What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord?
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These men truly have to say:
"In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear:
"I do not know you!"
(Luke 13:26-27).
They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.
- St. Augustine
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.
- St. Cyprian
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief.
Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.
St Thomas Aquinas
Then while it is [still] called Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion
[in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them].
For who were they who heard and yet were rebellious and provoked [Him]?
Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert?
Hebrews 3:5-17
We are all susceptible to this.
Don’t think you cannot fall.
The Israelite’s where being guided by Moses
They all saw the same things, heard the same things yet they missed what God had for them.
If the Israelite’s who saw much more than us and were led by one of the greatest leaders of all time still missed it how can we think we are safe??
How can we treat unbelief so lightly???
We really can’t.
Let us ask God to show us where we are struggling in.
Let us run to Him for help.
Unbelief has to go…..
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These men truly have to say:
"In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear:
"I do not know you!"
(Luke 13:26-27).
They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.
- St. Augustine
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.
- St. Cyprian
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief.
Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.
St Thomas Aquinas
Then while it is [still] called Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion
[in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them].
For who were they who heard and yet were rebellious and provoked [Him]?
Was it not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
And with whom was He irritated and provoked and grieved for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered bodies were strewn and left in the desert?
Hebrews 3:5-17
We are all susceptible to this.
Don’t think you cannot fall.
The Israelite’s where being guided by Moses
They all saw the same things, heard the same things yet they missed what God had for them.
If the Israelite’s who saw much more than us and were led by one of the greatest leaders of all time still missed it how can we think we are safe??
How can we treat unbelief so lightly???
We really can’t.
Let us ask God to show us where we are struggling in.
Let us run to Him for help.
Unbelief has to go…..