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this scripture, Jeremiah 2:13. for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living water,. the church is full on holidays, and Sunday morn. but the rest of the week we attempt to get our water at home or work or anywhere but at the appointed by God meeting place, we fail to gather ourselves together for the feeding and watering of our souls. our spirits can't help but wither and dry up. outside the house of meeting, has too many other interest in all directions to hold water. like trying to gather water with a fish net. it gets wet and has a minimal amount of word from God but difficult to gather the drops to acquire even a sip.
Brothers and sisters, please don't allow the world to dilute your time to gather together with the saints for the praises of our true King.
2:13 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. |
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| hey bob, i have to agree with you- can't help but think of the letter to the church in ephesus in rev 2. we tend to be so caught up with results and how things appear that we have forsaken our First Love! which illuminates 1 cor 13:1-13. i believe there's gonna be a whole lotta shaken go-in on brother! |
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This is really a great awakening Bob to those of us who are Christians and church goers. Let me always remember that Jesus is my source of that living water and that I need to fellowhip with Him and His saints.
10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Herman
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The bitter truth is that not all "Christians" see the falling off in the churches as a big problem,(because they aren't always there. I see the church full on Sunday morning, but the following Sunday it is filled yet, with at least partially with a different crowd. If all the people that attend my church came on the same Sunday we wouldn't have room for everyone. I know there are reasons for missing church as society has accepted them. But when we only have a hand-full on Sunday night and Wed. night. that to me relates to apathy not absentee. I pray for a revival in America. the churches are on every corner. near empty. If all the people who claim to be a christian, living under the name of my Lord, why are our churches empty. I am afraid the time is coming very soon when they do finely seek the Lord there, the church will already be caught up in the air. It is our job on earth to bring in the sheep. to me the apathy is a direct result of the pew setters that are in the church, are not following the great commission, and are not lifting up the brothers and sisters that are missing in action. we can't lay this on anyone else with out pointing ourselves out too. When I go to the jungle in Peru on missions trips for 4 months, when I return to my home church it is full of strangers, but only a few of the ones that made up the roll when i left. Please don't misunderstand this as a blast at my home church, for i love them dearly new and old. But I fear this is the norm and not the unusual in Americas churches. I believe that
Christ is due on the scene, in the clouds to the east, very soon before the trib. begins. How deep will our shame be when we are called to answer for opportunities we were given to bring in the lost on that judgement day |
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