The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice,
says the Lord,
I know them and they follow me. JN 10:27
1 CORINTHIANS 5:1-8
My Soul's Beloved,
My Soul's Beloved,
Sexual immorality appears to have reached the pinnacle in our day and age. The level of depravity among men, women, young people, and even children is incomprehensible; all logic, common sense, and wisdom have disappeared. People actually defend evil behaviour and justify the most horrific sins, the worst of them being abortion even up to the time of birth.
Is it any wonder, Beloved, that nature rises up against us in an attempt to wash us off her bosom in the frightening natural disasters that are taking place the world over? Nations play their part in warring against each other, using their people as pawns in a game. No one cares how many innocent people lose their lives and their livelihoods as they desperately try to survive.
What is even more incomprehensible is that You have not waved Your hand across the world and annihilated us in Your just anger. We deserve punishment, O Lord, and yet You are merciful. You look on the few who are faithful, and You have compassion on the many. How much longer will we live in a world gone insane, and when, O Lord, will wisdom prevail, and the love of the Lord prevail?
I have been told as an undoubted fact that one of you is living with his father’s wife. This is a case of sexual immorality among you that must be unparalleled even among pagans. How can you be so proud of yourselves? You should be in mourning. A man who does a thing like that ought to have been expelled from the community. Though I am far away in body, I am with you in spirit, and have already condemned the man who did this thing as if I were actually present. When you are assembled together in the name of the Lord Jesus, and I am spiritually present with you, then with the power of our Lord Jesus he is to be handed over to Satan so that his sensual body may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
The pride that you take in yourselves is hardly to your credit. You must know how even a small amount of yeast is enough to leaven all the dough, so get rid of all the old yeast, and make yourselves into a completely new batch of bread, unleavened as you are meant to be. Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed; let us celebrate the feast, then, by getting rid of all the old yeast of evil and wickedness, having only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
PSALM 5:5-7,12
Lead me, Lord, in your justice.
The pride that you take in yourselves is hardly to your credit. You must know how even a small amount of yeast is enough to leaven all the dough, so get rid of all the old yeast, and make yourselves into a completely new batch of bread, unleavened as you are meant to be. Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed; let us celebrate the feast, then, by getting rid of all the old yeast of evil and wickedness, having only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
PSALM 5:5-7,12
Lead me, Lord, in your justice.
You are no God who loves evil;
no sinner is your guest.
The boastful shall not stand their ground
before your face.
You hate all who do evil;
you destroy all who lie.
The deceitful and bloodthirsty man
the Lord detests.
All those you protect shall be glad
and ring out their joy.
You shelter them; in you they rejoice,
those who love your name.
Lead me, Lord, in your justice.
LUKE 6:6-11
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