Bruise his Head

Once again, I have been reminded that "All Scripture is given by inspiration, and is profitable". You see, I have a habit of just skipping over the genealogies, and a real bad habit of getting to the end of a New Testament book, and skipping over the closing formalities, and good by's and such. However, yesterday I read all the way through the end of the 16th chapter of Romans, and found a uplifting passage.
Let's start at verse 17, and I am going to highlight a few important phrases, and verses. "Now I beseech you, brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they are such serve not our LORD Jesus Christ, but their own belly;...I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. (vs20) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly."
The first thing we need to notice, is that we are too avoid people that cause problems within the church. We see other places that the church was told to "put away" someone who was causing problems, or sinning within the church. In other words they were supposed to ask that person to leave the church. Now we see that we are not to keep company with someone who is what I call two-faced, or a gossiper, or just causes problems in any other way. Especially if they are trying to teach something other than the Gospel of Christ. Because they are not of Christ, but Satan is using them to try to destroy the church. The person them self may not be "evil", but they could have been tricked by Satan into believing an untruth, but they will destroy the church just the same, if they are allowed to remain.
Then we are told something that almost seems contrary to Genesis where God told Eve that Jesus would bruise the head of Satan. But, what Paul is saying is that Christ, through the church of true Christians would bruise Satan. God would use the church, if they kept them self pure, and kept out those agents of Satan that would seek to destroy the church.
We see this so much today, not only in those churches that teach false doctrine, but in our good old fashioned Bible believing, God fearing churches, when someone starts to spread rumors, and causing strife between members and then there is a church split. Not only is the church not as effective because of the problems, but the testimony of all the members is also affected. So we must keep our churches pure, even if that means making someone mad, when we ask them to leave the church because of the problems they are causing. But, before that step we need to pray for God's intervention and guidance.