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- We're ready for verse 28 in the book of Ephesians chapter 4
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- That's where he started I was almost to make a mistake
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- Well, I hate it because I skipped that part I had lots of good things to say
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- It's the new world to me every day anyhow But fornication and all uncleanness covetousness
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- Let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints Fornication This is a product of the new morality by the way
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- Started with Adam and Eve It is accepted as normal conduct today by the whole world
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- And we have our own leaders to prove it Covetousness.
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- This is not just money. I Know ministers who would never be guilty of trying to get rich They want power and position of their denomination and community
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- As a covetous man never has enough of wealth So the pleasure seeker never has enough of pleasure
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- The appetite increases in proportion to its indulgence Neither filthiness nor foolish talking or jesting which are not convenient, but rather give thanks
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- Filthiness This is anything based on vile words or acts foolish talking
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- Give me some examples of foolish talking urge
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- All right,
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- Bill Foolish talking
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- All right any other thoughts
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- Foolish talking. Well, this includes ridicule childish childlike infant
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- Infantile senseless irrational bigot unwise improper ill advised silly frivolous trivial useless dull stupid or brainless blockhead
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- God's pulpit pulpit is no place for a joke That's foolish talking.
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- Worship is not made up a small talk The joke about heavenly things is to degrade
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- God Think about it Jesting this is unimportant insignificant trivial liberty babble trash rubbish
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- A flash in the pan like an old flintlock gun This does not mean good clean humor
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- It means dirty jokes or jokes about heavenly things The joke is to carry one's mind along in one direction suddenly interrupted if you want the definition of a joke
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- Convenient they do not come up to the proper standard standard They're utterly improper in themselves and highly unbecoming in those who profess
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- Christianity Rather give thanks Prayer or praise is the best guide for our language for the man who has a trifling or silly disposition is ill -fitted for either
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- How can the man who's been talking foolishly or joking in public Go in private to magnify
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- God with the very tongue. He is used to wrong him Be simple be honest in your speaking never use a long word where a short one will do
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- Call a spade a spade and not a well -known oblong instrument for maintaining husbandry
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- Where a short word will do you always lose by using a longer one
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- For this, you know that no whoremonger nor unclean person
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- Our covetous man who is an idolater at any inheritance in the kingdom of God and of Christ and of God Let no
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- Whoremonger or unclean person or a covetous man who is an idolater
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- They're all idolaters If they're not saved Let no man deceive you with vain words
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- For because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience vain words
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- Let no man deceive you with vain words Clarence, how can that be done?
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- All right, yeah, that's right
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- Yes, yes If you know what you're talking about, you can present it in a few simple words
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- Whoremonger this is one who is habitually a whoremonger Idolater this is one who is habitually all covetous people are idolaters
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- The world will say that all these things are all alright Let no man deceive you
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- You can't be deceived if you know the truth Vain is empty and worthless children of disobedience
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- These are Satan's seed children of disobedience disobedience Do not allow anyone to persuade you that these things are innocent
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- Or they are unavoidable weaknesses of human nature therefore permissible of God Those who live in this kind of life will not see the kingdom of God We find
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- Matthew and Proverbs speaking to this Do not allow anyone to persuade you that these things are just innocent.
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- He didn't mean it It's human nature so on and so forth
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- You know better than that Be not ye therefore partakers with them for ye were sometimes dark
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- But now are you light and the Lord walk as children of light.
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- We spoke about light this morning in class How the turning of the bulb would not cast a shadow we're children of light
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- Walk in the light false FOCE Greek rays meaning the illumination or the fruit of the
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- Spirit This was light in the original Is in all goodness and righteousness and truth proving what is acceptable unto the
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- Lord now The fruit of the
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- Spirit is acceptable unto the Lord Everything that is not the fruit of a spirit is not acceptable unto the
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- Lord Can you tell the difference between the fruit and not fruit
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- Russell All right
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- All right Characteristic Yes Because there's good people that are not saved
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- There's there's people Gooder than some Christians. I know Russell Or Parents That's right
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- That's right, absolutely
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- According to the dictates of the gospel you shall be able to bring In full proof to yourself what pleases
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- God it originated with God If it pleases him it originated with him
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- And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reproved them now
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- We We're associated in the world With people that are not
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- Christian, but we do not have to fellowship with them. There's a difference For it is a shame
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- Even to speak those things which are done of them in secret Fellowship this is a harmony good understanding
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- Fellow feeling affection warm -hearted to be at home with with open arms arm -in -arm
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- Have no religious connections whatever with heathens are their worship
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- Boy that stopped a lot of churches Unfruitful the result of sin does not deserve the name of fruit
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- Works of darkness Satan loves the absence of this false FOC Satan loves this he works in dark
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- Reproved but do not try to become a reformer There is where some of us fall down.
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- I want to reform this man Say it again, that's right
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- Well You tell your own
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- Children this start with you raise them up as they should be Beyond that it becomes a problem.
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- I Think too easy. I Know I'm very guilty Telling someone that they're doing wrong.
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- I Can't shouldn't do that So pray for them do everything you can
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- Without just out now telling them I don't know if that answers your question or not
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- Reprove What does the word reprove me? Greg What does we reprove me?
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- All right All right
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- Russell, all right, you're approving by action
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- Wait till he gets by We're trying to prove to you that their way of life is correct you're supposed to reprove
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- To them that it's wrong In other words you prove a different way A lot of that has to do with the lifestyle
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- Reproving is the word they were preaching As opposed to a verbal threat
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- I reprove can't be verbal though I think your life will always be reproved
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- So The main idea here is to just let them know
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- The way that you're not in agreement with their life And let God work, let God do the work
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- That's right Action Unfruitful the result of sin does not deserve the name of fruit
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- Darkness Satan loves obedience to God The absence of force Reprove but do not
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- Try to become a reformer I knew a woman that begged her husband To be saved She talked to him every day
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- Over the meal He'd come home at noon She'd talk to him but she'd cry
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- She'd talk to him at breakfast But she'd cry At supper she'd sit down And she'd cry
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- At every supper Every meal Now if you were a man
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- Coming home To a crying woman would you like that? I can't understand people today
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- Well that may be
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- But that's the wrong way To go about it Yes But of all things
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- Things that are approved Are made manifest By the light That whatsoever does make manifest
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- Is light Wherefore he said Awake thou that sleepest Arise from the dead
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- And Christ shall give thee light All is made manifest
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- By the gospel If you wonder about anything The gospel makes the answer to it
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- It's common knowledge That a dead man cannot arise Of his own power
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- The call must go out God must arise God will arise Who and when he chooses
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- Not when we choose But in this verse Paul means the
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- Christians Who have fallen into a spiritual sleep Those who for many reasons
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- Have become stagnant Who are not growing Who have let the flesh
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- Turn them away from the joy of Christ Must be awakened They must come back
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- To the wonderful peace of study And learning Do not let
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- Do not ever let yourself grow To the place That you need not learn
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- The man that does not Need to learn is a pitiful man Wherefore Be not unwise
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- By understanding what the will Of the Lord is And be not drunk with wine
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- Wherein is excess But filled with the Spirit You're not to say
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- To everyone I love you A few years ago That was the thing
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- I love you in Christ I love you in the Lord No matter where you met him Or what the occasion was
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- I love you in the Lord No See then that you walk
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- Circumspectly What's that mean, Bill? Circumspectly Be not
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- Fools but as wise Redeeming the time because the days are evil Redeeming the time
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- Because the days are evil Why should that be an incentive To redeem the time?
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- Greg Buying up those moments
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- Which others Seem to throw away It's not the most precious thing
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- It is the most precious thing in the world Our time When once passed
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- It never returns It must be one day Accounted Redeeming the time
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- Because it is short And to us uncertain Because of the work we have to do The difficulty of doing it
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- Because we have Used up such a large portion Of time allotted us
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- How to redeem it? Have a method In the distribution Of your time
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- Be moderate in your Recreation Cut off As much as you can
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- From necessary visits Unnecessary visits Examine every evening
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- How you have spent your day Stop doing that which you know
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- You should not do Since you are doing something All of the time You will gradually move toward Doing more and more
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- Of that which is profitable For spiritual growth And so please the
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- Lord You do something all of the time So Stop doing what you're not supposed to If you stop it
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- You'll fill it with something else Now it may be You'll find out you're not supposed to do that So stop it
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- And little by little You can overcome The bad habits
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- And they will lead to the good If you just quit doing what you know
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- You're not supposed to do One thing at a time People should know that you're a
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- Christian Without you having to tell them Wherefore be ye not unwise
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- But understanding What the will of the Lord is Be not drunk with wine Where it is in excess
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- But filled with the Spirit Unwise You're not to say to everyone
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- I love you To practice all And so Notes from verse 16 Brings us to understand
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- God's will Verse 18 Can you be filled With more than one thing
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- At a time By thing I mean Thing Of like substance
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- Can you be filled With more than one thing At a time
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- Hmm? No You can't No you can't
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- That's right If you're filled with the Spirit of wine You cannot have any portion of the
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- Spirit of God You can have portions of both But you would be less than you
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- Could be with either Do not cut off the doing Of an evil thing by degrees
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- If you fell into the fire Would you want your rescuers To pull you out just a little bit at a time
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- We have to be very very careful Speaking to yourselves in psalms
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- And hymns and spiritual songs Singing and making melody In your heart to the Lord How many of us do that I hear my wife
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- In the kitchen Singing Giving thanks
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- Always for all things unto God And the Father In the name of our
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- Lord Jesus Speaking to yourselves Do not practice the sloppy
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- Agape Submitting yourselves
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- One to another In the fear of God Now How can you submit yourselves
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- One to another In the fear of God Greg how do you do that All right
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- Submitting Let no man Be so determined in his own will
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- That it disturbs The peace of someone else Always consider
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- All other Christians As being better than yourself The moment
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- That you Decide I'm better than he You've got a problem Wives submit yourselves
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- Unto your own Husbands as unto the Lord Wives are
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- Responders Men I don't know if you knew that or not If a wife
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- Rebels at this verse It's because her husband has not Practiced verse 25
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- And I'll get over there in a moment I pity
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- The unhappy man who has a bad wife She is She is
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- Shackles on his feet A palsy to his hand A burden on his shoulder
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- Smoke in his eyes Vinegar to his teeth A thorn in his side A dagger of his heart
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- A woman was made after and of And for the man
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- The action of loving Faithful wife, meekness, modesty Economy And order of the household management
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- Freedom from extravagance Attention to all the Concerned welfare and comfort
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- Of her children A keeper at home Personal note, there was never
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- And perhaps will never be A wife Like mine
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- Her entire life has been The happiness of me She is more
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- Christ -like Than any woman known Or unknown For the husband
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- Is the head of the wife even as Christ Is the head of the church And he is the savior of the body
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- We have no trouble With Christ being the head of the church Therefore as the church
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- Is subject unto Christ So let the wives be to their own husband In everything
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- Christian love Will impose no unrighteous laws The husband love
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- Is to be deep True, tender, self Denying, special As Christ Sought the highest good of the church
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- So the husband Should promote to the future As well as the present welfare
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- Of his wife and family Christ Has but one church
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- He is the husband of one wife Just as the church cannot have Two heads, so the head
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- Cannot have two bodies For the body which Has two heads Is a monster
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- So also the head which Has two separate bodies A good wife
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- Should be like an echo To speak when spoken to But she should not
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- Be like an echo To always have the last word She should be like the courthouse clock
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- Always keeping time And regularity But she should not be like the courthouse clock
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- Speaking so loud That all the town Can hear her I want to stop here
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- The words are beginning to run together Is there anything you'd like To add or subtract?
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- Yes What's next?
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- Let's stand and we'll be Dismissed First dismisses please
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- Father, I thank you so much for All the lessons
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- Thank you Thank you
