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MY EMAIL (March 18, 2005)
Greetings all: Where is it in
context that Matthew 18:15-17 binds us to go to a false teacher first privately and then with another, and then with the church
before we expose him? Is a person who preaches false doctrine a sin that is merely "against me?" Matthew 18:15-17 has to do
with personal and private sins. It nowhere involves dealing with those shouting from the rooftops error. Like brother Mitchell,
I have had a lot of correspondence with Bot and Wallace Little and when straight questions are asked you usually get a
"spin" storm. My dealings with them and my exposure of them with their own quotes is found in this PowerPoint Lesson:
http://www.sunnysidechurchofchrist.com/pptfiles/testingapreacher.ppt on our www.sunnysidechurchofchrist.com site.
Little even admitted that Matthew
19:9 has no relevance in the Philippines! "Is God's word limited to a culture," I ask? Now, from personal experience, I have
found that all such correspondence with these men is futile. They are not repentant and they will readily stand and argue
with you all day. The conversations that I have had with them degraded into foolish and empty rhetoric where I had to make
the painful decision which Jesus alludes to in Matthew 7:6, "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before
swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces." I will no longer throw the pearls of God's
precious word toward these unworthy men. I will no longer engage in written discussions with them until they repent of their
evil ways. I can pretty much guarantee that they will respond to this, but unless they respond in "sackcloth and ashes" I
will not respond to them.
Is it not strange how some among
us say Matthew 19:9 has no relevance to a whole country of people and then try to force a relevance of Matthew 18:15-17 in
dealing with false teachers? Reminds me of ". . . untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do
also the rest of the Scriptures" (2 Pet. 3:16).
Brotherly,
Steven J. Wallace
Titus 3:10, 11 (NKJV)
10 Reject a divisive man
after the first and second admonition,
11 knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.
1 Timothy 5:20 (NKJV)
20 Those who are sinning
rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.
Galatians 2:11-14 (NKJV)
11 Now when Peter had come
to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;
12 for before certain men came from James,
he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
13
And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all,
"If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?
BOT'S POOR RESPONSE (March
18, 2005):
You are making yourself a "clown." Everyone can't help laughing everytime
he read you letter. You are showing your foolishness.
I am sorry but you are loosing here as well as also in the USA.
May God help you see the truth.
I am sending this to our "LARGE" list.
Your brother whether you like it or not,
Bot Hayuhay
He uses his "LARGE" list as some kind of tyranical whip of intimidation. He has tried to
use this tactic before. Bot:
IT DOESN'T WORK HERE!
Consider. . .
Ps 92:6 A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool
understand this.
Pr 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But
he who heeds counsel is wise.
Pr 14:3 In the mouth of a fool is a rod of
pride. . .
Pr 14:16 A
wise man fears and departs from evil, But a fool rages and is self-confident.
Pr 18:2 A fool
has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart.
Pr 18:7 A fool‘s
mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
Pr 23:9 Do
not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Pr 24:7 Wisdom
is too lofty for a fool. . .
Pr 27:22 If
you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, even then his stupidity will not leave him.(GWV)
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