02/14/22 WE KEEPS WATCH OVER YOUR SOUL

02/14/22 WE KEEPS WATCH OVER YOUR SOUL 

There is Agape love, which is perfect love, sacrificial love, redemptive love.

There is also temporal love, twisted love, selfish love, destructive love.

Even Christians can confuse Divine love with worldly love. In fact, Christians can get confused about anything. This is one of the main reasons God called, trained, gifted, enabled, equipped, and assigned men to shepherd His people. 

Shepherds feed, lead, shear, tend, protect the sheep.
Sheep without a shepherd are scattered, lost, endangered, attacked, vulnerable.
The shepherd cares, loves, provides for his sheep. Sheep that shepherd themselves are bound for failure.

God planned, prepared, provided, promoted the ministry of shepherding. To refuse, resist, reject, repudiate Biblical shepherding is to renounce the wisdom, love, and will of God.

Pastors preach their hearts out and then watch helplessly as parishioners arrogantly choose paths of danger and destruction, leading children away from the truth and safety of God's narrow path.

Hebrews 13:17
17 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

This is not a suggestion.
This is not simply good advice.
This is God's directive.

Don't be surprised at your failures if you treat God's plan and provision with disdain.
Choose your family pastor very carefully.