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Discipleship Focus: Teacher
- Teacher: One who holds forth the truth and is excited by it. The teacher looks for ways to explain, enlighten, and apply truth. A teacher's authority doesn't come from how smart they are but from the Word of God and the power of a transformed life.
In the
opening section of Malachi 2, we hear harsh words of judgment from God. He promises to take the Hebrew people and
turn them into rubbish. He promises to
curse them. In fact, He actually
promises to curse their blessing! That’s
a pretty steep condemnation!
Why does
God give this condemnation? The problem
starts with the spiritual leaders. They
aren’t teaching people in the ways of the Lord.
The priest’s job is to guard knowledge and the people should seek it
from him. That just wasn’t
happening. The people were falling away
from the Lord and the priests weren’t doing their job in reminding the people
to pursue righteous living.
We don’t
really know the exact offense of the priests.
It could be that the priests were teaching the wrong thing. They could have been teaching people to live
unrighteously. They could have been
justifying wrong behavior. On the other
hand, they could have just not been teaching at all. They might not have been doing the wrong job,
they could have been doing no job at all!
Both are offenses against good teaching.
From
this, what can we say about a good teacher?
A good teacher is one who upholds the ways of the Lord. A good teacher reminds people what righteous
living looks like. A good teacher is one
who is willing to do his job and is excited b the possibility of doing the job.
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