"These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so."
Acts 17:11 (NKJV)
Recently, I was shopping for groceries in Germany, and I used the self-service checkout to pay for my groceries. As I packed up my things and started to leave, a man approached me and introduced himself as the "store detective" saying he wanted to check my receipt and groceries, to see if they matched. This had never happened to me before, but I gladly showed him my receipt, and he checked what was in my bags against the receipt. At the end of this, he thanked me for my cooperation and I left the store, because what was in the bag matched the receipt.
Many stores have people who might check our receipt against what we are trying to leave the store with. People in these stores could just expect everyone else to be nice and think that no one would try to steal anything from them, but unfortunately, this is not the case. It is a good policy to check things, whether it is groceries, some electronics purchase, or even concerning Bible teaching. When we hear someone teaching something in a church, a special meeting, online, or even in a book we read, we should check what we have received in that teaching against what is written in the Bible.
Acts 17:11 talks about something that every Christian should be doing; searching the Scriptures, daily, to see if what we hear is true. In a store, someone may want to check what is in our bag against the receipt we have. In the same way, we need to check the Bible to see if what someone else and their teaching is giving us is really in line with God's Word. If we do not do this, we could end up with something that does not belong to us, and that would not be good. There is good teaching, and there is bad teaching, and the best way to tell the difference is to check the Scriptures, daily.
Acts 17:11 (NKJV)
Recently, I was shopping for groceries in Germany, and I used the self-service checkout to pay for my groceries. As I packed up my things and started to leave, a man approached me and introduced himself as the "store detective" saying he wanted to check my receipt and groceries, to see if they matched. This had never happened to me before, but I gladly showed him my receipt, and he checked what was in my bags against the receipt. At the end of this, he thanked me for my cooperation and I left the store, because what was in the bag matched the receipt.
Many stores have people who might check our receipt against what we are trying to leave the store with. People in these stores could just expect everyone else to be nice and think that no one would try to steal anything from them, but unfortunately, this is not the case. It is a good policy to check things, whether it is groceries, some electronics purchase, or even concerning Bible teaching. When we hear someone teaching something in a church, a special meeting, online, or even in a book we read, we should check what we have received in that teaching against what is written in the Bible.
Acts 17:11 talks about something that every Christian should be doing; searching the Scriptures, daily, to see if what we hear is true. In a store, someone may want to check what is in our bag against the receipt we have. In the same way, we need to check the Bible to see if what someone else and their teaching is giving us is really in line with God's Word. If we do not do this, we could end up with something that does not belong to us, and that would not be good. There is good teaching, and there is bad teaching, and the best way to tell the difference is to check the Scriptures, daily.
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