•““Tough Love”Tough Love” – Part I, “Exposed”: loving with the heart

and with the mind will require disciplining brethren living in sin (e.g. Paul).

– Part II, “Explained”: exercising tough love saves the truth, the sinner, and the church.

•““Tough Love, 2 – Who”Tough Love, 2 – Who”

The ReproverThe Reprover• Jd. 17-23

– 20, Building yourselves up, continual growth

– 20, Praying in the Holy Spirit • Ct. 19, devoid of the spirit • Aware of own weaknesses

– Courage (Eph. 6:19)– Clarity (Col. 4:3-4)– “Lord, help me to help others.”

• Compassionate (cf. 22)

The ReproverThe Reprover• 21a, Keep yourselves in the love of God

– Building and praying are keeping – Faithful – One who is caught in (any) sin themself

can’t be taken seriously and is open to charge of hypocrisy.

• 21b, Waiting anxiously…to eternal life, a one-track mind

The ReproverThe Reprover• 22, Have mercy…

– Cf. 21, waiting…for the mercy. We extend to others the same courtesy God extends to us.

– N.B. 23, have mercy with fear, Gal. 6:1• 23, Hating even the garment polluted

– “Love the sinner, hate the sin.”– Ps. 119:97-104, a disciple of God’s

word

The ReproverThe Reprover• A local church may play a part in

reproving the sinning brother.

The ReprovedThe Reproved • Mt. 18:15-17. (Today, v. 15 only.)

– Go and show…, the beginning of tough love

– Your brother, 1 Co. 5:9-13• Brother stands in contrast to of this

world, a Christian • A Christian’s relationship with the

world may seem closer than that with a sinning brother.

Sins • Later mss. add, “against you”• Gal. 2:13, hypocrisy • Gal. 1:9, false doctrine• 1 Co. 5:11, immorality, etc.• 1 Tm. 1:20, blasphemy• 2 Th. 3:6, unruly

– Defined in 8, 11 - laziness – 6, tradition, 14, our instruction – General authority

The ReprovedThe Reproved• Abuses

– Someone you don’t like.– Something you don’t like.

“[Solitude] the best society.” (WG Benham, WNDOQD, p. 534)

The ReprovedThe Reproved• 2 Tm. 2:24-26

– held captive, prisoners – Come to their senses, Mk. 5:1…8, 15

• In his right mind • The difference is degree and

deliberateness • Our task is parallel to Jesus’