Teach
the opponent
[24]
And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone,
able
to teach,
patiently
enduring evil,
[25] correcting
his opponents with gentleness.
God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the
truth, ( ESV 2 Timothy 2:24 -25)
Wonder
how many Christians can say they live up to this ? Probably not many
me included . The part of this verse I want to look at is the bold
print. We had this verse in Bible Study last night.
Patiently
enduring evil: Some would say see you Christians need to tolerate us
in our desires( evil by Biblical stander eds) Well yes to a certain
extent, More importantly is the next bold print .
Correcting
his opponent with gentleness : In gentleness that’s the difficulty
for Christians to do. ( myself included)Our passion for the Word of
God can at times make us militaristic,and the gentleness isn't there.
My I encourage you Biblical Christians (along with myself) to put
the military side of you to stand at rest ,and use gentleness to
correct those who practice that which is counter to Gods Word. The
military side will be needed soon enough.
One
last thing ,see thew italicized portion able
to teach :
if you cant teach don’t have the knowledge of Gods Word to be able
to teach then you may want to back off .
My
thought for this morning.
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