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21 | What is this salvation? | Luke 2:30 | Asis | 106869 | ||
Mommapbs We must think as those in the time depicted in Luke 2. Salvation as known to the Jews was the Messiah. Hence the capitalization of the word. It is a person - Jesus. This is why Simeon can say "For my eyes have seen Your Salvation." Gen. 49:18 “For Your salvation I wait, O LORD." 'The word "salvation" is a figure of speech called "metonymy" (When one name or noun is used in place of another, to which it stands in a certain relation). Put for Him who brings deliverence from all the works of the old serpant (E.W. Bullinger, The Companion Bible).' Simeon is saying (my paraphrase) For my eyes have seen the Messiah, the destroyer of the works of the devil, God made flesh, the Word made flesh, He who is the One by which all was created, He who by which if we shall only believe we can be remade into begottens of God. The Cross is the method by which God used to make all His promises yes and amen in Christ Jesus. It is the cross that God has used to set us free. The cross - the place of death, where He died for us once for all. The cross - where I lay my "self" down to die with Him so I may be raised with Him in newness of life, shouting HALLELUJAH. GREAT IS THE NAME OF THE LORD. Asis |
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22 | What is the "sign to be opposed?" | Luke 2:34 | Asis | 106867 | ||
mommapbs The "sign to be opposed" is Jesus on the cross. Jesus hanging from a tree pierced in His side blood running down. The Jews were waiting for a redeemer who would rid them of their conquerors. They wanted a Judge as of old who would set them free from their opressors forever. The picture of their Messiah hanging from a tree would prove to be a stumbling block to them. So it is today. At this time of year it is all right and quite acceptable to talk about the birth of Jesus. The little Lord Jesus in an manger, Mary and Josef oogling their new born. The shepherds looking in awe as the animals speak and the 3 Kings from orient come to bring gifts to the new born King. We can even put this on TV without much objection. BUT do not talk about Jesus' death on the cross. Don't mention that He is the only way to the Father. Keep your mouth shut about salvation is only gained through Him. Talk that way and you will soon find that this "sign" is still the stumbling block it was 2003 years ago. Yes, this does indeed point to the sign of Jonah. Praise God for the Salvation of the Lord. Asis |
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23 | Still no place for Jesus. | Luke 2:7 | Asis | 106208 | ||
Augusto It is true that the inn keeper had no place for Joseph and Mary in the inn. However He did not turn them away. He could have said, "No place here for the likes of you," and turned them out into the street. No, he gave them a place out of the weather. A place warm and comfortable. There was even a cradle for the child to lie in. Yes, it was humble beginings for the Son of God, but it was enough. Do we have a place in our heart for Him. He doesn't care if it is the best room in the house, only that it is a place in our heart. Asis |
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24 | Unclean food for the Christian? | Lev 1:1 | Asis | 105981 | ||
Brother Tim How does Matthew 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. [KJV] fit in with what you are saying? Jesus seems to be telling us that the Law will stay in effect until the end of the age. I think that we as believers are not under the Law of sin and death but now are under a new Law, the law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2). Is it possible that when we try to do this "walk" by our own understanding and in our own effort that we place ourselves back under the Law that is still in effect for non-believers? The Law was the way to righteousness. A way that none of us could completely follow. A way of works. The purpose of the law was to show us that we, in our own effort, could not attain that which only Jesus was able to do, BE RIGHTEOUS. By our own inability to ovserve the Law in it entirety we learn how much sin is in control of our lives. We find that is is only through Jesus that we are able to attain the unattainable. Romans 3:21-28 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. [28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. [KJV] So now I understand that we are no longer under the law of sin and death but have a new and better contract the law of the Spirit of life. Not that the law has been abolished but that it has been superceded. In Christ Jeff |
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25 | How does one "take offense at" the Lord? | Matt 11:6 | Asis | 105585 | ||
Ray Repeatedly on this forum the Jews are mentioned as having rejected Jesus as the Messiah. If the bible I read is correct the "church", the followers of the Way, in the begining were Jews. It was the religous leaders, those back at headquarters, who refused to hear the message and believe the truth. For a long time the church had more Jewish believers in it than gentiles. Accepting the truth is no different today. When truth is spoken which is contrary to religion the truth is considered heresy. Example Martin Luther. Saved by faith was considered a heresy to the existing religous leaders, just as the teachings of Christ were a stumbling block to those religous leaders of Jesus time. The Pharasees, the Saducees, and the scribes and teachers of the Law had a hard time believing Jesus. Yet there were some who believed, 11 at first. Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathaea to name but two. Then there were 120 whose names escape me, then 3000 and more and more after that. So your last statemant is not true since those who wrote the quotes you use are Jews. We must remember our roots. Check it out it's all in the Book. In Christ Asis |
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26 | in the world,not of the world? | John 15:19 | Asis | 105026 | ||
Greetings sedec. Welcome to the forum. It is my hope that your experience here will be fruitful as you seek a deeper relationship with Christ. John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. [KJV] John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. [KJV] John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. [KJV] These are the verses I think you are looking for. Asis |
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27 | Is civil disobedience OK when... | Prov 3:13 | Asis | 104861 | ||
When man's law contradicts God's commandments and laws we have an obligation to stand up for Him. All authority comes from God but God's authority is above all other. If the two come into conflict our choice is clear. It is however our reaction to the authorities after we disobey man's law that is the difference between those who are disciples and those who are not. If a law was passed prohibiting the making of disciples of Jesus. We would have to disobey that law. We have a command from a higher authority which must be followed. However when caught we would not fight but proclaim the higher authority and take the consequences whatever they may be. | ||||||
28 | From Whence Come Kosher Dietary Laws? | Lev 11:1 | Asis | 104640 | ||
The dietary lawes are laid out for the Jewish people in Leviticus, particularly chapter 11. The meaningof the word "kosher" is as follows: Title: Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the Old Testament Author: Wiersbe, Warren W. (“Kosher” comes from a Hebrew word meaning “right, fit.” People in a kosher Jewish home ate only those foods that God said were right and fit.) I hope that answers you question. Asis |
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29 | True or False | 1 Corinthians | Asis | 102992 | ||
Ray I think you've got it. I look at the word "S"pirit as (God's) and "s"pirit as ours. God has given us His Spirit to indwell us. His Spirit communes with our spirit. His Spirit reveals the thoughts of God, the truths of God to us via our spirit. When God through His Spirit reveals a truth to our spirit we know it is the truth. The mechanism of "we know" is what Nee calls intuition. When Jesus revealed Himself to us "we knew" He was who He said He was. How would you describe the reception of that knowledge. Nee uses the term "intuition" and when you think about it fits. When I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior I KNEW that the Bible was God's word and it was absolutely true. No one has been able to convince me otherwise. I just know. Consider this from The Spiritual Man: . . . What then can man do other than deliver himself into the hands of God for Him to work? His spirit (man's asis) shall remain forever dead unless he confesses that everything pertaining to man is useless and unless he stands in the place of death with the Lord Jesus and accepts His life. Man's way cannot envisage acceptance of the Lord Jesus as Savior and a quickening of his spirit's intuition, but insists on substituting his mind for intuition. He thinks and cogitates until he creates many philosophies, ethics,or religions. But what is God's pronouncement? Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. [KJV] However intensively man may contemplate, his thoughts are earthly and not heavenly. After regeneration, God enables our intuition to know His thought and to apprehend His way so that we may follow HIM. . . (me now) This is what Pauls is saying by the scriptures in Ephrim's post. We cannot understand the ways and thoughts of God until we have the Spirit of God residing in us and allow our spirit to reveal His thoughts and ways to us. We just know - by intuition. Comprende? Si y No |
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30 | True or False | Not Specified | Asis | 102898 | ||
True or False To know things in our intuition is what the bible calls revelation. Revelation - The Holy Spirit enables a believer to apprehend a particular matter by indicating the reality of it to his spirit. There is but one kind of knowledge concerning either the Bible or God which is valuable, and that is the truth revealed to our spirit by God’s Spirit. God does not explain Himsself via man’s reasoning; never does man come to know God through rationalization. If there is no revelation, personal revelation, Christianity is worth nothing. Everyone who believes God must have this revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such a faith cannot endure the test. From the Spiritual Man by Whatchman Nee |
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31 | True or False | 1 Corinthians | Asis | 102913 | ||
True or False To know things in our intuition is what the bible calls revelation. Revelation - The Holy Spirit enables a believer to apprehend a particular matter by indicating the reality of it to his spirit. There is but one kind of knowledge concerning either the Bible or God which is valuable, and that is the truth revealed to our spirit by God’s Spirit. God does not explain Himsself via man’s reasoning; never does man come to know God through rationalization. If there is no revelation, personal revelation, Christianity is worth nothing. Everyone who believes God must have this revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such a faith cannot endure the test. From the Spiritual Man by Whatchman Nee |
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32 | Asis, Where are we told don't follow OT? | Hebrews | Asis | 102445 | ||
Once again I want you to know that the comment was made in reference to following the Law of the Pentatuech (spelling may be wrong) regarding Holy festivals. What was decided was that "gentiles" did not have to become Jews to be Christians. However if you feel that it is necessary to be Jewish to be saved. Then be my guest and convert to Judeaism. Remember what Jesus taught about causing one of His to stumble. |
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33 | Asis, Where are we told don't follow OT? | Hebrews | Asis | 102193 | ||
The post referenced was in reply to why don't present day believers follow the feasts of the the Jews. Take the answer in context please. These are just a few of the commands given to the children of Israel By God Almighty. Numbers 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. [KJV] Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: [KJV] Deut. 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. [KJV] Deut. 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. [KJV] Deut. 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. [KJV] Deut. 7:8-9 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [9] Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; [KJV] Deut. 7:11-12 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. [12] Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: [KJV] Deut. 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. [KJV] Deut. 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: [KJV] Deut. 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. [KJV] Deut. 17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: [KJV] They are a part of the Law, the Old Testament. To observe the feasts of the OLD TESTAMENT is for the Jew, Not the NEW TESTAMENT believer. If this were not so then ALL beleivers of Jesus must be circumcised and follow the Law as stated in the Old Testament. Messianic Jews are still called to celebrate the feasts of the Old Testament. They are Jews. Was Paul wrong to write letters to the churches warning against the judeizers? Are you a judeizer? God won't stop you from observing all the Jewish Holidays but you don't have to to be saved. |
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34 | feasts | Hebrews | Asis | 102165 | ||
Christians who are from the Gentiles are not directed to follow the commands given to the Jews in the Tanahk. | ||||||
35 | reply | Hebrews | Asis | 102164 | ||
Fred Check out my profile. Just click on my name in the string below this response. Mail me any time. I use from time to time the Jewish New Testament, I am familiar with Alfred Edersheim. Drop me a line and we can talk. Asis |
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36 | advice | Hebrews | Asis | 102084 | ||
Speaking as a Messianic Jew I do believe Christians who were gentiles are misssing a certain perspective. Paul says in Romans 2:29 that is is not the physical circumcision that makes one a Jew but a circumcision of the heart that makes one a Jew. We must remember that the Bible was written by Jews and comes from that perspective. The first church was a Jewish church. It is hard to put into words but there is a Jewishness to Christianity that is missing. I know this will raise more questions than it answers but I hopethis helps Asis |
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37 | God's or ours | Matt 28:18 | Asis | 101485 | ||
How are you gonna perfect your soul? If you could do it what is the point of Jesus death on the Cross and the promise of the Holy Spirit. God breaks every barrier we have between Him and us with trials/tribultions. Temptations are nothing more than temptations. The world's way or satan's way of asking you who do you choose? God or us. Our soul, our thinking, our doing it is not the way of God. That is what Adam did in the garden. He chose to do it his way instead of what God wanted. We are God's sons just because we believe God. Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. [KJV] Romans 8:15-17 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. [16] The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: [17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. [KJV] It displeases God when WE do the work. the only way to please God is Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. [KJV] God wants you broken and contrite. Kowing that you can do nothing of yourself. Asis |
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38 | God's or ours | Matt 28:18 | Asis | 101483 | ||
Ray I want you to know that I was suprised when I did not see my question on the Homepage. I did not get a Email that you had responded. I find it interesting that this thread is restricted. Any how. How does the Spirit do His work on the earth. What mechanism does the bible show. How does it work in the new tetament believer. I am in union with Christ. 1 Cor 1:30, 2 Cor 1:23. My spirit resides in my heart and the Holy Spirit dwelling in me reside in my heart. The heart being the center of a man's being. The Spirit of God does His work through our spirit. Yea? God's power comes through our spirit? Nay? What do you think. Check my profile and send me a letter that you have responded |
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39 | Resource for "hate"? | Luke 14:26 | Asis | 101445 | ||
Seeking4truth I am sometimes completely mystified by the words some translators have chose for a Greek or Hebrew word. As I have seached for the most accurate dictionary of Greek and Hebrew words of the Bible, I find that the WordStudy Bible, edited by Spiros Zodhiates, helps me the most. What is difficult for us who do not read Biblical Greek is that we only have the translators words to go by. This can be a frustrating experience. i think you will find the above book helpful. Asis |
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40 | Explain the relationship between things | Luke 14:26 | Asis | 101285 | ||
Aixen7z4 It really isn't that tough of a verse if the word "Hate" is defined as "to love less". therefore Jesus is saying that you must love me more than any in your family. Easy to say but a stark reality when confronted with the choice. However, if we will love God more than anything on this world it will prove a benefit. That is how I would explain it to a new believer. Asis |
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