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221 | Sanctified or not | Rom 12:2 | Asis | 83775 | ||
If being sanctified is being holy or set apart or being in right relationship with God. If it is not, give a better definition. But if it is what I said then am I or am I not? These scriptures seem to say that I am. 1 Peter 1:16 seems to me to a command. The process I was taught in the evangelical church (Quaker)is really the renewing of our mind so we believe God in every way. »Strong’s Help hagiazo, Greek 37, Strong’s hagiazo, hag-ee-ad'-zo; from Greek 40 (hagios); to make holy, i.e. (ceremony) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate :- hallow, be holy, sanctify. Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 1 Peter 1:15-16 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; [16] Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Acts 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 1 Cor. 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 1 Cor. 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. Ephes. 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 1 Thes. 4:3-4 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: [4] That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 1 Thes. 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thes. 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 1 Tim. 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 2 Tim. 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. Hebrews 2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Hebrews 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: |
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222 | Searching for the truth | Matt 24:30 | Asis | 83734 | ||
Didn't you foreget a very important event Mat 24:14? | ||||||
223 | Rebecca nurse in Gen 35:8 and Deborah | Judg 4:4 | Asis | 83731 | ||
Near as I can figure Deborah lived about 1340 BC (I'm from the old School) while Isaiah lived 600 years later arounf 740 BC. Rebecca lived around 2000 BC give or take 500 years. Sorry no affiliation. | ||||||
224 | FROM WHAT GENEAOLOGY WAS DEBORAH BORN? | Judg 4:4 | Asis | 83720 | ||
There is no reference to her geneology in the Bible. Geneologies were kept of the men not of the women. That is why it is so wonderous that God included Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba and of course Mary in the geneology of Jesus. She was a woman used of God. | ||||||
225 | Is Satan ruler over the earth? | Ps 24:1 | Asis | 83712 | ||
Psa. 115:16 (NASB) The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men. Col. 1:13 through Col. 1:14 (NASB) 13For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Domain according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary means 1 a : complete and absolute ownership of land -- compare EMINENT DOMAIN b : land so owned 2 : a territory over which dominion is exercised Who, I might ask, is the head, the ruler of the domain of darkness and where is that domain located. Jesus says: John 12:27 through John 12:33 (NASB) 27“Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28“Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.” 30Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes. 31“Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 32“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.” 33But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. Who is Jesus talking about when He said "The ruler of this world?" John 14:30 through John 14:31 (NASB) 30“I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; 31but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. Who is it that "finds nothing in Jesus." John 16:7 through John 16:11 (NASB) 7“But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. What is the name of the ruler of this world that has been judged. And come to think about it how did he become ruler of this word since God gave dominion of the earth to man (Genesis 1:26,27). NOW the enemy, the devil, satan is powerless thanks to our LORD and SAVIOR mighty JESUS. Heb. 2:14 through Heb. 2:18 (YLT) 14Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death—that is, the devil—15and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage, 16for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold, 17wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people, 18for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. Jesus has made satan powerless. I sometimes wonder where that happened. In Hades maybe? The only power that satan has is the power we give him. In my reading of Neil Anderson's books "Victory Over the Darkness" and "The Bondage Breaker," (by the way that is Jesus) I cannot recall reading that Dr. Anderson said that satan has authority over man NOW. satan was ruler but no more. We have a King in absentia who has given His stewards dominion to rule in righteousness until His return. For more information read the BIBLE |
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226 | What were, are, they filled with? | 2 Corinthians | Asis | 83705 | ||
Ray This must start with an understanding of the word "baptism". The following is from, "The Complete WordStudy Bible edited by Dr. Spiros Zodhiates": (IV) Metaphorically and in direct allusion to the practice of water baptism (Matt. 3:11; Luke 3:16), to baptize in or with the Holy Spirit and in or with fire, the baptism in the Holy Spirit being the spiritual counterpart of the water baptism. This Spirit baptism is referred to in 1 Cor. 12:13 as an act performed by God in joining all true believers to the body of the Lord Jesus. To be baptized in fire (Matt. 3:11 [TR]; Luke 3:16) stands in contrast to the baptism in the Spirit. Those who refuse to be joined into the body of Christ through the energy of the Holy Spirit will suffer the consequent punishment (Matt. 3:12; Luke 3:17). In regard to the Spirit baptism, see also Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 1:5; 11:16, where the baptism in the Holy Spirit occurs as a specific phrase indicating what happened at Pentecost in joining the Jews who believed to the body of Christ (Acts 2). This is explained by Peter in Acts 11:15, 16 indicating that the Gentiles of Caesarea were also baptized in the Holy Spirit. A third group was the disciples of John in Acts 19:6. This Spirit baptism was characterized by the phenomenon of speaking in languages never learned by those who were baptized in or with the Spirit (see Acts 2:4 [language], 6, 8 [dialect], 11 [languages]; Acts 10:46 [languages]; Acts 19:6 [languages]). Thus the baptism in the Holy Spirit is Christ’s attachment of those who genuinely believe as members of His body. In 1 Cor. 12:13 the verb ebaptístheMmen refers to all believers of all times. It is something that God did in forming the spiritual body of Jesus Christ or the body of all believers, the Church. It fulfills the promise of Christ to send into the world in a special way the Holy Spirit or the ParákleMtos (3875), the Paraclete, Comforter, Intercessor, Consoler (John 16:7–14). First please reread my note. I do not understand what you mean by a blend of the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Matt 3:11 John the Baptist says:11“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." He tells us that Jesus will baptize us in the Holy Spirit. In John 20:22 Jesus breqathed on the disciples and gave them the Holy Spirit. 22And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit." What did they receive at Pentecost -- Power from on high. Jesus, until the day He was baptized by John and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him, had performed no miracles. Luke 4:1 says He was full of the Holy Spirit when He went into the wilderness. Luke 4:14 says He returned in the power of the Spirit. Jesus on earth as a man performed the work of the Father by the power, the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Hence He is call Messiah, the Anointed One. This is why in Luke 4:17 (by the way, the Jews read one scripture section per day so when Jesus was handed the scroll of Isaiah and read the section it was opened to it was the reading for the day. God is so cool) Jesus says He is anointed by the Spirit. . . A Pentecostal believes that we become anointed by the Holy Spirit just like the disciples, when we receive the baptism of the Spirit. Being a man/woman (do I have to be politically correct or can I just use the masculine?) and so use to "doing it my way" we find it hard to get ugly for God. We don't realize He sees us naked, right down to the bone. So we somertimes refuse to do what He asks. We have all experienced it. Quenching the Spirit. God tells us "Don't do it." But sometimes we are embarrased to make gibberish as "tongues" starts. So this HeMan is not about to let his tongue make that sound. It comes down to this if I don't open my mouth then the Spirit can not speak through me in tongues or in the language of man. Young’s Literal Translation of the Bible Acts 19:2 through Acts 19:7 (YLT) 2he said unto them, ‘The Holy Spirit did ye receive—having believed?’ and they said unto him, ‘But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;’ 3and he said unto them, ‘To what, then, were ye baptized?’ and they said, ‘To John’s baptism.’ 4And Paul said, ‘John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the Christ—Jesus;’ 5and they, having heard, were baptized—to the name of the Lord Jesus, 6and Paul having laid on them his hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying, 7and all the men were, as it were, twelve. Ray your openness to discussion is precious never lose it. I'm more than happy to continue this discussion if you have any more questions. Graceful, thank you for the compliment. I am a man. I have enjoyed your remarks also. |
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227 | What is the CJB translation? | 2 Corinthians | Asis | 83704 | ||
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228 | Why use the ambiguous word "Temperate"? | 1 Tim 3:2 | Asis | 83700 | ||
I have asked the same question myself. Those nasty translators can use some of the most unfitting words. Maybe at the time that the translation was written the words weren't so obscure. I wonder. I guress we have to remember that we are reading a translation that was written in the English of the 1600's from a language of Greek translated from the Aramaic. I am sure glad that God has given us the Holy Spirit to instructed us. | ||||||
229 | Why use the ambiguous word "Temperate"? | 1 Tim 3:2 | Asis | 83666 | ||
If you use the King James translation the traits for being and overseer are quite plain in regards to alcohol. The Holy Bible, King James Version 1 Tim. 3:2 through 1 Tim. 3:4 (KJV) 2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; |
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230 | why I need to contend for faith? | Jude 1:3 | Asis | 83665 | ||
Hello Challengeheart The phrase in the verse which concerns you is "Contend for THE faith." The word here rendered “earnestly contend”— —is one of those words used by the sacred writers which have allusion to the Grecian games. Compare the notes, 1 Cor. 9:24, following. This word does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It means “to contend upon”—i. e., “for or about” anything; and would be applicable to the earnest effort put forth in those games to obtain the prize. The reference here, of course, is only to contention by argument, by reasoning, by holding fast the principles of religion, and maintaining them against all opposers. For the faith—The system of religion revealed in the gospel. It is called “faith,” because that is the cardinal virtue in the system, and because all depends on that. The rule here will require that we should contend in this manner for all “truth.” Alfred Barnes So what is he talkin' about. We are to hold fast the principles of the gospel or the faith and keep them no matter what or who comes against us. Whether it is the guy down the street or your spouse, we are to stand firm in the Gospel we have been given. That gospel is THE FAITH or the WAY (Acts 9:2). So no, you do not have to contend for faith. God has given you his faith we need to take it and receive it. It is a gift. Rom. 12:3 (NIV) For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Rom. 10:17 (NIV) 17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. I hope you find this helpful |
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231 | What were, are, they filled with? | 2 Corinthians | Asis | 83647 | ||
What you have asked is the basis of the "Pentecostal experience." We believe that all believers can receive a second experience of the Holy Spirit which we call Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The evidence of this baptism is the speaking in an unknown tongue by the believer. We believe that the Spirit of God gives us the utterance. We believe that the Holy Spirit dwells in us at the time of conversion, acceptance of Jesus as Lord of our life. At a later time or at the same time, we give ourselves over completely to the Holy Spirit and Jesus baptises us with the evidence of speaking in an other tongue. We can quench that utterance the Holy Spirit gives us, so there are some Pentecostal or not who have the baptism but do not speak in tongues. Unfortunately we Pentecostals can become too rigid in our beliefs and say such things as "If you don't speak in tongues then you haven't received the "baptism". Poppycock. Here are some scriptures that we base our beliefs upon. Matthew 3:11 11“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Acts 2:4 Acts 19:4-7 ( 4Paul said, "John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus." 5On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 6When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 7There were about twelve men in all.), the Holy Spirit came upon them and they spoke in tongues. Acts 11:16 16And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with (the) Holy Spirit. 17If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God? 18And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life. There are more references but these will do as a short list. Ckeck out my profile if you have more questions. I have more information. By the way, read Luke 4, paying particular attention to verse 1 and verse 14. Verrrry interesting. In most bibles if the word "spirit" has a capital "S", it denotes the Holy Spirit. If it has a little "s" it is some other spirit, man's spirit of fear, stuff like that. Although it has been my experience that sometimes a translator can make a mistake. |
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232 | He has given us new life, new nature, | Rom 6:2 | Asis | 83569 | ||
AND. . . 1 Cor. 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. [KJV] There is no temptation that comes upon us that is greater than we can handle. WE NEED NOT YIELD TO IT. Praise the LORD. |
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233 | Reading Between the "Lions" | John 11:35 | Asis | 83503 | ||
I agree with Hank. I was being facetious with my note. You have some good ideas for the Lockman Foundation. I use a word processor program occasionaly for spell check (I should have used it right now)and it would be great to have something like WORD as the text editor. Then we could be in the Word with Word while we share the Word. | ||||||
234 | Please explain Mark 8:28-30 | Mark 8:28 | Asis | 83477 | ||
The world views things in relation to the past. We take those who we think are great in our eyes and compare them to those of the past. A good baseball player may be compared to "Babe" Ruth. A great actor to Humphrey Bogart. So when the disciples are asked what the PEOPLE say who Jesus is the answer is one of the prophets of old, the greatest being Elijah. When Jesus asked, but who do YOU say I AM? Peter asnwers "the Christ (anointed One, Messiah) of God. god spoke the answer through him. It is only through the revelation of God that we know who Jesus is. In Matthew 16:15-17 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? [16] And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. [17] And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. [KJV] Before God revealed Jesus to me He was just a prophet, a good man, a Godly man, but just a man. God opened up the eyes of my heart and revealed who Jesus was and I fell on my knees and called Him Lord. Just like you. |
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235 | Reading Between the "Lions" | John 11:35 | Asis | 83474 | ||
Hank Therre is know dout that our edjucashun system is lacking wen ist comes to teaching english. Spelling is neglected grammar is neglected and composition is not required. Now there amy be3 some who would argu that i am rong and maybe I am. So if out in the world is where I have to learn how to do it correctly we should have patience with and tolerance of those who have not received the education or paid attention to the education that we have received. Let us then be techers of the words and phrases not just critics. Not all of us are capable of writing literature every time we respond to a question on the forum. I agree tthat a review sometimes is in order. Your friend in Christ Jeff |
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236 | wish you were hot or cold | Rev 3:16 | Asis | 83261 | ||
Hello mommapbs Let this be our attitude. Galatians 2:19-20 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. [20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. [KJV] We have a tendancy to substitute "church" for Christ. We love the "church". We work for the "church". We "do" church, when we are called to BE church. We are called to BE Christ's body here on earth. We run around doing church things, We even study the word and fill ourselves up with endless interpretations and never learn the spirit of what we have studied. We fail apply it to our lives, to do what the Lord has commanded. Just as you said His desire is that we live to please Him. How do we do that? Jesus tells us to Love one another, to abide in Him and He will abide in us; John 17:19-22 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. [20] Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; [21] That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. [22] And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: [KJV] We are to be one with Christ as He was one with the Father. To know Jesus and NOT desire to be one with Him and do the work (BELEIVE GOD), to be one with Him, is to be lukewarm and He will spit those from his mouth. We look at something hot as "on fire for the Lord" and something cold as "Not desiring the Lord", but I submit that those two are same. Hot coffee tastes good and cold soda tastes good but if either is lukewarm we spit it from our mouth's. Remember hot or cold is ok it is the lukewarm that God doesn't want. I encourage all to seek what Paul sought (I draw you attention to verse 9 and excuse me for all the verses included once I started reading I couldn't decide where the verses made the point). Philip. 3:7-21 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. [8] Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, [9] And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: [10] That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; [11] If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. [12] Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. [13] Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, [14] I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. [15] Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. [16] Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. [17] Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. [18] (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: [19] Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) [20] For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: [21] Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. [KJV] LET US ALL BE FOUND IN HIM. GLORY TO GOD |
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237 | wish you were hot or cold | Rev 3:16 | Asis | 83231 | ||
Look at the scriptures together. Rev. 3:15 through Rev. 3:16 (KJV) 15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. The savor of something hot or cold has taste to the mouth. But a lukewarm liquid really has no taste. God is not happy with fence sitters. When you you are hot or cold for something you have taken a stand. When you are lukewarm your in a whatever mode, neither for or against. He is telling us Stand for something. |
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238 | This may help | Titus 2:3 | Asis | 83229 | ||
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239 | I need help in Lamentations 1:20-22 | Lam 1:1 | Asis | 83208 | ||
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240 | Where did the Holy Spirit go? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Asis | 83206 | ||
Here is the rest. James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. [KJV] Acts 2:24 through Acts 2:32 (DNT) . . .31he, seeing [it] before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption. 32This Jesus has God raised up, whereof all we are witnesses. Jesus was born of the Spirit and man. He was the only man living who had His spirit born again. He also was the only man whose soul (His mind will and emotions) was in subjection to His spirit. He was a man filled with the Spirit and so able to perform the works of the Father. He was sinless because His body was in subjection to His soul which was in subjection to His spirit which was in subjection to the Holy spirit. This is the postion God wants us to be in. He wants us to follow or be led of our spirit which is led by His spirit. Jesus is the picture of the Kingdom Man, something we cannot attain in entirety until we are free of our bodies influence. What does this have to do with what happened when Jesus died? This: Jesus gave His life his body for us. He gave up the spirit and died. The same death that we will die if Jesus’ return is after our bodies wear out. James 2:26 says, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. [KJV]” Jesus hung on the cross as a natural man our substitute. He died as we die. His inner man was separated from His outer man. His outer man was placed in the tomb and His inner man went to Hades… Hell. Alfred Barnes says of the word hell, “In hell—. The word “hell,” in English, now commonly denotes “the place of the future eternal punishment of the wicked.” This sense it has acquired by long usage. It is a Saxon word, derived from helan, “to cover,” and denotes literally “a covered or deep place” (Webster); then “the dark and dismal abode of departed spirits”; and then “the place of torment.” As the word is used now by us, it by no means expresses the force of the original; and if with this idea we read a passage like the one before us, it would convey an erroneous meaning altogether, although formerly the English word perhaps expressed no more than the original. The Greek word “Hades” means literally “a place devoid of light; a dark, obscure abode”; and in Greek writers was applied to the dark and obscure regions where disembodied spirits were supposed to dwell. It occurs only eleven times in the New Testament. In this place it is the translation of the Hebrew. “I have the keys of hell and death.” In 1 Cor. 15:55 it means the grave: “O grave (Hades), where is thy victory?” In Matt. 11:23 it means a deep, profound place, opposed to an exalted one; a condition of calamity and degradation, opposed to former great prosperity: “Thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell” (Hades). In Luke 16:23 it is applied to the place where the rich man was after death, in a state of punishment: “In hell (Hades) he lifted up his eyes, being in torments.” In this place it is connected with the idea of suffering, and undoubtedly denotes a place of punishment. The Septuagint has used this word commonly to translate the word.” (Think like a Hebrew when trying to understand thinks spoken by Hebrews) We have established which part of Jesus went to the grave and where His soul and spirit went. All this is very interesting, but the question was “Where was the Holy Spirit during all this?” It is obvious that Holy Spirit was in the bleachers supporting the work of Jesus. Goooooo Jesus! Jesus preached the good news, Holy Spirit yelled 'PREACH IT'. Jesus led the captives captive, Holy Spirit yelle Amen, Jesus then defeated death so we no longer have to be concerned about the second death. And all of Heaven erupted in PRAISE. All the while God’s Spirit was encouraging Jesus and propbably doing the wave while satan and death cringed and groveled on the ground. The when the devil was made powerless, Christ was united with His body, His resurrected body, the one that is flesh and bone. The One whose life (force[used so you know what I’m talking about]) is the Holy Spirit (this will get a response). We who live in the earth now are flesh and blood. Our blood brings life to the members of our body. Ressurrected Jesus said He was flesh and bone. Only the Spirit of God could be giving life to His members. (Doesn’t He do that now with believers?). So the question of Where did the Holy Spirit Go is answered. Now we know the truth and are finally free. If this has offended anyone, I ask your forgiveness it is not my intent to offend. It is just the way I is. You'll just have to accept me Asis |
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