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Iconoclast · #5 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Poimen

Thank you for your reply. I should have been more specific though. How does one exhort an older man who is doing wrong or is in error (not a Matthew 18 situation)?

Again I think it would be proper if you have a relationship with this man where he knows you care for His soul, you can ask a direct question on the topic but do so in a way where he explains his thought process.
When God has Nathan go to David he engages his mind with a story and then asks what he thinks about that story? what should be done.?
The Lord Jesus Christ did this also in many of His parables also.Like here in Matt 21

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37But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

40When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

41They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

43Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.