Use Caution

When driving I often stop on a yellow light and my husband reminds me that yellow means caution and red means stop. I do something similar with Scripture. Jesus told his disciples to be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees and they were confused. They thought Jesus meant bread, but he meant to be on guard against their teaching. When I read that passage (Matt 16:6) I mentally put on the breaks to avoid today’s Pharisees and Sadducees (teachers). However, what the Lord is really asking me to do is use caution with teachers, but come to a full stop if their teaching is in error. “…he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees” (Matt 16:12 NIV).