Don't Contaminate Your Home

2John 1:11

11 Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

The apostle John addressed a particular Christian woman in Asia whose children were also members of the church. He reminded her of the commandment to walk in love and to continue to follow the teachings of Christ. During that time teachers traveled around. And when they came to a town they needed food and shelter. The problem was that not everyone was a teacher of Christ. Some claimed to be but were in actuality false teachers. The apostle John warned the woman not to bring into her home those who bring false teaching. As the apostle John said to house and feed one you know is a false teacher is the same as sharing in their wicked work.

The threshold of your home is sacred. Peace, love and the truth of Christ are to reside in your home as the owner of the house reflects the spirit of the house. But when you take in those that you know care not to bring the truth of Christ but rather false teachings for their own sake, you contaminate your home and even your own spirit. Not only do you contaminate your home but as the apostle John states, your welcoming of such gives approval to the work and false doctrine they are spreading. Christ said himself that everyone who cries Lord, Lord is not of Him. So this is where your discernment of the truth of Christ comes in. We are to test the spirit by the spirit as the apostle John said in 1John 4:1. And if the Lord has told you something is not right, then know that it is not. To continue to do so is a disregard for the efforts Christ made to spread truth and the sacrifice of love He made that you may know and live in the truth.