<TITLE>03. Par 18-23</TITLE>L-18 So we are very thankful to be here and have this time of fellowship, and--and with this grand privilege to break the Bread of Life once again, in my own simple little way. I know, as theologians, as that man spoke here last night from England; my, hate to get up behind a person like that, with my seventh-grade education. But I hope that God will interpret to you the meaning in my heart. See? If my words are not right; my intentions, I--I trust, are.

L-19   Now let us read in the Scripture. Many of you like to follow. And I am going to read this morning, for just a few moments, from the Book of Jeremiah, the prophet, the 2nd chapter, and I am going to begin now with the 1st verse.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espoused, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, and in the land that was not sown.
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall... and offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, and led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and of pits, through the land of drought, and of the shadows of death, through the land that no man passed through, and... no man dwelleth?
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when you entered, ye defiled, my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
And the priests said not, Where is the LORD? And the hand of the law knew me not: and the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Therefore I will... plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
For... over this land of Chittim, and see; and in the Kedar, and consider diligently that, and see if there be such a thing.
Has a nation changed their gods, which are... no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horrible afraid,... very desolate, saith the LORD.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

L-20   May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Words. And I would like to--to take a text of that, as, Broken Cisterns.

L-21 When, in reading this Scripture this morning; which, all Scripture is given by inspiration. And we come to the House of the Lord for correction and for understanding. And sometimes that we see the... any little thing in the way.

L-22 Like this military man, a while ago, was speaking to us and saying that some certain things, that perhaps maybe in some other country has a certain missile, or--or something on that idea, and we've got to find something to counteract that in--in a military strategy.

L-23 Well, the same thing goes into a church, to a parish where a man is preaching, or if he is an evangelist in the field. When he sees uprisings, and something that's just starting, going, its infancy or whatever it is; it's that man, if he is a servant of God, to block that thing so far from the people's minds that they'll keep away from it. And we don't want that to happen, for us to get into places like that.


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