Reverence

 Dear Dad’s (Randall Hartinger) IMPORTANT teaching for today (GLORY TO GOD). Get a BLESSING!

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Reverence the Head (Christ) of the body (church)…

05/01 Daily Exhortation (Heb. 3:13; 10:25; Matt.6:11; Luke 11:3)

A 5:1 to meditate on this 5/1…

Ecclesiastes 5:1 (KJB)  Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Very packed. Very loaded. Slightly, let’s unpack, and unload.

This is poetic literature, and the infinite mind of God. From a HOLISTIC 66-books eye-view, we know that “the house of God” is allegory for THE CHURCH, THE ASSEMBLY, and thusly we can nicely LATCH ON: 

1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Many feign “reverence” for the Head, and have zero reverence for Christ’s body which is HIS CHURCH. How does this work? An enemy hath done this. 

We are implored to be “ready to hear” or as James so aptly put it: “Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath…” (James 1:19). Thusly, by syllogism, “the sacrifice of fools” is shooting off at the lips without hearing. Hebrews enjoins us to allow Christ to give us the sacrifice of praise – even the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His Name. That would be the sacrifice of praise and of the wise rather than the sacrifice of fools. 

Let us offer a BLESSED SACRIFICE and not a LAME SACRIFICE: 

Malachi 1:7-8 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

God is saying you would not give a lame sacrifice to a person of import/authority. And Jesus is our WORTHY KING. Thusly, He deserves the ONE HUNDREDFOLD RETURN. 

Obviously in the New Testament, we don’t sacrifice animals. We offer “spiritual sacrifices” per: 

1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

There should be a reverence for God’s house/church/assembly. 

Gen. 28:16  And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

Ge 28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

There should be a READINESS TO HEAR what the Spirit saith unto the churches.  

Acts 10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken…

In our Focus Passage, it says, “…for they consider not that they do evil.” To “Consider not” means to be INCONSIDERATE. The fear of God is at an ALL-TIME LOW and folks are adding sin to sin and especially how they treat the local church. Let us be the exception to this generation, and GO AND DO THOU CONTRARIWISE TODAY. –r <3