Exhortation

     We need to be exhorted. I know I do. Oh, come on, don’t say you don’t. You know you're not perfect. You know you need it to. Why do we need it so much? We are still living in human bodies. Faith comes by hearing. When we grow weary or begin to meander amongst sinful things, we need to hear the word of God, the voice of the shepherd, so that we can come back.  There are people out there that are false. They proclaim a whole different message we need to be exhorted to avoid such things. We need to be exhorted to exercise our senses.  The exhortation is not bad. We make it bad by what attitude we use to respond to it. Children of God can exhort and be exhorted in Christ.

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17 NKJV

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1 NKJV

“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” 1 Timothy 4:1-5 NKJV

“But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Hebrews 5:14 NKJV