When to confront sin vs keep your mouth shut.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Jesus called out sin in others, except when He didn't. This question takes more wisdom than a simple, hard and fast rule will allow. Here are a few thoughts and a relevant passage of Scripture for you to consider. Hopefully it helps you figure out if you should call out sin or keep your mouth shut. My website: https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	Should we call out sin in the lives of other Christian friends?
0:03.4	I had a convo with my pastor about this in regard to cussing and he told me if we
0:07.3	don't have a mutual edification, then it might not be my place.
0:11.6	Well, I mean, that's a safe statement.
0:13.7	If you don't have mutual edification, a relationship or the two of you can build
0:17.2	each other up, like you have that open door to talk to them about, about things
0:21.0	like that and confront them, then it might not be the place.
0:24.3	Well, that's true.
0:24.7	It might not be the place.
0:26.6	So I think that your pastor might be just saying based on your summary of
0:29.4	him, he might just be saying, it's not always your role to call, to call
0:35.1	people out just because you see something that you don't like or something
0:37.4	that you think is, I shouldn't say no, like something that you know is sinful
0:41.5	and wrong.
0:43.0	Well, it's definitely not always your role.
0:46.2	Imagine if Jesus always called out everything he saw everyone do around him.
0:50.0	He's holy.
0:50.7	He would just be calling things out all day long nonstop.
0:53.0	Hey, you just thought lustfully about that woman over there.
0:54.9	You need to stop that.
0:56.7	You just laughed at that guy because I exposed him because you have pride and
1:00.1	arrogance in your heart.
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