09-13 - James 4 7-11 Luke 11 29-36

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}

(An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. James 4:7-11

{James. natural birth brother of Jesus, pulls no punches. ..Instead of Galatians 5:20, rivalry, self interest and promotion, etc} 7 - Submit yourselves to God! Resist the devil! {And the devilish.} And he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God. And he will draw near to you.

     Clean up your lives, you sinners! [Harmatoi - we missing the mark.] Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind! 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep! Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom! {Heartfelt remorse for any evils done and even flaws. This is not the world’s racial shaming for political advantage. Or passing judgment on our fellows. It’s self judgment. The contrast (imperfection/straying, the comparison to GOD’s kingdom/perfection) matters, boTh collective, aNd, individual. Imperfect cannot work. God iS life and is perfect, 1Jn.5:20, Mt.5:48, and so, thus, this entropy, a slow gehenna from which “God is savior..” 1Tim.4:10.}

     10 Humble yourselves before the LORD, and he will lift you up! [Hupsoó - to lift or raise up, uplift, lift on high, exalt] {especially during his long second advent?}

     11 Don’t speak evil against one another, brethren/brothers and sisters! {Moderately left and moderately right, hell believers and hell not believers.. on and on?}

     The one who speaks against a brother or sister or judges his brother or sister, speaks evil against the truth. And judges the truth. But if you judge the truth, you’re then not a doer of truth, but a judge.

     12 There is one Lawgiver, who’s able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

            🌙 P.M. LUKE 11:29-36

(As some were accusing - saying he was casting out demons by the ruler of demons - others were asking him for a sign, and) 29 - As the crowd of people was increasing, Jesus said, “This generation is a troublesome generation. {“This generation” - also humanity as a whole?}

     It seeks for a sign, but there will be no sign but the sign of Jonah. 30 Just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation. {To that generation, and ultimately to all humanity. “Wheel within wheel”, stretched from one another, is the shape of a trumpet. The pattern of all prophecy? Fulfilled in scopes, smaller to larger.. Smaller scope to full scope, including the Lord’s advents! To full scope, the end-aim, greek word “tel”. Root of telescope, usually translated ‘end’. Everything has an end-aim.}

     31 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment, with the men of this generation and give judgment against them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and look, something greater than Solomon is here!

     32 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and express judgment, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and look, something greater than Jonah is here!

     33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl, but they put it on a lampstand or table, so those who enter may see by its light.

     34 Your eye is the lamp of your body, and if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye isn’t good, you’ll be full of darkness. 35 Therefore be careful, lest the light that’s in you is actually darkness, and not light. 36 And if you are full of light, having no darkness, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its - radiance - gives light.” {We’re not perfected until the “last day” at harpazo, Hebrews 11:40. But we (I) should be progressing in love for all.}

           

Tomorrows verses, 09/14

James 4:12-17 Luke 11:37-54

Revelation Study, began on 09/11, Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah - The Vision - 1st week - 6:1-4

Word references - biblehub dot com’s app

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 good day! ☀️🕊️

06-26 - From Heb-6 Lk-2

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

Hebrews 6:1-6  Luke 2:21-38

             ☀️ A.M. Hebrews 6:1-6

1 - Therefore let us go on from the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God {stage one?} 2 and of the instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection [anastasis] of the dead, and of aiónios judgment. [Aiónios is the adjective of the noun, aion, root of eon, but translated eternal or forever.]

     3 And move on, we shall do, if God allows. 4 For it’s nigh impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, have shared in the Holy Spirit{/Presence of God} 5 and have tasted the goodness of the message of God, and the powers of the coming age (“aion”) 6 and then have fallen away. It’s impossible - for us - to restore such a one again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God in their heart, and causing him to be ridiculed. {So if we’re teaching morality license, we’re working against God and his purposes.} 

            🌙 P.M. Luke 2:21-38

21 - And then on his eighth day, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

     22 And when the time came for their purification, according to the Law of Moses [after forty days] they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord at the temple, 23 as written in the Law of the LORD, it being written, “every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the LORD”. 24 And so they offered a sacrifice according to the Law, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” {Parallel and patterned after HiS being the only begotten, only straight out from God, who is Life.. Genius.. Perfection, and is called and will forever be “the Firstborn (of) all Creation”.}

     25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit{Presence of God} that he wouldn’t see death until he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, 28 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, 29 “LORD! Now you are letting your servant depart in peace! According to your word to me, 30 for my eyes have seen the salvation 31 you’ve prepared for all peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the nations, and for glory to your people Israel!”

     33 And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed. 35 A sword will pierce through your own soul, and the hearts of many will be revealed.”

     36 There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband for seven years, 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. 38 And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the delivery and redemption [lýtron - full ransom-price] of Jerusalem.

           

Tomorrows verses, 06/27

Hebrews 6:7-11  Matthew 2:13-23

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! ☀️🕊️

05-01 - Titus-1 Mt-24

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

 • Titus 1:1-9  Matthew 24:45-51

            ☀️ A.M. Titus 1:1-9

1 - From Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus, I’m writing for the well being of the faith, to keep intact the knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness. 2 And is in expectation of enduring Life, which God - who never lies - promised before the ages began.

     3 And at the proper time, has brought to light and made known, his message through the proclamation with which I’ve been entrusted by the command of God our Savior —

     4 To Titus, my true child in this common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Savior.

     5 This is why I left you in Crete, so you might put what remains to be done in order, and appoint elders in every town as I laid out, 6 those who are above reproach, the husband of one wife. His children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or unruly and rebellious. 7 For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant, or quick-tempered, or a drunkard, or violent, or greedy for gain, 8 but must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

     9 And he must hold firm to the trustworthy message as taught, so he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to correct those who contradict it.

            🌙 P.M. Matthew 24:45-51

45 - “Who then” Jesus said, “is a wise and faithful servant? Whose master has set over his household, to give out food at the proper time? 46 Blessed are the servants the master finds so doing when he returns.

     47 Truly, I tell you, he’ll set them over all he has. 48 But if a wicked servant, says in his heart, ‘the master is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat up on his fellow servants” {including with words?} “and eats and drinks with drunkards.” {His communion is with the confused, the world, its ideas and value system.} 50 “The master of that servant will come on a day not expected, and at an hour they don’t know.

     51 They’ll be strayed and their place [meros - part, portion, share, role?] will be with the hypocrites.” {And naturally} “There’ll be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

     {Mt.13:30 as Rev.16:14-15-16 ! And (or) Mt.25:1-13(10) - The three mentions of lake of fire are at huge, fiery events - the initiaL (inneR) conditions of - some - of those who rise “still in their imperfection/hamartia - missing the mark” in the “2nd resurrection” (which is strongly suggested by the first one being called “first”) are portrayed in the rich man and Lazarus parable, and in the - outside-of-the vision narrative of Revelation 22.}

           

Tomorrows verses, 05/02

Titus 1:10-16  Matthew 25:1-13

Start 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! ☀️🕊️

All Manner Of Doctrine

It's great to be able to go on the world wide web and discuss all manner of doctrine with many others of the household of God.

But when He comes, will He find us teaching "believe in Jesus" or will He find us beating one another? Will He find faith on the Earth?

The most insidious thread having weaved its way into the fray, is the thought that if one disagrees with another's doctrine, they are not part of the household of the Lord.

When Jesus prayed - let them be one as the Father and He are one. And the scripture says the fruit of the flesh (imperfect carnal character) includes such things as sects, party sentiment, factions.

We all should always remember to rightly divide our zeal for Truth and the spirit of competition, which of course, competition, is of that lower flawed and carnal character. Truth needs no one's defense. Our attitude should be say it and shake the dust..

Whenever we spy an insidious thread slithering its way amongst us we should immediately pierce it in its tracks with the sharp double edged sWord of Truth. (Pierce it with love.)

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love" - the Apostle John, 1 Jn 4:7,8.

Such words will likely not convince one who does not love, but perhaps such words may prevent one who does love from falling into the same snare.