The Words of Jesus Christ Page 70 Man (cont'd) This Generation (cont'd) and Mortality & Weakness
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MAN (cont'd)
This Generation (cont'd)
Therefore also said the wisdom of
God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some
of them they shall kill and persecute; that the blood of all the prophets,
which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this
generation; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished
between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be
required of this generation.
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Why doth this generation seek a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no
sign be given unto this generation.
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O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear
with you?
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.... for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the
sons of the light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means
of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive
you into the eternal tabernacles. He that is faithful in a very little is
faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is
unrighteous also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye
have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that
which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house
divided against a house falleth. And if Satan also is divided against
himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils
by Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons
cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I by the finger
of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. When the
strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace: but
when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh
from him his whole armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He
that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth. The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth
through waterless places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will
turn back unto my house whence I came out. And when he is come, he findeth
it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits
more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last
state of that man becometh worse than the first.
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.... but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. Ye foolish
ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?
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Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this
world.
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Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the
things of men.
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Mortality & Weakness
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is
willing, but the flesh is weak. k1438/m2641
Leave the dead to bury their own dead; ....
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Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's life
consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. ..... The
ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he reasoned
within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow
my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build
greater; and there will I bestow all my corn and my goods. And I will say to
my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease,
eat, drink, be merry. But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is
thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose
shall they be? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and
is not rich toward God.
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