Watchfulness of leaders (2)

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Leaders must be alert to the needs of those they serve and also to the dangers that surround believers in the world. The OT teaching on watchmen provides an indication of the importance of watchfulness and the responsibility of those called to be watchful.

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Leaders are required to be watchful

Ezekiel 3:17 KJV 1900
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
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They are accountable to God

Ezekiel 3:18 KJV 1900
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
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They must warn against false teachers

Elders are called overseers in Acts 20:28; 1Ti 3:2; Tit 1:7; 1Pe 5:2.
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Examples of leaders’ warnings to churches

1 Corinthians 4:14 KJV 1900
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
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Leaders’ watchfulness in prayer

Isaiah 62:6–7 KJV 1900
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, Which shall never hold their peace day nor night: Ye that make mention of the Lord, Keep not silence, And give him no rest, Till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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Leaders need to watch over their own lives

Acts 20:28 KJV 1900
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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Watchmen sometimes fail to be watchful

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