Enter The Story Daily
a paraphrased scripture study
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GospeL Verses ~ Matthew 22:34-46
34 - Now when the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees with his answers, they too came and gathered around him. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. 36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest?”37 And Jesus answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it, you shall love your neighbor (fellow person) as yourself. 40 Upon these two stand aLL the Law and the Prophets.”
41 So Jesus asked them a question, 42 “What do you think about Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.” 43 He asked, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord? Saying, 44 ‘The LORD said to my Lord - sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet’? 45 If David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 46 No one was able to give an answer, and from that day on no one tested him with any more questions.
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From New Testament Letters
(In the Order Believed Written)
~ 1 Timothy 1:1-8 ~
1 - From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the call of God our Savior and of Jesus our hope, 2 to Timothy, my true child in the faith!
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 As I urged when I was leaving for Macedonia, your remaining at Ephesus is so you may charge certain ones not to teach any other doctrine, 4 nor to devote theirselves to myths (and today, strange ideas) and endless genealogies, which are only speculation rather than the faithful management of God’s program that is of faith.5 The aim is love. Love issuing from a pure [katharos - without admixture, root of catharsis, free from contamination] heart, from a good conscience and a sincere/genuine faith. 6 Certain persons, by swerving from this, have wandered away into vain discussion, 7 they desire to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what it is they are saying or the things about which they make such confident assertions. 8 But we know, that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully. (Don’t be piling on our favorite personal convictions as rules for everyone else. No one made us god! WE follow the law by loving. Having true affection for our fellow person, and not only those just like us. Diet and observance of days do not (yet) come into it. We will follow God’s compLete calendar during the Lord’s long second advent.. and beyond.. Doing so now is wonderful also, but thinking we’re all that if we do, is the opposite of love. The message of God - the proclamation - is the “good news for all”. “Whosoever will - let them - take of the water of life Freely” - God’s acceptance and approval is a gift. Then voila! We are “born again” - Jesus is “the seed” God plants in us. It is watered by God’s Spirit/Presence, so we are growing, being transformed so that “we shall be like Jesus”. The call during this life is that those who follow through will serve - called reigning - during the Lord’s second advent, a longer, wider version of his first so brief one (Mt.25:1-13). Marry this idea (truth) with the understanding that the so notorious “lake of fire” is earthly prophecy like any other. Hello? How can this be so hard to see? (Twilight zone amazing.) All three mentions of lake of fire are at huGe fiery events. I’d list them but this is already too long. “The hope of glory” - to serve as helpers during “the” millennium and during the GWT judgment ‘day’ will not require pitchforks! ..And the “crowns” are crowns “of Life” not of metal. We yield our own self to Him. He is writing his program, his “logos” - “reasoning expressed in words” upon and within us. His script. All of His will. We can trust him to carry it out. It’s the same program for all, some now, some later. We have, also, a great instruction manual, but the adversary ceaselessly is throwing every thing at it. And always has been. God is Life, surely? So there really is no other option or way. Might as well get with the program early! With genuine response. “The way/road is narrow” with wide ditches on either side, of rules and regs, or the other ditch, a do nothing, do not respond mentality. Neither ditch works very well but is like slogging through muddy water.) 🙂
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Tomorrow’s Verses:
Matthew 23:1-12
1 Timothy 1:9-15
Acts & Rev - weekly
And currently Haggai, recently Daniel
Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox!⛲️
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