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    Signs and wonders

    Luke 17:5 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
    6 So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

    That is a miracle that I would like to see happen some time. Or similar. So what happens if someone accomplishes that ? Jesus will tell him the following :

    7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
    8 But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’?
    9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
    10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’”

    Does that really have anything to do with verse 6 ? Yes, it's the same account. Jesus doesn't travel to elsewhere between verse 6 and 7. Nor does the audience change. There is even an "and" between the verses to connect them into the one and the same sentence. He's talking to and about the miracle worker in verse 6.

    I can see servants in livery performing miracles in their master's name while the world is watching. There once was a Pentecostal minister that wore a servant's uniform in plain white while ministering, do you know her name ? It was Aimee Semple McPherson.

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    Wuest Translation

    1Co 13:1** {\cf2 (1-3)}

    If in the languages of men I speak and the languages of the angels but do not have love , I have already become and at present am sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

    And if I have the gift of uttering divine revelations and know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith so that I am able to keep on removing mountain after mountain, but am not possessing love, I am nothing.

    And if I use all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver up my body in order that I may glory, but do not have love, I am being profited in not even one thing.


    1Co 13:4** {\cf2 (4-8)}

    Love meekly and patiently bears ill treatment from others.

    Love is kind, gentle, benign, pervading and penetrating the whole nature, mellowing all which would have been harsh and austere; is not envious.

    Love does not brag, nor does it show itself off, is not ostentatious, does not have an inflated ego, does not act unbecomingly, does not seek after the things which are its own, is not irritated, provoked, exasperated, aroused to anger, does not take into account the evil , does not rejoice at the iniquity but rejoices with the truth, endures all things, believes all things, hopes all things, bears up under all things, not losing heart nor courage.

    Love never fails...


    Galatians 5:6 (Amp)
    ... but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.




    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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