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NASB | John 17:1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 17:1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He raised His eyes to heaven [in prayer] and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify You. |
Subject: Iam having some questions |
Bible Note: Hello, Kcabml, I must say you ask hard questions! This is very good, but it puts me to task. That’s okay though I’ll gladly do my best. By the way, I hope you had a good and blessed Christmas as well. Mine was absolutly wonderfull! :-) There are different ways to view Scripture; one is with a ‘Telescope’, (an overview of the whole) and another is with a ‘Microscope’ (a more narrow view, being one, or just a few verses or passages). When we look at the whole of the Bible we see that there is but one way to be saved. God calls His own and His own hear Him. “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;” Eph 2:8 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;” John 10:27 Now in the Old Testament for example, (let’s look through the telescope) we see there were many men and women of God that were saved by the grace of God. And we know that when we are saved we are born again, so we know that all who are children of God are regenerate; they have been given the gift of indwelling Holy Spirit. So now if we look at the lives of these Old Testament Saints, we can clearly see that through close examination, that, they sinned. Just look at Moses, (Num 20:8-12) when God clearly told him to speak to the Rock, Moses in anger and frustration struck the Rock with his staff, clearly disobeying the Command of God, which we know is a sin. Then we can look at the life of King David, (2 Sam 11) and see that he was not only an adulterer with Bathsheba, but also indirectly had Uriah her husband killed, so he was guilty as a murderer as well! Then looking now at the New Testament, we can look at the life of Paul after he was saved and he finds in himself the warring of the godly nature and the nature of sin that we still struggle with from time to time, (Romans 7) and if we are honest with ourselves we know we cannot even keep the greatest of God’s commandments. The focus of, (1 John 3) is Christian love, and we need to understand that it is the way God sees us that this is talking about when it says we cannot sin. It is Christ’s righteousness He is looking at and not our own; and it rather is saying that we no longer can live for sin, or live in and be dominated and controlled by it as the unbelievers are. These verses are given to us as an encouragement, and there is a danger of becoming legalistic if we take them too literally, because we can still make mistakes, but when we do and satin accuses us, we know we have an advocate at the right hand of God, our savior, Jesus Christ. I hope this helps. God bless John |