22
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Week After Pentecost Á-? MONDAY
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A note to the reader: It is my fervent hope that all readers of these small meditations
(among whom, I fervently also hope will be all of my precious flock, who receive them
as they are written), will be inspired to meditate upon the scriptures often, reading them
daily. I hope that these explanations will help you along your way to deeper
understanding of the scriptures, which contain the words of life. The study of the
scriptures can be frustrating, because they are a deep well, and often every word has a
deep meaning. We cannot understand what we are not ready for, but we will never
understand if we do not try! Please, struggle in your Christian life Á-? prayer, fasting, the
struggle to follow the commandments, and the reading of the Scriptures and other
edifying writings. God will enlighten you and help you if you are consistent, and do
everything with effort.
Colossians 2:13-20
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
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Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15
And
having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly,
triumphing over them in it.
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Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink,
or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
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Which
are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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Let no man beguile
you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding
into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having
nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
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Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as
though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances
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Luke 9:18-22
And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were
with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
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They
answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one
of the old prophets is risen again.
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He said unto them, But whom say ye that I
am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
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And he straitly charged them,
and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
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Saying, The Son of man must
suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes,
and be slain, and be raised the third day.