Good morning John,
I had to work late Friday night; I got home in time to hear you all read the last 4 pages. But I did read it all. I feel like it is one of best summaries of the divided kingdom and the prophets that you have written. It may be the clarity that God has given us about his Son that makes the words jump off the pages and penetrate my heart more.
I feel I understand more now how evil Jeroboam’s sin really was for God’s people. To be given the true and only way God has chosen for his people to worship him, and then to turn and go another way – that is evil! And then to teach others to do so, and claim it is from God and the right way he should be served, that hurts my heart. And it is so good to understand that God, not the Devil, sent the suffering that came on his rebellious people.
What does that say about us today? The ones he has given the truth to and who have sat under the anointing and power of the holy ghost, and then walk away and go try serve God another way! That is evil; and then to teach others to do so as well! God help us hold fast to the truth and love it.
I pray, God let me feel the way you feel about everything. Let me love what you are doing and the anointing you have put around us, to love the truth and to walk in it with all my heart and live it every day. If we don’t, we will end up doing the very thing that we hate right now. God help us!!! Thanks John
Stuart
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Hi, Pastor John.
The reading of chapter seven in the Suffering and the Saints book was very sobering but very wonderful to me. I told Judy how refreshing it is to read about the things of God. We read hundreds of years of history, even thousands of years, in just a couple of hours, but it put me in tears with the love, grace, and above all the patience of God for Israel. It’s the same thing that is happening today with the way God feels towards his people in Christianity. He still is very loving, caring, and patient for hid children. Just like he destroyed Israel (and Judah) because they turned to idols and false worship and “sinned after the manner of Jeroboam”, the end will be the same. He will destroy that filthy whore that is defiling God’s people today. The call is still the same, “Come out of her my people” (and serve the true, loving, patient, & graceful God).
Thank you, John!!!
Billy