The Beginning of a Cold Heart: forsaking the Body

 "Forsake not the assembling 

of yourselves together," 

is a most important exhortation. 

Even if we should not derive 

any especial benefit, at the time, 

so far as we are conscious, 

yet we may be kept 

from much harm. 

And very frequently 

the beginning of coldness of heart 

is nourished by keeping away 

from the meetings of the saints."

—George Müller

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Hebrews 10:19-25

..."Therefore, brethren, 

since we have confidence to enter 

the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

by a new and living way which 

He inaugurated for us 

through the veil, that is, 

His flesh,

and since we have a 

great priest over the house of God,

let us draw near with a sincere heart 

in full assurance of faith, 

having our hearts sprinkled clean 

from an evil conscience and 

our bodies washed with pure water.

Let us hold fast the confession 

of our hope without wavering, 

for He who promised

is faithful;

and let us consider how 

to stimulate one another 

to love and good deeds,

not forsaking 

our own assembling together, 

as is the habit of some, 

but encouraging one another; 

and all the more as you see 

the day drawing near."...

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LORD, have mercy on us!

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