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divine Call » Heal persecution of » Refused
He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.
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He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
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God's Call » Examples of Leadership » Refused by men
He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.
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He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
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Impenitence » Warnings against
Then he proceeded to upbraid the towns where his many miracles had been performed, because they would not repent.
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Intercessory prayer » Unavailing for the obstinately-impenitent
national Sins » National worship rejected on account of
Wicked people » Warned
Then to the angel of the church at Sardis write thus: ??These are the words of him who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your doings, you have the name of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, rally what is still left to you, though it is on the very point of death; for I find nothing you have done is complete in the eyes of my God. Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.
To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.
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for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you of what you are perfectly aware, that though the Lord once brought the People safe out of Egypt, he subsequently destroyed the unbelieving, while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day ??7 just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.
So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth. You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' ??not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked. I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see. read more.
I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.
I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.