Workmen or Captives? Avoiding the Snare of Subjectivity
Workmen or Captives?
Paul was a man who knew a thing or two about supernatural experience (see 2 Cor 12:1-4). He knew its value and, just as importantly, its limitations. In his final instructions to Timothy, what was Paul’s chief burden? That his most faithful and promising disciple would excel in the pursuit of personal, subjective experience? Or that he would be diligent to correctly handle the Word of God? You know the answer.
As Christians, we must never forget that our remaining sin nature will continually drive us to subordinate the objective truth of Scripture to subjective impressions. We really only have two choices: to become skilled workmen in the rich, timeless, and objective truth of God’s Word, or to remain captives—each in our own cramped, subjective little universe of personal impressions.
Escape from subjective captivity. Become a workman in the Word.
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Notes
- John Owen, Sin and Temptation (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 1996), pp. 36-37.
- Robert M. Bowman, Orthodoxy and Heresy (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1992), p.78.
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Reprinted with permission from Sovereign Grace magazine, a publication of Sovereign Grace Ministries. This article by Dave Harvey appeared in the July/August 1998 issue with the theme “Every One a Theologian.”
Category: Living the Faith, Summer 2002
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