Church Life, “Are You a Good Berean?”
(Acts 17:10-15)
The Right Mind (vv. 10-11)
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles Spurgeon -
Heb. 5:12-14 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Ro. 15:4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
The Right Heart (v. 12)
The Right Mission (vv. 13-15)
How to Develop Wisdom and Discernment (through God’s means of grace):
1. Seek God in the word (be a good Berean)
2. Seek God in prayer (Ja. 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.)
3. Seek God in the fellowship of the local church (‘iron sharpens iron’)
