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THESE TEACHINGS are distilled. You're about to find plenty of good Bible quotes and
well aligned counsels for happy, elegant marriage in their footsteps. What is more,
inside is a "skeletal training program" to catch. There are three blocks - such steps - Each
has suggestions to adapt on top of. Pick the ones that serve you and your nearest ones, melt
the fit selections down to a cogent sentence - and learn to arrive at the homily that suits
you perfectly well. If not, learn to reflect on the arrays to learn more and better. New
skills may develop in the wake of mature reflections over tens of years.
Your maturing and musty homily should matter much to you and where you are. Adjust
on top of your setting. More goes into these things too - you're referred to the later
texts.
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Fit marriage should be honoured and honourable, and the love-making strengthening like
plenty of grace
KEEP ON LOVING [ducks, for example] - Don't forget to do good and to share with
others. [Hebrews 13:1,20,16]
Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage ... kept pure. [Hebrews
13:4]
It's good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace. [Hebrews 13:9]
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You should have good equipment, generally. Ask for that. Never neglect praying a lot. And be
aware that tactless teachings strengthen the love for money. You can do better. Let angels
please us honourably and well first, if that kind comes to visit us. Better be on the safe
side in troubled waters.
What is good for the marriage, is fit most often in all sort of settings. And what
is more, love and help that goes out to strangers, should first and foremost be perfectly
fit and honourable. €
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Keep your lives away from a lot rotten, including money love. You should still hoard it,
though
ENTERTAIN only angelic strangers. [Cf. Hebrews 13:2]
Keep your lives free from the [base or idiotic] love of money.
[Hebrews 13:5]
Living well is hardly tamed by gentle love. Keep on looking up strange or alien teachings
only if that sort of activity is honourable and the fruits of it can be made greatly
pleasing for good, staunch and fair living in local waters we're inside.
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Get good things and learn they cost money, like entertainment of comrades
HAVE A clear conscience and desire to live honourably - Don't be carried away by all
kinds of strange teachings. [Hebrews 13:18,9]
Equip you[rself] with everything good for doing ... what's pleasing to ["I am" at
least]. [Hebrews 13:21]
Let a clear conscience marry honourably and well and laugh from it. Keep abreast of it,
abreast of what is about to happen. Besides, learn that good laughter is healthy. It's may
be good for your heart to be carried away by such grace inside the grace.
Homily - how to forge ahead
Allow no downfall. Be sharp enough for it. - RECREATION IS
HONOURABLE AND MARRIAGE MUST SERVE REGULAR AND NICE-LOOKING RECREATION OF ALL INVOLVED.
Marriage should be honoured and honourable, and the love-making strengthening like plenty of
grace. Love ducks on recreations grounds as well - it often helps to share morsels with
them. Yes, that fits solvency first in the marriage, and is often honourable.
- A HAPPY
HOME ALLOWS NICE-LOOKING AND SPORTIVE "FOLLY" MUCH. not to like sportive and recuperative
folly and likeable assets that matters here, may go bad: For note how the bred "good men"
and authorities of Jews hated good and all right apostles for their messages and non-conform
conduct - It's also necessary to get aware there are often conflicting message inside the
over-all mainframe of gospel Christianity, letters and later developments. One has to make
the best out of those things, as consistently as one well-nigh can inside the flock. Keep
your lives away from a lot rotten money love, yet be pleased to hoard enough - even much -
even non-silly but strange-looking teachings also. Hearts know. Greatly pleasing teachings
through apostles looked so strange to the Jewish authorities that they decided on murdering
a lot of those angelic men. Be aware that what's greatly pleasing to God may look like folly
in the eyes of the hating ones, and that you might be hated for living up to it, like the
martyrs and apostles.
- HEALTHY ADJUSTMENTS MAY COST MUCH - QUESTION IF AN ATTEMPT TO
BETTER ONE'S LOT IS WORTH IT - IF THE MEANS ARE AT HAND, AND LOOK OUT. Get good things and
learn they cost money, like entertainment of comrades. Don't be carried away by strange
teachings - teachings that run largely contrary to the superb messages: and they are
much pleasing to the "I am" inside man and woman, I dare say. Perfectly fit means healthy
and jovial in graceful surroundings. You have to adjust much for the lack of a good camp,
fit surroundings, fit and good fellowmen. If so, well, pray for a lot.
So
 THIS IS a way:
A happy marriage is a good sport. And sports may benefit for much and regular training.
St. Paul speaks for the thing - athletic training is his figure of expression.
- RECUPERATE. Recreation is honourable and marriage must serve regular and nice-looking
recreation of all involved.
- HAVE SEEMLY FOLLY FIT FOR ADJUSTMENTS THAT COUNT. A happy
home allows much nice-looking and sportive "folly", to be sure.
- BE SURE BY ASCERTAINING
THE WORTH AND VALUE OF A LOT - firsthand and first-class. Healthy adjustments may cost much
- question if an attempt to better one's lot is worth it - if the means are at hand, and so
on. I pays to look well ahead and refrain from unwanted leaps in the dark.
Such steps or levels of accomplishments normally take much time and effort - simple as they
appear to be. In fact, to live well is a costly art that goes on and on as long as life
lasts - the art of living requires adjustments fairly often as we progress or as outer
conditions change or deteriorate. Such things often happen. I hope you liked this survey.
The next may be harder to swallow.
1 No cute
bluff is good enough if we mean to nourish others
IT SHOULD help a life to become a not too unwelcome citizen. A good speech
emboldens and helps skills on and up. Or it lets other people than mere
listeners get the initiative and take over. The Holy Spirit repeatedly told and impressed on
Peter to kill and eat formerly forbidden food. Sound Gentile customs took over. - Cf.
Acts 5:40; 10:9-16 and 11:4-10
When deep changes of structures or tyranny are launched, the higher the priest or
knave finds himself to be, the harder he can get to combat those changes. They may encompass
how to eat, with whom and what, and other ritual customs. To turn to God must mean
refreshment. Interestingly, the tact of those that were thought of as much holier or closer
to God than others, was killer-attuned. And deep changes were out of the question. These
inconsistencies can make a guy wonder whether those that purport to be close to God, really
are, or what they are close to in their fervour. Acts 5:16-7; 3:19
They who wait for [wait on etc.] the Lord [I am] shall renew their strength, they
shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and
not faint. - Isaiah 40:31
All that God did was through men in the days of the first apostles, and some were Gentiles.
Men were not dispensed with. And the initial believers had shareware. - Cf. Acts
14:27 and 2:44-5
Your commitment to raise and nourish someone, may mirror some adamant drive inside.
- Cf. Acts 13:32-7
Wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows
of smoke! For two whole years Paul stayed (in Rome) in his own rented house and welcomed all
who came to see him. Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught
about Christ. - Acts 2:19; 28:30-1 €
God made Jesus Lord and Christ - Peter understood that God didn't show favouritism
but accepted men who feared him and did what was right [which is what favouritism is about
in rough outline] "You must listen to everything Jesus tells you or be completely cut off
from among his people." However, Peter and all the other apostles dispensed with
circumcision even though Jesus had been circumcised to be acceptable as a little child, and
later vouched for the Law of Moses in every little detail. These things matter to tell. -
Cf. Matthew 5:17-20; Acts 2:36; 10:34-55; cf.3:22-3
Paul managed to complete the task that Lord Jesus had given him - the task of
testifying to the gospel of God's grace. God made no distinction between Jews and former
gentiles, as he purified their hearts by faith, said Paul. - Acts 20:24;
15:9
But other places in Acts show that the Holy Spirit had to be in it somehow:
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent
Peter and John to them. When they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the
Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit hadn't yet come upon any of them; they had simply been
baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them,
and they received the Holy Spirit. - Acts 8:14-8
2 God stopped
Paul and how? He was made an apostle without freedom to go his own, set ways from then
on
FILLED WITH the Holy Spirit good men in those days began to speak in other tongues - the
Spirit enabled them. Judge for yourselves whether it was right in God's sight to do as they
did and disregard God's handed over Law and customs step by step - whether it was right to
obey others than God. As it was said: "Some can't help speaking about what they've have seen
and heard." - Acts 2:4; cf. 4:19-20
To be a real Christian you should be baptised with the Holy Spirit. If puzzled,
next wonder what can come out of it. - Cf. Acts 1:1-5; 5:24
What God eventually did for Gentiles through the ministry of the persecutor Saul
after he had stopped putting Christians in jail and have them killed! - See Acts
21:19 etc. €
When the apostles prayed to Jesus, "Lord, show us which is chosen to take over
apostolic ministry," they cast lots. The lot fell to Mathias; so he was added to the eleven
apostles. - Acts 1:23-5
There are those that don't get informed that to cast lots must be Biblical - much
like dispensing with your own conscience and moral considerations. It happens.
In front of the unwelcome cast, perhaps you might decree: "I'm ready to be bound
through casting lots." But think of Paul who said: "I'm ready not only to be bound, but also
to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." The significant episodes in his life
went over and above casting lots. He didn't have a choice, didn't have the choice of casting
lots or let be, even. - Acts 21:13
3 How
long-lasting mighty words get, seems to depend in part on the flock that is to stick to
them
PAUL: "Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God. - Acts 20:28
These shepherds were to act differently than the Jewish priests after Aaron the betrayer, no
matter what God had formerly instituted through much-lasting Laws of Moses. There is a time
for this and a time for that, in other words. At times and in some settings the two of them
can work together.
Some things can work well for you also.
Summary
God stopped Paul in his way - he was to nourish others through superior messages and stick
to that enterprise.
- No
cute bluff is good enough if we mean to nourish someone in our care or charge and want a
warm and good-natured welcome thereafter.
- God stopped Paul and how? He was made an
apostle without freedom to go his own, set ways from then on.
- How long-lasting mighty
words get, seems to depend in part on the flock that is to stick to them. It can't be too
fickle and lackadaisal, it seems. Happy marriage -
THIS IS a way:
TO NOURISH and care properly and for long for someone else makes that one welcome
somewhere else. The way to harm that liberation and prowess that is coupled with a process
like that, is to bar and block the way of independence. Long-lasting, happy unions of
marriage and similar arrangements, tend to depend on that the educational progress toward
self-help has not been undermined, and that the torrent is not diminished. To foster
accomplished people, you know what to do, that is, the trend of normal developments.
Otherwise there may be troubles, formal contracts or not. [#1.1]
Historical surveys can be preoccupied with
doctrine.
1 The
bourbon is to be "shaken, but not stirred".- A James Bond favourite cliché If you get
saved, hope you won't be much shaken. Bad men began to argue with Stephen. They were
doctrinated. They could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he
spoke. They stoned him for it. He saw heaven opened then, and Jesus in heaven. When you see
the Lord in front of you, there's hope you won't be shaken. - See Acts 6:10; 2:25
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Exalted to the right hand of God, Jesus received from the Father the promised Holy
Spirit. Those who receive it, may have their persecutions also. He said so in part: "They'll
persecute you also." - Cf. Acts 2:33; John 15:20.
2 The Holy
Spirit took salvation away from Jews and to Gentiles
Paul: "I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles!" -
Acts 28:29
Think of that! And suffer no ill effects. That's in the art of living as the Holy
Spirit let it be evolved among us Gentile Christians. - Acts 28:5 €
3 Disasters
may yet come, and lots of other things
Paul in a slightly different context: " I can see that our voyage is going to be
disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also." - Acts
27:10
You'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. - Acts 1:8
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The chances are you'll receive more than power and persecutions. The Lord says:
"Hasn't my hand made all these things?" - Acts 7:50 (9)
Summary
- IT OFTEN PAYS TO TALK SENSIBLY INSTEAD OF GETTING INCOHERENT. If you get
saved, hope you won't be much shaken.
- BE THE RECEIVER OF THE GOOD THINGS, AFTER ALL
THOSE THAT RECEIVED GOD, WEREN'T THE ONES GOD HAD IN MIND INITIALLY AND THAT JESUS DIED ON
THE CROSS FOR. The Holy Spirit took salvation away from Jews and to Gentiles.
- BE SMART,
IT OFTEN PAYS. What we need is the right sort of smartness. I think it's Calvinian, in rough
outline. Otherwise, disasters may yet come, and lots of other things.
THIS IS a way:
Getting coherent and not dwarfed in main thoughts, feelings and outputs is no small
accomplishment. You had better go for that.
Many savoury outlets on top of initial good things and blessings may be called for in
order to accomplish it. Good things, including utensils, very often help savoury living far
and wide.
And smartness, the right and constructive (upbuilding) sort of it, should make one
fit for living adequately as time goes by. [#4.1]
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Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
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Much encouragement should not be very much needed for a life well lived, but there
are exceptions to that. In one of the Peanut cartoons Lucy van Pelt read a "story" to her
little brother Linus. "A man was born, lived and died."
