SHARING BREAD
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 ”The time came when the [...]
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SHARING BREAD
18 ”Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Luke 16:18 (NIV)
Corruptions often creep into any ordinance of God and must be purged out by bringing them back to the original Truth for comparison. Isn’t it amazing how we can take any [...]
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SHARING BREAD
17 It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
Luke 16:17 (NIV)
God’s Word “stands firm in the heavens.” Scripture tells us:
89 Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Psalms 119:89 (NIV)
Matthew presents Jesus addressing this same [...]
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SHARING BREAD
16 ”The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
Luke 16:16 (NIV)
Matthew renders this verse in the following way:
11 I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen [...]
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SHARING BREAD
14 The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. 15 He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.
Luke 16:14-15 (NIV)
Ridiculing our Savior’s Words, the Pharisees mistakenly [...]
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SHARING BREAD
13 ”No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
Luke 16:13 (NIV)
Anybody besides me ever tried embracing both the world and God only to find that your arms [...]
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SHARING BREAD
10 ”Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? 12 And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s [...]
September_12
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SHARING BREAD
9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
Luke 16:9 (NIV)
In our verse for today Jesus gives us a use for “our” (His) money – give, share, gain friends – eternally invest. We are not to hoard it [...]
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SHARING BREAD
31 ”‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
Luke 15:31-32 (NIV)
In our verses for today we find an unavoidable, urgent, compulsory [...]
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SHARING BREAD
28 ”The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. [...]
