Ezekiel 5:11 So as I live,’ . . . [I will respond to your dishonor] What struck me here is that so often we live and behave like God is not present, that Christ is not alive . . . But because Jesus is living and present in our world and in our lives or as we read "so as I live" He has to speak out against our lack of faith and lives that act like God has no part of it. Not to punish us to to remind us and others that HE IS ALIVE!
Ezekiel 6:4, 8 So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols. However, I will leave a remnant . . . I get a vision that because our church did not listen to God and follow as the disciples we were called to be our church dwindled and was in ruins. My friends we are the remnants that are called to return to God, to rebuild His church.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, . . . let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, . . . That is how we will rebuild God's church, with endurance and our eyes on Jesus! It's obvious from Hebrews that there is hard work to do. We will need to help other who struggle to keep up with us, to bring them into the church and community we are called to become. And the good news is that we can't keep God's community from being formed. But the question is will the community be at St. Charles Presbyterian Church and are you going to part of it?
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