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Because she will be a widow and will need someone to care for her. To protect from the ones who scorned Jesus. Jesus loved his mother and wanted to see that she was cared for. She was part of his family. We need to love our families. Even though we do not approve of some of the things our family members do we still need to love and respect them.

We the people are most responsible for killing Jesus. He died for our sins so that we could have a place in Heaven with God the Father. We bear the same responsibility as the people of long ago who cruified Jesus. He was asking the Father to forgive our sins because we are not worthy of being forgiven. He was praying to wipe away our debt which we ourselves can not do. Thank you Jesus for interceding on my behalf so that I may have eternal life as well as my brothers and sisters in Christ. Amen

Bad fruit is preaching the gospel and then living our way not the way Jesus would like us to live.

Yes. Yes. Even the Devil believes in God, he fell from Gods graces and he does not obey. Salvation is a gift from God when we truely follow him and live with God in our hearts. We must do good works, bear good fruit. But we must also be careful not to deceive ourselves iinto believing that we did these things on our own with no help from Jesus. Jesus must live in our hearts and we must shine our light on the people around us.

We can pray, quote bible verse and do good works, but if we do not follow Jesus to God the father we will parish. We must follow God, live with God in our hearts. Show other people that God lives within us, and lead others to salvation.

All throughout this Bible study I have been making small changes in how I live my life. Seeing that being kind and more loving toward others is what Jesus wants. Sharing with others the word of God and the peace only he can deliver to our lives. The narrow road is the one Jesus followed and although it may be lonely a great reward awaits us at the end of this road. If the way is easy that is the way of universalism. The Devil awaits us at the end of this road. Praise God that we may reach many people on this road and turn their path to Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth and the light. Amen

It tells us to do only good. Love your neighbor as yourself is the same as do on to others as you would have them do onto you. This indicates do only good things. They are different because one is loving God with all our heart, soul and mind. The other deals with people. Jesus call us to act in love. Faith, hope and love. And the greastest is love.

God is our Father and as such he will give us what we need. God will respond when he knows it is time, because Gods time is perfect. It differs from a cynical view because we have faith in God. We trust God to give us what we need. We trust that as a father God will be loving in his responses to our prayers. We may not always get what we ask for but God will give what is best for us.

Keep knocking, be persistent. Knock and the door will be open to you. We must always pray and never give up. Prayer connects us to God. It allows to have a relattionship with our Lord. And this is what he wants for us.

They are action words. They all require us to take action. They all require different actions. I believe seek has more intensity, because it requires us to seek God until we find him. We must always be asking, seeking and knocking in search or our Lord. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find and knock and the door will be open. We must realize that these things will happen in Gods time not ours. For God has perfect timing. And he may answer in a way that is unexpected. But he always hears our petition. We must be persistent and ask, seek, knock daily,for this is what God wants us to do, to continually be connected to him in prayer.

Dogs and pigs were unclean, scavengers. They were both precious. Believers turned away from sharing the gospel when they were scorned by the people they were sharing with. "When the Jews opposed Paul and became abusive, [Paul] shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, 'Your blood be on your own heads! I am clear of my responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.'" (Acts 18:5-6)

Nothing is humorous about a large sin sticking out of our eye. He is letting us see that if we have sinned and not asked for mercy we should not be judging our brother who has also sinned. They both represent sins. It is only okay to remove a speck when we ourselves have come to God and asked for mercy and to be forgiven for the sins we have committed. It is not okay when we have not come to God for he sees us as hypocrites.

We will be judged by God in the same way as we have ourselves judged. We can measure large amounts of critical judgement or we can measure large amounts of praise and good works by being helpful to our brothers and sisters who may be in need. A good measure running over.

Jesus' point is that worry does nothing . Seek God when you are troubled and ask his help. God will give us strength. Let tomorrow worry about itself.

We are to seek Gods kingdom and his rightousness. We must seek God first. When we do that food and clothing will follow.

Jesus mentions the pagans and the Gentiles because they are trusting only in themselves to provide what is needed to live. God wants us to see that he is there for us. He will provide the staff of life all we have to do is believe and trust in God. The pharse "your heavenly Father knows that you need them" has a huge impact on my life. It frees me from worry knowing that God will provide for me. In the 1980's when times were lean for us I used to take a bushel of tomatoes out to the road to get a couple of dollars for milk and God always sent someone to buy those tomatoes. Phrase God, for he takes away the worry. Just ask him. Thats all you have to do.

The phrases appear many times. It borders on sin because it consumes our thoughts and separates us from God. I believe they are opposites. When we worry we are not trusting God to work in our lives as he should when we make a prayer request of him to remove our fears. And remove our fears he will if we only come to him in prayer.

It is valid. The Lord our God looks after all things great or small. Put your trust in God, he will never fail us.

You can be wealthy and serve God. You have to see who made wealthy. If you are relying on self for your wealth then you do not seek God. But if you realize God allowed you to be wealthy and use your wealth as he intended then you are seeking God.

By doing good things for others, mostly in secret for Gods eyes only. By trying to live using Jesus as an example, modeling our lives after his. As humans we will fall at times, but we must get back up and ask for forgiveness . When we accumulate earthly treasures thats it, when we die they don't come with us. Heavenly treasures will be there in Heaven waiting for us. God will accept us into his Kingdom and we will live there with him for eternity. Because we can see earthly treasures and heavenly treasures are not seen until we die and live in glory with our Lord.