Church Of The Lost Sheep

"When you run out of wood, the fire goes out;     when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down." Proverbs 26:20 [This is the 21st message in this series] In this series we are highlighting two-liner verses from the Book of Proverbs. Busybodies Apostle Paul in one of his letters to the first church in the City of Thessalonica warned them like this: " We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies." In those days some people have quit working, assuming the Lord was coming back very soon (even though Jesus have said many times that no one knows the day or the hour of His return). So with nothing to do, these people were doing things they ought not to be doing, like putting themselves in the middle of other people's business and gossipping about them. They were supposed to be busy doing God's work and not doing these. Nothing's Changed Times haven't changed one bit after thousands of years. As the w

" I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!" -Jesus Written by the Apostle John, 1st century Revelation 3:15-16 [33rd message of the New Believer Series] In the  preceding message of this series, we read the Apostle John wrote that Jesus washed their feet during the occasion of the last Supper He had with all of His 12 apostles. In this excerpt above, the Apostle John is writing how the Lord was feeling concerning the believers in the first church in Laodicea (a place now located in modern day Turkey). This is a warning to the body of believers (both the new and not so new). And that is to not lose the fire and turn lukewarm (not hot or cold) in their faith. Lukewarm The verse after that stern warming is this: "You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poo