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Post by Gerard Mendes on Dec 13, 2015 17:34:19 GMT -5
Below is part of clements letter to the Corinthians late in the first century. From this we can see what clearly happens when we the church take our eyes off of the Lord.
Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, “My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked.” Deuteronomy 32:15 Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years. For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you, inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of God, and has become blind in His faith, neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian, but walks after his own wicked lusts, resuming the practice of an unrighteous and ungodly envy, by which death itself entered into the world. Wisdom 2:24
From this we can see how we got in this mess we are in today. We need Jesus.
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