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So often the fuller revelation or fuller experience of God comes after stepping out in faith - after beginning the journey of obedience.
Scripture reflections to help you live God's Word on obedience. Each card includes a verse and a short, practical insight.
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So often the fuller revelation or fuller experience of God comes after stepping out in faith - after beginning the journey of obedience.
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God connects trusting Him with obeying Him.
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First lesson to learn in a relationship with God is that of listening to God - followed by the lesson to do what God says.
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Those with a heart for God - fearing God and desiring right - will likely fulfill their personal responsibilities assigned them - even to reporting unrighteousness by others.
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Satan can so deceive those in idol worshipping religions - false religions - as to believe they are above or superior to those who worship and obey God.
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In God\'s economy, faith (taking God at His Word) is intricately and essentially linked with obedience to Him.
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God will manifest His mighty presence and powerful word in order to protect and provide for those fulfilling His purposes.
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Spiritual leaders need to understand sometimes obeying God by faith followed by God working signs and wonders does not immediately result in God\'s expressed outcome happening right away.
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God is very concerned His people regard Him as holy and glorify Him in their actions - actions which are doing what God says by faith.
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Following God\'s Word by faith makes one holy before the LORD who is holy.
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God speaks and acts to demonstrate His faithfulness that His people might believe Him so they will obey Him in doing His will.
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One can only live - go in and possess - God\'s promises as he or she applies God\'s Word in life.
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God is EXPERIENTIALLY NEAR those who honor His Word by believing it and doing it.
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Those in covenant relationship with God can choose to disobey God and live an unpleasing (to God) and unfulfilling life OR choose to obey God by faith out of a love relationship and live a pleasing (to God) and fulfilling life.
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God draws a clear connection to loving Him and doing what He says.
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Christ-followers are to 'hold fast' to God's Word and obedience thereto.
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Awe of and reverence toward God are involved in doing what God says by faith.
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Oh that those who name God\'s name today had a responsive, submissive heart toward God to do what He says.
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God speaks or reveals His Word and will so His people can know and do what He says - not varying to the left or the right.
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Those who would experience the abundant life in Christ - experiencing God and what only God can do - are those who (1) obey God, (2) love God, and (3) trust God.
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Spiritual leaders must know and remind the people of God (1) what God has said and (2) to put into practice what God has said.
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God\'s people need to \'move\' on God\'s timing (timetable).
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God is merciful and all the more so to those who respond in love toward Him and are keeping His Word.
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God provides direction toward obtaining His purposed future for His people, but they need to respond by faith and obedience to experience God\'s purposed future - move forward ON what God has said.
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Those who have heard God speak and seen God work are in a greater position to hear God and do what God says next.
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People in covenant relationship with God must be careful (consciously, thoughtfully) to stay on course to obey God and follow God\'s ways - avoiding adding to or taking away from God\'s Word and ways.
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Those who are in relationship with the LORD and live according to His Word must diligently KEEP their relationship dynamic, fresh, and authentic.
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God rewards - now or later - all who wholly follow His Word.
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God wants His people to walk in obedience to Him always.
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God will bless those who walk in obedience to Him.
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Those who walk in obedience to God should treat one another with financial grace.
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God's people are to do what He says - not taking from it or adding to it.
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God goes with those who walk in obedience to Him.
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Spiritual leaders must encourage God's people to choose to obey God - choose life.
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God will bring blessings to those who walk in obedience to Him.
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God wants His people to walk in obedience.
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God will prosper those who walk with Him in obedience.
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When God's people return to Him, they come to obey His Word with all of heart and soul.
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God purposes to give victory to those who walk in obedience.
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Obeying God's Word is not too difficult, nor is it beyond reach of God's people.
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Those nations, peoples, or cultures which fully embrace and apply God\'s Word can be recognized above others as a wise and understanding nation.
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The victory God has promised IN CHRIST is experienced by applying (acting upon) God\'s Word by faith.
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The man of God who (out of intimacy) has received God\'s instructions or directions can fasten himself on what God said and resolutely proceed to do God\'s expressed will while avoiding fear and discouragement - all because he knows God is with him in his obedience by faith.
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God directs His people in what to do and then, goes before them Himself in their obedience.
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When disobedient and rebellious children of God return to trust and obey the LORD, they go through these stages or experiences (to some degree or another): (1) brokenness over their sinfulness, (2) wholehearted forsaking of the disobedience, (3) submission to spiritual leaders, (4) confession, (5) return to God\'s Word, (6) request intercession by spiritual ones, and (7) a renewed trust in God.
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Whether or not people are pleased or displeased with your actions is insignificant compared to whether or not God is pleased or displeased with your actions.
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A servant of God must have active confidence in God to obey in full the strange (speak to an altar) and sometimes dangerous (anger a king) words revealed to him.
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God has always said, 'If you walk according to my Word, I will commune with you.'
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God can work through one of His servants (though from a line of spiritual failures) to bring about real, God-oriented, life-impacting revival to a nation - a returning to hearing what God says and doing it.
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God can not only level the playing field but tilt it in your favor as an obedient-by-faith servant.
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Verbiage about God without obedience is not the least pleasing to God.
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Spiritual leaders know ONLY God can defeat the formidable enemies faced in obedience to Christ.
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God watches over and listens to His children walking in obedience to Him.
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A believer has to keep himself from evil.
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Lip service without a life service is no service.
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Believers need a commitment to obey what God says to them.
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Obedience leads to additional insight and understanding.
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Blessed, happy, to be envied are those who delight in God\'s Word and apply it in life.
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God\'s favor is seen in and around those who live righteously - obeying God by faith.
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Christ-followers are to do what God says on the basis of trust in God.
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Blessed, happy, to be envied are those who delight in God\'s Word and apply it in life.
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Those IN CHRIST who are being attacked and oppressed while carrying out God\'s will know to count on God to deliver them according to His purposes.
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God\'s presence is the enabling factor for those who obey God by faith.
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Many outside of Christ (even IN CHRIST with lack of intimacy) fail to understand and respect those whose heart is aligned with God and obeying Him in all things.
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From a humble heart, one would do well to remain in God's Word daily - applying it to life daily.
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Give it all you've got to apply what a parent or wise person teaches you.
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Those who are walking in obedience to God by faith will be viewed as taking bold action(s).
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Those who do God's Word as a way of life will be rewarded.
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Those IN CHRIST may speak confidently to those in authority in pagan, idolatrous cultures what God has revealed to them to say.
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In times of evil domination and oppression with persecution and killings against them, the obedient to God by faith still trust in their Sovereign LORD.
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Even in days of terrible evil and persecution by mighty armies, those faithful to God in Christ who are doing His will can carry out great exploits.
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Deep-heart, challenged faithfulness to God is actually quite rare in the midst of idolatrous cultures - also rare even among those who name God\'s name.
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A faithful Christ-follower can work in a foreign and idolatrous culture and be (1) faithful to God and (2) carry out his work responsibilities with integrity.
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One\'s immediate (sensitive) obedience toward God can be the key to experiencing (doing) God\'s Word and will.
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Disciples are to do in ministry what their spiritual leader directs them to do.
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An obedient child of God may only appear in the eyes of others to be bound.
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Obedience to God may bring real confrontations with people in opposition.
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Obedient children of God must face opposition with courage and faith.
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Those who walk in obedience to God will meet all kinds of people along the way.
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Those walking in obedience to the LORD may have those with them desert them in tough times.
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Those who walk obediently toward God must yield to the Scriptures.
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Angels attend God's obedient children.
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God-honoring faith means \'take God at His Word\' - whatever it is God says, you count it as SO.
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Christ\'s servants, who upon completion of an assignment or ministry (regardless of apparent magnitude, outcome, or acclaim), should not seek accolades, celebrations, or special compensation - but, simply acknowledge from the heart, \"We did our duty unto Christ.\"
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\"OUR HOME\" - the LORD and our Father abide intimately - personally, experientially, continually - in the life of each one IN CHRIST who is trusting in God and doing His will out of love.
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Those walking intimately with the LORD see Him, hear Him, and know Him while the unsaved have no manifestations (no view, no word, no knowledge) of the LORD.
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Mary, the mother of Jesus, spoke some of the wisest words ever to be spoken, \"Whatever Jesus says to you, do it.\"
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Those IN CHRIST, filled with the Spirit, and doing God\'s will manifest the glory of God and of His Son.
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Those IN CHRIST who do God's will - what all God commands of them - show the world and its ruler they love Father supremely.
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Oh, to finish the course set by God for you!
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Love for and devotion to the LORD are expressed by doing what He says (obedience).
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Those Christ-followers who remain in an intimate love relationship with the Father (1) bearing much fruit, (2) asking and receiving, (3) doing what the LORD says, and (4) glorifying the Father will experience a joy like Jesus experienced in relation to the Father.
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Some followers of Christ will die out of obedience to the LORD - fully devoted to the LORD.
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Christ-followers should rejoice when other Christ-followers do what God says to them to do.
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The Father and the Son promise to (1) pressent Themselves or make Themselves REAL to those disciples who by faith do what He says and (2) to agape love those disciples who love the LORD and obey the Word of God.
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The one who has real intimacy with the LORD is the one who (1) has God's Word and (2) applies (obeys) it daily out of love and devotion to the LORD.
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Those who keep the Word of the LORD - walking in obedience - out of a heart of love and devotion to the LORD will, as a matter of fact, experience an intimate relationship with Father and Son.
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The Christ-life is to know God by personal experience through Jesus Christ and believe (with practice) the words (Word of God) of our LORD.
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A love relationship between a Christ-follower and his LORD awaits those who have God's Word and obdy the Word out of love for the LORD.
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It is profoundly important that each Christ-follower FINISH the work given them by God as Christ did: (1) believe and obey God, (2) bring the Gospel NEAR others, and (3) train the next generation.
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One great 'difference maker' as a follower of Christ is the applying into life the Scriptures one comes to know and understand.
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The obedient by faith experience an ongoing intimacy with the LORD.
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Obedience by faith precedes seeing the glory - power at work - of God.
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Sometimes Christ-followers are to move about IN THE WILL OF GOD unannounced or quietly, behind the scenes.
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To remain in a love relationship with the LORD means one keeps the commands (actually doing what the LORD says) of the LORD - just as Jesus remained in a love relationship with the Father, doing what the Father told Him.
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The Holy Spirit is placed in Christ-followers who obey the Lord out of love to (1) help them them by teaching them all things they need to know and do and (2) help them remember what He said and did.
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Those IN CHRIST can see what those outside of Christ cannot see.
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Satan tries time and again to interfere with (1) God's plans and (2) those obeying God's will.
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Those IN CHRIST who are staying intimately related to Christ and in whom the Word of God is staying active ARE TO ASK what they desire (as yielded, submissive servants) and what they ask will as a matter of fact be done for them.
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Those IN CHRIST were (1) chosen by the LORD and (2) appointed (to a ministry in the body) by Him so that (3) as the ministry is carried out fruit would keep coming and (4) the fruit of the ministry carried out will stay (last) and (5) that whatever they might ask (in carrying out the ministry) the Father in Jesus' name, the Father might give them (in carrying out the ministry).
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To be walking with God in obedience by faith - experiencing His presence daily - is an awesome and available reality for those IN CHRIST.
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Every Christ-follower must obey God for there are future disciples of Jesus IN OUR OBEDIENCE.
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Spirit-filled and led Christ-followers should not let others dissuade them from obeying the LORD's leading.
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Some prophesies of danger and trouble ahead are not meant to scare us or turn us away, but to prepare us (all concerned) - putting our trust in the LORD enabling us to go forward in obedience.
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Those in humble faithful service to God may be (1) made a spectacle, (2) condemned to death, (3) fools, (4) weak, (5) dishonored, (6) hungry, thirsty, (7) poorly clothed, (8) beaten, (9) homeless, (10) laboring, (11) reviled, (12) persecuted, (13) defamed, (14) filth of the world, and / or (15) offscouring.
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Those with spiritual authority from the LORD need from time to time to exercise that authority to urge obedience to the Spirit and the Word of God.
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Christ-followers who repent of sins and take the right steps of obedience should be encouraged (receive words of) and affirmed by those who rebuked them of the sins.
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God's will is that Christ-followers live accurately (in the light) in Christ, use all time wisely, and do so filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Those who are obeying God in the Spirit are experiencing God working mightily in them to accomplish His work.
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Those IN CHRIST need to know (and act on) the whole of what God says about a matter - knowing His Word thoroughly, believing the Word, and living according to the Word.
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A Spirit-led and Spirit-filled servant of the LORD will not be ashamed of where faithful obedience IN CHRIST takes him.
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Not al who start well finish well.
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Those IN CHRIST who faithfully fulfill their gifting and calling and experience suffering (incarceration, imprisonment) as part of the outcome are not ashamed of Christ nor their obedience BECAUSE they trust the LORD with a deep-heart persuasion that God is faithful to keep, affirm, and reward the faithful service rendered in His name.
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Those IN CHRIST who are facing an ever-increasing hostile (to the Gospel message) world and are fully surrendered in carrying out His specific will would do well to know as a matter of fact (1) the LORD will stand close beside you, (2) the LORD will strengthen (impart more ability to) you, (3) the LORD will deliver or rescue you from every evil work, and (4) the LORD will preserve you right into His heavenly kingdom.
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