ENTER THE STORY - A NEW TESTAMENT READING SCHEDULE

   ⛲️☀️ Father is the fountain of Life.

   No option to stray in Eden = Ant Farm

BiG banG — > universe — > then set in motion

for “8 days”/millennia. Lev.23 is the advents.

    “In the beginning God..” and the only straight out from God one, the Son, “forever first”/proto. Father & Son being so close both administer God’s Spirit/Presence.

   The being worked out blueprint - Father’s Presence will saturate, thus “seal” all creation, all mankind - Jesus is the prototype - all angelkind, animalkind, singing bird kind, &tc. “The cow will graze with the bear, their young will pasture and lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox” Isaiah 11:7. [Summed up in 1Timothy 4:10 and Luke 1:37.] Mt.13:30 is Rev.16:14-15-16 & Mt.25:1-13; Rev.20 tells crests only; seal description veils the seals & vision; vision is told 3 times; 13:13 is the seal6 1st event showing an office; 1Cor.15:22-28 w/ Mt.13:33, key word 3! (1Pet.3:19 -> 2Pet.2:5); it’s Dan.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16! W/ last “10 days” escalation, Rev.2:10.

Is.24:20/Rev.10:4.

All, in translation, was changed to all things.

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Division is a siren call, Is.24:20/Rev.10:4.

Verses on this blog are paraphrased.

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02-06 - Ro-7,8 Jn-5

🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

 • Romans 7:11-8:2  John 5:18-29

            ☀️ Romans 7:11-8:2

11 - For sin [greek hamartia - missing the mark] {imperfection} seizing opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 The law however, is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

      13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin {hamartia - imperfection} producing death - in me - through what is good. This is so sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become known as sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I don’t understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. {Like when a person tries to diet?} 16 Now if I do what I don’t want, I am still agreeing with the law, that it’s good. 17 So now it’s no longer I, but the sin {hamartia - missing the mark/imperfection} that dwells in me. {As God iS life and “is perfect” so imperfect is the opposite of Life. But creation as an Ant Farm is no paradise/perfection, so this ‘quick’ one&done, this unavoidable contrast let to run its course. The dis-ease as part of the cure, and immunity.} 18 For I know that good itself {perfection} does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful {in my imperfect} nature. For my spirit is willing, but the doing of the good escapes me. 20 Now if I do what I don’t want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin{/imperfection} that dwells in me. {Like if I lose my temper.. be impatient when patience is called for.. etc, etc.}

     21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God! Especially in my most inner being. 23 Yet I see in me another law waging war against me, making me a captive to the law of imperfection that dwells in me. {Imperfect cannot make itself perfect, what with being imperfect!} 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?!

     25 Thanks be to God! Through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh - mortal nature - I’m under the law of sin {imperfection}. {And imperfect is this slow gehenna crucible, entropy - which does not quit, cannot reverse. So the remedy was built in.. One strong enough to convince every psyche and appease every conscience. John 5:22 says “God judges no one” so he is not an angry God demanding a blood appeasement. His wrath being cause and effect and consequences. We can know that, by the Revelation bowls - final effects of mankind’s doings - for they are called his wrath, and they're quite obviously modern warfare results.}

    8:1 - There is therefore now no condemnation [katakrima - condemnation, judgment] for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For “the law of the Spirit of life” has set us free, in Christ Jesus, from the law of sin and death. {The Law of Life in Jesus ..and Jesus in us.. leading.. trumps the law of imperfection and entropy which is (unavoidably) death. God “cAn destroy both body and soul/psyche in {this slow} gehenna” fiery crucible. But! The remedy is built in and “nothing is impossible with God” Lk.1:37.

            🌙 John 5:18-29

18 - This was why the leaders of the nation were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he loosening the Sabbath {theiR rules for Sabbath} but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

     19 So Jesus told them, “Truly, the Son can do nothing from his own will. But only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, is what the Son does as well. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all which - he himself - is doing. And greater works than these will he show him. And so you will wonder.

     21 For as the Father raises the dead” {“raises “the” dead, not raises their dead bodies, but literally them} “and gives them life.” {A retuRn to being alive and aware, from a state of not being alive/aware}.

     “So also, the Son gives life {and awareness} to whom he will. 22 For the Father doesn’t judge anyone, but has given all judgment to the Son. 23 So that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word {logos - message, reasoning expressed in words} and believes he who sent me, has enduring life. They do not come into judgment, but have passed over [metabainó - from meta - after or beyond, and baino - to go, to walk — (have) transitioned] from death to life.” {Jesus is the logos/message/reasoning/truth -> personified.}

     25 “Truly, I tell you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.” {Including here and now. For until “Christ in us” we are reckoned as dead.} 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man” {became in a body like man, suffered, was raised as having an incorruptible, non entropic, and perfect body. Surely was saying something by eating with his disciples after he was raised. We do not yet know what manner/substance.. A higher body but still a literal and real body and being. Not only winds. “We shall be like him”.}

     28 “Don’t marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are - in the tombs - will hear his voice 29 and will come out” {of the tombs/graves, out of the dust, the lower part of the earth} “those who have done good to the resurrection of life” {at his return/appearing, and into his long second advent ..as helpers serving, called reigning, full scope version of his so brief first advent?} “and those who have done evil [phaulos - evil, wicked, worthless, bad, base] into the resurrection of judgment.” {INTO the GWT (great white throne) JUDGMENT/discernment/proof/closure for all ‘Day’ of “aionion kolasis”/eonian korrection (Mt.25:46) (an) aion/eon/aGe of correction? SEE the Fall holy days of Lev.23) upon/during the “8th day” the “last Great Day” (millennium). Rev.20 is like describing the crests of waves and not much of the in between.} - Jn.12:32, 7:37, Lev.23:36; The DOA for the initially doa. The initiaL, inneR condition of some during GWT ‘Day’ is portrayed in the rich man and Lazarus parable and in the outside of the vision narrative of Rev.22.}

           

Tomorrows verses, 02/07

Romans 8:3-10  John 5:30-47

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ACTS 16 1-19

 Luke wrote “of the things fulfilled among us” paraphrased [ ] ref { } thots

     Book of the Acts of the First Believers

1 - When Paul returned to Derbe and Lystra, there was a disciple 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, so he arranged to have him circumcised [a strong Hebrew custom and requirement] because of the Jews who were there, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

     4 As they went through the cities, they delivered to the believers 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. {Gentile converts were not required to be circumcised, etc, but believers (both Jew/Hebrew and Gentile/non Hebrew) follow the “new and living way” Heb.10:20.}

     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 came to Mysia, they wanted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus said not to. 8 So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. {This is where Paul and company met Luke, the Greek doctor who wrote this account called “the Book of Acts”.}

     9 And while there, a vision appeared to Paul in the night, a man of [Greek] 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 planned to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel there.

     11 So, setting sail from Troas, we made straight for Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis. 12 Then from there to Philippi, a leading city of Macedonia, and a Roman colony, where we remained for some days.

     13 On the Sabbath, we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there would 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 Paul was saying. 15 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you judge me to be genuine 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 public sqaure, accusing them before the rulers [archón - rulers, leaders, princes, magistrates].

Next - 16:20-40

02-05 - Ro-7 Jn-5

🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

 • Romans 7:5-10  John 5:1-17 and ACTS 16:1-19 separately

            ☀️ Romans 7:5-10

5 - For while we were living in the lower nature/carnality [Gal.5:20 ..discord, dissensions, factions, hatred, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition..] our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in us bearing {dark} fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law {system, courts} - having died to that which held us captive - so that we now serve in the new way of the Spirit. And not in the old way of the written code. {Outward compliance to earn Life/transformation, doesn’t work. The Law is to sum up the moral code that preserves society. But genuine inward change and newness - is worked by God who iS life. And that is what works. Submission, a “whole burnt offering on his altar” fully yielded. After all, it’s He who has our highest blueprint!}

     7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? [Hamartia - misses the mark?] Of course not! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known what is sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet, if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” 8 But {tricky} sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness! {Like forbidden fruit, seduces, entices and excites.} Otherwise it lies dormant. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life, proved to be death to me.

            🌙 John 5:1-17

1 - After this there was an annual feast day {Purim? Not in Lev.23, added later in commemoration of being saved from annihilation in the days of Esther} and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

     2 In Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate is a pool, and its Aramaic name is Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a number of people, blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 There was a man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus knew he had been lying there a long time, and he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred (by an angel, healing the first person to enter the pool) and while I am going, another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said, “Get up, take up your bed/mat and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

     Now it was the Sabbath. 10 So the leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It’s the Sabbath! And it’s not lawful for you to carry your bed.” 11 And he answered them, “The man who healed me, he said to take up my bed, and walk.”12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, there being a crowd, and Jesus had gone on.

     14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went to the leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. {Breaking theiR rules for the Sabbath, no compassion for the man now healed.} 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working all this while, and so am I.”

           

Tomorrows verses, 02/06

Romans 7:11-8:2  John 5:18-29

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

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Eschatological Musings

 It takes a while I think, to realize there are ‘locks’ on the Revelation vision. The actual vision begins of course, at 6:1-2 — but HOW the elements of the years of our Lord (CE) are described, veil what they are and confuse much of the vision. For the “seals” are described at the very beginning of the vision, as a blend of their first - aNd - very last effects. Number 4 for example began in WW1. Number 6 is the long sword given to number 2. Its first occurrence, pinpointing an office, is also verse 13:13.

    How so? Because the vision is told 3 times: 6:1-2 to 11:19; ch.12 wiTh Mt.23:39; and 13:1 to 19:11.

    The THREE tellings rejoin at the sounding of the 7th trumpet (which is the finality, the 7 bowls or vials/results).

     Look at seal 6, and then 7:1,3! This is where we still are, until there’s a whammy of a crises to consolidate the adversary/accelerant’s power, aka, world dominion via human agents. 

    After which crises, THE OFFICE that was enabled by the WORLD’s “false prophet” a forecasting miracle maker, to carry out 13:13, will lawlessly step into the prime seat of the many headed geopolitical beast.. Which as beasts, $ity Babble rode to the summit of all 7 hills/continents.. but alas what will happen when the huge beast rides her?? Finally will achieve Rev.17:12,16. (Via a ‘dove’ and vulture collusion?)

     Two eschatological (opposite siren) calls? MT.13:30 as Rev.16:14-15-16, and/or Mt.25:1-13. I almost forgot! Rev.20 is told like describing the crests of waves and not much of the in between. Rev.22 has narrative that is spoken outside of the vision, which parallels the rich man and Lazarus parable.. dark night of the soul.. but “aion” and “aionion” are not ‘forever’..

     Dark forces are ever working to make their wave crest..

     The place of all safety of course - Ps.91. Rev.16:14-15-16 concludes as Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4, the effects global so the siren call is division, and its dark fruit. But ultimately of course - two millennia later - is the fiery “palin/again-genesis” of Rev.21:5 (“pas”/all) and 2Pet.3:12-13 (3rd & last fiery lake mention) and then! — Is.11:7!

🕊️ “all peace and good will” (🤷🏼‍♀️that’s the closing that came to mind..)

02-04 - Ro-7 Mt-11

🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

 • Romans 7:1-4  Matthew 11:20-30

            ☀️ Romans 7:1-4

1 - Or do you not know - for I (Paul) am speaking to those who know the law - that the law is binding on a person only as long as they live? 2 For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she’s released from the law of marriage to him. 3 Whereas, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she’s free from that law and if she marries another man she’s not committing adultery.

     4 In the same way, you too (who have been wed to the Law) have died to “the Law” through the body{/death} of Christ {we “died with him” and are “born again/anew”} so that you now belong not to the law {not to the O.T. outward conforming, society preserving, laws of Moses as a way to earn the enduring Life} but now you are married to another {another testament, treaty, agreement, contract} which is he who has been raised from the dead - in order - that we may bear fruit for God. {Healthy fruit, victorious/overcoming fruit, through our inward conforming union with God through, and with, the fully yielded, fully victorious Son.}

            🌙 Matthew 11:20-30

20 - Jesus began to scold the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. [Metanoéō - from metá - changed after being with, and noiéō, - think – i.e. think differently after; quote - a turning point in one's life, a call to abandon former ways and embrace a new life in Christ.. particularly significant in the context of the early church, where converts often came from pagan backgrounds and needed to renounce their previous practices.]

     21 “Woe to you, Chorazin, woe to you, Bethsaida, for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes! 22 And I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the ‘day’ of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to hades (state of unseen, gone). For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I tell you that it will be - more - bearable - on the day of judgment {during “8th” millennium, Rev.20} for the land of Sodom than for you.”

     25 Then Jesus prayed, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have HIDDEN these things from the {so called} wise and understanding and revealed them to little children {and ‘foolish’ of the world}. 26 Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27 All [ - the word “things” is inserted, but instead should read “all” - pas - every, the whole, entire, all] have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son if not the Father, and no one knows the Father if not the Son, and whoever the Son chooses to reveal him to. 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. And learn from me. For I’m gentle and lowly in heart, and you’ll find rest for your souls. 30 For - my - yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

     

Tomorrows verses, 02/05

Romans 7:5-10  John 5:1-17 and ACTS 16:1-19 separately

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

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02-03 - Ro-6 Mt-11

🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

 • Romans 6:17-23  Matthew 11:11-19

            ☀️ Romans 6:17-23

17 - But thanks be to God! That you/we who were once in captivity to sin [hamartia - missing the mark] and were its slave, have become obedient, from the heart, to the teaching we’ve been entrusted with. 18 And having been set free, we are now ruled by righteousness. [Dikaiosýnē - righteousness, justice, equity, rightness] {of character; justice and equity in society and system, begins with character.}

     19 I (Paul) am speaking in human terms, because of our natural limitations. Once we presented ourselves as slaves to impurity {not-rightness} [akatharsía - from the greek - A - not, and - katharós - state of clean because unmixed, pure, not contaminated; katharis, is the root of cathartic]. And we were in captivity to lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness.

     But now, present yourselves as bonded to righteousness, which leads to sanctification [hagiasmos - “the process of advancing in holiness, used of the believer being progressively transformed into the Lord’s likeness of nature; consecration, purification, made sacred].

     20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit {cause and effect} were you getting from it? With the end of those things being death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin {and guilt or shame} and are united with God and belong to him, the fruit is sanctification and the result is enduring life. {God is Life and “is perfect” so imperfect is entropy which “does not quit”, a slow gehenna that “is not put out”.} 23 For the wages {result} of sin [hamartia - missing the mark] is death. But the free gift of God is enduring life - in - Christ Jesus, our Lord. {He is “the head” of the body of humanity. Especially of believers, and shall be of all humanity. Isaiah 14:27 - “For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who can annul it?”}

            🌙 Matthew 11:11-19

“Truly, I tell you” Jesus continued, “among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12 From the days of John until now the kingdom of heaven is being boldly received by the “eager in pursuit” [biastés]. 13 For the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 14 And if you’re willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.” {The baptist/baptizer who said the axe is ready to fall.. aNd people were eager for God’s KINGDOM/rule.} 15 “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.

     16 But to what shall I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplace, calling out to their playmates, 17 ‘We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance. We sang a dirge, but you didn’t mourn.’ 18 For John comes neither eating or drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man comes eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified of all its works.” [Its - autos - he, she, it, they, them, himself, herself, itself, themselves, same.] {Wisdom shall be proven to be fully just. And fully perfect.}

           

Tomorrows verses, 02/04

Romans 7:1-4  Matthew 11:20-30

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REVELATION - 16 8-16

 🗝️’s to riddles, N.T. in a yr study, verses paraphrased Logic [ ] references { } thots

BOOK OF REVELATION

8 - The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun and it was - allowed - to scorch people with its heat. {Where the numbers of the beast come up, suggests(?) apocalypse is totally done by mankind, for we are carbon based. Carbon has six protons, six neutrons and six electrons.}

     9 They were scorched by the fierce heat {and great drought? 12:15} and they cursed the name of God who had power to act over these plagues. {This is post surely(?) thermonuclear activity, the whole split atom thing is how I think of it.. messing with God’s building block.. harnessed for war, go figure.. “thunders, lightnings, temple in heaven splits, lightning, hail.. ..thermonuclear lightning.. hello? where do we think all this division/blame/hate leads!? Sky scrolls.. the higher and faster moisture rises, the greater and larger the hail. But alas, broken record, if in creation, there was no option to stray, creation would be an ant farm, and no paradise. And if you don’t let it run its course, what would be the point?!} But they did not repent {and relent} and give him glory.

     10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became dark. People gnawed their tongues in frustration 11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores, but did not relent/stop nor repent of their deeds.

     12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 For I saw having come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. {Leave a terrible taste — THE THREE which gather the nations to armageddon — the voice of the dragon - “god of this world”, and the voice of the beast of politics/many headed geopolitical, and the voice of the {of the world} false prophet, the WORLD’s version of a voice crying in the wilderness, which goes before, whose “flood” - a “strong delusion” {enchantment} - of “seating man in the temple as god”/highest power, has caused the west, once called Christendom to “fall away”. And this (of the world) “false prophet” has more modern wonders and “miracles to mislead” and of course a prophecy.}

    14 For these (three) are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for battle on the great {culmination} day of God the Almighty. 15 “Behold, I am coming {unexpected} like a thief! Blessed is the one who is watching and clothed, that they may not go about naked and seen unclothed.” 16 And, they assembled at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. {Logically, Mt.13:30, “first gather the tares”.}

Next - 16:17-21

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02-02 - Ro-6 Mt-11

🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

 • Romans 6:8-16  Matthew 11:1-10 and Rev. 16:8-16 separately

            ☀️ Romans 6:8-16

8 - Now if we (Paul and all believers) have died with Christ (in baptism, the old, prone to error self reckoned as passed away) then we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from out of death, never dies again. Death no more having dominion over him. 10 That for which he died, sin [hamartia - missing the mark] he died, once for all. And the life of him is to and of God. 11 So you also, consider yourselves dead to sin, and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

     12 Therefore don’t let sin rose over you, to make you obey its inordinate passions. 13 Don’t use your body to sin. But present yourself to God as one who has been brought from death into life. And present your whole self to God as an instrument for righteousness. 14 For sin shall have no dominion over you, for you are not under law {which doesn’t work/transform} but under grace {which does work and transforms, nurtures, strengthens, and enables}.

     15 What then? Are we to sin because we’re not under law but under grace? Of course not! 16 You yourselves know, whatever we obey, present ourselves as obedient to, we are a slave to, whether a slave to sin [hamartia - missing the mark”] {entropy} which leads to death {lack of Life/blessing} or to obedience {of “the way/new and living way”} which leads to righteousness [dikaiosuné - righteousness, righteous character, justice, equity]. {Dikaiosuné - right character (is by grace, and) is what makes for justice and equity.}

            🌙 Matthew 11:1-10

1 - When Jesus had instructed his twelve disciples (and sent them out) he went on from there to teach and preach in nearby cities.

     2 Now when John heard in prison about the works of Jesus, he sent word by his disciples 3 to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come? (The Christ/Messiah.) Or shall we look for another?” 4 And Jesus answered, “Go and tell John what you hear and see, 5 the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the good news preached to them. 6 And blessed is the one who doesn’t fall away from me.” {Fall away due to persecutions even if severe.}

     7 And as they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 8 No? What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? You can find those who wear soft clothing in kings' houses. 9 What then? Did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes! I tell you, and he is more than a prophet! 10 This is he of whom it is written (said by Father to Son) ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’”

           

Tomorrows verses, 02/03

Romans 6:17-23  Matthew 11:11-19

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

have a great day! ☀️🕊️