Part 2-Serving God First - The Widow's Obedience
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: April 18, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Charity / Life of Use / Service, Regeneration / Spiritual Growth
Groups: Journey - Living Courageously - The Story of Elijah
Part Two of the Living Courageously, the Story of Elijah series.
The joy of serving others is the true joy of heaven.
Readings Exodus 20:3-5; 1 Kings 16:29-33, 17:1-7; Arcana Coelestia 4063, 4145
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there, but water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth....
(Isaiah 55:10-11)
The Lord is He who sows, the "seed" is His Word, and the "earth" is a person. (Heavenly Secrets #29)
The "seed" is the Word of the Lord, thus truth, which is said to be of faith, and the "good ground" is the good which is of charity, for it is the good in a person that receives the Word. (Heavenly Secrets #3310)
It is the truth that is meant by the "seed in the field," of which the Lord said: "A sower went forth to sow..." Here the "sower" is the Lord, and the "seed" is His Word, thus the truth. (Doctrine of Life #90)
That religion is of the life and that the life of religion is to do that which is good is seen by everyone who reads the Word, and is acknowledged by him while he is reading it. (Doctrine of Life #2)
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