Acts 16:20-40

         WeekLy BooK oF Acts 

20 - And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews/Hebrews and they are disturbing our city! 21 They advocate customs that are not lawful for us as Romans.” 22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore their garments and gave orders to beat them with rods. 23 And when they had beat them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely locked up. 24 Having received this order, the jailer put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

     25 At about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake. The foundations of the prison were shaken, all the doors were opened and everyone's bonds were loosened.

     27 When the jailer woke and saw the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!” 29 And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in the house. 33 And the jailer the same hour of the night, washed their wounds. And then he and all his family were baptized. 34 Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household to be believing in God.

     35 But then when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.” 36 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.” 37 But Paul said, “They have beaten us publicly, men who were not condemned and who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison! And now do they throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and let us out.”

     38 The officers reported this to the magistrates, who were afraid when they found out they were Roman citizens. 39 So they came and apologized and led them out and asked them to leave the city. 40 So they went out of the prison and went to Lydia’s house. And when they had seen the believers, they encouraged them and departed.

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1 Corinthians 10:25-33

11/20 ~ From New Testament Letters

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25 - Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” {Did some “covering angels” of animals join the “covering angel over Eden, when he went rogue - which of course Creator God knew he was about to when he assigned him. And this made some animals become predator? And if man had not become carnivore, humanity would have become prey? ..See how “all in heaven and earth are traversing this unavoidable, all important contrast all together at once. Angelos and anthropos.} 27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any questions. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then don’t eat it, for the sake of the one who told you. 29 I’m not talking about your conscience, but theirs. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced (judged) for that which I give thanks?

     31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I try to please everyone in the things I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of others, that many may be delivered. {That many might come to the Truth.}

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 11:1-10

JOHN 17:1-11

   🍃🕊️11/20 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

1 - When Jesus had said all these things, he looked up toward heaven, and said, “Father, the hour is come. Glorify your Son, for then the Son will glorify you. 2 You have given him authority over all flesh {all human beings sounds like to me} -> to give enduring life to all you have given him. 3 And this is the enduring life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you upon earth, having accomplished the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

    6 I have made known your name [onoma - name, character, fame, reputation, cause] to the ones you gave me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you. And they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name [onoma - name, character, fame, reputation, cause] which you have given me - that they may be one - even as we are one.”

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{ Rev.7:9,4 w/ Mt.25:10. But to understand, Mt.13:30 is Rev.16:13-16.}

Tomorrows verses - John 17:12-18:2

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1 Corinthians 10:14-24

11/19 ~ From New Testament Letters

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14 - Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? {They did it literally during meal time/breaking of bread? But it’s also meant for us as a spiritual formula? For success, the spiritual bread, our daily bread, the written logos to us, dipped liberally into the new wine of God’s Spirit/Presence.. Especially in these days of high information technology, it’s better to be “mind-washed” by GOD’s message - logos means “reasoning expressed in words” - than by the world, the world’s voice. If we can get past the human translator errors in the message, which has more or less hijacked the message! And, like we dump the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle out on the table, and then we separate the pieces onto the border.. and then the color matching parts.. We need to know the bible, to see the pieces and where they fit.}

     17 There is the one bread (Christ) and we who are many are one body. For we all partake of the one bread. 18 Consider the people of Israel, were not those who ate the sacrifices, participants in the altar (work)? 19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols of the nations is anything? Or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. Surely you shouldn’t be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 22 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

     23 “Such things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “Such things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. {Don’t argue about days and foods?! ..Paul was saying if eating food sacrificed to an idol will offend your brother or sister, consider that instead of our own wishes.}

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 10:25-33

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LUKE 22:24-38

   🍃🕊️11/19 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

24 - A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be thought of as the greatest. {Lol still goes on today.} 25 And he said, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship and those in authority are called benefactors. {But what they giveth they can take away?} 26 But it is not so with you. Rather, the greatest among you, becomes as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. 27 For who is the greater? (In the world.) One who reclines at table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But here I am among you as the one who serves.

     28 You are those who have been with me during my trials, 29 and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom. 30 That you may eat and drink at my table - in my kingdom - and sit on thrones judging” {like the Hebrew judges of old?}  [krinó - judge, to decide, to determine; originally meant "separate." So Homer, of Ceres separating the grain from the chaff(!)] “the twelve tribes of Israel.

     31 Simon Peter, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, that he might, sift you, like wheat {the human condition?} 32 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.” 33 Peter said, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!” 34 Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until three times you deny knowing me.” [“This day” - the days began at sunset rather than midnight. It’s evening, Peter denied Jesus during early morning hours.]

     35 Then to all of them he said, “When I sent you out with no moneybag/wallet or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”

     “No,” they said. 36 And Jesus said, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a bag. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one. 37 For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled, ‘And he was numbered with criminals.’ For what is written has its fulfillment.” 38 And they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” And he said, “It’s enough.” {Mood, atmosphere.. they were going out into danger.. That night, and other times as well..? And still, the world is brutal.}

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Tomorrows verses - John 17:1-11

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1 Corinthians 10:7-13

11/18 ~ From New Testament Letters

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7 - Do not be idolaters as some were, as it’s written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were overcome by serpents, 10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. {70 CE as the end of ages, beginning of the “time of the gentiles/nations” which will have its fuller scope end of the age(s).} 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks they stand take heed lest they fall. {Especially should we think we are superior.. on a higher level than others? Can’t err..?} 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and will not let you be tested beyond your ability, but with the temptation [peirasmos - temptation, trial, testing] he will also provide the way of escape [ekbasis- output, way of escape, exit] that you may be able to endure [hupophero - endure, suffer, bear under] it.

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 10:14-24

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JOHN 16:17-33

🍃🕊️11/18 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

17 - So some of the disciples said to each other, “What is this he is saying? ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? And, ‘because I’m going to the Father’? 18 What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t know what he’s saying.

     19 Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, so he said, “Is this what you’re asking among yourselves, what I mean by saying, ‘A little while and you won’t see me. And again a little while and you’ll see me’? 20 Truly, I tell you, you will weep and grieve, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy. 21 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world! 22 So also you have sorrow now, but I’ll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice! And no one will take your joy from you. 23 In that day you’ll ask nothing of me. Truly, I tell you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name [onoma - name, reputation, cause] he will give it to you. 24 Until now you’ve not asked in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so your joy may be full.

     25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. 26 In that day you’ll ask in my name, and I don’t say I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from Him. 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

     29 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech! 30 Now we know that you know all things and don’t need anyone to question you. And this is why we believe you came from God.”

     31 Jesus answered, “Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I won’t be alone, for the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart, I have overcome the world.”

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Tomorrows verses - Luke 22:24-38

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1 Corinthians 10:1-6

11/17 ~ From New Testament Letters

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1 - For I (Paul) do not want you to be unaware that our fathers were - all - under the cloud. And they - all - passed through the sea. 2 And all were baptized into Moses, in the cloud and in the sea. 3 And all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them. And the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not happy, and they fell in the wilderness. 6 These things took place as examples for us. That we might not desire evil [kakos - bad, evil, wicked, harmful] things as they did.

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 10:7-13

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JOHN 16:1-16

    🍃🕊️11/17 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

1 - “I (Jesus) have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think they are doing it for God. 3 And they will do these things because they haven’t known the Father. Nor me. 4 But I have told you these things, so when the hour comes you will remember that I told you about it.

     I didn’t say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I’m going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I’ve said these things, sorrow has filled your hearts. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you truly, it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t, the Helper won’t come to you. But if I go, I’ll send him to you. 8 And when he comes {God’s Spirit/Presence} he will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. 9 Concerning sin, because they don’t believe in me. 10 Concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer. 11 Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. {THE scapegoat/azazel?} 

     12 I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear [bastazó - bear, carry, endure, support] them now. 13 When however will come the Spirit of the Truth, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak of (about?) himself, but will [akouó - hear, listen, understand] and [laleó -  speak, talk, utter] and will declare to you the things coming. 14 He will glorify {and magnify?} me. For from that which is mine he will disclose to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine. Therefore I said that he will take what is mine and make it known to you.

     16 A little while, and you will see me no more. And then again, in a little while, you will see me.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 16:17-33

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1 Corinthians 9:24-27

11/16 ~ From New Testament Letters

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24 - Do you realize that in a race all the runners run, but only one wins the prize? So run that you may obtain it. (Higher self or lower self, which shall it be?) 25 Every athlete works hard to stay fit. They do it to receive a wreath or crown that perishes, but we for an imperishable crown [of Life] {not metal}. 26 So I don’t run aimlessly, or box like one beating at air. 27 But I master my self, keeping my self under discipline, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 10:1-6

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JOHN 15:18-27

 🍃🕊️11/16 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

[To his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.] 18 - “If the world hates you, it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But since you’re not of the world, and I chose you out of the world, the world doesn’t like you. 20 Remember how I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they (who? rulers) persecuted me, they’ll persecute you. If they kept my word, they’ll keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they don’t know he who sent me. 22 If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty, but now they have no pretext. 23 But whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be guilty. But now they have seen these things {all that occurred} and have hated both me and my Father. 25 But the words written in the Law itself will be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

     26 When the Helper comes, whom [hos, hé, ho - who, what, which, that] I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who [hos, hé, ho - who, what, which, that] proceeds from the Father, will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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Tomorrows verses - John 16:1-16

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Revelation 16:17-21

 WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

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17 - The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and then a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

     18 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was upon the earth, so great was that earthquake. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drink fully the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. {Full cup of consequences.} 20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. 21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven. And they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so great. {The last of “seven thunders”(?) with flashes of lightning, rumblings, and great hail. The higher and faster moisture rises, the greater the hail. Making the earth shake to and fro, Is.24:20.}

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Logic of things allowed to run their course..

1 Corinthians 9:17-23

11/15 ~ From New Testament Letters

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17 - For if I do this of my own ‘free’ will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, still, I’m entrusted with a stewardship.18 What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, by not making use of my right in the gospel. 19 For I consider myself free from all, and have made myself a servant to all, that I might win all the more. 20 To the Jews I am as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I am as one under the law, that I might win those under the law. {In Jesus, concerning the law, we are not required, we are enabled. Our nature is changed. Jesus in us, and us in him.} 21 To those outside the law I am as one outside the law, not as outside the law of God but under the law of Christ, that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I am weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people {finding common ground} that by all means I might save some. 23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them, its blessings. {Where is the hyped up, afterlife mythical threat?}

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

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JOHN 15:1-17

    🍃🕊️11/15 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

(Jesus continues on the eve of his crucifixion) 1 - “I am the vine, and my Father is the vinedresser” [geórgos - from γῆ - gē, meaning earth or land, and ἔργον - ergon, meaning work or task, someone who works the land, worker of the soil to plant, harvest, nurture and protect].

     2 “Any branch of the vine that doesn’t bear fruit he takes away. And every branch that does bear fruit he prunes. This is so it will be more abundant with fruit. 3 Already you are purged” [katharos - clean, pure, clear, free of contamination, released, english catharsis] “because of the words I’ve spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself, but only if it abides in the vine. And neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the true vine {of Life}. You are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in them, bears much fruit. And apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, they will be like a dry branch that withers. Then the branches are gathered, and burned up in a bonfire. {Not a forever pit called ‘hell’. We must be reasonable! In the parable of the wheat and tares, the same. This slow gehenna flares up into mankind’s wars. Logically, the tares will be gathered to armageddon. The “seven thunders”? Surely there is only one thing they can be. Life apart from God? “Dust are we”. God = Life & “is perfect”. Imperfect = entropy.} 7 IF you abide in me, and my words abide in you, whatever you ask, it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father will be glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. {First comes humility.} 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. [He is the genuine Sabbath/Rest all other Sabbaths are a shadow/reflection of, Heb.4.] 10 If you keep my words and instructions, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's words and instructions and abide in his love. 11 These things I’ve spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and it may be full.

     12 “This is my instruction [entolé - command, order, instruction] that you love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I tell you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what their master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you and I have appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I tell you, so that you will love one another.

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Tomorrows verses - John 15:18-27

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1 Corinthians 9:12-16

11/14 ~ From New Testament Letters

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12 - If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we even more so? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the good news of Christ. 13 Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple? And those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? 14 In the same way, the Lord instructed that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel (Matthew 10:10; Luke 10:8; compare Galatians 6:6).

      15 But I have made no use of this, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my grounds for boasting! 16 For if I preach the gospel - that gives me no ground for boasting. For compulsion is laid heavily upon me. Woe to me, if I I do not preach the gospel!

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 9:17-23

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JOHN 14:22-31

 🍃🕊️11/14 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

22 - Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered, “To those who love me, who will keep my word, my Father will love them, and we will come to them, and make our home with them. 24 And whoever does not love me, doesn’t keep my words. And the word (message) you hear me say is not mine, but is from the Father who sent me.

      25 These things I’ve spoken to you while I’m still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit {Presence of God, to be with you} which the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace, I give to you. Not as the world gives, so let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28 You heard me say to you, ‘I’m going away, and I will come to you.’ If you love me, you will rejoice, because I’m going to the Father, and the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it takes place you will believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has instructed me, so the world may know that I love the Father. Come, let us go from here.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 15:1-17

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1 Corinthians 9:1-11

11/13 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - Am I not free? Am I (Paul) not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my workmanship in the Lord? 2 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3 This is my defense to those who would test me. 4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Peter? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

     8 Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 10 Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. 11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it a great thing if we reap earthly things among you? (Verse 4.)

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 9:12-16

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JOHN 14:12-21

    🍃🕊️11/13 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

[Jesus continues, on the eve of his crucifixion.] 12 - “Truly, I tell you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do. And greater [megas - large, great, in the - widest - sense] works than these they will do, because I’m going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name [onoma - name, authority, cause] I’ll do it, this is so the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name [authority, cause] I will do it.

     15 If you love me, you’ll keep my instructions. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, this one to be with you to the age, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it doesn’t see him nor know him. You know him. For he dwells with you, and, will be in you.

18 I will not leave you as orphans, but will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will no longer see me, but you’ll see me. And because I live, you will live also. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my instructions and keeps them, it is they who love me (Mt.25:10). And they who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and make myself  known to them.”

     {Best way to know Jesus and the Father - is to follow Jesus’ instructions. “Love God.” One rule, because when genuine, the second is also, and the fruit includes moderation and faithfulness. Also genuine humility, inclusiveness, unity, and a temperate ‘tongue’.}

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Tomorrows verses - John 14:22-31

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Acts 16:1-19

       WeekLy BooK oF Acts 

1 - Paul returned also to Derbe and Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was Greek. 2 He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany them, and he had him be circumcised, because of the Jews who lived along there, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4 As they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem [Acts 15:1-20.] 5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.

     6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been stopped by the Holy Spirit from going into Asia. 7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. 8 So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. 9 And there, a vision appeared to Paul in the night, a man of Macedonia was in the dream, urging him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

     11 So, setting sail from Troas, we made a straight voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis, 12 and from there to Philippi, a leading city of the district of Macedonia, and a Roman colony, where we remained some days.13 And on the Sabbath, we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there to be a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together there. 14 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple cloths, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. 15 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And so we did.

      16 On another day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a maiden who had a spirit of divination and brought her handlers much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She followed Paul and us everywhere, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God! Who proclaim to you the way of salvation!”18 And this she did for many days. Finally Paul, having become annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out that very hour. 19 But when those who made a profit from her saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace, accusing them before the rulers [archón - rulers, leaders, princes, magistrates].

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1 Corinthians 8:9-13

 Universalism in the New Testament

11/12 ~ From New Testament Letters

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9 - But take care that this right of yours doesn’t somehow become a stumbling block to someone else. 10 For if anyone sees you eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, even though his conscience is weak concerning it, to eat food offered to idols? 11 And so by your freedom (because you know there are no other ‘gods’) this other one is harmed, the brother or sister for whom Christ died. 12 Thereby, trespassing against one another, wounding their conscience when it’s weak, is also against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother or sister stumble, I will not eat meat lest I cause them to stumble. {Or drink wine.. Eat pork.. “Hast thou faith? Have it alone before God.” No wine when with your recovering alcoholic brother or sister! Or any it would offend no matter the moderation. Why be unnecessarily divisive?}

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 9:1-11

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JOHN 14:1-11

 Universalism in the New Testament

🍃🕊️11/12 - GospeL Verses 🍃🕊️

(Jesus continues..) 1 - “Let not your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house there are many abiding places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I’m going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you’re going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you know me, you know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him.”

     8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it’ll be enough for us!” 9 Jesus said, “Have I been with you all this time, and you still don’t know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not know that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don’t speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me is doing his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works you saw me do.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 14:12-21

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1 Corinthians 8:1-8

 Universalism in the New Testament

11/11 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - Now concerning food offered to idols, we know we all possess “knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up. But love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But if someone loves God, they are known by God. 4 Therefore, as to this eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing, that there is no God but one. 5 For although there may be many supposed ‘gods’ in the heavens and upon earth, many “gods” and many “lords”— 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are the all, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are the all, and we through him (are).

     7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former practice with idols, eat food as actually offered to another ‘god’, and their weak conscience is wounded. 8 But food will not commend us to God. Whether we eat or don’t eat, we are no better, or no worse off.

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 8:9-13

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