...Right Division
For or many years a family in a northern state lived on the banks of a river.
As time passed, more children were added until the total was ten, plus the
mother and the father. Each year as winter approached the father would
gather the children to his side and, in no uncertain terms, explain that no
one was to ever go out on the ice.
One Monday, three of the children decided to walk across the frozen ice as a
shortcut on their way to school. Some of the older children begged them not
to, and reminded them of their Dad’s stern warning. “Nothing is going to
happen to us. Just leave us alone. We’ll be just fine.” So off the three children
went.
Because the water was more shallow at first, the ice was quite thick. So, with
a false sense of security, the three children began to run. Suddenly, the ice
beneath their feet began to crack, and all three plunged into the icy water,
never to be seen again.
In a spiritual sense, many of God’s children are doing something very similar...
[In view Of Judgment, how many of us are on the thin ice of false doctrine?]
...When the Apostle Paul writes to Timothy at Ephesus, he says,
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(J Fredericksen)
FULL study:
No Other Doctrine But Right Division
GRACE And Peace...
For or many years a family in a northern state lived on the banks of a river.
As time passed, more children were added until the total was ten, plus the
mother and the father. Each year as winter approached the father would
gather the children to his side and, in no uncertain terms, explain that no
one was to ever go out on the ice.
One Monday, three of the children decided to walk across the frozen ice as a
shortcut on their way to school. Some of the older children begged them not
to, and reminded them of their Dad’s stern warning. “Nothing is going to
happen to us. Just leave us alone. We’ll be just fine.” So off the three children
went.
Because the water was more shallow at first, the ice was quite thick. So, with
a false sense of security, the three children began to run. Suddenly, the ice
beneath their feet began to crack, and all three plunged into the icy water,
never to be seen again.
In a spiritual sense, many of God’s children are doing something very similar...
[In view Of Judgment, how many of us are on the thin ice of false doctrine?]
...When the Apostle Paul writes to Timothy at Ephesus, he says,
“I besought thee...that thou mightest charge some
that they teach no other doctrine” (I Tim. 1:3)...
that they teach no other doctrine” (I Tim. 1:3)...
(J Fredericksen)
FULL study:
No Other Doctrine But Right Division
GRACE And Peace...
