Frances Plante wrote a new note: Expose the False prophets or not?

YES...Someone's NEEDS to read this~~~https://www.facebook.com/notes/frances-plante/expose-the-false-prophets-or-not/10151478312757190 Frances Plante wrote a new note: Expose the False prophets or not? Expose the False prophets or not? What does “shooting their own wounded” mean? If it means that Christians sometimes fail to be patient with the weak, we can all probably say that we have been guilty. If it means that Christians sometimes criticize a fellow believer instead of trying to help him, it happens too often; and we need to be reminded often that God is not pleased with such things. If, on the other hand, it means that it is wrong for a preacher to identify and warn of those who are teaching error or walking in compromise, it is nonsense. In the ministry of warning, I have never injured a wounded person and I have never shot anyone in any sense whatsoever. To charge me with doing so is to confuse warning, reproof, and correction with assault. I understand the military, and what I am doing has absolutely nothing to do with shooting one’s own wounded. The leaders that I warn about are not wounded; they are willfully and steadfastly committed to error or compromise and are influencing others. (By the way, they don’t mind “shooting” back!) The Lord Jesus Christ taught His people to beware of false prophets (Matt. 7:15). When a preacher obeys this command and attempts to mark and warn of false teachers, is he “shooting the wounded”? No, but those he warns about and those who are sympathetic to them will charge him with doing so. In 1 and 2 Timothy, the apostle Paul names the names of false teachers and compromisers 10 different times and warns about them (1 Tim. 1:20; 2 Tim. 1:15; 2:17; 3:8; 4:10, 14). All of the men that Paul warned about claimed to be Christians and it is likely that they felt that Paul was being unfair and mean-spirited in singling them out. When Paul warned Timothy that Demas had abandoned him because he loved this present world (2 Tim. 4:10), Paul was not shooting at a wounded Demas; but worldly Demas and his associates might have changed him with this. The Lord has commanded the assemblies to exercise discipline toward unrepentant church members who are committed to gross sin and error (1 Corinthians 5; Titus 3:10, 11). Is that shooting the wounded? It is oftentimes considered so by those who are the objects of the discipline and by those who are sympathetic to them; but proper church discipline, though severe, is not destructive. It has a three-fold goal of glorifying Christ in His church, purifying the congregation, and bringing the sinner to repentance. The Lord has instructed us to identify those who are saved but who are walking in disobedience (2 Thess. 2:6). Is that shooting the wounded? Those who are disobedient commonly mistake correction for persecution and reproof for assault. Paul rebuked sin in the churches in letters that were anything but private. His epistles to the individual churches were distributed among all the churches (Colossians 4:16). Therefore, when Paul told of how that Demas had left him, having loved this present world, it was a public matter. When he rebuked the believers at Corinth for their sin and compromise and error, it was a public matter. When he warned of Alexander the Coppersmith, it was a public warning. Some matters are private and they should be dealt with privately, but other matters are public and should be dealt with publicly. If a man writes a book that influences people, that book should be critiqued publicly. If a man has a public ministry that influences others, that ministry should be critiqued publicly. “Was our Lord shooting the first century churches in Revelation 2 and 3 when He walked in their midst and exposed their sins and failures, and commanded them to repent? The kindest and most biblical thing a faithful servant of God can do is expose unscriptural conduct to lead to repentance, lest God step in and judge severely and chasten in a most severe matter. I think the worst chastening that we could receive from the hand of God is if He would just leave us alone and let us go on in our compromise. We are so bent on exalting man and lightly esteeming the Word of God. One day, we will be like Samson when it is said, ‘he wist not that the Lord had departed from him’ (Judges 16:20). May God be gracious and wake us up to listen to the rebuke of those who see the error in our faith and practice. No man is above rebuke. May we come to see the love and grace in those who would be so kind as to rebuke us.”