Doing Nothing

RHEMA 2/16/07 DOING NOTHING

HEARD: I have prepared you. I will equip you. The fear of the Lord is ... not going fishing anymore.

Mark 1:17-18 NKJV

Then Jesus said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men." They immediately left their nets and followed Him.

QUICKENED QUOTE: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

1. DO NOTHING

Rev 2:4-6 NKJV

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent.

Matt 5:13 NKJV

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

2. DANGER OF TURNING ASIDE

2 Tim 4:3-4 AMP

For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, 4 And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.

1 Tim 5:15 NKJV

For some have already turned aside after Satan.

3. FINALLY FALLING AWAY

Heb 6:4-8 NKJV

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall (3895) away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

NT:3895

NT:3895 parapipto (par-ap-ip'-to); from NT:3844 and NT:4098; to fall aside, i.e. (figuratively) to apostatize:

KJV - fall away.

NT:4098

NT:4098 pipto (pip'-to); a reduplicated and contracted form of peto (pet'-o); (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); probably akin to NT:4072 through the idea of alighting; to fall (literally or figuratively):

KJV - fail, fall (down), light on.

NT:4072

NT:4072 petomai (pet'-om-ahee); or prolongation petaomai (pet-ah'-om-ahee); or contracted ptaomai (ptah'-om-ahee); middle voice of a primary verb; to fly:

KJV - fly (-ing).

STRONG CONFIRMATION: The following 3 things happened all at the exact same moment. I got to the end of pasting the Greek meanings to the word “fall”, and the timer on the bathroom fan turned off. The power surge from the timer turned off my touch lamp beside my bed in the next room and I was sitting in darkness. It was a strong visual of what it means to grow lukewarm and lose one’s light.

Rev 2:4-6 NKJV