๐️ A paraphrased NT scripture study
(sometimes w/ commentary)
[and original language insight]
๐๐+๐ท๐️(+Logic)
Today’s GospeL Verses ~ Luke 12:22-40
22 - Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you, don’t be anxious about your life, what you will eat, or what you will wear. 23 For life is much more than food, and clothing. 24 Consider the ravens, they don’t sow, neither do they reap. They have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds of the air! 25 And which of you, by worrying, can add a single hour to your life? 26 If then you’re not able to do such as that, why do you worry about the rest? 27 Consider the flowers, the lilies of the field. They don’t toil, nor do they spin. But I tell you, even Solomon in all of his glory wasn’t clothed like one of them. 28 And if God so clothes the grass, which is alive today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!” (I read somewhere that grass was burned as fuel, but I think this also refers to entropy, this fading away, this slow gehenna ..that at times flares up into earthly judgments of wars, aka, results. Dust to dust, called God’s wrath. Cause and effect, this unavoidable, all important contrast, the “valley of the shadow of death”, a sliw burning gehenna.) 29 “And don’t seek what you are to eat, and what you are to drink, and don’t fret or be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things. And your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek God’s kingdom, and then these things will be added to you as well! 32 Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give to you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions! And give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that won’t grow old. And with treasure stored in the heavens that doesn’t fade away. And no thief gets to, and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, is where your heart will be also.
35 Stay dressed and ready for action. And keep your lamps burning. 36 Be like those who are waiting for their master/mister to come home from the wedding feast. That they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he arrives. Truly, I tell you, he will dress himself for service and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 But know this, that if the master [oikodespotรฉs - From oikos and despotes - a head of a family -- goodman of the house, householder, head] of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would be watching and not neglecting his house to be broken into [diorussรณ - dug through, broken through]. 40 You also must be ready [hetoimos - prepared, ready because prepared, ready to meet the opportunity or challenge at hand, ready because the necessary preparations are done] for the Son of Man comes at an hour you do not suppose [dokรฉล – properly - suppose, forming an opinion, a personal judgment, estimate, a subjective mental estimate or opinion about a matter].” (He comes at an hour we do not suppose.)
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From New Testament Letters
(In the Order Believed Written)
~ 1 Thessalonians 1:1-7 ~
1 - From Paul, Silvanus/Silas, and Timothy, to the church/believers of Thessalonica. In God the Father and the Lord Jesus - Grace to you! And peace.
2 We give thanks to God always for all of you. Always mentioning you in our prayers, 3 remembering before God our Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your steadfastness of expectation (translated hope) [but is elpis - expectation] in our Lord Jesus. 4 For we know, brothers and sisters, dearly beloved of God, that he has chosen you 5 because of how our message [euaggelion - good news, the good news of the coming of the Messiah] came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God) with full assurance. You know what kind of people we proved to be among you for your sake. 6 And so you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in the midst of much trouble, but with joy of the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God) 7 so that you (in turn) became an example to all the believers in both Macedonia and in Achaia.
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Tomorrow’s Verses:
Luke 12:41-48
1 Thessalonians 1:8-2:7
Acts & Rev - weekly
Recently Jonah, Daniel
psalms - jan-1-19 / feb-2o's / mar-3o's / apr-4o's / may-5o's / jun-6o's / jul-7o's / aug-8o's / sep-9o's / oct-100-110 / nov-11o's / dec-12o-15o ..the psalms are very prophetical in an overview sense.
Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox!⛲️
Be a whole burnt offering w/
prayer like incense so this
gehenna crucible, life as
we presently know it,
will make all of
us clear as
crystal.
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