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NASB | 1 Corinthians 9:25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 9:25 Now every athlete who [goes into training and] competes in the games is disciplined and exercises self-control in all things. They do it to win a crown that withers, but we [do it to receive] an imperishable [crown that cannot wither]. |
Subject: self control / spirit control |
Bible Note: Shalom John, Taking a break from packing :-). I was born and raised in the Lutheran church, my father was a minister. Unlike other horror stories you hear about Pastors kids, I loved my childhood and our church. Some of my fondest memories growing up was helping my dad write his sermons. I never missed a service, taught Sunday school at the age of 15, even entertained ideas of becoming a minister. When I met my wife she was attending an Assembly of God chuch and I started going with her. I found that they believed things differently than I did, though I knew church doctrine very well, I did not know the Bible or the, why’s, to what I believed. Since I did not know which doctrines were correct, I started studying the Bible earnestly, not to prove that the Lutherans were right (I believe that when you set out to prove a doctrine, you will succeed), but to find the truth in these. This study lasted for over five years of very serious searching and studying. Through this study, I started noticing a lot of similarities between the Old and New Testaments. Whenever came across one of these similarities I wrote it down. After 5 years, I had a very large list of similarities and decided it was time to study them. After a year of studying these I discovered that Jesus taught and lived Torah and that his disciples did as well, I found that the Torah is Eternal, for all of God’s people. At this point, I could believed that I must have made an error in my studies because no one does Torah except for the Jews. I began searching for the error but I could not find one. About a year later, Jewish friend of mine invited me to the Synagogue to a learn Hebrew class, he knew that I was searching out the Hebrew language. While there, one of the synagogue members approached me, covertly and invited me to their messianic group. You would be surprised how many believers of Yeshua there are in the synagogues, they are waiting for the right time to make themselves known. To soon and they will be kicked out, There Rabbi was when it was found that he started sounding messianic. At this group of Messianics I found out that there was a large number of Jews and gentiles living according to Torah and the movement is growing larger by the day. Now I knew that what I found in the bible was true. That is my story in a nutshell :-) Shalom Simchat Torah |