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Having fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness |
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The
apostle Paul said to the Ephesians: “And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them …” (Ephesians |
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Therefore,
you brothers must not have fellowship with all those works which don’t bear
fruit to God for they are works which bear fruit to death. What are the
unfruitful works of darkness? The most evident are the following ones; consenting
to tell a lie or to steal or to murder someone or to attend a spiritualist séance.
But there are other works of darkness which are less evident and which
apparently don’t seem to be unfruitful works of darkness, such as attending
the religious ceremony for a wedding in a Roman Catholic basilica or in a
hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses or of some other sects; buying cigarettes for
someone who asks you to buy them; selling Bibles and Christian books on
behalf of your Church; helping a drug addict to buy drugs, supporting the soccer
team of one’s nation or town; taking someone to the cinema or the stadium;
helping a tailor to make a miniskirt or helping a goldsmith to make jewelry
for women or men, and many other things. |
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I exhort
you in the Lord to be wise and not to consent to do anyone certain ‘favours,’
which are harmful and vain things that don’t glorify God at all. |