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Question 1: “What choices do we have in life?”
Answer: “Most of us choose something like what is described in James 4: 13-17. ‘Beloved: Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit.’”
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Question 2: “Doesn’t St. James tell us they are ‘beloved’?”
Answer: “St. James tells us that the truly ‘beloved’ will ‘Come now’ to understand! ‘. . you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.’”
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Question 3: “How do we deal with that depressing fact?”
Answer: “‘Instead you should say, ‘If the Lord wills it, we shall live to do this or that.’”
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Question 4: “Why do we have a hard time finding and doing what ‘the Lord wills’?”
Answer: “‘Arrogance’ makes us ‘boast’ of our plans! ‘But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.’”
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Question 5: “How can I get rid of the ‘arrogance’ that keeps me from putting what ‘the Lord wills’ in control my life?”
Answer: “The Great Decree of Jesus Christ puts ‘the Lord’s’ Order in our life! ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 6: “I have a hard time putting obedience to Jesus and His Church ahead of what I want! Is that bad?”
Answer: “St. James says so in The Bible! ‘So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.’”
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Question 7: “What is always ‘the right thing to do’?
Answer: “The ‘right thing to do’ is to always base our beliefs on The Great Decree of Jesus Christ! ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 7: Should we ever get tired of saying that?”
Answer: “No.”
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