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Skriven 2005-05-19 03:39:26 av Bob Hoffman (8:8/2)
Ärende: We May Speak for God
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

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      Thursday 05-19 / We May Speak for God
      Robert Prodoehl
      May 18, 2005


We May Speak for God

"Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again,
and thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the
vile, thou shalt be as My mouth" (Jeremiah 15:19).

Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the
choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for
speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his
hearers, yet he was accepted of his LORD. He was commanded to abide in his
faithfulness, and then the LORD would continue to speak through him. He was to
deal boldly and truthfully with men and perform the LORD's winnowing work upon
the professors of his day, and then the LORD gave him this word: "Thou shalt be
as my mouth."

What an honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet it? For
God to speak by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we
shall speak it with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a
blessing to those who receive it, and those who refuse it shall do so at their
peril. Our lips shall feed many. We shall arouse the sleeping and call the dead
to life.

O dear reader, pray that it may be so with all the sent servants of our LORD.

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651 8.7.4. W. GADSBY
Baptism. Luke 12. 50; Rom. 6. 4; Col. 2. 12

1 Jesus, our exalted Saviour,
We adore thy matchless grace;
Thou hast borne our misbehaviour,
Suffered in our wretched place;
Wrath and terror
Sank thy soul in deep disgrace.

2 For us thou hast borne the horrors Of a sin-avenging God;
Who can understand the sorrows
Of thy soul in wrath's deep flood?
'Tis a mystery
Only fully known to God.

3 [Yet, through grace, we know in measure What thy love has for us borne,
And we hope, through thy good pleasure, To behold thee on thy throne,
And for ever
Sing the victories thou hast won.]

4 As an emblem of thy passion,
We with thee would be baptized;
And to show thy great salvation,
From the liquid grave we rise;
May we never,
Never dare thy ways despise.
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