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Demand #35

LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES
TREASURES IN HEAVEN
BY GIVING SACRIFICIALLY
AND GENEROUSLY

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.—Matt. 6:19-21

You received without paying; give without pay.—Matt. 10:8

One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?—Luke 16:10-12

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Demand #36

LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES
TREASURES IN HEAVEN
AND INCREASE YOUR JOY
IN JESUS

How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.—Luke 18:24-25

One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and onewho is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?—Luke 16:10-12

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Demand #37

LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES
TREASURES IN HEAVEN—
“IT IS YOUR FATHER’S
GOOD PLEASURE TO GIVE
YOU THE KINGDOM”

Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.—Luke 12:32-34

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Demand #38

DO NOT TAKE AN OATH—
CHERISH THE TRUTH
AND SPEAK IT SIMPLY

Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.” But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply “Yes” or “No”; anything more than this comes from evil.—Matt. 5:33-37

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Demand #39

DO NOT TAKE AN OATH—
LET WHAT YOU SAY BE
SIMPLY “YES” OR “NO”

And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply “Yes” or “No”; anything more than this comes from evil.—Matt. 5:36-37

But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, “You have said so.”—Matt. 26:63-64

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Demand #40

WHAT GOD HAS JOINED
TOGETHER LET NO MAN
SEPARATE, FOR MARRIAGE
MIRRORS GOD’S
COVENANT WITH US

Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh”? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.—Matt. 19:4-6

Your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name.—Isa. 54:5

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Demand #41

WHAT GOD HAS JOINED
TOGETHER LET NO MAN
SEPARATE, FOR WHOEVER
DIVORCES AND MARRIES
ANOTHER COMMITS ADULTERY

Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.—Mark 10:11-12

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.—Luke 16:18

It was also said, “Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.” But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.—Matt. 5:31-32

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.—Matt. 19:9

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Demand #42

WHAT GOD HAS JOINED
TOGETHER LET NO MAN
SEPARATE—ONE MAN,
ONE WOMAN, BY GRACE,
TILL DEATH

The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife,it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.—Matt. 19:10-12

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Demand #43

RENDER TO CAESAR THE
THINGS THAT ARE
CAESAR’S AND TO GOD THE
THINGS THAT ARE GOD’S

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle [Jesus] in his talk. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying . . . “Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”—Matt. 22:15-21

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Demand #44

RENDER TO CAESAR THE
THINGS THAT ARE
CAESAR’S AS AN ACT OF
RENDERING TO GOD
WHAT IS GOD’S

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle [Jesus] in his talk. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying . . . “Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”—Matt. 22:15-21

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Demand #45

DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE
OF ME, FOR I WILL BUILD
MY CHURCH

[Jesus] said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.—Matt. 16:15-18

Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.—Matt. 28:19

And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.—Luke 24:49

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