The Plumbline

What you heard me teach is an example of what you should teach. Follow that model of right teaching with the faith and love we have in Christ Jesus. This teaching is a treasure that you have been trusted with. Protect it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives inside us. (2 Timothy 1:13-14) Teaching or instruction abounds, but knowing which one should be impacting your life is best left to the best tutor one could ever have - the Holy Spirit. When we ask the Holy Spirit to 'control' what comes into our minds, hearts, and emotions, we are trusting him to 'weed out' any instruction that isn't 'spot on' and 'zero in on' that which is truth. Any 'almost truth' isn't worth our time or effort! What you hear me teach - God gives us so many positive examples, but is it wise to just 'accept without question' whatever it is they are teaching? No, absolutely not. We need to test every teaching against the Word of God and then rely upon t...

4  But remember this, that if a father dies and leaves great wealth for his little son, that child is not much better off than a slave until he grows up, even though he actually owns everything his father had.  2  He has to do what his guardians and managers tell him to until he reaches whatever age his father set.  3  And that is the way it was with us before Christ came. We were slaves to Jewish laws and rituals, for we thought they could save us.  4  But when the right time came, the time God decided on, he sent his Son, born of a woman, born as a Jew,  5  to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law so that he could adopt us as his very own sons.  6  And because we are his sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, so now we can rightly speak of God as our dear Father.  7  Now we are no longer slaves but God’s own sons. And since we are his sons, everything he has belongs to us, for that i...