WHOEVER IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME

WHOEVER IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME

This concept holds true whatever the issue. If God forbids an act and we approve of it, we are working against Him. There is no riding the fence. You're either for Him or against Him, depending on your obedience to His Word. You may say "God forgives." Yes, God forgives, but only when we repent and change our behavior and thinking. We may not participate in certain evils but if we even support them, we are just as guilty as if we participated. By our law we call the person who supports evil acts an accessory. Here is the definition from Oxford Languages: "accessory: someone who gives assistance to the perpetrator of a crime, without directly committing it, sometimes without being present." If you are not against it, you are for it.

Matt. 12:30 & Luke 11:23 - “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Mark 9:40 - Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us."

Luke 10:16 - “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

II Cor. 10:8 - "For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."

II Cor. 13:8 - "For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth."

James 4:4 - "You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."