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Have you ever heard of Demas? He’s in the Bible you know. For just a little while actually and perhaps that is why you never heard about him or passed him by without assigning him to your memory.
In Paul’s letters to Philemon we meet him …briefly.
First, he is mentioned in the following manner, “Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers.”
So here we see Demas along with Luke standing by Paul as a devoted Christian.
The second time Demas is not mentioned first. The second time in Paul’s letter to the Colossians we read, “Luke the beloved physician, and Demas.”
And then comes the third letter and it tell us what we have already began to suspect. Demas was slipping. Now he has slipped and fellen.
For in this third letter Paul writes…”Demas forsook me, having loved this present age.”
It is not that Demas did not want to develop good character and live a good life. It is that he was filled with “good intentions” but “weak follow through.”
There was a gulf between his dreams and reality.
And that is our world...filled with those of the like of Demas... and there is you and me and what we say and what we do…and…..
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“Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37: 5(NKJV)***********************************************************************
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Three of Neil’s books are still available on amazon.com. THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN, RUST ON MY SOUL and POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY (Written as if Ben Franklin had come back to life in the 20th Century and wrote yet another Almanac)
HIS 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN” IS AVAILABLE ON Amazon.com KINDLE Reader
Have you ever heard of Demas? He’s in the Bible you know. For just a little while actually and perhaps that is why you never heard about him or passed him by without assigning him to your memory.
In Paul’s letters to Philemon we meet him …briefly.
First, he is mentioned in the following manner, “Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers.”
So here we see Demas along with Luke standing by Paul as a devoted Christian.
The second time Demas is not mentioned first. The second time in Paul’s letter to the Colossians we read, “Luke the beloved physician, and Demas.”
And then comes the third letter and it tell us what we have already began to suspect. Demas was slipping. Now he has slipped and fellen.
For in this third letter Paul writes…”Demas forsook me, having loved this present age.”
It is not that Demas did not want to develop good character and live a good life. It is that he was filled with “good intentions” but “weak follow through.”
There was a gulf between his dreams and reality.
And that is our world...filled with those of the like of Demas... and there is you and me and what we say and what we do…and…..
***********************************************************************
“Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37: 5(NKJV)***********************************************************************
If this site or the One A Day site has met any of your needs share it with a friend. Just have them go to “Google Search” and type in “Wyrick’s Writings”
Or…go the bottom of this article and click on “Tell a Friend.”
DO YOU HAVE A BLOG OR FACEBOOK? IF YOU ENJOY THESE WRITINGS COULD YOU
CALL ATTENTION TO THIS BLOG? IF YOU DO, THANKS IN ADVANCE
CLICK ON THE TOP RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SCREEN WHERE IT READS “CLICK HERE TO WATCH NEIL AS WESLEY, LUTHER, FRANKLIN & LINCOLN”…His presentations have been called equal to Hal Holbrook and were presented all over the world.
Three of Neil’s books are still available on amazon.com. THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN, RUST ON MY SOUL and POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY (Written as if Ben Franklin had come back to life in the 20th Century and wrote yet another Almanac)
Three of Neil’s books are still available on amazon.com. THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN, RUST ON MY SOUL and POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY (Written as if Ben Franklin had come back to life in the 20th Century and wrote yet another Almanac)
HIS 9TH BOOK “THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN” IS AVAILABLE ON Amazon.com KINDLE Reader
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