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If you remain in me 2c.

Volume 9 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

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Volume 9

If you remain in me 2c.

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For where one hears, reads, speaks or thinks the Word of God (with earnestness), there is certainly the Master and Teacher of the same Word, that is, the Holy Spirit. One may well thank God for such a gift. There one can pray and live rightly, there everything is heard and everything is well done. The Word does not allow anything to go wrong. And even if it were out of ignorance or weakness, if one stumbles, it will be remedied, and through prayer it will be well again. Therefore, one should gladly hear God's word, read it, learn it, "consider it diligently," and hold fast to it, as he says: "Blessed are those who hear God's word and keep it."