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NASB | Matthew 16:19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 16:19 "I will give you the keys (authority) of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth will have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth will have [already] been loosed in heaven." [Is 22:22; Matt 18:18] |
Subject: Binding and Loosing. What is it? |
Bible Note: OK that is the surface. But what about these statements.. Flesh and blood hath not revealed it to you but my Father in Heaven... That is spiritual... and then when Paul says to deliver such an one over to satan, well that statement alone opens up our minds to a whole panarama of spiritual truth about certain powers of darkness that are at work when the fallen unrepentant one goes outside of the fellowship of the church, hoping that by that means of the discipline of the havoc performed in his life as a result of having been made "exposed" to the devil that he will come to his senses and repent and be recieved back again. Of course it is spiritual and the whole reason we shun the Roman Catholic Approach to these passages is becuase we all saw how they removed the spiritual from them and applied them only to the idea of outward church government and used them as it were for all manner of abuse of civil/ecclisatical government over the private affairs of men. Now we have come along way since then and yet in some areas such as this one we still find little in the way of new understanding other than what the Catholics always said it meant. It is amazing how many commentaries still state that this passage means Jesus gave Peter the authority to rule the church in governmental decrees. |