11-30 - 1 Corinthians 12 31 - 13 13

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☀️ 31 - And of course, the higher gifts are the more desirable. But I’ll tell you the most excellent way! 13 For if I should speak with a tongue of angels, but I don’t love, then I am just a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.

     2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge, or if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I’m nothing! 3 If I give away all I have, if I die for the cause, but have not love, I gain nothing.

     4 Love is patient and kind. Love doesn’t envy or boast. It’s not arrogant 5 or rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It’s not irritable or resentful. 6 It doesn’t rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices over the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

     8 Love never fails or passes away. As for prophecies, they pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial and incomplete will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. {My mind wandered down many hallways.} When I became an adult, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see as through a glass dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know in full, even as I have been fully known.

     13 So now faith, expectation [elpis - expectation, trust, confidence, hope?] {Usually/always translated, hope a lesser degree of “expectation”/trust} and love abide. And of the three, the greatest of is love. {Faith, Trust, Love. — God is Love. Love hAs to rule, there’s no other option. Because God is Life. Some get all tangled up in the strictness of God. But life cannot be contaminated and remain life. And so, this entropy. The world persuaded us to toss out the scripture, thinking like a child. This life is but a moment. In crises, he carries. In formation ages he had to take out, like transplanting into an untilled garden, awaiting being resurrected into an “age of correction” (aionion kolasin / eonian korrection, Mt.25:46) the GWT judgment ‘day’ SEE the Autumn holy days of Lev.23, the names and pattern. And preflood society, was highly cannibaalistic perhaps? Learned it from animals, which some animals turned predator quickly? Their “covering” angels having joined the “covering angel over Eden” when he revolted? As God of course knew he would, indeed the way engineered, this Truth journey is a one and done for heaven and earth.. Perhaps I’m imaginative, but did God say after the flood that man should be carnivore, so they would not be prey instead? — No option to stray in Eden would be an Ant Farm? Instead the dis-ease as part of the cure? And immunity.. And the original blueprint still stands! Love, genuine affection, is going to - totally - rule. We can trust God’s 100% pure Goodness. “The lion will eat straw like the ox, and the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7.}

     4 Love is patient and kind. Love doesn’t envy or boast. It’s not arrogant 5 or rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It’s not irritable or resentful. 6 It doesn’t rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices over the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [“God is Love” 1Jn.4:8.] 8 (And) Love never fails..

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:1-8

Oct-13 From Lk-20 Gal-4

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Today’s GospeL Verses ~ Luke 20:1-13

1 - As Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the good news [euaggelízō - from eú - good, well, and angellō - announce, herald(ing) the good message] the chief priests, scribes and some elders (leaders, authorities) came up 2 and said to him, “Tell us by what authority are you doing these things, or who it is that gave you this authority!” (To teach, and turn over the seller’s tables.) 3 He answered them, “I’ll ask you a question. Tell me, 4 was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?” 5 So they discussed it with one another, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he’ll say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ 6 But if we say, ‘From man,’ the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet.” 7 So they answered that they didn’t know where it came from. 8 And Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

     9 And he began to tell the people a parable, “A man planted a vineyard and he let it out to tenants and then he went into another country for quite a while.10 When harvest came, he sent a servant (worker) to the tenants, so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 And he sent another, but they also beat and treated him shamefully, and also sent him away empty-handed. 12 And he sent yet a third. This one also they beat and cast out. 13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son, perhaps they will respect him.’”

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From New Testament Letters

     (In the Order Believed Written)

                ~ Galatians 4:21-31 ~

21 - Tell me (Paul) - you who desire to be under the law, do you listen to the law? 22 For it’s written Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. (On in years Sarah insisted, due to lack of faith.) 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh/natural, while the son of the free woman was born through a promise. (Which started in Eden, which all peoples took memories, and a version of, from the dispersion from First Tower/Babel Tower. And God promised a son to Abraham, but now they were elderly.) 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically (though it is still literal) these women are two covenants/contracts/agreements/treaties. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children in slavery, she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia (from where the society preservative laws were given) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. (Held in bondage, a slave condition, because imperfect cannot ever make itself perfect.) 26 But the Jerusalem above is free! And it is she who is our mother! 27 For it’s written, “Rejoice, O barren one who has not borne, break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the other.”

     28 Now you, like Isaac, are children of the promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh/natural persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit. So also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman/covenant and her offspring, for the son (covenant) of the slave woman shall not (cannot) inherit with the son (Jesus) of the free woman.” 31 So, we are not of the slave woman (covenant) but of the free woman! (Covenant oF promise; a gift, “received by faith/believing and thus following. Our “communion” and filling “is with the Father and the Son - so close both administer God’s Spirit/Presence. And “God is Love”. And “love works no ill” and also, “never fails” 1Cor.13. 1Jn.4:8.)

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Tomorrow’s Verses:

Luke 20:14-19

Galatians 5:1-8

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!

Humanity and creation will be sealed with God’s Spirit/Presence. This is logic, for is anything else possible? For surely(?) God is Life.

A Line

𐂕 There was a line.. a thought, many (many) years ago, which drifted across a very blue sky.. and hit me in the head. After which, my life was never the same. I was never the same.
     What was this thought? "You've been learning about the forces in the universe" - I'd been reading up on world religions, and then astrology (spiritual) - "and what about the force that created the universe, and what if that force has consciousness?"

     Today while watching the last episode of one of the best shows I've ever watched, I heard this line - which sounded awfully familiar. I'll begin it midstream, where it struck me as familiar, "...about the forces that bind the universe, but what binds humans? Love.."*

     It's the same answer for both questions - "God is Love" - 1 John 4:8. ("Love never fails" - 1 Corinthians 13:8.)

"...until the time comes for the restoration of all things (pas - every, all, the whole)"... Acts 3:21

"..made known to us the mystery of His will.. at the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven, and on earth, together in Christ." Ephesians 9:10

"...through Jesus, to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven.." Colossians 1:20

And Revelation 21:5,4 - "Behold I will make all things new.. and death will be no more nor mourning nor crying nor pain; they will be no more.." None, anywhere!

God is love. ...Love never, ever, fails.

(*Last episode of "Numbers".)