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NASB | Hosea 11:7 So My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hosea 11:7 My people are bent on turning from Me; Though the prophets call them to the One on high, None at all exalts Him. |
Subject: Condition of many Christians! |
Bible Note: MORE BACKSLIDERS THAN A DOG HAS FLEAS Three pastors, Peter Marshall, a Presbyterian, John Rustin, a Methodist, and Howard Anderson, a Congregationalist, were having lunch. John Ruskin was complaining about his troubles with Methodists. As he talked, Peter Marshall was relieved that Presbyterians didn’t have a monopoly on unredeemed human nature. “You mean that in your Methodist church, John, that some of your people have fallen from grace?†asked Marshall. “Peter,†he said, “we have more backsliders over there than a dog has fleas.†“That’s a good term, John – ‘backsliding.’ You Methodists preach a lot about that. The Presbyterians never mention it. They just go ahead and do it!†Just then, Howard Anderson humorously shared with them a poem he liked: “Tell my trustees when I am dead, That they should shed no tears, For I shall be no deader then Than they have been for years.â€1 “Then Jeremiah said to the princes and all the people,‘Therefore now amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of the Lord your God’†(Jeremiah 26:12, 13). “There is a price to pay to be a holy man of God. You have to buck the current because the tide’s running the other way.†David Arnold Ministries |
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