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		<title>Hope Is Not Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 13:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 13, 2012

<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 18:1-8</strong></font>

Jesus tells the parable of the unjust judge and the persistent widow. Does God care for His elect people?]]></description>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the end of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 17:20-37</strong></font>

The day of the Son of Man will come suddenly; 
and for those who are not in Christ, it will be catastrophic.
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>One Out Of Ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 17:11-19</strong></font>

Jesus heals ten lepers.
But only one says "thank you".

<font color="#ffd800">Subtitles: Greek</font>]]></description>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Scandals, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 17:1-10</strong></font>

Don't offend. Be forgiving.
Have faith. Be humble.

<font color="#ffd800">Subtitles: Greek</font>]]></description>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Waking Up in Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 16:19-31</strong></font>

Jesus tells the story of the rich man and Lazarus.  
Not everyone goes to Heaven.

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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="278.308272"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='278.308272'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:19-31</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="278.308272"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8230;Let Not Man Separate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Various Scriptures</strong></font>

If God has joined something together, do we have the right to break it? 
Are we allowed to divorce? Are we allowed to remarry?

<font color="#ffd800">Subtitles: Greek</font>]]></description>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="278.308272"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='278.308272'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:19-31</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="278.308272"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What God Has Joined Together&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Various Scriptures</strong></font>

Why is marriage important? What is the meaning of it?
Why do we do it? How binding is it?

<font color="#ffd800">Subtitles: Greek</font>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Various Scriptures</p>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="278.308272"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='278.308272'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:19-31</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="278.308272"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bad Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 16:14-18</strong></font>

Are all religious people acceptable to God? 
Not according to Jesus.

<font color="#ffd800">Subtitles: Greek</font>]]></description>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="278.308272"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='278.308272'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:19-31</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="278.308272"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="173.406904"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='173.406904'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:14-18</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="173.406904"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Mother of All Idols</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 16:1-13</strong></font>

Jesus tells the story of the Unjust Steward.  
Who do you serve? God or money?

<font color="#ffd800">Subtitles: Greek</font>]]></description>
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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="278.308272"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='278.308272'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:19-31</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="278.308272"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="173.406904"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='173.406904'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:14-18</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="173.406904"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="913.478679"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='913.478679'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:1-13</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="913.478679"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Prodigal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nikolaos Seferiadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<font color="#ffd800"><strong>Luke 15:11-32</strong></font>

The parable of the prodigal son, his moral brother,  
and his amazing Father.

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<div class="scripture_popup" popid="560.128106"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='560.128106'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 18:1-8</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="560.128106"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="218.149833"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='218.149833'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:20-37</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>Remember Lot's wife.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>33</span>Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>34</span>I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>35</span>Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>36</span>Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>37</span>And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="218.149833"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="937.171544"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='937.171544'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:11-19</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="937.171544"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="51.229012"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='51.229012'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 17:1-10</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="51.229012"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="278.308272"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='278.308272'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:19-31</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="278.308272"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="173.406904"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='173.406904'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:14-18</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="173.406904"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="913.478679"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='913.478679'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 16:1-13</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>1</span>And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>2</span>And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>3</span>Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>4</span>I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>5</span>So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>6</span>And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>7</span>Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>8</span>And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>9</span>And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>10</span>He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="913.478679"></div><div class="scripture_popup" popid="38.52127"><div class='scripture_header'><div class='credo_close_button' closeid='38.52127'><div class='credo_close_button_highlight'></div></div><span class='passage'>Luke 15:11-32</span><br /></span></div><div class='scripture_text'><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>11</span>And he said, A certain man had two sons:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>12</span>And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>13</span>And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>14</span>And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>15</span>And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>16</span>And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>17</span>And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>18</span>I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>19</span>And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>20</span>And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>21</span>And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>22</span>But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>23</span>And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>24</span>For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>25</span>Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>26</span>And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>27</span>And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>28</span>And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>29</span>And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>30</span>But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>31</span>And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.</div><div class='verse'><span class='verse_number'>32</span>It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.</div></div></div><div class="scripture_popup_shadow" popid="38.52127"></div>]]></content:encoded>
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