# 681 Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 13:34-37 "It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. 35 "Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning-- 36 "lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. 37 "And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!"
Jesus has given His church authority. He has gifted all members for service, and His final admonition here is to the doorkeeper. The doorkeeper is the one who decides what will be allowed into the church.
Who is the doorkeeper? He is all of us. “I say to all, Watch!”
Don't get lackadaisical here. Jesus could return at any moment, and when He returns He does not want to find false teaching in His church. It WILL be there, just don't let it happen in your church.
2Ti 4:3 says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
This is what happens when doorkeepers fall asleep. Anybody got some earplugs?...the sound of the snoring doorkeeper is killing me.
Pr 24:33 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest; 34 So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
Right now, here in America, the church is experiencing spiritual poverty and need, because we have fallen asleep.
Father, “according to our own desires” we have sidestepped many truths we consider “inconvenient.” Raise up refreshed and alert doorkeepers in Your church. Give us people who once again fear You more than men.
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