Repentance: Part 3: Remaining salt and light until He comes
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
In the latter reference; verse 4 talks about leaving our first love. Whether it is an individual implication (as in Matthew) or the church as a whole the concept is basically the same. The warnings could perhaps be a similar result; society at large overtakes any moral standard and we personally are unable to resist the forces of the world; flesh and the devil.
I will restate something I have mentioned previously; and that is there is a separation coming. There are ultimately those saved and lost or wheat and chaff; but time will make this clearly evident that which for the time being may be hidden. Among those who are saved currently many are asleep and compomised. I have seen the debate on whether a Christian can be possessed or merely oppressed. There is no need to get into all that but suffice to say that many are spiritually bound because of sin. We in the Body of Christ who sadly seem blind to much of what is happening seem to hardly ever speak of this issue today; no wonder we have a church like the Corinthians where many are sick and fallen asleep prematurely. This relates to my last post as to what others miss out on when the enemy has us distracted and back on the broad path once again. I don't really get it and wasn't even planning to get into this subject today; but shouldn't we ask ourselves why is it that prayer is almost always focused on physical illnesses and hardly ever on spiritual healing from demonic attacks to lift others up and for them to be set free?
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
In the latter reference; verse 4 talks about leaving our first love. Whether it is an individual implication (as in Matthew) or the church as a whole the concept is basically the same. The warnings could perhaps be a similar result; society at large overtakes any moral standard and we personally are unable to resist the forces of the world; flesh and the devil.
I will restate something I have mentioned previously; and that is there is a separation coming. There are ultimately those saved and lost or wheat and chaff; but time will make this clearly evident that which for the time being may be hidden. Among those who are saved currently many are asleep and compomised. I have seen the debate on whether a Christian can be possessed or merely oppressed. There is no need to get into all that but suffice to say that many are spiritually bound because of sin. We in the Body of Christ who sadly seem blind to much of what is happening seem to hardly ever speak of this issue today; no wonder we have a church like the Corinthians where many are sick and fallen asleep prematurely. This relates to my last post as to what others miss out on when the enemy has us distracted and back on the broad path once again. I don't really get it and wasn't even planning to get into this subject today; but shouldn't we ask ourselves why is it that prayer is almost always focused on physical illnesses and hardly ever on spiritual healing from demonic attacks to lift others up and for them to be set free?
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