Daily Readings for Wednesday December 19,2018
Reading 3, 1 Thess 2: 13-17 : Fidelity to the Word of God.
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And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. |
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For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, |
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who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men |
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by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved -- so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last! |
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But since we were bereft of you, brethren, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face; |
Gospel, Lk 16: 10-13 : Be faithful to God
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"He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. |
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If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? |
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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? |
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No servant can serve two masters; for 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 God and mammon." |
