January 15 – Wise Up for Real Life

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, January 15th.

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Wise up for real life.
Have you ever looked back and

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thought, I really wish I had
listened?

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Maybe someone warned you about a
relationship that would end

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badly, a habit that would catch
up with you, or a shortcut that

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seemed harmless at the time.
In the moment, advice can feel

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annoying or unnecessary.
But later, when the consequences

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hit, wisdom suddenly makes a lot
more sense.

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Real life has a way of teaching
hard lessons.

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When we ignore good counsel in
Proverbs chapter 4, wisdom isn’t

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presented as boring or optional.
It’s urgent.

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It’s personal.
Verse 6 says do not forsake her,

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and she will keep you.
Love her and she will guard you.

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Wisdom isn’t trying to control
you, it’s trying to protect you.

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Like guardrails on a dangerous
Rd.

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Wisdom keeps you from veering
off into choices that can cost

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you peace, integrity, or
direction.

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God knows the terrain ahead even
when you don’t, and His wisdom

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is one of the main ways He keeps
you safe.

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Jesus connects this directly to
real life in Matthew chapter 12

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verse 35 when he says the good
person out of his good treasure

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brings forth good and the evil
person out of his evil treasure

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brings forth evil.
In other words, what you store

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up inside eventually spills out.
Your words, reactions,

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attitudes, and decisions all
flow from what’s filling your

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heart.
If you’re constantly feeding on

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negativity, compromise, or empty
trends, that’s what will show up

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in your life.
But when you fill your heart

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with God’s truth, wisdom, and
perspective, something different

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overflows.
Wisdom isn’t just about knowing

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the right thing.
It’s about loving the right

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thing.
Proverbs says wisdom guards

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those who love her.
That means choosing God’s voice

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even when it’s quieter than the
noise around you.

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It means listening when
Scripture challenges you, when

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godly advice nudges you, and
when the Holy Spirit gently

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warns you.
Wisdom often speaks before

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trouble arrives.
The question is whether we’ll

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pay attention.
Real wisdom prepares you for

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real life.
It shapes how you handle

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pressure, conflict, temptation,
and decisions that don’t come

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with clear answers.
It helps you pause before you

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speak, choose before you react,
and think long term instead of

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living for the moment.
When you hold on to wisdom, it

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holds on to you.
You don’t have to learn

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everything the hard way.
God is offering wisdom freely,

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lovingly, and daily.
Don’t just hear it, hold on to

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it.
Let it guard your heart and

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guide your steps.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, help me not
just listen to Your wisdom, but

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truly value it.
Teach me to love what You love

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and to fill my heart with Your
truth.

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Guard my mind, my words and my
choices so that my life reflects

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Your goodness.
Keep me from foolish paths and

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lead me in wisdom that protects
and shapes my future in Jesus

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name, Amen.
What if the ache you feel for

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more is actually God calling you
deeper?

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This is a journey from longing

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to encounter, from dryness to
delight.

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Seek teaches you how to pursue
God with passion and

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intentionality.
Savor trains your heart to

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recognize and enjoy His presence
in every season.

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C Opens your spiritual eyes to
God’s power, glory, and beauty

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at work in your life.
Satisfy leads your soul into

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fullness, strength, and deep
contentment in Him alone.

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Sing ignites joy, gratitude, and
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from intimacy with God.
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away, and Stand equips you to
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protection, and victory.
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weary, or simply longing for

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satisfies.
Now I invite you to spend time

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with God in today’s three-year
Bible reading plan, Proverbs

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chapter 4 verses 1 to 9 World
English Bible.

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Listen sons to a father’s
instruction.

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Pay attention and no
understanding, for I give you

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sound learning.
Don’t forsake my law, for I was

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a son to my father, tender and
an only child in the sight of my

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mother.
He taught me and said to me, let

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your heart retain my words, Keep
my commandments and live.

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Get wisdom, get understanding.
Don’t forget and don’t deviate

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from the words of my mouth.
Don’t forsake her and she will

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preserve you.
Love her and she will keep you.

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Wisdom is supreme.
Get wisdom.

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Yes, though it costs all your
possessions.

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Get understanding.
Esteem her and she will exalt

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you.
She will bring you to honor.

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When you embrace her, she will
give to your head a Garland of

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grace.
She will deliver a crown of

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splendor to you.
Matthew chapter 12 World English

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Bible At that time Jesus went on
the Sabbath day through the

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grain fields.
His disciples were hungry and

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began to pluck heads of grain
and to eat.

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But the Pharisees, when they saw
it, said to him, Behold, your

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disciples do what is not lawful
to do on the Sabbath.

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But he said to them, Haven’t you
read what David did when he was

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hungry, and those who were with
him, how he entered into God’s

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house and ate the show bread,
which was not lawful for him to

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eat, nor for those who were with
him, but only for the priests?

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Or have you not read in the law
that on the Sabbath day the

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priests in the temple profane
the Sabbath and are guiltless?

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But I tell you that one greater
than the temple is here.

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But if you had known what this
means, I desire mercy and not

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sacrifice, you wouldn’t have
condemned the guiltless, for the

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Son of Man is Lord of the
Sabbath.

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He departed from there and went
into their synagogue, and

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behold, there was a man with a
withered hand.

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They asked him, Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath day, so that

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they might accuse him?
He said to them, What man is

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there among you who has one
sheep?

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And if this one falls into a pit
on the Sabbath day, won’t he

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grab onto it and lift it out?
Of how much more value then is a

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man than a sheep?
Therefore it is lawful to do

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good on the Sabbath day.
Then He told the man, Stretch

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out your hand.
He stretched it out, and it was

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restored whole just like the
other.

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But the Pharisees went out and
conspired against him, how they

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might destroy him.
Jesus perceiving that, withdrew

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from there.
Great multitudes followed him,

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and he healed them all and
commanded them that they should

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not make him known that it might
be fulfilled.

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Which was spoken through Isaiah
the prophet, saying, Behold my

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servant whom I have chosen, my
beloved, in whom my soul is well

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pleased, I will put my spirit on
him.

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He will proclaim justice to the
nation’s.

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He will not strive nor shout,
neither will anyone hear his

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voice in the streets.
He won’t break a bruised Reed,

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He won’t quench a smoking flax,
Until He leads justice to

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victory in his name the nations
will hope.

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Then one possessed by a demon,
blind and mute was brought to

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him, and he healed him, so that
the blind and mute man both

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spoke and saw.
All the multitudes were amazed

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and said, Can this be the son of
David?

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But when the Pharisees heard it,
they said, This man does not

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cast out demons except by
Beelzebul the Prince of the

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demons.
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus

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said to them, Every Kingdom
divided against itself is

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brought to desolation, and every
city or house divided against

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itself will not stand.
If Satan casts out Satan, he is

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divided against himself.
How then will his Kingdom stand?

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If I by Beelzebul cast out
demons?

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By whom do your children cast
them out?

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Therefore they will be your
judges.

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But if I, by the Spirit of God
cast out demons, then God’s

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Kingdom has come upon you.
Or how can one enter into the

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House of the strong man and
plunder his goods?

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Unless he first bind the strong
man, then he will plunder his

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house.
He who is not with me is against

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me, and he who doesn’t gather
with me scatters.

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Therefore I tell you, every sin
and blasphemy will be forgiven

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men, but the blasphemy against
the Spirit will not be forgiven

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men.
Whoever speaks a word against

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the Son of Man, it will be
forgiven him.

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But whoever speaks against the
Holy Spirit, it will not be

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forgiven him either in this age
or in that which is to come.

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Either make the tree good and
its fruit good, or make the tree

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corrupt and its fruit corrupt,
for the tree is known by its

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fruit.
You offspring of Vipers, how can

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you, being evil, speak good
things?

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For out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks.

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The good man out of his good
treasure brings out good things,

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and the evil man out of his evil
treasure brings out evil things.

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I tell you that every idle word
that men speak, they will give

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account of it in the day of
Judgment, for by your words you

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will be justified, and by your
words you will be condemned.

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Then certain of the scribes and
Pharisees answered, Teacher, we

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want to see a sign from you.
But He answered them.

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An evil and adulterous
generation seeks after a sign,

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but no sign will be given to it
but the sign of Jonah the

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prophet.
For as Jonah was 3 days and

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three nights in the belly of the
huge fish, so will the Son of

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Man be 3 days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.

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The men of Nineveh will stand up
in the judgement with this

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generation and will condemn it,
for they repented at the

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preaching of Jonah and behold,
someone greater than Jonah is

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here.
The queen of the South will rise

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up in the judgement with this
generation and will condemn it,

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for she came from the ends of
the earth to hear the wisdom of

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Solomon, and behold, someone
greater than Solomon is here.

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When an unclean spirit has gone
out of a man, he passes through

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waterless places seeking rest,
and doesn’t find it.

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Then he says, I will return into
my house from which I came.

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And when he has come back, he
finds it empty, swept, and put

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an order.
Then he goes and takes with

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himself seven other spirits more
evil than he is, and they enter

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in and dwell there.
The last state of that man

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becomes worse than the first.
Even so will it be also to this

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evil generation.
While he was yet speaking to the

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multitudes, behold, his mother
and his brothers stood outside,

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seeking to speak to him.
One said to him, Behold, your

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mother and your brothers stand
outside, seeking to speak to

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you.
But he answered him, who spoke

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to him, Who is my mother?
Who are my brothers?

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He stretched out his hand toward
his disciples and said, Behold

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my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of my

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father who is in heaven, he is
my brother and sister and

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mother.
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