Leaving precepts of the doctrine,

The message about Jesus Christ;

We need to look at discipline,

And no longer become enticed.

Let us go to become mature,

And become into perfection;

For repentance will find the cure,

From the dead works of affliction.

For faith in God teaches to clean,

Ritual washings of your sin;

Of iniquities that have been,

For purifying you within.

Along with laying of the hands,

And resurrection of the dead;

An eternal judgment commands,

The body and blood to be fed.

This we do if God does permit,

And impossible to renew;

If expecting to inherit,

To obtain a heavenly view.

For those who were once enlightened,

Who tasted of the heavenly gift;

The Holy Spirit has brightened,

Causing your spirit to uplift.

We have tasted of the good word,

And powers of the coming age;

What we have read as well as heard,

Preparation of the next stage.

For who that has fallen away,

Because of doing their own harm;

Should again repent whence they stray,

Taking shelter under His arm.

Because the ground that drinks the rain,

Be producing vegetation;

Nourishing for the fruit and grain,

Provides beasts with habitation.

But thorns and thistles also grow,

Are worthless and are to be cursed;

In the end will be burned to show,

Condemnation to be the worst.

We must never become lazy,

Allowing thorns to enter in;

And start to do something crazy,

That would allow for us to sin.



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