Thursday, March 7, 2013



Read Proverbs 24: 11&12  There are two groups of people mentioned in our verses for today: those who are drawn into death and us.  You may say, “I don’t know anyone who is about to be killed today.  How does this verse apply to me?  I am just a kid.”  Well, that may be true.  You may not know anyone who is in danger of being killed today.  But you may know people who do not know Jesus Christ.  You may know people who are not Christians.  These people are in a dangerous place.  If they were to die today, where would they spend eternity?  Hell is a terrible place.  That is why we do not use the word hell in every day language.  Using the word hell is not very nice.  Using the word hell is bad language and you should not say hell just as a word.  Hell is a terrible place and we should do what we can to warn people about not going there.  So, in the spiritual sense, we may know people who are, as our verses say, drawn unto death.  And our verses say that it is our responsibility to warn them about the danger that they are facing.  If we try to say, we didn’t know that they were facing death, verse 12 says that God knows our hearts.  He knows that we know.  In Genesis 4 after Cain’s offering of vegetables was refused by God, Cain got mad.  He didn’t like that his brother Abel’s animal offering was accepted by God.  Cain was jealous of his brother and rose up and killed him.  When God asked Cain about his brother, Cain tried to say that he wasn’t responsible for his brother.  He said, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” he said to God.  But God knew.  God knew the wicked thing that Cain had done.  And back in Proverbs 24:12 we are reminded that we are responsible for our fellow humans.  We know how to get to heaven and they don’t!  Let’s not be like Cain and try to get out of our responsibility.  Let’s follow what God says in Proverbs 24: 11&12.  Let’s help to warn those who may be facing death.  We need to warn them because they don’t know the dangerous situation that they are in.  And we know the good news of how to get to heaven.  That is our job.  That is our responsibility.

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