07/16 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk.2, Heb.10

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          Mark 2:13-22

(“Look!” some are saying, “Jesus called sinners! It’s all good! No one need repent.. We just need to find our true identity. The kingdom is in you. It’s all about moi.” - Did I hit all the bases? I won’t mention prophecy understanding right now.. In the words of John Wayne.. “the heck I won’t!” paraphrased, lol. “Prophecy?” some say, “It’s all said and done! We’re all saved. There is nothing needed on our part!” You see there’s Truth aNd error [always] weaved together. Like great tapestries.. When you separate the true threads, the rest of it falls apart. 

     Be careful who you listen to. Take everything with a grain of salt. Even our own interpretations. What can we measure all things to? Truth is an iron measure. We can “make our calling and election sure”. When we read a translation that just doesn’t quite ring true to us.. Toss out the book? Contradict it and run it down to others? (WhAt door is it in the parable of the ten bridesmaids? That half of them arrive late to? Mt.25:1-13.)

     They say the human brain is the best computer ever. Except for the God Brain! The highest of intelligence. Pure unlimited Genius. Which we are little mirrors of. We have to include in our studies language tools. Those big reference books are now tools online at our fingertips. Like biblehub dot com’s interlinear (“int”). And! We need logic. ..The root word of logic is logos - “reasoning expressed in words”. And yes, in Jesus. The “first/proto of all creation”. The prototype. And we have brains equipped for this Truth Quest.

     Today’s verses are Mark’s account of the calling of Matthew (Levi in the Hebrew) who was a tax collector. And so the phrase from the Pharisees “why does He eat with sinners and tax collectors?” They collected taxes for Rome! Israel’s occupier. (Do you think the spirit and thirst for world domination has been weeded out of mankind? Imagine if yesterday’s Rome would have had modern capabilities and technology. No, Rome is not today’s huge, many headed geopolitical entity which comes from the sea of humanity and will rule (today’s world) and go beastly. Rome was yesteryear’s manifestation. It was, wasn’t, then was again - from Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire. But it’s a new “was, expired.. was again”. And  Rome is also not today’s  $ity on seven hills/continents. Though it likely is part of both, beast and $ity Babble, like everything else. Both prophecy and the Kingdom progress like widening ripples of a pond.

     “Why” Jesus answered, “do I eat with sinners and tax collectors? It’s not the healthy and whole who need a doctor! I didn’t come to call the righteous.” Why call ‘the righteous’ who think they are good enough for God’s perfection? Are they likely to hear? Not yet. So he calls those who are not well. Who need healing. Who need setting straight. This is the epitome of ‘self’ improvement. God is the potter, we are the clay. Jesus is the prototype.

     Jesus goes on to answer their other question - about fasting. You can’t put new wine (the transforming Spirit/Presence of God) into an old wineskin. When the wine swells (up into sweet, sweet joy) an old worn and stretched out wineskin will burst! Losing the wine and the skin. New wine needs a new, fresh wineskin! Ye must be born again! Jesus died to convince us and prove to us, we are forgiven, we can, and are supposed to “DRAW NEAR in full confidence and expectation” [elpis - expectation - usually translated hope, you see the subtle yet huge difference?] James, a natural brother of Jesus who became a solid believer and leader,  wrote “Submit yourselves to God ..Come near to God! And he will come near to you! Wash your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you double-minded! Grieve, mourn, and weep! Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom! Humble yourselves to the Lord, and he will lift you up [hypsóō - from hýpsos - height – properly, raise high elevate, exalt!] ..“But ..no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. ‘The old is just fine,’ they say.”                   

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From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

           ~ Hebrews 10:23-29 ~

23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope [elpis - expectation] we affirm, for he who promises is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some (me). But encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. 26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left (so don’t teach people that! Our message is “know the Lord”. HE can do the rest/“carry the work to completion” if not paused by ‘teachers’ influence!? In SO many possible ways. To ignore the “missing the mark” - hamartia, translated sin, condition, is to leave the imperfect psyche still in need of repair and closure.) 27 Then all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which is about to consume those who oppose God! (Both in 70 A.D. end of an era/age, and the global fulfillment, end of these ages. But not ‘forever’ for Jesus “will draw all”. See the wheat and weeds parable. Are weeds gathered to a never ending ‘place’ called hell? Or do men gather them to a bonfire? Mt.13:30 and Rev.16:13-16. All three mentions of lake-of-fire are at large fiery events.. huge to us.. pond size to Him.) 28 Anyone who had set aside the law of Moses without mercy died on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 But it is much worse to dishonor God's Son and to disgrace the blood of the promise that made us holy. And it is just as bad to insult the Holy Spirit, who shows us such grace and mercy. 

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝓀.2:23-28 𝑜𝓇 𝐿𝓀.6:1-5

𝐻𝑒𝒷𝓇𝑒𝓌𝓈 10:30-34

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 7:1-16

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 9:13-21

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Joel

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