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Christian Minister: Discouragements of Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

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Christian Minister: Discouragements of Ezekiel 3:8, 9, 14

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. / I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.” / So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

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Christian Minister: Discouragements of Habakkuk 1:2, 3

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save? / Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

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Christian Minister: Discouragements of Matthew 13:57

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

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Christian Minister: Discouragements of Mark 6:3, 4

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him. / Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

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Christian Minister: Discouragements of Luke 4:24

Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

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Christian Minister: Discouragements of John 4:44

Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

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