern Christians have been so propagandized by eisegesis and so misled by false teachers that they no longer believe that a Christian can have enemies, and yet Scripture clearly states that men will not only have enemies, but that some of those enemies will be in their own households. In this life, you will have friends and you will have enemies, some will be weak and some will be strong, some will abandon you when the tide turns and some will stand with you no matter what may come; being a Christian does not change this.
Yes, we are to forgive our personal enemies, but that does not thereby make them anything other than enemies, and to treat the friend and the enemy identically is to be derelict in the duties given us by God. We do service neither to God nor to the Church when we pretend that enemies are not enemies; in fact, it is that very sort of wickedness that drives many men away from the churches in disgust. As Christian men, we must reclaim a proper understanding of friend and enemy and a proper approach to dealing with both — not least of all when the enemies stand up in the churches, as they do all too often today.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone |
| 0:44.7 | Choir, we're going to be discussing friend and enemy. These are terms that get used all the time, |
| 0:50.8 | and we're going to be talking about the different contexts in our lives where |
| 0:54.6 | we should be looking for them. And I say at the outset that this is supposed to be an episode |
| 1:01.8 | where we're giving tools for how to think, not tools for what to do. We're not going to say, |
| 1:09.3 | okay, here's your friend, so treat them one way, |
| 1:11.3 | here's your enemy, treat them another. We're going to talk a lot about scripture today, |
| 1:15.0 | as well as politics. We're going to begin mostly in some mundane, secular things before we |
| 1:21.7 | move into the scripture. The reason that it is important to think about this is not to make people paranoid, not to make |
| 1:30.4 | you suddenly start looking for enemies everywhere, but specifically because Christians are |
| 1:35.7 | incredibly bad at understanding and believing what God has told us, which is that we do have |
| 1:41.2 | enemies. We have enemies in our churches. We have enemies in our families. |
| 1:45.9 | And that is what God has prophesied would occur, and has always been the case. |
| 1:50.6 | It's not some huge spiritual thing that no one can understand. |
| 1:54.7 | We see it all the time. |
| 1:56.4 | And the fact that we see it and the fact that it's real means it's something that we have to deal with as men. |
| 2:02.8 | And as Christians, we have to deal with it as Christian men. |
| 2:05.7 | We don't get to deal with it as the world would deal with those things. |
| 2:10.0 | So as we lay these things out, I don't want people to get paranoid or to start hunting for enemies. |
| 2:16.1 | The point is simply to acknowledge that this stuff actually happens and it matters. |
| 2:21.1 | Because when you have real friends and you have real enemies and they're operating in your life, |
| 2:27.3 | there are significant consequences to that. |
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