THURSDAY May 22, 2025
Guard Your Trusted Commitment
O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:20-21
Put your name in the beginning of this verse. Make it personal and take to heart what is being said. What has God committed to your trust? You need to guard those things. Look how much God has given you. Do you realize that everything––your house, your family, your job, and your finances––has been given to you by Him? It has all been placed into your trust. Look at what you have been given spiritually, and guard the truth.
What are you to avoid? Guard yourself against profane, idle babblings and contradictions to what is taught in the Bible. Can you discern truth from falsehood? Do you know your Bible? As a believer, you should not believe in evolution. You should avoid and refute movies that twist what is taught in the Bible. A number of years ago, The Da Vinci Code, was such a movie. It was just a money-maker that commercialized a lie, a fabricated story. Yet, so many people went to see it. Some became very confused by blasphemous stories that contradict the Gospel message.
Mary Magdalene never had sexual relations with Jesus. She did not flee to France with her daughter! As God, Jesus was holy and pure. Only a sinless sacrifice could die for the sins of the world, and that is what Jesus was––pure: Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:14-15).
Do not be deceived with words that contradict God’s Word. Guard your heart against deception so you do not stray from the faith. Remain in the grace of God. Grace be with you. Amen.
What is the best safe-guard against false teaching? Beyond all doubt the regular study of the Word of God, with prayer for the teaching of the Holy Spirit.
~J.C. Ryle~
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