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Paul's line to Timothy read as an instruction about practice. Water is psychological truth: one can go on absorbing it, reading and hearing and never doing. To take a little wine is to put into practice what one already knows, and that is the turning of water into wine, the first great miracle in the Bible. No more just reading and not practising - that is life.

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1 Timothy 5:23 | Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake

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Stone, water or wine: the literal, psychological and spiritual truth

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Feel Chosen ¶41
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Feel Chosen ¶42
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God Only Acts ¶28
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God Only Acts ¶30
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The Bread and The Wine ¶29
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“Water” is psychological truth. Stop simply absorbing it and begin to put into practice what you know; that is turning the water into wine.
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Time to Act ¶10
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Time to Act ¶27
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Baptism Into One Body ("Truth, the Word of God") ¶5
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Test Yourselves ¶40
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Test Yourselves ¶28
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Test Yourselves ¶36
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The Man Within ¶41
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God Only Acts and Is ¶23
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Living Water ¶35
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Living Water ¶36
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Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶14
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Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶44
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The Name of God Is the Key to Understanding the Bible ¶10
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The Name of God Is the Key to Understanding the Bible ¶12
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The Name of God Is the Key to Understanding the Bible ¶30
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Initiative ¶33
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Initiative ¶34
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Initiative ¶35
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Initiative ¶36
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Initiative ¶22
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It Is Within ¶33
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