BE CAREFUL ON WHO YOU ALLOW IN YOUR SOCIAL GROUP'S.
(King James Expositor Study Bible).
Not everyone who comes into your life especially, just in passing are good for you to hang around with or to socialize with unless, your intentions are to plant Faithful seeds in hopes, to convert them to God. If they are using contant foul languages, in their conversations? They more likly have a filthy, unsaved heart that you don't need in your path because, if you are walking with God? If you don't have a problem following perversions of the world, it can corrupt your walk with God. Not everyone is safe to have in your social circle. Yes, we are to help others out and can keep them out of our social circle but, if it is going to hinder your Spirit, another way of saying it, if it is going to pull you away from the Cross and seperate you from God, by corrupting your speech? Then, you need to get away from them.
I know that I am going to hear foolish souls, saying thou shall not Judge and you are right, I am Judging. We are to Judge Rightously.
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance (in effect, says, “if you think you have not violated the Sabbath in Circumcision, then how can you think I broke the Sabbath when I healed one of you who had been helpless for thirty-eight years?”), but judge righteous judgment (says that Judgment must be rendered according to the whole Word of God, and not merely by taking a part and perverting it to one’s own satisfaction).
We are to Judge. If you couldn't Judge? You then could not make discernment on what to wear, what to eat throughout the day, you could not make choices on friends or anything. Just remember, if you can't Judge? Then why are not running through town, in your birthday suit? Any person who is truly Reborn Again, has every right to Judge.
Now, back to our topic. Lets go through the Word of God, to see what He has to tell us and allow the Holy Ghost, to speak to you, through your heart and soul.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived (the statement actually says, “Do not go on being deceived!” meaning that many Corinthians had already been deceived into believing there was no Resurrection): evil communications corrupt good manners (should have been translated, “evil occasions corrupt excellent morals”).
Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. (Every Christian should diligently search for the Preacher who preaches the whole Counsel of God. If he does otherwise, he is associating with “fools” and will come to destruction.)
Psalms 1:1 Blessed (happy) i s the Man (Christ Jesus, Who is our Representative Man [I Cor. 15:47]) Who walks (orders His lifestyle) not in the counsel of the ungodly (but according to the Word of God), nor stands in the way of sinners (doesn’t trod the evil path of sin), nor sits in the seat of the scornful (but rather evidences Faith in God. All 150 Psalms point to Christ, with the exception of the parts that point to the Evil One and his followers. As the Gospels proclaim the Acts of Christ, the Psalms portray His Heart, in His Atoning, Mediatorial, or Intercessory Work).
Proverbs 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company (Believers must not condone such immoral activity in other Christians, considering that they refuse to repent), if any man who is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner (plainly tells us that many will call themselves “Christian” or “Brother,” who practice these type of sins); with such an one no not to eat (speaks more so of the Lord’s Supper than anything else).
Matthew 5:13-16 You are the salt (preservative) of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men (“Salt”is a Type of the Word of God; the professing Believer who no longer holds to the Word is of no use to God or man). 14 You are the Light of the world (we are a reflector of the Light which comes from Christ). A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid (proper light will not, and in fact, cannot be hid). 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick (the light is not to be hid); and it gives light unto all who are in the house (that is the purpose of the light). 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works (proper Faith will always produce proper works, but proper works will never produce proper Faith), and glorify your Father which is in Heaven (proper works will glorify our Heavenly Father, while improper works glorify man).
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober (mentally self-controlled), be vigilant (awake and watchful); because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour (we are faced with a very powerful adversary):
1 Corinthians 10:13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man (refers to the limitations God has placed upon Satan respecting that which he can or cannot do): but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able (we have His Promise; all temptation is overcome by our Faith remaining constant in Christ and the Cross, which gives the Power of the Holy Spirit to help us [Rom. 8:2]); but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it. (As stated, the “way of escape” is always the Cross [Eph. 6:10-18].)
Proverbs 22:24-25 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go: 25 Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul. (Association breeds similarity. Such anger addressed here is a Godless direction and means to get what it desires at any cost, whether to others or self. It does not know the Will of God and does not want the Will of God. It is a pursuit that characterizes most of the world. It means to step on as many people as one has to in order to get where one is going. Believers should not associate with such individuals.)
Matthew 18:9 And if your eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire (Christ continues to use symbolism).
1 John 3:4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Law (the Greek Text says, “the sin,”and refers to Believers placing their Faith in that other than the Cross; such constitutes rebellion against God’s Prescribed Order and is labeled as “sin”): for sin is the transgression of the Law. (This refers to the moral Law —the Ten Commandments. Rebelling against God’s Order, which is the Cross, opens the door for works of the flesh [Gal. 5:19-21].)
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? (This shoots down the unscriptural Doctrine of Unconditional Eternal Security.) Be not deceived (presents the same words of our Lord, “let no man deceive you”[Mk. 13:5]): neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (the proof of true Christianity is the changed life), 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God (refers to those who call themselves “Believers,”but yet continue to practice the sins mentioned, whom the Holy Spirit says are not saved, irrespective of their claims). 11 And such were some of you (before conversion): but you are washed (refers to the Blood of Jesus cleansing from all sin), but you are Sanctified (one’s position in Christ), but you are Justified (declared not guilty) in the Name of the Lord Jesus (refers to Christ and what He did at the Cross, in order that we might be saved), and by the Spirit of our God (proclaims the Third Person of the Triune Godhead as the Mechanic in this great Work of Grace).
1 Peter 4:3-5 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles (refers to our life before coming to Christ), when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries (works of the flesh [Gal. 5:19-21]): 4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot (the unsaved do not understand the reasons why the Believer left the old life), speaking evil of you (one of the great ways one knows that one is now living for God, as hurtful as it might be): 5 Who shall give account (the coming Great White Throne Judgment, where all unbelievers will appear) to Him (refers to Christ) Who is ready to judge the quick (living) and the dead. (Now, He is the Saviour. Then, He will be the Judge.)
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication (is not a suggestion, but a Command; fornication, as an abbreviated definition, pertains to any type of immorality). Every sin that a man does is without the body (speaks of all sins other than fornication; gluttony, drunkenness, or drug addiction, etc., while affecting the body in a negative way, originate from without; with fornication, the source of uncleanness is in the heart); but he who com mits fornication sins against his own body (presents in the physical sense a type of the spiritual union of man with devils; that’s the reason God referred to Israel worshiping idols as “spiritual adultery or fornication” [Jer. 3:1-9; Ezek. 23:1-45; Hos., Chpt. 4]).
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