GENESIS 14:10-16
What should be our attitude when a brother is taken captive by the things of this world?
Some have a distorted concept of separation. When they see a brother fall into sin, they

shout it from the housetops and publish it in their magazines. This is not what Christ
instructed.
Galatians 6 tells us what our attitude should be toward a fallen Christian brother. The
apostle Paul exhorted, "Brethren, if any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any
sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set
him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all
gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also" (v. 1,
Amplified).
When Abraham realized what had happened to Lot, he became very bold. "When Abram
heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own
house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them,
and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus" (Gen. 14:14-15).
God rewarded his courage because Abraham "brought back all the goods, and also
brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people" (v.
16).
If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one (Gal. 6:1).

Theodore Epp
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