A preacher warns that the Holy Spirit demands you cut off relationships that pull you toward sin: drunkenness, drugs, marijuana, addiction. People excuse these behaviors, but they create chaos and steal your peace. If someone makes you stumble, you have to let them go.
warning. The Holy Spirit is speaking to you. Don't ignore him. Cut off those relationships that invite sin into your life. People can influence you to sin in all sorts of different ways. They can influence you to live lifestyles of drunkenness. They can influence you to form an addiction. Maybe they enable an addiction that you've already battled with— doing drugs, smoking weed, all of these things that you know you ought not to be doing. And so the people around you who downplay your sin— oh, it's not a big deal, don't worry about that, it's okay, we have freedom in Christ— they excuse these things. It's chaotic. There's always drama around them, never peace. You never feel peace. That's the Holy Spirit warning you. If that is causing you to stumble, if that is causing you to compromise, if that is causing you to take your eyes off the things of God, these are the people you have to cut off.
