The Words of Jesus Christ Page 71 Man (cont'd) Mortality & Weakness (cont'd) and God's Providence
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MAN (cont'd)
Mortality and Weakness (cont'd)
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.
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Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from
above: ....
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But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice:
for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
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God's Providence
I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three
days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest
haply they faint in the way.
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Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he,
and they that were with him? How he entered into the house of God when
Abiathar was high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which it is not lawful
to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: so that the Son
of man is lord even of the sabbath.
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And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give
him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall
ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to
give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
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It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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[And he said unto his disciples,] Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious
for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put
on. For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.
Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no
storechamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye
than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto his
stature? If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye
anxious concerning the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they toil
not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you, Even Soloman in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these. But if God doth so clothe the grass in
the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much
more shall he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye
shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all
these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth
that ye have need of these things. Howbeit seek ye his kingdom, and these
things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.
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.... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. m0608
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath
bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the
day of the sabbath?
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