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61 | God will bless those who thank Him | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 119920 | ||
Hi Zsuzsi, Good companion references and excellent post. Let us give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindnes (for it is everlasting). Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. "Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, And tell of His works with joyful singing." Psalm 107:22. "Let them extol Him also in the congregation of the people, And praise Him at the seat of the elders." Psalm 107:32 Psalm 107:43, "Who is wise? Let him give heed to these things; And consider the lovingkindness of the Lord." And He does bless us and gives us springs of water, etc... Psalm 107:38. From the heart, Ray |
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62 | Prophet mentions multicolored carpets | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 119922 | ||
Hi cpowell, Our thanks should go to Steve (srbaegon) also for the final information. I hope that all of us will not take ourselves too seriously so that we can have some fun on the forum. From the heart, Ray |
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63 | Prophet mentions multicolored carpets | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 119926 | ||
Hi cpowell, Another reference for "carpets" in the NASB is Judges 5:10. These are called [rich] carpets and in the NKJ they are called "judges' attire". I would think that anything associated with a judge or with wealth [rich] would be colorful. My understanding is that anything that requires dyeing would be costly, especially back then. From the heart, Ray |
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64 | what about a Bible study??? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 122506 | ||
Hi Tim, Even if you disagree on various issues and have auguments, the 'arguements' will not seem offensive except to Mr. Webster. Rite? There is "no case" for having an argument about spelling. :) Did I mean to say cause? From the heart, Ray |
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65 | what about a Bible study??? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 122625 | ||
Hi Tim, I want to more or less publicly apologize for the seeming nit-picking I did about the spelling so far on the thread. Your spelling excellent, even if not your best subject in school. I hope that I was meaning to say "hi" more than anything else. I wonder if you have some Bible Reading Schedule that has dates on them for reading through the Bible in a year or so. What I am thinking is that if the desire is there for a Bible Study, I believe that the best thing would be for everyone to be on the same page. If we all got interested in reading the same Scriptures together, then we can offer notes of things that we all have been studying together in our daily Bible Reading Schedule. Does this sound like a good starting place? If so, would you offer a particular dated schedule? From the heart, Ray |
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66 | what about a Bible study??? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 122626 | ||
Hi victorA, Welcome to the forum. I don't believe that I could actually understand what I was "redgging", either. From now on I will only find fault with words not starting and ending correctly? That is amazing stuff, but I hope that the world doesn't come to that. Rihgt? :) From the heart, Ray |
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67 | God, spouse, children, work, church? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 124148 | ||
Hi XRing, Welcome to the forum. I appreciate your Zeph 3:17 reference and hope that you feel that the Lord is in our midst here. I trust that He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. Question: Which version would you go with for Zeph 3:17? NASB: "The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior." [Marginal note, Lit. A warrior who saves] NKJ: The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;..." Again, welcome. I am sorry to get off the thread's topic already so may I just say that God should be in the midst of all of our activities and has taken away the judgments against us. Zech 3:15 From the heart, Ray |
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68 | God, spouse, children, work, church? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 124177 | ||
Hi XRing, I understood that it was your signature verse. I just wanted to talk to you about it more than the thread topic. You don't necessarily know me, so let me say that I would look at your capitalization of Victorious Warrior as another option to the NASB "victorious warrior". But for me, I go with the NASB and appreciate the Exodus 15:3 reference that you gave also where your "a man of war" is translated "a warrior". It has been good hearing from you tonight. From the heart, Ray |
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69 | Must we observe the law of God? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 125796 | ||
Hi Kalos, I hope that "Got it" is able to answer but I will answer here also. I don't know where he got the word "adhering" to the spirit of the law - love, but I agree that we can "stick fast; stay attached" by the spirit of love. However, the main idea of being adhering is being supportive of the Spirit and being an adherent. Our adequacy in keeping the law is from God. The Spirit gives life, and the new covenant ministry is the ministry of the Spirit. I find the 2 Corinthians 3:3-6 reference that you give in your other post as a good comparison/contrast with Hebrews 9:15. We are letters of Christ not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. Written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living (God). Hebrews 9:15, "And for this reason (He) is the (m)Mediator of a new covenant. So the question is not whether we keep it, but who and/or what makes us adequate in keeping it. From the heart, Ray |
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70 | The law of the Spirit? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 125846 | ||
Hi Theo-Minor, 1 John2:20 talks about walking in the (l)Light. Do you see the true feasability of walking in the spirit of love as well as walking in the Light? What is the best interpretation for 1 John 2:20? Should we not walk in the Light and in the Spirit? Romans 8 says there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. We have the law of the Spirit, --of life in Christ Jesus. Comments? From the heart, Ray |
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71 | The law of the Spirit? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 125893 | ||
Hi Theo-Minor, I am so sorry. I did not have my Bible before me this morning, and I made a typo on the 1 John 2:10 reference that you had made. Basically, my question would be whether you would capitalize "Light" in 1 John 2:10 as is in the 1995 copyright of the NASB. In verse 8 we have the true Light already shining, in verse 9 we see that we are in the Light, and in verse 10 we see that the proof of our abiding in the Light is in the love we show our brother. The NKJ has chosen to leave the three occurances of "light" in lower case, as did the earlier NASB copyrights. 1) For 1 John 2:20 I have learned to compare John 10:20 and Hebrews 12:2 with it. We know the truth that Jesus and the Father are one. Hebrews 11:40-12:2 tells us that we are made perfect in the Holy One when we fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith. From the heart, Ray |
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72 | Where are these words coming from? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 125951 | ||
Hi Stultis the Fool, Your point about 1 John 3:6 not having the word habitually in it was well taken. I thought that the point that someone made about the tense of abiding in Him was well taken also. I wonder about the tense of 1 John 3:6b and consider who, as far as Persons are concerned, the verse is speaking. Personally, I think again of John 10:30 for this verse for comparing/contrast. John 10:30 says, "I and the Father are one." If we know that truth, then we have seen Him, and have known the Father. Then we practice righteousness because God is righteous and holy. If we are born of the Spirit then we are children of God and we practice righteousness and we love our brother. I believe that is the point that "Got it" has made and that this 1 John passage is about. In comparing 1 John 3:6 and John 10:30 I can praise God that "no one who abides in *Him sins" and "no one is able to snatch them out of the *Father's hand". My further question would be how we look at 1 John 3:24. "And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And we know by this that He abides in us, by the (s)Spirit whom [which] He has given us." Are we open to the idea of a spirit of love which is given to us? From the heart, Ray |
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73 | Where are these words coming from? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 125998 | ||
Hi Stultis, We need a clarification of how we're looking at 1 John 3:6. I was looking more at the Persons of our triune God for 6b and considered that if one abides in Jesus, then he has seen Jesus and he knows the Father. We are merely persons and sons, children of God. So I would not capitalize Persons when speaking of us. 1) As one interested in capitalization of Deity, I would offer to you the idea that the "spirit of love" abides in us rather than the Spirit of Love. I would go with an interpretation that we have received a spirit [sic] of adoption for instance. 2) I would suggest that God is Light and that He is the Light of the world, just as we are to be lights in the world. However, I would not say that God is Love. Somewhere in the forum archives are discussions of what "God is" and I find it important to talk about. "Christ in you, the hope of glory" would show that Deity indeed abides in us as believers, but we also have received a spirit of love that witnesses with the Spirit. I don't have my Bible with me this morning so I can't give you those two Scripture references. 3) I would say that for 1 John 4:13 that it is that same love and that spirit of love that brings us to Him. It is good to speak of these things with you this morning. From the heart, Ray |
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74 | Where are these words coming from? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 126521 | ||
Hi Theo-Minor, I believe that agape is a kind of love. It is a love that wills good to a person. Agape is to my mind, loving, goodwill. We might compare 1 John 4:12 with Luke 2:14. 1 John 3:12b, "...if we love one another, (God) abides in us, and His love is perfected in us." Luke 2:14, "Glory to (God) in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased." [NKJ, "And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!] I don't see the "He is pleased" in the Greek. What I see is the goodwill, the thing that has happened in Bethlehem and which the Lord has made known to us. So I would say yet that God is love. He is loving with agape love. And He has made His love known to us. From the heart, Ray |
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75 | How a Loving and just God commanded such | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 127388 | ||
Hi Johnny, I am concerned and saddened somewhat by the situation that initiated your question here. I am hoping that your faith in a loving God is still intact. In looking at your references, I can see the connection between them, but more in way of contrast than comparison. 1 Samuel 15, Saul did not carry out God's commands. He spared the best of the sheep and oxen. He didn't spare the children as you would have, but he did listen to the voices of the people and spared some sheep and oxen (to be sacrificed, he said, to the Lord their God). But the question for the chapter is "Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord?" 1 Sam 15:22b, "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams." The ways of the Lord in contrast to our ways is the subject of Ezekiel 18. You say, "The way of the Lord is not right." Yet the Lord God had already said that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather wants to see him turn from his wicked ways. Ezekiel 18:29, "But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?" I think that it is time to be a good teacher and not question the Lord and His holiness and His ways. Ezekiel was a teacher of the elders who sat before him. Ezekiel 20:2, "And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 3 "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live," declares the Lord God, "I will not be inquired of by you."" Hebrews 5 talks of our being teachers. Before that it talks of Jesus being obedient to the things which were to be acted on and endured. Hebrews 5:8, NKJ, "though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek." Jesus did all the things that pleased the Father. This loving God sent His Son to die for our sins. His ways are the ways of love. From the heart, Ray |
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76 | How a Loving and just God commanded such | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 127409 | ||
Hi Johnny, I am glad that you asking your question more for other people's benefit. It is indeed easier to see God's love in the other attributes of God. It is more difficult to see God's love in His justice than in His holiness, for instance. Country girl leads us to another thread on this topic and it led me to restudying Ezra. In looking at Ezra 8:22 I like the NIV even better than the NASB and NKJ for this verse. I think that the idea of the "power of His wrath" in justice can be compared to the power of His love and the spirit of love that He shows to all who will repent and serve Him. Ezra 8:21b, "...that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions. 22..."The hand of our God is favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but His power and His anger [NIV, the power of His wrath]are against all those who forsake Him." From the heart, Ray |
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77 | How our Loving God commanded such things | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 127411 | ||
Hi Country Girl, I don't think that jlpangilinan would deny God the right to break any pots that He has made. However, it is difficult for many to see God's love in His "power of wrath", especially if God's justice and name (authority) is not understood. From the heart, Ray |
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78 | How a Loving and just God commanded such | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 127499 | ||
Hi Johnny, You might consider the threads concerning Romans 12:19 which talk about the wrath of God and vengeance. I compared some verses in post #61428. From the heart, Ray |
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79 | The law of the Spirit? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 127849 | ||
Hi, Another typo: John 10:30 was the reference meant to compare with 1 John 2:20 and Hebrews 12:2. Here is another comparison: John 12:36, "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, in order that you may become sons of (Light)." Romans 8:16, "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of (God)." Jesus also claims to be the (Light) of the world. John 8:12 and 9:5. He is the Light while here on the earth and after He left it. While being in conflict with the Pharisees, we know that His witness is true. From the heart, Ray |
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80 | The law of the Spirit? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 127850 | ||
Hi Theo-Minor, You have mail. Please note #127849. From the heart, Ray |
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