PREVENTIVE WARNINGS TO RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD PEOPLE
EZEKIEL 3:21
[TLV] — If you warn the righteous person not to sin and the righteous person does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning. You will have delivered your soul.” [Ezekiel 3:21 TLV]
[GNB] — If you do warn a good man not to sin and he listens to you and doesn't sin, he will stay alive, and your life will also be spared.” [Ezekiel 3:21 GNT]
Are you still warning only the sinners or unrighteous people, without warning the righteous and godly people? Pastors and watchmen must not stop warning both Christians and Sinners, both the Righteous and Unrighteous.
According to this Bible verse above, Warning the righteous and saints will both prevent them from committing sin/backsliding, thereby saving them to the uttermost, and also save the pastors/watchmen over them who are warning them. I tell you, there are lots of pastors and priests that shall not be saved because they are not Warning their followers or church members. Do not become teacher or pastor if you cannot do it well, for greater condemnation awaits pastors, priests, teachers, apostles, prophets and ministers, who are not doing well to feed and keep the people of God under them.
In this Bible verse above, Pastors or Watchmen are supposed to warn the righteous or good men preventively, before any chance of them falling into sin or backsliding. Prevention here is better than cure. You are not warning them just to make them repent, but warning them to make them watchful themselves, vigilant and to arm them into being security conscious for themselves.
Warn those who seems not in need of the warning. No matter how much deep or grown they are in the way of Righteousness and Christianity, keep warning them as if they are babes in the faith. Warn the People of God as if they are about to become the people of the Devil, and warn the righteous as if they are sinners or as if they are about to commit sin.
Do it as if you mean it: Today they may be righteous, but tomorrow they may become sinners or unrighteous. Teach them that their salvation is not yet sure until they die being righteous: they can still end in hell fire tomorrow if they fall. Stop making believers think their state yesterday is same with their state today and forever. Here is example of how God Himself warned a righteous man as if he was a sinner and dead already, whereas the righteous man only contemplating to commit the sin: God warned him that way to prevent him from sin.
[Genesis 20:3-7] — "But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Behold, you are but a dead man, for the woman which you have taken; for she is a man's wife." But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, "LORD, will you slay also a righteous nation? Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this." And God said to him in a dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also withheld you from sinning against me: therefore I prevented you from touching her. "Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you do not restore her, know you that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.""
That's warning to a righteous man, to a man of integrity to prevent him from being compromised or corrupted. That warning saved the righteous man's life and righteousness (integrity, innocence).
Warning the righteous and wise men is called "Rebuke, Reprove, Preventive Correction, Instruction, etc.
That is how to arm a righteous man, that is, by giving Warnings, Rebukes, Doctrine, Reprove, Correction, Instruction, etc, not by giving him money or prosperity messages: All scriptures are designed to give Warnings, Rebukes, Doctrine etc to men for their own profit; and there is no single scripture that has the primary purpose of being used for any other uses apart from Warning, Rebuking, Reproving, Correcting, Comforting, Instructing and Doctrine. Therefore it is abuse of the Bible or scriptures if used outside these purposes and profit. As it is written,
[2 Timothy 3:16-17] — "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works."
You will know a preacher is preaching the Word or Scriptures well when his messages come as Warnings, Rebukes, Reproofs, etc.
[2 Timothy 4:2-5] — "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers (pastors), having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables (false hopes). But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry."
Now those who will turn away from such sound doctrine and warning to go for teachers or pastors that are massaging their expectations and desires, are usually the mixt-multitudes who came with their lusts and cravings of their flesh into Christianity.
[Proverbs 9:6-10 TLV] — Abandon your foolish ways and live! Walk in the way of understanding.” Whoever corrects a scoffer is asking for insult. Whoever reproves a wicked man gets abuse. Do not correct a scoffer or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still. Teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning. The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
[Psalms 141:5] — "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities."