Aim: To hold firm to Christ—in an age of theological confusion.
Doctrine: When people are not well-shepherded, they commit idolatry—thinking they are doing right. Smaller errors can lead to profound errors, which go from bad to worse.
Exegesis: The cause, process, and result of theological confusion and insanity: it is borne out of an irresistable urge to worship somehow (vv. 1-3); if it is not reproved, it ends in some form of idolatry (v. 4); the root reason is often ignorance (from the lack of teaching of good doctrine) (vv. 5-6).
Further application: How the sound church is to address theological confusion and insanity: first, by preaching Christ in and through the gospel of grace; then, by correcting heresy (employing the Holy Scriptures).
Key verse: v. 6 ''In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.