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(SERMON NIGHT) Topic: Cheap Substitute Good evening everyone I hope your day was a blessed one, this evenings topic is entitled Cheap Substitute. This past Sunday a pastor friend of mine spoke on this topic and it was such a wonderful one that I had to share it. Now there was an illustration given wherein which a man who sold fruits was advertising his produce,but to the shock of the passersby he was shouting out artificial fruits,come get your artificial fruits. The point he was trying to make was that if we dont want to by artificial fruits,why buy artificial drinks with artificial flavoring and not natural ones. It may be more costly,but its beneficial and is much better for the long and short term. Swinging back into focus,many of us do the same thing when it comes on to God,we settle for the cheap substitute. Now in 1st Kings 12, the whole chapter speaks about Solomons sons and the splitting of the children of Israel,some going with Jeroboam and some with Rehoboam. We will focus on Jeroboam as he was the one who led people astray. In doing that, he had his own agenda,normally the people would travel to Jerusalem to worship which was a good distance away, but as stated before,what he was then looking into was to make the people cease from traveling the distance. He built two calves,or gold and silver and told the people that they could worship these idols as their gods so they didnt have to go all the way to Jerusalem...cheap substitute. This leader took matters into his own hands which he should have never done in this manner and turn their eyes from the true and living God,and nothing should take Gods place. Here we are talking about idol worshiping and we need to be careful of things that we put so much emphasis on to the point where we begin to idolize it. Many of us put so many things before God, like school work when we should be in church for bible study or prayer meeting. School work is important but what will it profit at the end of the day,nothing,but your worship will be noted,so time management comes into place. Another thing is home church or online church, unless it is totally unavoidable for whatever reason,we should never let that take the place of the assembling of the saints, dont be lazy like Jeroboam as iron sharpens iron. There are many things that we fall short on,but let us try to reach closer towards them from now on. May the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you now and forever more,amen.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:34:57 +0000

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