Psalms 6:1-10, “O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.”
“Do you know what? Do you know all most backsliders need? All they need is one person who really cares? That's all they need. One person! Somebody said: 'What happened to all these converts here? [They] walk down the aisle and get baptized and they don't stick.' You! You happened to them. I watch you. A fella will get baptized, walk down here, and stand right there like he was in an exile on Patmos. While your yackety, yackety, yackety, yackety with all the members of this church; your little circle. And that poor fella gets no attention at all. And one friend could make the difference in that fella right there! You haven't got time for him, you're too busy yacking with your little circle of friends here at the church. You don't believe in fellowship; I believe in it! Let me tell you something—there's not a sinner that ever got saved, not a backslider ever in sin, but what couldn't be kept and cleaned and sustained, if he had somebody who really cared.” ~Pastor Jack Hyles, “The Blessings Of Sin”
People just want to be loved!
I shared an excerpt from Brother Hyles' sermon at the beginning of this article, but if you'd like to her the entire sermon, it is called: “The Blessings Of Sin”
“Pharisaism is fundamentalism not compassionate.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “The Blessings Of Sin”
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