People forget, don’t they?
“If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, … if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
– 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (KJV)
It sank like a rock. “Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.” – 1 Timothy 1:19 KJV
This is what God does. “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” – Romans 7:6
[1.Samuel 28:6] The Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
[Acts 10:34,35, N.E.B] Peter began: “I now see how true it is that God has no favorites, but that in every nation the man who is Godfearing and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
Things were getting serious. “When He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves, ‘Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house…
Money in the bank? “The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep. There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner to his hurt.” – Ecclesiastes 5:12-13