Aim: To be wise churchmen—understanding the evil days in which we live.
Doctrine: The opponents of Jesus, His church, and His gospel with stoop to very low levels. These include offering insincere adulation to weak men, and speaking deceitfully so as to prejudice weak men.
Exegesis: How flattery and villainy is used against us, by the enemies of Christ: they take advantage of the system, and pander to the flesh (vv. 1-3); they distort the truth, and pretend to be noble (vv. 4-6); they ''butter-up'' pride, and serve mob mentality (vv. 8-9).
Further application: How the true church patiently endures flattery and villainy: by first understanding the spiritual ''lay of the land,'' and then by speaking the truth about our Lord Jesus Christ.
Key verses: vv. 4-5 ''But, to detain you no further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly. For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger is a retired, ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div). He is married to his wife, Lesley, and together they have one daughter and...
