05-16 - 1Pet-4 Jn-15

N.Testament & Prophecy Advanced CU Study, verses paraphrased  [ ] references { } thots

 • 1 Peter 4:1-8  John 15:1-17

            ☀️ A.M. 1 Peter 4:1-8

1 - Since Jesus suffered in this life, arm yourselves with the same thinking, for whoever has suffered in this life, has ceased from habitual wrongdoing, 2 and strives to live for the rest of the time in this life, no longer for things humans are passionate for, but is now passionate for the will of God.

     3 For the time is past and suffices for doing what the nations {natural, imperfect mankind} want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and all the lawlessness which idolatry {misdirected view, all confusion} results in. 4 So people {especially gentile nations at the time?} think it strange when you don’t run with them in the way of debauchery {their gentile rites} and they speak evil of you.

     5 But they’ll give account to he who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 And - to this end indeed - that even to the dead, the good news is announced. {During second half of millennium 8.}

     So he (Jesus) was judged indeed according to mankind in this life {if you don’t fit in ..to Satan, thus the nation’s scheme and theme “off with their head!” as they say} but alive however in the spirit according to God.

     7 The end of all things is at hand. {That age, concluding at 70 CE, and as last hour of these first 6 millennium approaches, the gospel and prophecy become understood? So again speak.} Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, keep genuinely and wholeheartedly loving one another, since love covers a multitude of sins [of hamartia - missing the mark, flaws, shortcomings]..

            🌙 P.M. John 15:1-17

(Jesus to his disciples) 1 - “I’m the true vine {of Life} and my Father is the gardener and keeper of the vineyard.

     2 Every branch - in me - that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away” {‘forever’ has come to be assumed, as so many are steeped in the ancient, cruel spiritual propaganda myth/enchantment} “and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes [kathairó - cleanses, purifies, prunes, removes the dead growth] so it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean [katharos] {pruned} because of the message I’ve spoken to you.

     4 Now, abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it stays on the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I’m the vine. You’re the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in them, will bear much fruit. But apart from me you can do nothing.

     6 If anyone doesn’t abide in me they’ll become a dry branch that falls away and withers.” {And if it is during last hour(s) will be gathered to the bonfire called armageddon? Siren call being division, rage? Mt.13:30. And near or far won’t matter, Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4.}

     7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, whatever you ask for in prayer, will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

     9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments/instructions/sayings/words, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I’ve spoken to you, so my joy may be in you! And so your joy may be full.

     12 And this is my commandment - that you love one another” (left aNd right!!!! are we listen-inG?? Get our heads out of “the world”. Division is the siren caLL to armageddon(s) large and small - a 2024 ‘study’ note) — “aS I have loved you!

    13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down their life for their friends.” {Including laying down our politics.} 14 “You are my friends iF you do what I tell you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, for all that I’ve heard from my Father I’ve made known to you. 16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 This I command you - that you love one another.”

           

Tomorrows verses, 05/17

1 Peter 4:9-19  John 15:18-27

Start/End the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

Jesus said he “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

have a great day! ☀️🕊️

May-16 From Jn-15 1Pet-4

   Enter The Story Daily

a paraphrased scripture study

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GospeL Verses ~ John 15:1-17

1 - “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinekeeper [geórgos - from gé - the earth, land, and ergon - work]. 2 Every branch - in me - that doesn’t bear fruit he takes away from the vine, and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean [katharós - a primitive word – properly, "without admixture" what is separated, purged so clean, pure because unmixed, without undesirable elements, figuratively spiritually clean because purged/purified by God, i.e. free from contaminating influences] because of all I have spoken to (instructed) you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit on its own and by itself, unless it stays on the vine, neither can you - unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine. You are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in them, will bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me they are cast away, and like a fallen off branch, it withers and is gathered to be thrown into the fire, and burned. (In a bonfire, not in an eternal fire pit, Mt.13:30 is Rev.16:13-16; Rev.13:13 was the 1st ‘bonfire’ but carried out by an office. The 1st seal 6 event, but hidden by describing the seals as their entire effects, first to very last, at the beginning of the vision.) 7 If you abide in me, and, my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified. For you will bear much fruit and prove you are my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commands [entolé - injunctions, orders, commands, from en - in, at, by, with, and télos - the end-aim, reach the end, consummation, focusing on the end result, objective of the instruction] then you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands/instructions and abide/stay/dwell in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you so that my joy will be in you, and so your joy will be full.

     12 “And this is my commandment - that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down their life (and interests) for their friends, 14 and you are my friends if you do as I say.

     15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what their master/mister/boss is doing. But I call you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. And I have appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name (for my cause) he will give it to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another.

     (I think the message to translators, sometimes is just too simple.. So they hazed it a little, well actually a lot. Chose the harshest interpretations and some overly difficult instructions. As a small example some versions say - “These things I command you, so that you will love one another” when the simple direct translation is the straightforward - “This I command you - this is my command - that you love one another.” Best done by abiding/staying in him.)

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From New Testament Letters

     (In the Order Believed Written)

                ~ 1 Peter 4:1-8 ~

1 - Since therefore Jesus suffered in this life, arm yourselves with the same thinking, for whoever has suffered in this life has ceased from habitual wrongdoing, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in this life no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 3 For the time is past and suffices for doing what the nations (natural, imperfect mankind) want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and the lawlessness idolatry results in. 4 In this they they think it strange when you don’t run with them in the flood of debauchery, and they speak evil of you. 5 But they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 To this end indeed even to the dead the good news is (will be ) announced so that judged indeed (discerned) according to mankind in this life (as we presently know it?) but live [záō – to live, experience God's gift of life] however in the spirit according to God.

     7 The end of all things is at hand (that age, concluding at 70 CE) therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, keep genuinely and wholeheartedly loving one another, since love covers a multitude of sins [hamartia - missing the mark, flaws, shortcomings].

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, facts, cross references, etc.

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Tomorrow’s Verses:

John 15:18-27

1 Peter 4:9-19

Acts & Rev - weekly

And currently Zechariah.. recently Daniel

Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox!⛲️

               📜🍞+🍷🕊️(+Logic)

        “do this in remembrance of me”

                    word & worship

                         and logic

                    root word logos

Has The Gospel Message Lost Any Of Its Glory Since First Delivered?

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.. ..And man, "male and female, in His own image".

And every thing was very good" [from Genesis 1:1, 27 and 31].  And God himself, surely? Is both Life (itself) and Perfection (without flaw or weakness or limitation).

"..The Lord God breathed into his nostrils (the) breath of life, and the man became a living creature" [Genesis 2:7].

But in their heart, mankind has wandered away from perfection and God who is life. (A possibility and side effect of thinking ability?) "For all have sinned" (in the original language - missed the mark) "and come short of the splendor of God" [Romans 3:23]. And "the results of sin" (imperfection) "is death" [Romans 6:23]. Imperfection, being the opposite of Life/God.

"But! The gift of God is eternal life in Jesus!" [Romans 6:23]. "Which works" (the rescue) "was finished from the foundation/creation of the world" [Hebrews 4:3].

Jesus said, "If I be lifted up from the earth" (on the cross) "I will draw all men to me" [John 12:32]. Another translation puts it like this - "And I" said Jesus, "when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

1 Timothy 4:10 says "we trust in the living God! Who is the Savior of all men! Especially of those who believe." Another version says "who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing." God, our Father, is the savior of all.  -- Perfect (surely?) makes no mistakes. Can lose nothing.

"...He made known to us the mystery of his will, that when the times reach their fulfillment He might gather together all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth" [Ephesians 1:9,10]. "And through Jesus to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven.." [Colossians 1:20].

"Behold," the Book of Revelation says "I make all things new.. the river of life from the throne, as clear as crystal.."

"He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes between nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, with none troubling, for the Lord Almighty has spoken" [Micah 4:3,4]. "The cow and the bear shall graze, their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox" [Isaiah 11:7].

Christianity has been made up of human beings, and the gospel message has been passed down through human hands for nearly two thousand years. That the message has lost some of its glory, and picked up some baggage along the way, is not surprising. As the Gospel (Greek for "good news") has come to be preached and taught, it would seem one of two impossibilities would be true. God is not perfect, certainly not all powerful. Or, God is not all good. But some darkness resides within Him. (And thus He too misses the mark, and can only fade?)

Is it possible we have come to greatly underestimate Him? And His great plan (intent) of salvation and reconciliation (perfection)? "The grave" has been translated to read "hell". Which, surely, casts a great shadow upon His character. And contradicts both the good news and the Holy Bible. The "lower part of the earth" and "the place of the dead" is still the grave.

"Preaching via the Spirit to those awaiting the ark and flood", was in that day, not in a mythical, all hope is lost 'hell'. "These will be coming into eonian (agelasting) chastening/curtailing" has been translated into "these will go away into eternal punishment" [Matthew 25:46 ]. And the phrase "in the deepest depths of darkness, locked into judgment" also, does not equate to a lower chamber in 'hell'! A closer translation for judgment, would be "decision" (from the Greek word "krisis"). Even "Gehenna" the city dump has been translated to read 'hell'!

"All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will worship before Thee" Psalm 22:27.

"So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it" [Isaiah 55:11]. "I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and it turns not back, that to Me, every knee shall bow and every tongue swear" [Isaiah 45:23].

"‘As surely as I live' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me, every tongue will acknowledge God’” [Romans 14:11]. Ultimately, all humans will repent.. there may even "be weeping and gnashing of teeth" in "outer darkness" but if God says all will bend the knee and all families of the nations will worship (rejoice) before Him, who are we to contradict His Word. His Promise.

In 1 Corinthians 15:22-28, it says, "In Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order - Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. Then (also) -- the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished all rule, authority and power.. and the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.. all things having been subdued unto him, that He may be (the) all in all".

From Revelation 21:1,4,5 - "There will be new heavens and a new Earth.. God shall wipe away all tears ...there shall be no more death. Behold, I make all things new."

"..Though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.." [Psalm 46:2]. Even if man's world were to crash in an hour and fall in a day, "HIS kingdom will never end!" [Luke 1:33].

"We will not fear, for God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble" [Psalm 46:1].

Jesus said "Abide in me" [John 15:4] and “if you abide in My word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth" [John 8:31].

"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.. We may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help" [James 4:8; Hebrews 4;16] ..for the help and ongoing transformation we need.

"We shall be like Him" [1 John 3:2].

"For the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness (gentleness), faithfulness, humility, and self-control (temperance)" [Galatians 5:22,23].

"God is love" [1 John 4:8].
  

Bit Of A Dry Spell

09/19/12 - I've been having a bit of a dry spell lately, so I've decided to re-read a book I read at the beginning of my "saved" journey. It is called "Waiting On God" by Andrew Murray who lived 1828-1917 and was a very energetic and motivated, prolific writer. I like how the foreword of the book describes him as an elderly gent very intent on what he was writing and would go from book to book, no sooner getting one done and then beginning another. By this time in his life (of writing "Waiting On God") he had developed the habit of writing these little soft cover books in a series of thirty one chapters of a page or two, for easy reading over the course of a month. I'm a slowpoke however and usually take about three days for a chapter!
- This book is about the practice and mindset of always waiting upon/for God. Early on too, around the same time, I also read another great instructional book called "Abide In Me" which was, of course, about the verse and quote of Jesus "I am the vine, you are the branches, abide in me..."
- I bought "Waiting On God" on Ebay a couple or few years ago and plan to look for "Abide In Me" soon, written also, I believe by Andrew Murray.