It's the command to practice charity towards our neighbor. Charity is simply the love of God above all things and the love of our neighbor for His sake alone. True charity (the love of God) prompts us to rebuke our neighbor when we see our neighbor in sin and in danger of losing his or her soul. Charity prompts us to care for our neighbor as we care for ourselves for the love of God who made us.
Yes Sister as long as we consider our flesh ways that get in the way of this. For we are in unredeemed bodies, born again of the Spirit of God. And are called to be dependent on God yes? would that be 100%of the time or part time?
Was Jesus himself 100% dependent on God? Is this not the example he left us all. to hear God and do and say as God says? by the Holy Ghost? Is not the Holy Ghost sent to you the very same one that led Christ? Is this the same Holy Ghost sent to us all that believe?
So again is it wise to die daily to self with Christ at the cross, and thus get from God our instructions for the day, and Love as God loves.
Go ahead and rebuke all you want till the cows come home. Because rebuke drives people away
We are reconciled by God through Christ, made right.
Colossians 1:22 in the body of his flesh through death, to
present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Rebuke tears away reconciliation and keeps one's self righteousness alive as in it is my way, your way or someone else's way in place of God's way, thinking they are doing it God's way when they are fooled by their own self way.
It is all God and no one else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are if we believe God in this, fortunate recipients
And therefore might should praise as King David did in seeing the coming event of Christ that has now past
Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving,
and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him,
and bless his name.
We have the message of reconciliation not rebuke
2 Corinthians 5:18 And all things
are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation;
2 Corinthians 5:19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.