We are to evaluate everything and everyone, not to knock them down but to warn others to carefully evaluate all things so that we are not led into error or sin.
When we trust Christ we place no believer above another believer merely because of their position or popularity. Every believer has a job to do and no believer is above evaluation.
Idolatry is forbidden by God, we worship Christ alone.
Psalm 118:8-9
"It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes."
We love and appreciate others as they do their work for the Lord, but no one is so perfect that they cannot be challenged or evaluated, not one person. I am struck with the realization that the lowliest of believers as well as the well known, has much to offer because it is Christ in us and not ourselves that we should be trusting.
Jeremiah 17:5
"Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord."
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