* If the unbeliever depart, let him depart.

 

Comments by Joan Boney:

Sometimes we hold back the word of God when we are with other people, because we do not want to offend other people.

But the apostle Paul says we are as lights in a crooked and perverse nation.  (Phil. 2)

And Jesus says to us:

Matthew 5

14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

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What I do is this:  I don't try to speak anything when I am with another person.  But if the Holy Spirit brings to my mind a scripture or concept, then I usually speak that to the people, knowing that is what God wants me to speak because God brought it to my attention by HIS Spirit.

In the Bible in I Corinthians 7:15  we read: 

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart.

(Paul speaks this scripture concerning marriage but I can see that it also applies to the subject of a believer speaking the word of God to people of this world.)

We cannot live in peace with unbelievers.  If they are offended by Bible and leave, that is good because they will be as thorns in our sides and as pricks in our eyes and they will vex us continually by their words and deeds.

II Peter 2

7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

When we turn on light by speaking the Word, the darkness flees... or if the darkness sees the light when we speak and agrees with the Word from God, then the darkness becomes light and is no longer darkness.

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