People can come to church for MANY things other than God.
A man once admitted to several others in a church sanctuary, that he was visiting churches looking for a woman. He was admonished by one woman that he should have his mind set on God. In the Book of Samuel we find Eli the priest is disconnecting from the Mind...Will of God, and Eli's two sons knew not the Lord, his sons were the reason, cause for others sinning against God. BUT Hannah knew the Lord.
Hannah the wife of Elkanah. The Lord shut up her womb. And the Lord opened her womb. Hannah rejoiced in the Lord her Salvation...Deliverer. "By the Lord actions [thinking] are weighed/judged".
"The Lord KILLS and the Lord MAKES alive: He brings down to the grave and HE raises, brings up".
"The Lord makes poor and the Lord makes rich, brings low or exalts, lifts up". "The Lord WILL keep, control, the feet of His saints [the reborn of Spirit] and the wicked, NON-saints, unregenerate shall-be silent IN Darkness: for BY human strength, human will shall no man prevail"...1Sam 2:3,6,9. To "know"...that is to EXPERIENCE the Presence of God...Spirit...within. The Voice of the Lord PREVAILING over the voice of Darkness. The ABIDING Light of His Presence...Lord above, over the darkness. Light removing darkness. "IF a human being sins against a human being, the judge shall judge him: but...if a human being sin against the Lord, who shall INTREAT for him?". To intreat, to ask on his behalf...for forgiveness. As we read 1Samuel ch 2...we find the REASON Eli's sons would not listen to THE VOICE OF....THEIR father, was BECAUSE the Lord WOULD slay them. The Lord desired to slay them. And the Lord declares Eli's CRIME...is that he, Eli has honored, exalted his own sons...humans above God...therefore Eli is the CAUSE of his sons despising the Lord. Eli's HARD LESSON: the Lord tells him BOTH his sons will die in same day, and He will raise up a FAITHFUL priest who SHALL-DO according-to the Lord/His Heart/His Mind...Soul...and this priest will Walk...Anointed FOREVER. The Lord chooses Hannah's child, Samuel. Samuel did not YET know the Lord, neither was the-Word-of-the-Lord Revealed unto him. And the Lord reveals to the child Samuel ALL His Mind...Will...Thoughts towards Eli and his sons he failed to restrain. Eli IS Judged by the Lord: FOREVER: FOR: the Iniquity he KNEW and did not restrain. God SWEARS the Iniquity of Eli's "house" shall not be purged forever. The Lord does what seems Good to Him. Eli's sons die in same day, AND Eli's neck is broken in a fall. [the broken neck of a son of Pride, self-led]. Hard times...when every man does that which is right in his own eyes...Judges 21:25. "FEAR God...Right Mind, Right Judgment...be not SELF-serving/self-led...FEAR the Lord for your own Good ALWAYS so that the Lord God might PRESERVE you ALIVE"...Deut 6...Deut 7...for the Lord IS God and Faithful and PRESERVES them that love/obey, listen to Him. The Lord will love thee, bless thee and the fruit of thy womb...thy fruit of thy land...thy food...flocks...and the Lord will REMOVE...take away from thee ALL sickeness...diseases and instead will lay them all upon them that hate [mistreat] thee. The Lord thy God...Spirit...Voice...leads thee...to HUMBLE thee...to PROVE thee...to PROVE...KNOW...what was [is] IN thine heart [enthroned as "god"]...whether thou would obey or not...Deut 8....while in THIS world, wilderness. The Lord has humbled thee...to serve the Lord and not [in pride serve] thy "self". The Lord has humbled, removed spirit of Pride from thee, and led thee [God-led]...in order to MAKE thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, only but [his soul as well as physical body] shall Live BY EVERY WORD [obeyed] proceeding from the Mouth of God [His Spirit, His Voice]...Deut 8:3. ALL humans...people...men...nations SHALL perish BECAUSE they would not BE-obedient unto the Voice of the Lord...God...8:20. Speak not [THINK NOT] in thine heart that the Lord CASTS...THEM...OUT....because your "self" is righteous
....no it is the Lord...our Righteousness...Guide...Spirit...He our Goodness by which we are led, we follow...Walk according to Him His Example...Standard...doing as He tells us...Deut 9. WHAT does God REQUIRE of us...but to...FEAR the Lord God, to Walk IN...ALL...His Ways [Spirit]...to Love/OBEY Himn...to SERVE Him with ALL thy heart [mind] and soul....Deut 10. Take heed, be diligent...that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside, disobey...become self-led...forsaking worship of God, the listening to...obeying His Voice...HIS Will and not your Evil-self's own...Deut 11:16. "Ye shall not do AFTER...THIS...DAY...every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes", Deut 12:8. Observe...do...ALL the Words of God...that it may go well with thee and thy children forever: when thou doest that which IS Good-and-Right-in the Eyes of God...Deut 12:28. For the Eyes of the Lord God are EVER...always upon His Chosen.
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