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13th
Graduation service at Kavali, A.P.
on 26th January - 2017
Rev. P. Divadeenam, Sharon Baptist Church - Kavali
Re-dedication Commencement Address Awarding Certificate
Lighting the LampOath Commissioning
Ms. Noble’s family Honouring Sr. Students Congregation

To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in
holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ with all his saints. (1Thess 3:13).
What should be our reaction to the redeemer’s return and the
blessed prospect of our being gathered to Him?
We believe that our foremost reaction ought to be holiness-
That we make sure we are worthy of His presence. That Apostle
Paul says that our hearts must be blameless in holiness when we
stand before That Lord at His coming. Therefore “Let us not sleep,
as do others, but let us watch and be sober.” (1 Thess 5:6) Paul
exhorts us that the grace of God which appeared in the incarnation
of Christ should continually teach us that denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly
in these last days.
The Apostle Peter in his second epistle reminds us of the
Lord’s promise of the new heavens and the new earth and exhorts
us; “Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2 Peter
3:13). We praise God that preparation for the coming Judgment
and looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our
great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, which it is true that God by
His grace has justified and sanctified us in Christ. (1 Cor 6:11)
As we are far from being perfect as the Lord Himself is, but
the awesome thought of us having to stand before Him one of
these days should always make us to want to be like Him.
We should not sorrow at the loss of our loved ones as others
do who have no hope. We should derive from the hope of being
able to see our loved ones, who have gone ahead of us to be with
the Lord. If we have hope in Christ only in this life we are of
all men most miserable. (1 Cor 15:19). We need to continue to
believe in the Lord in the light of the certainty of His coming
for our abiding is in Heaven, from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body,
that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according
to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto
Himself (Phil 3:20, 21)
Now the just shall live by faith but if anyone draws back, My
soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not those who draw back
to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the Soul.
We the believers of Christ who have the hope of being conformed
to the very image of Christ at His coming. (1Thess 1: 9, 10)
May the Lords richest blessings be upon you and your dear
family.
“Preparation for Christ Return”
Rev. Dr. G. Jayasekhar
Chief Editor
Mob : +91 9848452008

Rev. G. Billy Judson
Editor
Mob : +91 9849619433
“Teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom” (Psalm 90:12)
Many people live only for the pleasures of this present world. If
we are going to live worthwhile lives, we must plan for the future. We
must prepare ourselves mentally and spiritually, so that our future, and
the future of those we influence, will be noble and good. We need to
count our days. We prepare for the future by obeying God today. God
has good things ahead for those who follow Him. We should ask him to
guide our lives. “Ask of me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”
(Psalm 2:8) A very small part of the heathen were of the inheritance
of David, and therefore these words must refer to our messiah. One
day all the kings of the earth will fall down before the Messiah and all
nations will do his service. God has promised us the uttermost parts of
the earth for our possession. We pray and seek the Lord to fulfill His
great commission through our lives in this generation, Let us feel our
responsibility to win “Each one to Teach one and Reach Ten” in order
to give “One Fair Chance” for all to respond to the gospel.
This Book of the law shall not depart out of thy, mouth, but Thou
shall meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein, for then Thou shalt make thy
way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. (Joshua 1:8).
The Lord of wisdom has promised a future, and assuring this prospect,
every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you,
as I said to Moses. These promises are for His people, for all time. These
are the factors that make life worthwhile, through our transitory and
brief sojourn in this world.
Every believer has to experience and enjoy the promises of God’s
presence, and follow his precepts with an unflinching trust and commit-
ment to Him.As committed believers they began their spiritual journey
with commitment to the Lord and commensurate action that would
make life profitable. “Teach us” that is, ‘so to reflect on the brevity of
life, that we may get to ourselves a heart of wisdom,” or a heart that is
wise and understanding.
May the Lord of peace make all grace abound, so that ye, having
all sufficiency unto all good things, abound unto every good word and
work in you and your dear family.
“Count the Number of our days”

Indeed, Gods New Years resolution for me and also the readers
of wisdom for the Heart magazine. How blessed we are that we already know His resolution for us
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Cont...
WHEN FAITH FAILS, WE NEED A FAITHFUL
REPRESENTATIVE TO PLEAD FOR US
The third principle from this account is that
when faith fails, we need a faithful representative to
plead for us. (Numbers 14:13-20)
In verse 12, God is ready to be done with these
people.
12 I will strike them with the pestilence and
disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation
greater and mightier than they.”
Moses cries out to God on behalf of the people.
In Moses prayer, he makes no reference to anything
good found in the Israelites. He simply bases his
prayer on what he knows about the character of God.
13 But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the
Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this
people in your might from among them, 14 and
they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They
have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of
this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to
face, and your cloud stands over them and you
go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and
in a pillar of fire by night. 15 Now if you kill
this people as one man, then the nations who
have heard your fame will say, 16 ‘It is because
the Lord was not able to bring this people into
the land that he swore to give to them that
he has killed them in the wilderness.’ 17 And
now, please let the power of the Lord be great
as you have promised, saying, 18 ‘The Lord
is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast
love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but
he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to
the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please
pardon the iniquity of this people, according
to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as
you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until
now.”
20 Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned,
according to your word.
Moses begs God to forgive the sin of the people.
The basis of His prayer is that that God’s name would
be more greatly known. God’s glory is certainly
displayed when he punishes rebellion against him.
God would have been completely justified whenever
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake:
because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. 1 Samuel 12:22

he punished rebels to His will. God’s glory is also
displayed when he forgives sin. Moses asks God to
choose forgiveness.
Moses asking God to show mercy on the people
was a picture of what Christ would do hundreds of
years later. Israel needed a representative to plead
their case to God. Moses of course was not the final
solution. Moses is not pleading our case before God.
He was simply a picture of what was to come.
In Jesus, we find the solution to what we need.
Jesus Christ is the solution to the pardon we need
for our lack of faith. Jesus Christ, died for our sin
and triumphed over the grave. Christ accomplished
all that we needed. When Jesus went to the cross, he
went as the perfect representative for man. By his
grace and through our faith, we find the salvation we
need. When Jesus rose from the dead, he overcame
what we never could have. So again - we need not
fear the flames of hell because death has no hold on
us. And, right now, today, Jesus is interceding on
your behalf before the Father. The Father will not
crush you today - because what Jesus accomplished
for you is sufficient in the eyes of the Father. Jesus is
asking the Father, now, to show you grace and mercy.
The Apostle Paul put it like this in Romans 8:31-35
“What then shall we say to these things? If
God is for us, who can be against us? He who
did not spare his own Son but gave him up for
us all, how will he not also with him graciously
give us all things? Who shall bring any charge
against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one
who died—more than that, who was raised—
who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is
interceding for us. Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
danger, or sword?” (Romans 8:31-35 ESV)
So the question is - can you trust God? Will we
be people of faith? Biblical faith is resting, or trusting,
in Christ alone for salvation. More than being simply
a mental agreement of historical facts, genuine faith
begins with a recognition and confession of the truth
of the gospel, followed by a receiving of Christ as
Lord and Savior of one’s life. Biblical faith is not
blind faith, for it rests on the historical life, death,
and resurrection of Christ.
But our faith in God must permeate all of
our life. When we come to the difficult crossroad
decisions in life, the right way is always God way,
even when, especially when, that requires faith.
IMPLICATIONS
Life is filled is with insurmountable obstacles.
We face enemies stronger than we can imagine. Our
hearts sometimes fill up with doubts and fears that
we try to fend off. But in the end, we need our Great
High Priest, King Jesus, to rescue us from our fear,
and our doubt, just as He rescued us from our sin.
Just as God met the Hebrews in the desert with a
desire to restore them, He will meet you in the hard
places of your life and ministry.
It is God’s desire to redeem, not destroy. He
enjoys delivering you into the work He has prepared
for you. One of the beauties of the gospel is that leads
us to repent and follow Him with a growing faith.
Here’s the big question: Are the promises of
God real? Will God really save those who cry out
to him in faith? Will God triumph in this world and
will he triumph over all who oppose Him? Will God
build his church? The answer is yes. We have both
the privilege and responsibility, as people of faith, to
truly liver lives of faith.
End of Lesson 1
- Pastor Scott Wylie
And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great,
according as thou hast spoken, saying. Numbers 14:17

There has been some reaction to a post concerning
the purpose and significance of miracles in Jesus life.
Specifically, a friend asked, “Do you think his miracles
demonstrated that he was the ultimate fulfillment of
Deut 18:15 in light of Deut 34:10-12 and John 6:14?”
I was prompted to organize some thoughts with
reference to the very seminal passage in Deut 18:15-22,
and specifically to the issue of what God meant by the
phrase “like [Moses]” in 18:15 18.
I very much appreciate the terminology of the question;
I would concur that Jesus was indeed the “ultimate
fulfillment” of Deut 18:15-20, but I don’t believe He
was the sole fulfillment of that promise. Those verses
are part of Moses’ reply to the very reasonable concern
of the people after he prohibited them from employing
the pagan soothsayers in the land to which they were
going. That generation of Israelites had never been
without Moses as their leader and as God’s voice to
them, but now he was to be taken; how were they to
know God’s purposes? The answer is that God would
raise up a prophetic voice whenever they needed to
hear from Him. That is, the standard way in which
God would reveal Himself to His people was through
a prophet, and that prophet would be “like” Moses (:15
:18). Thus the promise is primarily generic. That is,
the term “a prophet” in Deut 18:15-20 does not refer in
the first instance to any specific prophet; it is a promise
that God would not leave them without a prophetic
voice when He had a message they needed to hear,
and thus they would have no excuse when they chose
to go to the ear-tickling soothsayers (cf. 2 Kings 1:1-
3). It is instructive in this regard that Israel seems to
have understood that when “the heavens are as brass,”
when God is not speaking through a prophetic voice,
the people are to know that they are under judgment.
It is foreboding to read that “the word of the Lord was
rare” in the days of the Judges (1 Sam 3:1; cf. Proverbs
29:18). The issue to which that forces me, of course, is
what is meant by the twice repeated assurance that the
promised prophet would be “like” Moses (:15 :18). It
is my persuasion that God’s point in that phrase (“like
unto me/you” referring in both instances to Moses) is
quite narrow but unspeakably important, to wit: God
is promising that just as He vindicated Moses’ claim to
be a prophet by means of miracles (Ex 4:1-9 – a passage
which is absolutely seminal and definitional to this issue
in Scripture), so He would vindicate those prophets
whom He called in days to come. Later prophets
were not “like Moses” in dignity, in the seminal and
strategic role they would play in the history of God’s
covenant nation, in the magnitude and number of the
miracles they wrought, in the world-wide notoriety
which accrued to them, or in the measure of intimacy
which they had personally enjoyed with Yahweh. Thus
the distinction between Moses and all other prophets
appealed to by Yahweh in His rebuke of Moses’ siblings
(Num 12:6-8 ) and acknowledged in the closing
sentences of the Torah (Deut 34:10).
But throughout Scripture the way in which God
vindicates a man’s claim to be a divine spokesman is
by means of miracle (Ex 4:1-9; Jos 3:7;1 Sam 12:16-18;
John 3:2; Acts 2:22; 2 Cor 12:12; Heb 2:3,4). It is my
persuasion that the prophets all performed miracles (of
the first order!); indeed, it was by means of objective
and undeniable miracle-signs that their authority was
established. In this regard, I realize that miracles are
not recorded in the narrative of the lives of many of
the prophets. But in the case of most of the biblical
prophets, we have virtually no biographical narrative of
their lives; thus the fact that miracles are not recorded
is not compelling evidence that miracles were not
performed. On the other hand, when the biblical record
does include biographical data, miracles often play a
very important role in the prophet’s life. Furthermore,
I know of no other explanation for the fact that
the authority of the prophets was so immediately
recognized by their contemporaries, even in those not
infrequent cases when the prophet and his message
were much despised.
But if the descriptive phrase “like [Moses]” refers
to the fact that God would use miracles to vindicate
A Prophet Like Unto Moses
Dr. Doug Bookman
B.A., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D.
Professor of New Testament and Bible Exposition
And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Matthew 21:11

every prophet’s claim to be God’s voice, why the
question which is articulated and answered in Deut
18:20-22? The Scriptures are clear that miracle-signs
are not the only test of a man’s claim to be a prophet.
I would argue that those miracle-signs are the only
positive qualifier, but that there are several negative
disqualifiers to be found in Scripture (e.g., a message
inconsistent with that which God had earlier revealed,
the use of oracular devices, speaking in the name
of gods other than Yahweh). Further, if one of those
negative disqualifiers was discovered in the life of a
man able to do sign-miracles, it negated the vindicating
force of the miracles and demonstrated the man to be
a false prophet, worthy of death (Deut 13:1-5). This
is the force of Deut 18:20-22, which speaks not of
qualifying a prophetic claimant, but of disqualifying
him. Predictive prophecies would not suffice as the
sole, or even primary, means of vindication, but they
would function as one of those disqualifiers. This
plays out specifically in the contest between Jeremiah
and Hannaniah in Jer 28. (Note especially the abrupt
finality of 28:17.) I would summarize the force of Deut
18:15-22 as follows:
In light of God’s interdict upon any consort with the
pagan magicians of Canaan, be assured that God will
raise up a prophet when He has a revelatory message to
communicate, and that that prophet will in every case
be like Moses in this particular – he will demonstrate
his claim to be a prophet by means of sign-miracles.
You are to heed the voice of that prophet as you would
heed the voice of God Himself, because that prophet
is speaking words given him by God. God will hold
you accountable if you do not heed His word spoken
through His prophets. On the other hand, the prophet
who foretells that which does not occur is to be rejected,
no matter his ability to do miracles. Thus will God
provide Himself a means of speaking with authority
and assurance to His people, and of disqualifying that
prophet who by reason of carelessness or apostasy
squanders the goodness of God and disqualifies himself
for the office of prophet.
Finally, it seems clear that the promise of Deut 18:15-
20 was taken by the Jewish people to include the
anticipation of a final and climactic fulfillment in a
single great end-time “prophet.” This hope is reflected
in the question asked of John the Baptist in Jn 1:21
(“Are you the prophet?”) and in the response of many
to Jesus feeding of 5000 in John 6:14 (“This is truly
the prophet who is to come into the world.”) Further,
many would argue that when Peter cites Deut 18 in Ac
3:22-23, he is insisting that Jesus is the fulfillment of
that OT passage. (I would demur at this point. It seems
to me that the context, specifically the reference in 3:24,
indicates that Peter’s point in citing Deut 18 is that God
has provided prophetic voices just as He promised
in the days of Moses, that all of those prophets have
foretold and anticipated the coming of Messiah, and
that Peter’s auditors are the people who most closely
identify with that succession of prophets.) Given that
anticipation reflected by the Jews of the 1st century, is it
not reasonable for the Christian to take Deut 18:15-20
as a foretelling of Jesus the Christ?
I would concur that Jesus was the apogee of the
succession of prophets, that their ministries and
messages ultimately focused on Messiah, and thus
that Jesus of Nazareth, the very Word of God, was the
ultimate fulfillment of the promise of Deut 18:15-18.
But as before, if He is the sole fulfillment, if Moses
meant nothing more than that in 1400 years God was
going to raise up another prophet “like unto Moses,”
then the concern being addressed in the historical
context of Deut 18 is left entirely unaddressed; the
generation faced with the dilemma of losing Moses
on the one hand and being denied access to pagan
religious practitioners on the other are given no help
whatever. Further, the means by which the false
prophet can be disqualified in 18:20-22 must also refer
to Christ, which is certainly problematic. And finally,
there is disturbing dissonance between the argument
of Hebrews that Jesus is “better than Moses” and the
promise of Deuteronomy that God would raise up this
prophet who was gloriously to be identified as “like
unto Moses.”
Dr. Doug Bookman
V
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. Acts 7:37

“The Orphaned Book” – Walt Kaiser
o The young have not been spared (1:5; 5:13)
 And are “seeking bread” (1:11; 5:9)
o Recollection of “days of old” (1:7; 5:21)
o Acknowledgement of sin as the ultimate
cause (1:5, 8; 5:16)
• This chapter is also 22 verses, but is much shorter
than the others.
o This is because of how much it builds
upon the themes introduced in the earlier
chapters
II. STRUCTURE
• It follows the pattern of a communal prayer
o Opening plea for attention (5:1)
o Elaboration on reason for plea (5:2–18)
o Concluding petition (5:19–22)
• It can also be divided based on the perspective
o Vs. 1–10- 1st
person pronoun
o Vs. 11–14- 3rd
person pronoun
o Vs. 15–22- 1st
person pronoun
III. CONTENT
VS. 1: ZION’S PETITION
• Interestingly, this verse begins with three
imperatives addressed to Yahweh
I. INTRODUCTION
• Cannot forget that the exile was a part of God’s
plan. It did not surprise Him at all.
o The law was not too difficult for them
(Deut. 30:11–14)
o But they don’t have the spiritual ears to
hear or eyes to see (Deut. 29:1–4)
• The concluding chapter is a community prayer
o It is in the first person plural
o It follows the pattern of a communal
prayer
 Opening plea for attention (5:1)
 Elaboration on reason for plea
(5:2–18)
 Concluding petition (5:19–22)
• It also has strong ties to the first chapter
o “look and see” (1:9,11; 5:1)
o The city lies deserted (1:1; 5:18)
o Its gates are empty (1:4; 5:14)
o Land is controlled by foreigners (1:5, 10;
5:2, 8)
 “pursue” (1:3, 6; 5:5)
 And show no respect to elders
(1:6; 5:12)
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 5:2

o Remember
 Does not imply that God does not
remember the past trials of Israel
 Instead, this is a plea for a
compassionate response
o Look
 Does not imply that God does not
know what it going on
 Instead, this is a call for a response
o See
 Does not imply that God cannot
see what is going on.
 Instead, this is a call for a
response.
• All of these imperatives in context assume that
God does remember, can see, and is able to do
something about it.
• To remember is to act. To see and look is to have
compassion and respond.
VS. 2–10: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
DEVASTATION
Vs. 2
• This is a fulfilled promise by God.
• Deut 28:63
63 “It shall come about that as the Lord
delighted over you to prosper you, and
multiply you, so the Lord will delight over
you to make you perish and destroy you;
and you will be torn from the land where
you are entering to possess it.
• This is a reversal of what Israel had experienced
when they took the land.
• Deut. 6:10–11
10 “Then it shall come about when the Lord your
God brings you into the land which He swore to
your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give
you, great and splendid cities which you did not
build, 11 and houses full of all good things which
you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did
not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did
not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,
• Also, don’t forget the covenant that God had made
with Abraham
o This covenant promised land, seed (or
offspring), and blessing.
o Gen. 17:6–8
6 “I have made you exceedingly
fruitful, and I will make nations of
you, and kings will come forth from
you. 7 “I will establish My covenant
between Me and you and your
descendants after you throughout
their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be God to you and to
your descendants after you. 8 “I will
give to you and to your descendants
after you, the land of your sojournings,
all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be
their God.”
o Couldn’t God just break off this covenant
because of disobedience? NO! Because
the covenant was an everlasting, one-way
covenant.
o Genesis 12:17–18
17 It came about when the sun
had set, that it was very dark, and
behold, there appeared a smoking
oven and a flaming torch which
passed between these pieces.
18 On that day the Lord made
a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given
this land, From the river of Egypt
as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates:…”
Continued...
Stephen D. Campbell
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. Jeremiah 32:41

Continued...
Let’s break down this evaluation process into steps:
1) STEP ONE: Get to know a little bit about the person
behind his/her material.
Who is this person?
• Does this person have a published bio? What is
his/her story? What is his/her agenda?
• Doesthispersonascribetoaparticularstatement
of faith?
• Does this person have an affiliation with a local
church or organization (which has a published
statement of faith)?
• Does this person hold academic credentials?
(NOTE: Such credentials do not necessarily
offer validity of a particular view, but sometimes
you can ascertain a little about someone’s beliefs
based upon where they have studied.)
What is this person’s personal testimony?
• Is there a clear message of salvation and reliance
upon Jesus Christ? That is, did “Jesus simply
come into that persons heart?”, or do they
acknowledge that they are a desperate sinner in
need of salvation which only the atoning blood
of Jesus could provide?
• Is there a clear message of sanctification?
• Does this person even use the name of Jesus
Christ?
• Howdoesthispersondescribeher/himself? Asa
redeemed sinner who is in the continual process
of sanctification, or someone who has “arrived”?
2) STEPTWO: Taketimetothinkaboutwhatthisperson
believes. If he/she does not have a published bio or
statementoffaith,youmayhavetodosomehardwork,
andreadinto his/hermaterialtoascertainthespecifics
of their belief system. Specifically, ask the following
questions:
What does this person believe about God?
• Is God described as Creator? Does this person believe that
thereisan intelligent designer who created the universe and
everything in it?
• Is God described as eternal?
• Is God described in “trinity”?
WhatdoesthispersonbelieveaboutJesusChrist?
• Was Jesus Christ fully man? Fully God?
• WhatwasJesus’missionhereonearth? Teaching?Miracles?
Social reform?
• Propitiationofsin?
• Why did Jesus die?
• Was Jesus resurrected from the death and did he appear to
people afterward?
• Where is Jesus now and what is he doing?
What does this person believe about the Bible?
• Is the Bible trustworthy for everything, or does this person
imply that we need more than what the Bible can offer for
practical living?
• Who wrote the Bible?
• Does the Bible contain errors?
• Is the Bible relevant?
What is the purpose of the Bible today?
• Is the information in the Bible timeless, or should it be
updatedaccordingto today’s cultural standards?
• Whatdoesthisperson believeabouthumans?
• Howarehumansdifferentfromanimals?
• What is the purpose of humanity?
• Are Adam and Eve real people?
• What does the story of Adam and Eve tell us?
• How does God interact with people?
What does this person believe about eternal destiny?
• Isheavenreal?
• Is hell real?
• How is it decided who will spend eternity in heaven or
DISCERNMENT
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.
I Thessalonians 5:21-22

Prof. Deb Martin
hell?
• Can someone who is saved end up in hell?
What does this person believe about the church?
• What is the church?
• Who makes up the church?
• What is the purpose of the church?
• Who leads the church?
3) STEP THREE: Take time to evaluate what is the
purpose for what this person is writing/saying. This
isn’t always obvious. (Understand the differences
betweenatext book,adevotionalandablogpost!)
• What is this person’s stated objective?
• Is the person trying to instruct/teach, or argue a
point?
• Is the content of the material based on the author’s
opinion and/or experience, or on stated biblical
truths?
• Is the purpose to edify or (as is the case with many
blog posts), simply to “rant”?
• Does the author/speaker put too much emphasis on
making a point (and ensuring that you agree with
him/her), or do they present material for you to
internalize and evaluate for yourself?
• Does the tone of the message sound like the person
is trying to impress you, or to point you toward
something that would be edifying?
Based upon the information you gather in these first three steps,
you may have enough insight in order to evaluate the validity and
value of what you are reading/hearing, and you can proceed in
wisdom. But if you still need assistance, proceed to steps FOUR,
FIVE and/or SIX.
4) STEP FOUR: Evaluate the content in terms of your
personal beliefs.
a. Do the beliefs (implied or stated) differ from
that of your local church? (If you’re uncertain,
checkyourchurch’sstatementoffaith.)
b. Do the beliefs (implied or stated) differ from
the biblical truths you personally hold? If so, are
they significantly problematic? Or, can you still
reap benefit from some aspects of this person’s
material?
c. Are the differences you identified in doctrine
or application? These are two different animals.
Sometimes people with very similar beliefs will
disagree on some points of practical application.
Does the tone of the person presenting seem to
imply that their method of application is the
“correct” way, and dismiss other alternatives?
5) STEP FIVE: Evaluate the content in terms of how it
will enable you to become transformedintotheimage
ofChrist.
a. After absorbing the material you’ve read or
listened to, would you describe yourself as more
(or less):
b. Loving
i) Joyful, ii)Peaceful, iii) Patient, iv) Kind
vi) Good, vii) Faithful, viii) Gentle, ix) Self-controlled
c. Are you encouraged to offer grace and mercy to
others?
d. Are you humbled? Convicted? Encouraged?
Spurred onto good works?
e. Are you more or less inclined to worship God?
TrustGod? ObeyGod?
NOTE: If STEP FIVE gave you pause, perhaps you should
continue onto STEP SIX. (In fact, one could argue that STEP SIX
should really be STEP ONE…)
6) STEP SIX: Self-reflection. Why are you seeking out
thisparticularresource?
a. Is it because the author/speaker comes “highly
recommended” by others?
b. It is because this person is “popular” in
Christiancircles?
c. Areyousimplyaddingthisresourcetoa“list”
ofaccomplishments?
d. Are you motivated by the idea of a Christian
“checklist”, or by a true desire for atransformed
life?
e. Are you engaging with this resource for mere
entertainment purposes? Be honest!
f. Are you reading/listening to this person
because you want justification of your own
opinions? (Ouch…this one can hurt.)
These are certainly time consuming steps to consider and
implement. ButdearsistersinChrist,I offerthatthemoretime
and effort you devote to choosing quality resources, the better
opportunity for growth you will encounter.
And most certainly, if you are still confused or concerned with
a particular resource, I encourage you to contact us at email
address,andwewillbehappytoassist.
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. 2 Peter 1:3

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