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January 27 - Steady When the World Trembles · Bible Chat Devotional

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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 27th.
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  Unshaken in the storm. Have you ever looked around and
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  felt like everything is shaking at once?
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  Headlines feel heavier, conversations feel louder,
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  opinions feel sharper, and it seems like truth is harder to
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  find. One minute you're scrolling and
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  laughing, the next you're anxious, confused, or
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  overwhelmed. It can feel like the ground
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  beneath your feet isn't as steady as it used to be.
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  Psalm 11 captures that same tension.
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  David was surrounded by injustice and violence, yet he
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  refused to panic. He says that the Lord tests the
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  righteous, but he hates wickedness and violence.
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  In other words, God sees everything.
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  He's not distant or distracted. Even when evil seems loud and
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  unchecked, God remains just, watchful and fully aware.
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  The testing isn't meant to destroy faith.
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  It's meant to reveal and strengthen it.
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  Jesus echoes that reality in Matthew chapter 24.
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  He doesn't pretend the future will be easy.
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  He warns his followers that deception will increase, that
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  people will claim authority they don't have, and that many will
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  be LED astray. But the very first thing he says
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  is this. See that no one leads you
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  astray. That's not fear based.
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  That's preparation. Jesus is telling us to stay
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  awake, stay grounded, and stay anchored in truth.
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  Storms don't shake you because they exist.
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  They shake you when your foundation isn't secure.
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  When opinions become your anchor, you'll feel pulled in
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  every direction. When trends define your beliefs,
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  your faith will constantly shift.
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  But when God's Word shapes your thinking, you can stand firm
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  even when the world feels unstable.
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  Being unshaken doesn't mean you won't feel pressure.
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  It means pressure won't control you.
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  It means when lies spread, you check them against truth.
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  When fear rises, you return to God.
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  When confusion grows, you cling tighter to what you know is
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  real. God doesn't promise the absence
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  of storms, He promises his presence in them.
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  The testing of faith isn't punishment, it's refinement.
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  Just like strong trees grow deeper roots in strong winds,
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  your faith grows deeper when it's tested, and those deeper
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  roots keep you standing when others fall away.
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  You don't have to have all the answers, you just need to know
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  where to stand. God is steady.
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  His truth doesn't change, and when your life is rooted in Him,
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  you can remain unshaken even in the storm.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, when everything
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  around me feels uncertain and unstable, help me remember that
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  You are steady and faithful. Guard my heart from deception
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  and anchor my mind and Your truth.
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  When my faith is tested, strengthen me instead of letting
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  fear take over. Teach me to stand firm, trust
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  You fully, and remain unshaken no matter what storms come my
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  way in Jesus name, Amen. What if the ache you feel for
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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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  See 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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  from intimacy with God. Stay anchors your heart in
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  deeper intimacy with the God who satisfies.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Psalm Chapter 11 World English
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  Bible for the Chief musician by David.
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  In Yahweh I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, Flee
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  as a bird to your mountain. For behold, the wicked bend
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  their bows. They set their arrows on the
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  strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in
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  heart. If the foundations are
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  destroyed, what can the righteous do?
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  Yahweh is in His holy temple. Yahweh is on His throne in
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  heaven. His eyes observe, His eyes
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  examine the children of men. Yahweh examines the righteous,
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  but his soul hates the wicked. And him who loves violence on
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  the wicked He will rain. Blazing coals, fire, sulfur, and
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  scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
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  For Yahweh is righteous, He loves righteousness.
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  The upright shall see his face. Matthew chapter 24 World English
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  Bible Jesus went out from the temple and was going on his way.
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  His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the
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  temple, but he answered them. You see all of these things,
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  don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there
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  will not be left here. 1 stone on another that will not be
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  thrown down. As he sat on the Mount of
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  Olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, Tell us,
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  when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming
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  and of the end of the age? Jesus answered them.
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  Be careful that no one leads you astray, for many will come in my
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  name, saying, I am the Christ and will lead many astray.
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  You will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
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  See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen.
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  But the end is not yet, for nation will rise against nation,
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  and Kingdom against Kingdom, and there will be famines, plagues
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  and earthquakes in various places.
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  But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
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  Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you.
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  You will be hated by all of the nations for My name's sake.
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  Then many will stumble and will deliver up one another and will
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  hate one another. Many false prophets will arise
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  and will lead many astray, because iniquity will be
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  multiplied. The love of many will grow cold,
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  but he who endures to the end will be saved.
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  This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole
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  world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will
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  come. When, therefore, you see the
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  abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the
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  prophet standing in the holy place, let the reader
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  understand. Then let those who are in Judea
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  flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop
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  not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
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  Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
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  But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in
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  those days. Pray that your flight will not
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  be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath, for then there will be
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  great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the
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  world until now. No, nor ever will be.
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  Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have
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  been saved. But for the sake of the chosen
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  ones, those days will be shortened.
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  Then if any man tells you, behold, here is the Christ or
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  there, don't believe it, For false Christs and false prophets
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  will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as
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  to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
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  Behold, I have told you beforehand.
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  If therefore they tell you, behold, He is in the wilderness,
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  don't go out, or behold, He is in the inner rooms, don't
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  believe it. For as the lightning flashes
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  from the east and is seen even to the West, so will the coming
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  of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is,
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  that is where the vultures gather together.
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  But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun
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  will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars
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  will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be
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  shaken, and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the
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  sky. Then all the tribes of the earth
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  will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the
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  clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
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  He will send out His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and
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  they will gather together, His chosen ones from the four winds,
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  from one end of the sky to the other.
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  Now from the fig tree learn this parable.
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  When its branch has now become tender and produces its leaves,
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  you know that the summer is near.
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  Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that He
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  is near even at the doors. Most certainly, I tell you, this
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  generation will not pass away until all these things are
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  accomplished. Heaven and earth will pass away,
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  but My words will not pass away. But no one knows of that day and
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  hour, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father.
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  Only as the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of
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  Man be. For as in those days which were
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  before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
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  and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into
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  the ship, and they didn't know until the flood came and took
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  them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
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  Then two men will be in the field, one will be taken, and
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  1:00 will be left. Two women will be grinding at
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  the mill, one will be taken, and 1:00 will be left.
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  Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord
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  comes. But know this, that if the
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  master of the house had known in what watch of the night the
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  thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have
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  allowed his house to be broken into.
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  Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect,
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  the Son of Man will come. Who then is the faithful and
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  wise servant whom his Lord has set over his household to give
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  them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his
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  Lord finds doing so when he comes.
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  Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he
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  has. But if that evil servant should
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  say in his heart, my Lord is delaying his coming, and begins
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  to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the
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  drunkards, the Lord of that servant will come in a day when
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  he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
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  and we'll cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the
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  hypocrites. That is where the weeping and
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  grinding of teeth will be. Thanks for joining us on Bible
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