07-27 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Lk-8 Heb-12

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            Luke 8:1-8

1 - Soon after this, Jesus was going through towns and villages, telling the good news about God's kingdom. His twelve apostles were with him. 2 And also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses [astheneia - weakness, frailty, sickness]. One of the women was Mary Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out of, 3 Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court, and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples, were with him also. 4 And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he told them in a parable, 5 “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path and was trampled underfoot. And the birds of the air came and ate it all up. 6 Some other seed fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedling plants withered because they had no water. 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it, and overcame and choked it. 8 But still other seed fell on good ground, and it came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” (A ripple that keeps going?)

     When he had said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear!”

     (Lk.8:8, makes me think of “on the eighth day..”) (God is showing to us Life and death/no life. Like this life, this all important contrast, is like a ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ and the worm that doesn’t stop, so much MORE is the kingdom! That progresses in peace - it’s the world that makes war, Ps.2, and lake of fire is event(s) not a ‘place’ nor never ending. So too does the kingdom not stop. Like the worm/decay/corruption of the apple once even a speck of imperfection shows up, doesn’t stop until the apple is gone/fully consumed, so too the progression of the kingdom/Life does not stop until God - who is life - is all in all. Like widening ripples of a pond until reaching full pond ripple, full world. All within and without, collectively and individually, and both spiritually and literally. Truth will stand, all untruth will fall and fade away. “Where sin/hamartia/missing the mark abounded, grace abounded much more.” And.. God doesn’t have to beat us (with many stripes). We beat ourselves.. Maybe(?) he’ll beat the despots.. sex traffickers of children, etc. etc. …And bring them to gut wrenching remorse.. Can you imagine?😳                   

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ Hebrews 12:1-2 ~

1 - Therefore, since we are compassed about by such a great cloud of witnesses (collectively and generally speaking, angels, and by all during judgment ‘day’ surely? a great ‘day’ of review of all history) let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin [hamartia - missing the mark] (imperfection) that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out/marked out, for us. 2 Keeping our eyes on Jesus, the originator [archégos - from arxḗ - the first, and ágō - to lead – properly, the first in a long procession, who pioneers the way for many others to follow, originator or founder of a movement and continues as the leader] and perfecter [teleiótés - a completer, consummator, bringing a process to its finish, finisher] of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and now has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝐿𝓊𝓀𝑒 8:9-18

𝐻𝑒𝒷𝓇𝑒𝓌𝓈 12:3-10

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 7:17-37

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 10:1-7

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Amos

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