Christians are Called to Lovingly Confront Evildoers

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One of the biggest mistakes today is teaching that love doesn't rebuke. If they think love doesn't rebuke then it's time to say love does rebuke. 1 Corinthians 13:6 says that love in action doesn't rejoice in falsehood but in the truth. While you can rebuke without loving but you can never love without rebuking. The Christian ministry was called to lovingly confront evildoers not to have a false kind of love and tolerance toward them. Ephesians 5:11 says that Christians must have nothing to do with the works of darkness. Instead, they are called to rebuke the workers of darkness. You can't be a Christian and still love darkness. If you're a Christian you were called out of sin not called into sin. Nobody can claim to be a Christian and claim to have a license to sinfulness. Such people are fake converts who need to be exposed for their own good.

The idea of "love" and tolerance is not biblical love but a false kind of love. It is an evil kind of love like the love for money and power. Worse it is the kind of love that loves sin. It is an evil kind of love that does harm instead of good. The Bible does not call for tolerance of sin but an intolerance for it yet it invites people to repent of their sins. If you say that Christians hate people they don't. They took the risk to warn people about their sin out of love. Christians telling homosexuals that their homosexuality is wrong is out of love for these lost people. It is an act of hate to unfairly and indiscriminately beat sinners. But it is also an act of hate not to lovingly confront sinners about their lost state. To do so is not an act of love but an indirect act of hate towards lost sinners.

Jesus confronted evildoers for their sake. The Pharisees were confronted about their hypocrisy to show to them they're lost. Lost sinners were told of their sin so they will see their need of a Savior from sin. The prophets confronted the people out of love desiring to see them repent and be saved. The apostles continued the same mission. Unfortunately, Satan and his minions continue to blind people from the truth. Worse, such people enjoy their lost state and getting saved from their sinfulness and self-righteousness is such a dread. Such people may think their personal righteousness is enough even if some of them live very wicked lives. The battle of the Christian is that they must love people enough to tell them the truth.


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