🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
• Romans 7:5-10 John 5:1-17 and ACTS 16:1-19 separately
☀️ Romans 7:5-10
5 - For while we were living in the lower nature/carnality [Gal.5:20 ..discord, dissensions, factions, hatred, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition..] our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in us bearing {dark} fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law {system, courts} - having died to that which held us captive - so that we now serve in the new way of the Spirit. And not in the old way of the written code. {Outward compliance to earn Life/transformation, doesn’t work. The Law is to sum up the moral code that preserves society. But genuine inward change and newness - is worked by God who iS life. And that is what works. Submission, a “whole burnt offering on his altar” fully yielded. After all, it’s He who has our highest blueprint!}
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? [Hamartia - misses the mark?] Of course not! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known what is sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet, if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” 8 But {tricky} sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness! {Like forbidden fruit, seduces, entices and excites.} Otherwise it lies dormant. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life, proved to be death to me.
🌙 John 5:1-17
1 - After this there was an annual feast day {Purim? Not in Lev.23, added later in commemoration of being saved from annihilation in the days of Esther} and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 In Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate is a pool, and its Aramaic name is Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a number of people, blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 There was a man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 Jesus knew he had been lying there a long time, and he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred (by an angel, healing the first person to enter the pool) and while I am going, another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said, “Get up, take up your bed/mat and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath. 10 So the leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It’s the Sabbath! And it’s not lawful for you to carry your bed.” 11 And he answered them, “The man who healed me, he said to take up my bed, and walk.”12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” 13 Now the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, there being a crowd, and Jesus had gone on.
14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went to the leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. {Breaking theiR rules for the Sabbath, no compassion for the man now healed.} 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working all this while, and so am I.”
Tomorrows verses, 02/06
Romans 7:11-8:2 John 5:18-29
Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)
have a great day! ☀️🕊️
