2 Corinthians

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2 Corinthians seven
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How Not To Rob Banks
Pick The Right Bank You don't want to make the
same mistake as the fellow in Anaheim, CA, who
tried to hold up a bank that was no longer in
business and had no money.
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How Not To Rob Banks
Study Your History Don't try to stick up the
First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota.
Jesse James tried it 111 years ago, and the
townsfolk took just seven minutes to kill two and
capture three of his gang. Nobody tried it again
until 1984, and the customers chased the guy
down. They're tight with their dollar in
Minnesota.
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How Not To Rob Banks
Speak To The Right Teller One robber in Upland,
CA, presented his note to the teller, and her
father, who was in the next line, got all bent
out of shape about it. He wrestled the guy to the
ground and sat on him until authorities arrived.
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How Not To Rob Banks
Don't Sign Your Demand Note Demand notes have
been written on the back of a subpoena issued in
the name of a bank robber in Pittsburgh ... on an
envelope bearing the name and address of another
in Detroit. And in East Hartford, Connecticut, on
the back of a withdrawal slip giving the robber's
name and account number.
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How Not To Rob Banks
Go Easy On The Disguise One robber, dressed up
as a woman with very heavy make-up, ran face
first into a glass door. He was the first
criminal ever to be positively identified by
lip-print.
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How Not To Rob Banks
Take Right Turns Only Avoid the sad fate of the
thieves in Florida who took a wrong turn into the
Homestead Air Force Base, drove up to a military
police guardhouse and, thinking it was a
tollbooth, offered the security men money.
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How Not To Rob Banks
Be Strong Then there was the case of the hopeful
criminal in Swansea, Massachusetts, who, when the
teller told him she had no money, fainted. He was
still unconscious when the police arrived. His
getaway car parked nearby had the keys locked
inside.
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Who ministers to the minister?
Acts 18 9b "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do
not keep silent 10 for I am with you, and no one
will attack you to hurt you for I have many
people in this city."
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Who ministers to the minister?
Comforts the downcast NASB, depressed
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If I can rebuke without a pang, then I know
nothing of Calvary love Amy Carmichael
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Sorry (v. 8) lupeo to make sorrowful, to
affect with sadness, cause grief
Regret (v. 8) (repent, KJV) metamellomai
meta, to change melo, to care hence, a change
of care
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Repentance metanoia meta, to change nous,
mind or understanding hence, a change of mind
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God can never make us wine if we object to the
fingers he uses to crush us with. If God would
only use his own fingers and make us broken bread
and poured out wine in a special way! But when he
uses someone whom we dislike, or some set of
circumstances to which we said we would never
submit, and makes those the crushers, we object.
Oswald Chambers
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore until a man
is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
Martin Luther
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Sorrow of the world
Remorse
I'm sorry for how I feel

• Judas was full of remorse

Regret
I'm sorry for the consequences

• Esau was full of regret

I'm sorry and I'm gonna try
harder
Resolve

• Saul was full of resolve

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Ps. 4 2 How long, O you sons of men, Will you
turn my glory to shame? How long will you love
worthless-ness And seek falsehood?      Selah 3
But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself
him who is godly The Lord will hear when I call
to Him. 4 Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate
within your heart on your bed, and be still.     
Selah
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Samuel Davies The ques-tion is not, shall I
repent? For that is beyond a doubt. But the
question is, shall I repent now, when it may save
me or shall I put it off to the eternal world
when my repentance will be my punishment? Selah
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Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature
who needs improvement he is a rebel who must lay
down his arms ... This process of surrender
this movement full speed astern is what
Christians call repentance. Now repentance is no
fun at all. It is something much harder than
merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all
the self-conceit and self-will that we have been
training ourselves into for thousands of years.
It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a
kind of death. C. S. Lewis
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2 Corinthians seven
one through sixteen