The Apostle John received something from the Lord Jesus that he shares with Christians in his first epistle. We are little children. John may be, in a sense, a sort of spiritual father to the church. This tenderness for the flock in his care is what he learned from God, and John shares it with the children of God.
It's not going to end well for them.
"You didn't expect to be here? Me neither!"
A young man fighting sin while suffering from mental illness.
"So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said..."
How can a man be given a good and faithful wife, and return to her, even one day, never mind a life? How delicately to carry this fine vessel of clay; to leave all to marry and hold dear all the way! Infatuation was led by desire, but love stuck through war. Appreciation taught me
Thlipsis: Renewed hatred, Idolatrous worship, Bent on death, Unorthodox, Lawlessness. Already- The Man of Sin In lies and death. Omnipresent- Not yet. Revelation 1:9- "I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus..." Revelation 2:9, 10- "I [Jesus] know your tribulation and your poverty
Based on an actual conversation.
How long O Lord before you kill these people the things they say and do are so sinful. Deep in the dark they lurk as if to cover up their deep rooted hatred for one another. They keep coming to hear the same things? 'Why," I ask, "when you wont obey these words I utter
Pointed at the face of man constantly The bow of God strains tautly...
