SCORNING - A MANIFESTATION OF DISLOYALTY

SCORNING - A MANIFESTATION OF DISLOYALTY 
Scripture: Psalm 1:1
Topic: Scorning - A Manifestation of disloyalty

To manifest means “to demonstrate, to display, exhibit or to show forth” something. People show disloyalty in many ways. 

Why do we need to look at the manifestations of disloyalty? Because loyalty and disloyalty are things of the heart and things of the heart cannot easily be seen. Like many diseases, it is best detected by watching out for symptoms. 

Scorning

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL."
Psalm 1:1

Scorners are people who mock at you. They do not believe in you or in what you are doing. The Bible very clearly tells us that we must not associate with scoffers. According to Psalm 1:1, we are not even supposed to sit in the same chair with the scornful.

How can somebody who does not believe in you be your assistant pastor? How can someone who despises you be an associate to you? Yet, this is a situation existing in many churches today. The scornful are sitting in the same chair with you. Can you understand why your ministry is not blessed? The Bible says, “Blessed is the man that... sitteth [not] in the seat of the scornful.” Blessed is the pastor who does not sit next to a scornful assistant.

What must you do with a scornful person? Should you pray about the scoffers? Should you fast for a week? The answer is NO! There is a biblical remedy for dealing with scornful people.

"CAST OUT THE SCORNER, and contention shall go out; yea strife and reproach shall cease."
Proverbs 22:10

According to Proverbs 22:10, the biblical remedy for dealing with scoffers is to cast them out!

In modern English, to cast out means: to dismiss, to expel, to eject, to banish, to fire, to sack, to discard, to unseat or to lay off. If you are wiser than God, you can pray about it. If you know more than God, you can handle scornful people in your own way. I prefer to trust the wisdom of God. I will dismiss, expel, eject, banish, fire, sack, discard, unseat and lay off any scoffer in my set-up. That is the biblical way to deal with disloyal people!

Credits: Excerpt from
How To Detect Subtle Disloyalty 
Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

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