Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
June 27, 2023: SOAP #4954: 2Kings 13,14; 2Chronicles 25; 2Timothy 3

SCRIPTURE:  2Timothy 3:1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, … 7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

OBSERVATION:  Among the more than twenty characteristics give in these verses of people in the last days, we read “always learning, but never able to acknowledge the truth.”   Here is an amazing thing:  learning should bring people closer to the truth of reality, but people have their minds set against God so will not acknowledge His obvious part in creation or in anything else. Man now has wonderful knowledge about that little life in the womb and how it develops, yet thinks it is OK to abort it!   Man is “always learning” but not able to acknowledge the obvious truth because they leave God out of the picture. Man can so easily become proud of knowing so many things and miss knowing the One who is the Ultimate Truth!

APPLICATION:  So, what do we do?  We continue learning.  We find the source of learning that is based on truth!  I must not base truth on what I learn (there may be more to learn that will change what I think to be true), I must base my learning on what I already know to be true!  

2Timothy 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of…15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness,

PRAYER:  Heavenly Father, guide my learning to be always in line with the scriptures which is Your written word from the source of all truth.  Amen

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