To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin or your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable...The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers...of love is Hell.

C.S. Lewis

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WILL YOU GET THE MARK?

#1 · December 12, 2004, 1:23 pm

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Posted by: spiritualdigest <spiritualdigest@...>

Dear Beloved,

WILL YOU GET THE MARK?

"'Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on
the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all
the detestable things that are done in it.'
As I listened, he said to the others, 'Follow him
through the city and kill, without showing pity or
compassion'" (Ezekiel 9:4-5, NIV).

The people of Israel were rebellious, even after God
did the unimaginable thing to them - sending them to
exile. They rejected their God who chose them out of
all the nations to be priestly nation for Him. They
disobeyed Him in all the laws and commandments He gave
them. They forsook the covenant they made with Him and
followed the gods of other nations. Therefore, God
decided to punish all these rebellious people by
killing them. However, before He did this, He commanded
that a man should put a mark on the forehead of every
one that was still faithful to Him. As this man was
marking them, He commanded other men to destroy all
others that did not have the mark.

This reminds me of the blood on the doorpost of the
houses of the Israelites in Egypt when the destroying
angel was killing the first-born children of the
Egyptians. It also reminds me of the precious blood of
Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb, which is on every
Christian. Nevertheless, those are not my emphasis
here.

In a world that is full of all atrocities in the name
of civilization or globalization, can you be
distinguished as somebody who grieves about these
atrocities? Or are you one of those that are
encouraging them?

It is a pity that the bug of this so-called
civilization has bitten most of the Christians, even,
ministers of God! The world has crept into the church,
and the church is becoming worldlier every day.

If God visit churches today, will He mark you out as He
marked Lot out in Sodom? Peter recorded about Lot as "a
righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives
of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among
them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul
by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)" (2 Peter 2:7-8,
NIV). Will you get the mark?

In His service,

Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

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Posted by: spiritualdigest <spiritualdigest@...>

Dear Beloved,

WILL YOU GET THE MARK?

"'Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on
the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all
the detestable things that are done in it.'
As I listened, he said to the others, 'Follow him
through the city and kill, without showing pity or
compassion'" (Ezekiel 9:4-5, NIV).

The people of Israel were rebellious, even after God
did the unimaginable thing to them - sending them to
exile. They rejected their God who chose them out of
all the nations to be priestly nation for Him. They
disobeyed Him in all the laws and commandments He gave
them. They forsook the covenant they made with Him and
followed the gods of other nations. Therefore, God
decided to punish all these rebellious people by
killing them. However, before He did this, He commanded
that a man should put a mark on the forehead of every
one that was still faithful to Him. As this man was
marking them, He commanded other men to destroy all
others that did not have the mark.

This reminds me of the blood on the doorpost of the
houses of the Israelites in Egypt when the destroying
angel was killing the first-born children of the
Egyptians. It also reminds me of the precious blood of
Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb, which is on every
Christian. Nevertheless, those are not my emphasis
here.

In a world that is full of all atrocities in the name
of civilization or globalization, can you be
distinguished as somebody who grieves about these
atrocities? Or are you one of those that are
encouraging them?

It is a pity that the bug of this so-called
civilization has bitten most of the Christians, even,
ministers of God! The world has crept into the church,
and the church is becoming worldlier every day.

If God visit churches today, will He mark you out as He
marked Lot out in Sodom? Peter recorded about Lot as "a
righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives
of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among
them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul
by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)" (2 Peter 2:7-8,
NIV). Will you get the mark?

In His service,

Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

_________________________________________________
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