GRACE UPON GRACE

JEREMIAH 22:13-17 WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH HIS HOUSE BY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AND HIS CHAMBERS BY WRONG; THAT USETH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S SERVICE WITHOUT WAGES, AND GIVETH HIM NOT FOR HIS WORK ; THAT SAITH, I WILL BUILD ME A WIDE HOUSE AND LARGE CHAMBERS, AND CUTTETH HIM OUT WINDOWS; AND IT IS CIELED WITH CEDAR, AND PAINTED WITH VERMILION. SHALT THOU REIGN, BECAUSE THOU CLOSEST THYSELF IN CEDAR? DID NOT THY FATHER EAT AND DRINK, AND DO JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE, AND THEN IT WAS WELL WITH HIM? HE JUDGED THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY; THEN IT WAS WELL WITH HIM: WAS NOT THIS TO KNOW ME? SAITH THE LORD. BUT THINE EYES AND THINE HEART ARE NOT BUT FOR THY COVETOUSNESS, AND FOR TO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD, AND FOR OPPRESSION, AND FOR VIOLENCE, TO DO IT.   LOVE

EZEKIEL 8:9-18   AND HE SAID UNTO ME, GO IN, AND BEHOLD THE WICKED ABOMINATIONS THAT THEY DO HERE. SO I WENT IN AND SAW; AND BEHOLD EVERY FORM OF CREEPING THINGS, AND ABOMINABLE BEASTS, AND ALL THE IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, POURTRAYED UPON THE WALL ROUND ABOUT. AND THERE STOOD BEFORE THEM SEVENTY MEN OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND IN THE MIDST OF THEM STOOD JAAZANIAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN, WITH EVERY MAN HIS CENSER IN HIS HAND; AND A THICK CLOUD OF INCENSE WENT UP. THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, HAST THOU SEEN WHAT THE ANCIENTS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO IN THE DARK, EVERY MAN IN THE CHAMBERS OF HIS IMAGERY? FOR THEY SAY, THE LORD SEETH US NOT; THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN THE EARTH.   HE SAID ALSO UNTO ME, TURN THEE YET AGAIN, AND THOU SHALT SEE GREATER ABOMINATIONS THAT THEY DO. THEN HE BROUGHT ME TO THE DOOR OF THE GATE OF THE LORD'S HOUSE WHICH WAS TOWARD THE NORTH; AND, BEHOLD, THERE SAT WOMEN WEEPING FOR TAMMUZ. THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, HAST THOU SEEN THIS, O...

PSALM 94:9-15 HE THAT PLANTED THE EAR,  SHALL HE NOT HEAR?  HE THAT FORMED THE EYE,  SHALL HE NOT SEE? HE THAT  CHASTISETH THE HEATHEN,  SHALL NOT HE CORRECT?  HE THAT TEACHETH MAN  KNOWLEDGE, SHALL NOT HE KNOW?  THE LORD KNOWETH THE THOUGHTS OF MAN,  THAT THEY ARE VANITY.  BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST, O LORD,  AND TEACHEST HIM OUT OF THY LAW;  THAT THOU MAYEST GIVE HIM  REST FROM THE DAYS OF ADVERSITY,  UNTIL THE PIT BE DIGGED FOR THE WICKED.  FOR THE LORD WILL  NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE,  NEITHER WILL HE FORSAKE HIS INHERITANCE.  BUT JUDGMENT SHALL RETURN UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS:  AND ALL THE UPRIGHT IN HEART  SHALL FOLLOW IT.   love

PSALM 88:9-13 MINE EYE MOURNETH BY REASON OF AFFLICTION: LORD, I HAVE CALLED DAILY UPON THEE, I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HANDS UNTO THEE. WILT THOU SHEW WONDERS TO THE DEAD? SHALL THE DEAD ARISE AND PRAISE THEE? SELAH. SHALL THY LOVINGKINDNESS BE DECLARED IN THE GRAVE? OR THY FAITHFULNESS IN DESTRUCTION? SHALL THY WONDERS BE KNOWN IN THE DARK ? AND THY RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE LAND OF FORGETFULNESS? BUT UNTO THEE HAVE I CRIED, O LORD; AND IN THE MORNING SHALL MY PRAYER PREVENT THEE.   LOVE