No individual can lose salvation, but a people group can lose its candlestick. The anointing can be removed. Power to proclaim the message effectively can be transferred to others.
Jerusalem, Antioch, and Ephesus were early centers of Christian zeal, but each lost its gift. Rome was at one time the heart of genuine faith, but now spiritual vitality can only be found there in the haunts of the catacombs.
Luther’s Germany carried the mantle awhile, but then it passed to England’s Puritans. As the light began to wane there, Richard Baxter feared the Gospel center was moving from his country to the Americas. He was right.
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