WARNING
As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses, and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord. So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as MY people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them, because with your mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, for they hear your words, but they do not do them. And when this comes to pass... surely it will come then they will know that a prophet has been among them.
Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds: WOE to the shepherds of Israel (the church) who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor sought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost, but with force and cruelty you have ruled them. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the beast (false teachers) of the field when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, (from church to church) and on every high hill (false doctrines). Yes, MY flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or seaching for them.
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Friday, December 10th 2010 at 2:06AM
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