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  10-01 A Spiritual Home 10-02 What Would God Lose? 10-03 Nothing To Fear 10-04 A Punishment More Than A Sin 10-05 The Bride? 10-06 A Steady Price 10-07 The Gospel, Part One 10-08 The Gospel, Part Two 10-09 The Gospel, Part Three 10-10 The Gospel, Part Four 10-11 The Gospel, Part Five 10-12 The Children Of The Righteous 10-13 Money Matters, Part One: Prosperity 10-14 Money Matters, Part Two: Debt 10-15 Money Matters, Part Three: No Gimmicks 10-16 Money Matters, Part Four: Little Foxes 10-17 Money Matters, Part Five: Treating People Right 10-18 Money Matters, Part Six: Debt-Slaves 10-19 Money Matters, Part Seven: A Small But Important Matter 10-20 Money Matters, Part Eight: Choking The Word 10-21 Money Matters, Part Nine: So That You Can Give 10-22 Money Matters, Part Ten: “God’s Economy” 10-23 Your Last Prayer Meeting 10-24 “The Word Of Their Testimony” 10-25 Showing The Way 10-26 No Testimony? 10-27 “The Best We Can” 10-28 As Much As Is Humanly Possible 10-29 “Just The Good Things” 10-30 A Place Without Sin 10-31 Disturbing The Meeting

 

Thought for the Evening
10-01

A SPIRITUAL HOME

From a sermon by Preacher Clark at Grandma’s farmhouse, sometime in the second half of January, 1970.
Taken from Gary’s Reel #1, CD #3, Track 1

Preacher Clark told the saints in this Sunday afternoon sermon, “Everybody needs a spiritual home, a place where you can say, ‘our meetings’.” Then he added this exhortation, “Don’t ‘run around’ on your husband or your spiritual home. If you are unfaithful to either of them, it is fornication.”

If God gives us anything, it is worth being faithful to it. Paul said that God expected anointed men such as himself to be faithful with the spiritual riches he had been given, to value that wisdom and to invest it wisely in the hearts of God’s children. And he did exactly that as long as he labored on earth in God’s vineyard. Paul cared well for the sheep in which he had invested the things of the Spirit that he had received from God. He appointed faithful men to watch over the flock of God in his absence, and kept in touch with them as much as he could with the means he had at his disposal.

WANDERING

In the main, God’s children in our time are as they were when Jesus came to them, “like sheep having no shepherd”. They wander on the hills, or “high places” of Christianity, feeding on whatever those shepherds will give them in exchange for their wool. And Jesus again feels compassion for them because they have no certain home, no place they can refer to as “our meetings”.

Has God given you a home? A place where you can gather with the upright and where you can say, “our meetings”? We are thankful for the home that we have for our bodies. How much more thankful should we be if we have been blessed with a home for our spirits while we are living in this world?