This is My body…This is My blood. – Matthew 26:26, 28. God in His Word has revealed to us the things that are necessary for our salvation. If we do not rest upon this Word alone and completely, but permit …

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The Lord’s Supper. – I Corinthians 11:20. Concerning the Lord’s Supper the holy Evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and St. Paul the Apostle write thus: “Our Lord Jesus Christ, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread; and when …

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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. – Lamentations 3:40. Observe a dear little child when he has done something wrong—how he comes to his father or to his mother and begs forgiveness. Or …

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I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. – Psalm 32:5. What sins should we confess? Before God we should plead guilty of all sins, even of those which we do …

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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. —I …

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Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. – I Corinthians 5:13. The retaining of sins, the excommunication from the Christian congregation, the ban, as it is called, should be executed upon those members of the congregation who are …

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If I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ. —II Corinthians 2:10. My dear Christian, when considering and meditating upon what the Word of God says concerning the Office of the …

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Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. – Acts 3:19. We all are poor, miserable sinners. There is no doubt about that. But there are penitent and impenitent sinners. Penitent sinners are such as …

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God hath set some in the Church…teachers. – I Corinthians 12:28. If, as we saw yesterday, the Office of the Keys, and all the powers connected with it, has been given to the Church, what, then, is the purpose of …

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Verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. – Matthew 18:18. Who are the “ye” in this text? To whom …

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