CORRECTIVE APPLICATION

CORRECTIVE APPLICATION

Wednesday, November 07, 2018

   Romans [ESV] 12:1-3 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

   2Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

  Scriptural correction personally accepted results in our beneficial redirection that pleases God as an act of worship.

  Scriptural correction of others should only be presented to others when the aforementioned personal application is practiced (Lk.6:39-42), always doing so respectfully with gentleness sans judgmentalism. (1Cor.4:14-21)

  Being an Acts 17:10-11 studious Berean will sharpen our eyes and ears to recognizing false teachings that misguide others. Recently while traveling I heard an eloquent well delivered sermon that included non-Scriptural teaching. The preacher stated that our ideas will often be in conflict with God’s ideas. God does not have or get ideas. The Bible is not a book of concepts. God’s Word is absolute truth! (Ps.19:7-14; Jn.17:17)

  I wonder how many of that congregation is adversely effected by that pastor’s idea that God has ideas?

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