Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
Be having respect for the same ones who constantly walk according to the pattern you have in us.
Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Program spirituality, spirituality by emotion, spirituality through self-crucifixion or spirituality by asceticism and extreme self-denial.
The content of his message, on the basis of his own spiritual progress and therefore not on the basis of his personality, his attractiveness or his personal friendship with you.
kai [and] pres/act/ imp, skopeite to regard in the sense of looking for, to mark, to select, to observe and have respect for, to concentrate on.
1TI 5:17 “Those pastor-teachers who have ruled well with the result that they keep ruling honorably, they must be considered worthy of double honor, most of all those who work hard to the point of exhaustion in the study of the word and the teaching of doctrine.”
You are to concentrate, not on the person who teaches, but on their content or what they teach.
Turn to TIT 2:3
Turn to PHI 3:17
LUK 19:47 “And He was teaching daily in the temple; and the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,”
ACT 16:5 “So the churches were being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily.”
Acts 20:31 “Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.”
ACT 2:46 “And day by day continuing with one mind in the temple,”
ACT 5:42 “And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”
TI 3:2c, “An overseer must be able to teach,”
The present active imperative of skopeo is a warning – to regard in the sense of looking for, to mark, to select, to observe and have respect for, to concentrate on.
It is the message that he has in his soul from his Bible study which is the basis of his personal advance and also the basis of your personal advance.
tous houtos an intensive pronoun emphasizing the identity of your right pastor.
Turn to Acts 20:17
Turn to 1PE 5:1