Familiarity with sacred things'

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"Take heed unto yourselves!" Acts 20:28

This was Paul's public warning to the elders of 
the church at Ephesus. It was Paul's private 
warning to his friend and disciple, his beloved
son, Timothy. And do not all who write or speak 
in the name of the Lord need the same warning? 

Familiarity with sacred things has a natural 
tendency to harden the conscience, where 
grace does not soften and make it tender. 

Men may preach and pray until both become a 
mere mechanical habit; and they may talk about 
Christ and His sufferings until they feel as little 
touched by them as a 'tragic actor' on the stage,
of the sorrows which he impersonates. 

Well, then, may the Holy Spirit sound this note of 
warning, as with trumpet voice, in the ears of the 
servants of Christ. "Take heed unto yourselves!"