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APRIL 23
I am God, your God! against you seven times in a day, and seven
8 I will not rebuke you for your times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I
sacrifices repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
Or your burnt offerings, 5 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase
Which are continually before Me. our faith.”
9 I will not take a bull from 6 So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a
your house, mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry
Nor goats out of your folds. tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted
For every beast of the forest is Mine, in the sea,’ and it would obey you. And which
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And the cattle on a thousand hills. of you, having a servant plowing or tending
11 I know all the birds of the mountains, sheep, will say to him when he has come in
And the wild beasts of the field are from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to
Mine. eat’? But will he not rather say to him, ‘Pre-
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pare something for my supper, and gird your-
“If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
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For the world is Mine, and all its self and serve me till I have eaten and drunk,
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fullness. and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does
Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
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Or drink the blood of goats? things that were commanded him? I think not.
10 So likewise you, when you have done all
those things which you are commanded, say,
‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done
what was our duty to do.’ ”
50:8 I will not rebuke you for your sacri- 11 Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem
fices. The divine Judge’s condemnations are that He passed through the midst of Samaria
directed not at the act of sacrifice but at the 12
people’s attitude in sacrificing (see 1 Sam. and Galilee. Then as He entered a certain vil-
15:22; Pss. 40:6–8; 51:17; 69:30; Is. 1:12; Jer. lage, there met Him ten men who were lepers,
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7:21–26; Hos. 6:6; Mic. 6:6–8). who stood afar off. And they lifted up their
voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy
50:9–13 will not take a bull from your house. on us!”
God refuses mere ritual; it is an abomination 14 So when He saw them, He said to them,
to Him. He, unlike the pagan deities, needs “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And so it
nothing. He created everything and owns was that as they went, they were cleansed.
everything. 15 And one of them, when he saw that he
was healed, returned, and with a loud voice
glorified God, and fell down on his face at
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Offer to God thanksgiving, His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a
And pay your vows to the Most High. Samaritan.
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; 17 So Jesus answered and said, “Were there
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I will deliver you, and you shall glorify not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Me.” 18
Were there not any found who returned to
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Proverbs 14:28 give glory to God except this foreigner?” And
He said to him, “Arise, go your way. Your faith
In a multitude of people is a king’s has made you well.”
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honor,
But in the lack of people is the downfall
of a prince.
Luke 17:1–19
Then He said to the disciples, “It is
17 impossible that no offenses should come, 17:16 he was a Samaritan. Jesus’ sending the
lepers to show themselves to the priest sug-
but woe to him through whom they do come!
It would be better for him if a millstone were
2 gests that they were Jewish.This Samaritan had
hung around his neck, and he were thrown been permitted to associate with them when
into the sea, than that he should offend one of all were ceremonially unclean,but in their heal-
these little ones. Take heed to yourselves. If ing they did not share his deep gratitude.
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your brother sins against you, rebuke him;
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and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins
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