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  • Got a minute? – 5

    Got a minute? – 5

    Originally published 9/15/2007

    Got a minute for… 

    Even more personal… FAMILY:

    Do you relate to your wife (or your husband) in Christ?

    Do you honor your father and your mother, as is the commandment?

    Do your children know Christ’s love and the discipline of His example through you?

    Jesus said of His disciples, “These are my mother and my brothers!”  Hear what the Lord has said of our ‘family:’

     Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

    And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.  But he who endures to the end shall be saved. [Mark 12:12-13]

     

    Will you endure to the end against the unsaved in your family?

    … A brother, a sister, your father or mother, a mother-in-law, an aunt, a cousin, a step-parent; even (sometimes) your husband or your wife?

    Who do you show Christ’s love?

    Do you love the family of your church, your brothers and sisters in Christ, even more than these of your own blood?

    God has chosen you and chosen them by grace for all eternity; yet the blood of those who oppose Christ will dry up and their bones will wither to dust.

    Got a minute for your family? 

    Show them Christ’s love.

    Put the desire of salvation in the Lord upon their hearts and the example of Jesus in your actions.

    Jesus welcomes lost sheep; Jesus welcomes sinners… after all, He shed His blood on the Cross for sinners like you… and sinners like me.

    Christ has redeemed us and brought us near to Him as God’s own family.

    Just one addition to my original:

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    How do children spell LOVE?

    Answer: T-I-M-E.

    Do you ask God to answer your prayer?

  • In God We Trusted – 5

    In God We Trusted – 5

    The political ‘spin’ has been spun.

    The gradual fall is begun.

    How? lament the People…

    Why? In God we trusted.

    “Lamentations” was derived from a translation of the title as found in the Latin Vulgate (Vg.) translation of the Greek OT, the Septuagint (LXX), and conveys the idea of “loud cries.” The Hebrew exclamation ekah (“How,”which expresses “dismay”), used in 1:1; 2:1, and 4:1, gives the book its Hebrew title. However, the rabbis began early to call the book “loud cries” or “lamentations” (cf. Jer. 7:29).

    Lamentations 5

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord

    5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
    look, and see our disgrace!
    2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our homes to foreigners.
    3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.

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     Before their cry of How? …while they were yet falling…

    Hosea 14: Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
    2 Take with you words
    and return to the Lord…

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     Micah 6:12 Your rich men are full of violence;
    your inhabitants speak lies,
    and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
    13 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,
    making you desolate because of your sins.

    Isaiah 58: “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
    lift up your voice like a trumpet;
    declare to my people their transgression,
    to the house of Jacob their sins.
    2 Yet they seek me daily
    and delight to know my ways,
    as if they were a nation that did righteousness
    and did not forsake the judgment of their God

    Zephaniah 3: CapLightningNight_sm

    Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
    the oppressing city!
    2 She listens to no voice;
    she accepts no correction.
    She does not trust in the Lord;
    she does not draw near to her God.

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    3 Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;
    her judges are evening wolves
    that leave nothing till the morning.

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    Habakkuk 2: “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own—
    for how long?—
    and loads himself with pledges!”
    7 Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
    and those awake who will make you tremble?
    Then you will be spoil for them.

    Obadiah

    The Day of the Lord Is Near

    15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
    As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.

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    Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
    our dancing has been turned to mourning.
    16 The crown has fallen from our head;
    woe to us, for we have sinned!

    19 But you, O Lord, reign forever;
    your throne endures to all generations.
    20 Why do you forget us forever,
    why do you forsake us for so many days?
    21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
    Renew our days as of old—
    22 unless you have utterly rejected us,
    and you remain exceedingly angry with us.

    Remember Israel? Remember Judah? Remember the Nations? Remember Rome?

    Remember Great Britain? Remember America?

    Do the Nations and Empires and Peoples remember God?

    Are we not a falling people in the hands of an angry God (as Jonathan Edwards once warned)?

    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

    Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

    Enfield, Connecticut
    July 8, 1741

    Their foot shall slide in due time. Deuteronomy 32:35

    In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God’s visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works towards them, remained (as vers 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. Under all the cultivations of heaven, they brought forth bitter and poisonous fruit; as in the two verses next preceding the text. — The expression I have chosen for my text, their foot shall slide in due time, seems to imply the following things, relating to the punishment and destruction to which these wicked Israelites were exposed.

    [READ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God]

    Will it be blessing? Or will we reap curse?

    For once, in God we Trusted.

  • Got a minute? – 4

    Got a minute? – 4

    A minute for prayer… minutes for God’s word… minutes for fellowship…

    And now I get personal.  Who are your friends?

    The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.

    Proverbs 12:26

    •  Do you number these as ones who would stand in your stead defending you before all in the Lord?
    • Are they an army of love in Christ Jesus?
    • Or are they few, perhaps even one?
    • Do you even stand alone, one silent witness in the sea of a large congregation?
    • Who are your friends in Christ?

    I must confess that I would go alone to the prophet’s mountain, rather than pour forth Christ’s love upon another.  I fear the closeness of other men and other women, who have so often wounded my insecure confidence and challenged my faith in the Lord.

    A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity.  A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; he rages against all wise judgment. – Proverbs 17:17;18:1

    Do we give a minute to a friend?

    And then another to another?

    What counsel will we accept in the Lord from our brother (or sister) in Christ?

    Are we a friend to many in Christ?

    Or are we selfish with the minutes God has graciously given to us?