Yesterday I suggested you take a look at these four passages:
The challenge was to summarize what you saw there.
Here are my thoughts:
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 (here @ Bible Gateway)
- Malachi 4:1 (here @ Bible Gateway)
- John 21:21 – 22 (here @ Bible Gateway)
- 2 Corinthians 10:12 (here @ Bible Gateway)
Here are my thoughts:
- There seems to be a continual rejection of God’s Word in the Body today. In that denominations and institutions which used to focus on the Word of God and work hard at understanding and following it have moved away from that to embrace or negotiate with cultural norms and pressures.
- There is a limit to how much of this rejection of His Word God will tolerate.
- We in the Body tend to measure ourselves by how we are doing relative to other bodies and believers. That would be sin.
- My focus has to be to study, speak, and act in accordance with God’s Word.
These are not new "problems" with God's people. Moses used "remember" with reference to the Law around 28 times in Deuteronomy. They didn't even make it into the Promised Land until they had started to forget. It's been true throughout the ages. Look at the nations of the Reformation. And I'm sad to say that I personally struggle to "remember" what I once knew and need to continually be pulled back "into compliance."
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