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1 | dreaming someone is running naked | Bible general Archive 1 | Giam | 46897 | ||
Hi Kimberly, Great question! If the dreamer hates being naked, or poor, or homeless, then the dream is to get the dreamer to love being naked and poor and homeless just as the dreamer loves being clothed and rich and unhomeless! If the dreamer loves being both, it is just a dream that confirms that the dreamer's love is perfect when it comes to the Love for being clothed and unclothed, poor and rich and in a home or homeless! 2 corinthians 12:9-10. Revelation 3 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Luke-warm in what? Matthew 24 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Rev 3 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Ecclesiastes 5 3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. And how are we to fear God? In Love of him or in hate of him? 1 John 4 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. So we are to fear God in Love of him. Dreams come because God designed our brains to work by words and their opposites, and all words work by the master word Love. Matthew 22:36-40, 7:12, 12:34-37. All words and their opposites are interdefinable. That is, for example, to give is to take from yourself, and to take is to give to yourself. and Love keeps them re-bound, by re-minding us to love each word and its opposite, and so helps us to re-member to love, which is why Love is the true spirit of re-ligion!! So we can't ever give without taking or receiving. See? So if u ever only loved giving and hated receiving, you wd be disrupting how your brain is proceesing those words: as opposite sides of the same coin! see? So can u guess what wd happen in that situation? Right, u wd have a dream about someone taking every thing from u! or someone robbing u or etc! see? That is the brain's way, as God-designed, to jog you: shd u not love yourself as a giver and as a taker since to give is to... and to receive is to...! see? But unless u are told waht is happening and why, u are then apt to wake up even more determined to only give because u now hate thieves! Then? Then u'd get another dream about waht u hate! See? So think back: were not all your night mares about things u hated? Uh huh? So guess waht? All nightmares are dreams about what or who u hate! And all good dreams are about what and who u love! right? So if u want all sweet dreams, God commands us to lvoe all words! See? Matthew 22:36-40. 5:43-48. And to lvoe all all words, u have to love u as all words and their opposites! It is that simple! Then as u love yourself as all words and their opposites, all your sleep wd be sweet and u wd have sweet dreams like this: Proverbs 3 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Ok. feel better? Hope so. Love and respect, Giam |
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2 | Lust in marriage?/ definition of lust | Deut 14:26 | Giam | 46875 | ||
tlh54! Great question! Short and quick answer; Lust is the desire for anything u love atached to your hatred for its opposite which u DON'T desire! The most generalised definition of Lust is: To desire anything or anyone out of HATE for the opposite thing or opposite one! It works with all words and their opposites! To desire the kingdom of God in hatred for today's world is to lust after God's K! Amos 5:18-21 Here are other examples: To desire your wife out of Love for not having sex means u are NOT lusting for her since there is no sin of hate over-pushing the pull of your desire for her! U ever played basketball? There is a foul called the push-off foul! Same thing! To desire your wife in hate of not having sex is lust! The lust is in the hatred! Better put, the sin in the lust is in the hatred for NOT getting what u want! To desire money that u love out of HATE for being poor is to lust for the money! 1 tim 6:10 The sin is NEVER in the Love but in the thing u hate! See the trick? To desire to be full out of Love for being empty means there is no lust involved because there is no hatred for the opposite of what u want! see? So loving and so wanting in Love money and sex and food and anything is ok! So the sin is in hating what u don't want! So: Lust is simply desire in Love of one thing out of Hate for the opposite thing! Now here is how balanced u wd be if u loved yourself as every word and its opposite as in loving yourself as your own best friend and as your own worse enemy as in Matthew 5:43-48: Philippians 4 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. So the only type of desire appropriate in marriage is the same desire appropriate in all life: All desire in marriage is appropriate when that desire is in Love for what opposite u don't want! So too: all non-desire in life is ok as long as it is NOT in hate for what opposite is NOT desired! So true enough we have: Hebrews 13:1-4, ESPECIALLY VERSE 4, which in Love means: Let brotherly Love continue IN LOVE OF NON-FAMILY AND IN LVOE OF STRANGERS. Levit 19:18, 34. SO Be not forgetful to entertain strangers IN LVOE OF FAMILY: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds IN LOVE FOR THEM WHO ARE FREE, AND SO as bound IN LOVE with them; and them which suffer adversity IN LOVE OF THOSE WHO ARE IN PROSPERITY, AND SO as being IN LOVE yourselves also in the body. SO Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled AS LONG AS ALL u want IS IN LOVE FOR WHAT U DON'T WANT! but whoremongers WHO FIRST PROSTITUTE/SELL THEIR LOVE FOR BEING SOMETHING OR FOR HAVING SOMETHING and so end up also selling the next best thing: their bodies, and adulterers WHO first spiritually ADULTERATE THEIR LOVE WITH HATE and so end up committting physical adultery, God will judge IN LOVE OF THOSE HE JUDGES AND IN LVOE OF THOSE WHOM HE DOES not JUDGE. ah, it is so good to me to say that! and I hope profitable to you and all who read it! By the same principle of Love and of the sin of hatred, Lust/covetousness is also idolatry, idolatry being what we allow to get us to disobey God by hating it rather than loving it as God commands, an idol being wahtever stops us from obeying God! So Idolatry, by hating what God wants us to love, leads directly to Lust which is to want anything out of Hate for its opposite, which opposite becomes the idol because i hate it! The perfect circle! Here it is as is: Colossians 3 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Hope that helps! Love and Respect, Giam |
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3 | Bible Study | Acts 20:35 | Giam | 46820 | ||
Hi ImTrying, Show them how words are interconnected in the Bible and in all languages. Thsi is very simple yet very helpful,in helping them to think! Examples: Is Math English? 10 is ten. Is english math? Of course: eight is 8. Is english art? Well do we draw latters and numsers? Is art english? Can u spell a-r-t? Is history english? Yes, history is an english word. Is English history? We have the History of English. is giving taking? To give is to take from oneself! Is taking giving? To take is to give to oneself! Acts 20:35 is math history? We have the History of Math. Is History math? What is 1776? 911? This will keep em going for hours! And of course u can make up some of your own! FYI: Every subject is also stored in our brians AS ENglish and as THAST subject, espec in ref to math! Hey, here is another one: Is spanish englis? Yes, can u spell spanish? Is english spanish? yes, the spanish word for english! Can u be patient without loving being sick? No! for sick people are patients! So people who hate being sick are very im-patient and ahve littel patients and very few patience! smile Hope that helps! Please tell me how it goes! smile Love and Respect, little giam |
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4 | Gaim, why did Herod kill Bethlehem babes | Matt 2:16 | Giam | 46717 | ||
Searcher! That's it! U make all valid points! So that is how god operates: he wrote it in such a way that honest people cd differ in Love, and so only agree on Love! When we think about it, it does not really mater which town they left from, right? smile keep up the good thinking in Love for all other points of view! Then the only thing we are certain of is: Love for each other! write u more later! Love and Respect, giam |
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5 | Does love or hate sinners? matt 5:43-48 | Ex 23:22 | Giam | 46442 | ||
Does God love or hate sinners? matthew 5:43-48 is waht the previous short q shd have been! l and r, giam |
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6 | what are 3 major points in chapter 17 | Matt 5:43 | Giam | 46408 | ||
Jeri, The 3 points are: 1. To love self as leper so we can love lepers as ourselves, and so not have to be leprosy-free to lvoe self, and so to remember where we came from and so remember who healed us and so to go back to say thank u. Love being the spirit of memory or remembrances or memorials. 2. To hate self as a leper is to be so overexcited at being leper-free, so over-certain that to be leper-free is my right, and is to be so unwilling to remember and so to be so willingly forgetful of my former hated state of leprosy, that the leper-self-hater is unthankful for what he thinks is his right and so ungratefully forgets who he was and also who healed him! Hatred of self as any word being the spirit of forgetfulness: no one wants to remember what they hate about themselves and so s/he willingly forgets anyone even the healer who wd remind them of the hated state they were in. 3. Only 1 on 10 loves self as leprosy-free AND as leprous! Love and respect, Giam |
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7 | Two different groups of 144,000? | Rev 14:1 | Giam | 46343 | ||
Mommapbs! Good thinking! Keep it up! Your logic is impeccable! Love and Respect, Giam |
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8 | is this promise an everlasting promise | Gen 12:7 | Giam | 46341 | ||
Jmodanie! great q! Here is the best explanation! God'd greatest gift to us is Love. God commands us to love each other by loving ourselves as each other! Matthew 22:36-40, Leviticus 19:17-18, 34. God's second greatest gift is life: for we are supposed to live life in Love! Deut. 30:19-20. And Love is waht makes life worth living! Life without Love is not worth living! So? So my love for u, my wanting to share my Love with u is the ONLY reason WHY I wd want to share LAND or anything else with u! See? So because God wants us to understand the importance of that love, guess waht he did? He promised the land to BOTH parties: To the children of Israel, Genesis 12:7 and to the children of Esau!! wherever they get their claim! Aha! See? Why? To get us to share the land! When our parents gave me and my brother one loaf of bread, cd we both eat it? We had to SHARE it! So it is the same thing wityh anyting else! And with land: when God promises us the same thing, it is clear that He wants us to share it! See? But to share the land or anything, what must we first share? Correct: Love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why? Because if we hate each other, that Hatred means that since we we don't want to share the most important thing, since we WILL NOT, we WON'T share the greatest gift, LOVE, then we won't share anything else! With hate for each other by hating ourslevesa s the other, we prefer to DIE than to share! See? Is that what is happening in the Middle East? Correct! Now u know why! Sigh Now here is an example of what will happen when we love ourselves in the same way God loves us: Look who'll be first with God with HIS equal Love for all! Isaiah 19 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. 24 In that day shall Israel be THE THIRD with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: 25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. That is the long answer! The short answer is: God keeps all of his promises IN LOVE for all to whom he promises anything and in Love to whom he promises the same thing or something else! Romans 3:1-4 Hope this helps! Love and Respect, Giam |
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9 | Giam, Where did they go from (vv13-14)? | Matt 2:16 | Giam | 46337 | ||
Hi Searcher! Matthew 2:22-23 is when they HAD COME BACK from Egypt! See verse 14: they departed into egypt from wherever. And then when Herod was dead, verse 19, they bypassed judea due to herod's son being in power, v.22, and went back to Naz:23. Now as to from where they departed to Egypt: from Betlehem or from Nazareth. It wd seem to me that they had left from Naz, their home town, Luke 2:4, to which they wd have naturally returned after going to the temple 40 days after Christ's birth, Luke 2:21-22, 39, and remained there for at least one year, or for just more than one year, with NO threat to Christ's life for that whole first year, until the wise men came and alarmed herod, matthew 2:1-8, which wd tend to prove that the family was NOT still in Bethlehem and so wd not have had to flee from there: when the wise men took off for bethlehem: Herod himself sent then there! matthew 2:6,8, the star kept going!verse 9. if Herod had his spies waiting for them in Bethlehem, as he probably had, they wd have been waiting in vain for the magi never turned up: for the star kept going north to naz rather than south to beth! So it wd seem that they had returned to naz, Luke 2:39, and had been there for just over one year, when and where the wise men wd have found the young child "in the house," Matthew 2:11, at least one year after JC's birth, Matthew 2:7, 17 and from where the wise men then continued on north and east away from jerusalem and so escaped from herod who was down south. I also say naz because of matthew 2:7 and 17: based on what herod asked the wise men specifically, he realised that they first had seen the star about one year before he talked to them. To him, it wd have seemed that the baby had been born when the star first appeared! So since WE know that the babe was born in Bethlehem, there wd have been no reason for the family to have stayed there for nearly or just over one year when their home town was nazareth! See? Then of course, that is why to cover all bases herod then killed all kids under 2! That is why Christ is thot to be about 2 or under 2 or between 1 and 2 when the magi arrived. See? In other words, if the wise men had told herod that they first saw the star 6 months ago, he wd have killed all boys under one year of age. But since thay told him that had seen the star about 12 months ago, he just killed all boys under two.... just to be safe. On other words, the time that Heord had over-estimated out as the top outer limit of Christ's age, and the time that Christ had been back in Nazareth is approximately the SAME TIME, with Herod's estimate being the greater of the two!! See? BUT, Searcher, that is just my idea. Any other idea u have is just as valid as long as your scenario includes all the facts in Luke and Matthew! Right? smile Love and Respect, Giam |
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10 | SIGNIFIGANCE TO #12? | Matt 12:2 | Giam | 46279 | ||
Hi Annalee, TWELVE. Denotes Governmental perfection. It is the number or factor of all numbers connected with government: whether by Tribes or Apostles, or in measurements of time, or in things which have to do with government in the heavens and the earth. Try this for more what other numbers mean: http://www.therain.org/appendixes/app10.html Love and Respect, Giam |
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11 | cannonization of Bible | Matt 22:40 | Giam | 46277 | ||
Hi Ranaymarie, U can try this: http://www.outofseason.com/canonization.htm And then go from there. Lovce and respect, giam |
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12 | Giam, did the magi go to Nazareth? | Matt 2:16 | Giam | 46243 | ||
Hi Searcher, It seems so based on Luke 2:39. Which wd explain also how the magi were able to easily escape from herod: matthew 2:12: 're-turn.' Love and Resepct, Giam |
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13 | How old was Jesus when the Magi brought | Matt 2:16 | Giam | 46156 | ||
Songbirdca, Here is how u can figure it out: Christ was born in a manger in Bethlehem: Luke 2:7, 12. He was then circimcised at 8 days of age: Luke 2:21. Mary then went from the Stable in Bethlehem to the Temple in Jerusalem after 32 days later: Luke 2:22, Leviticus 12:3-4: to present Jesus to God. And then they went back HOME to Nazareth. Luke 2:39. Then the wise men arrived and found Jesus IN THE HOUSE. MATTHEW 2:1,11. But how long after Chrsit got home to Nazareth did the wise men arrive? The only guide as to that time is that Herod, having enquired diligently of the wise men as to when they first saw the star, Matthew 2:7,16, told the wise men to go find 'the young child,' paidion, not babe, brephos as in Luke 2:12,16, 1:41, and he then killed every child under TWO years of age, when the wise men wisely did not go back to tell him where Christ was! Matthew 2:16. Hope that helps. Love and Respect, Giam |
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14 | Would you have recognized Christ? | John 15:16 | Giam | 46132 | ||
Hi Arnie! It is me Giam again. U ask some very interesting questions! smile I wd have recognised Jesus as the Christ if I had lived in Palestine when Christ was there by listening to and hearing what He said: IF He said we shd love our friends and love our enemies, and love all words and their opposites, He'd be the One! But if he said we shd love our friends and hate our enemies, and lvoe certain words and hate their opposites, I wd have know that he cd NOT be the one and that He wd not be the One! In Love if all words and their opposites, Giam |
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15 | Recognize Christ? | John 15:16 | Giam | 46128 | ||
Hi Arnie, That is a great q! The answer is based on this: God is Love, 1 John 4:8, and so His 2 great laws are about Love of God and neighbor as self by frist loving self as God and as neighbor, Matthew 22:36-40 and 7:12, on which ALL the Law and the Prophets hang. Thsi means that God loves us as all words and their opposites: Matthew 5:43-48, and that the first sin is to hate myself as any word! The formula for spiritual sin is: To love myself as any word and hate myself as the opposite word, like this: To love me as good and hate me as bad, to love me as just and hate me as unjust, to love me as strong and hate me as weak, to lvoe me as a freind and hate me as an enemy/opposite. So suppose I came preaching to you that Christ was good person or that He was/is The Son of God or that He was God, which wd all be all right, but I told u that we are to hate bad people and to hate Satan, God's adversary or opposite or enemy. That is HOW I cd come preaching that Christ was Christ and still deceive u! For I wd be preaching the right thing about Christ but in the wrong sinful attitude of hate for all the sinners God lvoes, and preaching the OPPOSITE of WHAT Christ taught about Love for the good as well as the bad!! See? And guess waht? That is the ONLY way to preach Christ and still decieve people! So for instance, to preach that we are to Love God and to love Satan and then in Love resist Satan is Godly! James 4:7. Satan only flees from Love! James 4:8 That wd be preaching Christ and doing so in Love for God's enemies! But to preach that we are to lvoe God but hate Aatan and then resist Satan in Hate is to preach Christ and still deceive u: For to resist Satan with hate for Satan is to lock him in in Hate in our minds when we think we are locking him out! For Satan never flees from hate: he is into that attitude of mind: so he pretends to flee to lull us into a false sense of security! See? So that is why Jesus reveals "one thing to one group, then reveals the OPPOSITE to another group": TO SEE IF WE WD ALSO LOVE THE OPPOSITE, THE ENEMY POINT OF VIEW TOO! For only by loving friends and enemies can we understand the whole truth of WHO God is: Love for both friends and enemies, for saints and for sinners, for all words and their opposites! See? Hope that helps. Love and respect, Giam |
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16 | why doe God use imperfect people | Matt 5:48 | Giam | 46125 | ||
Dear Bible9, God uses imperfect people because God loves imperfect people: there are hardly any other kind. Romans 3:23 God actually loves us as perfect and as imperfect because he loves Himself as perfect and as imperfect. Matthew 22:36-40, 7:12. In this way, His Love is always perfect whether we are perfect or imperfect, good or evil, just or unjust. Matthew 5:43-48. Or we can put it this way: His Love is made perfect and strong and whole in imperfection, in weakness and in the unwhole. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. And He is teaching us to love ourselves as perfect and imperfect, as all words and their opposites ,that we can love both those who are perfect and those who are imperfect as ourselves. Matthew 22:36-40. And this is how He, with perfect Love for the perfect and the imperfect, uses imperfect people: 1 Corinthians 1 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and because the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish/imperfect people of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak/imperfect people of the world to confound the people which are mighty; 28 And the base/imperfect people of the world, and people which are DESPISED hath God chosen, yea, and people who are nobodies, to bring to nought people that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30 But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Hope that helps. Love and Respect, Giam |
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17 | Discernment of false teachings | Eph 4:11 | Giam | 46115 | ||
Hi New Creature, Did u mean that u prefer to be divided by truth in Love of liars and wolves in sheep's clothing, than united by error in Hate of liars and of wolves in sheeps' clothing? I base my question on Ephesians 4:15: Ephesians 4 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: Looking fwd to your reply. Love and Respect, Giam |
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18 | Job DID charge God foolishly? | Job 1:22 | Giam | 46114 | ||
Dear Baptistbred, U are absolutely right in your inferences! Up to Job 2:10 and the end of Chapter 2, Job did NOT sin with his lips. But he soon ran out of his little oil of the Holy Spirit of Love, and so with the sin of hate in his heart began to sin with his lips from Job 3:1! Notice how it is says: After this, Job 3 1 After this opened Job the lips of his mouth, and with his lips cursed his day. To curse the day he was born was to curse God who gave him his day of birth! And to sin by cursing, Job HAD to be hating his day! And so hating God by hating himself! Matthew 12:34-37: Out of the abundance of the Love or Hate in the heart the mouth speaks. So true enough by verse 25, he realises that the very thing he hates and so fears in Hate has come upon him! 1 John 4:18 But it is not until Job 42, that Job realises that it was because of his attitude of hate that what he hated came upon him, and that it was GOD who had sent what he hated un him! And why did God send it? To get him to start loving who and what God loves! Ezekiel 23 28 For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Then with repentance of the sin of hate for being wrong AFTER Job 42:6, God blesses him double for being doubly right: for now Job is not only right in what he does, he does right IN the right attitude of Love for those who are wrong! Please see Matthew 5:43-48 and Luke 18:9. Hope this helps. Love and Respect, Giam |
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19 | How to forget my hurts and pains | 1 Peter | Giam | 46098 | ||
Hi Effie, Here is my answer to your question. Matt 18:35 "My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother FROM YOUR HEART." Forgiveness is based on THE Love IN YOUR HEART. And the love in your heart is based on how much Love u have been giving to yourself based on how much God and Christ love U! 1 john 4:18 And how much do they love u? As Themselves! John 15:9, Matthew 22:36-40, 7:12. And how much do they love themselves? All the way, all the time, at all times, as every word and its opposite. Proverbs 17:17, Romans 13:8. So before we can forgive others, we have to love them. And before we can love them, we have to lvoe ourselves. So the q to yourself is: Do u love yourself as your inlaws? God loves u as your inlaws. In other words, if u were them, wd u love u? And, if they were u, wd u love them? God loves u as them, and He loves them as u! See? If your answers were yes, then u wd have no problem forgiving them without forgetting waht they did! If any answer is no, there's your problem: u hate u as them and so hate them as urself, and so wd not forgive U if u hurt urself the way they hurt u, so it is no wonder u won't and can't forgive them neither. See? Hatred of yourself and so hatred of anyone as yourself IS the spirit of UNforgiveness! We can't forgive others for what we wd hate ourselves for doing! See? So your real problem is with yourself: U only love your self as certain words and hate yourself as the opposite of those word. If u still hate u for killing Christ, how can u forgive God for killing His own Son, and for using the His own people to kill him, and for asking Abraham to kill his own son, Issac? John 3:16, Genesis 22. See? Do u love u as a pleasure AND as a pain? See? If u hate u as a pain, u will not forgive u for being a pain to urself nor to others, and so not be able to forgive others who are pains to u or pain u? See? The real pain is the pain of hate u have for yourself, and so for others! That pain remains even after the other physical pains go away. And that is the pain that is keeping u from forgiving yourself and from forgiving them. So love u as all words and their opposites as God lvoes u, and u will lvoe urself as your inlaws and love them as yourslf and so forgive them as u forgive yourself! Matthew 18:15-35. Any word u hate u as is the word Christ is and is the word HE loves himself as and so loves u and them and me as! John 1:1, 12. See? Then guess what? YOur in-Laws will be come your In-Loves! Ok? Hope that helps. Love and Respect, Giam |
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20 | Filling up what is lacking? | Col 1:24 | Giam | 46085 | ||
Cheryl, Great question. For Christ's suffering to be perfect, He had to have perfect Love! 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. And that perfect unconditional Love meant that He loved suffering and he loved to not suffer, he loved being sick and well, rich and poor, friends and enemies, all words and their enemy-opposites! 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. So Christ's love was lacking NO love! That perfect Love is how He "offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His ENEMIES are made His footstool/FRIENDS! For by one offering IN PERFECT LOVE He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." by that very Love. John 13:34-35 So, Paul meant that HE Paul was learning to follow Christ's example and to love himself as sick and unhealthy, as ill and as well, as friend and as enemy, as all the other words and their opposites in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 and Romans 8:35-39 in order to make up for the Love that was lacking in HIM Paul that was present in Christ's Love for his affictions! See? So question: Do u love being in health and in sickness? Do u know of anyone who has been taught to love themselves as both each word and its opposite? Do u know of any married person who does even tho they promised, vowed to God to love their partners in health and in sickness? Can we love others without first loving ourselves? Then if we hate being sick, when we are sick, would we not be doubly sick: in our bodies and in our attitudes of minds? See? And so our Love wd be lacking the Love for being ill that was present in Christ's Love when he suffered for us! See? Another good example of how our lives are lacking the one hundred percent Love Christ's had and what Love he wants us to have like God has is found in Matthew 5:43-48 where Christ called on us to lvoe ourselves as good and as eveil, as just and unjust as perfect and as imperfect, so that our Love wd be perfect as the Love of God who lvoes us all as sinners and as saints, and so we wd be able to love all our neighbors and our non-neighbors as ourselves!! Matthew 22:36-40 and 7:12. Hope that helps. Love and Respect, Gima |
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