Cast Off but not forgotten!
(1 Clement chap. 20 paraphrased) G-d exhorts you to peach from the examples of the Holy Scriptures. Righteous people were cast off from the beginning of time.
They were persecuted,
They were cast into prison,
They were stoned,
And they were sacrifice.
Was Daniel cast into the den of lions, by men fearing G-d?
Ananias, Azarius, and Misael, were they cast into the fiery furnace by men, professing the excellent and glorious worship of the Most High? G-d forbid!
The people abominable, full of all wickedness; who will incised to so great a degree, as to bring the godly into sufferings, who with a holy un-blamable purpose of mind worship G-d: not knowing that the most High is the protector and defender of all such as with a pure conscience serve His Holy Name; to whom He be glory for ever and ever.
But they who with a full persuasion have endured these things, are made partakers of glory and honor: and are exalted and lifted up by G-d in their memorial throughout all ages.
Wherefore it will behoove as also to follow such examples as these; for it is written, “hold fast to such as are holy; for they that do so shall be sanctified.”
Wherefore are these strife’s, and anger, and divisions, and schisms, and wars, among us?
Have we not all one G-d and one Messiah?
Is not one Spirit of mercy and grace poured out upon us all?
Have we not one calling in the Father?
Why then do we rend and tear in pieces the members of the body?
Why do we raise seditions against ones own body?
And are come to such a height of madness, as to forget that we were members one of another?
Your schism has perverted many, has discouraged many: it has caused diffidence in many, and grief in us all. And yet your sedition continues still.
Let us therefore with all haste put an end to this sedition; and let us fall down before the L-rd, and beseech Him with tears that He would be favourable reconciled to us, and restore us again to a seemly and holy course of brotherly/sisterly love.
This is the gate of Righteous of the L-rd, the righteous still enter into it.
Have you felt cast off?
Rejected?
Thrown aside?
Eaten up by the so called righteous?
History will repeat it’s self if we do not learn this lesson and hard times are heading our way once again.
1 comment:
Do you think the Lord is telling us....Fool me once...shame on you, fool me twice shame on me! We are so easily fooled by the world around us. We give others the benifit of the dought and feel we are being told truth, lest they lie to us!!!!!!!
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