Pleasant Unity and the Memorial
(Week of March 5–11)
Pleasant Unity and the Memorial
Theme Scripture
(Psalm 133:1) Look! How good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell together in unity!
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(Revelation 7:9, 10) After this I saw, and look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 10And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
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(Malachi 3:16) At that time those who fear Jehovah spoke with one another, each one with his companion, and Jehovah kept paying attention and listening. And a book of remembrance was written before him for those fearing Jehovah and for those meditating on his name.
(Revelation 20:15) Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire.
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READ (2 Corinthians 13:5) Keep testing whether you are in the faith; keep proving what you yourselves are. Or do you not recognize that Jesus Christ is in union with you? Unless you are disapproved.
(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
(2 Timothy 3:1) But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.
(Hebrews 3:14) For we actually become partakers of the Christ only if we hold firmly down to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.
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READ (John 3:16) “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.
READ (John 17:3)This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
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READ (John 17:20, 21) “I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word, 21so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
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READ (Ezekiel 37:15-17)The word of Jehovah again came to me, saying: 16“And you, son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the people of Israel who are with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Eʹphra·im, and all the house of Israel who are with him.’ 17Then bring them close to each other so that they become just one stick in your hand.
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(John 10:16) “And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those too I must bring in, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.
(Zechariah 8:23) “This is what Jehovah of armies says, ‘In those days ten men out of all the languages of the nations will take hold, yes, they will take firm hold of the robe of a Jew, saying: “We want to go with you, for we have heard that God is with you people.”’”
(Ezekiel 37:19) tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: “I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Eʹphra·im, and the tribes of Israel who are with him, and I will join them to the stick of Judah; and I will make them one stick, and they will become one in my hand.”’
(Ezekiel 37:24, 25) “‘“My servant David will be their king, and they will all have one shepherd. They will walk in my judicial decisions and carefully observe my statutes. 25They will dwell on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob, where your forefathers lived, and they will dwell on it forever, they and their children and their children’s children; and David my servant will be their chieftain forever.
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(Matthew 23:12) Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
(1 Peter 5:5) In the same way, you younger men, be in subjection to the older men. But all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the haughty ones, but he gives undeserved kindness to the humble ones.
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(1 Corinthians 11:23-25) For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night on which he was going to be betrayed took a loaf, 24and after giving thanks, he broke it and said: “This means my body, which is in your behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25He did the same with the cup also, after they had the evening meal, saying: “This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood. Keep doing this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
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(Matthew 18:23-34) “That is why the Kingdom of the heavens may be likened to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. 24When he started to settle them, a man was brought in who owed him 10,000 talents. 25But because he did not have the means to pay it back, his master ordered him and his wife and his children and all the things he owned to be sold and payment to be made. 26So the slave fell down and did obeisance to him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay back everything to you.’ 27Moved with pity at this, the master of that slave let him off and canceled his debt. 28But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves, who owed him 100 de·narʹi·i, and grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back whatever you owe.’ 29So his fellow slave fell down and began to beg him, saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’ 30However, he was not willing, but he went and had him thrown into prison until he could pay back what he owed. 31When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they became greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all the things that had happened. 32Then his master summoned him and said to him: ‘Wicked slave, I canceled all that debt for you when you pleaded with me. 33Should you not also have shown mercy to your fellow slave as I showed mercy to you?’ 34With that his master, provoked to wrath, handed him over to the jailers until he repaid all that he owed.
READ (Matthew 18:35)My heavenly Father will also deal with you in the same way if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”
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(Ephesians 4:3) earnestly endeavoring to maintain the oneness of the spirit in the uniting bond of peace.
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(1 John 4:8) Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.
(Ephesians 4:2) with all humility and mildness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,
(John 6:44) No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him, and I will resurrect him on the last day.
(1 John 4:20, 21) If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And we have this commandment from him, that whoever loves God must also love his brother.
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(1 Corinthians 11:26) For whenever you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you keep proclaiming the death of the Lord, until he comes.
(Matthew 24:29-31) “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity.
(Revelation 17:12-14) “The ten horns that you saw mean ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they do receive authority as kings for one hour with the wild beast. 13These have one thought, so they give their power and authority to the wild beast. 14These will battle with the Lamb, but because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, the Lamb will conquer them. Also, those with him who are called and chosen and faithful will do so.”
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READ (Psalm 133:1) Look! How good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell together in unity!