Enticement by Sinners

"My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood." Proverbs 1:10-16

If any people ask you to join hands with them to persecute some innocent person, either in your church, in your society, or in your office, do not join them. According to the Word of God, they are sinners, indeed. They may call themselves "born-again" or "Spirit-filled" Christians. If all of them consent to get rid of an innocent man or woman from their church, do not go with them. If sinners entice you, you should not consent. If some servant of God sends you an invitation to hatch a conspiracy against an innocent person, you should not give your consent, not to speak of your joining hands with him. In your office or in your society, if some people invite you to implicate an innocent person in a false case of litigation, you should not give your consent. These days, many popular evangelists entice the innocent people of God with an eye on their money purses in order to support their own various building projects or other ministries. They covet "all precious substance" with a view to filling "our houses with spoil." They exhort the prospective donors to "cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse." They do not tell the donors after receipt of their money as to how they have spent their money. Their establishments are likened to white elephants. Whatever money is received by them cannot be properly accounted for. "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (John 3:20-21) They spend the sacrificial offerings given by the people of God for purposes which are not meant for evangelism or for ministering to the saints. They spend this money for maintaining their own kingdoms. "My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path." We should not give our precious money to such ministries who have lost the vision of the Cross. Let us not walk in the way with them. We should refrain our foot from their path. Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. They are not shedding the blood in a literal sense by killing some people. There are many saints who give to these ministries from their pensions. They are many saints who give to these ministries out of penury.

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