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41 | Solomon's judgment of Adonijah and Joab | 1 Kin 2:13 | Tamara Brewington | 203958 | ||
Ok Carlos, here goes... From looking closely at the text we can see that Solomon sees himself as having fulfilled the prophecy of David to ascend to the throne made in II Samuel 7:12-16. Most commentators see this as Solomon assuming he is the only one who has his kingdom established by God, and as the one who gets the throne that will be established forever, because of I Kings 2:24. The parellel comes in I kings 2 when we see that the Lord was giving David a double prophecy. The proof is in two verses; 13 where it says that God will establish his throne forever - meaning Jesus the Messiah who will live and rule forever and 14 where it says that whoever God establishes on the throne if he sins God will chasten him. And since the we know that Jesus the Messiah can't sin, we know that David's son has to be the one in question on the throne. However, the text in I kings 2:13-34 is not a reference to a picture of the Messiah's judgment in the person and action of Solomon. There are elements in the history found in scripture of parallels that can be drawn between Jesus and Solomon though, but none of them involve judgment. The first parallel you already see, that Jesus was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David and that Solomon was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David. The next one is that Jesus was going to build the final tabernacle being His body crucified and resurrected as the place for all to worship and Solomon was going to build a tabernacle as a place for all to worship. The next one is that when Jesus went up the mountain and was transfigured the presence of God was there in a cloud as He was speaking to Moses and Elijah about raising the last tabernacle and when Solomon finished building the tabernacle the presence of God was present in a cloud that filled it up. The next one is that when Jesus judged matters of the people He used the wisdom of God and Solomon was given a wisdom from God which was unparalleled by any until Jesus came down. There are no parallels in the first commands of Solomon as it pertains to his reign as being the archetype of the new kingdom. Some would say there was because he apparently used a kind of wisdowm in executing a rival and Solomon's reign was later characterized by wisdom or because he destroyed his rival to the throne. But the wisdom he was later to receive from God goes beyond the sort of self preservation that is displayed in this passage and also does not point to either the specific judgment of the Messiah that if they don't receive His word they are doomed or the general judgments of the Messiah using wisdom to judge matters and it does not make contact with the Messiah eventually judging Satan, the Anti-Christ, or the False Prophet in Revelation. When you look for parallels, types, shadows of events and people in the Bible pay close attention to the circumstances because that will give the big clue as to if a text applies to the idea you might have. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
42 | Biblical women who wrote songs | 1 Chr 25:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205183 | ||
Dear aceve, The answer is no women including Miriam are said to have composed songs, only the men. Exodus 15:21 Mirian answered to them, sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea. Miriam did not write any song, Miriam was a prophetess and she was telling the women to sing the song of Moses most likely. The text said that she told them to sing a song, she is telling the women to sing, not composing a song. God's day to you, Tamara God's day to you, Tamara |
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43 | Can a fallen angel be in God's presence? | Job | Tamara Brewington | 203742 | ||
Yes Satan according to Daniel was a Cherubim who was cast down from heaven to earth. However, considering the body of scripture on this, Satan gets cast down from heaven forever, note forever in Revelation. According to that account in Job Satan was going to heaven after roaming the earth to speak to God. The New Testament says that Satan is our accuser in Revelation 12:10 and in the same verse he he is cast down out of heaven for the second time for ever. We don't know why God would allow Satan to go back and forth, but Ephesians describes the devil and his followers as being in the world forces of this darkness of the heavenly places. Satan stands in heaven daily accusing the brethren. I believe we have a clue in Job as to why God keeps on allowing it... Satan prowls around seeking whom to devour, he told God in Job that he had been roaming the earth and then God says, consider Job a righteous man... I believe God keeps allowing it in order to show the devil that God's people will not renounce him even if God allows the devil to mess with them trying to devour them. | ||||||
44 | Tell me how to get his info w/o the book | Ps 15:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204817 | ||
God' Day to you Mamaroo, Welcome to the Forum! Go to Christianbooks.com and order form there, the shipping should only take about three days for both books. Or try amazonbooks.com same thing. God bless, Tamara |
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45 | who was the oldest man | Ps 90:10 | Tamara Brewington | 203740 | ||
Methueselah was the oldest man. Bit of advice, if God could send Jesus Christ as God and man,which is the ultimate miracle then there is no problem believing that men lived to be 900 years old and that their age then went down to 120 years as the Bible says; when the Bible makes plain sense seek no other sense or it becomes nonsene. Apply this to all numbers in the Bible except where the prophets are indicating that the numbers are allegorical. Creation was in six days, the Great Tribulation will take 7 years, the temple in heaven in Revelation has exact measurements as does the city of Jerusalem, you see the prophecies of the birth of Jesus said it would take exactly 400 years which it did and Israel was prophesied to go into captivity for 70 years which it did, and Israel was prophesied to go into captivity for 400 years which it did. Since every single prohecy in the Bible has come true so far and since every single prophecy with numbers has come true so far, then numbers are real and are not figurative, but literal. | ||||||
46 | Driven by eternity or love? | Ps 150:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204503 | ||
First and foremost if you are having trouble being driven by your love for Jesus try praising Him a lot. The love relationship will grow in proportion to how much time you spend praising Him for His mighty goodness to save a sinner like you. Start with gratefulness as your theme. What I mean about praising Him is take the time out to sing your heart out to Him (as well as get on your kness and pray praising Him). Sing an old song, sing a new song, sing with a good voice, a bad voice, while crying, or while happy, just keep on singing until the drops of sweat have you drenched and you are ready to drop. I guaruntee you you will find yourself in love with Jesus. Works every time. Here is one for you; Psalm 150 Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse. Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre. Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe. Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord! Go get some praise music, go get some hymn music, go get some old music, some new music. Make a project out of it, He is worth th eeffort. You can down load it you can go buy it, you may already have it make the effort to learn the songs and sing your heart out. Praise is an important part of your relationship with Jesus. You will find yourself feeling more love towards Him and you will start to really experience the love back in a myriad of ways. Don't wait for anyone to join you, this is personal. Worrying about your eternal security can be a real healthy thing, keeps you on track. Mathew 22:37 And He said to them, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is just like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. God Bless, hope this helps. Tamara |
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47 | Jesus symbolism in parable, how else | Proverbs | Tamara Brewington | 205217 | ||
Dear chessshores, See verse 11 where it makes clear why Jesus was saying the whole thing in the first place? Jesus was talking about the whole matter of being good stewardsof money in order to make far more important ont about being entrusted as good stewards of the true righes... The riches that you are to accumulate as part of your reward in heaven, as Jesus says elsewhere, store up for yourselves treasure in heaven. You have to get the context of these passages about money correct in the parables to understand why Jesus was saying what he was saying in the first place. God's day to you, Tamara |
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48 | what kind of Bible reading qualifies? | Proverbs | Tamara Brewington | 205232 | ||
Dear chessshores, I respect that you are from another culture, so are others here, we are all from slightly different cultures even those of us from the USA in here are not all from the same exact culture or church denominations. I think you are doing just fine my dear in following the guide lines. You are including scripture, you are either posting a note to something that interested you, or you are asking a question as best you can in language that is not your first language, and you think from a different point of view coming from a different culture and heritage. I have had friends from many different cultures and from different countries and understand that it can be difficult to understand what people see things like who are different than I am. I myself am of mixed heritage, culture and background and my family is slightly mixed up. I love knowing people who are different than I am, its a big big world, and a big big body of Christ. I have Pentacostal friends, which you would not have guessed from my posts back to you, I have a Catholic friend from childhood, which you would not have guessed from my posts, and I have unbelievers for friends that you would not have guessed from my posts to you. I had the priveledge of teaching jewelers from Japan, South America, and a deaf person how to make jewelry without any of us speaking the same language. We resorted to a kind of made up sign language for one year and tried to understand one another to do things together on the job. At the end of one year, with the exception of the deaf man, they all were able to speak a form of English enough to communicate differently. I think, folks from different religious cultures have something higher in common by which they can communicate, the Bible, and this can cross cultures and backgrounds and heritages, and bring us together as one. I think that according to the type of questions you will ask and the texts from the Bible you will pick folks in here will slowly get to know you. And if you remain open to correction sometimes and being taught something scripturaly sound by those who have been around in the Lord for a while in here, you might really grow in your walk with Christ. The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is not a Bible I am familiar with, I will have to get familiar with it. From the sounds of it, it encouraged you a great deal. I would like to know, how that Bible works. Is it that this Bible has verses in the referrence column that refer back to the orginal verses? Or is it that this Bible has verses right alongside the text in the margins? Or is it that this Bible has verses right in the text after the original verse, another verse from another part of the Bible following the original? James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. This is not about negligence, or sloppiness, or deliberat cheating. It is about verses 1 and 2 which say that people are quarreling and having conflicts with one another and that this is the source of their lustful desires for things causing wrong conduct. This is about the lust for things that one does not have that are causing one to commit murder to get something and to be envious of others and fight with them to get things and that one does not get things because one has not asked the with the right motive asking the right way to God. Verse 3 goes on in the same theme that because one has the wrong motive one does not receive because the motive is to spend the answer to the prayer on selfish pleasures. As you can see that is not negligence, or sloppiness, or deliberate cheatting, it is about selfishness, asking for things for the wrong reasons, harming others in order to get things, and is about doing things the wrong way being a source of the mind and actions of the flesh which wage war against the spirit. Keep asking questions my dear. By His Grace, Tamara |
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49 | Isa 6:9-10 translated differently in NT? | Is 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 205918 | ||
Dear Live, Welcome to the forum! Interesting stuff indeed... You write; Looking for some assistance on the answer, especially the first part about why the translation differs in the NT... The Hebrew form of the text in NIV says: " 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed." I take it this is from Isaiah 6, you said in the Hebrew from the NIV? I found this in the NASB for the same passage perhaps it will help; Go, and tell this people: Keep on listening, but do not perceive; keep on looking but do not understand, render the hearts of this people insensitive, their ears dull, and their eyes dim, otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and return and be healed. Do you see how the NIV says "make the heart of this people calloused", but that the NASB says " render the hearts of this people insensitive"? In this case the KJV comes closer than either translation here; Make the heart of this people fat, and make their eyes heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Notice the word fat, that translation of the word is closer to the Hebrew in the Strong's, and it is talking about being anointed with good things to the point of being fat. It does not really mean calloused, but insensitive does not quite capture it either, it is talking about being opulent, anointed with the things of life and becoming full of life in the heart, unable to hear and see. Let's deal with the problem of God making or rendering them dull of seeing and hearing; Romans 9:18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. He hardned Pharoah only after Pharoah chose to harden his own heart first in the OT right? I believe the same thing is the case with these verses you are studying; it is not that God makes them unable to see or hear, they are already unwilling and so God decides to render them unable to see or hear because of what they chose for themselves. more to come, Tamara |
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50 | Isa 6:9-10 translated differently in NT? | Is 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 205919 | ||
continuation, Tamara You noted; But then the translation done from the Septuagint to English says: "You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' This people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed eyes" The focus is not on whether or not God makes them dull, it is on that they have choosen this. You noted; In the Hebrew, it looks like God is commanding His people not to understand. I mean, they've been denying Him so long, it makes sense that, like Pharaoh in Exodus, they're out of opportunities. The second version looks more like a prophesy..."you will...never [understand]." Here's the issue: when this passage is quoted in the NT, different versions are used. John 12:40 makes it seem like God deafens people, and Luke 8:10 shows that He accomplishes this through parables. They quote the first form; however, Matthew 13:14-15 and Acts 28:27 quote the Septuagint version and make God seem more passive and less like He forced them into a lack of understanding. When we come across these verses that seem like commands and then prophetic and then passive we should look for the pervasive guiding principles that drive what the authors were saying and what Jesus also was saying about it. The issue accroding to Isaiah was that someone had to be sent to tell the people their spiritual state - that they were not listening and because they were not listening they would keep on not preceiving, and that because of this God would make sure that they would not be saved. That was Isaiah's intent to his audience. Jesus did not change that intent, He upheld it in Mathew and used to parables according to what He said in both Mathew and Luke, to seal their fate according to what they had already choosen to do, not to listen and not to see. Isaiah by the way was prophesying about this according to John's account. Why wouldn't the NT authors quote the same version? I realize that they didn't speak to one another to coordinate, but since the Bible can't be wrong, I don't know how to explain the differences. The NT authors all had the same intent in mind, that in choosing not to listen or see, then God rendered them unable to understand and be saved. The differences are minor in detail, and not contradictory, but the substance remains intact. However, how does this fit with 2 Peter 3:9? Before we come to Mathew 13 Jesus has already preached many times to the crowds about the kingdom and shown them by miraculous wonders and forgiveness of sins that He is God and He knows also who will come and who will not to salvation at this point in time. So how this fits in the picture of II Peter 3:9 is that you have used II Peter 3:9 out of context. II Peter 3:9 is about that the whole earth and the whole heavens are going to pass away and be burned up, and that the Day of the Lord to judge the wicked is coming in the future, so then Peter says two things about this - with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day - and that this is refering to that the Lord is not slow about coming back to judge the wicked, but that He is patient toward those who still need to be repent and be saved before He comes back. So this is not talking about what happened to the wicked whom Jesus was addressing in the gospels while He was walking around alive, it is talking about why the Lord is taking so very long to come back before judgment day. What's the purpose in living anymore if God is done with you and you have no chance at hearing or understanding? Jesus gave them a chance to hear Him and come to an understanding but He knew they were rejecting Him and closed them off from the chance they threw away. We now have to hear and make our descision and not turn our backs on Him, Jesus says whoever will deny Me, I will deny him to the Father. Hope this clears it up, God Bless You, Tamara |
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51 | Age of accountability? | Is 7:16 | Tamara Brewington | 204084 | ||
This seems to be answered but I wanted to put my two cents in. I believe that whenever a child becomes aware they are a sinner is qualifying as their own age of accountability. My son reached his at age 7 and the pastor was careful to test his statement that at 7 he was saying he knew for sure that he was a sinner who needed salvation and that he was asking Jesus for forgiveness of sins. This testing process took three whole months and included my son walking up to me and saying, Mom, I need to know Romes 10, God is telling me I need Romes 10. So we got down on the couch and I read Romans 10 to him and when I got to the part that say, if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart He died and was raised on the third day, you will be saved, he jumped up off the couch and said, that's it, that's it, that's what I need! The a month later he comes to me and says, Mom, God says I need John 3. So we got on the couch again and read John 3, and when we got to the part that says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life, my son jumped off the couch again and said, that's what I am looking for Mom, I want to get saved! I told the pastor all this, he had been praying how to discern if my son was really taking Jesus for his savior with a true knowledge of what it all means. So he kept taking my son up to the pastor's office and talking with him over the space of those three months. At the end he decided my son knew what he was saying and my son got down on his knees at home without me leading him and asked for forgivness and was baptized at 7 years old and was given full rights as a believer in Christ. It all started one day when the altar call came and he tried to move past me in the pew to get out and go forward and I told him he had to wait to go to the bathroom and he said, "Mom, let me by I need to go to the front becuase I need to get saved". There are no scriptures in the Bible telling you what the age of accountability is. Denominations differ and many say 12 is the age, some say it is 16. But I warn you, God will do whatever He wants to do and if He wants to call someone earlier He will. You have to be willing to be open to whatever God is doing and test that child, you and your pastor, test that child, find out if they know what they are talking about. Be careful, the Bible says in Mathew 19:14, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these". God Bless, Tamara |
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52 | understanding idolatory | Jer 17:5 | Tamara Brewington | 204793 | ||
Dear Susanna, Welcome to the forum! When you want to talk to Doc in reply, make sure to choose note my dear... I was thinking about what you are saying in your original post and see a coulpe of things I would like to share. There is Exodus 20:4 which says not to make an idol, but what I was seeing was the things God was saying not to worship by way of making an idol; what is in heaven, what is in the water, what is on the earth. what is in the heaven would inlude the universe as well as the angels, in the water would be all the creatures there, on earth though got me to thinking. How about all things that you could find on the earth, not just creatures and people, but social and intellectual things and the arts. While I am sure God meant created things it got to thinking, then I went to Romans. Romans 1:21,22 ; it says that they knew God but did not honor Him as God or give thanks- translation they exalated something anything above above God, that could be intellecuality, art, music, philosophy anything, career, car, house, whatever objects of affection people may have. Then there is that as a result they became futile in their speculations - they began to become fools and their heart became dark without the light of God in it. In their quest to worship whatever is not God they think they are being very wise and they become fools. I tried googleing idolatry but didn't get much. God Bless Tamara |
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53 | Destiny of Hinnom? | Jer 31:40 | Tamara Brewington | 204557 | ||
Dear Thomas, This appears to be saying that the Valley of Hinnom after being likened to hell will end up being changed. See Jeremiah 30:18 where it talks about the resotoration of Jacob. In that passage Jeremihah talks about restoring the place where Jacob dwells as rebuidling on the ruins. Your passage in Jeremiah 31:40 is directly saying that this place the Valley of Hinnom will be restored to a holy state. This relates I believe very well to what you have been studying, Revelation, because in chapter 20 you have Jesus coming back and setting up rule for the 1,000 years and this is when Jerusalem will get fully restored as a holy city functioning in a holy state and not before. God bless Tamara |
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54 | What does "Jesus" mean? | Matthew | Tamara Brewington | 203723 | ||
Jesus is Greek for Iesous a common Hebrew name, nothing more... | ||||||
55 | Carpenter or rabbi? | Matthew | Tamara Brewington | 204354 | ||
Go to www.bible.com and use the search engine by typing in the word carpenter and then the word Rabbi. It will take you to every place that those words appears in the Bible. At the bottom of the search page will be blocks of verses that the word also occurs in. God Bless, Tamara |
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56 | Carpenter or rabbi? | Matthew | Tamara Brewington | 204356 | ||
Go to www.blueletterbible.com and use the search engine by typing in the word carpenter and then the word Rabbi. It will take you to every place that those words appears in the Bible. At the bottom of the search page will be blocks of verses that the word also occurs in. God Bless, Tamara |
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57 | can the SOTM be taken literally? | Matthew | Tamara Brewington | 204596 | ||
Dear SAKII, A couple of things would happen, lets see; 1)Verses 5:1-12 - humbleness and perseverance through persecution would be the result. 2)Verses 5:13-20 - remaining unstained by the world and being a light to the world would be the result. 3)Verses 5:21-48 - godly behavior would be the result. 4)Verses 6:1-15 - caring for Jesus in the form of others would be the result. 5)Verses 6:16-24 - being concerned with the internal as opposed to the external would be the result. 6)Verses 6:25-34 - focusing on seeking the kingdom instead of worrying about worldly needs would be the result. 7)Verses 7:1-28 - good moral conduct and focusing on being able to enter life would be the result. Does that answer the question? What here do you think you should not be taking literaly as a Christian I am definetely wondering? The part about suffering perhaps? I Peter 2:21-23 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any sin found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept on entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously. Are you serious about whether or not one should be taking it literaly? Or was this a fishing expedition? Not judging. God Bless Tamara |
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58 | OT via Jesus? | Matt 5:28 | Tamara Brewington | 205609 | ||
Dear Thomas8, I think that what we have here is that Jesus clarifies the scope of the law to include the alliliations of the heart. When we look at the Ten Commandments we see ten things we are not supposed to be doing in obedience to God as if they are bad actions to take. Jesus goes a step beyond and tells us that sin is a matter of the intentions of the heart, and by attrition, God will not just judge our actions, but our hearts and minds. We tend to think of sin in terms of actions taken, as I say again, but we don't understand where sin begins, in an inside rebellion against God by placing something else inside where God shoud be. I like Romans 1:18-32 a lot because it shows where all depravity begins, in setting up something to revere above God, anything we place above God and following God cause us to be given over to a depraved mind to sin, any kind of sin, not just gross sexual sin, but any sin is the action of depravity, and it starts in the heart and in the head doesn't it? I like your transition of covenants, I think this is a correct view of the situation. Jesus is about to go to Jerusalem in a few years and switch up covenants on us, He will replace and old one with a new one and also enhance and old one, the covenant of faith. No longer will any have to keep struggling with law to become righteous the righteous will have the law writen in their inward parts, in their hearts to do it. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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59 | to get closer to god | Matt 6:6 | Tamara Brewington | 203738 | ||
Worship Him in your heart first and foremost, love the Lord your God with all your heart all your soul and all your mind. Believe Jesus is God with all your heart and that He brings you to the Father God, follow the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles and your soul will get purified, listen to Biblical teaching and preaching and study in order to get fed the pure milk of the word, praise God with songs He lives in your praises, fellowship with the body of Christ and love them as Christ loves you, pray for the relationship between you and God to grow. If you know Jesus as Lord, God bless you, if you don't, Jesus is Lord and He died and was risen on the third day, read Romans 10:9,10 to see what to do to get saved today. | ||||||
60 | how can i learn to pray out lound | Matt 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203774 | ||
Try the end of the Psalms and try the 23 Psalm and try the Lord's prayer from the New Testament, but most of all you have to pray in your heart to be led by the Holy Spirit how to pray! Romans 8:26! Try this technique; have in mind a definite thing to be praying about, start off by praising God for all the good things you can think of He has done, then name the thing you are praying about and present it to God, literaly say, I am presenting this to you God and I lay it on your altar of grace, then start talking about all the things that you know need to happen on earth concernin the thing you are praying about, then ask God to use His power to make the thing come true, end with thanks giving to God! The model I have given you comes from studying the parts of the Lord's prayer, remember the disciples were asking Jesus to teach them how to pray, the instructions are in the formula of that prayer! God bless! | ||||||
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