So, I was training my mule not to eat or drink. He was doing so well, and then all of a sudden he died. Go figure. (Just something to think about). I posted this on my Facebook, as a teaser and then I gave the following explanation.
BASIC TRUTH...
The same thing would be true for my dog, my cow, my goldfish, my parrot, my chicken, my friends, my enemies, my family and myself. This would be true concerning your mule, dog, cow, goldfish, parrot, chicken, friends, enemies, family or yourself. This is also true for sheep, no matter who owns the sheep.
Too often, the sheep of God think they can eat one time and live forever. In fact, if we do not feed our spiritual man (our inner man, inward man, hidden man), then we die spiritually. If our spirit does not draw from the well of life or drink from the river of living water, then we die. Just as the branches that do not receive nourishment are cut off from the Vine, so we will be cut off.
Some people think they can be strong Christians even if they are not feasting on the word of God, and the Lord Jesus, when, in fact, they will not even be weak Christians, because spiritual existence depends on spiritual subsistence.
Matthew 4:4
(4) But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
(27) Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Hebrews 5:12-14
(12) For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
(13) For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
(14) But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
John 4:14
(14) But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 7:37-38
(37) In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Pastor David L. Gould
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