Preserving The Flock From Erroneous Doctrine

    All who have a real concern for behaviour in God's house, should see that God's people are preserved from erroneous doctrine. Natural minds reason that error is just another man's opinion and that every man is entitled to his opinion. However, those with a concern for God's house and proper behaviour in it, will never take error to be just another man's opinion. They will see as best they can, that God's people are preserved from erroneous doctrine. "Charge some that they teach no other doctrine."

      In 2 Kgs. 4:38, we read of an incident at Gilgal where Elisha said, "Set on the great pot", and it was set on. There was an exercise on the part of the sons of the prophets to make contribution towards the feeding of God's people,, but one of these sons of the prophets, unknown to the others, went out to the field and gathered wild gourds and shred them into the pot. Eventually the cry came: "Death in the pot". That was a very sad occasion. The tragedy, dear brethren, was that this young man was shredding poisonous wild gourds into the pot and they didn't know it. There wasn't the discernment that what this young man was shredding into the pot was poison and not food. Thus, there was the cry, "Death in the pot". Brethren, it is vital that God's people be preserved in these difficult days from erroneous doctrine.

     When Paul told the elders of Ephesus to feed the flock of God, I don't believe he meant that they were responsible to feed the flock exclusively in a personal way. He meant that as elders or overseers, they were in charge of the flock's food. They were to see that the flock was fed with the right things and that they were preserved from those which were poisonous and harmful.

excerpt from "Behaviour in the House of God" by Albert L, Leckie
published in Assembly Testimony, No. 386, November/December 2016
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