13Stay on good terms with each other, held together by love.G3306G5360G33062Be ready with a meal or a bed when it's needed. Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it!G1950G3361G1950G5381G1063G1223G5026G5100G3579G32G29903Regard prisoners as if you were in prison with them. Look on victims of abuse as if what happened to them had happened to you.G3403G1198G5613G4887G2558G5613G5607G846G2532G1722G49834Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex.G1062G5093G1722G3956G2532G2845G283G1161G4205G2532G3432G2316G29195Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you,"G5158G866G714G3918G1063G846G2046G3364G447G4571G3761G3364G1459G45716we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?G5620G2248G2292G3004G2962G1698G998G2532G5399G3756G5399G5101G444G4160G34277Appreciate your pastoral leaders who gave you the Word of God. Take a good look at the way they live, and let their faithfulness instruct you, as well as their truthfulness. There should be a consistency that runs through us all.G3421G2233G5216G3748G2980G5213G3056G2316G3739G4102G3401G333G1545G3918For Jesus doesn't change—yesterday, today, tomorrow, he's always totally himself.G2424G5547G846G5504G2532G4594G2532G1519G1659Don't be lured away from him by the latest speculations about him. The grace of Christ is the only good ground for life. Products named after Christ don't seem to do much for those who buy them.G4064G3361G4064G4164G2532G3581G1322G1063G2570G2588G950G5485G3756G1033G5623G3756G5623G4043G1722G373910The altar from which God gives us the gift of himself is not for exploitation by insiders who grab and loot.G2192G2379G1537G3739G2192G3756G1849G5315G3000G463311In the old system, the animals are killed and the bodies disposed of outside the camp. The blood is then brought inside to the altar as a sacrifice for sin.G1063G4983G5130G2226G3739G129G1533G1519G39G1223G749G4012G266G2618G1854G392512It's the same with Jesus. He was crucified outside the city gates—that is where he poured out the sacrificial blood that was brought to God's altar to cleanse his people.G1352G2424G2532G2443G37G2992G1223G2398G129G3958G1854G443913So let's go outside, where Jesus is, where the action is—not trying to be privileged insiders, but taking our share in the abuse of Jesus.G1831G5106G4314G846G1854G3925G5342G846G368014This "insider world" is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come.G1063G5602G2192G3756G3306G4172G235G1934G319515Let's take our place outside with Jesus, no longer pouring out the sacrificial blood of animals but pouring out sacrificial praises from our lips to God in Jesus' name.G1223G846G3767G399G2378G133G2316G1275G5123G2590G5491G3670G846G368616Make sure you don't take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship—a different kind of "sacrifice"—that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.G1161G2140G2532G2842G1950G3361G1063G5108G2378G2316G210017Be responsive to your pastoral leaders. Listen to their counsel. They are alert to the condition of your lives and work under the strict supervision of God. Contribute to the joy of their leadership, not its drudgery. Why would you want to make things harder for them?G3982G2233G5216G2532G5226G1063G846G69G5228G5216G5590G5613G591G3056G2443G4160G5124G3326G5479G2532G3361G4727G1063G5124G255G521318Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we're doing or why, but it's hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God.G4336G4012G2257G1063G3754G3982G2192G2570G4893G1722G3956G2309G390G257319Pray that we may be together soon.G1161G3870G4056G4160G5124G2443G600G5213G503220May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole, Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus, the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd, up and alive from the dead,G1161G2316G1515G321G1537G3498G2257G2962G2424G3173G4166G4263G1722G129G166G124221Now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please him, Make us into what gives him most pleasure, by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. All glory to Jesus forever and always! Oh, yes, yes, yes.G2675G5209G2675G1722G3956G18G2041G1519G4160G846G2307G4160G1722G5213G2101G846G1799G1223G2424G5547G3739G1391G1519G165G165G28122Friends, please take what I've written most seriously. I've kept this as brief as possible; I haven't piled on a lot of extras.G1161G3870G5209G80G430G3056G3874G1063G2532G1989G5213G1223G102423You'll be glad to know that Timothy has been let out of prison. If he leaves soon, I'll come with him and get to see you myself.G1097G80G5095G630G3326G3739G1437G2064G5032G3700G520924Say hello to your pastoral leaders and all the congregations. Everyone here in Italy wants to be remembered to you.G782G3956G2233G5216G2532G3956G40G575G2482G782G520925Grace be with you, every one.G5485G3326G5216G3956G281
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