I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which Thou hast showed unto Thy servant. – Genesis 32:10. Thus spake Jacob, the patriarch. And so every Christian should say the same, because …

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There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. – Psalm 91:10. Thus does God put you at ease, child of God. And Dr. Luther. in his Small Catechism, in accordance with this promise, teaches …

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  [Cast] all your care upon Him; for He careth for you. – I Peter 5:7. God sustains His creatures here below as long as it pleases Him. He, who is present within His entire creation, upholds “all things by …

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Though He be not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being. – Acts 17:27-28. Having, in the beginning, created the earth (to make mention of that only) and, above all, man, God …

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Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over…all the earth. – Genesis 1:26. Such was the counsel and deliberation of the Holy Trinity in creation. Great are the works of the Lord …

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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith. – I Peter 5:8-9. There are also evil angels. They are the spirits who …

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He shall give His angels charge over thee. – Psalm 91:11. It is not to be disbelieved that, besides man, God has also created other rational and personal beings, who do not dwell in bodies on the earth. Scripture tells …

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. – Genesis 1:1. These are the well-known, very first words of the Bible. And the truth they contain, namely, that there is a great, eternal, omnipotent God, who has created …

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Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. – Matthew 15:19. Original sin, the depravity of our nature, produces what are called actual sins, that is to say, sins that are acted, done, carried into …

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That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. —John 3:6. By “flesh” is meant the sinful depravity of human nature. And, indeed, human nature is totally and entirely depraved; it …

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