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Week After Pentecost Á-? MONDAY
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ODAY
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S READINGS
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FOLLOWED BY A FEW PASTORAL
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PERSONAL THOUGHTS
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1 Thessalonians 1:1-5
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace
be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We
give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
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Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
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Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
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For our gospel came not
unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much
assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Luke 10:22-24
All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who
the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom
the Son will reveal him.
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And he turned him unto his disciples, and said
privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
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For I tell you,
that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see,
and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not
heard them.
The Gospel today contains the classic, immutable, Christological truth: salvation is
through the Son. There are many places in scripture where Jesus touches on this critical
dogma:
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 1:18
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
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It is written in the prophets, And
they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and
hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
John 6:44-45
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my
life for the sheep.
John 10:15
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 17:3