| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOS 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you
this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the
LORD.
JOS 24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should
forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
JOS 24:17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our
fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which
did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way
wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: and would have judged according to our law.
ACT 24:7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great
violence took him away out of our hands,
ACT 24:8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of
whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we
accuse him.
ACT 24:9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
ACT 24:10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to
speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a
judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
ACT 24:11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: DEU 24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the
sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee:
and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
DEU 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and
needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in
thy land within thy gates:
DEU 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the
sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest
he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
DEU 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man
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