What's the Matter?
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: January 23, 2011
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Charity / Life of Use / Service, Regeneration / Spiritual Growth
The Lord's question to us, and how He can reach us in times of need.
Genesis 21: 8-21; Arcana Coelestia 2689
It is known that all anxiety and grief arise from being deprived of the things with which we are affected, or which we love. They who are affected only with corporeal and worldly things, or who love such things only, grieve when they are deprived of them; but they who are affected with spiritual goods and truths and love them, grieve when they are deprived of them. Everyone's life is nothing but affection or love. Hence it is evident what is the state of those who are desolated as to the goods and truths with which they are affected, or which they love, namely, that their state of grief is more severe, because more internal; and in the deprivation of good and truth they do not regard the death of the body, for which they do not care, but eternal death. Arcana Coelestia 2689[2]
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Lessons and text
Genesis 21: 8-21; Arcana Coelestia (AC) 2689[2]
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