S206P9 – How soon we forget: the service of friends and strangers

Heb. 13:2-3 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. Remember the prisoners as if chained with them‒those who are mistreated‒since you yourselves are in the body also. When it comes to our acts of service, there are three different kinds of servers.  I have known some who…

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S206P8 – How soon we forget: we need each other more and more

Heb. 10:23-25 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the…

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S206P7 – How soon we forget: look forward

Lk. 17:30-33 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn…

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S206P6 – How soon we forget: sacred rest

Exo. 20:8-10a Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. He had grown up in very dire circumstances, and he promised himself never to be destitute as an adult.  As long as he…

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S206P5 – How soon we forget: our first love

Rev. 2:4-5 Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place‒unless you repent. The church in Ephesus was located in a place of…

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S206P4 – How soon we forget: when we saw God’s goodness

Job 2:6-9 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. And he took for himself a potsherd with which…

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S206P3 – How soon we forget: an opportunity missed

Mk. 6:35-38 When the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place and already the hour is late. Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.” But He answered and said…

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S206P2 – How soon we forget: the delayed response

Exo. 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know…

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S206P1 – How soon we forget: not trying to remember

Psa. 78:9-18 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They did not keep the covenant of God; they refused to walk in His law, and forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them. Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,…

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S205P13 – The posture of prayer: a pleasing aroma

Rev. 5:8 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. I do not have children of my own, but I have many nieces and nephews by…

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