from a two-year old article but still very relevent for today.
“We don’t put God in a box… He puts US in a sheepfold. And the protective fence He gave us in the New Covenant age is the Word of God, the Bible! He gave us boundaries so we could stay safe, KNOW Him, and please Him. The fence is our measuring rod. It says that what is inside is safe. What is outside is error. It is by the bible alone that we may judge rightly how far we can go. The extra-biblical signs, wonders, miracles, manifestations etc. are the garbage that the wolves (false prophets and false teachers) have laid outside the fence to tempt us into venturing out and they will be our destruction.”
Thomas Brooks wrote that God’s “fence” has two attributes:
1. protection (Job 1:10), “Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns?”
2. affliction (Hosea 2:6-8), “I will hedge up her path with thorns. I will wall her in…”
The hedge of protection—is to keep His people from danger.
The hedge of affliction—is to stop His people from wandering.
The hedge of protection—is to keep them in God’s way.
The hedge of affliction—is to keep them out of sin’s way.
The hedge of protection—is to keep them from suffering.
The hedge of affliction—is to keep then from sinning, and to put them upon returning to God.
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