Restriction
God Sees Everything
Date: June 4, 2019
Passage: Jeremiah 16:1–21
In order to get the attention of the people, God sometimes asked the prophets to do unusual things. In the case of Jeremiah, the Lord forbade him from participating in three activities. The first restriction was not to marry (vv. 1-4). God’s purpose for this was to show that …
IllustrationCommunist Government Restrictions on Baptism
Back in 1989 the missionary: Gene Dulin wrote: A Romanian Christian told me of a communist government restrictions on baptisms. One restraint was that baptizing someone from a non-church family – was forbidden. Another law required that the names of all who were to be baptiz …