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Study 3B This is the danger which is faced by every servant of the Lord. It is the possibility of neglecting the cultivation of one’’s own inner life of communion with the Lord Himself....Abandoned vineyard

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@Livingwater Happy new year..... B part of the Neglected or Abandoned vineyard.... I have discussed some point in the A part of the study....God bless you as you go through the remaining. 2 . THE DANGER WE FACE How very easy it is to serve the Lord zealously, to be on the job all the time, and yet to neglect our own inner life, our personal communion with the Lord Himself, our study of His Word and our fellowship in the secret place! How easily possible it is for the shoemaker’’s boy to be the poorest shod, and for the tailor’’s son to wear the shabbiest clothes! How sadly possible it is for the preacher to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ, but to fail to adorn the doctrine in his own personal and private life! –- look up Titus 2:10. This is the danger which is faced by every servant of the Lord. It is the possibility of neglecting the cultivation of one’’s own inner life of communion with the Lord Himself. We can never lift others above the level of our own spiritual

Study 3A :“I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.”the abandon vineyard...

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@Livingwater Study 3 THE NEGLECTED VINEYARD THE SONG OF SOLOMON Key-verse: ““They made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected”” (Song of Songs 1:6) These haunting words are most challenging to all who are engaged in the service of the Lord, and they should be read in conjunction with Proverbs 24:30-31 – – “I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.”” The warning which comes to us in this study may be summed up in the statement, ““Beware of the barrenness of a busy life!”” Too often public profession and activity are accompanied by inward neglect and spiritual declension. The one who confesses her neglect in this passage was not neglectful of her duties. She had been made black by the sun as she had laboured among the vines in the heat of the day; she was the keeper of the vineyards –- but she had neglected her