The more I read about Joab, one of David’s warriors, the more I am convinced that he was just a cold-blooded murderer. Today, he would probably be called a serial killer. One thing to learn from this is that a person can be a serial killer in the church—I don’t mean that he actually kills people. What he does is worse. He kills reputations, he kills unity, he kills brotherly love, he kills evangelism, he kills hope. There are many New Testament warnings against the “Joabs” in the church (2 John; Titus 3; 1 Timothy 1; Galatians 1-6; 2 Peter 2; Jude). And beware of his sword—which is almost always the Bible—used for sinful purposes.
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