Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven
leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that
you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened....
--1 Corinthians 5:6-7
No sin is private. It may be secret but it is not private.
It is a great error to hold, as some do, that each man's conduct
is his own business unless his acts infringe on the rights of
others. "My liberty ends where yours begins," is true, but that
is not all the truth. No one ever has the right to commit an
evil act, no matter how secret. God wills that men should be
free, but not that they be free to commit sin....
Coming still closer, we Christians should know that our
unchristian conduct cannot be kept in our own back yard. The
evil birds of sin fly far and influence many to their
everlasting loss. The sin committed in the privacy of the home
will have its effect in the assembly of the saints. The
minister, the deacon, the teacher who yields to temptation in
secret becomes a carrier of moral disease whether he knows it or
not. The church will be worse because one member sins. The
polluted stream flows out and on, growing wider and darker as
it affects more and more persons day after day and year after
year.
"Lord, this is especially true of us who are leaders in the
church. Show to me and my fellow-servants this day the
horror of the consequences of our sin. Keep us pure and
faithful, for Your glory. Amen." |
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