Why do we preach and teach? Because, when God speaks to us in his word and we hear his voice expounding the treasures of his wisdom, it so fills our hearts that we must go and tell somebody. We get a feeling like those famous lepers outside besieged Samaria (2 Kings 7). They found treasure after treasure in the tents abandoned by the enemy, and they began to fill their empty pockets with the loot. Suddenly conscience began to work, and they said, ‘We do not well. If we stuff all this treasure into our own pockets, and don’t tell a starving city what we have found, some evil will befall us.’ It was that kind of constraint that moved them, and should move us too.

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