Thoughts from the Week: 7/28/23

Each Friday, I like to share some thoughts, learnings, and reflections from my quiet times during the week. I hope they’re encouraging and helpful!

Be blessed this week,

Pastor Hugh

Jude 3 – “Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all time handed down to the saints.”

Believers are to respect everyone and their opinions.  But they should not accept everyone’s teachings and opinions.  Opinions not founded upon truth are faulty and unstable.  Many opinions are solely based on feelings or situations which change daily.  A person’s belief system must be based upon truth to be stable.  But who should determine the truth?  For a believer, truth is what God says.  As the creator He is the ultimate authority.  His words brought the world into existence and His words are authoritatively final and trustworthy.  It is not what I think or what anyone else thinks.  It is what the Lord thinks which ultimately matters.  Therefore, each believer can authoritatively and in love confront false teachings which go against what God says.  Believers have the responsibility to uphold sound and correct teachings within the Body of Christ.

2 Peter 1:19-21 – “And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.  For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

*All Scripture from the New American Standard Version Bible.