James 3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
In my last post, I said that deception starts in the mind. Deception is believing something that is errant to the Word of God. When the devil tempted Jesus, he used scripture. When the serpent led Eve into deception, he twisted – just ever so slightly – the word spoken by God.
No wonder James warns those who teach! How important it is to teach absolute truth that is 100% in line with what the Word teaches, else those being taught could believe something not exactly lined up with Scripture and the teacher could lead them in to deception.
Dad, I pray that anything I ever teach anyone, my kids, others around me, whomever you put in my sphere of influence – my prayer is that my teaching is based soley on Your Word, Your thoughts and none of my own.