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NASB | Mark 9:41 "For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 9:41 "For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he will not lose his reward. |
Subject: What is the "reward" ? |
Bible Note: Mommapbs, Your questions have got me on a roll now about James and Romans and the whole daily and constant sacrificial sytem of the Old Testament which was established after the Golden calf incident. before that sacrifice was more sporadic and less codified. God was trying to teach the unfaithful Israelites something by requiring them to sacrifice daily, animals (cattle and sheep)that were worshiped as gods in Egypt. That is why Moses told Pharoah he had to got into the desert for three days to sacrifice, because it would be considered an abomination to the Egyptians (Ex 8:21) but Pharoah refused. Then even after God led the Israeltirtes to freedom through the miracle at the Red Sea, the Israelites still worshiped the Egyptian gods. One scripture scholar likened God's requirement of daily sacifice of the gods of Egypt to Him to a wife requiring her alcholic husband who says he will never drink (worship) alcohol again, to begin every day by pouring a fifth of whiskey down the kitchen sink as a sacifice showing his allegiance to her and his rejection of alcohol. What happened over time is that the Israelites, when they were occassionally being faithful and offering the sacrifices, began to believe that God was saving them because of their sacrifices, rather than they were sacrificing because God had saved them. Kind of like the alcholic husband beginning to think that his wife loved him because he was pouring the whiskey down the sink and forgeting that she loved him and feed him and cleaned him up when he was a drunk and before he ever even thought of sacrificing the whiskey, which of course he didn't because it was the wife's idea in the first place, not his. Emmaus |