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divine Call » Heal persecution of » Refused
And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.
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yet you refuse to come to me for life.
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But of Israel he said, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."
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God's Call » Examples of Leadership » Refused by men
And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.
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yet you refuse to come to me for life.
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But of Israel he said, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."
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Impenitence » Warnings against
Then he began to reproach the towns in which his numerous wonders had been done, because they did not repent.
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Intercessory prayer » Unavailing for the obstinately-impenitent
national Sins » National worship rejected on account of
Wicked people » Warned
"To the angel of the church in Sardis write: " 'He who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars speaks thus: I know what you are doing; you are supposed to be alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what is left, although it is already on the point of death, for I have found nothing you have done complete in the sight of my God. So remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming upon you.
So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming? Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones! But the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Any tree that fails to produce good fruit is going to be cut down and thrown into the fire."
These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.
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For some people have sneaked in among us??heir doom was foretold long ago??odless persons, who turn the mercy of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, though you know it all already, that he who brought the people safely out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed the ones who did not believe, and the angels who neglected their responsibilities and abandoned their homes he has put in everlasting chains to be kept in darkness for the judgment of the great Day, read more.
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns which like them indulged in immorality and unnatural vice stand as a warning, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns which like them indulged in immorality and unnatural vice stand as a warning, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
As it is, since you are tepid and neither cold nor hot, I am going to spit you out of my mouth! Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked, I advise you to buy of me gold that has been tested with fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes to put on, to keep your shameful nakedness from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see. read more.
I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.
I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.