Aim: To be ''wise as serpents, and gentle as doves.''
Doctrine: Uncoverted rebels will not bend their hearts to the Lord's revealed will, because they believe they are wiser than God and they despise God's discipline.
Exegesis: The devious ways of the rebellious: they plot against the unsuspecting (40:13-14); they exploit weaknesses (40:15-16); they feign friendship (41:1-3).
Further application: How to be smart, without being paranoid: place all implicit trust in Christ, alone; and be shrewd, without forfeiting love.
Key verse: 41:2 ''Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.''
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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...
