Confusion
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· 9 viewsA state of perplexity, bewilderment or disorder. Confusion may be brought about by God to cause the schemes of the wicked to fail and opposition to his people to prove ineffective. Confusion over spiritual truth is the natural state of humanity; believers, too, may be perplexed by God’s purposes or thrown into confusion by false teaching.
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Examples of people in confusion
Examples of people in confusion
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God sends confusion as judgment
God sends confusion as judgment
The righteous ask God to confuse their enemies
The righteous ask God to confuse their enemies
Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether
who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against me!
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God sends confusion on Israel’s enemies
God sends confusion on Israel’s enemies
I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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Israel, too, may experience confusion
Israel, too, may experience confusion
“The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
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Examples of God sending confusion
Examples of God sending confusion
at the tower of Babel; on the Amorites; on the Philistines; on Jehoshaphat’s enemies
Spiritual confusion is humanity’s natural state
Spiritual confusion is humanity’s natural state
But the wicked are like the tossing sea;
for it cannot be quiet,
and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
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Confusion relating to Jesus Christ
Confusion relating to Jesus Christ
Confusion among the Jews
Confusion among the Jews
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Confusion among Jesus Christ’s disciples
Confusion among Jesus Christ’s disciples
And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”
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Further examples of believers in confusion
Further examples of believers in confusion
Confusion over God’s purposes
Confusion over God’s purposes
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
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Confusion over doctrine
Confusion over doctrine
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
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Remedies for confusion
Remedies for confusion
Confusion dispelled by asking God for understanding
Confusion dispelled by asking God for understanding
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
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Confusion dispelled by the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit
Confusion dispelled by the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
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Confusion combated by the teaching of wise leaders
Confusion combated by the teaching of wise leaders
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Confusion dispelled by the instruction of Scripture
Confusion dispelled by the instruction of Scripture
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Confusion goes as believers grow to spiritual maturity
Confusion goes as believers grow to spiritual maturity
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
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