MOV:"Judge them"  (from Sound Doctrine Church)

   Please read this very carefully. Jesus has some very important
things to say about your church or some member of your church. This
tract is about God's will for you concerning your dead church or your
hypocrite Christian friend.

   It is to these scriptures we hold you accountable to live out by the
power of the Holy Spirit. God is speaking only about those who claim to
know God, but are liars. As Titus 1:16 says:

   "They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They
are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good."

   But you say, 'We are not to judge. At least that is what our church
teaches.' Those are the very people and churches you are to leave, for
scripture very clearly says in 1 Corinthians 5:12,

   "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are
you not to judge those inside?"

   LEAVE THEM

   What you are reading are not the words of some preacher or church
but the very words of Jesus. For Jesus says,

   "'Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled
up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides.'" Matthew 15:13.

   Therefore, to stay in those churches or to listen to those teachers
is sin! You will be in sin if you do not obey this! Don't be blind
yourself in not being able to see who those worthless teachers and
churches are.

   YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH

   You are not strong enough to stay close to the Lord in the midst of
such people. After all, who can disobey the Word of God and expect to
be close to Jesus?

   "Don't be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character'" 1
Corinthians 15:33

   "Jesus said to them, 'Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees
and Sadduces.'" Matthew 16:6.

   "Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works
through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast..." 1
Corinthians 5:6.

   That is why Paul pleads saying... "I urge you, brothers, to watch
out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way
contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For
such people are not serving our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive
people." Romans 16:17-18.

   Let all who claim they are full of the Holy Spirit and who follow
the Word of God be able to boast with David when he says,

   "I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites;
I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked."

   Psalm 26:4-5

   LOVE

   Oh, how many complain that this is not loving like Jesus. People
think true love is to not judge but to "just look at Jesus".People
think love is to always look past the bad and to look toward the good.
Yet Paul did not know that kind of love and Paul was a man who was
"just looking at Jesus".

   "You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! In fact, you
put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage
of you or pushes himself forward or slaps you in the face. To my shame
I admit we were too weak for that!" 2 Corinthians 11:19

   HOW FAR SHOULD YOU LEAVE THEM?

   Just how far should you remove yourself from them. The answer is
found in 1 Corinthians 5:11.

   "But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone
who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an
idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler.

   With such a man do not even eat."

   We plead with you to have God open your eyes to all the "greedy" and
"idolaters" that are in the church. Let the Holy Spirit make
judgements, then obey those judgements.

   WAKE UP !

   Mark the following scripture well in your heart and live it by the
power of the Holy Spirit.

   "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud,
abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without
love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
lover's of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than loves of God - having a form a godliness but denying its
power. HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM." -2 Timothy 3:1-5.

   How many churches and Christians this fits! According to this,
finding a true godly church is indeed a rare find. Most of all though,
notice what you are to do. Notice what you should obey. We will repeat
it if you missed it:..."Have NOTHING to do with them."

   VAIN WORSHIP

   Jesus says that we can worship him in such a way that it is vain
worship.

   "They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by
men." - Matthew 15:9.

   Does your church teach the doctrines of men that rob God of His
power? (i.e. Catholicism, musical instruments are a sin, once saved
always saved, that all must speak in tongues etc.) If so, be praying
earnestly what you must do, because it is VERY possible that their
worship is in "vain"! Especially be on guard against those who preach
the Word of God but without the power of the cross being in it, (1
Corinthians 1:17).

   DOES ALL THIS FIT YOUR LIFE OR CHURCH?

   Be careful of those who cry "Holy Spirit" but follow "natural
instincts", (Jude :19). Beware of those who will be saying "Holy
Spirit" but are really walking in the power and feelings of the flesh.
Do they claim a grace that doesn't produce "self control"? Do they deny
the power of the Holy Spirit with its gifts and speaking today? Do they
substitute emotionalism for discipleship? Does G O D consider your
church to be a "lover of pleasure", "money" or a lover of self
(psychological teaching)? Then "have nothing to do with them." These
are all the marks of "terrible times" and God is warning you to " LEAVE
THEM " . Will you? Your soul is at stake. Do you really love God
enough to obey him? Do you love others enough to obey these scriptures
by the power of the Holy Spirit?

   You must leave such churches, Christians and teachers! "For the time
will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
suit their own desires they will gather around them a great number of
teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." - 2 Timothy 4:3

   ONE THING YOU CAN BE SURE OF

   If you're not too sure about all this, then let us leave you with
something that you can be sure about in the Lord.

   'But among you there must not be even a hint of sexually immorality,
or any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for
God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or
coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of
this you can be sure: No immoral impure, or greedy person-such a person
is an idolater -has ANY inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of
God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such
things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore,

   DO NOT BE PARTNERS WITH THEM.'

   -Ephesians 5:3-7
