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LOVE AND PEACE OR ELSE

Lay down your treasure
Lay it down now brother
Jesus: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:19-21 KJV
You don't have time
For a jealous lover
You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God... Exodus 20:4-6 NIV
As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart
Jesus: "Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." Luke 18:17 NIV
 
Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. Ecclesiastes 5:15 NIV
 
God: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." Ezekiel 36:26 NIV
 
God: "Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit." Ezekiel 18:31 NIV
I don't know if I can take it
I'm not easy on my knees
​Here's my heart you can break it
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Psalm 51:17 NIV
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons
Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. Galatians 3:5-7 NASB
 
Daughters of Jerusalem, come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Song of Songs 3:10-11 NIV
And I wonder where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Love and peace
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch outーin no time at all will you be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then? Galatians 5:13-18 MSG
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