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Put On the Lord Jesus Christ
SALVATION Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the…
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Put On the New Self
Justification & Sanctification Create a clean heart in me, O God:and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy face;and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.Psalm 50, 12-14 You should put away the old self of your former…
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So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
ONE FAMILY IN CHRIST Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weightand the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.Hebrews 12, 1 Hebrews 12:1 serves as a profound exhortation for believers, urging them…
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Set Your Mind on Things Above
JUSTIFICATION & SANCTIFICATION If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above,where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above,not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ who is our life appears, then…
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That We Might Be Justified by His Grace
INFUSED & INTRINSIC RIGHTEOUSNESS But when the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared,not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy,he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,whom he richly poured out on us through Jesus Christ our savior, so thatwe…
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Be Subject to One Another
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as…
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Confess Your Sins
THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the LORDwill raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore,confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may behealed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.…
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I Became Your Father
The Sacrament of Holy Orders And Michas said:Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest,and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver,and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals.Judges 17, 10 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ,you do not have many fathers, for in…
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One Mediator Between God and Man
THE MEDIATION OF CHRIST First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity. This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God…
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Eyewitnesses and Servants of the Word
THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first,…
Scriptural & Traditional Catholicism
Being Catholic 