“Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.” 2 Chronicles 19:2
Faith will bring us to conclude that the foremost responsibility of those who have been reconciled to God, is to be reconciled with God in what we are doing and where we stand, “…be ye reconciled to God” 2 Corinthians 5:20.
The difficulty of doing this is to be resolved with the spirit of loyalty to Christ above all else, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26
In 2 Chronicles 18, Jehoshaphat had stood with Ahab, rather than separate from him. Ahab was serving sin, while Jehoshaphat was a servant of God. Under ordinary circumstances, Jehoshaphat would have distanced himself from Ahab, not wanting to identify himself with Ahab’s sins. But as the situation was, Jehoshaphat’s children were married to Ahab’s children. Due to his affinity, Jehoshaphat looked for all the reasons he should help Ahab, while discounting all the reasons he should be separate from him.
No matter how much love and good will Jehoshaphat was moved to manifest towards Ahab, it still did not change what Ahab was doing in the eyes of the Lord. Thus, the message God gave to his prophet to deliver to Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 19:2: “Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.”
God commands His children to withdraw ourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not according to the teachings and doctrines of God’s Word, 2 Thessalonians 3:6.
God commands His children to not be partaker with the sins of others, but rather keep ourselves pure, 1 Timothy 5:22. Not only are we not to fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, we are rather to reprove them, Ephesians 5:11.
To stand with those who are doing wrong, only encourages them in their wrong doing, and sends a message to others that wrong doing is an acceptable way of life: “Let favor be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.” Isaiah 26:10.
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