HAS IT EVER DAWN ON YOU THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER SOULS SPIRITUALLY BEFORE GOD? FOR INSTANCE, IF I ALLOW ANY PRIVATE DEFLECTION FROM GOD IN MY LIFE,EVERYONE AROUND ME SUFFERS. WE "SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES." " WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFERS, ALL MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT." WHEN ONCE YOU ALLOW PHYSICAL SELFISHNESS, MENTAL SLOVENLINESS, MORAL OBTUSENESS , SPIRITUAL DENSITY, EVERYONE BELONGING TO YOUR CROWD WILL SUFFER. "BUT," YOU SAY, " WHO IS SUFFICIENT FOR THESE THINGS IF YOU ERECT A STANDARD LIKE THAT? " "OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD,"
AND HIM ALONE. "YE SHALL BE MY WITNESSES." HOW MANY OF US ARE WILLING TO SPEND EVERY OUNCE OF NERVOUS ENERGY, OF MENTAL, MORAL, SPIRITUAL ENERGY WE HAVE FOR JESUS CHRIST? THAT IS THE MEANING OF A WITNESS IN GOD'S SENSE OF THE WORD IT TAKES TIME BE PATIENT WITH YOURSELF. GOD HAS LEFT US ON THE EARTH--WHAT FOR? TO BE SAVED SANCTIFIED? NO.TO BE AT IT FOR HIM. AM I WILLING TO BE BROKEN BREAD AND POURED--OUT WINE FOR HIM? TO BE SPOILT FOR THIS AGE, FOR THIS LIFE, TO BE SPOILT FROM EVERY STANDPOINT BUT ONE---SAVING AS I CAN DISCIPLE MEN AND WOMEN TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. MY LIFE AS A WORKER IS THE WAY I SAY "THANK YOU" TO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE SALVATION. REMEMBER IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE FOR ANY ONE OF US TO BE FLUNG OUT AS A REPROBATE SILVER----" LEST BY ANY MEANS WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A CASTAWAY." "ARISE AND LET US GO HENCE" " LEAVE HIM TO BE THE SOURCE OF ALL YOUR DREAMS AND JOYS AND DELIGHTS, AND GO OUT AND OBEY WHAT HE HAS SAID." DREAMING ABOUT A THING IN ORDER TO DO IT PROPERLY IS RIGHT; BUT DREAMING ABOUT IT WHEN WE SHOULD BE DOING IT WRONG. AFTER OUR LORD HAD SAID THOSE WONDERFUL THINGS TO HIS DISCIPLES, WE MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED THAT HE WOULD TELL THEM TO GO AWAY AND MEDITATE OVER THEM ALL; BUT OUR LORD NEVER ALLOWED "MOONING" WHEN WE ARE GETTING INTO CONTACT WITH GOD IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHAT HE WANTS, DREAMING IS RIGHT; BUT WHEN WE ARE INCLINED TO SPEND OUR TIME IN DREAMING OVER WHAT WE WERE TO DO, IT IS A BAD THING AND GOD'S BLESSING IS NEVER ON IT. GOD'S INITIATIVE IS ALWAYS IN THE NATURE LETTING HIM BE THE SOURCE OF ALL YOUR DREAMS.
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