Old Dog V
WALKING TOGETHER
Bob Neumann
One of the STRANGE things i noticed years ago is that when you look at Habakkuk 2, there is only one WATCHMAN. Likewise Isaiah speaks of DUMAH and a burden. In Verse 6 Isaiah is told by GOD to set a WATCHMAN….in verse 11 we see the classic “WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT”. Between verses 6 and 14 we got all sorts of interesting things….but no one else seems to think so…so we should i go there.
But Isaiah’s watchman stands watch alone, day and night…24/7…alone.
When GOD sent Ezekiel to AHAB he went alone….
when GOD sent Nathan to David he went alone….
Jeremiah was alone in the cistern and in the prison… same with Micaiah.
Yet when JESUS sent them out the went in twos… even Paul paired off with first Barnabus and then with Silas.
Wonder why?
Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken
Even old Solomon, the so called wisest of men may have got it right there. Watchmen can STAND there watch alone, and do it right. But on the march, it is hard alone. And i have sure had my share of visions and dreams WALKING… MARCHING…SNEAKING…getting from one place to another for whatever reason the KING cooks up…
So Stephen, if we take off will the wild and wooly sheep actually follow…and i immediately thought of a verse…
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus
You have to leave behind all that was before. All the “stuff” the managers of the slaughter pens indoctrinated their cash crop with. JESUS SAID…if you do not forsake EVERYTHING FOR ME…you know what HE SAID all you sheepses…
But Paul had not stopped speaking there…he kept going…
Phl 3:15
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you
Phl 3:16
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing
Phl 3:17
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample
Phl 3:18
18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ
Phl 3:19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
REREAD VERSE 15….a couple of times…
Anyone pick up on THE PERFECT bit…and GOD will reveal what ya need sheepses …because on the road there be “ENEMIES OF THE CROSS”…..and their minds are set on earthly things.
So what has GOD revealed to you so far? someone said you are all “spirit filled”… yet most have no clue what discerning of spirits really does…so what spirit fills some of those coming to the LIGHT of THE WPA…
LIGHTS ATRACT BUGS…FLYING INSECTS.
I wrote this years ago and a few months later someone tells me Benny Hinn used it at a crusade. i wonder where Benny got it…staring at a Coleman lantern out camping as a kid? listening to THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT in the darkness left behind by HURRICANE ANDREW.
Who knows…who cares…
But Paul also warned us…
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty
QUO VADIS?
bob
Editors note
I spoke with Bob and he explains the latin … Quo Vadis Lord? This is the term. The urban legend goes that in the time of the persecution under Nero, Peter the Big Fisherman was leaving Rome and as he leaves he meets a man he once knew heading towards Rome and says “Quo Vadis Lord” or “Where are you going Lord?” Apparently, according to this legend, in this part of this story the “man” Peter meets is Jesus. Call it an Emmaus Road moment. Seeing as Pete is leaving town and the faithful there need comfort Jesus Himself will go and do the comforting. Personally I think that is a sad commentary.
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