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3 GOD (cont'd)
3.God's Providence (cont'd)
And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I
will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh
away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in
my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall
receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.
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Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat,
or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment. Behold the
birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather
into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye much more
value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto
his stature? And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say
unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and
to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of
little faith? Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What
shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these
things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not
therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Be not therefore like unto them [the Gentiles]: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
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See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that
in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in
heaven. m1810
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on
the ground without your Father: but the very hairs of your head are all
numbered. Fear not therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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But if I by the finger of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God
come upon you.
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[To Legion:] Return to thy house, and declare how great things God hath done
for thee.
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[Concerning the man born blind:] Neither did this man sin, nor his parents:
but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
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[To Pilate:] Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given
thee from above: ....
j1911
While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and
I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that
the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to thee; and these things I
speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I
have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil
one.
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The 'Lost' Parables
The Lost Sheep
How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone
astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains,
and seek that which goeth astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say
unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have
not gone astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in
heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. m1812-4/l1504-7
The Lost Coin
Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not
light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?
And when she hath found it, she calleth together her friends and neighbours,
saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I had lost. Even
so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over
one sinner that repenteth.
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