Looking Back and looking ahead'

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• Looking Back and looking ahead.

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A meek and quiet spirit

• (1 Peter 34 KJV) "But let it be the hidden man
  of the heart, in that which is not corruptible,
  even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
  which is in the sight of God of great price."

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Without love I am nothing!

• (1 Corinthians 131-2 NKJV) "Though I speak with
  the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
  love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging
  cymbal. (2) And though I have the gift of
  prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all
  knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I
  could remove mountains, but have not love, I am
  nothing."

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Your heavenly account

• (Matthew 619-21 NKJV) ""Do not lay up for
  yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and
  rust destroy and where thieves break in and
  steal (20) "but lay up for yourselves treasures
  in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys
  and where thieves do not break in and steal. (21)
  "For where your treasure is, there your heart
  will be also."

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Luke 1216-21 (NKJV)

• "Then He spoke a parable to them, saying "The
  ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.
  (17) "And he thought within himself, saying,
  'What shall I do, since I have no room to store
  my crops?' (18) "So he said, 'I will do this I
  will pull down my barns and build greater, and
  there I will store all my crops and my goods.

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Luke 1216-21 (NKJV)

• (19) 'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have
  many goods laid up for many years take your
  ease eat, drink, and be merry."' (20) "But God
  said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be
  required of you then whose will those things be
  which you have provided?' (21) "So is he who lays
  up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
  God.""

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Judging Ourselves

• (1 Cor 1131 NKJV) For if we would judge
  ourselves, we would not be judged.

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Think soberly!

• (Rom 123 NKJV) For I say, through the grace
  given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to
  think of himself more highly than he ought to
  think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to
  each one a measure of faith.

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Straining out Gnats!

• (Mat 2323-24 NKJV) "Woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint
  and anise and cummin, and have neglected the
  weightier matters of the law justice and mercy
  and faith. These you ought to have done, without
  leaving the others undone. 24 "Blind guides,
  who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

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Mercy defined

• compassion (human or divine, espec.
  active)--( tender) mercy.

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