Today's encouragement comes from 2 Kings 23:7, which says this:
"Then [King Josiah] tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image.”True (regenerate) Christian churchmen must never underestimate the perva-siveness and perversion of religious sinfulness. Once the doctrine of Christ and the gospel of grace is gone, in comes all kinds of spiritual “sewage,” which, under healthy conditions, would seem unimaginable.
But such is the nature of the spiritual “universe.” It is bifurcated into the King-dom of Christ, and everything “else.” All the “else” is capable of the worst cor-ruption conceivable. The Kingdom (church) of Christ overcomes it—but only in the blood atonement and glorious resurrection of the Son of God.
[Puritan quote of the day: "There is nothing in the world more uneasy than the heart of a wicked man made to listen to spiritual instruction . . . " —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
[Puritan quote of the day: "There is nothing in the world more uneasy than the heart of a wicked man made to listen to spiritual instruction . . . " —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
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