![]() Sometimes people think that they have messages from God, when, I am sure, sincere though they may be, they have not heard from the Lord. ![]() When you speak of visions, there should be a word of caution. "I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision." Paul said in Acts 26:19, "I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision." It is the "heavenly vision," seeing things God wants us to see, that I am tremendously interested in. God said the work of the Spirit shall be that "your young men shall see visions." Paul spoke of visions. Now that is the kind of vision that I am talking about this morning. "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams." In Acts 2:17 God speaks of the kind of vision that I have on my heart, the vision that I could wish every man and every woman and every boy and girl who is saved and who knows the Lord Jesus Christ could have. I read, for instance, of the day of Pentecost. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." I think that it speaks of another kind of vision-a work of God in the hearts of men and women. I want to use this text from Proverbs as I believe it has been used in the minds of people down through the years. I read in Lamentations 2:9, ".her prophets also find no vision from the Lord," that is, no message from God. We read, "The word of the Lord was precious in those days there was no open vision." God was not speaking audibly at that time. There was a day, intermittently in the history of man, in which God spoke audibly to people. All that God has to say to us, He says through this blessed Book-the Bible. I believe when John was on the Isle of Patmos, God gave the book of the Revelation. For instance, in I Samuel 3:1 we read, "The word of the Lord was precious in those days there was no open vision." You remember in the Old Testament God sometimes spoke audibly. This passage is used just in that manner in other places in the Bible. Where there is no Word of God, where there is no message of life, the people perish, is the primary interpretation of this passage. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." In the first place, the word "vision" used here has to do with the Word of God. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." When we come to read a text from the Bible, it is always good to see exactly what God is talking about. I think this text, like many in the Bible, is sometimes used incorrectly. "Where there is no vision, the people perish but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. "The Wisdom of Soul Winning" by Sword of the Lord Publishers. Preached at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Pontiac, Michigan, and published in the sermon book, Where There Is No Vision The People Perish ![]()
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