PROTECTING THE BOUNDARY MARKERS (5 OF 8)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Proverbs 22:28
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Protecting The Boundary Markers (5 of 8)
Series: Getting There
Jeff Strite
Proverbs 22:28
OPEN: I have a test for you this morning. I'm going to give you certain common phrases and ask you to tell me whether or not they came from Scripture. If it will make you feel any better, I had lunch with two preachers last Wednesday and they missed about half of the references… so don't feel too bad if you miss a few.
1. "To the victor go the spoils." (William Learned Marcy in his Life of Jackson)
2. "Can a leopard change his spots?" (Jeremiah 13:23)
3. "The apple of his eye" (Deut. 32:10)
4. "No rest for the wicked (Isaiah 48:22)
5. "A heart of gold." (Partial credit - Proverbs 17:3 speaks of refining our hearts like gold)
6. God helps those who help themselves (Aesop's fables. It literally says: "The GODS help those who help themselves.")
7. "The blind leading the blind." (Luke 6:39)
8. "Money is the root of all evil." (This sounds like it comes from 1 Timothy 6:10. But that verse literally says, "For the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil.")
9. "Tempted by the Serpent, Eve to eat the apple and gave to her husband, and he ate also." (False-Genesis 3 only says that they ate from the FRUIT of the tree of knowledge)
10. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (TRUE - though commonly identified with Abraham Lincoln, it is from Mark 3:25)
11. "Keep the faith" (2 Tim. 4:7)
12. "No man is an island." (Line from a famous poem by John Donne)
13. "Flies in the ointment." (Ecclesiastes 10:1, KJV)
14. "In the twinkling of an eye" (I Cor. 15:52)
APPLY: The goal of that little exercise was to help you realize two things:
1st - there many Biblical phrases that are common in our society
2nd - there are times when people quote certain phrases, mistakenly believing that they actually are in Scripture. Now that may seem innocent, but I've found that when people replace God's thinking with human reasoning they often end up some pretty warped theology ...
Series: Getting There
Jeff Strite
Proverbs 22:28
OPEN: I have a test for you this morning. I'm going to give you certain common phrases and ask you to tell me whether or not they came from Scripture. If it will make you feel any better, I had lunch with two preachers last Wednesday and they missed about half of the references… so don't feel too bad if you miss a few.
1. "To the victor go the spoils." (William Learned Marcy in his Life of Jackson)
2. "Can a leopard change his spots?" (Jeremiah 13:23)
3. "The apple of his eye" (Deut. 32:10)
4. "No rest for the wicked (Isaiah 48:22)
5. "A heart of gold." (Partial credit - Proverbs 17:3 speaks of refining our hearts like gold)
6. God helps those who help themselves (Aesop's fables. It literally says: "The GODS help those who help themselves.")
7. "The blind leading the blind." (Luke 6:39)
8. "Money is the root of all evil." (This sounds like it comes from 1 Timothy 6:10. But that verse literally says, "For the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil.")
9. "Tempted by the Serpent, Eve to eat the apple and gave to her husband, and he ate also." (False-Genesis 3 only says that they ate from the FRUIT of the tree of knowledge)
10. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (TRUE - though commonly identified with Abraham Lincoln, it is from Mark 3:25)
11. "Keep the faith" (2 Tim. 4:7)
12. "No man is an island." (Line from a famous poem by John Donne)
13. "Flies in the ointment." (Ecclesiastes 10:1, KJV)
14. "In the twinkling of an eye" (I Cor. 15:52)
APPLY: The goal of that little exercise was to help you realize two things:
1st - there many Biblical phrases that are common in our society
2nd - there are times when people quote certain phrases, mistakenly believing that they actually are in Scripture. Now that may seem innocent, but I've found that when people replace God's thinking with human reasoning they often end up some pretty warped theology ...
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