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WHAT TO DO WITH TROUBLEMAKERS
Rick Blount
Troublemakers, it seems, are on every hand.
Everywhere we turn we have to deal with the matter of troublemakers.
Whether on the job or the community where you live or even in your particular area of the church, from time to time you will experience troublemakers.
Sometimes you have troublemakers in the choir.
Sometimes you have troublemakers in the youth group.
You may occasionally experience troublemakers in your Sunday School class or in some other particular area of our church’s ministry, from time to time; there are those people who will cause trouble.
I was thinking about troublemakers this week and what I was going to say about it and I began to think about some of the families that the troublemakers are in.
Some of the troublemakers are in the Iser family.
Do you know about the Isers?
There are the criticizers.
They are always the ones who are finding something to criticize about everything.
Then there are the organizers.
They are always the ones who are trying to get up a little band of rebellion to hinder the work of the Lord.
Then there are the proselytizers.
These are the ones who are unhappy here.
They are going somewhere else and they do everything they can to proselytize others to go with them.
Then there are the womanizers.
Those are the ones who come in and they are interested only in looking at someone with a carnal perspective.
So, there are some who are in the Iser family.
Some of the troublemakers are in the Tator family.
There are the agitators.
They are always the ones who are agitating the situation.
Then there are the imitators.
They try to imitate the people of God and it becomes very clear that they are putting on an act; it’s not real in their hearts.
There are the irritators.
They can irritate everything and everyone all of the time.
Then there are the dictators.
These are the ones who always want to run things.
They always want to be in charge and if you don’t let them they get very unhappy.
Then there are the perpetrators.
Those are the ones who spread the rumors and lies and innuendoes.
The troublemakers who are in the Tator family.
There are some who are in the Tares family.
Jesus talked about the tares among the wheat.
We have some troublemakers who are in the tares family.
You know the tares.
They always taring.
They tares up and they tares down.
They tares over and they tares under.
They tares in and they tares out.
They are always taring around doing something.
You have to watch out for the troublemakers.
There have always been troublemakers in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Very soon after the inception of the church of Jesus Christ the Bible teaches that the troublemakers began to move.
There were for instance the legalists who taught that Christianity was merely a set of rules and they tried to put everybody under bondage.
There were the libertines who used the liberty which is ours in the grace of God as an experience to sin.
They tried to get people back into a lifestyle of sin; Of course, there were also the Judaizes who taught doctrines that were clearly contradictory to the established teachings, the precious truths of the Word of God.
The Apostle Paul had to deal with these troublemakers constantly in his ministry.
Everywhere Paul went he had to deal with these troublemakers.
They were like mangy dogs, snapping at his heels everywhere he went.
They followed him from city to city and from church to church.
They were always stirring up things.
They were always causing turmoil.
They sowed the seeds of dissension, discord and destruction.
Paul writes in these verses to the Roman Christians words of warning about the troublemakers.
He reminds them and the Spirit of God thus reminds us that we are to be very careful to watch out for the troublemakers.
I want to show you some things that God gives in these verses which I believe can be a help and an encouragement to all of us.
Notice in verse 18 and 19 we have a word of —
I. CAUTION.
In
he specifically addresses the matter of the troublemakers and there are two commands given in verse 17.
He says concerning this word of caution about the troublemakers: mark them.
Then he says at the end of the verse: avoid them.
That’s God’s word of caution about how we are to deal with the troublemakers.
Mark them.
That means we are to be very careful to analyze the troublemakers.
The word here is a most interesting word.
It is our word that we use in our English language the word scope.
The word, microscope, or telescope or if you have a knee problem the surgeon will sometimes “scope” it.
The word scope means to fix your eyes upon.
It means to gaze intently.
It means to look with very, very keen insight.
He says here — fix your eyes on the troublemakers.
The tense of the verb is present tense and it means to be continuously on the lookout.
You have to always be looking out for the troublemakers.
They do a lot of damage.
You better keep your eyes on them.
You better be watching all the time lest they appear.
The Bible says that the troublemakers have a way of trying to move in very subtly.
In he says there are certain men crept in unawares.
That’s true about denominations of churches.
You have to watch out for the troublemakers, the false teachers.
It is true about local churches.
Watch out for those that creep in unawares.
Get your eyes on them, analyze them.
Analyze what the troublemakers believer, verse 17 - “mark them who cause divisions and of fences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned.”
The word, division, there means dissension.
It means disruption.
In
where it is translated seditions it is referred to as one of the works of the flesh.
So, the troublemakers are always dividing.
We have sung this beautiful prayer chorus: Make Us One Lord.
It is a miracle - the unity that the Lord brings among believers.
But the devil wants to disrupt that oneness.
The devil wants to pull apart, to divide.
That’s always what the troublemaker’s teaching will ultimately do.
Offenses.
The word literally means a trap stick.
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