I.
DISAGREEMENT IN THE HOMES.
Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Col 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Col 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
II.
DIVISIONS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.
Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid
them
Mark
3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
III.
DEFEAT IN
THE HEART
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
IV.
DEAFNESS OF THE HEARER.
Hebrews
5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye
are dull of hearing.
Romans
10:17 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
John 8:47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
V.
DISCOURAGEMENT OF THE HANDS THAT WORK.
Colossians
1:10 They ye might walk worthy
of the Lord unto all pleasing,
being fruitful in
every good
work, and
increasing in
the knowledge of God;
VI.
DISSATISFACTION OF HELP IN THE CHURCH.
Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
VII.
DROWSINESS IN THE HEAD DURING WORSHIP.
Rom 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
VIII.
DISHONESTY ON THE HIP OF SOME MEMBERS.
1 ThESS. 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
