My God and My Country

Word of God

But he replied and said, "It is written, 'It is not by bread alone that a man lives, except by every word that issues from the mouth of God

The Gospel According to Matthew 4:4

The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians 3:14

Commentary by Matthew Henry & John Gill

Edited/Prefaced by Dr. Riktor Von Zhades

If any man obey not this our saying in this letter, note him, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Brethren:

Although we must live in this temporal plain, we must not be joined with it. For the world is in enmity against the word of God. It is hostile to it and as such those that are of it are hostile to it.

The world is of sin and death, and those that partake in it’s pleasures will reap the seeds of their own sowing. - Dr. R.V.Z

“[This is to say] lay him under censure, exclude him from your communion, put a brand upon him as a scabbed sheep, and separate him from the flock. And have no company with him;

as little as can be in common and civil conversation, lest he should take encouragement from thence to continue in his sin, and lest others should think it is coned at; and much less at the Lord's table, or in a sacred and religious conversation, or in a way of church fellowship and communion: that he may be ashamed. [So] that he may have his eyes turned in him, as the word signifies, and he may be brought to a sight and sense of his sin, and be filled with shame for it, and loath it, and himself on the account of it, and truly repent of it, and forsake it; and this is the end of excommunication, at least one end, and a principal end of it, to recover persons out of the snare of the devil, and return them from the error of their ways.” - John Gill