Can We Reconcile Admonishment and Unity?
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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“Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!” Psalm 133:1 ESV
We were created to dwell in unity as believers, and the absence of that unity can be painful. Nothing has exposed us more to disunity in recent years than the rhetoric and divisiveness we see in culture right right. When division comes between close friends and family, it can be heartbreaking. Does this mean that we overlook false teaching or unsound doctrine in the name of getting along? Of course not.
Paul wrote extensively about the importance of unity in the book of Ephesians. But he also warned the elders of the Ephesian church when he spoke to them in person:
“I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore, be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears.” Acts 20:29-31
Can we reconcile admonishment and unity? The Bible teaches a resounding “yes!”
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| 0:30.8 | Good morning everybody. This is Heidi Saint John. Welcome to off the bench. Today is Wednesday, |
| 0:36.1 | February the second. Today I'm going to hit a little bit of the headlines are so much |
| 0:39.8 | going on, but I think you guys have reason to rejoice. Stick around. I think you're going |
| 0:45.0 | to be encouraged. |
| 0:46.3 | All right, you guys. Well, a lot of things going on before I jump into the headlines. I want |
| 0:59.0 | to read today's verse for you. The Bible has a lot to say about anger and you guys have |
| 1:05.4 | heard me talking, you know, about how angry I am at what's been happening to us, particularly |
| 1:10.8 | in the culture as it relates to our mismanagement really of COVID-19. The Bible says do not |
| 1:17.0 | be quickly provoked in your spirit. So this is from the book of Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes |
| 1:23.3 | verse seven or chapter seven rather verse nine. Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit |
| 1:30.9 | for anger resides in the lap of fools. It's easy to talk about what's happening in the |
| 1:39.8 | culture and be angry. And the Bible actually doesn't condemn anger. The Bible says in |
| 1:45.4 | your anger, what? Do not sin. Remember last week I read to you the verse that I often |
| 1:52.6 | read to my children out of Psalm three that says, I will lie down and sleep in peace because |
| 2:00.1 | you alone, O Lord, help me dwell in safety. When we respond to what's happening around us, |
| 2:05.4 | we want to remember that we are our correct response is as people who trust and serve |
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