| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
TH1 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and
have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all
men:
TH1 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be
saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to
the uttermost.
TH1 2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in
presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face
with great desire.
TH1 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre,
to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the
grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
EZR 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at
Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the
priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the
captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years
old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
EZR 3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and
his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
PHI 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to
believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
PHI 1:30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to
be in me.
PHI 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort
of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
PHI 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love,
being of one accord, of one mind.
PHI 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in
lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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