| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
ACT 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from
us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must
be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
ACT 15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to
send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
ACT 15:26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
ACT 15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell
you the same things by mouth.
ACT 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things,
lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
CO1 9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live
of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are
partakers with the altar?
CO1 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the
gospel should live of the gospel.
CO1 9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written
these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for
me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
CO1 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from
the streets.
JER 9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
harvestman, and none shall gather them.
JER 9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches:
JER 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth
and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I
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