The Super Bowl has come and gone and we are not saved.

Jeremiah 8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Jeremiah 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?



"The prophet Jeremiah's heart was heavy for the condition of his people."

They were dwelling in a far country.

The Lord's presence is gone.

Where's her king?

They've provoked God by their graven images and their strange vanities!

And on top of it all, the summer is ended, and we are not saved!

Anguish for his people had taken hold upon him!

Jeremiah ask: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?" why then is not the health of the daughter of my my people recovered? Jeremiah 8:22

Below is a post comment from www.bradraby.blogspot.com

The Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 2:15 commands that we “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn't need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.” The King James Version reads that we should “Rightly Divide” the truth, God’s Word.

1) The scripture teaches that the “church” is the Body of Christ. Believers whom God’s Son Jesus purchased with His own blood. Colossians 1:18, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13. The church is not a building. Local churches may use a building to meet in, worship together, serve their community, etc. , but the church is the Body of Christ – born again believers. God doesn’t dwell in church buildings. What the author calls a Sanctuary is not a Sanctuary, but an auditorium. However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands – Acts 7:48. There is nothing scripturally holy about a church’s building. They are but brick and mortar. God resides in the heart of man.

2) Hebrews 10:25 says that “we not staying away from our meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near”. To ascribe a man designed schedule of worship services to that scripture is simply heretical. The assertion that Jesus has ordained that local churches hold a Sunday School Service, followed by a corporate worship service in the morning, then gather back in the evening, and then again on Wednesday night is ridiculous. History shows that the Puritans had a Sunday Morning and Evening service in the 1600s, and that in America Mid-week services became common place around 100 years ago. So for the vast majority of church history evening services didn’t even exist. Have we come full circle and become exactly what the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus’ day were? I think so. We should bathe ourselves in Galatians so that we can be loosed from this modern day Law. – Galatians 3:10

3) Here are interesting verses: Acts 2:46&47 And every day they devoted themselves [to meeting] together in the temple complex, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved. So they gathered corporately (in the Temple complex) and house to house (uh, in homes). So churches dividing up into small groups, fellowshipping together, even enjoying something like a football game is wrong? Ridiculous. Further evidence that Paul was a fan of athletic competition is all the sports metaphors he uses in scripture. Additionally churches all over America use the Super Bowl as a way to connect their unbelieving family and friends with their church family in an effort to lead them to Christ.

4) Jesus ate with tax collectors and prostitutes without embracing or partaking in their sin. We better figure out how to do that in our culture as well.
5) Sometimes “correctly teaching the word of truth” means rebuking man made traditions for the purity of God’s Holy Scriptures.


My comment:

"Get off the couch! Turn that one-eyed idol off! Put that soda down for Christ sake! Get that burger out of your mouth!"
Then, it won't be hard for you to figure out what you need to do!

Look around you today, they're still hungry! Feed them!

Look around you today, they're still thirsty! Give them water!

Look around you today, they're still the "nobodys" out there! Take them in!

Look around you, they're still naked today! Clothe them!

Look around you, never has man had different types of medicines and drugs for healing, when at the same time never has there been so many people who are sick! Visit them! Take Christ to them!

Look around you, our prisons are full of lost souls, full of christians who have failed God and now are incarcerated! Go to them!



If we want to stay home and watch something on television, regardless of what it is, we are doing what we want to do! Don't call it ministry! Call it what it is! It's our will being done!


That "Super Bowl Ministry" of yours doesn't work!


How do I know?

Out of the millions of souls that met and watched it, surely we would have converted the world by now!
The world isn't any better today because you sat down and watched all of that with the lost!


Jesus said: "Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto to me." Matt. 25:40


Jesus called a publican , Matthew the son of Alphaeus, but after his calling, he became a followers of Christ! Yes! Jesus ate in his house, but he was a changed man!


Jesus ate in the house of Zachaeus, a man who was seeking to see Jesus , (not seeking to see the events that were going on), a man that was being drawn to Christ.



"Zachaeus did all that was in his power to see Jesus!"


When Jesus came to where Zachaeus was, Zachaeus was ready to come down and receive Christ!


"Zachaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house." Luke 19:5


And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. Luke 19:6



Zachaeus was a changed man as he came down and received Jesus joyfully! (The previous scripture)
Luke 19:7

And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

Zachaeus was already changed because he came down and received Jesus joyfully! (Read below)



Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

(Zachaeus' change was evident by his standing before those present, and proclaiming his willingness to live and do what was needed to make restitution to those he had wronged willing and that he had unknowingly wronged. )


Luke 19:9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.


This day! What day?

It's not what you say or I say that makes me saved! It's my obedience to the Word of God and faith in Christ that has sought me and found me, and has changed me!


Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.


"Get off the couch folks and get out there where Christ is!"