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Many churches are headless like this chicken
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| "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock..." |
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#A_Church_like_a_Headless_Chicken
Sometimes, brave and prudent wives lockout
their mad husbands for good reasons.
Not infrequently, even churches lock out
their Head, the Lord Christ Jesus. Just look at a church that actually did such
a heinous act, Rev 3:14-22. BEHOLD, and
tremble at the devastating effects, despite all the impressive appearance to
the contrary!
The headless church's assessment of herself:
"I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing." So well-off, respectable, and self-sufficient;
she's impressed with herself.
Dr. Faithful's diagnosis of her:
"... Knowest not that thou art wretched,
and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."
How to explain such delusion and
self-conceit; why is she so mistaken about herself? What has brought her down
to such a tragic state?
The answer is found in these solemn words,
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock, if any man hear my voice, and
open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with
me."
She has locked out her Head; in doing so, she
has become like a headless chicken - "wretched, and miserable, and poor,
and blind, and naked" - but still impressive in her own eyes and in that
of the world.
Some wives/mothers wisely lock out their
husbands because their husbands have turned abusive and beastly; they did it
for safety and well-being.
But why would churches lock out their Lord
and Saviour? That heinous wickedness has happened before, is still happening,
and will yet happen. And the devastating effects have been spelled out.
BUT what is manifested at the corporate level
has first occurred at the individual level.
The Lord and Saviour says, "He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Rev 3:22
