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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.
This passage warns us that sincere people can go to the house of God with all their sincere intention BUT end up doing evils - i.e. they behave like fools, as though God has not plainly directed them how He is to be worshiped, and they do things that God has not required of them to do.
Isa 1
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
May we guard our feet when we go to the house of God; and may our feet direct us to the place where God's word is reverently preached for the instruction and edification of His children; where no sacrifices of FOOOOOOLS are sincerely but fooooolishly offered.
Save us from the delusions of this perverse generation.
Do you see the plain and obvious connection between Eccl 5:1 and 2Tim 4:1-4?
If we are to go to the house of God to hear, then there must be the preaching of the word of God.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
May we guard our feet when we go to the house of God; and may our feet direct us to the place where God's word is reverently preached for the instruction and edification of His children; where no sacrifices of FOOOOOOLS are sincerely but fooooolishly offered.
Save us from the delusions of this perverse generation.
Do you see the plain and obvious connection between Eccl 5:1 and 2Tim 4:1-4?
If we are to go to the house of God to hear, then there must be the preaching of the word of God.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
