WARN WITH RESPECT
June 11, 2023
In Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” the conqueror is enjoying a victory parade through the streets of Rome when a soothsayer cries, “Caesar!”
Caesar responds, “I hear a tongue shriller than all the music cry ‘Caesar!’ Speak, Caesar is turned to hear.”
The soothsayer cries, “Beware the Ides of March!” (That’s the middle of March.)
Days later Caesar, is headed toward the Senate, once more surrounded by a mob. He sees the soothsayer and says, “The Ides of March have come.”
The soothsayer replies, “Aye, Caesar, but not gone.”
In the Senate 23 men stab him to death. He had been duly warned.
Today people and our society are careening toward a tragic death. We must warn them. But if we warn them without respecting them, we’ll only turn them away from us and our message. So, Sunday I’m preaching on “Warn with Respect,” from Ezekiel 3:10-21. We’ll talk about “Listen,” verses 10-15, and “Warn,” verses 16-21. Ezekiel is told that if he warns Judah and Judah doesn’t listen, then he’s absolved of guilt, but if he doesn’t warn Judah, the people’s blood is on his hands. Come Sunday and help us learn to warn others with respect about the need to come to God.
Please remember to attend our class on “How to Share Your Faith with People of Other Faiths,” June 24, at 10:00 in the Fellowship Hall. After the class, anyone who wishes, can go door-to-door in teams of two or three to hand out Vacation Bible School flyers and to invite people to come to Christ.
Love,
Jim Meek
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