Fire Starter 6.2.22
Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 1 Chronicles 4. Our
Fire-starter thought is: the work that’s always there.
Notice if you will verse 23. Those that worked as potters and gardeners
if you will dwelt with the king why? Because the work was never done.
To beautify the king’s house the gardeners had to be there to make the
hedges look good and those that were potters always were making cups and
bowls for the king.
There are certain business’s that never run out of work. At the funeral
home there is always business and flower shops always have business. How
do I know about these two? Because I am around them all the time.
Some dwell at work where there is work.
If you are needed at the job you stay where you are needed. I am
reminded this morning and I hope it is a reminder to you as well there
is a work that is never completed that can always use a little more work
and that is our personal walk with the Lord. As I dwell with the Lord
spending time with him he takes the spiritual plow if you will and
constantly is taking the roots of things out of my life, and I am
thankful for it. The work is never done here on earth but thanks be to
God when we get the perfect body where no sickness pain and death are
found and most importantly where no sin will be gone, we will not have
to do any work it will finally be completed. But down here in this life
as we dwell with the king, walking with him, we must keep a life that is
clean before God and the only way we can do this is with the help of the
master.
The Work that is never completed. Why? Because as long as we are here on
this earth there will be sin. I’m not saying we work for our salvation
but I am saying after you are saved its a battle to keep a life pure
before God. It’s work!!!!
1 Chronicles 4:1-43 KJV
The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. [2]
And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and
Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. [3] And these were of
the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of
their sister was Hazelelponi: [4] And Penuel the father of Gedor, and
Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of
Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem. [5] And Ashur the father of Tekoa
had two wives, Helah and Naarah. [6] And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and
Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. [7]
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan. [8] And Coz
begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
[9] And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother
called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. [10] And
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless
me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me,
and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And
God granted him that which he requested. [11] And Chelub the brother of
Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton. [12] And Eshton begat
Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are
the men of Rechah. [13] And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and
the sons of Othniel; Hathath. [14] And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and
Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were
craftsmen. [15] And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah,
and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz. [16] And the sons of
Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. [17] And the sons of
Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam,
and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. [18] And his wife
Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho,
and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah
the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. [19] And the sons of his wife
Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and
Eshtemoa the Maachathite. [20] And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and
Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and
Ben-zoheth. [21] The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father
of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the
house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, [22] And
Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the
dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things. [23]
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges:
there they dwelt with the king for his work. [24] The sons of Simeon
were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul: [25] Shallum his son,
Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. [26] And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his
son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. [27] And Shimei had sixteen sons
and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did
all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah. [28] And they
dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, [29] And at Bilhah,
and at Ezem, and at Tolad, [30] And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at
Ziklag, [31] And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-birei,
and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David. [32]
And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan,
five cities: [33] And all their villages that were round about the same
cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
[34] And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, [35] And
Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of
Asiel, [36] And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and
Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, [37] And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the
son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of
Shemaiah; [38] These mentioned by their names were princes in their
families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly. [39] And
they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the
valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. [40] And they found fat
pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for
they of Ham had dwelt there of old. [41] And these written by name came
in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the
habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this
day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their
flocks. [42] And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred
men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and
Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. [43] And they smote
the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
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