12-12 - 1 Corinthians 15 50-58

 N.T. in a year reading & study, verses R paraphrased [  ] references {  } thots

☀️ 50 - I’ll tell you this! {Mere} flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Not can the perishable inherit the imperishable! {The fading away cannot inherit the enduring.} 51 And listen! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. {In death, a state opposite to life and living, Eccles.9:5,10. If a departed visits it’s from a dimension called the future. It shouldn’t be sought. And don’t doubt a loved ones angel can’t pass by.. God is caring.}

     But we shall all be changed! 52 In a moment! In a mere twinkling of an eye. At the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound. And the dead will be raised imperishable, and we too {“who remain”} shall be changed! 53 For this perishable must - put on - the imperishable, and - this mortal - must put on, immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then, shall come to pass, the saying that’s written, “Death is swallowed up in victory!” 55 “O grave, where has gone your victory? O death, where is your sting?” [Kentron - sting, venom, goad “as in Greek writings an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden; hence, the proverb πρός κέντρα λακτίζειν, to kick against the goad”.]

     56 The sting that delivers death is sin [hamartia - missing the mark] and the power of that sting is the law. {And ultimately, GOD iS life, and “is perfect”. An iron/unbreakable measuring rod. OnLy perfect endures.} 57 But thanks be to God! Who GIVES us - the victory - through, our Lord Jesus Christ! {Perishable and perishing/entropy, right down to the root of it, imperfection/hamartia/missing the mark - we’re all in the same boat - remedied by what’s called God’s Great Plan of Salvation, “the Way”. The way that includes writing his law upon submitted, yielded heart, mind and psyche, collectively and individually. Humanity and paradise/perfection then “sealed”. Total ‘herd’ immunity. The dis-ease as part of the cure, versus an Ant Farm creation. “The lion will eat straw.. the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7.. “Of the increase of HiS government [misrah - dominion, government, rule] and peace there shall be no end” Is.9:7.]

     58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast and immovable! Always abounding in the Lord’s work, knowing that, in him, your labor is not in vain. {With HiS attitude of Love. Herald the news. Let the news do it’s work? Like scattering seed. Sans self.]

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 16:1-7

 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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