Bible Question:
Jam 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, First Printed or Internet (blueletterbible.org) Edition was compiled in the belief that Bible verses from elsewhere within the Protestant canon best explain and illustrate more obscure verses i began my teenage Christian exploration of life with the Revised and Expanded Second Edition of the TSK, which is an improvement by a later author who taught many Bible classes, is respected by both evangelical-Protestant and charismatic-Pentecostal(such as Jack Hayford) pastors from his accolades. Jam 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. kjv this verse was used by TSK First Edition to illustrate Luke 16:11 there are many possible contexts, but TSK1Ed and the other Bible translations except one translation and blueletterbible seems to suggest either negligence, sloppiness or deliberate cheating the odd one out translates scattering this is my enhanced understanding after consultation of blb.org how accurate am i in trying to comply with your code of conduct, terms etc remember i am from a foreign Asian culture |
Bible Answer: Dear chessshores, I respect that you are from another culture, so are others here, we are all from slightly different cultures even those of us from the USA in here are not all from the same exact culture or church denominations. I think you are doing just fine my dear in following the guide lines. You are including scripture, you are either posting a note to something that interested you, or you are asking a question as best you can in language that is not your first language, and you think from a different point of view coming from a different culture and heritage. I have had friends from many different cultures and from different countries and understand that it can be difficult to understand what people see things like who are different than I am. I myself am of mixed heritage, culture and background and my family is slightly mixed up. I love knowing people who are different than I am, its a big big world, and a big big body of Christ. I have Pentacostal friends, which you would not have guessed from my posts back to you, I have a Catholic friend from childhood, which you would not have guessed from my posts, and I have unbelievers for friends that you would not have guessed from my posts to you. I had the priveledge of teaching jewelers from Japan, South America, and a deaf person how to make jewelry without any of us speaking the same language. We resorted to a kind of made up sign language for one year and tried to understand one another to do things together on the job. At the end of one year, with the exception of the deaf man, they all were able to speak a form of English enough to communicate differently. I think, folks from different religious cultures have something higher in common by which they can communicate, the Bible, and this can cross cultures and backgrounds and heritages, and bring us together as one. I think that according to the type of questions you will ask and the texts from the Bible you will pick folks in here will slowly get to know you. And if you remain open to correction sometimes and being taught something scripturaly sound by those who have been around in the Lord for a while in here, you might really grow in your walk with Christ. The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is not a Bible I am familiar with, I will have to get familiar with it. From the sounds of it, it encouraged you a great deal. I would like to know, how that Bible works. Is it that this Bible has verses in the referrence column that refer back to the orginal verses? Or is it that this Bible has verses right alongside the text in the margins? Or is it that this Bible has verses right in the text after the original verse, another verse from another part of the Bible following the original? James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. This is not about negligence, or sloppiness, or deliberat cheating. It is about verses 1 and 2 which say that people are quarreling and having conflicts with one another and that this is the source of their lustful desires for things causing wrong conduct. This is about the lust for things that one does not have that are causing one to commit murder to get something and to be envious of others and fight with them to get things and that one does not get things because one has not asked the with the right motive asking the right way to God. Verse 3 goes on in the same theme that because one has the wrong motive one does not receive because the motive is to spend the answer to the prayer on selfish pleasures. As you can see that is not negligence, or sloppiness, or deliberate cheatting, it is about selfishness, asking for things for the wrong reasons, harming others in order to get things, and is about doing things the wrong way being a source of the mind and actions of the flesh which wage war against the spirit. Keep asking questions my dear. By His Grace, Tamara |