Enter The Story - A Reading Schedule

I think “everything sacred/holy” sealed/saturated with God’s Spirit/Presence, is the actual and ultimate blueprint. Before any act of creation God could see all possibilities.. This is why the vastness of the universe, so we know he is totally unfettered Genius. (He’s also Life and he’s perfect, and that makes a conundrum for imperfect.) Logically then, he chose the whole path to attaining a creation and beings saturated and “sealed” in his Spirit/Presence. Non fading life, enduring paradise/perfection. So the first/proto (patterned also in the creation, the) light. The Son being the only straight out from God one.. Which Eph.1:10 says all (beings) of heaven and earth ..will be gathered into him. “The lion will eat straw like the ox.. the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7. [Note: it was a biG banG into the universe that is, and then - it was set in motion. No millions/billions of years of a steady state explosion.]

Romans 2 1-5

  01/17 ~ From New Testament Letters

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          Paul’s Letter To The Romans

1 - It is inexcusable for anyone to set theirself up as judge. For in passing judgment upon another is to condemn one’s self, because the same things are done by them. {ALL are prone to “hamartia - missing the mark” translated sin).} 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon all who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such and yet do also, that - you - will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and his forbearance and patience?  Knowing not that God's kindness is meant to lead - you - to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath. [Orge - passion] {cause and effect? His passion as opposed to creating a mere ant farm! Passion for purity, truth, perfection, for he is Life, aNd, “is Perfect” mt.5:48, so only Perfection can endure, and be God’s will. The biggest cause and effect being that imperfect is entropy the “worm that does not quit” and “fire (THE crucible, selah!) that is not quenched”/put out.} Storing up wrath for yourself upon the day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment. [Next verse: “Who will render to every one according to their deeds”/their own doings.]

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 2:6-16

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MATTHEW 5 27-37

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27 -  “You have heard it said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you everyone looking upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery in his heart. 29 If your right eye will cause you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It’s better to lose it than your whole body be thrown into gehenna.” (Gehenna Valley was the place of the city dump, where even the bodies of criminals were thrown, so the fires were kept burning. It was a great threat and insult to not be properly buried.) 30 “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you! For it’s better you lose it than your whole body go into gehenna.

     31 It’s also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you, anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries her commits adultery.

     33 Again you’ve heard it said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the LORD what you have sworn.’” {Lying wasn’t in the “ten commandments” except not to swear an oath falsely. Not that lying isn’t a “trespass”/missing the mark, translated “sin”.} “But I say to you, don’t take an oath at all! Either by heaven, for it’s the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it’s his footstool. Nor by Jerusalem, for it’s the city of the great KING. 36 And don’t take an oath by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. 37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Anything more than this comes from evil.” [Ponéros - evil, wicked, bad, malicious, slothful, from porneo - to work hard, and ponos - pain ridden, aligns with the Hebrew understanding of evil as anything that opposes God's will and righteousness/rightness.]

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 5:38-48

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Romans 1 24-32

01/16 ~ From New Testament Letters

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         Paul’s Letter To The Romans            

24 - So then God gave them up to the desires of the hearts of them {versus creating an ant farm, let them go the way they wanted} to impurity, the dishonoring of their bodies among theirselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood and they reverenced and served the created thing rather than the one having created - who is blessed to the ages, amen!

     26 So God gave them up to passions of dishonor. For the women exchanged the natural into that contrary to nature. 27 And the men gave up natural relations with women and were inflamed with passion for one another, male committing shameless acts with male and receiving in themselves the recompense {effects} of their error. 28 And since they did not approve of having knowledge of God, he let them go into a counterfeit and unfit mind to do what is not proper. 29 And man [anthropos/mankind] became filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those practicing such are worthy [axios - from the base of ἄγω (agō), meaning to lead or to bring, worthy or deserving, implies a sense of balance or equivalence] of death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 2:1-5

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MATTHEW 5 13-26

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(Jesus continues his teaching while sitting on the hillside, called “the Sermon on the Mountain”.) 13 - “You, are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how shall it be restored? It’s no longer good for anything! Only to be thrown out and trampled under foot.

     14 You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill can’t be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket {or under the table} but on a stand, and it gives light to everyone [pas] in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine [“let the light of you shine”] so others see your good works and will glorify your Father in the heavens.

17 Don’t think I’ve come to abolish the Law. Or the Prophets. I’ve not come to do away, but to fulfill. 18 For truly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not a dot of an i, or a crossing of a t will pass from the Law until all of it is accomplished. 19 Anyone who does away with the least of these and teaches others to do so, they will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever shall keep and teach them, will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 Truly I tell you, if your righteousness does not abound - greater - than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can not enter the kingdom of heaven.

     21 You’ve heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment, whoever insults his brother will be liable to the courts, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the gehenna of fire. {Gehenna is a valley where the armageddon battle will be fought. To my mind, all fiery judgments are flare ups of this crucible ->imperfection, and its fruit, entropy.}

     23 So if you’re offering a gift at the ‘altar’ {including a gift of thanksgiving, sacrifice of praise, or whole burnt offering of our very being} and you remember that your brother or sister/fellow person has something against you. 24 Go and first be reconciled, and then offer your gift.

     25 Come to peace terms quickly with an accuser while you’re going with them to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 26 Truly, I tell you, you won’t get out untiL you pay the last penny you owe.

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 5:27-37

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ACTS 20 17-38

         WeekLy BooK oF Acts 

17 - When they stopped at Miletus Paul went ashore and sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church, 18 and when they came, he said to them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time [for three years] from the first day I set foot in Asia. 19 By serving the Lord in humility, with tears and trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jewish/Hebrew leaders. 20 But how I didn’t shrink from proclaiming to you anything that was of benefit. And teaching you both in public and from house to house, 21 I testified to both Hebrews and Greeks, the repentance [metanoia - a change of mind, change in the inner person, repentance] toward God, and of faith in our Lord Jesus. 22 And now, I’m going to Jerusalem, bound by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except the Holy Spirit has testified to me in every city that imprisonment and affliction awaits me. 24 But! I don’t account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course, the mission I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify and proclaim the gospel of the grace of God. 25 And now I know that none of you to whom I have gone about testifying of the kingdom, will see my face again. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day, that I am innocent of the blood of all. [Ezekiel 3:18 - If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood/death.] 27 I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God, 28 so pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Take care of the church of God, which he obtained with his own sufferings. 29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 And also, from among you yourselves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away disciples, into following them.

     31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I didn’t cease night or day to teach and warn each one with tears. 32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you the inheritance - among all those who are sanctified. 33 I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. 34 You yourselves know that these hands worked for my necessities and of those who were with me. 35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

     36 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them. 37 And there was much weeping on the part of everyone. And they embraced Paul and kissed him, 38 being sorrowful most of all because he had said they wouldn’t see him again. And they accompanied him back to the ship.

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Romans 1 16-23

 01/15 ~ From New Testament Letters

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         Paul’s Letter To The Romans

16 - I’m not ashamed of the gospel, for it’s the power of God to salvation to everyone believing, to the Jew/Hebrew first, and also to the Greek/all others. 17 For in it, the righteousness [dikaiosuné - from dikaios - righteous, just, upright; righteousness, justice] {total fairness} of God is made known from faith to faith, as it was written, the righteous shall live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God {as cause and effect, results, consequences} is revealed from heaven against ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress [the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition gives three meanings for suppress - “(1) to put an end to forcibly, as in suppress a rebellion - (2) to curtail or prohibit the activities of, as in suppress dissident groups - (3) to keep from being revealed, published, or circulated”] {to prohibit} the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain, because God has shown it, 20 for his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, since the creation of the world, in all that has been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they know God is, they do not honor him as God, nor give thanks to him. But they become futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts are darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they become fools. 23 And they exchange the glory of the immortal God, into the likeness of an image of mortal/carnal man, or of birds, animals, and creeping things.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:24-32

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MATTHEW 4 24 to 5 12

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24 - Jesus’ fame had spread throughout all of Syria, so they brought to him all the sick and afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them all. 25 Great crowds were following him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. 5 And seeing the crowds, he sat down at the side of the mountain, and his disciples and followers came to hear him. 2 And he taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit (humble) the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, they will be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, they will inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness [dikaiosuné - righteousness, justice, quality of being right and just] they will be satisfied. 7 Blessed are the merciful, they will receive mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers {noT adversarial} for they will be called sons and daughters of God.” [Huios - sons - quote biblehub dot com - “the New Testament expands this {greek} word to include all believers as sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ, emphasizing spiritual - inheritance - and identity; equally refers to female believers (Gal 3:28).] 10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 11 Blessed are you when others insult you, treat you badly, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you, falsely, on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great, for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.” {And they were not Perfect either.}

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 5:13-26

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Romans 1 8-15

   01/14 ~ From New Testament Letters

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  8 - First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you! Because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 And God - who I serve in my spirit, in the good news of his Son - is my witness, that I always mention you 10 in my prayers. Asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you there in Rome. 11 For I long to see you, that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you. 12 Or that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 13 I don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you in order that I may reap some harvest (believers) among you, and beyond you among the rest of the gentiles/nations. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish, to all. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:16-23

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LUKE 4 16-30

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16 - And Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had lived while growing up. And as was his custom, on the Sabbath, he went to the synagogue. And he stood up to read. 17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him by the attendant and he unrolled it and found the place where it was written, 18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives (both physical and spiritual) and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” [Isaiah 61:1-2 - verse two includes not only “the time of the LORD’s favor has come” but included with it - “the day of vengeance”. {Imperfection is bound to include oppressions, which can spiral down way low as to what occurs and what is done. In the New Testament quote, vengeance is from the word ekdikos - “avenger, one who carries out justice”. The rest of verse two points out it’s two sides of the coin, time of the LORD’s favor. And retribution, justice as well. Contrary to what the world says, isn’t that precisely how it should be?! All 3 mentions of lake of fire are at huge fiery events. God’s wrath/orge/passion is surely(?) cause and effect, results, consequences. And because God is Life and is Perfect (Mt.5:48) “the wages of hamartia/missing the mark, translated sin, is..? Death”. And its entropy/slow burn gehenna crucible, with it. But! 1Tim.4:10! And the unspoken part of the verse he read, the other side of the coin, is justice - and it’s aionion/pertaining to the age/aion. The consequences of their own doings ..which siren call is division? Rev.16:13-16, Mt.13:30, Ps.2, Is.24:20.}

     20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened upon him. 21 And he said, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 All had heard of him and they wondered at the gracious words he spoke. But they said, “Isn’t this Joseph's son?” 23 And he said, “Doubtless you’ll quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself. What we’ve heard you did at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown. 24 Truly, I tell you, a prophet isn’t accepted in his hometown. 25 There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up - three years and six months - and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them were cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard these things, they were filled with wrath, 29 and they drove him out of the synagogue, and out of the town, rushing with him toward the brow of the cliff the town was built on, so they could throw him over the edge. 30 But passing through their midst, he went on his way.

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:24-5:12

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Romans 1 1-7

 Universalism in the New Testament

01/13 ~ From New Testament Letters

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      Paul’s Letter to the Romans

1 - (From) Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the message of God, 2 which he promised long ago through his prophets, in the holy scriptures, 3 namely his Son {the message, the promise}. He was descended from David according to the earthly (as written) 4 and was declared - in power - to be the Son of God. For it was demonstrated through the Spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead. 5 It is through him, Jesus Christ, our Lord, that we have received grace and this apostleship [apostolé - to be sent] . And this in order to bring about faith and the fruit of obedience to it, for the sake of his name, and his cause among all nations. 6 This includes all of you, who are called [klétos - called, invited] to belong to Jesus Christ. {During this brief lifetime.}

     7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints (believers) - Grace to you! And peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:8-15

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JOHN 4 45-54

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45 - So when he came to Galilee (but not yet Nazareth) the people welcomed him, having seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover/Unleavened Bread feast. For they too had gone up to the feast.

     46 So he went again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. Meanwhile at Capernaum, there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was dying. 48 So Jesus said to the crowd, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you’ll not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said, and returned home. 51 When still on his way, his servants met him and told him his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said, “It was yesterday at the seventh hour that the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And so he believed, and so did all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he came from Judea into Galilee.

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Tomorrows verses - Luke 4:16-30

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2 Corinthians 13 10-14

01/12 ~ From New Testament Letters

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10 - For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, so when I come I can use the authority the Lord has given me for building up, and not for tearing down.

     11 Finally, rejoice! Aim for restoration. Comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

     12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints greet you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit {Presence of God} be with you all.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:1-7

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JOHN 4 27-44

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(“I am he” - the Christ/Messiah - Jesus told her.) 27 - And just then his disciples came back. They were surprised to find him talking with a woman, but no one asked, “What does she seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar at the well and went back into town and told the townspeople, 29 “Come! And see a man who told me all about myself! Can this be the Christ?” 30 So they went out of town to the well to see him.

     31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him to eat something. 32 But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know of.” 33 So they asked one another, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”

     34 Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work. 35 Don’t say, ‘There are yet four months, until harvest’. Look, I tell you - lift up your eyes - and see that the fields are ripe for harvest.” {He says as the town is coming out to see him. People went for Jesus.. how is it later at his crucifixion/execution the people cried “crucify him!” ..They were worked upon, agitated. That day made easier perhaps because friends of Barabbas were there? Who agitated? Hint, it was way more political than religious/spiritual?}

     36 “Already the one who reaps is receiving wages, and gathering fruit for unfading life {stored in heaven/stored in God} so that sower and reaper will rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ 38 I sent you to harvest that for which you didn’t labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

     39 Many Samaritans from that town were already believing it was he, because of what the woman had said about him, “He told me all that I ever did!” 40 So they asked him to stay, and he stayed with them for two days. 41 And many more believed because of the things he said. 42 And they said to the woman, “It’s no longer because of what we heard you say, that we believe, but now we have heard him ourselves. And we can see that this is indeed the Savior of the world!”

     43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself had said that a prophet has honor last of all, in his own hometown.

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Tomorrows verses - John 4:45-54

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2 Corinthians 13 1-9

01/11 ~ From New Testament Letters

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1 - I’m on my way to visit you for the third time. And as the Scriptures say, “Any charges must be proved true by at least two or three witnesses.” 2 During my second visit I gave warning, as also now while absent, and as I will when I come again. 3 It should prove to you that I am speaking for Christ, for when he corrects he won't be weak. He will be powerful! 4 Yes he was weak when he was nailed to the cross, but he now lives by the power of God. We are weak, just as Christ was. But you will see that we shall live by the power of God, as Christ does. 5 Test yourselves and find out if you really are true to your faith! If you pass the test, you’ll discover that Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn't living in you, you will fail. 6 I hope you will discover we have not failed. 7 So we pray to God that you may not do wrong, not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to be unapproved. 8 For we have no power against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:10-14

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JOHN 4 3-26

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3 - When Jesus left Judea and departed again for Galilee, 4 he had to pass through Samaria. 5 And he came to Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph, 6 where Jacob's well is. Jesus, weary from his journey, was sitting beside the well, and it was about the sixth hour. [Around noon.] 7 And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” It being that Hebrews have no dealings with Samaritans. (Believed to be half Assyrian, Israel was to stay ‘separate’ from the nations.)  10 Jesus said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that’s saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

     11 The woman said, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with! And the well is deep. How will you get the living (fresh) water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and all his livestock.” 13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I give will not thirst again. The water that I give becomes a spring of water welling up into nonfading (“aionion”) life.” 15 The woman said, “Sir, give me this water! So I won’t thirst and have to come here to draw water.”

     16 Jesus said to her, “Go and call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have isn’t your husband. You have said the truth.” 19 The woman said, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say Jerusalem is the place where people should worship.” {Every pattern has meaning.} 21 Jesus said, “Believe me woman, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  22 You worship what you don’t know. We worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour’s coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship, must worship in spirit and truth.”

     25 The woman said, “I know Messiah’s coming, who is called Christ, and when he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 4:27-44

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2 CORINTHIANS 12 13-21

  01/10 ~ From New Testament Letters

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13 - Were you in less favor than the rest of the churches? Because I didn’t burden you? Forgive me this wrong! 14 Here for a third time I am ready to come to you. And I won’t be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you yourselves. For the children aren’t expected to feed the the parents, but parents, the children. 15 So I will gladly even spend my soul {for the Lord’s sheep}. If I love abundantly, am I to be loved less?16 But granting that I myself didn’t burden you, I was crafty, and I caught you. {A fisher of men.} 17 No one I’ve sent, has exploited you.

 18 It was me who urged Titus to go to you, and sent the brother with him. And in all innocence, for do we not act in the same spirit? And walk in the same steps? 19 Have you been thinking we’ve been defending ourselves to you? It’s in the sight of God that we’ve been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 20 For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish.

     Will there be quarreling? Jealousy? Anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder? 21 I’m afraid when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and haven’t repented of [changed their mind and turned from] the impurity [akatharsia - from a - not, and katharsis - genuine, to have no mixture or contamination {rev.14:4} root of catharsis; impurity, contamination] they were practicing.

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:1-9

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MATTHEW 4 18-23

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18 - While walking by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon (who’s called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I’ll make you fishers of men!”

    20 And immediately they dropped and left their nets, and followed after him. 21 They went on from there, and he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called out to them,  22 and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed after him.

23 And he went throughout the whole of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all diseases and afflictions among the people.

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Tomorrows verses - John 4:3-26

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Revelation 20 1-6

 WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

      By Necessity Slightly 

             Paraphrased      

1 - Then I (John) saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years {God has been permissive?} 3 and threw him into the abyss {imperfection/straying/going rogue is an abyss of potential} and shut it and sealed it over him, so he cannot deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years are over. After that he must be released for a little while. {For the first half of an “8th” millennium.. According to the pattern of the Fall holy days, Leviticus 23.}

     4 Then I saw thrones [thronos - seats of authority]. And given judgment were those seated upon them. Also I saw the souls of those beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the message of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not taken its mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years are completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed [makarios - blessed, happy, fortunate] and holy [hagios - holy, sacred, set apart] are those who have a part {& role?} in the first resurrection! Over these the second [second in a series, the second time something occurs] death has no power, but they will be priests [hiereus - minister in a priestly office] {minister what to whom?} of God and of Christ, and they will reign [basileúō - exercise dominion] with him {for/during} the thousand years.

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ACTS 20 1-16

         WeekLy BooK oF Acts

1 - When the uproar (in Ephesis) was over, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and left for Macedonia. 2 When he had gone through there and given much encouragement, he came to Greece. 3 There he spent three months, and as he was about to set sail for Syria, he heard a plot was made against him by the Hebrew leaders, so he decided to return through Macedonia instead. 4 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him. Also Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius and Timothy of Derbe, and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. 5 These went on ahead of us, and were waiting for us at Troas (Luke with them, like in most of chapter 16) 6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread. [The two days, and the whole week, were referred to as both Passover and Unleavened Bread.] And in five days we arrived there, and we stayed for seven days.

     7 Then on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul was conversing, intending to depart the next day, and was speaking until midnight. 8 We had lit many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. 9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead! 10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “It’s okay! His life is in him.” 11 And when Paul had gone back up and we had broken bread and eaten, he conversed still a long while, until daybreak, and then we left. 12 And they took the youth away alive, and were greatly encouraged.

     13 We went ahead to the ship, and set sail for Assos, but Paul had decided to go by land. 14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. 15 And from there, the following day, we sailed opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we went down to Miletus. 16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so he wouldn’t spend time in Asia, for he was hoping to be in Jerusalem, if possible, by day of Pentecost.

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2 Corinthians 12 6-12

01/09 ~ From New Testament Letters

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6 - Should I wish to boast, I wouldn’t actually be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 So to keep me from becoming puffed up [huperairó - lift self up, have exaggerated sense of self-importance] because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord that it be removed. 9 But he said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses! So the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

     11 I have acted a fool! You forced me to do it, for I ought to have been understood by you, that I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am no one special either. 12 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. {To promote the message, not the messengers.}

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 12:13-21

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MATTHEW 4 12-17

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12 - When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew for a while into Galilee. 13 Then later, after leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali. 14 And so what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled, 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by way of the sea, beyond River Jordan, and Galilee of the nations, 16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has shined.”

     17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:18-23

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