Recently a woman came to us. I believe she had the Spirit of God. She was trying to correct people in church groups ... even correcting pastors and such .... No doubt they needed correcting. But the problem is she, herself, was committing fornication while doing these corrections.. This is a terrible thing.
Paul says the following concerning those who come among the church while committing fornication and other sins ...
I Cor. 5 ... I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
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Here is a letter I wrote to that woman:
7-25-13
It is hard to image you could criticize blind church goers who probably do not have the Spirit of God while you lived in fornication having the Spirit of God.
This is so evil it is beyond my comprehension.
For the time being I don't want to receive emails from you.
You don't need to be talking at this point.
If possible, you need to get your life straight and live a godly life in Christ Jesus.
I have removed all reference to your name in our Internet writings. Fortunately I am able to go back and delete items.
These
writings
are things God has shown us. That is the way it should be. I thought
it was God showing you the evil in the churches but when you were living
in fornication and writing these things it is just not compatible.
Please
do not respond to this email. I don't need to hear your words. Just
learn to live decently and honestly and morally according to the Bible
if you can.
Joan Boney
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After I wrote this to her, I kept being reminded of Esau who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat.
Heb. 12 ... Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
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Heb. 10 ... For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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We cannot, and will not, allow willful sin to sit among us in the body of Christ, the church.
Notice that Paul said to put such a person away from you when they call themselves a "brother" and are a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ... with such an one no not to eat. I Cor. 5 (Many pastors today are extortioners, westing money from the congregation with false promises which seem based on scripture but where the scripture is misused, such as the 100-fold return scripture ... see writing: "Ministers who use 100-fold return to extort money")
I believe "willful sins", after one has been enlightened by God to the truth, are sins unto death as per I Jn. 5.
John says: I Jn. 5:16 ... If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Certainly God will judge these people. But in meantime, we are to put them away from us and this is what I did in this case and I have done this before in the past in the church.