Evenings in the Bible with Isaac Errett…..June 11, 1881
“ The daughters of Moab have bewitched the sons of Israel, and spiritual whoredom provokes the curse of God in spiritual barrenness, leanness and impotency. The rage of covetousness in the Church; the reign of pride and luxury; the captivity of God’s people, dragged in the silken chains of carnal pleasure at the chariot wheels of a triumphant world: these are the sad spectacles witnessed today. The Church is enslaved, the world is master. Lured to the feasts and revelries and idolatrous abominations of the world Christians with their heads in the lap of this Delilah, are shorn of their strength, and with their limbs fettered, and their eyes put out, are made to grind at the mill of their enemies and do the service of slaves for those who hold them in thrall. “For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness, and what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?” ‘Beware of the doctrine of Balaam’. “
Is your church an example of Christ and what He has done to a sin-filled world, or is it an example of the world and what sin-filled people do when mingled together with the rest of the world, portraying themselves as redeemed, yet not able to put off the wiles and ways of the world?
Do our churches represent a redeemed people, wholly dedicated to a God that, for no reason other than His Grace and Mercy, has forgiven our sins and welcomes us to spend eternity with Him? Are we a prepared people, ready for a Spiritual life in which not all the people we know today, will be with us? Are we clinging to our children and our spouses or our parents, instead of Jesus? Search yourselves to know if you are saved, and make yourself ready so when the time comes you can say, "Father, I'm home."
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