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Luke 19:21

Weymouth NT

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'

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»The next came.« `Sir,' he said, `here is your pound, which I have kept wrapt up in a cloth.

»`By your own words,' he replied, `I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:«

You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being –a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons– a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, »Abba! our Father!«

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

For the Spirit which God has given us is not a spirit of cowardice, but one of power and of love and of sound judgement.

A man who has kept the Law as a whole, but has failed to keep some one command, has become guilty of violating all.

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all the hard words which they, ungodly sinners as they are, have spoken against Him.«




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