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 “Losing Your Anchor”

 

We have been speaking about spiritual hearing in the inner ear of the spirit. Today, I want to talk about having an anchor for your soul…. the anchor is our faith, our love for Jesus and especially the Word of God. When you’re fishing near a shoal your anchor might get snagged on the bottom, you might lose it – and then you’re adrift - and you spend your day going where the wind blows you.

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 It's the same in the spiritual sense, if you lose your anchor; which is the Word, then you are adrift spiritually, not grounded - your values start to shift to worldly values. And because you're not grounded in the Word - your discernment is weakened…that is your ability to know truth from error. And now you're looking now through a secular lens at the world – instead of a Biblical one.

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And so, I'm going to a story from the kings of Israel, from 2 Chronicles - today I'm going to talk about a godly King called Josiah.  There had been many seasons in the life of Judah and Israel where they were spiritually adrift, but under Josiah -a revival of the Word of God takes place.

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 Josiah was only 8 years eight years old when he became king, in the country of Judah that is adrift spiritually. Before his time, they had an attitude of inclusion and intolerance towards foreign gods. So, Judah had become evil and immoral. They had forsaken God and God forsook them.

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So, Josiah set out to purge the land and the temple of idols. To purge means to put out of the house of God those things that invite demonic worship…..to reclaim the House of the Lord for worshiping Him only. As Josiah was overseeing the tearing down of idols and repairing the temple and the restoring of worship, suddenly the Word was rediscovered.

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Somewhere hidden within the confines of the ruins of the temple, maybe within a clay jar within an inner wall was the Word of God. The Law and the prophets had been abandoned, forgotten, neglected and replaced by a new worship program that was inclusive and tolerant and catered to many religions.

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And much like Josiah’s time, the church today is in danger; much of it is spiritually adrift in 21st century ideology with no anchor. How can you stay centered in a world where the culture is shifting like an earthquake, if you have no anchor. And this is not the time to lose your anchor; the waters are too turbulent; the waves are becoming violent - we need to, at all times stay attached to the Word; tethered confidently and firmly to the Word of God.