"Go and learn." The expectation of Christianity is that we imitate our LORD Jesus. We cannot make a gift (or be a profitable servant) when we have not done that which is required.

How to HEAR from God:

1) Keep the Commandments;  

2) Obey your conscience; 

3) Take time daily to LISTEN;

If you have twenty minutes with the God of the Universe, who should be still?

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76: Jesus Teaches His Disciples Repentance, Faith, and Service

Luke 17:1-10

When Jesus had completed the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, he turned to his disciples and said:

         “It is impossible but that offenses will come. But woe unto him through whom they come! 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.

Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 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.”

         The apostles said to Jesus:

            “Increase our faith.”

            Jesus replied:

            “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. 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?’ 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?’ Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow [think] not. 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.’”