Perfect Love
Real, Corrected, True, Clean, Obedient, Righteous, Perfect,
Biblical, Monotheistic Divinely Inspired Love
New
Selfishness > Anti-Egocentrism
These are unpublished personal notes for our community.
Like usual, in cases like this, you should contact us so that we can teach you all of these exciting and helpful things.
We’re going to have a showdown, a face-off, and a confrontation between the nasty lust pushed and shoved in public by the world, which is done all throughout secular and church society, all in the name of love, and we are going to see the difference between that nasty fake love and the Truth of something perfect, righteous, and clean, which gloriously flows and results from obeying All the Bible!
We're Going to See
Whose Love Is True!
Contents
Unverified, Fraudulent, Delusions
of Love
Obeying God's Commands = Real
Love
Leviticus 19 = Justice Love, Not
Feelings Love
Loving Sinners -- for How Long /
How Much?
Love in Philosophy -- Mostly
Shallow/Foolish…
Worldly love from the Commentary
Project
Stories of Fake Love &
Worldly Sin
William Law -- Made Up Arminian
Blasphemous Heresy
Selfish Lust Pushed by Pagans
Praise
Hypocritical Pagans Always love
Shame, Not Love
Old Testament = Love Neighbor As
Self
Lust vs. Love -- Confrontation
No Hypocritical Love(lessness)
Family Betrayal – The Proof of
Worldly Lovelessness
Matthew 10 – Don’t Fear
Persecution & Murder, But Testify from Inspired Delegation
Mark 13 – Betrayal, Death,
Hatred, & Salvation
Luke 12, 17, & 19 – Preceding
End-Times Context
Luke 21 – Betrayal, Death,
Hatred, No Hair-Perishing
Matthew 24 – Temple-Destruction
Prophecy
Matthew 25 – Virgins, Servants,
Sheep & Goats
Stop Ignoring Subtle Hatred &
Murder
Isaiah 10 – Criminal Laws to Hurt
the Poor
Sirach – Cheating the Poor &
Laborer = Bloodshed
Beware of Hatred & Testify
Now, Without Compromise
Saved From Fear, Holy-ified into
Real Love
Jesus-Like Love -- it’s NOT
Worldly!
John_13:34-35 – Jesus-Like Love
is Commanded
John_14:15 – If You Love, Then
Obey
John_14:15-26 – Father’s Loving
Obedience Spirit vs. the Ignorant World
John 14 – Mysterious
Obedience-Connection vs End-times Deception
John 14 – Obedience is the Answer
to Remembering and Understanding ALL Truth
John 14 – The Father, Son, &
Spirit vs. the World
John_14:27 – Non-Worldly Peace
John_15:7-14 – Obedience Produces
Father & Son Love
John_15:17-19 – Love Disciples,
Contrary to the Hateful World
John_15:20-27 – Summary: Persecution
from Hateful World
John 16 – the Loving One Spirit
Who Guides into All Truth
“Down-According” Throughout John
The Point of Jesus-Like Love
<<<<
1st John 2 – Worldly
Lust vs. the Father’s Love
Jesus-Like Love Re-Commanded /
Reaffirmed
Are You Faithful or Unfaithful?
Your Level of Faith Determines
Your Level of Love
1st Corinthians 13
& 14 – Grow Up
1st Timothy 1 – Clean
Love is the Goal, Not Hypocritical Faith
1st Timothy 2 –
Weighty-Serious, Sacred, Saved-Minded, LOVE
Psalms 107 – Wisdom Looks at Love
Colossians 2 – Serious Love
Produces Wisdom -- Unlike Practically All Modern People Today…
1st Corinthians 13 –
the Love Chapter = Value, Honor, & NO SHAME!
The Love Chapter We’ve Never Read
Good Love = Real Love = Real God
OTHER People’s Value = the Focus
of Real Love
Value = The Moral Definition of
Love
Never Thirst Again, With Honor
Knowing Valuable Identity = Love
Loving a Knowable Person =
Different Than Babies
Yearning -- Cherishing Yearns to
Know
Identity Justice – Knowing
People’s “Inspired Identity” = Love
Receive! -- We’re COMMANDED to
Know/Receive People’s Real identity
Identity Recognition/Reception =
Heaven/Reward
Unity of Obeyers -- Reciprocating
Love
Refresh -- The Refreshing Love of
Knowledgeable Identity Cherishing
Real Friend Refreshes with
Faithful Love
2Ti_1 -- Onesiphorus & Family
Refresh Paul
1Co_16 -- Refreshing Trio:
Stephanas, Fortunatus, & Achaicus Refresh Paul
Phm 1 -- Philemon's Refreshing
Love & Faith
2Co_6 -- Paul’s Unconstrained
Love
The Happiness of Refreshing Love
Why You Should Want
Freshness!
Hypocritical Despising Judgments
Struggling With Despising Other
People's Exaltation
Don't
Be Prepared To Despise, But to Love!
Take someone Else’s Word for it,
and Forgive Them!
Spiritual Extraversion Takes on
Despising
Immunity to the Fear Of Their
Projected Shame (Despising / Attacks) Happens When...
Predictable Procedures whenever
you feel the fear of Despising.
Unfaithful
Discouragements Toward Each Other
Your
Lack of Faithful Happiness toward Truth Endangers Your Soul at Judgment
Informing Your Customers in Love
Good Customer Service Means
Protecting The Vulnerable Soul Of Your Customer
Don’t Make People Owe You
Anything!
There is a Nicer Way to Say That
Love -- That’s Easy for You to
Say!
Value in the Afterlife = The
Focus and Forgiving Power of Real Love
Knowing Less Over Time ≠
Love (or Truth)
Side Note: How to Take a Hold of
Forgiveness at a Distance by Faith
The Point: Much Forgiveness Calls
for Doing Much Love
The Reward of Love -- No Sin
Problems
Doing Faithful Love Without Excuses
Intro Notes to This Exhortation
No Nonsense -- Our Obvious
Context
Seek Truth Love, Not Feelings
Love
Truth vs. Feelings Love –
Understanding the Competition
Get Serious About The Truth, Even
If You Have To Ask For A Spanking
Confusing Encouragement for
“Love” = “Feelings Love”
Ready to Learn About Truth Love?
Shocker: Real Love Does Not
Require Spending Time Together.
Real Love Passes the Test of
“Absence” & All Other Trials
Truth Love Faithfully Uses
Absence, But Feelings Love Abuses Togetherness
Examples of Long-Distance Love
Relationships
The Range of Long-Distance Trials
Pioneering Patriarchs -- in
General
Joseph's Trials And Exaltation
Moses Preparing in the Wilderness
The Israelites, God, & the
Promised Land
Song of Songs: Separations &
Reunions
Cry & Wait for Redemption –
The Right Response to Gomer’s Discipline
Esther, King Xerxus, &
Mordecai
Formerly Demonized Man &
Jesus
Galatian & Corinthian
Discipline
2nd Corinthians 1 – I No
Longer Came in Order To Spare You
2nd Corinthians 1 –
“Not Lording” = Waiting in Absence for Willing Faith
Self-Restrained: 2nd
Corinthians 3, 5, & 6 – You’re Restrained in Your Own Bowels!
2nd Corinthians 6: In Return For The Same – Do Good Back to
Those Who Have Done Good to You.
2nd Corinthians 6:
Children Crave Love, But Grown-Up Perfection Knows How to Give It
2nd Corinthians 7 –
Receive Us…You are in our Hearts
2nd Corinthians 11
& 12 – Not Because We Don’t Love You
Hebrews: Let the Brotherly Love
Remain
Any More Long-Distance Love
Examples?
DOING Real Love is More Important
Than Feeling Loved
Summary: How Do you Know When
Your being Faithful?
Why am I Being Tested by Times of
Separation?
Probation and/or Refinement -- 2
Reasons for Separation Testing.
The Fruit of Refinement
Separation Testing
The Fruit of Probation Separation
Testing
The Answers Of Being Faithful
& Being Spiritual
The Answer of Ruth’s Forsake All
Presence
Dear God, Please Don’t Forsake
Me!
Out of Overflow of Heart, Mouth
Speaks
Resurrecting & Surpassing
Your First Love
Losing vs Keeping First Love --
Girl Questions
Man: Answer: How Much Knowledge
do you Need Before you can DO Love?
What Do You Need to Change? -- We
Know it Could be…
Remove The Bad & Apprehend
The Good
Reminders of Repentance for
Stopping Lovelessness
--------------- (recompiled from
FIRST LOVE) ---------------
How Much do Love Feelings Matter?
Caring for Consolation Feelings
Philia -- Philadelphia -- Might
Sound like “family”
Mercy-Love -- the Forgotten Greek
Synonym for Love
Hebrew and Greek Are A Start, but
Can Still Stop Short
Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins
Chose to Be Happy To See Someone
Getting Love-Truth &
Refusing to Win A Fleshly Argument
No Competition Against the
Righteous
Psalms_139:21 – Don't I Hate Them
Who Hate You
Love First, and Then Your Needs
Will Be Met
Give And It Will Be Given To You
Defining Love = Needed
2/4/22-2/6/22; 2/13/22-3/13/22
What is Love?
Book: How To Get Your Husband To Talk To You
· How people experience and crave love varies drastically between people, ages, genders, and cultures, and so on, so…
· we've got to get our definition and ideals orthodox and correct and True in order to actually obey the Bible and have REAL Love.
Mal 1: I have loved you -- same type of drama as seen in above book (husband and wife discussions)
Mal 1 calls for and requires the same womanly virtue as discussed previously among our disciples:
Pro31 -- Manishly Doing Good
(Manish virtue is seen in the Greek here, and several other references like this.)
Human Concepts of Love
2/19/17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love
Romanticized love
Hippy love
Unverified, Fraudulent, Delusions of Love
· Most people think they love because they can perceive their own internal intentions to love. -- this is a critical truth to grasp!
· One Shallow Apostate said: when I hugged to you, it came from the heart!
· It is not the intention or the feeling of love that has anything to do with love.
· Love is a deed, not a theoretical idea, or shallow feeling that stops short of the reality of action.
· Because in this way the God loved the world…
· Rather than objective, Monotheistic, canonical proof, flesh balls rely upon their own feelings, as though enough humans have not already been murdered from this disgusting perversion of sin already!
· Unverified beliefs is the universal pagan way of hating truth, and it is a sure way to get your worthless soul and body toasting and roasting in fire for the rest of eternity.
Compare: Plato’s Symposium
Obeying God's Commands = Real Love
> 1jn, etc
>Lo
>Shema
-- Under Construction --
liberal complacent Heretics love to
minimize this and ignore this and invent their own sugar-coated counterfeits...
but the bible really is true!
really obeying Divine rules really is
the real marker of if someone actually really loves people!
those nasty hypocrite fakes will talk
up and down all day long about a word that they call love, but it is the same
dirty and dark and church Hypocrites who will outrageously persecute the most
poor and humble people of the Earth...
God himself has polarized things so
that only those who reverently obey him will be able to even have the capacity
to love other pore tried and tattered people who are desperate to obey the
Truth.
...
is it right to associate love with
heart pounding intensity?
here is the biggest sense in which
that is true : Jesus poured out his blood, which was pumped through his heart,
even unto the point of death. John says that he loved His disciples even unto
the end. We see that love is associated with a blood that was pumped out of his
body through an Indescribable and unimaginable passion.
Love God, Love People <<<<
Mar_12:30-33 – Love God, Love People;
Love Neighbor As Self <<<<
Lev, Deu, Mat, [Mar,
Luk,] Gal
· Lev_19:18 – Love Neighbor as self
· Lev_19:34 – Love Stranger as self
· Deu_10:19 – Love the Stranger
· Mat_19:19 – Neighbor as Self
· Gal_5:14 – ... law-fulfilling neighborly love
· Jam_2:8 – Love Neighbor as self = Royal Law
Rom_13:8-10 – Love debt, which fulfills the law;
Love neighbor as self; Love works no damage to neighbor, and in this way it fulfills the law
the continual debt to love one another
notice that you cannot sin against someone and love them at the same time.
we already see that love does not sin against people by very definition in 1st Corinthians 13, and here we see the exact same sentiment / theology reinforced by saying that Love doesn't do bad things against those whom it is close to / its neighbor
>> Scrip:
you will not plot evil against your neighbors seeing that he dwells securely next to you
does sending someone to hell damage them? is sending someone to hell included in doing something that hurts them? if you will be intellectually honest and morally consistent, then if you are doing things that send someone to hell you cannot love them at the same time, because this damage is them in the worst conceivable possible form.
it is pure hypocrisy to claim that you love someone and that you're not sending against them and that you're not damaging them while you do things that hold their hand on the way to hell.
of course when we put things so bluntly like asking if sending someone to hell damages them we can all somewhat easily agree that that would be unloving and damaging and not nice, but interestingly no one ever really cares about these things in their day-to-day real life because they're so liberal that they don't see past the physical by faith...
there are of course so many people claiming to have faith and believe and all such hypocritical liberal nonsense, but you know for sure that they're lying and they're not doing anything real or serious because when you start talking about things that feel less tangible to them they suddenly back off as though you are being impractical and not immediately loving to your neighbor because your prioritizing something you can't see right in front of your flesh ball nose...
one of the greatest problems with liberal hypocritical faith in our age is that when it comes to doctrinal diversity it feels so irrelevant to the sensual feelings of the flesh that people furrow their brow as though it is intangible and irrelevant to human love when you start talking about the consequences of doctrinal diversity... there's a great amount of hypocrisy there, especially because people that are living for the flesh only see the flesh and only pay attention to it, yet when we are spiritual we have to turn around and face the living God and the judgment of his holiness. we have a real tangible authoritative voice to turn back and please, and yet these liberals obviously have no real God that they have to answer to, and they in this way fulfill the very definition of being liberal:
liberals love to be liberal when their freedom is at the expense of someone else's resources they don't care about, and in this way they don't really love!
there is no such thing as being liberal without it costing someone else who's trying to preserve (conserve) something valuable that they do not care about.
let The Listener remember the examples of a pastor who said he wanted to be with Eve after she send because he loved her so he did the same thing to be with her, but this is failing to be a man and undermining the very foundation of their fundamental relationship, and it doesn't love your wife at all to send her to hell and sin along with her...
PUR BTW:
Isn't it interesting that if you love someone then you realize that coveting/lusting upon does damage to them?
Doesn't it do damage to someone's value and honor and reputation in your own heart when you lust after them and destroy the value of their gender?
Good Samaritan
Luk_10:25-37 – Good Samaritan
· No Horizontal Hypocrisy (see: No Hypocritical Love(lessness))
· Showing Mercy = Loving your neighbor as yourself, like the Good Samaritan
· Love neighbor as self & Love for strangers
·
LO:
Do = eternal Life: Luk_10:25, Luk_10:28,
Luk_10:37
· Love God (Shema) = 1st; Love Neighbor = 2nd
· Valuing someone -- Samaritan did redemptive “mercy” by paying money
· Mercy (v. 37) = money (v. 35) -- i.e. Redemptive sacrifice
Leviticus 19 = Justice Love, Not Feelings Love
3/25/22; 4/10/22
Lev_19: you will rebuke
your neighbor = love - real & serious!
https://www.thetorah.com/article/love-your-neighbor-how-it-became-the-golden-rule
Love Enemies
Pro_24:17-18 – Don’t rejoice in your heart if enemy falls
· Discussed under Love Atones (comp. Love Enemies)
Mat_5:41-47 – TOC;
Mat_7:12 – ;
Luk_6:31-35 – ;
Act_26:29 – Wishing for you to become as Paul is = Loving/Saving;
· Imitation = Love
· Wishing for you to become like a disciple = Love
· Love Enemies
Rom_5:7-8 – While still being sinners, Anointed One Died over us
· see: Love Atones (discussed) & Love Enemies
/\\/
Rom_9:1-3 – Paul could wish to go to Hell for Israel
· see: Love Atones (discussed) & Love Enemies & Identity Justice
Loving Sinners -- for How Long / How Much?
-- Under Construction --
Give People a Good Day! <<<
Love makes itself a debtor to
all men
>> TSK
1Co_9:19 LSV for being free from all
men, I made myself servant to all men, that the more I might gain;
2Co_4:5 LSV for we do not preach
ourselves, but Christ Jesus—LORD, and [we are]
ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
Freshness for insiders and
outsiders
Worldly Lust vs Biblical Love
Real Love is Not
Worldly
It’s time to confront worldly, fake, hypocritical love and bring in the Truth of really valuing people and God so that we can finally hear, believe, and obey the Truth!
Love in Philosophy -- Mostly Shallow/Foolish…
· see: Socrates Symposium (Interlinear)
Worldly love from the Commentary Project
Worldly love
Exemplified by the Commentary Project
An Example of
Christianized Worldly love
3/13/22
The bible
Commentary Project is dead wrong.
See: Intro to…
Animated Explanation of Sacrifice and
Atonement - YouTube
Righteous Reaction to Video Intro:
No, we don’t all crave good, otherwise we would easily have it from the Creator, seeing how abundantly generous and pitiful He is.
No, we don’t all want justice when society is demanding gay rights to be forced down everyone’s throat at the expense of the most poor and righteous.
No we don’t want anything good, because people always persecute every true speaker they possibly can (except when a drastic miracle happens and people’s hearts are unusually softened).
All we really want is to take good away from the good and consume it on our own selfish unworthy selves…
No, we don’t “all want love BUT there is evil”.
Humans only brood on evil continually*, including their maddened lust for evil which they call “love”.
Sin does not interrupt the good we all want.
Sin is the actual utter wickedness we always crave and demand.
[* Continual, Radical Evil / Depravity: Gen_6:5-7; Gen_6:11-13;
Gen_8:21… etc. (see: TSK, Nave > Depravity, etc.)]
Unless we stop lying about our love for evil, persecution against the most truly poor and vulnerable will never be confronted or stopped.
Commentary “love” or worldly “love” is the lie that is at the very heart of everything evil the Bible opposes.
The Bible harshly condemns all worldly “love”, no matter how Christianized it is, because repentance unto real Love is what God really demands from all people…
This worldly “love” that The bible Commentary Project says we all want is shown all
throughout their productions as they accommodate and flatter the rich to try to
make the Bible seem compatible or even appealing to modern man -- and it isn’t
at all, especially in the realm of Love…
The Point: Obtaining the REAL definition of Love is absolutely critical to stop the spread of all the worldly “love” heresies and all their deadly confusions and deceptions as promoted by the secular and churchy world.
Stories of Fake Love & Worldly Sin
4/10/22; 10/1/22
Maybe there are good
intentions sometimes, but it's still Worldly Sin!
Religious Discouragement at Walmart
Increased Discouragement by Hypocritical Unbelief while
Sitting in Walmart
I sat down in Walmart on a
bench from a headache, and apparently appearing discouraged to others, someone
recognized me from open air preaching and felt like he had a solution to my
discouragement by reminding me of churchy encouragement... 'just remember that
joyful purpose that g-d has for you'.
and I thought to myself afterwards,
"you know, if you would just give over a reasonable response and stop
sinning against me with atheism and lazy unbelief, that is what I really need
to be encouraged... someone repenting of hypocrisy and foolishness and
perversion and passionately realizing that they need to be discipled, yes a zealous
disciple is what would encourage me right now" - when you walk in the
shadow of Elijah you start to bear his discouragement syndromes, longing for a
disciple. while hypocrites offer you their inferior hypocritical hope, God
knows that Elisha is the real & eternal solution to Elijah's loneliness,
and is the only real source of divine love...
Church Hopping into more Lovelessness
When I was visiting a new
church they asked me about my church hopping travels, and then after hearing
the variety and instability of my life the grandpa pastor tried to give me a
hug and said "what you need is a place to belong" and I said
"what I need is to find a place where people will repent".
They were somewhat shocked
and caught off guard and needless to say they weren't prepared to be eager or
Earnest or real or true or to have any real love, but the social silence and
awkwardness just preceded on forward on into their meaningless shallow church
service...
A Life Surrounded by Lovelessness
All my life people have
taught me that the word "love" is meaningless...
Yes, I have high standards,
especially now, but at any point in my life (even before Truth in some sense) I
would have been happy if I could just find a faithful honest posture of serious
love.
William Law -- Made Up Arminian Blasphemous Heresy
See: SRP (Sin Repentance Perfection)
Selfish Lust Pushed by Pagans Praise
Pagans Praise Selfish
Lust
Foolish and silly pagans,
or as we might called them in America, Pagan
goofballs say things like, how can you institutionalize something so
precious and beautiful as the love for another as though it should be
artificially processed in the social institution of marriage?
But there is nothing rare
or special or virtuous or admirable at all about being a selfish dog in heat
lusting after another beast of prostitution.
Hypocritical Pagans Always love Shame, Not Love
3/17/22; 3/20/22
Just as the lust of
religious evolution did not start with science but started with the guesswork
of superstitious Pagan philosophers free thinking about their own insane
lawless madness, searching for what mechanism of philosophy would best make
them more polluted dirty evil mindless and antagonistic against monotheism, in
the same way paganism has always been fixated on Shame:
It doesn't matter if it is
pseudoscience claiming atheistic materialistic evolution or whether it is some
form of agnosticism: worldly love, loves Pagan Shame.
In the more overtly non
secular religious Pagan since:
pagans have always loved to
go to clubs, that is to say, they have always loved to go to idols temples and
commit prostitution...
the sloppy polytheists have
always boasted and gloried in the shame of their fertility rights in their
fornication pagan idolatry Satan worshiping temples, and in the exact same way
pseudoscientists and so-called atheists and agnostics say 'we're not anything
but mammals so let's do it like they do it on the Discovery channel'
It doesn't matter if you're
claiming to worship all the different gods of paganism or whether you're
claiming to be an atheist: the root issue is that you already have the goal of
loving shame, and therefore you wrap different philosophies and worldviews
around that lust in order to justify it.
No, you're not being intellectually
honest as a materialist or atheist... you're just finding a lousy philosophical
excuse to justify your wicked perverted pagan Lust for Shame.
It actually really doesn't
matter whether it is the boasting Glory of shame in the fertility rights of pagan
temples or whether it is the pseudo so-called atheists that say we're just
animals and so fornication is inevitable and actually maybe somewhat ideal...
Since pagans are actually
happier with their desires when humans are degraded and brought down from logic
and intellectually honest rationality down into the pits of the sewer, and
logical rational humans are made to be degraded as irrational animals,
therefore Pagan love has always been at odds with real serious love since Pagan
love does not love the value of humanity and is not based on value, but rather
selfish pleasure and appetite, there is no resolve to the empty vein
meaninglessness of worldly love...
There is no compatibility at
all with the Pagan concepts of Love since they are nothing more than selfish
lust...
If pagans do any love that
has any actual intrinsic value it is despite them not because of them. because
we can consider what kind of horrendous animals they will become in times of
panic and catastrophe, running over each other as ravenous fearful beasts,
because in fact they can't even lift a finger to save a person's soul from
hopelessness and despair in the meantime, how much less will they be able to do
anything courageous to save someone when they themselves are at their wit's end
and their psychology catches up to them and they are broken with madness and
hatred for mankind...
Old Testament = Love Neighbor As Self
See: Love Neighbor As Self -- this is all about serious justice, NOT feelings!
Virtually all “love” today
is not even Monotheistic at all (Love Neighbor As
Self -- with serious/real
sin-confronting clean social JUSTICE/Righteousness), much less is it the
surpassingly glorious sizzling New Testament, Divine Love.
Lust vs. Love -- Confrontation
Real Love vs. Lust
1Ti_2:15 – Faith, Love, & Holiness w Saved-Mindedness = Salvation
· Discussed under Companion Virtues (Comp. Love vs. Lust; Faithful Love)
2Ti_2:22 – Flee Lust; Chase/Pursue Love;
· Think: 1Ti_5:1-2 [νεωτέρας1] + 1Ti_6:11 [φεῦγε2] (discussed elsewhere) = 2Ti_2:22 [νεωτερικὰς3]
(1) 1Ti_5:1-2 Greek
Πρεσβυτέρῳ
μὴ ἐπιπλήξῃς,
ἀλλὰ
παρακάλει ὡς
πατέρα, νεωτέρους
ὡς ἀδελφούς, 2
πρεσβυτέρας
ὡς μητέρας, νεωτέρας
ὡς ἀδελφὰς ἐν
πάσῃ ἁγνείᾳ.
(2) 1Ti_6:11 Greek Σὺ
δέ, ὦ ἄνθρωπε
Θεοῦ, ταῦτα φεῦγε·
δίωκε
δὲ
δικαιοσύνην,
εὐσέβειαν, πίστιν,
ἀγάπην, ὑπομονήν,
πρᾳότητα.
(3) 2Ti_2:22 Greek τὰς
δὲ νεωτερικὰς
ἐπιθυμίας φεῦγε,
δίωκε
δὲ
δικαιοσύνην,
πίστιν,
ἀγάπην, εἰρήνην
μετὰ τῶν ἐπικαλουμένων
τὸν Κύριον ἐκ
καθαρᾶς
καρδίας.
And just wait till we get to 1jn…..!
1Th_4:9 – Brotherly Love vs. the preceding gender-murders that cry out for wrath (1Th_4:1-8)
· As covered in Agape+
Gal_4:11-20 – Warnings of Lost Love/Blessedness/Refreshing/Imitation
· Covered elsewhere
· Paul is willing to become their enemy by telling them the Truth about their identity... that's a relational sacrifice, for the sake of real Love!
· …
Confusing Lust for
Love
Confusing Lust for Love will make you do all kinds of crazy things and sometimes you won't even realize all the insanity you have done until a Monotheist retells the story in an orderly accurate and True way.
Confusing love as with the story of Samson can get your divine favor and mission ruined and your hair cut off and your eyes plucked out, and even that's in a best case scenario...
Most church people never have any clue if God ever withdraws from them because He was never notably close to them in the first place to begin with, unlike Samson...
Confusing Lust for Love can be your spiritual downfall, (assuming you had anything good going for you to begin with)
No Hypocritical Love(lessness)
Worldly love is always Hypocritical
· Consider the many examples…
Biblical Love =
Unhypocritical
· Search for “hypoc” herein to consider how Biblical Love = Unhypocritical
1Jo_2:9-11 – Love Brothers/Obeyers = No Scandal
·
See: 1st
John 2 – Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love; No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Rock Solid Love; Reward of Love
Luk_10:25-37 – Good Samaritan
Rom_12:9-10 – Non-hypocritical, Multifaceted Love Resulting in Honoring Others Above Yourself
· Discussed under Love is About Value (comp. Companion Virtues; No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Agape+)
1Ti_1:5 – Perfection-Goal = Unhypocritical Clean Love
Perfection of
Commandment = Unhypocritical
Clean/Pure-hearted Love (w good conscience)
· See: 1st Timothy 1 (comp. No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Companion Virtues)
1Pe_1:22 – Holy-Pure Clean Soul-ed, Obedient-Listening-Under, True, |TSB Spiritual|, Non-hypocritical, Fervently-extended-out Brotherly-Liking & Love for Disciples
· Special Love of Disciples
· PUR: Love vs. Lust
· PUR: Hypocrisy of accusing purity culture
· LO: Obeying Truth = Purity
· Companion virtues!!
· See: 1Pe_1:22 (Non-hypocritical); 1Pe_4:8 (Love Covers Multitude) -- Fervent Love
Galatians 5 – The Fleshly
Fruit of Apostates = Hypocritical Love(lessness)
Gal_5:13 – Don't have fleshly freedom but (oppositely) by Love, slave-serve one another
· by Love, slave serve one another - Freedom slave serve one another by love;
· Comp. 1Ti_6:2 (In Love slave-serve)
· You cannot Love someone and sin against them at the same time.
· Fleshliness is by very nature not Loving and not spiritual.
· Notice that any sense of freedom or liberation among righteous people is not allowed to be applied to the flesh.
· The flesh is by very nature not Loving, especially when it applies its freedom for the flesh.
· Using freedom in order to be fleshly, like going out to watch movies as a Christian who thinks they're still saved, is the exact opposite of Love which we are commanded to use to slave serve one another.
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Gal_5:22 – Fruit of the Spirit;
· The fleshly freedom which was unloving in Galatians_5:13 is in direct contrast to the Love in that very verse as well as being spiritual in Galatians_5:22.
· We see that being a hypocritical church person who says that they are free to do fleshly things like listen to secular music and date people and watch movies, has fleshly freedom which is not Loving in Galatians_5:13 and is not spiritual in Galatians_5:22.
Gal_5:26 – The Fruit of the Flesh
· Fake Value ≠ Love
· It Is the result of sin including prideful selfishness, provoking one another, and envying one another.
· We see that the results of the spirit produce slave-serving other disciples in real Love, whereas the fruit/results of the flesh are unloving, unspiritual, and result in selfish pride that competes against other people and provokes them with envy.
· People say that they are being Loving by going to the movies with their friends, but the Bible very clearly teaches us that this kind of fleshliness results in hurting other people in your selfish relationships.
The Point: Real Love = NO Hypocrisy (i.e. no worldliness / worldly lust)
· No Horizontal Hypocrisy Tolerated with Real Love! -- not in general for humanity (Good Samaritan) nor even especially for disciples (as covered in 1Co_13 sections and onward).
· Search for Hypoc in this Bible study for numerous example passages that are tagged with anti-Hypocrisy notices.
Lust Warning-Reminders
Warnings against Lust
when pursuing Real Love
· The lusts of this world are very prevalent.
· Lusts ruin us.
· Lusts are always selfish, and never know how to value other people's real honor / value.
· Lusts cause wars among relationships, not Love.
· Lusts disconnect you spiritually.
· Lusts can be so deceptively subconscious…!
Notice the deception of our age to constantly make you see
and hear injustice, and if
you don’t do something to oppose what your hearing and seeing you will become evil
inside and sin against the love of God and other people.
For these hateful lust attacks, we need a properly correlating response to stand against the devil to renounce the deceptive lusts that war against Real Love and make us evil inside when we are lazy and complacent against our raping enemies.
Family Betrayal – The Proof of Worldly Lovelessness
Family Betraying
Family, unto Death…
Overview of Initial Prophetic Warnings of Hatred:
Mat_10:5-42; Luk_9:1-6; Luk_10:1-16; Mar_6:7-13; Mar_13:12-13; Luk_21:16-19; Mat_24:12 (all discussed below)
Mark 6 – Summary & Analysis
12 Sent Miraculously
Proclaiming Repentance & Testifying Against Unreceptive Cities
Mar_6:7 – 12 sent out 2
by 2, with power
Mar_6:8 – Don’t take extra for journey (only 1 staff)
Mar_6:9 – Sandals allowed, but not 2 coats
Mar_6:10 – 1 house per city
Mar_6:11 – Shake off dust against unreceptive people [TSB: as Sodom & Gomorrah]
Mar_6:12 – Proclaiming that they should repent
Mar_6:13 – Throwing out demons & healing with oil
Mark 6 Considerations
· We’ve got to promote & proclaim repentance / a testimony (Mar_6:11-12)!
· Notice: Dust-shaking testimony against unreceptive/unloving world/cities (Mar_6:11).
· Do we need to have a testimony against the lovelessness of the world in the meantime, even before they try to kill us?
· Aren’t they already excommunicating us, or at least very ready to do so?
· Warning: Jesus sent 2 by 2 to heal, but the 2 sent in the end-times (and all who follow them) are bringing plagues instead of healing.
· Won’t the end-times world hate the righteous who plague them even more than the persecuted righteous who healed them during New Testament times?
· If they killed those who healed them, how much more worse will they hate and murder those who plague them, even after the righteous have all agreed with God who punishes them for all of their worldly madness, pride, and crimes?
Luke 9 – Summary & Analysis
12 Sent Miraculously
Proclaiming & Testifying Against Unreceptive Cities
Luk_9:1 – 12 given
power & authority over all demons & sicknesses
Luk_9:2 – Sent to proclaim & heal
Luk_9:3 – Don’t take extra (for journey)
Luk_9:4 – 1 house per city
Luk_9:5 – Shake off dust against unreceptive
people (as a testimony)
Luk_9:6 – They were going, proclaiming, & healing
Luke 9 Considerations
· Notice: Dust-shaking testimony (again)
· Luke 9 = sending the 12
· Luke 10 = sending the 70
Luke 10 Summary & Analysis
70 Sent Proclaiming
& Testifying Against Unreceptive Cities
Luk_10:1 – 70 others
sent out
Luk_10:2 – Abundant harvest, few workers, pray for help
Think:
you got to practice what you preach,
& even incl. what you pray for!
Luk_10:3 – Sent as lambs among wolves*
[* Mat_10:16; Luk_10:3]
Luk_10:4 – Don’t take extra
Luk_10:5 – Say “Peace” to hosting house
Luk_10:6 – Peace rests with son of peace, but otherwise
returns to you
Luk_10:7 – Worthy* workman [1Ti_5:17-18; 1Co_9:4-14]
must remain in that (receptive) house
[* comp. Mat_10:10-11, Mat_10:37-38; Luk_10:7-8]
[remain in house, eating, drinking, the things they have]…
Lidia* = Worthy house for Delegated
Proclaimers
* Act_16:11-15 (esp. v. Act_16:14-15), Act_16:40
Luk_10:8 – Eat what's
set before you in receptive city [1Co_10:27]
Luk_10:9 – Heal & announce Kingdom Nearness
Luk_10:10 – Go in the broad places of unreceptive city and verbally...
Luk_10:11 – Dust/wipe off against them, affirming Kingdom Nearness
Luk_10:12 – Sodom's Judgement more tolerable than unreceptive city
Luk_10:13 – Woe to
Chorazin & Bethsaida vs
Tyre & Sidon [Mat_11:20-22; Luk_10:13]
Luk_10:14 – Tyre & Sidon's judgment more tolerable
Luk_10:15 – "Capernaum... brought down to
Hades" (LSV)
Luk_10:16 – Hearing or
rejecting of 70 = Doing the same to Jesus & His Sender [comp.
Luk_10:16; Joh_15:20, etc.]
Luke 10 Considerations
· Lots of proclamation is needed! (Luk_10:1-2)
· The 12 were sent with power (Luk_9:1-2) & 70 also had power when proclaiming (Luk_10:9; Luk_10:17-20)
· Notice: “wolves” (Luk_10:3) – the violent hostility of the unbelieving world…
· What they do to proclaimers = what they do to God (Luk_10:16; Joh_15:20, etc.)
· Dust-shaking testimony (again) & it’s much longer this time (Luk_10:10-16)
Matthew 10 – Don’t Fear Persecution & Murder, But Testify from Inspired Delegation
Worthiness, Testimony,
Betrayal, Murder, Hatred, Persecution, No Fear, Cross, Inspired Delegation
Matthew 10 Basic Considerations
· Matthew 10’s sending out is the most thorough account.
· Matthew 10’s sending out includes the end-times warnings that carry over into Matthew 24’s Temple-Destruction Prophecy, and these same predicted hostile attitudes are still going on until this day until the end.
· Hatred is very potently seen in Matthew 10 (as seen below & in Murderous-Betrayal Considerations).
Summary &
Analysis of Matthew 10
Mat_10:10 – worker = worthy*
[Mat_10:10: ἄξιος
γὰρ ὁ ἐργάτης
τῆς τροφῆς
αὐτοῦ ἐστιν]
[Luk_10:7: ἄξιος
γὰρ ὁ ἐργάτης
τοῦ μισθοῦ
αὐτοῦ ἐστι·
|TSBεστιν| (= 1Ti_5:17-18)]
TSK: Luk_10:7-12, 1Co_9:4-14,
Gal_6:6-7, 1Ti_5:17-18
Mat_10:11
– inquire who is worthy* in each city
[* comp. Mat_10:10-11, Mat_10:37-38; Luk_10:7-8 & Lidia (as seen above)]
…
Mat_10:14 – dust shaking (testimony) [Mat_10:14, Mat_10:17; dust shaking = ‘testimony’ in Mar_6:11 & Luk_9:5]
Mat_10:16 – Sheep among wolves* need to be mindful as serpents & unmixed as doves [* Mat_10:16; Luk_10:3]
Mat_10:17 a – they will deliver you up* to be whipped in synagogues/churches [* Mat_10:4 (Judas), Mat_10:16-18 (wolves), Mat_10:21 (Family)]
Mat_10:17 b – testimony [Mat_10:14, Mat_10:17; dust shaking = ‘testimony’ in Mar_6:11 & Luk_9:5]
Mat_10:18 – when they deliver you up / betray you
…
Mat_10:21 – Family*
betrayal unto death [* comp. Mat_10:21, Mat_10:35-37]
[Remember how Judas betrayed Jesus? (as already referenced in Mat_10:4)]
Mat_10:22 – Hated under all, remain-ers saved [ὑπομείνας
εἰς τέλος*, οὗτος
σωθήσεται]
Mat_10:23 – Flee
persecution & Jesus
returns before your finished [οὐ
μὴ τελέσητε*
τὰς πόλεις]
Mat_10:24 – Disciple/slave
not above/over teacher/lord
Mat_10:25 – Disciple/slave
as teacher/lord = sufficient; household called Beelzebub/l
Mat_10:26 – Don’t fear because all will be revealed
Mat_10:27 – Hear
in darkness, proclaim on housetops
Mat_10:28 – Don’t fear body-killers
[ἀποκτεῖναι], but He who can dissolve [ἀπολέσαι] body & soul in Gehenna
Mat_10:29 – (even)
Cheap sparrows don’t fall without Father’s permission.
Mat_10:30 – Your
hairs are all numbered
Mat_10:31 – Don’t fear: You are more valuable than many sparrows
Mat_10:32 – Together-confessors in front of men get
together-confessed in front of Father
Mat_10:33 – Deniers in front of men get denied in
front of Father
Mat_10:34 – Not Peace, but Sword
Mat_10:35 – Family vs. Family: Man
vs.* Father**, Daughter vs. Mother, Daughter-in-law vs. Mother-in-law [** see next verse]
[* διχάσαι ἄνθρωπον
κατὰ]
Mat_10:36 – Household* = Enemies [* comp.
Mat_10:21, Mat_10:35-37 (= Mic_7:6)]
Mat_10:37 – Cherishing/friending/liking
[φιλῶν] father, mother, son, or daughter above
[ὑπὲρ] Jesus = not worthy*
Mat_10:38 – No Cross-taking
+ No Following = Not Worthy* [* comp. Mat_10:10-11, Mat_10:37-38;
Luk_10:7-8 & Lidia (as seen above)]
Mat_10:39 – Finding = Losing & Losing = Finding
Soul
Mat_10:40 – Receiving* Apostles = Receiving Jesus
& His ·Sender [i.e.
apostel-izer – τὸν ἀποστείλαντά
με]
[comp. little: Mat_18:5]
Mat_10:41 – Receiving* prophet or righteous man =
Taking ahold of** a reward from them
[*
δεχόμενος **Aλημψεται
| TSBληψεται]
Mat_10:42 – Cool* drink given to small/little**
[μικρῶν
τούτων] disciple = un-lose-able reward
[* ψυχροῦ
(Mat_10:42) ≈ ψυγήσεται
(Mat_24:12); ** little: Mat_18:5]
Mat_10:21-42 Greek
Παραδώσει
δὲ ἀδελφὸς
ἀδελφὸν εἰς
θάνατον καὶ
πατὴρ
τέκνον, καὶ ἐπαναστήσονται
τέκνα ἐπὶ
γονεῖς καὶ
θανατώσουσιν
αὐτούς· 22
καὶ ἔσεσθε
μισούμενοι ὑπὸ
πάντων διὰ
τὸ ὄνομά μου·
ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας
εἰς τέλος, οὗτος
σωθήσεται. 23 ὅταν
δὲ διώκωσιν
ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ
πόλει ταύτῃ,
φεύγετε εἰς
τὴν ἄλλην· |Aετεραν TSBαλλην| ἀμὴν
γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν,
οὐ μὴ
τελέσητε τὰς
πόλεις τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ
ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ὁ
Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. 24
Οὐκ ἔστι
μαθητὴς ὑπὲρ
τὸν
διδάσκαλον οὐδὲ
δοῦλος ὑπὲρ
τὸν κύριον
αὐτοῦ.
25 ἀρκετὸν
τῷ μαθητῇ ἵνα
γένηται ὡς ὁ
διδάσκαλος αὐτοῦ,
καὶ τῷ
δούλῳ ὡς ὁ
κύριος αὐτοῦ.
εἰ τὸν οἰκοδεσπότην
Βεελζεβοὺβ ἐκάλεσαν
|Sβεελζεβουβ
TBAβεελζεβουλ
Aεπεκαλεσαν
TSBεκαλεσαν|, πόσῳ
μᾶλλον τοὺς
οἰκιακοὺς |Bοικειακους
TSAοικιακους| αὐτοῦ; 26
μὴ οὖν
φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς·
οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστι
κεκαλυμμένον ὃ
οὐκ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται,
καὶ κρυπτὸν ὃ
οὐ
γνωσθήσεται. 27 ὃ
λέγω ὑμῖν ἐν
τῇ σκοτίᾳ,
εἴπατε ἐν τῷ
φωτί, καὶ ὃ εἰς
τὸ οὖς ἀκούετε,
κηρύξατε ἐπὶ
τῶν δωμάτων. 28
καὶ μὴ
φοβηθῆτε |BAφοβεισθε TSφοβηθητε| ἀπὸ
τῶν ἀποκτενόντων
|Aαποκτεννοντων
Bαποκτενοντων
TSαποκτεινοντων| τὸ σῶμα,
τὴν δὲ
ψυχὴν μὴ
δυναμένων ἀποκτεῖναι·
|Aφοβεισθε
TSBφοβηθητε|
φοβήθητε δὲ
μᾶλλον τὸν
δυνάμενον
καὶ ψυχὴν
καὶ σῶμα |Bτην ψυχην
και Bτο σωμα
| ἀπολέσαι
ἐν γεέννῃ. 29
οὐχὶ δύο
στρουθία ἀσσαρίου
πωλεῖται;
καὶ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν
οὐ πεσεῖται
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν
ἄνευ τοῦ
πατρὸς ὑμῶν. 30
ὑμῶν δὲ
καὶ αἱ
τρίχες τῆς
κεφαλῆς πᾶσαι
ἠριθμημέναι
εἰσί.
31 μὴ οὖν
φοβηθῆτε· |Aφοβεισθε TSBφοβηθητε| πολλῶν
στρουθίων
διαφέρετε ὑμεῖς. 32
Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις
ὁμολογήσει ἐν
ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν
τῶν ἀνθρώπων,
ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ
ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν
τοῦ πατρός
μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς· 33 ὅστις
δ᾿ ἂν ἀρνήσηταί
με ἔμπροσθεν
τῶν ἀνθρώπων,
ἀρνήσομαι |TSBαυτον καγω
Aαυτον| αὐτὸν
κἀγὼ ἔμπροσθεν
τοῦ πατρός
μου τοῦ ἐν |Aτοις| οὐρανοῖς. 34
Μὴ
νομίσητε ὅτι ἦλθον
βαλεῖν εἰρήνην
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν·
οὐκ ἦλθον
βαλεῖν εἰρήνην,
ἀλλὰ
μάχαιραν. 35 ἦλθον
γὰρ διχάσαι ἄνθρωπον
κατὰ τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
καὶ θυγατέρα
κατὰ τῆς
μητρὸς αὐτῆς
καὶ νύμφην
κατὰ τῆς
πενθερᾶς αὐτῆς· 36
καὶ ἐχθροὶ
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
οἱ οἰκιακοὶ
|Bοικειακοι
TSAοικιακοι| αὐτοῦ. 37 ῾Ο
φιλῶν πατέρα
ἢ μητέρα ὑπὲρ
ἐμὲ οὐκ ἔστι
μου ἄξιος·
καὶ ὁ φιλῶν
υἱὸν ἢ
θυγατέρα ὑπὲρ
ἐμὲ οὐκ ἔστι
μου ἄξιος· 38
καὶ ὃς οὐ
λαμβάνει τὸν
σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἀκολουθεῖ
ὀπίσω μου, οὐκ
ἔστι μου ἄξιος. 39
ὁ εὑρὼν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
ἀπολέσει αὐτήν,
καὶ ὁ ἀπολέσας
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ
εὑρήσει αὐτήν. 40 ῾Ο
δεχόμενος ὑμᾶς
ἐμὲ
δέχεται, καὶ
ὁ ἐμὲ
δεχόμενος
δέχεται τὸν
ἀποστείλαντά
με. 41 ὁ
δεχόμενος προφήτην
εἰς ὄνομα
προφήτου
μισθὸν
προφήτου
λήψεται |Aλημψεται TSBληψεται|, καὶ ὁ
δεχόμενος
δίκαιον εἰς ὄνομα
δικαίου
μισθὸν
δικαίου
λήψεται |Aλημψεται TSBληψεται|.
42 καὶ ὃς
ἐὰν |Aαν TSBεαν|
ποτίσῃ ἕνα
τῶν μικρῶν
τούτων
ποτήριον ψυχροῦ
μόνον εἰς ὄνομα
μαθητοῦ, ἀμὴν
λέγω ὑμῖν,
οὐ μὴ ἀπολέσῃ
τὸν μισθὸν
αὐτοῦ.
Chiastic Structural*
Pattern of Matthew 10
· (A) Mat_10:1-16 – Delegated Apostles & Receptive People = Worthy
· (B) Mat_10:16-25 – Persecution from Family & the World
· (C) Mat_10:26-33 – Don’t fear* their Murder [* repeated 3 times]
· (B) Mat_10:32-39 – Truth wars against relationships with your Family & the World
· (A) Mat_10:40-42 – Receiving Delegated Apostles = Receiving God & Un-losable Reward
[* Chiastic Structure ≈
ABC-C'B'A']
The Point: Don’t Fear Wolves 16 who Betray 17 18 21, Whip 17, Hate 22, Murder 21 28 38, & Persecute 23, as Enemies -- incl. the World & even Family.
Did anyone notice how hateful and unloving the world is according to Matthew 10?
Don’t we need to drastically change our default attitude toward our family & the world?
“Don’t Fear” Begins
with “Don’t Trust”
“Don’t Trust” = implied by “having caution from that of men”
Furthermore, “Don’t fear” comes from the root issue of “don’t believe or trust” or “don’t even be persuaded by”, which is exactly what Matthew 10 is quoting:
Matthew 10’s “Family vs. Family”
Mat_10:35-36 LSV for I came to set a man
at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 36
and the enemies of a man are those of his household.
Micah 7’s “Family vs. Family”
Mic_7:1-7 -- READ!
· Mic_7:1 – I gather food, but can’t eat
· Mic_7:2 – No reverent people left, only criminal murderers
· Mic_7:3 – Their hands are on the evil lusts of their souls
· Mic_7:4 – A day of vengeance comes against them
· Mic_7:5 – Don’t trust [καταπιστεύετε] or hope [ἐλπίζετε] in [ἐν…ἐπὶ] warm-liked-friends [φίλοις]
· Mic_7:6 – Family vs. Family (Mat_10:35-36 = Mic_7:6)
· Mic_7:7 – Instead, look to God of Salvation
Fear Temptations
· Losing power & influence
· Losing their warm-liked-friendship
Results in: Fear & being victimized by their deceptive murders.
The Root Point: Believing, Trusting, Marveling, or being persuaded by the world will trap you in their fear and eventual murder.
Trusting the World = Fearing the World (as a result)
Don’t marvel at the harlot, or believe, trust, or at all be persuaded by the World, and then you won’t have to fear them when they surprise the unwise and unprepared virgins with their murderous hatred and persecution (Mat_25).
Mark 13 – Betrayal, Death, Hatred, & Salvation
Mark 13 – Temple-Destruction Prophecy (Summary)
Mar_13:1-2 – No
stacked stones remaining
Mar_13:3 – Questioned
while sitting
Mar_13:4 – When? What sign?
Mar_13:5 – Caution
against deceivers
Mar_13:6 – Many
name-hijackers deceiving many
Mar_13:7 – Don’t
be troubled from wars &
rumors, end = not yet
Mar_13:8 – Nation/Kingdom vs. Nation/Kingdom, earthquakes, famines, troubles =
beginning of travails
Mar_13:9 – Caution
against being given over to
leaders to be beaten &
for a testimony
Mar_13:10 – Good message to everyone
Mar_13:11 – Don’t plan a reply/defense (i.e. don’t fear!)
Mar_13:12 – Family betrayal & murder
Mar_13:13 – Universal hatred, remain-ers/endure-rs
saved
Mar_13:14 – Abomination of the desolation trespassing;
Let Judeans Flee to mountains
Mar_13:15 – No house-top to house retrieval
Mar_13:16 – No returning from field
Mar_13:17 – Woe to
pregnant & those nursing
Mar_13:18 – Pray against a winter flight
Mar_13:19 – Biggest
tribulation ever!
Mar_13:20 – Shortened
days for the chosen’s sake
Mar_13:21 – Don’t believe in “here” or “there”
Christs
Mar_13:22 – False
Christs & prophets with big deceptive
signs (targeting even the chosen)
Mar_13:23 – Told beforehand
Mar_13:24-25 – After
tribulation: sun darkened, moon no light, stars fall, heavenly powers shaken
Mar_13:26 – Son of Man coming in clouds w much power & glory
Mar_13:27 – Gathering messengers sent to chosen
Mar_13:28 – Learn fig tree parable:
Mar_13:29 – It is near at the doors when you
see all this
Mar_13:30 – This generation sees it all happen
Mar_13:31 – Eternal Words
Mar_13:32 – Only Father Knows Day & Hr
Mar_13:33 – Caution
to watch and pray because of unknown time
Mar_13:34 – Like
a traveling man delegating to servants & door keeper to watch
Mar_13:35 – Watch for unknown return timing
so watch because you don’t know when Lord of House
comes
Mar_13:36 – Lest
he suddenly come & find you sleeping
Avoid sudden sleep discovery
Mar_13:37 – All
should watch!
False Accusation:
Mar_14:58 - we hear him say he will destroy the temple
Mar_13:8-13 LSV for nation will rise against [TSBἐπὶ |Aεπ] nation, and kingdom against [ἐπὶ] kingdom, TSBand there will be earthquakes [σεισμοὶ] in various places [κατὰ
τόπους],
and TSBthere will be· famines [λιμοί] TSBand TSBtroubles [ταραχαί
– i.e. stir-ups]; these [are the] beginning [ἀρχὴ] of travails [ὠδίνων
– sunken pains / painful ·sorrows KJV; i.e. labor /
birth-pangs (1Th_5:3; and of death:
Psa_18:4; Act_2:24)]. 9
·And take heed to yourselves [Βλέπετε
δὲ ὑμεῖς ἑαυτούς], TSBfor they will deliver you up [in]to [παραδώσουσι
TSBγὰρ ὑμᾶς
εἰς] Sanhedrins [συνέδρια], and [in]to [εἰς] synagogues [συναγωγὰς], you will be beaten [δαρήσεσθε
V-2FPI-2P (LEX: δέρω) (Act_5:40; Act_22:19) – scourged/flayed (in LXX: ἐκδείραντες
(Lev_1:6, etc.) / δεῖραι (2Ch_29:34) – “skin,
flay; hence, to eat” – Mounce)], and before [ἐπὶ] governors [ἡγεμόνων] and kings you will TBAbe set [TBAσταθήσεσθε
V-FPI-2P (ἵστημι) – you will be stood
| Sαχθησεσθε
V-FPI-2P (ἄγω) – you will be lead] ·for [on account of] My sake, for [into] a testimony to them [ἕνεκεν
ἐμοῦ εἰς
μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς]; 10 and to all the nations it is first necessary that the
good news [message] be proclaimed. 11 ·And when [Aκαι| ὅταν TSBδὲ] ·TSBthey may lead you [TSBἀγάγωσιν
V-2AAS-3P |Aαγωσιν V-PAS-3P], delivering up [παραδιδόντες], do not be anxious beforehand [προμεριμνᾶτε] what you may speak [τί
λαλήσητε], TSBnor TSBpremeditate [TSBμηδὲ TSBμελετᾶτε], but whatever may be given to you
in that hour [λλ᾿ ὃ ἐὰν
δοθῇ ὑμῖν
ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ὥρᾳ], that speak, for it is not you
who are speaking, but ·the
Holy Spirit [τὸ Πνεῦμα
τὸ ῞Αγιον]. 12 And brother will deliver
up brother [ἀδελφὸς
ἀδελφὸν] ·[in]to [εἰς (i.e. resulting in)] death, and father child [τέκνον], and children [τέκνα] will rise up [ἐπαναστήσονται] against [ἐπὶ] parents [γονεῖς], and ·will put them to death [θανατώσουσιν
V-FAI-3P αὐτούς], 13 and ·you will be [ἔσεσθε] hated [μισούμενοι] by [ὑπὸ] all because of [that of (τὸ)] My Name, but [δὲ] ·he who [ὁ – the one who] has endured [ὑπομείνας] ·to the end [εἰς
τέλος – into a
complete-perfection]—he will be saved [οὗτος
σωθήσεται].
Mar_13:8
ἐγερθήσεται
γὰρ ἔθνος TSBἐπὶ
|Aεπ| ἔθνος
καὶ βασιλεία
ἐπὶ
βασιλείαν, TSBκαὶ
ἔσονται
σεισμοὶ κατὰ
τόπους, καὶ TSBἔσονται
λιμοί ·καὶ
ταραχαί. ἀρχὴ
|Aαρχη TSBκαι
TSBταραχαι
TSBαρχαι| ὠδίνων
ταῦτα.
Mar_13:9
Βλέπετε δὲ
ὑμεῖς ἑαυτούς.
παραδώσουσι TSBγὰρ
ὑμᾶς εἰς
συνέδρια καὶ
εἰς
συναγωγὰς
δαρήσεσθε,
καὶ ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνων
καὶ βασιλέων
|Sαχθησεσθε|
TBAσταθήσεσθε
ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ
εἰς
μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς.
Mar_13:10
καὶ εἰς
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη
TSBδεῖ
πρῶτον |Aδει|
κηρυχθῆναι
τὸ εὐαγγέλιον.
Mar_13:11 |Aκαι| ὅταν TSBδὲ
TSBἀγάγωσιν
V-2AAS-3P |Aαγωσιν V-PAS-3P| ὑμᾶς
παραδιδόντες,
μὴ προμεριμνᾶτε
τί λαλήσητε, TSBμηδὲ
TSBμελετᾶτε,
ἀλλ᾿ ὃ ἐὰν
δοθῇ ὑμῖν
ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ὥρᾳ, τοῦτο
λαλεῖτε· οὐ
γάρ ἐστε ὑμεῖς
οἱ λαλοῦντες,
ἀλλὰ τὸ
Πνεῦμα τὸ ῞Αγιον.
Mar_13:12 |Aκαι| παραδώσει TSBδὲ ἀδελφὸς
ἀδελφὸν εἰς
θάνατον καὶ
πατὴρ
τέκνον, καὶ ἐπαναστήσονται
τέκνα ἐπὶ
γονεῖς καὶ
θανατώσουσιν
αὐτούς·
Mar_13:13 καὶ ἔσεσθε
μισούμενοι ὑπὸ
πάντων διὰ
τὸ ὄνομά μου·
ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας
εἰς τέλος, οὗτος
σωθήσεται.
The Point: Disciples given over to beatings Mar_13:8, Family betrayal & murder Mar_13:12, & Universal hatred Mar_13:13 – does anyone get the impression yet that the world is unloving and unsafe?
Luke 12, 17, & 19 – Preceding End-Times Context
Luke 12, 17, & 19 are preceding contexts for Luke 21
Luk_12:1-12, Luk_12:35-53 – Don’t Fear,
but Confess; Be Ready; Fire & Family Division
·
Coverings/sayings revealed on
housetops
·
Don’t fear body killers
·
Confessors before men = winners
before God
·
Unforgivable sin
·
Don’t be anxious what to say
·
[side track?: Divide an inheritance?]
·
Loins girded
·
Ready for Lord to return after
wedding
·
Be watching & ready to
immediately open the door
·
Master will gird & serve the
servants
·
Watching householder would prevent
thief
·
Unknown hr of coming / returning
·
Servant who is Delegated over house
·
Promoted over all goods
·
Sinning servant expects delay
·
Cut
in two [Mat_24:51; Luk_12:46]
·
Many stripes vs few stripes --
beaten according to knowledge
·
Much committed, much required
·
Throw fire on the earth (but a baptism is needed first)
·
No peace, but division
·
Family vs Family -- divided
Luke 12 – Peace & Love, Counterpart
Considerations
·
Would Jesus take peace away from
peace-loving people?
·
Would Jesus divide family members
who had real Love that was sacred and valuable enough to be worth preserving?
·
The destruction of the world’s
peace and family relationships directly correlates with our testimony against
them and it shows that the real peace and real Love that Jesus gives is unlike
what the world gives.
·
The fiery destruction of the
World’s pseudo-virtues = a harsh judgement and rejection of its lies and
deception.
·
Our testimony against the World
justifies God who destroys its lies.
Luk_17:22-37 – Forsake the Deceived & Destroyed World to Save
Your Soul
· Don’t compromise when missing Anointed One
· Sanctify (Think Exclusivity) your patient waiting for a Lightening-like appearance
· Anointed One’s suffering = required first
· End-times ≈ Days of Noah & Lot
· No retrieval of possessions – remember lots wife!
· Soul savers: lose. Soul losers: save.
· 1 taken. 1 left
· Where body, there vultures/eagles
The Point: Think Exclusivity in order to “forsake all” and escape the world & it’s destruction.
Luk_17:22
Εἶπε δὲ
πρὸς τοὺς
μαθητάς· ἐλεύσονται
ἡμέραι ὅτε ἐπιθυμήσετε
μίαν τῶν ἡμερῶν
τοῦ Υἱοῦ
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
ἰδεῖν, καὶ
οὐκ ὄψεσθε.
Luk_17:23
καὶ ἐροῦσιν
ὑμῖν· ἰδοὺ
TSBὧδε, |TSBη| TSBἰδοὺ
ἐκεῖ· |Aη Aιδου Aωδε| μὴ ἀπέλθητε
μηδὲ
διώξητε.
Luk_17:24
ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ
ἀστραπὴ |TSBη| ἀστράπτουσα
ἐκ τῆς ὑπ᾿ |Aυπο
Aτον
TSBυπ
| οὐρανὸν
εἰς τὴν ὑπ᾿
οὐρανὸν
λάμπει, οὕτως ἔσται
TSκαὶ ὁ
Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
·ἐν τῇ
ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ
|Aεν TSBεν
τη ημερα Aαυτου |.
Luk_17:25
πρῶτον δὲ
δεῖ αὐτὸν
πολλὰ παθεῖν
καὶ ἀποδοκιμασθῆναι
ἀπὸ τῆς
γενεᾶς
ταύτης.
Luk_17:26
καὶ καθὼς ἐγένετο
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις
|TSτου| Νῶε, οὕτως
ἔσται καὶ ἐν
ταῖς ἡμέραις
τοῦ Υἱοῦ
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου·
Luk_17:27
ἤσθιον, ἔπινον,
ἐγάμουν, ἐξεγαμίζοντο
|Aεγαμιζοντο
TSBεξεγαμιζοντο
|, ἄχρι ἧς
ἡμέρας εἰσῆλθε
Νῶε εἰς τὴν
κιβωτόν, καὶ ἦλθεν
ὁ
κατακλυσμὸς
καὶ ἀπώλεσεν
ἅπαντας |Aπαντας
TSBαπαντας
|.
Luk_17:28
ὁμοίως
καὶ ὡς |Aκαθως
TSBκαι
TSBως| ἐγένετο
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις
Λώτ· ἤσθιον, ἔπινον,
ἠγόραζον, ἐπώλουν,
ἐφύτευον, ᾠκοδόμουν·
Luk_17:29
ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ
ἐξῆλθε Λὼτ
ἀπὸ
Σοδόμων, ἔβρεξε
πῦρ καὶ θεῖον
ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ
καὶ ἀπώλεσεν
ἅπαντας |Aπαντας
TSBαπαντας|.
Luk_17:30
κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ
|Aτα Aαυτα
TSBταυτα| ἔσται ᾗ
ἡμέρᾳ ὁ Υἱὸς
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
ἀποκαλύπτεται.
Luk_17:31
ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὃς
ἔσται ἐπὶ
τοῦ δώματος
καὶ τὰ
σκεύη αὐτοῦ
ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ,
μὴ καταβάτω ἆραι
αὐτά, καὶ ὁ
ἐν |TSBτω| ἀγρῷ
ὁμοίως μὴ ἐπιστρεψάτω
εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω.
Luk_17:32
μνημονεύετε
τῆς γυναικὸς
Λώτ.
Luk_17:33
ὃς ἐὰν
ζητήσῃ τὴν
ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
σῶσαι |Aπεριποιησασθαι
TSBσωσαι|, ἀπολέσει
αὐτήν, ·καὶ ὃς
ἐὰν ἀπολέσῃ
αὐτήν |TSBκαι
ος Aδ Aαν
TSBεαν
απολεση TSBαυτην|, ζῳογονήσει
αὐτήν.
Luk_17:34
λέγω ὑμῖν,
ταύτῃ τῇ
νυκτὶ ἔσονται
δύο ἐπὶ κλίνης
μιᾶς, |TSAο| εἷς
παραληφθήσεται
|Aπαραλημφθησεται
TSBπαραληφθησεται| καὶ ὁ
ἕτερος ἀφεθήσεται·
Luk_17:35
TSBδύο ἔσονται
|Aδυο| ἀλήθουσαι
ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό,
·ἡ μία
παραληφθήσεται
καὶ |Sη TSBμια
TSBπαραληφθησεται
TSBκαι| ἡ |Aμια
Aπαραλημφθησεται
Aη
Aδε| ἑτέρα
ἀφεθήσεται.
Luk_17:36
S||δύο ἔσονται
ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ,
ὁ εἵς
παραληφθήσεται
καὶ ὁ ἕτερος
ἀφεθήσεται.||S
Luk_17:37
καὶ ἀποκριθέντες
λέγουσιν αὐτῷ·
ποῦ, Κύριε; ὁ
δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς·
ὅπου τὸ σῶμα,
ἐκεῖ ἐπισυναχθήσονται
καὶ |Aκαι TSBσυναχθησονται| οἱ ἀετοὶ
|Aεπισυναχθησονται|.
Luk_19:43-45 - Enemies will build embankment... not one stone upon another
Luke 21 – Betrayal, Death, Hatred, No Hair-Perishing
Luke 21 –
Temple-Destruction Prophecy (Summary)
Luk_21:5-6 – No stacked stones remaining
Luk_21:7 – When? What sign?
Luk_21:8 – Don’t be deceived
by Name hijackers
Luk_21:9 – Don’t fear Wars
& commotions, end = not
yet
Luk_21:10 – Nation/Kingdom vs. Nation/Kingdom
Luk_21:11 – Great shakings, famines,
pestilences, big fearful sky signs
Luk_21:12-13 – Persecution,
imprisonment, & testimony
to rulers
before
this: they’ll grab, persecute, & hand you over to synagogues, prisons,
kings, governors
Luk_21:14 – Don’t plan a reply/defense (i.e. don’t fear)
Luk_21:15 – Incontrovertible mouth & wisdom
given
Luk_21:16 – Family betrayal & murder
(of some)
Luk_21:17 – Universal hatred
Luk_21:18 – No hair perishing
Remember
the ‘no hair perishing’* in Matthew 10? [* comp.
Luk_21:18; Mat_10:29-31]
Luk_21:19 – “in your patience possess your souls”
(LSV)
Luk_21:20 – Jerusalem surrounded, desolation near
Luk_21:21 – Let Judeans flee to mountains
Luk_21:22 – Days of vengeance
Luk_21:23 – Woe
to those nursing… wrath on
this people
Luk_21:24 – Fall by sword,
led captive, Jerusalem trampled by nations
Luk_21:25 – Distressing signs in sky & earth
Luk_21:26 – Men fearing coming things when heavenly
powers shaken
Luk_21:27 – Son of man coming in cloud (w power
& great glory)
Luk_21:28 – Look up for redemption
Luk_21:29-30 – fig tree parable:
Luk_21:31 – Seeing these things = Kingdom Nearness
Luk_21:32 – This generation sees it all happen
Luk_21:33 – Eternal Words
Luk_21:34 – Beware of headache/hangover [κραιπάλῃ N-DSF (carousing LSV / surfeiting KJV)],
drunkenness, & anxieties… & unexpected day coming
[WS: “headache, a hangover, a shooting pain or a
confusion in the head arising from intemperance in wine or strong liquors”]
Luk_21:35 – Trap
for all earth-dwellers
Luk_21:36 – Always watch & pray to escape and stand worthy
Luk_21:12-13 LSV and before all these [BAπάντων
|TSαπαντων], ·they will lay on [ἐπιβαλοῦσιν
ἐφ᾿] you their hands, and persecute [διώξουσι], delivering up [παραδιδόντες] [in]to synagogues [συναγωγὰς] and prisons [φυλακάς], being brought [TSBἀγομένους
|Aαπαγομενου] before [ἐπὶ] kings and governors [ἡγεμόνας] ·for My Name’s sake [ἕνεκεν
τοῦ ὀνόματός
μου]; 13 and it will become [ἀποβήσεται
(ἀπο-βαίνω) – go-up-from/disembark/step-away] to you for [εἰς – (resulting) into] a testimony.
Luk_21:12
πρὸ δὲ
τούτων BAπάντων
|TSαπαντων| ἐπιβαλοῦσιν
ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς
τὰς χεῖρας
αὐτῶν καὶ
διώξουσι,
παραδιδόντες εἰς
Aτὰς
συναγωγὰς
καὶ φυλακάς, TSBἀγομένους
|Aαπαγομενους| ἐπὶ
βασιλεῖς καὶ
ἡγεμόνας ἕνεκεν
τοῦ ὀνόματός
μου·
Luk_21:13
ἀποβήσεται
TSBδὲ ὑμῖν
εἰς
μαρτύριον.
Luk_21:16-19 LSV And [δὲ
καὶ – however, also] you will be delivered up [παραδοθήσεσθε
– given-over-next-to / betrayed CAB] also by [ὑπὸ] parents [γονέων], TSAand TSAbrothers, and relatives [συγγενῶν], and friends [φίλων
(think: the World)]
[Band Bbrothers (CAB)], and ·they will put [some] of you to death [θανατώσουσιν
V-FAI-3P ἐξ ὑμῶν
P-2GP – they will death-ify/kill out-from-among you all]; 17 and ·you will be [ἔσεσθε] hated by [ὑπὸ] all ·because of [διὰ] [that of (τὸ)] My Name— 18 and a hair out of [that of (τῆς)] your head ·will not [in no way] [οὐ μὴ
– i.e. by any means CAB] perish [ἀπόληται]; 19 in [By CAB] your patience possess your
souls.
Luk_21:16
παραδοθήσεσθε
δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ
γονέων καὶ TSAἀδελφῶν
TSAκαὶ
συγγενῶν καὶ
φίλων, καὶ |Bαδελφων
Bκαι|
θανατώσουσιν
ἐξ ὑμῶν,
Luk_21:17 καὶ ἔσεσθε
μισούμενοι ὑπὸ
πάντων διὰ
τὸ ὄνομά μου·
Luk_21:18
καὶ θρὶξ ἐκ
τῆς κεφαλῆς
ὑμῶν οὐ μὴ
ἀπόληται·
Luk_21:19
ἐν τῇ ὑπομονῇ
ὑμῶν
κτήσασθε τὰς
ψυχὰς ὑμῶν.
The Point: Disciples get handed over to Persecution, imprisonment Luk_21:12-13, Family betrayal & murder Luk_21:16, & Universal hatred Luk_21:17 – does anyone get the impression yet that the world does NOT Love you if you’re a disciple?
Matthew 24 – Temple-Destruction Prophecy
Matthew 24 –
Temple-Destruction Prophecy (Summary)
Mat_24:1-2 – No stacked stones remaining
Mat_24:3 – Asked when sitting
Mat_24:4 – Caution
against deception
Mat_24:5 – Deception by
name hijacking
Mat_24:6 – Wars & Rumors, but no end yet
Mat_24:7 – Kingdom vs. kingdom conflicts, famines, pestilence, earthquakes
Mat_24:8 – these = beginning of travails
Mat_24:9 – Betrayal,
Tribulation, Killing, &
Unanimous Hatred – by the World
then
they’ll betray you to tribulation, kill you, & hatred under all through
name
Mat_24:10 – Scandals, betrayal, hatred
– of one another
Mat_24:11 – false prophets & deception
Mat_24:12 – Cold
love from Abundant lawlessness
Mat_24:13 – Endure to end = saved
Mat_24:14 – Good message to everyone, then end comes
Good
message as a proclaimed testimony to all the World/nations, then the end
Mat_24:15 – Abomination of the desolation in holy place
Mat_24:16 – Judeans to Flee
Let Judeans Flee to mountains
Mat_24:17 – No house-top to house retrieval
Mat_24:18 – No returning from field
Mat_24:19 – Woe
to those nursing
Mat_24:20 – Pray against a winter or Sabbath flight
Mat_24:21 – Great Tribulation
Mat_24:22 – Shortened days
Mat_24:23 – Don’t believe in “here” or “there”
Christs [Mat_24:23, Mat_24:26-27]
Mat_24:24 – False
Christs/prophets with big deceptive signs (targeting even the chosen)
Mat_24:25 – Told beforehand
Mat_24:26 – “No” to one in wilderness or inner
chambers
Mat_24:27 – Lightening-like coming [Mat_24:23, Mat_24:26-27]
Mat_24:28 – Where carcass, there vultures/eagles [Luk_17:37]
Mat_24:29 – After tribulation: sun darkened, moon no
light, stars fall, heavenly powers shaken
Mat_24:30 – “sign of the Son of Man in the sky”
(LSV)
Mat_24:31 – Gathering messengers sent (with trumpet
to the chosen)
Mat_24:32 – Learn fig tree parable:
Mat_24:33 – It is near at the doors when you see all
this
Mat_24:34 – This generation sees it all happen
Mat_24:35 – Eternal Words
Mat_24:36 – Only Father Knows Day & Hr
Mat_24:37 – Days of Noah ≈ Days of coming
Mat_24:38 – Eating, drinking, marrying, until Noah
entered Ark
Mat_24:39 – Flood took them All ≈ (His) Coming
Mat_24:40 – 1 field-walker taken, 1 left
Mat_24:41 – 1 mill-grinder taken, 1 left
Mat_24:42 – Watch for unknown coming hr
Mat_24:43 – Watching householder would prevent thief
(a break-in)
Mat_24:44 – Be ready for unknown coming hr
Mat_24:45 – Faithful-wise delegated servant-ruller
Mat_24:46 – Blessed for doing so when his Lord comes
Mat_24:47 – Promoted over [καταστήσει] all
his beginning-under-substance [ὑπάρχουσιν]
Mat_24:48 – Evil servant expects delay
Mat_24:49 – Abuse, eating, & drinking with
drunkards
Mat_24:50 – Arrival in an unexpected day & hour
Mat_24:51 – Cut
in two*
[διχοτομήσει V-FAI-3S
(δῐχο-τομέω) – bisect]
with hypocrites, weeping & gnashing of teeth [* Mat_24:51; Luk_12:46]
Matthew 24 – Love
Blown Cold
Mat_24:8-14 LSV and all these [are the] ·beginning of travails [ἀρχὴ
ὠδίνων]; 9 then ·they will deliver you up [παραδώσουσιν] [in]to tribulation [θλῖψιν], and ·will kill you [all] [ἀποκτενοῦσιν
ὑμᾶς], and ·you will be [ἔσεσθε] hated [μισούμενοι] by [ὑπὸ] all the nations ·because of [διὰ
– through] [that of (τὸ)] My Name; 10 and then [τότε] ·will many be stumbled [σκανδαλισθήσονται
πολλοὶ], and they will deliver up one another [ἀλλήλους
παραδώσουσι], and ·will hate one another [μισήσουσιν
ἀλλήλους]. 11 And many [πολλοὶ] false prophets will arise [πολλοὶ
ψευδοπροφῆται
ἐγερθήσονται], and ·will lead many astray [πλανήσουσι
πολλούς]; 12 and because [διὰ] ·of the abounding [τὸ
πληθυνθῆναι V-APN] ·of the lawlessness [τὴν
ἀνομίαν N-ASF], the love of the many [πολλῶν
(NIV: most)]
·will become cold [ψυγήσεται
V-2FPI-3S – will be blown/breathed/soul-ed cold (ψυχροῦ
(Mat_10:42) ≈ ψυγήσεται
(Mat_24:12))];
13 but he who [ὁ
δὲ] endured [ὑπομείνας] [in]to the end [εἰς
τέλος], he will be saved
[οὗτος
σωθήσεται]; 14 and this good news of the kingdom [τοῦτο
τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
τῆς
βασιλείας] will be proclaimed [κηρυχθήσεται] in all the [habitable] world
[ἐν ὅλῃ
τῇ οἰκουμένῃ], for [εἰς
– into] a
testimony [μαρτύριον] to all the nations [πᾶσι
τοῖς ἔθνεσι]; and ·then will the end arrive [τότε
ἣξει τὸ
τέλος].
Mat_24:8
πάντα δὲ
ταῦτα ἀρχὴ
ὠδίνων.
Mat_24:9
τότε
παραδώσουσιν
ὑμᾶς εἰς
θλῖψιν καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσιν
ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔσεσθε
μισούμενοι ὑπὸ
πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν
διὰ τὸ ὄνομά
μου.
Mat_24:10
καὶ τότε
σκανδαλισθήσονται
πολλοὶ καὶ ἀλλήλους
παραδώσουσι
καὶ
μισήσουσιν ἀλλήλους.
Mat_24:11
καὶ πολλοὶ
ψευδοπροφῆται
ἐγερθήσονται
καὶ
πλανήσουσι
πολλούς,
Mat_24:12 καὶ
διὰ τὸ
πληθυνθῆναι
τὴν ἀνομίαν
ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη
τῶν πολλῶν.
Mat_24:13
ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας
εἰς τέλος, οὗτος
σωθήσεται.
Mat_24:14
καὶ
κηρυχθήσεται
τοῦτο τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
τῆς
βασιλείας ἐν
ὅλῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ
εἰς
μαρτύριον πᾶσι
τοῖς ἔθνεσι,
καὶ τότε ἣξει
τὸ τέλος.
Matthew 24 Compared
with Other Predicted Hatred
· “abounding” [τὸ πληθυνθῆναι V-APN] ·of the lawlessness ≈ “the many [πολλῶν (NIV: most)] ·will become cold [ψυγήσεται V-2FPI-3S – will be blown/breathed/soul-ed cold]”
· “Many” is repeated in this passage 3 times.
· The “Many” [πολλοὶ…πολλῶν G4183 A-GPM…πολλούς] who are cold ≈ those “many” [πολλοί G4183 A-NPM] entering the wide gate to destruction in Mat_7:13-27 (same Greek).
· Compare this coldness (against disciples in Mat_24:12) with the “Disciple-Hatred [μισεῖ]” & murder in the sending out of the Apostles & in Joh_15:19 & the murder in Joh_16:1-2 -- all this hate & murder happens despite their worldly fake love of “warm-liking [ἐφίλει]” themselves…
· These haters are called warm-liked-friends in Mic_7 & Mat_10, etc.
· Was the world’s warmth ever worth it to begin with if it ends up being such a cold hatred that it could kill you in the end?
Matthew 24 –
Lovelessness Notes
· You’re supposed to “love one another” (John, 1st John, etc.), but instead,
· They are “betraying one another” (Mat_24:9-10).
· Apostates are hating, betraying, & killing disciples in the end times (as see above)
· There’s a problem with Love Here: The core relationship on how disciples are supposed to cherish one another is totally perverted by scandaling apostasy [σκανδαλισθήσονται] (Mat_24:10) in the end [τὸ τέλος] times (Mat_24:14).
The Point: Disciples get Betrayal, Tribulation, Killing, Unanimous Hatred Mat_24:9-10, betrayal & hatred by apostates Mat_24:10, & Cold love Mat_24:12 by the lawless world – does anyone see yet that the world does NOT have any real Love at all for you, especially if you’re a disciple?
Matthew 25 – Virgins, Servants, Sheep & Goats
Key Summary Points
Mat_25:1-13 – 10 Virgins (with lamps)
· v. Mat_25:5 – All sleeping
· v. Mat_25:6 – “the bridegroom comes”
· v. Mat_25:7 – Trimmed lamps
· v. Mat_25:10 – Door shut with those ready
· v. Mat_25:11-12 – “Lord, lord” vs. “not known you”
· v. Mat_25:13 – So Watch!
Mat_25:14-30 – 10
Servants
· v. Mat_25:30 – unprofitable servant thrown into outer darkness
Mat_25:31-46 – the
Sheep & the Goats
· v. Mat_25:40 – Done it to least brother, done it to me
· v. Mat_25:41 – Cursed Goats depart into ongoing/continuous fire
· v. Mat_25:45 – Not done it to least brother, not done it to me
· v. Mat_25:46 – Goats “into continuous punishment, but the righteous into continuous life” (LSV)
Good to All,
Brothers, and Angels
Do Good To All Men,
esp. Believers (& Hopefully Angels)
· Gal_6:9-10 – Good to all, esp. household of faith
· Heb_13:1-2 – hospitality [φιλοξενιας] & entertained [ξενισαντες] messengers
Gal_6:9
τὸ δὲ
καλὸν ποιοῦντες
μὴ TSBἐκκακῶμεν·
|Aεγκακωμεν| καιρῷ
γὰρ ἰδίῳ
θερίσομεν μὴ
ἐκλυόμενοι.
Gal_6:10 ῎Αρα οὖν
ὡς καιρὸν ἔχομεν,
ἐργαζώμεθα
τὸ ἀγαθὸν
πρὸς πάντας,
μάλιστα δὲ
πρὸς τοὺς οἰκείους
τῆς πίστεως.
Heb_13:1 ῾Η
φιλαδελφία
μενέτω.
Heb_13:2 τῆς
φιλοξενίας
μὴ ἐπιλανθάνεσθε·
διὰ ταύτης
γὰρ ἔλαθόν
τινες
ξενίσαντες ἀγγέλους.
The “Visitations” of Saving Love vs. the Condemnation of
Sinning Goats
Jonathan, Nabal, Matthew 25,
and the Goats who are Still Sinning the Same Way Unto This Day!
·
It is relatively easy for a
moral person to illustrate Matthew 25, especially
since the goats are sinning against the sheep all the time continually...
·
You
want an illustration of all the evil that a sheep endures just about every day
among the world?
Sure, that should be easy! But…
·
When
a goat tries to give an illustration for Matthew 25 he notoriously avoids
mentioning any of the sheep that he's committing crimes against, though he is
doing perverse evil against them continually, so he resorts to some kind of
fake delusional social hypocrisy like a disinterested homeless person... a fake
poor person
· Almost nobody is moral today, so their attempts at “convicting” people with “the Sheep & the Goats” usually proves quite inadequate/shallow/hollow/pathetic, like the Legendary “Pastor[s] [who] Disguises Himself as Homeless Man”* (which can often center around Matthew 25)
· Psa_34:4-6 – this poor man cried and the Lord answered
· The REAL “Poor man” is David (even after he became king)
· 1Sa_23:14-16 – Jonathan visits David in the wilderness
· Is that real love I see from Jonathan?
· 1Sa_25:10, etc. – Nabal: ‘who is David that I should help him?’
· How do these contrasting attitudes/postures/responses compare with Matthew 25?
· Mat_25:36, Mat_25:43 – when in prison, you visited me (or didn’t)
· When you’re Moses, they claim faith in Abraham, when you’re David they praise Moses, when you’re Jesus they praise Abraham Moses and David but not you, when your Paul they praise Jesus but not you… there’s always an excuse to sin like Nabal against the righteous, and this hypocrisy is surprisingly predictable and consistent throughout the entire Bible unto this very day, which is exactly why Matthew 25’s Judgement is a surprise to virtually all apostates and hypocrites!
· I have been left for dead to rot in the wilderness with, of course, virtually no loving visitors…
· They won't so much as visit me/us when I've/we've been kicked out of a church, much less would they visit me/us if I was / we were thrown in a prison!
· Based on the SOM & Matthew 25, it has very clearly been revealed who the sheep and the goats are, because ‘by their obedience-fruit (and disobedient lack thereof) you will know them’.
The Point: Worldly antichrist apostates will hate, betray, & murder obeyer-Disciples* in Matthew 24 (Temple Destruction Prophecy), and they are held directly guilty as cursed goats in Matthew 25. The crimes of the goats against all disciple-oberyers throughout history are harshly condemned as crimes committed directly against the Glorious King who now Judges them in the Great and Glorious Day of the Judgement.
Beware lest we share with them too much and become unprepared virgins who are shut out and thrown out as worthless servants in the end at His coming!
[* The murdered disciples in CH 24
are called “sheep” and “my brothers” in CH 25. “Brothers” = hear-obeyers
throughout the Gospels.]
Stop Ignoring Subtle Hatred & Murder
Murderous-Betrayal
Considerations
· When you indirectly cause someone to be harmed/damaged/killed (2Sa_11:14-26), you are guilty of their bloodshed, with blood on your hands, just as if you were the one who has directly killed/murdered them (2Sa_12:9; Psa_51:14; & comp. Deu_22:8!)
· Remember: Ahab's plot & guilt when murdering Naboth for his vineyard: 1Ki_21:1-16
· Remember: how Judas* betrayed Jesus and remember how guilty Judas felt when ending his life? -- which is a very relevant element of this passage & this betrayal theme: [* Mat_10:4 (Judas), Mat_10:16-18 (wolves), Mat_10:21 (Family)]
· Judas, Wolves, & Family -- consider the parallelism!
· Those who warm-like-friend you now will betray and kill you later (Luk_21:16)
· Even though the Bible warns of such things as subtle murder, ironically people almost intentionally proactively energetically ignore these warnings and testimonies and exalt themselves in lazy naivety, pride, and strength as though such things don’t matter, and are not wrong, and are not a danger right now.
· Why darken and drown your conscience and procrastinate responsibility and pretend that such dangers are only a potential far away in the future when they're happening right now?
· One of the ways people justify killing you to ease their own evil murderous conscience is by simply “delivering you up” so that someone else actually carries out the murderous crime.
· Subtle/indirect murder often happens when you ignore the consequences of your perverse treachery against other humans.
· Subtle murder is still murder – you are still a cold-blooded murderer with blood on your hands, even if you make excuses, cheat, and avoid the appearance of what you actually did.
· It is high time someone finally took responsibility for the outcomes of their actions and stopped the mass murder running rampant today in hordes of unethical perverted unchecked popular criminal activity.
· Yes, indeed, it gets REALLY bad in the end-times, but even now we can already see this treachery in those who subtly betray disciples right now.
· When the worst comes out of people in the end times, it was already there before the extreme pressure forced them to take such extreme positions.
· Subdued hatred is seen in the world’s subtle murder in the meantime.
· Subdued hatred will become overt hatred just as their subtle murder will become full blown persecution and murder in the end.
· Subdued hatred will eventually come out much more overtly in times of persecution from those who are willing to commit subtle murder in the meantime.
· The people who act friendly now will end up killing you in the end-times.
· They think they are just conforming and keeping up with the world’s and society’s rules (and that those rules are justifiable and right), but they are actually hating you enough to kill you / cause you to be killed. -- they treacherously ignore and forget that the very fact that they are killing you in the process of their conformity, compliance, complacency, and lazy thinking absolutely proves that their perverted social norms are outrageously evil and murderous!
· If you know that the World truly hates you so much that even “warm-liked friends” will kill you, is it safe or even lawful to friend the World? (see/remember: Jas_4:4 -- discussed above)
* 1Jn_3:15
πᾶς ὁ μισῶν
τὸν ἀδελφὸν
αὐτοῦ ἀνθρωποκτόνος
ἐστί· καὶ οἴδατε
ὅτι πᾶς ἀνθρωποκτόνος
οὐκ ἔχει
ζωὴν αἰώνιον
ἐν Bἑαυτῷ
|TSAαυτω|
μένουσαν.
1Jn_3:15
GRVii+ παςG3956A-NSM πᾶς all οG3588T-NSM ὁ the μισωνG3404V-PAP-NSM μισέω to detest τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the αδελφονG80N-ASM ἀδελφός a brother αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it ανθρωποκτονοςG443A-NSM ἀνθρωποκτόνος a manslayer εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is καιG2532CONJ καί and οιδατεG1492V-RAI-2P οἶδα to see οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because παςG3956A-NSM πᾶς all ανθρωποκτονοςG443A-NSM ἀνθρωποκτόνος a manslayer ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not εχειG2192V-PAI-3S ἔχω to hold ζωηνG2222N-ASF ζωή life αιωνιονG166A-ASF αἰώνιος perpetual ενG1722PREP ἔν in [εαυτωG1438F-3DSM ἑαυτού -self] β αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it
νατσ μενουσανG3306V-PAP-ASF μένω to stay
Isaiah 10 – Criminal Laws to Hurt the Poor
Isa_10:1 WEB
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who
write oppressive decrees;
Isa_10:1 CAB
Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write, they write
wickedness,
Isa_10:1
οὐαὶ τοῖς γράφουσιν
πονηρίαν· γράφοντες
γὰρ πονηρίαν
γράφουσιν
Isa_10:2 to deprive the needy from justice, and
to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their
spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isa_10:2 perverting the cause of the poor,
violently seizing the judgment of the needy ones of My people, that the widow
may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.
Isa_10:2 ἐκκλίνοντες
κρίσιν πτωχῶν, ἁρπάζοντες
κρίμα πενήτων
τοῦ λαοῦ μου ὥστε
εἶναι αὐτοῖς χήραν
εἰς ἁρπαγὴν καὶ
ὀρφανὸν εἰς
προνομήν.
Sirach – Cheating the Poor & Laborer =
Bloodshed
Sir_34:24 Like the man who slays a son in his father’s presence
is he who offers sacrifice from the possessions of the poor.
25 The bread of charity is life itself for the needy;
he who withholds it is a man of blood.
26 He slays his neighbor who deprives him of his living:
27 he sheds blood who denies the laborer his wages.
Beware of Hatred & Testify Now, Without Compromise
· The Sending out of the 12 & 70 shows that testimony against the hateful world is required/needed, starting right now.
· Those who do not recognize the inspired delegation of worthy laboring apostles are actually themselves not worthy, as seen in Act_13:45-46.
· Unworthy unbelief = Hatred and ultimate murder
· The same (hateful) unworthy unbelievers will persecute and even murder disciples.
· Testimony is required before during and after their persecution and ultimate murder.
· “All” (the World) hates disciples, esp. in the end* times (τέλος – Mat_10:22 ; Mar_13:13).
· The “all” who “hate” even includes family, warm-liked friends, etc.
·
Hatred (Mat_10:22;
Mar_13:13;
Luk_21:17;
Joh_15:17-27)
= Persecution & Murder (Mat_10:16, Mat_10:21, Mat_10:28;
Mar_13:12;
Luk_21:16;
Joh_15:20-21;
Joh_16:1-2)
(as also seen in 1Jo_3:15*)
· Enduring [ὑπομείνας] (Mar_13:13/Luk_21:19) under [ὑπὸ] their hatred ·into a complete perfection [εἰς τέλος] = being saved (Mar_13:13) = No Hair-Perishing (Luk_21:18; Mat_10:29-31)
· Though their murderous hatred kills us, yet Jesus assures us of complete salvation if we endure their crimes and keep agreeing with the Truth until we are perfected.
· We need lots of courage and encouragement to not fear and courageously face the hostile persecuting violent murderous world that is out there.
· Antichrist Deception abounds in the end times.
· If they lie so much that they will hate, persecute and kill you, can anyone seriously believe the world when they say they have any real “love” at all for anyone?
· Expose the deception. Testify against the Lovelessness that is aimed at murder.
· Don’t compromise your integrity toward this Truth about them, but expose their deception as much as possible, so that you will never have to fear or be intimidated by their hate & persecution that comes out later in the end.
Saved From Fear, Holy-ified into Real Love
· Perfect Love and Fear are opposed to each other.
· “the perfect love throws out the fear” (1Jo_4:18 RTA).
· The same virtue that saves you from the deception of the hateful world (and it’s fake love) is the same virtue that teaches you what Perfect Love is.
· Exclusivity is the key to holiness, and only with the value of holiness separating you from the lie of the World will you truly gain the value of Real Love for others.
· Do not defile your friendship on the loveless world, because they will lie to you with fake love and use this deception to betray you, hurt you, murder you, and throw you into fear -- which is bitter lovelessness!
· Do not prostitute your friendship on the loveless world, but holy-ify yourself to learn and actually obey Perfect Love.
1Co_15:33 – Bad Company Corrupts Good Character
1Co_15:33 LSV Do not ·be led astray [πλανᾶσθε
V-PPM-2P]; ·[nasty] evil communications [i.e.companionships – ὁμιλίαι
κακαί] corrupt [φθείρουσιν
– are shriveling/wasting/spoiling/pining V-PAI-3P] good [BAχρηστὰ
|TSχρησθ] manners [ἤθη –
ethics/morals/customs/practices];
1Co_15:33
μὴ πλανᾶσθε·
φθείρουσιν ἤθη BAχρηστὰ
|TSχρησθ|
ὁμιλίαι
κακαί.
QNA:
How Can a Daughter fulfill “distrusting parents” when she was designed to be loved & protected by her dad?
Answers
People aren’t “born disciples” they have to “learn” and “be trained” into it -- which is the very definition of a disciple/apprentice/learner.
1Co_15:46 - soulish, then spiritual
This principle of denying your in-born instinct is always reinforced with verses like Mat_10:38, were a cross is required (see above)
Children don’t naturally…
· Take up crosses to cooperate in their death (Mat_10:38)
· Love God more than parents (Mat_10:)
· “hate” their parents (Luk_14:25-35)
· “Distrust” their parents (Mat_10:35-37 = Mic_7:6)
Children aren’t born with the capacity to distrust their parents (which is the very opposite of their entire nature) but they have to come into that discipleship just like children aren’t born ready to take up a cross until faith disciples them into the truth that is far beyond their in-born nature
The Point: Children are the right type of people to inherit the kingdom, but it is not by just staying children, but it is by becoming a child-disciple who believes & follows Jesus (Mat_11, 18, etc.) and has things revealed to them. It is not the nature of being a Child that is canonical, but the nature of a humbled child-disciple.
Lust-Deception Crucifixion
· If you are not interfacing with who someone really is then you don't really Love them since you don't even really know them!
· If you're unlawful lust of someone is not based on engaging who they really are called to be, then your love for them is really hollow and shallow and without any substantial basis and is fully worthy of complete crucifixion without hesitation.
· If you are not loving and cherishing the real person in the truest sense of who God has intended to save them into becoming, then you are instead worshiping the empowering spirits behind their lost sinful unsaved distorted state.
· You are not Loving them if you are preoccupied with loving the sin that is behind them!
· Cherishing someone's old man / old identity is not rejoicing or celebrating who they really are called to be, and is therefore instead celebrating and rejoicing in sin, the old man, and the dirty evil spirits who live through them.
· If you are not celebrating and cherishing who God has created them to become then you are cherishing and celebrating who the devil has perverted them to be, and when you rejoice and cherish and love the work of the devil you are cherishing and praising the one who worked it...
· Unlawful love/lust is not increasing their real value, and is therefore not real Love.
· Lust is not cherishing who someone's real value is / their new potential identity but is instead loving/cherishing evil from the old man.
· Lust is not helping save someone from sin with sacrificial selflessness sufficient enough to have insight into who they could be inside of cleanness, and it is not cherishing who they are really called to be in Anointed One.
· What should you say, and what should you pray?
· “I hate / reject personally delighting in their appeal…”
· “They may or may not have any objective appeal, but what is it to me either way since I don’t even know them?”
· “My imagined relationship with them is not real and never was / never has been, since I interacted with a fake hologram without even knowing anything truly valuable about their real potential identity.”
· This is exactly why we separate from the loveless world, since no relationships are deep and real, and they will virtually all be popped at judgement resulting in pure and sinful lies and empty vanity.
· Distracted with lies and vanity, all in the name of “relationships”, they never noticed how much sin they heaped up. Since they were so deluded, they rejoiced in what they called good, being so distracted and preoccupied they never counted how much sin they stacked up.
· Virtually all human relationships are based on deception and lies and puffing foolishness that thinks it knows people.
· When anyone’s body dies and they are raised up again their entire world view is totally changed, along with their personality and everything else that was false and vain in crafting their human experience – only REAL Love survives resurrection! Only Truth-Love still Loves someone beyond the grave!
· Delusion parades proudly with irrational confidence destroying justice before them continually, and harming all good while pushing sin along in front of them through life, interacting with other fake flesh balls who are happily agreeing with their maddened delusions, lusting upon every vain and deceptive delight, interacting with the lies that everyone else has made themselves to be, lie kisses lie while sinners slouch their souls back within themselves while blinded inside of their sinning and dead corpses, never pausing to consider the Truth or repent of their sinful glorying in vain and evil social lust and the shared praise of pagan pigs, their mutual flattery goes on, sharing the congratulations of those who are also drunk with perverse lies, and laying down at night to die in their sins, happy and content with all of the fantasies of perverse imaginations, and satiated with the lust of the company of other pigs whom they have collaborated with to destroy themselves together with hunting down every right and good thing, making progress toward their goal so that tomorrow they might slay the righteous.
· None of your sinful relationships are ever real! Not a single one will survive the grave, much less Judgement!
· ‘Real Love never falls/fails’ (1Co_13:8) – and it is high time someone finally repented among the sons of men to find what in heaven that actually is!
· Beware of vanity!!! Because it is wasting your time and consuming your very life, and defrauding your relationships, and it is disqualifying you from real Love!
Jesus-Like Love -- it’s NOT Worldly!
John 13 – 15 Preview
Let’s Look at John 13 – 15 & compare it with 1st John to see the relationship that real Love has with worldliness.
John_13:12-17 – Foot Washing
Joh_13:12-17 – Foot Washing Example Which we Should Imitate
Foot Washing = Preceding Context to Jesus-Like Love -- and it’s a
foreshadowing example of it…
Joh_13:12-17 LSV ·When, therefore, [῞Οτε
οὖν] He washed their feet, and took His garments, having reclined again, He
said to them, ·“Do
you know what I have done to you [γινώσκετε
τί πεποίηκα
ὑμῖν]? 13
You call Me the Teacher and the LORD, and you say well, for I am; 14 if then I washed your feet—the LORD and
the Teacher—you also ought to [ὀφείλετε] wash one another’s [ὀφείλετε
ἀλλήλων] feet. 15 For I gave to you ·an example [ὑπόδειγμα], that, according [καθὼς] as I did [ἐποίησα] to you, you also ·may do
[ποιῆτε]; 16 truly, truly, I say to you, a servant [δοῦλος] is not greater [μείζων] than his lord [τοῦ
κυρίου αὐτοῦ], nor an apostle [ἀπόστολοςN-NSM --
stationed-away/from-one / he that is sentKJV/~WEB / messengerCAB)] greater than he who sent [πέμψαντος] him; 17 if you have known [οἴδατε
– seen / known-by-perception (≠ v. 12)] these things, you are blessed [μακάριοί], if you ·may do
[ποιῆτε] them;
Joh_13:12-17 Greek ῞Οτε οὖν
ἔνιψε τοὺς
πόδας αὐτῶν
καὶ ἔλαβε τὰ
ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ,
|και
να ανεπεσεν
να| ἀναπεσὼντσβ πάλιν εἶπεν
αὐτοῖς·
γινώσκετε τί
πεποίηκα ὑμῖν; 13
ὑμεῖς
φωνεῖτέ με ὁ
Διδάσκαλος
καὶ ὁ
Κύριος, καὶ
καλῶς λέγετε·
εἰμὶ γάρ. 14
εἰ οὖν ἐγὼ ἔνιψα
ὑμῶν τοὺς
πόδας, ὁ
Κύριος καὶ ὁ
Διδάσκαλος,
καὶ ὑμεῖς ὀφείλετε
ἀλλήλων
νίπτειν τοὺς
πόδας.
15 ὑπόδειγμα
γὰρ ἔδωκα ὑμῖν,
ἵνα καθὼς ἐγὼ
ἐποίησα ὑμῖν,
καὶ ὑμεῖς
ποιῆτε.
16 ἀμὴν
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν,
οὐκ ἔστι δοῦλος
μείζων τοῦ
κυρίου αὐτοῦ,
οὐδὲ ἀπόστολος
μείζων τοῦ
πέμψαντος αὐτόν. 17
εἰ ταῦτα οἴδατε,
μακάριοί ἐστε
ἐὰν ποιῆτε
αὐτά.
Joh_13:12-17 GRVii+
οτεG3753ADV ὅτε at which too ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly ενιψενG3538V-AAI-3S νίπτω to cleanse τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the ποδαςG4228N-APM πούς a foot αυτωνG846P-GPM αὐτός he, she, it καιG2532CONJ καί and ελαβενG2983V-2AAI-3S λαμβάνω while ταG3588T-APN ὁ the ιματιαG2440N-APN ἱμάτιον a dress αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it καιG2532CONJ καί and να ανεπεσενG377V-2AAI-3S ἀναπίπτω to fall back να [αναπεσωνG377V-2AAP-NSM ἀναπίπτω to fall back] τσβ παλινG3825ADV πάλιν anew ειπενG2036V-2AAI-3S ἔπω to speak αυτοιςG846P-DPM αὐτός he, she, it γινωσκετεG1097V-PAI-2PV-PAM-2P γινώσκω to know τιG5101I-ASN τίς who? which? πεποιηκαG4160V-RAI-1S ποιέω to make υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you 13 υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you φωνειτεG5455V-PAI-2P φωνέω to emit a sound μεG3165P-1AS μέ me οG3588T-NSM ὁ the διδασκαλοςG1320N-NSM διδάσκαλος an instructor καιG2532CONJ καί and οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κυριοςG2962N-NSM κύριος lord καιG2532CONJ καί and καλωςG2573ADV καλῶς well λεγετεG3004V-PAI-2P λέγω to lay forth ειμιG1510V-PXI-1S εἰμί I exist γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason 14 ειG1487COND εἰ if ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I ενιψαG3538V-AAI-1S νίπτω to cleanse υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the ποδαςG4228N-APM πούς a foot οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κυριοςG2962N-NSM κύριος lord καιG2532CONJ καί and οG3588T-NSM ὁ the διδασκαλοςG1320N-NSM διδάσκαλος an instructor καιG2532CONJ καί and υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you οφειλετεG3784V-PAI-2P ὀφείλω to owe αλληλωνG240C-GPM ἀλλήλων one another νιπτεινG3538V-PAN νίπτω to cleanse τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the ποδαςG4228N-APM πούς a foot 15 υποδειγμαG5262N-ASN ὑπόδειγμα an exhibit for imitation γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason εδωκαG1325V-AAI-1S δίδωμι to give υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that καθωςG2531ADV καθώς just as εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I εποιησαG4160V-AAI-1S ποιέω to make υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you καιG2532CONJ καί and υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you ποιητεG4160V-PAS-2P ποιέω to make 16 αμηνG281HEB ἀμήν firm αμηνG281HEB ἀμήν firm λεγωG3004V-PAI-1S λέγω to lay forth υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is δουλοςG1401N-NSM δοῦλος a slave μειζωνG3187A-NSM-C μέγας larger τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κυριουG2962N-GSM κύριος lord αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it ουδεG3761ADV οὐδέ not however αποστολοςG652N-NSM ἀπόστολος a delegate μειζωνG3187A-NSM-C μέγας larger τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the πεμψαντοςG3992V-AAP-GSM πέμπω to dispatch αυτονG846P-ASM αὐτός he, she, it 17 ειG1487COND εἰ if ταυταG5023D-APN οὗτος these things οιδατεG1492V-RAI-2P οἶδα to see μακαριοιG3107A-NPM μακάριος supremely blest εστεG2075V-PXI-2P εἰμί ye are εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that ποιητεG4160V-PAS-2P ποιέω to make αυταG846P-APN αὐτός he, she, it
Abigale’s Wisdom ≈
Mary’s Love
· Consider: Abigale’s sizzling wisdom that foreshadowed & agreed with these foot washing events.
· Mary’s Foot washing = Love, “because she loved much”.
· Preview: notice the parallels with Wisdom & Love.
· Prophetic Foot Washing of Abigale & Mary = Love & Wisdom.
· Jesus = Wisdom (Abigale’s), and God = Love (Mary’s).
· Out of Love/God flows Wisdom/Jesus.
v. 14 – Obligated
Love Debt of Foot Washing
Joh_13:14 LSV …you also ought to [ὀφείλετε (= Rom_13:8)] wash one another’s [ἀλλήλων (= Rom_13:8)] feet [καὶ ὑμεῖς ὀφείλετε ἀλλήλων νίπτειν τοὺς πόδας].
Joh_13:34 LSV …love one another [ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους (≈ Rom_13:8)]…
Rom_13:8 LSV To no one [Μηδενὶ] owe [ὀφείλετε (= Joh_13:14)] anything [μηδὲν], except to love one another [TSBἀγαπᾶν ἀλλήλους· |Aἀγαπᾶν| (= Joh_13:34)]; for he who is loving the other—he has fulfilled law,
Rom_13:8 Greek
Μηδενὶ
μηδὲν ὀφείλετε
εἰ μὴ τὸ TSBἀγαπᾶν
ἀλλήλους· |Aἀγαπᾶν|
ὁ γὰρ ἀγαπῶν
τὸν ἕτερον
νόμον
πεπλήρωκε.
Joh_13:14: indebted/“ought to” [ὀφείλετε ἀλλήλων] Foot wash = Rom_13:8: Love… debt [Μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλετε] …to… one another [ἀλλήλους]
We see that the foot washing obligation/debt in Joh_13:14 is linguistically linked with the Love obligation/debt in Rom_13:8, and we haven’t even gotten to the New Love Command in Joh_13:34 yet…
The Point: Love
Foreshadowed in Foot Washing
We haven’t even
officially got to the New Love Command yet and we already see foot washing
linked with Love by…
· Abigale’s Wisdom ≈ Mary’s Love, and,
· “Joh_13:14 [being] linguistically linked with the Love obligation/debt in Rom_13:8”
We should see Love being indebted all over the foot washing command as well as when we approach the new command to Love like Jesus Loved:
John_13:34-35 –
Jesus-Like Love is Commanded
Joh_13:34-35 LSV A new command [ἐντολὴν
καινὴν] I give to you, that you love one another [ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους (same as Rom_13:8)]; according [καθὼς – same as Joh_13:15
(foot washing)] as I loved you, that you also love one another [ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους (≈ Rom_13:8)]; 35 in this will all
know*
[γνώσονται] that you are My disciples, if [ἐὰν] you may have love one to [ἐν] another.”
Joh_13:34-35 Greek ἐντολὴν
καινὴν
δίδωμι ὑμῖν
ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους,
καθὼς [same as Joh_13:15] ἡγάπησα
ὑμᾶς ἵνα
καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους. 35
ἐν τούτῳ
γνώσονται
πάντες ὅτι ἐμοὶ
μαθηταί ἐστε,
ἐὰν ἀγάπην
ἔχητε ἐν ἀλλήλοις.
Foot Washing/Love – Down-According as
Jesus
Joh_13:15 LSV
For I gave to you ·an example [ὑπόδειγμα], that, [down-]according [καθὼς – same as Joh_13:34 (New Love Command)] as I did
[ἐποίησα] to you, you also ·may
do [ποιῆτε];
Joh_13:34 LSV love one another; [down-]according [καθὼς – same as Joh_13:15
(foot washing)] as I loved you, that you also love one another [ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους (≈ Rom_13:8)]
New Foot Washing Example: Down according to Jesus
New Love Command: Down according to Jesus
Both are indebted Love, just like Romans 13.
* All Will Know
·
All: 2Co_2:15 – We are the
fragrance of Anointed One to saved and unsaved
·
Know: 1Jn_2:29-3:1 – if you’ve
seen, (then) you know
Notice: Special Love for Disciples
John_14:15 – If You Love, Then Obey
Joh_14:15 LSV If you love Me, A[you will] TSBkeep [that of] My commands* [τὰς ἐντολὰς
τὰς ἐμὰς],
Joh_14:15 Greek ᾿Εὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ
με, τὰς ἐντολὰς
τὰς ἐμὰς TSBτηρήσατεV-AAM-2P· |Aτηρησετε
V-FAI-2P|
Joh_14:15 GRVii+ εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that αγαπατεG25V-PAS-2P ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εντολαςG1785N-APF ἐντολή injunction ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εμαςG1699S-1APF ἐμός my τηρησετεG5083V-FAI-2P τηρέω to guard να [τηρησατεG5083V-AAM-2P τηρέω to guard] τσβ
Notice the Serious Love -- the World does not know this level of Real Love…
John_14:15-26 – Father’s Loving Obedience Spirit vs. the Ignorant World
Preceding Context
· Joh_14:1 – Many “rooms”/remaining places
· Joh_14:11-15 – Ask & Receive
· John_14:15 – If You Love, Then Obey
Joh_14:15 LSV If you love Me, A[you will] TSBkeep [that of] My commands* [τὰς ἐντολὰς
τὰς ἐμὰς],
Joh_14:15 Greek ᾿Εὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ
με, τὰς ἐντολὰς
τὰς ἐμὰς TSBτηρήσατεV-AAM-2P· |Aτηρησετε
V-FAI-2P|
Joh_14:15 GRVii+ εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that αγαπατεG25V-PAS-2P ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εντολαςG1785N-APF ἐντολή injunction ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εμαςG1699S-1APF ἐμός my τηρησετεG5083V-FAI-2P τηρέω to guard να [τηρησατεG5083V-AAM-2P τηρέω to guard] τσβ
Joh_14:16 and I will ask [ἐρωτήσω
– question/interogate/ thouroughly/intensly
request] the Father*, and He will give to you
another [ἄλλον] Comforter*
[παράκλητον], that ·He TSBmay
remain [TSBμένῃ | Aη – remain: Joh_14:1 (rooms),
Joh_14:16-17, Joh_14:23, Joh_14:25-26 | Amight-be-being / beNIV] with [μεθ᾿ (≠ Joh_14:17, Joh_14:23, Joh_14:25, etc.)] you throughout [εἰς – into] the age [on-going-perpetual-ness]:
Joh_14:16 |Aκαγω|
TSBκαὶ
TSBἐγὼ
ἐρωτήσω τὸν
πατέρα καὶ ἄλλον
παράκλητον
δώσει ὑμῖν, ἵνα
TSBμένῃ
μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα |Aη|,
Joh_14:16 καγωG2504P-1NS-C καγώ so also the
dative case να [καιG2532CONJ καί and] τσβ [εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I] τσβ ερωτησωG2065V-FAI-1S ἐρωτάω to
interrogate τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the πατεραG3962N-ASM πατήρ a father καιG2532CONJ καί and αλλονG243A-ASM ἄλλος else παρακλητονG3875N-ASM παράκλητος an
intercessor δωσειG1325V-FAI-3S δίδωμι to give υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order
that [μενηG3306V-PAS-3S μένω to stay] τσβ μεθG3326PREP μετά accompaniment υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you ειςG1519PREP εἰς to τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the αιωναG165N-ASM αἰών an age ηG1510V-PXS-3S εἰμί I exist να
Joh_14:17 the Spirit of [the] truth*, ·[the one] whom the [ὃ ὁ] world ·is not able to receive [οὐ
δύναται λαβεῖν], because [ὅτι] ·it does not see [οὐ θεωρεῖV-PAI-3S – is not beholding/spectating] [αὐτὸ
– him / this One] nor know
[οὐ
θεωρεῖ αὐτὸ
οὐδὲ
γινώσκει] ·TSB[this] One [TSBαὐτὸ
– him / this One], TSBand [TSBδε – however] you [all] [are] know[ing] ·[this] One [αὐτό], because [ὅτι] ·[this]
One [?*] remains[/ing] with [παρ᾿ – next-to] you [allP-2DP], and will be in you [allP-2DP].
[* 1 of the last 2 definite articles which is possibly
caried over here from previous occurance by LSV?]
Joh_14:17
τὸ πνεῦμα
τῆς ἀληθείας,
ὃ ὁ κόσμος οὐ
δύναται λαβεῖν,
ὅτι οὐ θεωρεῖ
αὐτὸ οὐδὲ
γινώσκει TSBαὐτὸ·
ὑμεῖς |TSBδε|
γινώσκετε αὐτό,
ὅτι παρ᾿ ὑμῖν
μένει καὶ ἐν
ὑμῖν ἔσται P-2DP.
Joh_14:17 τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the πνευμαG4151N-ASN πνεῦμα a current of
air τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the αληθειαςG225N-GSF ἀλήθεια truth οG3739R-ASN ὅς who, which οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κοσμοςG2889N-NSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement ουG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not δυναταιG1410V-PNI-3S δύναμαι to be able λαβεινG2983V-2AAN λαμβάνω while οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that,
because ουG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not θεωρειG2334V-PAI-3S θεωρέω to be a
spectator of αυτοG846P-ASN αὐτός he, she, it ουδεG3761ADV οὐδέ not however γινωσκειG1097V-PAI-3S γινώσκω to know [αυτοG846P-ASN αὐτός he, she, it] τσβ υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you [δεG1161CONJ δέ but] τσβ γινωσκετεG1097V-PAI-2P γινώσκω to know αυτοG846P-ASN αὐτός he, she, it οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that,
because παρG3844PREP παρά near υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you μενειG3306V-PAI-3S μένω to stay καιG2532CONJ καί and ενG1722PREP ἔν in υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you εσταιG2071V-FXI-3S εἰμί will be
Joh_14:18
I will not leave [ἀφήσω]
you [allP-2AP]
bereaved [ὀρφανούς – orphans/bereaved], I[’m] come[ing] to[ward] you [allP-2DP];
Joh_14:18
οὐκ ἀφήσω
ὑμᾶς ὀρφανούς·
ἔρχομαι πρὸς
ὑμᾶς.
Joh_14:18 ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not αφησωG863V-FAI-1S ἀφίημι an intensive
form of υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you ορφανουςG3737A-APM ὀρφανός bereaved ερχομαιG2064V-PNI-1S ἔρχομαι to come προςG4314PREP πρός forward to υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you
Joh_14:19
·yet
a little [while] [ἔτι
μικρὸν], and the world beholds [θεωρεῖV-PAI-3S – is beholding/spectating] Me ·[from here on out] no more [BAοὐκέτι | TSουκ
TSετι],
and [δὲ
– however] you [allP-2NP] ·[are] behold[ing] Me [θεωρεῖτέV-PAI-2P με],
because [ὅτι] I[’m] live[ing], and[/also] you ·will
live [TSBζήσεσθεV-FDI-2P | AζησετεV-FAI-2P];
Joh_14:19 ἔτι
μικρὸν καὶ ὁ
κόσμος με BAοὐκέτι
|TSουκ
TSετι|
θεωρεῖ, ὑμεῖς
δὲ θεωρεῖτέ
με, ὅτι ἐγὼ ζῶ
καὶ ὑμεῖς TSBζήσεσθεV-FDI-2P |AζησετεV-FAI-2P|.
Joh_14:19 ετιG2089ADV ἔτι yet μικρονG3397A-ASN μικρόν a small
space of time
καιG2532CONJ καί and οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κοσμοςG2889N-NSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement μεG3165P-1AS μέ me ουκετιG3765ADV οὐκέτι not yet ναβ [ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not] τσ [ετιG2089ADV ἔτι yet] τσ θεωρειG2334V-PAI-3S θεωρέω to be a
spectator of υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you δεG1161CONJ δέ but θεωρειτεG2334V-PAI-2P θεωρέω to be a
spectator of μεG3165P-1AS μέ me οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that,
because εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I ζωG2198V-PAI-1S ζάω to live καιG2532CONJ καί and υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you ζησετεG2198V-FAI-2P ζάω to live να [ζησεσθεG2198V-FDI-2P ζάω to live] τσβ
Joh_14:20
in that day [there] you [all P-2NP] ·will
know [γνώσεσθε]
that [ὅτι] I [am]
in [that of] My Father*
[τῷ
πατρί μου],
and you in Me, and I in you [allP-2DP];
Joh_14:20 ἐν
ἐκείνῃ τῇ
ἡμέρᾳ
γνώσεσθε ὑμεῖς
ὅτι ἐγὼ ἐν
τῷ πατρί
μου καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ
|Bκαι
Bεγω
TSAκαγω|
ἐν ὑμῖν.
Joh_14:20 ενG1722PREP ἔν in εκεινηG1565D-DSF ἐκεῖνος that one τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the ημεραG2250N-DSF ἡμέρα day γνωσεσθεG1097V-FDI-2P γινώσκω to know υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that,
because εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the πατριG3962N-DSM πατήρ a father μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me καιG2532CONJ καί and υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you ενG1722PREP ἔν in εμοιG1698P-1DS ἐγώ to me [καιG2532CONJ καί and] β [εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I] β καγωG2504P-1NS-C καγώ so also the
dative case νατσ ενG1722PREP ἔν in υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you
Joh_14:21 he who is having My commands, and is keeping them* [τηρῶν], that [very/specific] one [ἐκεῖνός] ·it is who [ἐστινV-PXI-3S ὁ – is being the one who] is loving Me, and [δὲ – however] he who is loving Me will be loved by [ὑπὸ] [that of] My Father [τοῦ πατρός μου], and I will love him, and will manifest [ἐμφανίσω – appear/show/exibit in visible light / shine] Myself to him.”
Joh_14:21 ὁ
ἔχων τὰς ἐντολάς
μου καὶ τηρῶν
αὐτὰς. ἐκεῖνός
ἐστιν ὁ ἀγαπῶν
με· ὁ δὲ ἀγαπῶν
με ἀγαπηθήσεται
ὑπὸ τοῦ
πατρός μου, TSBκαὶ
TSBἐγὼ
|Aκαγω|
ἀγαπήσω αὐτὸν
καὶ ἐμφανίσω
αὐτῷ ἐμαυτόν.
Joh_14:21 οG3588T-NSM ὁ the εχωνG2192V-PAP-NSM ἔχω to hold ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εντολαςG1785N-APF ἐντολή injunction μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me καιG2532CONJ καί and τηρωνG5083V-PAP-NSM τηρέω to guard αυταςG846P-APF αὐτός he, she, it εκεινοςG1565D-NSM ἐκεῖνος that one εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is οG3588T-NSM ὁ the αγαπωνG25V-PAP-NSM ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me οG3588T-NSM ὁ the δεG1161CONJ δέ but αγαπωνG25V-PAP-NSM ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me αγαπηθησεταιG25V-FPI-3S ἀγαπάω to love υποG5259PREP ὑπό under τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the πατροςG3962N-GSM πατήρ a father μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me καγωG2504P-1NS-C καγώ so also the
dative case να [καιG2532CONJ καί and] τσβ [εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I] τσβ αγαπησωG25V-FAI-1S ἀγαπάω to love αυτονG846P-ASM αὐτός he, she, it καιG2532CONJ καί and εμφανισωG1718V-FAI-1S ἐμφανίζω to exhibit αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it εμαυτονG1683F-1ASM ἐμαυτοῦ of myself so
likewise the dative case
Joh_14:22
Judas says to Him (not the Iscariot), “Lord,
[Aκαι Bκαι] what has come to pass [τί
γέγονεν], that [ὅτι] You
are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not
to the world?”
Joh_14:22
Λέγει αὐτῷ
᾿Ιούδας, οὐχ
ὁ ᾿Ισκαριώτης·
Κύριε, καὶ |Aκαι Bκαι
(Not in GRV)| τί
γέγονεν ὅτι ἡμῖν
μέλλεις ἐμφανίζειν
σεαυτὸν καὶ
οὐχὶ τῷ
κόσμῳ;
Joh_14:22 λεγειG3004V-PAI-3S λέγω to lay forth αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it ιουδαςG2455N-NSM Ἰουδάς Judas ουχG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not οG3588T-NSM ὁ the ισκαριωτηςG2469N-NSM Ἰσκαριώτης inhabitant
of Kerioth κυριεG2962N-VSM κύριος lord καιG2532CONJ καί and τιG5101I-NSN τίς who? which? γεγονενG1096V-2RAI-3S γίνομαι to cause to
be οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that,
because ημινG2254P-1DP ἐγώ to us μελλειςG3195V-PAI-2S μέλλω to intend εμφανιζεινG1718V-PAN ἐμφανίζω to exhibit σεαυτονG4572F-2ASM σεαυτοῦ of thyself καιG2532CONJ καί and ουχιG3780PRT-I οὐχί not indeed τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the κοσμωG2889N-DSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement
Joh_14:23
[TSο – TSthe] Jesus
answered [ἀπεκρίθη]
and said to him, “If anyone may [be] love[ing] Me, he will keep [τηρήσει] ·[that of] My word [τὸν
λόγον μου (vs. “sayings”)]*, and
My Father* will love him, and We will come to[ward (πρὸς)] him, and We will make [TSBποιήσομεν
V-FAI-1P | Aποιησομεθα
V-FDI-1P] [an] abode [μονὴν]
with [παρ᾿
(Joh_14:17, Joh_14:23, Joh_14:25)]
him;
Joh_14:23 ἀπεκρίθη
|TSο|
᾿Ιησοῦς καὶ
εἶπεν αὐτῷ·
ἐάν τις ἀγαπᾷ
με, τὸν λόγον
μου τηρήσει,
καὶ ὁ πατήρ
μου ἀγαπήσει
αὐτόν, καὶ
πρὸς αὐτὸν
ἐλευσόμεθα
καὶ μονὴν
παρ᾿ αὐτῷ TSBποιήσομεν
V-FAI-1P |Aποιησομεθα
V-FDI-1P|.
Joh_14:23 απεκριθηG611V-ADI-3S ἀποκρίνομαι to conclude
for oneself [οG3588T-NSM ὁ the] τσ ιησουςG2424N-NSM Ἰησοῦς Jesus καιG2532CONJ καί and ειπενG2036V-2AAI-3S ἔπω to speak αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that τιςG5100X-NSM τίς some αγαπαG25V-PAS-3S ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the λογονG3056N-ASM λόγος something
said μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me τηρησειG5083V-FAI-3S τηρέω to guard καιG2532CONJ καί and οG3588T-NSM ὁ the πατηρG3962N-NSM πατήρ a father μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me αγαπησειG25V-FAI-3S ἀγαπάω to love αυτονG846P-ASM αὐτός he, she, it καιG2532CONJ καί and προςG4314PREP πρός forward to αυτονG846P-ASM αὐτός he, she, it ελευσομεθαG2064V-FDI-1P ἔρχομαι to come καιG2532CONJ καί and μονηνG3438N-ASF μονή a staying παρG3844PREP παρά near αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it ποιησομεθαG4160V-FDI-1P ποιέω to make να [ποιησομενG4160V-FAI-1P ποιέω to make] τσβ
Joh_14:24
he who is not loving Me does not keep [that of]
My words [τοὺς
λόγους μου]; and the word [ὁ
λόγος] that you hear is not [being] Mine, but [ἀλλὰ] ·the Father’s who sent Me [τοῦ
πέμψαντός με
πατρός].
Joh_14:24 ὁ
μὴ ἀγαπῶν
με τοὺς
λόγους μου οὐ
τηρεῖ· καὶ ὁ
λόγος ὃν ἀκούετε
οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμὸς,
ἀλλὰ τοῦ
πέμψαντός με
πατρός.
Joh_14:24 οG3588T-NSM ὁ the μηG3361PRT-N μή not αγαπωνG25V-PAP-NSM ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the λογουςG3056N-APM λόγος something
said μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me ουG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not τηρειG5083V-PAI-3S τηρέω to guard καιG2532CONJ καί and οG3588T-NSM ὁ the λογοςG3056N-NSM λόγος something
said ονG3739R-ASM ὅς who, which ακουετεG191V-PAI-2P ἀκούω to hear ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is εμοςG1699S-1NSM ἐμός my αλλαG235CONJ ἀλλά other things τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the πεμψαντοςG3992V-AAP-GSM πέμπω to dispatch μεG3165P-1AS μέ me πατροςG3962N-GSM πατήρ a father
Joh_14:25
These things I have spoken to you, remaining [μένων]
with [παρ᾿
– next-to (Joh_14:17, Joh_14:23, Joh_14:25)] you [all P-2DP],
Joh_14:25
Ταῦτα
λελάληκα παρ᾿
ὑμῖν μένων·
Joh_14:25 ταυταG5023D-APN οὗτος these things λελαληκαG2980V-RAI-1S λαλέω to talk υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you παρG3844PREP παρά near υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you μενωνG3306V-PAP-NSM μένω to stay
Joh_14:26 and [δὲ – however] the [ὁ]1 Comforter [παράκλητος], the [τὸ]2 Holy [τὸ – the]3 Spirit [τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ῞Αγιον – the one2 spirit the one3 who is holy], ·[the one] whom [ὃ]4 the [ὁ]5 Father will send in [τῷ – that of]6 My Name, ·He [ἐκεῖνος – that very/specific one // such a one there]7 [7 specifications] will teach you all things, and remind [ὑπομνήσει] you of all things that I [Aεγω] said to [ἃ εἶπον] you.
Joh_14:26 ὁ
δὲ
παράκλητος,
τὸ Πνεῦμα
τὸ ῞Αγιον ὃ
πέμψει ὁ
πατὴρ ἐν τῷ
ὀνόματί
μου, ἐκεῖνος
ὑμᾶς
διδάξει
πάντα καὶ ὑπομνήσει
ὑμᾶς πάντα ἃ
εἶπον ὑμῖν |Aεγω|.
Joh_14:26 οG3588T-NSM ὁ the δεG1161CONJ δέ but παρακλητοςG3875N-NSM παράκλητος an
intercessor τοG3588T-NSN ὁ the πνευμαG4151N-NSN πνεῦμα a current of
air τοG3588T-NSN ὁ the αγιονG40A-NSN ἅγιος sacred οG3739R-ASN ὅς who, which πεμψειG3992V-FAI-3S πέμπω to dispatch οG3588T-NSM ὁ the πατηρG3962N-NSM πατήρ a father ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSN ὁ the ονοματιG3686N-DSN ὄνομα a name μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me εκεινοςG1565D-NSM ἐκεῖνος that one υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you διδαξειG1321V-FAI-3S διδάσκω to teach πανταG3956A-APN πᾶς all καιG2532CONJ καί and υπομνησειG5279V-FAI-3S ὑπομιμνήσκω to remind
quietly υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you πανταG3956A-APN πᾶς all αG3739R-APN ὅς who, which ειπονG2036V-2AAI-1S ἔπω to speak υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I να
* OBEDIENCE Spirit
Act_5:32 LSV …the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying [πειθαρχοῦσιν] Him.
Greek: καὶ
τὸ Πνεῦμα
δὲ τὸ ῞Αγιον ὃ
ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεὸς
τοῖς πειθαρχοῦσιν
αὐτῷ.
John 14 – Mysterious Obedience-Connection vs End-times Deception
The Saving End-times
Mysterious Spiritual Connection Which Surpasses Knowledge, which saves from
End-times Deception Apostasy and Antichrist.
· Just as there is a super-spiritual revelation of Who Jesus IS in John 14 so that the World does not know Him and His Spirit, so also super-spiritual revelation is needed to escape end-times deception and know Him who is About ‘to come’ as the Two Witnesses save the elect to escape God’s wrath.
· “Who was, and is, and is coming [i.e. is to come]” x3 = Rev_1:4, Rev_1:8; Rev_4:8 (i.e. the fulfillment of Exo_3:13-15 and the Gospel of John, etc.)
· It is very evil, sinful, disobedient, absurd, unscientific, shallow, mindless, hypocritical, and completely unbiblical to practice lazy thinking and profane the character of God as though He is not going to come and vindicate His identity by revealing more of who He really is when He comes: Rev_19:11-18
· Getting in on the end-times Two Witnesses (Rev_11) and the revelation of Who God ‘IS TO BE when He comes’ (including Jesus busting through the sky with a new name, based on the Word of God) doesn’t start when the Two Witnesses bust out with miracles, it starts right now with begging and is only for those obeying BOND.
· Those who obey BOND right now are the exact same faithful, non-adulterous, non-sign-seeking, Logical and Truth-Loving, obedient God-Loving people found worthy to cleanly experience the power of the Two Witnesses, and through their prophetic proclamation they will escape the Worldly Antichrist End-Times Deception.
· There are a handful of people who have a slight idea who God IS because they have experienced forgiveness of sins and smile at the Bible -- And after about 5 years of church hopping I found so few of these people I could count them on one hand…
· Even those who have partially experienced anything True about who God IS are essentially failing miserably at who God IS TO BE:
·
God WAS THE BEING in
the OT (and from the beginning in general), and He IS the Savior from sin in
the NT (i.e. “Jesus” in Mat_1:21 -- i.e. what God is doing right now), and He
is Coming to Be a Righteous Impartial
Judge of all the earth at the end of the age (Mat_25; Rom_2:5-16;
1Pe_1:17, etc.).
(and even if this summary slightly risks
oversimplification in some ways in some people’s understandings, yet it is
still very Biblical to ‘speak in human terms because of the weakness of your
flesh’ – Rom_6:19)
· God IS The One who Saves from Sin (i.e. “Jesus”), and some few have experienced His amazing mercy, but obedience prepares the way for HIM WHO IS COMING, which includes God as the Judge, who judges all impartially from their WORKS (NOT their “faith alone”) -- now we’re talking about the real God WHO IS TO BE when He COMES…
· Salvation by faith alone already doesn’t work for real salvation right now, and much less will it work at a Truly righteous Judgement -- the only way to survive the terror of God’s fearful Judgement and hot unbearable wrath and to make it in the end is to fully embrace the full Obedience (BOND) of Him Who is Coming.
· Intellect won’t save you from the end-times deception since it will ‘deceive even the elect if powerfully-possible’ (Mat_24:24; Mar_13:22).
· The ultimate TrueConnection with who God is going to be revealed to be matches with something far above our comprehension, and in the same way it overcomes the deception which is far above our strength, which is exactly why such a revelation as John 14 happens right in front of the World, but no one gets it and no one sees God except the obedient disciples.
·
This
super-spiritual-connection which saves from deception (and Hell) is discussed
in many places including:
- Daniel: none of the wicked will understand
- Jesus: antichrist will ‘deceive even the elect if powerfully-possible’ (Mat_24:24; Mar_13:22)
- Paul: ‘The Love of God that surpasses knowledge’ (Eph_3:19) (which matches
with John 14’s Truth-Love beyond knowledge)
- Paul: ALL deceivable-ness (2Th_2:, etc.)
- 1Jn_2:14-28:
no sin = salvation from Worldly Antichrist Deception -- which directly
correlates with John 14 that we’re reading here
- John/Revelation: Deceives the Whole World, etc.
· The ultimate answer is far beyond our comprehension and knowledge but winning (if you want to win, it) starts right here and right now with clear, True, honest, righteous, full obedience.
· Intellect is not enough, but the Divinely inspired remembrance (Joh_14:26) which correlates with and is preceded by Divinely inspired obedience (Joh_14:15, Joh_14:21, Joh_14:23-24) IS powerful to save you, since it makes you Love the Father and Son, and in turn, get the Comforter (and with that you got the fullness of the “Trinity”), Who leads you into all Truth (John 16) -- this is the only real answer to escaping end-times deception and being ultimately saved by getting in on Who Jesus is going to reveal God to be, as the Omega-Judge, whom no one has ever yet known yet, and it all starts right here with BOND obedience.
· God has not yet revealed who He is coming to be as The Judge -- otherwise the Judgement would not be a surprise to anyone as the Bible describes (think: Mat_7; 25, etc.), nor would we ever have any need for the books of Daniel, Revelation, Zechariah, etc. nor would we even need the Two Witnesses or their prophecy, because everyone would essentially already know everything they needed to know without any danger of lies, deception, or accidentally perishing in Hell.
· No one knows Jesus’ new name (Rev_19:11-18) or the Omega whom God will be revealed to be, but we do know that His newly revealed Omega-identity includes being the Righteous Judge that judges everyone impartially “according to every man’s works” (Rom_2:5-16; 1Pe_1:17, etc.), and it is this exact same reverent fear and happy faith that motivates and causes obeyers right now to stop sinning and will also preserve them through the Worldly Antichrist deception and bring them into victory at the Judgement.
· Since knowledge is not enough to save you, therefore OBEYING Jesus and being lead into all Truth (John 16), far beyond your comprehension, by His One Spirit is the only answer to escape Satan’s Worldly Antichrist deception and Hell, and this is the exact same canonical obedience-power that ultimately saves you at the impartial righteous Judgement of God.
· The ultimate answer does not end with obedience, but it definitely starts with it, because those obeyer-disciples are the only ones who have the right Spirit saving them from deception and Hell by joining them in with the Two Witnesses, including the proclamation of God’s real identity and WHO He is “about to be” when He comes, which “prepares the way” to call out and save a Bride for Jesus to return and marry, so that God will have these triumphant redeemed winners to overcome at Judgement.
· Hear Truth, believe, get favor, obey, get Monotheistic Spirit, get lead into all Truth, escape deception with Divine power way beyond your ability, win at Judgement, God gets all the Glory for saving you and also credits it to you by making His righteous Works happen through you despite your ignorance and incapability -- He can Truly Judge you righteously and impartially, and simultaneously be the total source of your salvation and real righteousness far beyond your ability or comprehension.
John 14 – Obedience is the Answer to Remembering and Understanding ALL Truth
· Divinely inspired obedience results in Divinely inspired remembrance, which is exactly why obedience is the canonical answer for understanding the whole entire Bible.
· Only obeyers can Divinely remember everything God said as they read (and heard) so as to have accurate/serious/real/True reading comprehension when they put two and two together to gain conclusive, authoritative, canonical, and perfect understanding when God teaches them all things and guides them into all Truth (Joh_16:13).
· (Notice how unfaithful people always conveniently develop fragmented theological theories that totally ignore and completely disobey and break other Bible verses, and righteous people are continually, simultaneously obeying all the Bible at once because they are remembering God’s Words to obey and totally keep all of them!)
· No, the answer is not being theologically trained, or smart or educated, or being a goofball pseudo-spiritualist with your goofy unspiritual soulish “allegorical” interpretations against the Scriptures, but rather the answer is something beautiful with hardcore Truth and integrity: the answer is actual, True, real, serious, entire OBEDIENCE!
· Academic learning can help you apprehend the literature of the Scriptures, and education and practical intellectual knowledge is very important for understanding many of the details, but in the end an immoral person will never get the moral of the story.
· The only solution for understanding the Bible is to “take it in its original context” of full hardcore obedience, and to do so with such serious obedience as to apprehend The One Spirit Who is holy to pull you into all Truth far beyond your ability, because God is the only one morally skillful enough to even begin to put together a cohesive and logical answer for what the complex moral code of Scripture declares.
John 14 – The Father, Son, & Spirit vs. the World
What do we Learn About
Real Love Here?
· Obedience Love gets you in this very non-worldly Spirit, which matches with the obedient Love that follows in John 15
· Real Love ≈ Obedience, and it’s very non-worldly!
· Notice the Serious Love -- the World does not know anything about this level of Real Love…
· There is a radical, irreconcilable, incompatibility with the World and the Spirit of the Truth (and His real Love).
·
Real Love ≈ Obedience
≈ Spirit of Truth,
Everything else = the World/Satan/Deception/Antichrist/Hell
· Real Love-Truth-Obedience and how it saves us from the World is how Jesus shows us what Real Love is all about in John 14.
· Obedience = Real Love of God in John 14 and it also directly matches with how we also Truly Love disciples with Real Love on earth in 1jn.
John_14:27 – Non-Worldly Peace
Joh_14:27 LSV Peace I leave [ἀφίημι] to you; My peace [εἰρήνην
τὴν ἐμὴν] I give to you. Not according [οὐ
καθὼς (antithesis of Joh_13:15 & Joh_13:34)] as the world gives do I give to you.
Do not let your heart be troubled [ταρασσέσθω], nor let it be afraid [δειλιάτω].
Joh_14:27 Greek Εἰρήνην
ἀφίημι ὑμῖν,
εἰρήνην τὴν
ἐμὴν δίδωμι
ὑμῖν· οὐ
καθὼς ὁ
κόσμος
δίδωσιν, ἐγὼ
δίδωμι ὑμῖν.
μὴ
ταρασσέσθω ὑμῶν
ἡ καρδία,
μηδὲ
δειλιάτω.
>> Joh_16: peace
Just like Jesus gives peace that is not like the world gives peace, so also the only Love that God gives is not like the “love” that the world has (or has ever known).
BTW: This Joh_14:27 “peace” is opposed to terror/timid-ness [μὴ ταρασσέσθω ὑμῶν ἡ καρδία, μηδὲ δειλιάτω] just like real Love is also opposed to fear* in 1Jo_4:18 [φόβος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ…φόβος…φοβούμενος].
* 1Jn_4:18 Greek φόβος
οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν
τῇ ἀγάπῃ,
ἀλλ᾿ ἡ
τελεία ἀγάπη
ἔξω βάλλει
τὸν φόβον, ὅτι
ὁ φόβος
κόλασιν ἔχει·
ὁ δὲ
φοβούμενος οὐ
τετελείωται ἐν
τῇ ἀγάπῃ.
Notice the Peace-Love parallels in…
·
Joh_13:15 [Foot Washing – καθὼς]
and Joh_13:34
[New Love Command –
καθὼς] and Joh_14:27 [non-worldly, Jesus-Like peace – οὐ
καθὼς (antithesis of Joh_13:15 & Joh_13:34)]
·
Joh_14:27
[no terror/timid-ness in Jesus’ peace –
μὴ
ταρασσέσθω]
1Jo_4:18 [no fear in
God’s Perfect Love – φόβος οὐκ
ἔστιν ἐν τῇ
ἀγάπῃ]
·
Also:
2Co_13:11 and many other links and parallels
Feet, Love, &
Peace -- And More Love to Come…
We have spanned and paralleled Foot Washing, the New Love Command, and non-worldly, Jesus-Like peace, -- and Jesus is not done talking about Love yet…
John_15:7-14 – Obedience Produces Father & Son Love
Continual
Word-Commandments-Obeying Disciples Have Father & Jesus-Like
Self-Sacrificing Love & Favorable Clean Joy for other Disciples
Joh_15:7-14 LSV if you may[/might] remain [μείνητε] in Me, and ·[that of] My sayings [or spoken-flowing words (τὰ
ῥήματά μου)] may[/might] remain [μείνῃ] in you, whatever you may wish ·TSByou TSBwill ask [AαἰτήσασθεV-AMM-2P |TSBαιτησεσθεV-FMI-2P], and ·it will be done to [γενήσεταιV-FDI-3S (same as v. 8)] you [≈
Joh_14:11-15]. 8 In this was My Father glorified, that ·you may[/might] bear [φέρητε
V-PAS-2P – you may/might be carrying] much fruit [καρπὸν
πολὺν (≈ Mat_13:23:
καρποφορεῖ
καὶ ποιεῖ)], and you TSBwill [Amay/might] become [Aγένησθε V-2ADS-2P
|TSBγενησεσθε V-FDI-2P (same as v. 7)]
My disciples*. 9 According [καθὼς
(= v.10)] as the Father loved Me [think:
1Jn_2:15], I also loved you, remain in
My love; 10 if you may keep
My commands, you will remain in
My love, according [καθὼς
(= v.9)] as
I have kept the commands of My
Father, and ·remain
in His love [μένω αὐτοῦP-GSM ἐν τῇ
ἀγάπῃ]; 11 these things ·I have spoken [λελάληκαV-RAI-1S] to you, that ·My joy
[ἡ
χαρὰ ἡ ἐμὴ –
that favorable-cheerfulness/joy that is mine (= Joh_3:29*)] in you TSBmay remain [TSBμείνῃ | Aη (NIV:
may be in you)], and ·your
joy [ἡ χαρὰ ὑμῶν
– that of your favorable-cheerfulness/joy] ·may[/might] be full[ed]
[πληρωθῇV-APS-3S – may/might full-ed / made full]. 12 This is ·My command [ἡ
ἐντολὴ ἡ ἐμή], that you love one another, according as [καθὼς] I loved you; 13 greater love
has no[t even] one than this [μείζονα
ταύτης ἀγάπην
οὐδεὶς ἔχει], that anyone may lay down his life [τὴν
ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
– that of his soul]
·for his [warm-liked] friends [ὑπὲρ
τῶν φίλων
αὐτοῦ (= Joh_15:19)]; 14 you are My [warm-liked] friends [φίλοι
μού ἐστε (= Joh_15:19)], if you may do [ἐὰν
ποιῆτε (=SOM, etc.**)] TSBwhatever [TSBὅσα | Aα (that which / whatNIV)] ·I [am] command[ing] [ἐντέλλομαιV-PNI-1S] you [all (3P-2DP)];
Joh_15:7-14 Greek ἐὰν
μείνητε ἐν ἐμοὶ
καὶ τὰ ῥήματά
μου ἐν ὑμῖν
μείνῃ, ὃ ἐὰν
θέλητε Aαἰτήσασθε
V-AMM-2P |TSBαιτησεσθε
V-FMI-2P|, καὶ
γενήσεται ὑμῖν. 8
ἐν τούτῳ ἐδοξάσθη
ὁ πατήρ μου, ἵνα
καρπὸν πολὺν
φέρητε, καὶ Aγένησθε V-2ADS-2P
|TSBγενησεσθε
V-FDI-2P| ἐμοὶ
μαθηταί. 9
καθὼς ἡγάπησέ
με ὁ πατήρ, κἀγὼ
|TSBἡγάπησα|
ὑμᾶς· |Aηγαπησα|
μείνατε ἐν
τῇ ἀγάπῃ
τῇ ἐμῇ. 10
ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς
μου τηρήσητε,
μενεῖτε ἐν
τῇ ἀγάπῃ
μου, καθὼς ἐγὼ
τὰς ἐντολὰς
τοῦ πατρός
μου τετήρηκα
καὶ μένω αὐτοῦP-GSM ἐν
τῇ ἀγάπῃ. 11
Ταῦτα
λελάληκα V-RAI-1S ὑμῖν
ἵνα ἡ χαρὰ ἡ ἐμὴ
ἐν ὑμῖν |Aη| TSBμείνῃ
καὶ ἡ χαρὰ ὑμῶν
πληρωθῇ. 12
αὕτη ἐστὶν
ἡ ἐντολὴ ἡ
ἐμή, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους
καθὼς ἡγάπησα
ὑμᾶς.
13
μείζονα
ταύτης ἀγάπην
οὐδεὶς ἔχει, ἵνα
τις τὴν
ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
θῇ ὑπὲρ τῶν
φίλων αὐτοῦ. 14
ὑμεῖς
φίλοι μού ἐστε,
ἐὰν ποιῆτε |Aα| TSBὅσα ἐγὼ
ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν.
Joh_15:7-14 GRVii+ εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that μεινητεG3306V-AAS-2P μένω to stay ενG1722PREP ἔν in εμοιG1698P-1DS ἐγώ to me καιG2532CONJ καί and ταG3588T-NPN ὁ the ρηματαG4487N-NPN ῥήμα an utterance μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me ενG1722PREP ἔν in υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you μεινηG3306V-AAS-3S μένω to stay οG3739R-ASN ὅς who, which εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that θελητεG2309V-PAS-2P θέλω to determine αιτησασθεG154V-AMM-2P αἰτέω to ask να [αιτησεσθεG154V-FMI-2P αἰτέω to ask] τσβ καιG2532CONJ καί and γενησεταιG1096V-FDI-3S γίνομαι to cause to be υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you 8 ενG1722PREP ἔν in τουτωG5129D-DSN οὗτος to this εδοξασθηG1392V-API-3S δοξάζω glorious οG3588T-NSM ὁ the πατηρG3962N-NSM πατήρ a father μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that καρπονG2590N-ASM καρπός fruit πολυνG4183A-ASM πολύς much φερητεG5342V-PAS-2P φέρω to bear καιG2532CONJ καί and γενησθεG1096V-2ADS-2P γίνομαι to cause to be να [γενησεσθεG1096V-FDI-2P γίνομαι to cause to be] τσβ εμοιG1698P-1DS ἐγώ to me μαθηταιG3101N-NPM μαθητής a learner 9 καθωςG2531ADV καθώς just as ηγαπησενG25V-AAI-3S ἀγαπάω to love μεG3165P-1AS μέ me οG3588T-NSM ὁ the πατηρG3962N-NSM πατήρ a father καγωG2504P-1NS-C καγώ so also the dative case [ηγαπησαG25V-AAI-1S ἀγαπάω to love] τσβ υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you ηγαπησαG25V-AAI-1S ἀγαπάω to love να μεινατεG3306V-AAM-2P μένω to stay ενG1722PREP ἔν in τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the αγαπηG26N-DSF ἀγάπη love τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the εμηG1699S-1DSF ἐμός my 10
εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εντολαςG1785N-APF ἐντολή injunction μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me τηρησητεG5083V-AAS-2P τηρέω to guard μενειτεG3306V-FAI-2P μένω to stay ενG1722PREP ἔν in τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the αγαπηG26N-DSF ἀγάπη love μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me καθωςG2531ADV καθώς just as εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the εντολαςG1785N-APF ἐντολή injunction τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the πατροςG3962N-GSM πατήρ a father μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me τετηρηκαG5083V-RAI-1S τηρέω to guard καιG2532CONJ καί and μενωG3306V-PAI-1S μένω to stay αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it ενG1722PREP ἔν in τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the αγαπηG26N-DSF ἀγάπη love 11 ταυταG5023D-APN οὗτος these things λελαληκαG2980V-RAI-1S λαλέω to talk υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the χαραG5479N-NSF χαρά cheerfulness ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the εμηG1699S-1NSF ἐμός my ενG1722PREP ἔν in υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you ηG1510V-PXS-3S εἰμί I exist να [μεινηG3306V-AAS-3S μένω to stay] τσβ καιG2532CONJ καί and ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the χαραG5479N-NSF χαρά cheerfulness υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you πληρωθηG4137V-APS-3S πληρόω to make replete 12 αυτηG3778D-NSF οὗτος the he εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the εντοληG1785N-NSF ἐντολή injunction ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the εμηG1699S-1NSF ἐμός my ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that αγαπατεG25V-PAS-2P ἀγαπάω to love αλληλουςG240C-APM ἀλλήλων one another καθωςG2531ADV καθώς just as ηγαπησαG25V-AAI-1S ἀγαπάω to love υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you 13
μειζοναG3173A-ASF-C μέγας big ταυτηςG3778D-GSF οὗτος the he αγαπηνG26N-ASF ἀγάπη love ουδειςG3762A-NSM οὐδείς not even one εχειG2192V-PAI-3S ἔχω to hold ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that τιςG5100X-NSM τίς some τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the ψυχηνG5590N-ASF ψυχή breath αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it θηG5087V-2AAS-3S τίθημι to place υπερG5228PREP ὑπέρ over τωνG3588T-GPM ὁ the φιλωνG5384A-GPM φίλος fond αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it 14 υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you φιλοιG5384A-NPM φίλος fond μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me εστεG2075V-PXI-2P εἰμί ye are εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that ποιητεG4160V-PAS-2P ποιέω to make αG3739R-APN ὅς who, which να [οσαG3745K-APN ὅσος as as] τσβ εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I εντελλομαιG1781V-PNI-1S ἐντέλλομαι to enjoin υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you
*
John the Baptist’s Favorable Cheer &
Rejoicing
Jesus spoke (in John 15) as John the
Baptist had already said (in John 3):
Joh_3:29 Greek ὁ ἔχων
τὴν νύμφην
νυμφίος ἐστίν·
ὁ δὲ φίλος
τοῦ νυμφίου,
ὁ ἑστηκὼς
καὶ ἀκούων
αὐτοῦ, χαρᾷ
χαίρει διὰ
τὴν φωνὴν
τοῦ νυμφίου.
αὕτη οὖν ἡ χαρὰ
ἡ ἐμὴ πεπλήρωται.
Note: Jesus’
Favorable Cheer & Rejoicing is (linguisticaly/thematically) Preceded by
John the Baptist’s Favorable Cheer & Rejoicing.
** Do / SOM: Mat_3:10 (John the Baptist); Mat_7:16-20 (SOM);
Mat_12:33; Luk_6:43 (SOM);
Jam_3:12
What Love is it?
· Notice that Agape comes 1st, then warm-liking Love.
· Notice that even Agape is framed in the Monotheism of learning & obeying commands about how to really Love
· Agape + Commandment-Keeping (i.e. Monotheism) = the Real Love in John 15
· v. 7: “Remain” = Faithfulness, ≠ selfishness/lust/worldliness/etc.
· v. 7: “spoken-flowing words” = Monotheism, ≠ worldly lust!
· v. 8: “In this was My Father glorified” (LSV) -- NOT the World!
· v. 8: “disciples” = serious Obeyers (as seen above and below) ≠ the World
· v. 9-10, 12: “According [καθὼς (= v.10)] as the Father loved Me [think: 1Jn_2:15], I also loved you” (LSV) -- specific!
· v. 10, 12: Commandment-keeping/Monotheistic Love
· v. 11: “that favorable-cheerfulness/joy that is mine” (RTA) ≠ circumstantial / luxurious / confident / prideful / selfish / Worldly happiness that only “loves” when it has abundance of money.
· v. 11: Self-sacrificing for other people’s truest value/good
· John 15 = Obedient Father & Son Love
· John 15 ≠ Worldly love/lust
Passionate Love in
John 15
· Self-sacrificing Love is the point of Joh_15:13-14.
· World has painless/passionless/apathetic/boring/selfish “love”.
· Cheerful Love (Joh_15:10-12) = a willingness to embrace your crucifixion (Joh_15:13-14).
· Jesus’ “fish breakfast” laid down their fish-lives so Jesus & disciples could eat breakfast.
· Laying down your life for the Father who is immeasurably more valuable than you glorifies His value with your reasonable acknowledgement.
· Your sacrifice also makes you willingly passionate, conforming you to the reflected zealous image of God’s fire.
Worldly love does
not obey, which is why no one in the world has any real, serious Love at all, esp. for real
disciples/obeyers.
So… Notice the Special
Love for disciples/obeyers in John
15’s obedience/fruit!
Down-According Theme is Continued -- So it’s
Divine & Special Love:
Joh_15:9-10, 12 – Remain in / Down-According to Father & Son
Love
· comp. Obedience Produces Father & Son Love; Father & Son Love Notes; “Down-According” Throughout John
Asking & Receiving…
LOVE in John 15
·
“Ask & Receive” was introduced in Joh_14:11-15, etc. (‘ask anything [τι] in that of my name’ -- incl. preceding
and following context of required obedience)
and “Ask & Receive” is now being revisited and explained again in
John 15.
· Answered requests ·“becoming to” [γενήσεται V-FDI-3S] you (Joh_15:7) Parallels with you “becom[ing]” Jesus’ Disciple(s) (v. Joh_15:8).
·
Requests
‘becoming’ answered to you ≈ you ‘becoming’ a disciple ≈ you
bearing good fruit.
· “Asking and receiving” is not just a benefit of being a disciple, it is an essential essence of it…
· “Asking and receiving” leads to obedience fruit, which in turn leads to Divine Love.
· After hearing, obeying, & being discipled, you ask and receive whatever you wish, then you Love people (which is part of carrying “much fruit”) instead of lusting after more things that you don’t have in this life…
Notice that in John 15 the same pattern repeats from Mat_6-7 and Luk_6:
(1) Listen to God,
(2) “ask and receive”,
(3) Get Fruit: Hear+DO/Obey, incl.
(4) Divine Love
In John 15 this obedience specifically results in “(4) Love for disciples”, which matches/correlates with the special Divine Love for outsiders (incl. enemies, etc.) in Mat_5 and Luk_6.
Trees & Fruit --
Reminders
· Becoming Learners/Apprentices/Disciples (v. Joh_15:8) = DO (v. Joh_15:14) / obey = “fruit” (v. Joh_15:7) = result of the remaining Word -- as confirmed in v. Joh_15:10-14; Mat_7:13-29; Mat_12:33-37 (seen below); Luk_6:43-49, etc.
John 15 Compared With Matthew 12
Mat_12:33-37
LSV Either make
the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad,
for from the fruit is the tree known. 34
Brood of vipers! How are you able to speak good things—being evil? For out of
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35
The good man out of the good treasure of the heart puts forth the good things,
and the evil man out of the evil treasure puts forth evil things. 36 And I say to you that every idle word
that men may speak, they will give for it a reckoning in [the] day of judgment; 37 for from your words you will be declared
righteous[ified], and from your words you will be declared unrighteous [καταδικασθήσῃ
– i.e. righteous/justice will come down on you].”
Mat_12:33 ῎Η
ποιήσατε τὸ
δένδρον
καλὸν, καὶ
τὸν καρπὸν
αὐτοῦ
καλόν, ἢ
ποιήσατε τὸ
δένδρον
σαπρὸν, καὶ
τὸν καρπὸν
αὐτοῦ
σαπρόν· ἐκ
γὰρ τοῦ
καρποῦ τὸ
δένδρον
γινώσκεται.
Mat_12:34
γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν,
πῶς δύνασθε
ἀγαθὰ λαλεῖν
πονηροὶ ὄντες;
ἐκ γὰρ τοῦ
περισσεύματος
τῆς καρδίας
τὸ στόμα
λαλεῖ.
Mat_12:35 ὁ ἀγαθὸς
ἄνθρωπος ἐκ
τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ
θησαυροῦ ἐκβάλλει
|TSτης TSκαρδιας
εκβαλλει TSτα| ἀγαθά,
καὶ ὁ
πονηρὸς ἄνθρωπος
ἐκ τοῦ
πονηροῦ
θησαυροῦ ἐκβάλλει
πονηρά.
Mat_12:36 λέγω
δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι
πᾶν ῥῆμα ἀργὸν
ὃ ἐὰν
λαλήσωσιν |Aλαλησουσιν TSBεαν TSBλαλησωσιν| οἱ ἄνθρωποι,
ἀποδώσουσι
περὶ αὐτοῦ
λόγον ἐν ἡμέρᾳ
κρίσεως·
Mat_12:37 ἐκ
γὰρ τῶν
λόγων σου
δικαιωθήσῃ
καὶ ἐκ τῶν
λόγων σου
καταδικασθήσῃ.
TSK:
make the good tree, Mat_23:26,
Eze_18:31, Amo_5:15, Luk_11:39, Luk_11:40, Jam_4:8
TSK:
and his fruit good: Mat_3:8-10,
Mat_7:16-20,
Luk_3:9, Luk_6:43, Luk_6:44, Joh_15:4-7, Jam_3:12
Summary: (A) Remaining in Jesus produces: (B) real results/fruit/obedience, & Continual Obedience/Fruit Produces: (C) Self-sacrificing, Special, Divine Love for Disciples.
The Point: We must remain in
obedience fruit/results, & sacrificial Love as Jesus Loved, laying down
Soul/life with special Love for disciplesv.8/obeyersv.8,
14/friendsv.13-14.
(We also got to compare John with 1st
John’s Old and New Commandments)
John_15:17-19 – Love Disciples, Contrary to the Hateful World
Joh_15:17-19 LSV These things I command [ἐντέλλομαιV-PNI-1S = I am commanding] you [all], that you love one another; 18
if the world hates you, ·you [must/are] know[ing] [γινώσκετε
V-PAI-2P V-PAM-2P] that it has hated Me
before you; 19 if ·you were [being (ἦτε V-IXI-2P – imperfect)] ·[out] of [ἐκ] the world, the world would
have ·[possibly] been [ἂν] ·[warm-liking/friend-]cherishing V-IAI-3S its own [ὁ
κόσμος ἂν τὸ ἴδιον
ἐφίλει V-IAI-3S (= Joh_15:13-14)], ·but because [ὅτι
δὲ – however, in-that] you are not [being (ἐστέ
V-PXI-2P)] ·[out] of [ἐκ] the world, but [ἀλλ᾿] I chose [ἐξελεξάμην
(ἐξ- = ἐκ; same word)] ·[you] [ὑμᾶς] out of [ἐκ
(same word x4)] the world—because of [διὰ] this the world hates [μισεῖ
V-PAI-3S – is hating] you [all (P-2AP)].
Joh_15:17-19 Greek ταῦτα ἐντέλλομαι
ὑμῖν, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους. 18
Εἰ ὁ
κόσμος ὑμᾶς
μισεῖ,
γινώσκετε ὅτι
ἐμὲ πρῶτον
ὑμῶν
μεμίσηκεν. 19
εἰ ἐκ τοῦ
κόσμου ἦτε, ὁ
κόσμος ἂν τὸ ἴδιον
ἐφίλει· ὅτι
δὲ ἐκ τοῦ
κόσμου οὐκ ἐστέ,
ἀλλ᾿ ἐγὼ ἐξελεξάμην
ὑμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ
κόσμου, διὰ
τοῦτο μισεῖ V-PAI-3S
ὑμᾶς ὁ κόσμος.
Joh_15:17-19 GRVii+
ταυταG5023D-APN οὗτος these things εντελλομαιG1781V-PNI-1S ἐντέλλομαι to enjoin υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you ιναG2443CONJ ἵνα in order that αγαπατεG25V-PAS-2P ἀγαπάω to love αλληλουςG240C-APM ἀλλήλων one another 18 ειG1487COND εἰ if οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κοσμοςG2889N-NSM κόσμος orderly arrangement υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you μισειG3404V-PAI-3S μισέω to detest γινωσκετεG1097V-PAI-2PV-PAM-2P γινώσκω to know οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because εμεG1691P-1AS ἐγώ me πρωτονG4412ADV πρῶτον firstly υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you μεμισηκενG3404V-RAI-3S μισέω to detest 19 ειG1487COND εἰ if εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κοσμουG2889N-GSM κόσμος orderly arrangement ητεG2258V-IXI-2P εἰμί I was οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κοσμοςG2889N-NSM κόσμος orderly arrangement ανG302PRT ἄν soever τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the ιδιονG2398A-ASN ἴδιος pertaining to self εφιλειG5368V-IAI-3S φιλέω to be a friend to οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because δεG1161CONJ δέ but εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κοσμουG2889N-GSM κόσμος orderly arrangement ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not εστεG2075V-PXI-2P εἰμί ye are αλλG235CONJ ἀλλά other things εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I εξελεξαμηνG1586V-AMI-1S ἐκλέγομαι to select υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κοσμουG2889N-GSM κόσμος orderly arrangement διαG1223PREP διά through τουτοG5124D-ASN οὗτος that thing μισειG3404V-PAI-3S μισέω to detest υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κοσμοςG2889N-NSM κόσμος orderly arrangement
Jesus’ Non-Worldly
Love, Out of Heaven
· In Joh_15:17 Jesus is still “commanding” the same NEW (Joh_13:34), non-worldly (Joh_15:18-19) Love as He was previously (in Joh_13:34, Joh_15:9-10, & Joh_15:12).
·
Joh_13:34* “A new command…love
one another” =
Joh_15:9-10
“remain in My love” =
Joh_15:12 “This is ·My command [ἡ ἐντολὴ
ἡ ἐμή], that you love one another, according as [καθὼς]
I loved you” =
Joh_15:17 “[ἐντέλλομαιV-PNI-1S = I am commanding] you
[all], that you love one another”
(LSV)
· Jesus says the world hates Him & Obeyers… (v. 17)
·
the
world hates & even persecutes Him & Obeyers (v. Joh_15:20-27)
· Consider how much of the secular and churchy religious world that claim they like the Bible/Love/Jesus/people/etc. …
· …but does the world really Love or “hate” God & people?
· Does the World really have any real Biblical Love for Jesus or Disciples at all when they are clearly persecuting them both?
· When it comes to the most important people group to Love on the face of the whole earth, does the World have any Love left at all, after all its boasts of “love”?
· It doesn’t matter how many secular and churchy people say they “love” -- the Truth is: they all hate… (unless/until they actually OBEY Jesus…)
·
“Out” is repeated 4 times
in this one passage. --
(this same play on Words (with “out”) continues on into John 17 as well as
1jn…)
· “Out” = Repeated emphasis of the non-worldly origin & nature of Jesus’ Perfect heavenly Love & His Loving Disciples, whom He is sending out into the loveless World.
· “Down-according to” repeatedly shows what Jesus’ Love IS.
· Not being “out” of the world repeatedly shows what His Love is NOT -- and what His disciples are commanded NOT to be like.
· It is sinful and satanic to keep praising generic/worldly “love”, that we all want and know, like William Law and the Commentary Project does, as though that worthless garbage has anything to do with the Bible’s Love, when the Bible goes to such repeated and explicit lengths to only praise such specific real Love as this Divinely Perfect Biblical Love.
· Remember: William Law’s Made Up Arminian Blasphemous Heresy…
· William Law (typical psudo-hard-core/Philosophical/Arminian/evangelical) and the Commentary Project (liberal) both promote a “love” (in the name of the Bible / “JC”) that the world likes & is drawn to / etc.
·
Will God, who hates bribes,
take & gladly receive such lying flatteries from the flesh of His enemies
(i.e. the friends of the World – Jas_4:4, seen below)?
[TSK (on 1Pe_1:17): who: Deu_10:17, 2Ch_19:7, Job_34:19, Mat_22:16, Act_10:34,
Act_10:35, Rom_2:10, Rom_2:11, Gal_2:6, Eph_6:9, Col_3:25]
* Joh_13:34 LSV “A new command [ἐντολὴν
καινὴν]
I give to you, that you love one another [ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους (same as
Rom_13:8)]; according
[καθὼς – same as
Joh_13:15 (foot washing)] as I loved you, that you also love one another [ἀγαπᾶτε
ἀλλήλους (≈
Rom_13:8)]”
So, just as we are commanded to carefully consider and obey Jesus’ real Love, we are also warned to beware of the World’s hatred:
The Hate is Real…
· “if the world hates you” (v. Joh_15:18) ≠ “Theoretical Hatred” from the World
·
“if the world hates you” (v. Joh_15:18)
= “the world hates [μισεῖ
V-PAI-3S – is hating] you [all (P-2AP)]” (v. Joh_15:19)
(just in case anyone might get initially tripped up by the word “if” in v. Joh_15:18)
· Notice the same “if” statements in v. Joh_15:18-19 as also seen later in v. Joh_15:20-21.
· Don’t confuse Jesus’ discussion of “if”-hatred (v. Joh_15:18) as though it were purely theoretical, occasional, and/or isolated, when it is, in fact, instead, quite overt, factual, continual, and even universal (v. Joh_15:19).
· Don’t ever be silly and goofy in any of the fragmented theological games church people might play against the Bible lest you always be confused even with relatively simple passages such as this.
·
The
World’s very real hatred results in persecuting Jesus & Obeyers (v. Joh_15:20-27)
·
Accurately considering the
World’s “if”-hatred is inversely comparable to saying:
“in this is love…He loved us…11 Beloved, if
[εἰ (=Joh_15:18)] God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1Jn_4:10-11 LSV)
· Neither God’s Love nor the World’s hatred is in question when considering what we should do “if these things be so” (in Joh_15:18-19).
1Jn_4:10-11 LSV in this is love, not that we
loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son—the propitiation for our
sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to
love one another;
1Jn_4:10 ἐν
τούτῳ ἐστὶν
ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ
ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήσαμεν
τὸν Θεόν, ἀλλ᾿
ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν
|Aηγαπηκαμεν
TSBηγαπησαμεν| ἡμᾶς
καὶ ἀπέστειλεν
τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ
ἱλασμὸν
περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
ἡμῶν.
1Jn_4:11 ᾿Αγαπητοί,
εἰ οὕτως ὁ
Θεὸς ἠγάπησεν
ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἡμεῖς
ὀφείλομεν ἀλλήλους
ἀγαπᾶν.
Mutual Opposition
with Different Results
· God commands all people to Love each other, and to even like each other’s value.
· Who better to fulfill God’s commands to Love all people than His own disciples?
· Animosity and opposition does not start with the righteous, but with the World.
· The righteous extend their hand of Love and invite friendship, but the World returns hatred and unfriendly persecution.
·
The World is commanded to
repent and like/Love God and us, but it continues in hatred instead. (comp.
2Co_6, etc.)
…and as a direct, co-extensive, properly correlating, required, inevitable
subsequent result and consequence…
· Persecuted Disciples are not allowed to “like” the persecuting World (either) lest we become enemies of God (Jas_4:4, seen below).
· World’s warm-liked-friends go to hell with the World.
· Disciples’ warm-liked-friends inherit heaven with Jesus.
· Both The World and Jesus’ disciples have a mutual dislike for each other (a non-warm-friendly-disliking), and both feel hatred from each other, but each ones “hate” has a different essence and different results.
· Even if we “hate” people (Luk_14:25-35), it is for holiness sake and is always warm-hearted, with real Love, and has no animosity at all in our hearts, and it calls them into salvation so that they might not perish (2Ti_2, etc.). (Luk_14 also shows how skeptical Jesus is, and with how much contempt He has held when speaking against the World’s “love”!)
· World’s “hatred” of disciples is ultimately cold-hearted and results in actively killing them (as seen in John 16 and the references below).
Jas_4:4 LSV TSBAdulterers TSBand
adulteresses [You adulterous people NIV]! ·Have you not known [οὐκ
οἴδατε]
that [the]
friendship [ὅτι ἡ
φιλία]
of the world is [being] enmity [ἔχθρα] ·with [the] God [τοῦ
Θεοῦ]? ·Whoever,
then [ὃς |Aεαν| TSBἃν οὖν], may intend [βουληθῇ] ·to be a friend [φίλος
εἶναι] of the
world, he is designated [καθίσταται
(= Jas_3:6***)] [as] an enemy [ἐχθρὸς] of [the] God.
Jas_4:4
TSBμοιχὶ TSBκαὶ
μοιχαλίδες,
οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι
ἡ φιλία τοῦ
κόσμου ἔχθρα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν;
ὃς |Aεαν| TSBἃν οὖν
βουληθῇ
φίλος εἶναι
τοῦ κόσμου, ἐχθρὸς
τοῦ Θεοῦ
καθίσταται.
Jas_4:4 GRVii+ [μοιχοιG3432N-VPM μοιχός a paramour] τσβ [καιG2532CONJ καί and] τσβ μοιχαλιδεςG3428N-VPF μοιχαλίς an adulteress ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not οιδατεG1492V-RAI-2P οἶδα to see οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the φιλιαG5373N-NSF φιλία fondness τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κοσμουG2889N-GSM κόσμος orderly arrangement εχθραG2189N-NSF ἔχθρα hostility τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θεουG2316N-GSM θεός god εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is οςG3739R-NSM ὅς who, which εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that να [ανG302PRT ἄν soever] τσβ ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly βουληθηG1014V-AOS-3S βούλομαι to will φιλοςG5384A-NSM φίλος fond ειναιG1511V-PXN εἰμί to exist τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κοσμουG2889N-GSM κόσμος orderly arrangement εχθροςG2190A-NSM ἐχθρός hateful τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θεουG2316N-GSM θεός god καθισταταιG2525V-PPI-3S καθίστημι to place down
*** Jas_3:6
καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα
πῦρ, ὁ
κόσμος τῆς ἀδικίας.
TSBοὕτως ἡ
γλῶσσα καθίσταται
ἐν τοῖς
μέλεσιν ἡμῶν
ἡ σπιλοῦσα ὅλον
τὸ σῶμα καὶ
φλογίζουσα
τὸν τροχὸν
τῆς γενέσεως
καὶ
φλογιζομένη ὑπὸ
τῆς γεέννης.
Beware of Hatred --
in the World/church
· Jesus’ Special commanded (Monotheistic) Disciple-Love [ἀγαπᾶτε] = contrasted with World’s selfish warm-liking [ἐφίλει] & Disciple-Hatred [μισεῖ]
· The same obedience that makes you Jesus’ Warm-liked Friends, also makes you hated and excluded from being warm-liked/friended by the World.
· John 15 shows us to be careful lest we be mixed with society / the World as we search for Love…
· See: Matthew 10, Mark 13, & Luke 21 (all seen below) which all give “beware” warnings about the end-times in general, and also warn this same way when sending out disciples to preach & proclaim throughout the hateful World in the meantime (which is what John 17 also does).
· Always remember that they hate you, and,
· Worldly, maddened hatred is predicted to come out even more extremely in the end-times by their murdering the martyrs, as the ultimate result from all who do not have real Love.
The Point
· World likes World
· World Hates Disciples
· World’s “love”/liking of its own = Hatred for disciples
· Divine Love ≠ Worldly Lust / Liking Sin/Sinners
· John 15 Love ≠ Worldly Hatred / fake love!
Neither John 15, nor James 4, nor any part of the rest of the Bible ever promotes, or even allows or tolerates any Love that is shallow, disobedient, non-disciple-liking-loving, and Worldly.
See: Family Betraying Family -- unto Death…
John_15:20-27 – Summary: Persecution from Hateful World
Joh_15:20 – “if
they* persecuted Me, they will also persecute you” [all?] <<< (LSV) [comp. Luk_10:16; Joh_15:20, etc.]
[Note: “the [hating] world” (v. Joh_15:17-19) =
“they” (v. Joh_15:20-24)]
Joh_15:21 – they
persecute (obeyers) ·through / because of [διὰ] Son’s name & ignorance of Sender
· Notice the same “if” statements seen previously in v. Joh_15:18-19 as also seen later, here in v. Joh_15:20-21.
· Notice that “if” in v. Joh_15:20 is a fact in v. Joh_15:21, just like it was in v. Joh_15:18 & Joh_15:19.
Joh_15:22 – Son’s
speaking convicted & exposed their sin.
[πρόφασιν
???] <<<
Joh_15:23 – Hating 1 Son = Hating 2 Father
[(1) μισῶν V-PAP-NSM
(2) μισεῖ V-PAI-3S]
Joh_15:24 a
– Unique works convict
sin
Joh_15:24 b
– They’ve Seen +
Hated, Son + Father
Joh_15:25 – Their Causeless [δωρεάν] Hate = Their Law’s Writing Fulfilled
“They hated Me without a cause”
(LSV)
Joh_15:26 – Caller-next-to
will testify about Son when Sent from next-to [παρὰ] Father
Joh_15:27 – Original
obeyers will also testify
Notice the pattern of a Divine Delegation vs. the Hateful World
Joh_15:20
μνημονεύετε
τοῦ λόγου οὗ
ἐγὼ εἶπον ὑμῖν·
οὐκ ἔστι δοῦλος
μείζων τοῦ
κυρίου αὐτοῦ.
εἰ ἐμὲ ἐδίωξαν,
καὶ ὑμᾶς
διώξουσιν· εἰ
τὸν λόγον
μου ἐτήρησαν,
καὶ τὸν ὑμέτερον
τηρήσουσιν.
Joh_15:21
ἀλλὰ ταῦτα
πάντα
ποιήσουσιν ὑμῖν
|Aεις Aυμας TSBυμιν| διὰ
τὸ ὄνομά μου, ὅτι
οὐκ οἴδασι
τὸν
πέμψαντά με.
Joh_15:22
εἰ μὴ ἦλθον
καὶ ἐλάλησα
αὐτοῖς, ἁμαρτίαν
οὐκ εἴχον |Aειχοσαν TSBειχον|· νῦν
δὲ πρόφασιν
οὐκ ἔχουσι
περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας
αὐτῶν.
Joh_15:23
ὁ ἐμὲ μισῶν
καὶ τὸν
πατέρα μου
μισεῖ.
Joh_15:24
εἰ τὰ ἔργα
μὴ ἐποίησα
ἐν αὐτοῖς ἃ
οὐδεὶς ἄλλος
πεποίηκεν |Aεποιησεν TSBπεποιηκεν|, ἁμαρτίαν
οὐκ εἴχον |Aειχοσαν TSBειχον|· νῦν
δὲ καὶ ἑωράκασι
καὶ
μεμισήκασι
καὶ ἐμὲ
καὶ τὸν
πατέρα μου.
Joh_15:25
ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα
πληρωθῇ ὁ
λόγος ὁ TSBγεγραμμένος
ἐν τῷ νόμῳ
αὐτῶν, Aγεγραμμενος ὅτι ἐμίσησάν
με δωρεάν.
Joh_15:26
῞Οταν TSBδὲ ἔλθῃ ὁ
παράκλητος ὃν
ἐγὼ πέμψω ὑμῖν
παρὰ τοῦ
πατρός, τὸ
Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας
ὃ παρὰ τοῦ
πατρὸς ἐκπορεύεται,
ἐκεῖνος
μαρτυρήσει
περὶ ἐμοῦ·
Joh_15:27
καὶ ὑμεῖς
δὲ μαρτυρεῖτε,
ὅτι ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς
μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἐστε.
John 16 – the Loving One Spirit Who Guides into All Truth
Joh_16:1-2 – Think they do the God service* for excommunicating** & killing*** [ἀπο- x2] disciples
Joh_16:2 **ἀποσυναγώγους
ποιήσουσιν [= v.3] ὑμᾶς· ἀλλ᾿
ἔρχεται ὥρα ἵνα
πᾶς ὁ ***ἀποκτείνας
ὑμᾶς δόξῃ *λατρείαν
προσφέρειν
τῷ Θεῷ.
Joh_16:3 – They have not known the Father or Son
Joh_16:3 καὶ ταῦτα
ποιήσουσιν [=
v.2], |TSυμιν|
ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν
τὸν πατέρα
οὐδὲ ἐμέ.
Joh_16:7-11 (esp. v. Joh_16:8) – The advocate / defense attorney convicts the World around-concerning [περὶ] Sin, Righteousness, & Judgment
· [see Greek Below]
·
Joh_16:7-8
– (A1: Sent/come) caller-next-to will be sentA1 by Jesus
come = v. Joh_16:7-8, v. Joh_16:13,
· Joh_16:8 – (B1: Conviction) convicts the WORLDB1 (church + secular society)
· Joh_16:9 – (C1: Sin vs…) SINC1: they do not believe (incl. church)
·
Joh_16:10
– (C2: Righteousness) RighteousnessC2: the don’t see Jesus any more
(C1 & C2: They break rules, instead of keeping them; they don’t believe,
and don’t see as a result)
· Joh_16:11 – (B2: Judgment) Judgment: WORLDB2 Ruler = Judged (therefore World is judged too for following him)
· Joh_16:12-13 – (A2: Comes) When He comes…A2
· The Point of the Pattern: only obeyers get the One Spirit when He comes – i.e. Act_5:32
· The Defense Attorney (Joh_16:7; 1Jn_2:1-2) is sent to ‘comfort’ & defend disciples, but He makes the World Guilty [ἐλέγξει] with His testimony (same as: REAL faith in Heb_11:1 and onward)
· Defending Disciples & Convicting World = Real justice [δικαιοσύνης (v. Joh_16:8)] / Love!
· Joh_16:11 – The Arch-Ruler of that of this world is judged!
Joh_16:13 – the One Spirit of the Truth Guides into All Truth
Joh_16:13 ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ
ἐκεῖνος, τὸ
Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας,
ὁδηγήσει ὑμᾶς
εἰς πᾶσαν
τὴν ἀλήθειαν
|Aεν TSBεις Aτη TSBπασαν
Aαληθεια TSBτην Aπαση TSBαληθειαν|·
οὐ γὰρ
λαλήσει ἀφ᾿
ἑαυτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿
ὅσα ἂν ἀκούσει
|Aακουσει
TSBαν TSBακουση|
λαλήσει, καὶ
τὰ ἐρχόμενα
ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν.
Joh_16:6, Joh_16:20 – World rejoices when disciples cry
Joh_16:16-19, etc. – I will see you again
Joh_16:23-24, Joh_16:23-24 – Ask and receive
Sin, Righteousness, &
Judgment
Joh_16:7 ἀλλ᾿ ἐγὼ
τὴν ἀλήθειαν
λέγω ὑμῖν·
συμφέρει ὑμῖν
ἵνα ἐγὼ ἀπέλθω.
ἐὰν γὰρ |Bεγω| μὴ ἀπέλθω,
ὁ παράκλητος
οὐκ ἐλεύσεται
πρὸς ὑμᾶς·
ἐὰν δὲ
πορευθῶ,
πέμψω αὐτὸν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
Joh_16:8 καὶ ἐλθὼν
ἐκεῖνος ἐλέγξει
τὸν
κόσμον
περὶ ἁμαρτίας
καὶ περὶ δικαιοσύνης
καὶ περὶ κρίσεως.
Joh_16:9 περὶ ἁμαρτίας
μέν, ὅτι οὐ
πιστεύουσιν
εἰς ἐμέ·
Joh_16:10 περὶ
δικαιοσύνης
δέ, ὅτι πρὸς
τὸν πατέρα ὑπάγω
καὶ οὐκέτι
θεωρεῖτέ με·
Joh_16:10 περι
δικαιοσυνης δε
οτι προς τον
πατερα TSBμου υπαγω
και BAουκετι
TSουκ TSετι
θεωρειτε με
Joh_16:11 περὶ
δὲ κρίσεως, ὅτι
ὁ ἄρχων
τοῦ κόσμου
τούτου κέκριται.
Joh_16:12 ῎Ετι
πολλὰ ἔχω
λέγειν ὑμῖν,
ἀλλ᾿ οὐ
δύνασθε
βαστάζειν ἄρτι·
Joh_16:12 ετι
πολλα εχω TSBλεγειν
υμιν Aλεγειν
αλλ ου δυνασθε
βασταζειν αρτι
Joh_16:13 ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ
ἐκεῖνος, τὸ
Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας,
ὁδηγήσει ὑμᾶς
εἰς πᾶσαν
τὴν ἀλήθειαν
|Aεν TSBεις Aτη TSBπασαν
Aαληθεια TSBτην Aπαση TSBαληθειαν|·
οὐ γὰρ
λαλήσει ἀφ᾿
ἑαυτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿
ὅσα ἂν ἀκούσει
|Aακουσει
TSBαν TSBακουση|
λαλήσει, καὶ
τὰ ἐρχόμενα
ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν.
Joh_16:14 ἐκεῖνος
ἐμὲ δοξάσει,
ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ
λήψεται καὶ
ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν.
Joh_16:14 εκεινος
εμε δοξασει
οτι εκ του εμου Aλημψεται TSBληψεται
και αναγγελει
υμιν
Joh_16:15 πάντα ὅσα
ἔχει ὁ πατὴρ
ἐμά ἐστι·
διὰ τοῦτο εἶπον
ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ
λήψεται καὶ
ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν.
Joh_16:15 παντα
οσα εχει ο
πατηρ εμα
εστιν δια
τουτο ειπον
οτι εκ του εμου BAλαμβανει TSληψεται
και αναγγελει
υμιν
Joh_16:16
Μικρὸν καὶ
οὐ θεωρεῖτέ
με, καὶ πάλιν
μικρὸν καὶ ὄψεσθέ
με, ὅτι ἐγὼ ὑπάγω
πρὸς τὸν
πατέρα.
Joh_16:16 μικρον
και Aουκετι
TSBου
θεωρειτε με
και παλιν
μικρον και
οψεσθε με TSBοτι TSεγω TSBυπαγω TSBπρος TSBτον TSBπατερα
Joh_16:17
Εἶπον οὖν ἐκ
τῶν μαθητῶν
αὐτοῦ πρὸς
ἀλλήλους·
τί ἐστι τοῦτο
ὃ λέγει ἡμῖν,
μικρὸν καὶ
οὐ θεωρεῖτέ
με, καὶ πάλιν
μικρὸν καὶ ὄψεσθέ
με, καί ὅτι ἐγὼ
ὑπάγω πρὸς
τὸν πατέρα;
Joh_16:17 Aειπαν TSBειπον ουν
εκ των μαθητων
αυτου προς
αλληλους τι εστιν
τουτο ο λεγει
ημιν μικρον
και ου
θεωρειτε με και
παλιν μικρον
και οψεσθε με
και οτι TSBεγω υπαγω
προς τον
πατερα
Joh_16:18
ἔλεγον οὖν·
τοῦτο τί ἐστιν
ὃ λέγει τὸ
μικρόν; οὐκ
οἴδαμεν τί
λαλεῖ.
Joh_16:18 ελεγον
ουν TSBτουτο
τι εστιν Aτουτο Aο Aλεγει TSBο TSBλεγει
το μικρον ουκ
οιδαμεν τι
λαλει
Joh_16:19 ἔγνω οὖν
ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ὅτι
ἤθελον αὐτὸν
ἐρωτᾶν, καὶ
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς·
περὶ τούτου
ζητεῖτε μετ᾿
ἀλλήλων ὅτι
εἶπον, μικρὸν
καὶ οὐ
θεωρεῖτέ με,
καὶ πάλιν
μικρὸν καὶ ὄψεσθέ
με;
Joh_16:19 εγνω Aο TSBουν TSBο ιησους
οτι ηθελον
αυτον ερωταν
και ειπεν
αυτοις περι
τουτου ζητειτε
μετ αλληλων
οτι ειπον
μικρον και ου
θεωρειτε με
και παλιν μικρον
και οψεσθε με
Joh_16:20
ἀμὴν ἀμὴν
λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι
κλαύσετε καὶ
θρηνήσετε ὑμεῖς,
ὁ δὲ κόσμος
χαρήσεται· ὑμεῖς
λυπηθήσεσθε,
ἀλλ᾿ ἡ λύπη
ὑμῶν εἰς
χαρὰν
γενήσεται.
Joh_16:20 αμην
αμην λεγω υμιν
οτι κλαυσετε
και θρηνησετε
υμεις ο δε
κοσμος
χαρησεται
υμεις TSBδε
λυπηθησεσθε
αλλ η λυπη υμων
εις χαραν
γενησεται
Joh_16:21
ἡ γυνὴ ὅταν
τίκτῃ,
λύπην ἔχει, ὅτι
ἦλθεν ἡ ὥρα αὐτῆς·
ὅταν δὲ
γεννήσῃ τὸ
παιδίον, οὐκέτι
μνημονεύει τῆς
θλίψεως διὰ
τὴν χαρὰν ὅτι
ἐγεννήθη ἄνθρωπος
εἰς τὸν
κόσμον.
Joh_16:21 η γυνη
οταν τικτη
λυπην εχει οτι
ηλθεν η ωρα
αυτης οταν δε
γεννηση το
παιδιον BAουκετι TSουκ TSετι
μνημονευει της
θλιψεως δια
την χαραν οτι
εγεννηθη
ανθρωπος εις τον
κοσμον
Joh_16:22
καὶ ὑμεῖς
οὖν λύπην
μὲν νῦν ἔχετε·
πάλιν δὲ ὄψομαι
ὑμᾶς καὶ
χαρήσεται ὑμῶν
ἡ καρδία,
καὶ τὴν
χαρὰν ὑμῶν
οὐδεὶς αἴρει
ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν.
Joh_16:22 και
υμεις ουν TSBλυπην TSBμεν νυν Aμεν Aλυπην εχετε
παλιν δε
οψομαι υμας
και χαρησεται
υμων η καρδια
και την χαραν
υμων ουδεις
αιρει αφ υμων
Joh_16:23
καὶ ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ
ἐμὲ οὐκ ἐρωτήσετε
οὐδέν· ἀμὴν
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν
ὅτι ὅσα ἄν αἰτήσητε
τὸν πατέρα ἐν
τῷ ὀνόματί
μου, δώσει ὑμῖν.
Joh_16:23 και εν
εκεινη τη
ημερα εμε ουκ
ερωτησετε ουδεν
αμην αμην λεγω
υμιν TSBοτι TSBοσα αν Aτι
αιτησητε τον
πατερα εν τω
ονοματι μου
δωσει υμιν
Joh_16:24
ἕως ἄρτι οὐκ
ᾐτήσατε οὐδὲν
ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί
μου· αἰτεῖτε
καὶ λήψεσθε, ἵνα
ἡ χαρὰ ὑμῶν
ᾖ
πεπληρωμένη.
Joh_16:24 εως αρτι
ουκ ητησατε
ουδεν εν τω
ονοματι μου
αιτειτε και Aλημψεσθε TSBληψεσθε
ινα η χαρα υμων
η πεπληρωμενη
Joh_16:25
Ταῦτα ἐν
παροιμίαις
λελάληκα ὑμῖν·
ἔρχεται ὥρα ὅτε
οὐκέτι ἐν
παροιμίαις
λαλήσω ὑμῖν,
ἀλλὰ
παρρησίᾳ
περὶ τοῦ
πατρὸς ἀπαγγελῶ
ὑμῖν.
Joh_16:25 ταυτα εν
παροιμιαις
λελαληκα υμιν TBαλλ
ερχεται ωρα
οτε BAουκετι
TSουκ TSετι εν
παροιμιαις
λαλησω υμιν
αλλα παρρησια
περι του
πατρος Aαπαγγελω TSBαναγγελω
υμιν
Joh_16:26
ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ
ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί
μου αἰτήσεσθε·
καὶ οὐ λέγω
ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐγὼ
ἐρωτήσω τὸν
πατέρα περὶ
ὑμῶν·
Joh_16:26 εν
εκεινη τη
ημερα εν τω
ονοματι μου
αιτησεσθε και
ου λεγω υμιν
οτι εγω
ερωτησω τον
πατερα περι
υμων
Joh_16:27
αὐτὸς γὰρ
ὁ πατὴρ
φιλεῖ ὑμᾶς, ὅτι
ὑμεῖς ἐμὲ
πεφιλήκατε
καὶ
πεπιστεύκατε ὅτι
ἐγὼ παρὰ
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον.
Joh_16:27 αυτος
γαρ ο πατηρ
φιλει υμας οτι
υμεις εμε πεφιληκατε
και
πεπιστευκατε
οτι εγω παρα Aτου TSBτου θεου
εξηλθον
Joh_16:28
ἐξῆλθον
παρὰ τοῦ
πατρὸς καὶ ἐλήλυθα
εἰς τὸν
κόσμον·
πάλιν ἀφίημι
τὸν κόσμον
καὶ
πορεύομαι
πρὸς τὸν πατέρα.
Joh_16:28 εξηλθον
παρα του
πατρος και
εληλυθα εις τον
κοσμον παλιν
αφιημι τον
κοσμον και
πορευομαι προς
τον πατερα
Joh_16:29
Λέγουσιν
αὺτῷ οἱ
μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ·
ἴδε νῦν
παρρησίᾳ
λαλεῖς, καὶ
παροιμίαν οὐδεμίαν
λέγεις.
Joh_16:29
λεγουσιν TSBαυτω οι
μαθηται αυτου
ιδε νυν Aεν παρρησια
λαλεις και
παροιμιαν
ουδεμιαν λεγεις
Joh_16:30
νῦν οἴδαμεν ὅτι
οἶδας πάντα
καὶ οὐ
χρείαν ἔχεις ἵνα
τίς σε ἐρωτᾷ.
ἐν τούτῳ
πιστεύομεν ὅτι
ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθες.
Joh_16:30 νυν
οιδαμεν οτι
οιδας παντα
και ου χρειαν εχεις
ινα τις σε
ερωτα εν τουτω
πιστευομεν οτι
απο θεου
εξηλθες
Joh_16:31
ἀπεκρίθη
αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς·
ἄρτι
πιστεύετε;
Joh_16:31
απεκριθη
αυτοις TSBο ιησους
αρτι πιστευετε
Joh_16:32
ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται
ὥρα, καὶ νῦν ἐλήλυθεν,
ἵνα σκορπισθῆτε
ἕκαστος εἰς
τὰ ἴδια καὶ ἐμὲ
μόνον ἀφῆτε·
καὶ οὐκ εἰμὶ
μόνος, ὅτι ὁ
πατὴρ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ
ἐστι.
Joh_16:32 ιδου
ερχεται ωρα
και TSBνυν
εληλυθεν ινα
σκορπισθητε
εκαστος εις τα
ιδια Aκαμε
TSBκαι TSBεμε μονον
αφητε και ουκ
ειμι μονος οτι
ο πατηρ μετ εμου
εστιν
Joh_16:33
ταῦτα
λελάληκα ὑμῖν
ἵνα ἐν ἐμοὶ
εἰρήνην ἔχητε.
ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ θλῖψιν
ἔχετε· ἀλλὰ
θαρσεῖτε, ἐγὼ
νενίκηκα τὸν
κόσμον.
Joh_16:33 ταυτα λελαληκα υμιν ινα εν εμοι ειρηνην εχητε εν τω κοσμω θλιψιν Sεξετε TBAεχετε αλλα θαρσειτε εγω νενικηκα τον κοσμον
John 17 – Jesus’ Love Prayer
Against Worldliness
& For Divine Unity
Joh_17:8-26 (esp. v. Joh_17:14-18, etc.) = Non-Worldly Love!
John 17 Summary
1-4 – Glory to the Father
Joh_17:1 – Eyes lifted, requesting Son & Father’s glory
Joh_17:2 – Authority over all flesh, for ongoing life to those given
Joh_17:3 – Ongoing life = knowing Monotheistic Father & Sent Son
Joh_17:4 – Father Glorified on Earth by Son’s perfectly complete work
·
TSK: finished: Joh_4:34, Joh_5:36, Joh_9:3, Joh_14:31,
Joh_15:10, [Joh_17:4] Joh_19:30, Act_20:24, 2Ti_4:7
Joh_17:5 – Re-glorify Son with Father -- as was before the World
Joh_17:6 – Revealed
Name to Out-of-this-World*
Word-Keepers (disciples)
[comp. Joh_17:6, Joh_17:14]
· “…out of the world…and they have kept Your word” (LSV)
Joh_17:7 – they knew that the Son got things from the Father
Joh_17:8 – Sayings received & believed from Son’s Fatherly Origin & Sending
· They received sayings from Son & Father, & believed in Son’s Fatherly Origin & Sending
Joh_17:9 – Requests for non-worldly ones given to Son by Father
Joh_17:9-10 – Father & Son co-own those in whom Son is glorified
Joh_17:11 – Disciples to be One in Father’s name while left behind in the World
Joh_17:12 – Son guarded them when in the World
· Only son of destruction destroyed to fulfill Scripture
Joh_17:13 – Son speaks while in the World that favorable-cheer may be in disciples
Joh_17:14 a – World hates Not-Out-of-this-World Word-Holders (disciples)
·
[comp. Joh_17:6, Joh_17:14]
Joh_17:14 b – disciples = extra-terrestrial just like Jesus!
·
[comp. Joh_17:14, Joh_17:16]
Joh_17:15 – Keep out of the evil, not take out of the World
Joh_17:16 – Son + Disciples not out of the World [comp. Joh_17:14, Joh_17:16]
Joh_17:17 – Clean them in Word-Truth
Joh_17:18 – Son sends them (Apostles) into World as He was Sent (by the Father)
· Notice: the Theology of “delegation” – contradicts: “assuming non-inspiration”
Joh_17:19 – Son holy-ifies Himself so that disciples might be holy-ified in Truth
Joh_17:20 – Son’s prayers incl. future Word-believers (resulting from Apostles)
Joh_17:21 – Believer’s Oneness, in Son & Father, so World might Believe in Sent-ness
· in Son being sent
Joh_17:22 – Glory delegated from Father, to Son, to Disciples for Oneness
Joh_17:23 – Internal Trinity; Disciple Oneness; World Believing
· Internal Trinity Perfecting into Disciple Oneness that World might believe in Father’s Sending & Love
Joh_17:24 – Son wants Disciples to be with Him & see eternal Loved-ness & Glory
· before foundation of the World
Joh_17:25 – Ignorant World; Knowing Son; Disciples Knowing Sent-ness
· World did not know Father like Jesus did, but disciples have known Sending
Joh_17:26 – Son reveals Father’s name to internalize Divine Love in Disciples
· Jesus (1) revealed and (2) will reveal Father’s name:
· (0) He was (Joh_17:5, Joh_17:24)
· (1) He Is (i.e. the revealed name), and,
· (2) He Is to Come (will reveal, as in Rev_19:11-16)
“Down-According” Throughout John
comp. Obedience Produces Father & Son Love; Father & Son Love Notes; “Down-According” Throughout John
“Down-According” to John’s Preceding Context
·
[Joh_1:23; Joh_6:31; Joh_6:58; Joh_7:38; Joh_10:26; (Jesus' prediction); Joh_12:14 – according to Scriptures]
[not a unique term to John like some of the other
examples:]
· Joh_5:23 – Honoring the Son according to Father
· Joh_5:30; Joh_7:24; Joh_8:15 – Judgment
· Joh_6:57 – Life according to Father & Son
· Joh_8:28; Joh_12:50 – Speaking Father's Teaching, all the way to the cross, self-sacrificially, into eternal life
· Joh_10:15 – Knowing & Being Known by God, self-sacrificially
“Down-According”
to Feet, Love, & Peace
· Joh_13:15 – Foot washing (imitate it Down-according to Jesus)
·
Joh_13:34 – Jesus-Like Love for Disciples (we’re
commanded to imitate Down-according to Jesus)
· Joh_14:27 – Peace given, NOT Down-according to the World
· Joh_14:31* – World to know Jesus Loved the Father Down-according to Commandment
·
Joh_15:4,
etc. – as a dependent "branch"/disciple
- think: “Emotional
Dependence” = an understatement
- dependence = required, just as with "Judgement" (seen above)
- ...Are you a dependent "branch"/Disciple or
(functionally/emotionally) independent?
·
Joh_15:9-10, Joh_15:12 –
Remain in / Down-According to Father & Son
Love
comp. Obedience Produces Father & Son Love; Father & Son Love Notes; “Down-According” Throughout
John
·
Joh_17:2 –
According to Authority & resulting Eternal life
BTW: Is Real,
Monotheistic Love Important to us yet?
· Joh_17:11, Joh_17:21-23 – Loving Oneness of Monotheism & Disciples
· Joh_17:9-24 (esp. v. Joh_17:14-18, etc.) – Non-Worldly Love!
· Joh_20:21** – Jesus sends them with Peace Down-According to Father
* Joh_14:31 LSV
but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according [καθὼς]
as the Father gave Me command, so I do; arise, we may go from here.”
Joh_14:31 ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα
γνῷ ὁ
κόσμος ὅτι ἀγαπῶ
τὸν πατέρα,
καὶ καθὼς ἐνετείλατο
μοι ὁ πατήρ, οὕτω
ποιῶ. ἐγείρεσθε,
ἄγωμεν ἐντεῦθεν.
√ GRV
** Joh_20:21 LSV
Jesus, therefore, said to them again, “Peace to you; according as the Father
has sent Me, I also send you”;
Joh_20:21 εἶπεν οὖν
αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
|Aο TSBο Aιησους TSBιησους |*
πάλιν· εἰρήνη
ὑμῖν· καθὼς
ἀπέσταλκέ
με ὁ πατήρ, κἀγὼ
πέμπω ὑμᾶς.
[* GNT-V, NOT noted in GRV…]
The Point of Jesus-Like Love <<<<
6/1/22
Behold the Love Which Comes from Truth
· Allow me to sing and declare the praises of the truth in calling next to your ears...
· Stand back and behold how the Truth has revealed what Real Love Is
· Behold how God wants to Love among us more than we want to be loved...
Worldly Love Sabotages Deep Real Love
To whatever degree we still
have any faith or belief in worldly love, to this same degree, this is
precisely why we stumble, flounder, and struggle to give over to each other
thoroughly spicy, zealous, and deeply satisfying Love.
Exclusivity Gives Deeply Satisfying Love
We've got to truthify our
consciences to honestly face the reality of the world's hateful love so that we
can be separated and holyified unto the exclusivity of real love and then we
will be able to give over to each other the truth with integrity as it flows
out of a clean conscience and an orthodox reality of true real queen honest
sin-hating Love...
Being Spiritual Is The Answer To Real Love
· Make no mistake about it: if we would just be spiritual virtually all of our problems would go away.
· The One Spirit Who is Holy is the Spirit of the Truth, and the Truth is far better than we have ever realized or given it credit for...
· The Truth is so good that it has all of the answers that we have always craved, and if we would just stop sitting out on the sidelines all of the depths of our reciprocation would overflow...
· The Truth is always more manly and courageous and spicy and zealous and deeply overflowing then what we could ever ask or imagine...
· Everything has already been worked out for us and is sitting there ready and waiting for the taking for whoever wants to be serious and courageous enough to reach out and take it.
· If we will stop tolerating any shallowness among us toward each other, then the Truth will be seriously deep toward us.
>> Scrip:
how soon I would have burst
forth your bonds
>> TSK
Behold, where did all of my
relationship problems go? A little Truth, and then all of the sudden, where did
all of my complaints go?
1st John 2 – Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love
1Jo_2:9-11 – Love Brothers/Obeyers = No Scandal
·
See: 1st John 2 –
Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love; No
Hypocritical Love(lessness); Rock Solid Love; Reward of Love
· Bulletproof Love
· See: Special Love for Disciples
· See: Reward -- No Scandal -- Reward of Loving
/\\/
2Pe_1:7, etc. – Virtue Additions
· Bulletproof Love: v.10
· See: Agape+
·
See: Companion
Virtues of Love
· See: Special Love for Disciples
1Jn_2:15-17 LSV Do not ·[be] love[ing] [ἀγαπᾶτε
V-PAM-2P] the world, nor the things in the world; ·if [it may be (ἐάν)] anyone ·[might be] loves[ing] [ἀγαπᾷ
V-PAS-3S] the world, the love of the Father is not [being (ἔστιν)] in him [Joh_15:9], 16 because [ὅτι] all that [is] in the world—the desire [ἐπιθυμία
– heating of lust upon]
of the flesh, and the desire [ἐπιθυμία] of the eyes, and the
ostentation [ἀλαζονεία
– boasting/bragging] ·of [one’s]
life [τοῦ βίου –
i.e. of the here and now life]—is not [being (ἔστιν)]
·[out] of [ἐκ] the Father, but [is being (ἔστιν)] ·[out] of [ἐκ] the world, 17 and the world is passing away [παράγεται
(same as 1Co_7, etc.)], and the desire [ἐπιθυμία] of it, ·but he who is doing [ὁ
δὲ ποιῶν V-PAP-NSM] the will of God [=SOM], ·he [?] remains [μένειV-PAI-3S – is reamaining]—·throughout the age [εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα – into the
ongoing perpetual-ness].
1Jn_2:15-17 Greek Μὴ ἀγαπᾶτε
V-PAM-2P τὸν
κόσμον μηδὲ
τὰ ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ. ἐάν
τις ἀγαπᾷ V-PAS-3S
τὸν κόσμον,
οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ ἀγάπη
τοῦ πατρὸς ἐν
αὐτῷ· 16 ὅτι
πᾶν τὸ ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ, ἡ ἐπιθυμία
τῆς σαρκὸς
καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία
τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν
καὶ ἡ ἀλαζονεία
τοῦ βίου, οὐκ
ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ
πατρὸς, ἀλλ᾿
ἐκ τοῦ
κόσμου ἐστί. 17
καὶ ὁ
κόσμος
παράγεται
καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία
αὐτοῦ· ὁ
δὲ ποιῶν τὸ
θέλημα τοῦ
Θεοῦ μένει
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
1Jn_2:15-17
GRVii+ μηG3361PRT-N μή not αγαπατεG25V-PAM-2P ἀγαπάω to love τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the κοσμονG2889N-ASM κόσμος orderly
arrangement μηδεG3366CONJ μηδέ but not ταG3588T-APN ὁ the ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the κοσμωG2889N-DSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement εανG1437COND ἐάν in case that τιςG5100X-NSM τίς some αγαπαG25V-PAS-3S ἀγαπάω to love τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the κοσμονG2889N-ASM κόσμος orderly
arrangement ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the αγαπηG26N-NSF ἀγάπη love τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the πατροςG3962N-GSM πατήρ a father ενG1722PREP ἔν in αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it 16
οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because πανG3956A-NSN πᾶς all τοG3588T-NSN ὁ the ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the κοσμωG2889N-DSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the επιθυμιαG1939N-NSF ἐπιθυμία a longing τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the σαρκοςG4561N-GSF σάρξ flesh καιG2532CONJ καί and ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the επιθυμιαG1939N-NSF ἐπιθυμία a longing τωνT-GPM ὁ the οφθαλμωνG3788N-GPM ὀφθαλμός the eye καιG2532CONJ καί and ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the αλαζονειαG212N-NSF ἀλαζονεία braggadocio τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the βιουG979N-GSM βίος life ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the πατροςG3962N-GSM πατήρ a father αλλG235CONJ ἀλλά other things εκG1537PREP ἐκ from τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the κοσμουG2889N-GSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is 17
καιG2532CONJ καί and οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κοσμοςG2889N-NSM κόσμος orderly
arrangement παραγεταιG3855V-PMI-3S παράγω to lead near καιG2532CONJ καί and ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the επιθυμιαG1939N-NSF ἐπιθυμία a longing αυτουG846P-GSM αὐτός he, she, it οG3588T-NSM ὁ the δεG1161CONJ δέ but ποιωνG4160V-PAP-NSM ποιέω to make τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the θελημαG2307N-ASN θέλημα a determination τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the θεουG2316N-GSM θεός god μενειG3306V-PAI-3S μένω to stay ειςG1519PREP εἰς to τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the αιωναG165N-ASM αἰών an age
Jesus-Like Love Re-Commanded / Reaffirmed
Comp. Paul/Apostle-like Love
Romans 12 & 14 –
16 – Focused on Others with Special Love
Search herein for:
Rom_12
Rom_14
Rom_15
Rom_16
·
Phi_1:7-8 – Philippians in Paul's “Jesus-like”, longing heart, from their favorable sharing in good message;
· Covered elsewhere
·
Col_3:12-14 – Love = Together-bond of PERFECTION;
· Love Atones/ Forgives as Anointed One
·
Eph_4:32 – Kind, Tender Hearted forgiveness, like God / Anointed One;
· Covered elsewhere
·
1st John 3
– Love Disciples Sacrificially Like Jesus Did
· 1Jo_3:11 – Love one another
· 1Jo_3:14 – Loving Brother = Proof of Life (not “evidence”);
· 1Jo_3:16-19 – Self-sacrificing = Love (which requires imitation);
· >> ES: v 19
· 1Jo_3:23 – Obey Command to Love One another;
·
[√] Jesus-Like
Love
· [√] John: lay down life for friends
· See: Identity Justice
· See: Special Love for Disciples
1st John 4
– Let Us Pay the Love Debt
· 1Jo_4:7 – Let us love one another
·
1Jo_4:11-12 – We owe Love to disciples with Jesus-like
Love
- Love Debt
- perfect love = God dwelling in us = loving one another
· 1Jn_4:16 – God = Love
· 1Jo_4:20-21 – Loving God must include loving brother;
· Doctrinal Command: you’re commanded to believe that only brother-lovers also Love God
Read/compare:
1Jn_4:4-12 – Not talking Like World, but listening to
Obey-Teachers with the right Spirit, etc. …God = Serious Love…
1Jn_4:16-21 – Believed Remaining Love
1st John 5
– Obedience Proof
· 1Jo_5:1-2 – Obedience = Proof of Loving
· Know = Proof (not simply “evidence”)
· God is loving those he begot, and proof of loving those he begot is keeping God's commandments
· Loving father means loving his sons, and we know we love children of God when we obey God's commandments
· commandment keeping = serious love!;
· Just like obeying Jesus's words literally by hearing and doing them in the sermon on the Mount proves that you are a good tree, so also obeying God's commandments proves that we love God and his children.
·
2Jo_1:5 – Original
Command to Love one another
Isn’t it ironic how people love to reverse the entire meaning of “God is Love”?
No, God is not just simple “love”, but rather the Bible actually says that God is…
· non-worldly,
· getting-discipled-by-listening-to-US,
· real, serious, wise,
· no living in sin,
· be just like God,
· Love
The Bible actually says that God is the Love that is the exact opposite of the World’s feelings love.
Eph_5:2 – Love as Anointed One (= John15 / New Commandment)
· Also: Love = Sacrifice, like 1jn4, love = Atonement;
· PFO: Offering to GOD, not the devil
· SRP Atonement
1Jo_3:23 – Obey Command to Love One another;
· Discussed later…
Jesus-like Love =
Selfless
· Search for “Selfless” herein to consider how Jesus-like Love = Selfless
Results of Jesus-like Love
The Results of Jesus-like Love Versus Worldly Love
· Real Love includes humility - real love correlates with extreme humility of foot washing, and the world knows nothing about above average humility
· Worldly love has plenty of reasons to fear, because after all you are cheating your way through life
· Love that is down according To Jesus also carries with it peace which is down according to Jesus, and this peaceful benefit is no wonder, since 'perfect love throws out fear'
· If you find yourself struggling under the weight of irrational fear, then definitely make sure to take a look at your love tank to make sure it is the real stuff and not a shallow counterfeit...
· Love is so strong it throws out fear that even has a basis, like the fear of being possibly crucified, or something!
· If you find that your relationships are not as peaceful/blessed as they need to be, you can be sure that the lack of Love is the cause and real love is the solution (the biblical idea of Peace carries with it the idea that it came as a divine blessing from God, especially in the Hebrew scriptures)
From all of these results
of real love we are starting to see that all of these super virtues flow out of
love. Love has its companion virtues, and they ultimately flow out of the
infinite source of Divine Love.
Companion Virtues of Love
Love & Her
Companion Virtues
Remember: Obeying God's Commands = Real Love
Wisdom's Hyper-context Reminder
Corinthian wisdom
confrontation/showdown is a great example of the hyper-context principle.
Major Hyper-context Examples
Include…
ź Wisdom -- esp. in the Corinthian
epistles/letters
ź Works of the law -- esp. in Romans,
etc.
ź Love -- esp in John’s epistles, the
Corinthian epistles, etc.
The Bible Defines
Love
· You can pretty much put your finger on any instance of love in the Bible and you can find virtually always find a multitude of virtues around the corner
· The word Love is always embedded in a multitude of faithful witnesses, of companion virtues
· The word Love is never “undefined” in the Bible as it is in our perverted mindless morally ignorant modern cultures
1Ti_1:5 – Perfection-Goal = Unhypocritical Clean Love
Perfection of
Commandment = Unhypocritical
Clean/Pure-hearted Love (w good conscience)
· See: 1st Timothy 1 (comp. No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Companion Virtues)
1Ti_1:14 – Love & Faith from Favor;
2Ti_2:22 – Flee Lust; Chase/Pursue Love
· Discussed under Real Love vs. Lust
Rom_12:9-10 – Non-hypocritical, Multifaceted Love Resulting in Honoring Others Above Yourself
· Discussed under Love is About Value (comp. Companion Virtues; No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Agape+)
2Pe_1:7, etc. – Virtue Additions
· Discussed under 1st John 2 – Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love
1Pe_1:22
>> get/link
1Ti_6:11 – Follow after Love & Her Companion Virtues
· Later we find that:
· Out of Love flows...
· PUR: comp. 2Ti_2:22 below...
The Point: Out of Love Flows all the Other Companion Virtues of Love
· See: 1st Corinthians 13: Love > Faith + Hope
Selfishness!
Pro 18:2 WEB
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own
opinion.
Pro 18:2 A senseless man feels no need of
wisdom, for he is rather led by folly.
Pro 18:2 οὐ χρείαν ἔχει σοφίας ἐνδεὴς φρενῶν· μᾶλλον γὰρ ἄγεται ἀφροσύνῃ.
Pro_18:2 NKJV A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.
Phi_2:3-4 NKJV Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
Jam_3:14-16 NKJV But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
Mat_23:5 NKJV But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Rom_12:3 NKJV For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Egocentric / Self-centered / Pride Examples…
Samson Wanting the Philistine Woman
Jdg_14:3 NKJV Then his father and mother said to him, "Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" And Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she pleases me well."
Miriam & Aaron Challenging Moses’ Uniqueness
Num_12:2 NKJV So they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.
Orpah Turning Back
Rut_1:14-15 NKJV Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law."
Jonah’s Lack of Compassion for Nineveh
Jon_4:1-2,11 NKJV But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry. So he prayed to the LORD… "Should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?"
Disciples Debating who is Greatest
Luk_22:24 NKJV Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest.
Simon the Sorcerer Offering Money
Act_8:18-19 NKJV And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
Judaizers Glorying in the Flesh
Gal_6:13 NKJV For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
Sanballat Opposing Jerusalem’s Rebuilding
Neh_2:19 NKJV But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"
Selfish Kings
1Ki_12:13-14 NKJV Then the king answered the people roughly… "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!"
Heretics of Selfishness
Diotrephes Loving Preeminence
3Jo_1:9 NKJV …but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.
Heretic-Shepherds Feeding Themselves
Jud_1:12 NKJV These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves.
2Pe_2:13 NKJV …They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you.
Religious Selfishness
“Me-Centered Christianity” -- my original term to describe this perverse church pride.
Little did I know that there was a similar psychological term for this root problem…
Wife’s Notes: SELFISHNESS
-- Under Construction --
Phil 2:1-4
Empty glory= unlawful reputation for yourself
Ron 12:3
It's not bad to exist at oneself
It's not bad to have self reference
It's bad to have too much of yourself
One of the problems of selfishness is the orientation of yourself and even the concept of yourself
How are you building up the concept of yourself?
The narrative/stories that you tell yourself about yourself is illusionary
Unless you're telling yourself facts and things that have been confirmed by the Truth
Ex Oh I could tell she was angry with me by the way she looked at me
Ex That just felt so awkward
You create akwardness by
Ex I just feel like everyone is staring at me and watching for me to mess up
That's ego, and a self created story
Ex People are just analyzing everything about me
Psychology calls that fictional audience
A lot of your relationship conflicts don't exist
Your feelings that things will never change don't exist and they are only there cuz you keep telling yourself that
Self created story telling is a perspective, NOT an account of what was there
A lot of your clashes are just story telling. Your telling a story instead of reporting an event
Your self concept and your social concept...What really matters in these constructs?
When you're telling a story you're trying to resolve, 'where do I fit in?'. And it's exaggerated. It's a way to find value for yourself.
Some get caught up in the story telling and create vain drama
Some escalate the relationship conflict because it's not real
Remember you're a nobody. You're only who and what God says you are in the world
Who did God say Noah was in the world? A teacher of righteousness
But what if someone said Noah was not smearing the bitumen on the ark well
It doesn't really matter. It's a self created fictional story that doesn't matter.
What actually happens morally is what will exist after you erase your or someone else's memory.
Isa 14:9-12
Have you become as weak as us? This is reality for celebrities and vain glory as a whole
If you have a wrong concept of yourself then following truth is going to be very rocky for you. Cuz you're going to find that you need to back track so often after trying to move forward.
Ex you seek to pray and make progress but then you go away and run into being proud socially, and then you have to go back in prayer and reassess ... Why repeated issues?
Cuz you are holding on to a false story of who you are
Don't hold on to a false narrative about yourself
How to resolve: I'm not really anyone. I'm a nobody. Unless and until God says something otherwise.
You need to keep yourself empty of a concept of who you are until God fills you up with a proven metric of faith
Real faith is without inconsistency, and when you're not sinning, and when you're being light and true
Anti-Egocentrism
Sympathizing and empathizing instead of being
self-centered
Problem: thinking about yourself (inappropriately /in an ill-timed way) when it's time to be thinking about another's value
Goal: Avoid the Direction of Selfishness
Debate
Seeing another person's point is required in debate class
Understand
Yearning to understand another person's experience is part of loving them
Sympathize vs. Approval
· We DO NOT approve based on sincerity.
· We DO sympathize and empathize based on Sincerity.
· Patently communicating requires large amounts of patiently understanding others, even when they’re wrong
Think More Maturely
Thinking right, includes doing more work on your own end to prefer more mature ways of thinking, which results in better communication, not just debates, where the Perfection of moral maturity helps you respond to others instead of yourself.
Self-References Defined
Egocentric, self-centered, and pride - what's the difference?
These are closely related but they require distinction when pinpointing the exact problem in a person's life.
GPT Definitions
1. Exact distinctions between the terms
|
Term |
Core Meaning |
Awareness Level |
Main Focus |
Possible Overlap |
|
Egocentric |
Viewing reality primarily from one’s own perspective; difficulty seeing others’ viewpoints |
Often subconscious, not always malicious |
Limited empathy or inability to take another’s perspective |
Common in children’s development; can exist in adults who’ve never learned to “de-center” |
|
Self-centered |
Placing one’s own needs, wants, and concerns above others |
Usually conscious and deliberate |
Personal benefit, comfort, or advantage |
More about priorities than perspective; can be manipulative |
|
Prideful |
Having an inflated view of one’s own worth, achievements, or abilities |
Usually conscious |
Self-exaltation, status, glory |
Often fuels both egocentrism and self-centeredness |
Key subtlety:
· Egocentrism = how you see the world (narrow lens centered on yourself, often without realizing it)
· Self-centeredness = how you prioritize actions (putting yourself first knowingly)
· Pride = how you evaluate yourself (overestimating your own greatness and dismissing God/others)
2. Psychological mechanism of egocentrism
Mechanism:
1. Cognitive bias — The mind defaults to your own perspective because it’s the one you directly experience.
2. Lack of perspective-taking — Difficulty mentally “simulating” another person’s viewpoint, feelings, or motives.
3. Confirmation loop — You interpret events in a way that supports your own stance, reinforcing blind spots.
4. Emotional filtering — Your needs, fears, and desires act as a lens that skews perception.
5.
Mild example: A person listens to a friend’s story and responds mainly with how they experienced something similar, instead of actually processing the friend’s perspective. They don’t mean harm—they just never left their own viewpoint.
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>>GPT
Wife’s Notes: Egocentrism
-- Under Construction --
Egocentrism - when you're thinking about yourself in a false way when you're supposed to be thinking about the value of other
Selfishness - an attitude with actions.
When you're thinking of yourself more highly then you ought to, and you're taking actions that prioritize yourself
An anecdote to selfishness- looking out for other people's interest
Ultimately for the purpose of saving them
Phil 2:2-4
If you're struggling from egocentrism (i.e. seeing the world from your own perspective with yourself in the middle of the world) then pop that bubble by seeing the world from other people's perspective
Being deeply moved by someone else's value
Think about how they're thinking and where they're coming from so that you can enter into their knowledge and pull them towards truth
Ever since the existence of the baby boomers, especially, we have been plagued with very strong strongholds of egocentrism. It has been very challenging for our race to not conceive of the world with ourselves at the forefront. We desperately need to break free from this.
Antidote:
Phil 2:5 let this mind be in you which also was in Anointed One
Caught in Yourself
Mild
/ Subtle examples
The people could not believe Moses because they were so worn out from their tasks
Exo_6:9 NKJV So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.
Pharisee Prayed About Himself
Luk_18:11 NKJV The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, "God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector."
Severe Examples
The Babylon Boast -- of King Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar said isn't this
great Babylon which I built?
Dan_4:30 NKJV The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?"
Cain’s Crime
Gen_4:8 NKJV Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
Cain killed his brother because he was stuck in his own rejection.
Nebal’s Persecution
1Sa_25:11 NKJV Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they are from?
Nebal would not in any way sympathize with righteous David because he was stuck up in his own luxurious indulgence
Religious Jealousy
Joh_11:48 NKJV If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.
The religious leaders wanted to stop Jesus so that they wouldn't lose their own position
Popularity
Joh_12:43 NKJV for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Selflessness
Job Interceding for His Children
Job_1:5 NKJV So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them… for Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts."
Moses Forsaking Egypt’s Treasures
Heb_11:25-26 NKJV choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.
The Mother Guarding her Sons
2Sa_21:10 NKJV Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock… from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven.
Aaron’s Silence
Lev_10:3 NKJV And Aaron held his peace.
Esther Risking Herself
Est_4:16 NKJV "…I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"
Judith Risking Her Life (Apocrypha)
Jdt_13:4-5 (for reference) Judith said, “O Lord God of all might… strengthen me this day, O Lord God of Israel.”
Moses’ Wish for Prophetic People
Num_11:29 NKJV "Oh, that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!"
Jesus’ Compassion
Mat_15:32 NKJV Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, "I have compassion on the multitude…"
Jesus Weeping for Lazarus
Joh_11:35 NKJV Jesus wept.
Paul’s Appeals
2Co_11:28 NKJV besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.
Selfless Intercession
Moses Offering Himself in place of Israel
Exo_32:32 NKJV "Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written."
Paul’s Similar Sacrifice
Rom_9:3 NKJV For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh.
Lost Sheep, Coin, & Son…
Parable of the Lost Sheep
Luk_15:4 NKJV "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?"
Parable of the Lost Coin
Luk_15:8 NKJV "Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?"
Parable of the Prodigal Son
Luk_15:20 NKJV "And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him."
The Son of Man came to seek and save the lost
Luk_19:10 NKJV for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Good Self-Reference
Joseph’s Dreams
Gen_37:7 NKJV "There we were, binding sheaves… my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf."
Song of Songs Self-references
Son_1:5 NKJV I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem.
David Praying for his Own Soul
Psa_43:5 NKJV Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Jesus Praying for Himself
Joh_17:1 NKJV Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son…"
Selfless Love
>>>> remember: Thessalonian passages that are focused on “YOU”
I am Lonely vs. I Miss YOU
11/25/16; 4/23/17; 3/31/22 (recompiled from FIRST
LOVE)
Tags: I am alone vs. I miss YOU
got to know each other...
perfectly grown disciples others more than themselves, even when it comes to the needs for "company".
goal: resolve issues with insecurities so you can care more about others than yourself when wanting to be around them.
is all about others -- and who they are...
Faithful Love
1Ti_2:15 – Faith, Love, & Holiness w Saved-Mindedness = Salvation
Unfaithful Friend
Mic_7:4
WEB The best of them is like a brier.
The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even
your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
Mic_7:4 LB therefore I will take away their goods as a
devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation.
Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.
Mic_7:4
τὰ ἀγαθὰ αὐτῶν
ὡς σὴς ἐκτρώγων
καὶ βαδίζων ἐπὶ
κανόνος ἐν ἡμέρᾳ
σκοπιᾶς.
οὐαὶ οὐαί, αἱ ἐκδικήσεις
σου ἥκασιν, νῦν ἔσονται
κλαυθμοὶ αὐτῶν.
Mic_7:5 WEB Don't
trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman
lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
Mic_7:5 LB
Do not trust in friends, nor confide in guides; beware of
your wife, so as not to commit anything to her.
Mic_7:5
μὴ καταπιστεύετε
ἐν φίλοις καὶ μὴ
ἐλπίζετε ἐπὶ ἡγουμένοις,
ἀπὸ τῆς συγκοίτου
σου φύλαξαι τοῦ
ἀναθέσθαι τι αὐτῇ·
Mic_7:6 WEB For the son
dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Mic_7:6 For the son dishonors his father, the daughter
will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man’s enemies.
Mic_7:6
διότι υἱὸς ἀτιμάζει
πατέρα, θυγάτηρ
ἐπαναστήσεται
ἐπὶ τὴν μητέρα
αὐτῆς, νύμφη ἐπὶ
τὴν πενθερὰν αὐτῆς,
ἐχθροὶ ἀνδρὸς
πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες
οἱ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ.
Mic_7:7
WEB But as for me, I will look to
Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Mic_7:7
But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Savior: my God will hear
me.
Mic_7:7 Ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ
τὸν κύριον ἐπιβλέψομαι,
ὑπομενῶ ἐπὶ τῷ
θεῷ τῷ σωτῆρί
μου, εἰσακούσεταί
μου ὁ θεός μου.
Faithful Friend
Pro_17:17 – Friend always loves, brother for adversity;
·
Faithfulness = Real Love
(think: always)
(Remember: Doing Faithful Love Without
Excuses)
· Faithful/real Love does justice (1Co_13:) while all the other “loves” are busy persecuting obeyers and causing the trails to begin with
· When going through trials, faithful/real Love = Refreshing / hopeful / energizing / encouraging
· Comp. Pro_17:9 (Covering is Love), Pro_17:17 (Friend always loves)
· Discussed under Faithful Love; comp. Refresh
Most people like the reputation/idea/theory of faithful Love but who actually loves faithful Love so as to put a permanent end to all treacherous divorce?
Who actually stays faithful to continually promoting the most serious good for someone else?
Faithful Wife
Notice the contrast between Mic_7:5 and Pro_31:11:
Pro_31:10 WEB
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Pro_31:10 LB
Who can find a virtuous woman? For such a one is indeed more valuable
than precious stones.
Pro_31:10
Γυναῖκα ἀνδρείαν
τίς εὑρήσει;
τιμιωτέρα δέ ἐστιν
λίθων πολυτελῶν
ἡ τοιαύτη.
Pro_31:11 WEB
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
Pro_31:11 The heart of her husband trusts in her;
such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils.
Pro_31:11
θαρσεῖ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ
ἡ καρδία τοῦ ἀνδρὸς
αὐτῆς, ἡ τοιαύτη
καλῶν σκύλων οὐκ
ἀπορήσει·
Pro_31:12 WEB
She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
Pro_31:12 For she employs all her living for her
husband’s good.
Pro_31:12 ἐνεργεῖ
γὰρ τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἀγαθὰ
πάντα τὸν βίον.
Faithful Daughter-in-Law
Ruth -- enduring, faithful, steadfast Love
Are You Faithful or Unfaithful?
· We see that it is possible to be a faithful friend, wife, and Daughter-in-Law.
· What is the defining characteristic? -- Faithful Love
·
And what is “Love”?
(have we learned
anything from our Bible study so far?)
Your Level of Faith Determines Your Level of Love
2/5/17; 4/22/17; 3/31/22 (recompiled from
FIRST LOVE)
Truth > Zeal > Faith > Love
>scr:
forgiven much, loves much
we love Him because he first loved...
do you see how faith / faithfulness plays a role in recieving and giving
out love?
>scr:
freely recieved, freely given
if you can't seem to give, don't just keep squiezing an empty container
if you can't seem to give, it might be time to get some zealous faith
going on and recieve by faith
Serious Love
See: Lev_19
Serious Love Commanded
The whole Bible teaches seriousness, both by innumerable examples and by explicit commands.
There are too many to references to list here, but here is a small sample of some of the highlights:
Child Training
Deu_6:6-7 – diligent child training
1st Corinthians 13 & 14 – Grow Up
1Co_13:11 LSV When I was a child, I
was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child,
and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child;
1Co_13:11
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mind ωςG5613ADV ὡς which how νηπιοςG3516A-NSM νήπιος not speaking ελογιζομηνG3049V-INI-1S λογίζομαι to take an
inventory ωςG5613ADV ὡς which how να νηπιοςG3516A-NSM νήπιος not speaking
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idle ταG3588T-APN ὁ the τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the νηπιουG3516A-GSM νήπιος not speaking
1Co_14:20 LSV Brothers, do not become
children in the understanding [ESV: thinking], but in the evil be children [ESV: infants], and in the understanding [ESV:
thinking]
become perfect [ESV: mature];
1Co_14:20
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No Foolishness
Eph_5:3 – no foolishness allowed
Think: all the passages against being reckless / unsaved-minded (as in 1Ti_2, etc.)
Be Logical
Be Logical -- It’s a
Command! (reminder)
· Joh_1:1 – Logos
· Rom_12:1 – Logical service
· 1Pe_2:2 – Logical Milk
· 2Pe_2:12 – like brut beasts speak evil
1st Timothy 1 – Clean Love is the Goal, Not Hypocritical
Faith
1Ti_1:5 – Perfection-Goal = Unhypocritical Clean Love
Perfection of
Commandment = Unhypocritical
Clean/Pure-hearted Love (w good conscience)
· See: 1st Timothy 1 (comp. No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Companion Virtues)
· LO: perfection of the commandment
· KJV.H
· PUR: Hypocrisy of accusing purity culture:
· God’s purity commands produce Loving HEART goodness of conscience, NOT culture!
· Is religious hypocrisy a good conscience? That's exactly what false accusers have with their (Hitler-like) anti-purity propaganda
· Taught of God
1Ti_1:5 LSV And the end [τέλος – perfect-completion/destination/goal] of
the charge
[παραγγελίας –
(mandatory/commanded) message-given-next-to] is love
[ἀγάπη] out of a pure [καθαρᾶς] heart, and of a good conscience
[συνειδήσεως
ἀγαθῆς], and of unhypocritical faith,
1Ti_1:5 Greek τὸ δὲ
τέλος τῆς
παραγγελίας ἐστὶν
ἀγάπη ἐκ
καθαρᾶς
καρδίας καὶ
συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς
καὶ πίστεως
ἀνυποκρίτου,
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1Ti_1:14 LSV …and love that [is]
in Christ Jesus:
Not worldly/sinful lust, but toward the saved-minded seriousness that comes in the following chapters.
1st Timothy 2 – Weighty-Serious, Sacred, Saved-Minded, LOVE
1Ti_2:2 – Pray to thoroughly lead a tranquil/peaceful & quiet life, in all good-reverence [εὐσεβείᾳ] & weighty-seriousness [σεμνότητι] (producing…)
1Ti_2:8 – men with “sacred hands” (and…)
1Ti_2:9 – saved-minded women who are LOVING (1Ti_2:15) (and…)
1Ti_2:10-14 – Who do good works and are silent and submissive
Remember: This serious Love, which we see in 1st Timothy 2, was the goal to begin with in 1st Timothy 1.
BTW: This Love goes on to produce understanding:
2Ti_1:7 LSV for God did not give us
a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
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2Ti_2:7 LSV be considering [ESV: Think
over] what
things I say, for the LORD gives to you understanding in all things.
2Ti_2:7 GRVii+ νοειG3539V-PAM-2S νοιέω to exercise the
mind οG3588T-NSM ὁ the να [αG3739R-APN ὅς who, which] τσβ λεγωG3004V-PAI-1S λέγω to lay forth δωσειG1325V-FAI-3S δίδωμι to give να [δωηG1325V-2AAO-3S δίδωμι to give] τσβ γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason σοιG4671P-2DS σύ to thee οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κυριοςG2962N-NSM κύριος lord συνεσινG4907N-ASF σύνεσις a mental putting
together ενG1722PREP ἔν in πασινG3956A-DPN πᾶς all
And This same serious saved-minded Love also produces saving wisdom in 2Ti_3:15 when interfacing with the sacred/temple Scriptures…
Weighty-Serious
Php_4:8 – meditate on weighty-serious things
Be Sober – Thess & Titus
1Th_5:6-8 – keep awake and be sober…put on the breastplate of faith and love
Tit_2:2-13 – ‘Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behaviour…self-controlled, pure…younger men to be self-controlled…in your teaching show integrity, dignity…the [favor] of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to…live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-Bible-say-about-being-serious-minded
Sober Love – 1st Peter
1Pe_1:13 – with minds that are alert and fully sober
1Pe_1:22 LSV Having purified your
souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unhypocritical [ESV:
sincere]
brotherly love, love one another earnestly out of a pure heart,
1Pe_1:22
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1Pe_4:7 LSV Now the end of all
things has come near; be sober-minded,
then, and be sober in [your] prayers.
1Pe_4:7 Greek Πάντων
δὲ τὸ τέλος ἤγγικε.
σωφρονήσατε οὖν
καὶ νήψατε
εἰς
προσευχάς.
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as a limit ηγγικενG1448V-RAI-3S ἐγγίζω to make near σωφρονησατεG4993V-AAM-2P σωφρονέω to be of sound
mind ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly καιG2532CONJ καί and νηψατεG3525V-AAM-2P νήφω to abstain from
wine ειςG1519PREP εἰς to [ταςG3588T-APF ὁ the] τσβ προσευχαςG4335N-APF προσευχή prayer
1Pe_4:8 LSV Before all things,
having earnest love among
yourselves, because love covers a
multitude of sins; [Pro_10:12]
1Pe_4:8 Greek πρὸ
πάντων δὲ
τὴν εἰς ἑαυτοὺς
ἀγάπην ἐκτενῆ
ἔχοντες, ὅτι ἡ
ἀγάπη
καλύψει πλῆθος
ἁμαρτιῶν·
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να [καλυψειG2572V-FAI-3S καλύπτω to cover up] τσβ πληθοςG4128N-ASN πλήθος a fulness αμαρτιωνG266N-GPF ἁμαρτία a sin
1Pe_4:9 LSV [be] hospitable to one another, without
murmuring;
1Pe_4:9 Greek
φιλόξενοι
εἰς ἀλλήλους
ἄνευ γογγυσμῶν·
1Pe_4:9 GRVii+ φιλοξενοιG5382A-NPM φιλόξενος fond of guests ειςG1519PREP εἰς to αλληλουςG240C-APM ἀλλήλων one another ανευG427PREP ἄνευ without γογγυσμουG1112N-GSM γογγυσμός a grumbling
να [γογγυσμωνG1112N-GPM γογγυσμός a grumbling] τσβ
Looks like it is time to ‘build our house on the ROCK’ by hearing and doing the SOM, incl. the serious Love Proclaimed by the Rock Peter…
Serious Love Warns
God never does anything good to someone that is not (at the same time) Truly Loving.
When God warns, it is always Loving.
When God warns through a person, this message is always Loving, no matter how harsh it sounds or sad it might make the hearer feel.
Eze_3:17-21; Eze_33:3-9, etc. – Warning = Saving from Death
· No Warning = Blood Guilt!
Anything that opposes/contradicts serious, loving, Biblical warnings is hatred.
[Psa_19:11 MT – Warning = Reward]
1Co_4:14 – Putting in knowledge-mind beloved sons
Col_1:28-29 – Announced Down Warning in all Wisdom = Presenting every man Perfect to Anointed One
1Th_4 – Purity Warnings* (1Th_4:6) go hand-in-hand with “the brotherly love” [της φιλαδελφιας] which is “being into that of seriously loving one another” [εις το αγαπαν αλληλους] (1Th_4:9) by being taught by God.
(* διεμαρτυράμεθα – thorough-testifying, as in Act_20)
1Th_5 – Real (identity-recognizing) Love (1Th_5:8, 1Th_5:11-13) immediately prepares you to ·put in knowledge-mind (warn) the dis-arranged/disorderly [νουθετεῖτε τοὺς ἀτάκτους] (1Th_5:14) with ·supportive encouragement toward discouraged and weak [παραμυθεῖσθε τοὺς ὀλιγοψύχους, ἀντέχεσθε τῶν ἀσθενῶν], and patience (long-hot-breathing) toward all [μακροθυμεῖτε πρὸς πάντας], and even ‘turning the other cheek’ to nasty treatment (1Th_5:15) -- sounds very Loving indeed -- no hypocrisy there!
Act_20:18-32, etc. – Paul’s Farewell Warnings to the Asia/Ephesus Elders
· Thoroughly Testifying (Warning): Act_20:21, Act_20:23-24, Act_20:26
· Truth-Integrity: Act_20:20 & Act_20:27
·
Tears: Act_20:19, Act_20:31;
TSK (Tears): …Jer_9:1, Jer_13:17,
Luk_19:41, 2Co_2:4, Phi_3:18, 2Ti_1:4
· Warning with Tears = Real/Serious Love -- You can’t really argue with that…
· Warning ≠ Feelings/Eros/Disney/Church/Modern “love”
· “love” - Warnings = Hatred
See: FMC > Discipline
By showing us that Serious Love Warns the Bible is also, by this very fact, showing us that it is resolute on praising serious love as a canonical standard of Truth to begin with, and in such a way also, the Bible condemns fake, shallow, non-serious, typical, worldly love -- which is ultimately of no good when compared with the Truth.
Wise Love
Real Love is Wise
From Love to Wisdom
· God = Serious Love
· Jesus = Wisdom of God
· Consider the energized dynamic between Love and Wisdom…
· Out of God, Jesus Flows.
· Out of Real Love, Wisdom flows from eternity...
Psalms 107 – Wisdom Looks at Love
Psa_107:43 LSV Who [is] wise, and observes these? They understand
the kind acts of YHWH!
Psa_107:43 CAB
Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies
[ἐλέη] of the Lord?
Psa_107:43 (106:43) τίς
σοφὸς καὶ φυλάξει
ταῦτα καὶ συνήσουσιν
τὰ ἐλέη τοῦ κυρίου;
Loving Enemies in Mat_5 = Being Wise in Mat_7:24-27
Remember: “saved-minded Love also produces saving wisdom in 2Ti_3:15 ”
The Corinthian Epistles are full of real wisdom, and who can forget the love chapter in 1Co_13:?
Colossians 2 – Serious Love Produces Wisdom -- Unlike Practically All Modern People Today…
Col_2:1 LSV For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you
and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
Col_2:2 LSV that their hearts may be
comforted, being united in love,
and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full
knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
Col_2:2 ἵνα
παρακληθῶσιν
αἱ καρδίαι
αὐτῶν, |Aσυμβιβασθεντες|
TSBσυμβιβασθέντων
ἐν ἀγάπῃ
καὶ εἰς |Aπαν| TSBπάντα
TSBπλοῦτον/Aς
τῆς
πληροφορίας
τῆς
συνέσεως, εἰς
ἐπίγνωσιν
τοῦ
μυστηρίου τοῦ
Θεοῦ TSB|καὶ
πατρὸς καὶ
τοῦ| Χριστοῦ,
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Col_2:3 LSV in whom are all the
treasures of the wisdom and
the knowledge hid,
Col_2:3 ἐν
ᾧ εἰσι
πάντες οἱ
θησαυροὶ τῆς
σοφίας καὶ |TSBτης|
γνώσεως ἀπόκρυφοι.
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Wise Love to The Corinthians
3/12/22
1Co_1:25 LSV because the foolishness
of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;
1Co_1:30 LSV but out of Him you are
in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and
sanctification, and redemption,
1Co_2:6-8 LSV And wisdom we speak
among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age—of
those becoming useless, 7 but we
speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the
ages to our glory, 8 which no
one of the rulers of this age knew, for if they had known, they would not have
crucified the Lord of Glory;
1Co_3:18 LSV Let no one deceive
himself; if anyone seems to be wise among you in this age—let him become a
fool, that he may become wise,
1Co_4:10 LSV we [are] fools because of Christ, and you wise in
Christ; we [are] ailing, and you
strong; you glorious, and we dishonored;
[2Co_11:19 LSV for you gladly bear with
the fools—being wise,]
1Co_4:14 LSV Not [as] putting you to shame do I write these
things, but I admonish as my beloved
children,
1Co_6:5 LSV I speak to your shame:
so there is not among you one wise
man, not even one, who will be able to discern in the midst of his
brothers!
1Co_8:1-3 LSV And concerning the
things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge
puffs up, but love builds up; 2
and if anyone thinks to know anything, he has not yet known anything according
as it is required to know; 3 and
if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.
1Co_10:15 LSV as to wise men I
speak—judge what I say:
1Co_12:8 LSV for to one through the
Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge,
according to the same Spirit;
1Co_15:58 LSV so that, my beloved
brothers, become steadfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the LORD at all
times, knowing that your labor in the LORD is not vain.
[i.e. Not vain like the mindless person [ἄφρων] in 1Co_15:36]
1Co_16:14 LSV let all your things be
done in love.
1Co_16:24 LSV my love [is] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
The Contradiction of
Fleshly Wisdom Shows Real Love
2Co_1:12 LSV
For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity
and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we
conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
2Co_2:4 LSV for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that you might be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.
2Co_2:8 for this reason, I call on you to confirm love to him,
2Co_5:14 for the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged thus: that if one died for all, then the whole died,
2Co_6:6 LSV in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in
the Holy Spirit, in unhypocritical love,
2Co_7:1 – beloved
2Co_8:8 …proving the genuineness of your love,
2Co_10:12 …but they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,
2Co_11:11 LSV for what reason? Because
I do not love you? God has known!
2Co_12:15 LSV and I will most gladly
spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, loving you more
abundantly, I am loved less.
2Co_12:19 LSV …We speak before God in Christ;
and all things, beloved, [are] for your
up-building,
2Co_13:11-14 LSV From now on, brothers,
rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and
the God of love and peace will be with you; 12
greet one another in a holy kiss; 13
all the holy ones greet you; 14
the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit, [is] with you all!
Amen.
Summary of Wise Love
· Real, Non-Worldly, Love is Serious and Wise Enough to Know How to Value People
Love Perfection
Search: perfect
1st Corinthians 13 – the Love Chapter = Value, Honor, & NO SHAME!
The Love Chapter We’ve Never Read
Reading = knowing again (in Greek)
read and known by all
The REAL Love Chapter is NOT what church people have ever taught.
1st Corinthians 13 does NOT, in fact, actually say/teach what virtually all church people pretend that it says. (Reminds me of other passages like Eph_2:8-9 which are satanically/mindlessly/ignorantly hijacked for “faith alone” errors/blasphemies)
Reinforcing Preceding Context
· 1Co_8:1 – Puffing is the opposite of house building Love, as seen in 1st Corinthians 13;
· (CHs 11 - 12): validly recognizing/cherishing each legitimate member of Anointed One’s Body… honor, NO SHAME, etc.
1Co_13:4-8 – Love Chapter
Following Context
· 1Co_14:1 – Follow love;
· 1Co_16:14 – Let everything be done with love;
·
2Co_8:7-8 – love approved as abounding, yet still some
apostates tested by Paul
Corinthians have abounded in approved Love by this
second epistle, and now Paul tests their love yet more by inviting them into
the favor of giving;
TAGS: KJV Heresies > sincerity
So…
Did you get the point of the Love
Chapter?
The Point: VALUE/honor is the Vitally Missing Ingredient/puzzle piece in all our Loves
Love = Cherishing Value (of
individual)
(Php_2:4 KJV Look not every man on his own things, but
every man also on the things of others.)
Prerequisite: Love =
Knowing (REAL identity)
Relationship Conflicts Are About Missing Value
· Almost all wars and fights and feelings of not being loved by others goes right back to this fundamental issue of not embracing value as the core source of Love. (2/15/22)
· All relationship conflicts revolve around breaches against honor / value, that is to say, all relationship conflicts revolve around lack of love.
· This realization is worth more than gold because most people have no idea what the root issue is to all of their relationship conflicts.
· No one ever taught me this, but I had to learn it through blood sweat and countless tears... wrestling through the amazing and sweet Justice of the Scriptures against the darkened and reprobate back dropper of apostate sinners and lazy criminals, in love with Injustice and perversions and crimes, addicted to never-ending relationship confusions and wars...
Good Love = Real Love = Real God
3/17/22; 3/20/22
1st Corinthians 13: Love > Faith + Hope
In 1st
Corinthians 13, out of the core identity of love flows all of the other Divine
virtues, including the other two preeminent virtues of faith and Hope...
"Love" ≈ "Good"
In Greek the two words
"Love" and "Good" sound almost alike, and could be mistaken
for each other when listening to someone talk.
When we are talking about serious
love we are NOT talking about “nice” (EU in Greek) but rather we are talking
about the Love that is actually qualitatively
good, as the wording implies in Greek when choosing between
different Greek words to use as the core cardinal virtue of God's identity.
Therefore somewhere in the
core identity of the "goodness of God", that is His real good and
serious Love, lies the answer to the question of the ages: to identify which
God is the real God.
If we can find out what
Love is actually called Good by the Bible then we can identify which Love is
also called God, and we can identify Who is the original Spirit (voice of
virtue) praised and worshiped as serious Love and God by monotheists throughout
the ages.
Love is About Value
Ephesians 5 – Love / Honor Parallel
>>Scrip:
Husbands love you wives
Wife see that she
reverences her husband
·
Honor = loving husband,
too:
>> teach younger women to love…
Rom_12:9-10 – Non-hypocritical, Multifaceted Love Resulting in Honoring Others Above Yourself
· Notice the Value/Honor
· Discussed under Love is About Value (comp. Companion Virtues; No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Agape+)
Rom_5:8 – while we were
still being sinners anointed one died over us
>> TSK
in a sense, David could be
said to have this attitude towards Saul after Saul fell away.
this virtuous aspect of
love sees past the temporary mirage of sin and looks into the council of God
and see someone's value even when they themselves do not see it. unfortunately
however, this concept has been so hijacked and distorted that our ears cannot even
hear it with integrity and a good conscience anymore, just about...
but that being said, love
is not pretending that bad people are valuable. love is not simply about
pretending that and invaluable sinner who has made themselves destitute of
value is yet valuable.
real love is about a real
resulting value, and this is where the word of God sharply cuts between the
hypocrites and those who are in love with the Truth...
Real Love actually looks
deep and perfectly into who someone is in there inspired identity and values it
courageously without flinching or being scandaled...
OTHER People’s Value = the Focus of Real Love
Real Love Focuses on the Value of OTHERS
Feelings love is about
taking pleasure in the feelings that you get when you are around someone. That
is not serious love!
Serious Love is about
cherishing the value someone else has, even if you do not immediately receive
pleasure in your feelings from that value.
With feelings love, you get
to feel the pleasure from someone else without having to choose faithfulness or
do anything right or True - notice that there is absolutely no virtue at all
required in this! This is definitely not a love worth praising, because it
verges on selfishness, vanity, foolishness, perversion, Pride, indulgence, and
lust.
With serious love, you
engage logic to faithfully understand and cherish the real/factual value of
another.
The essential essence of
serious love is necessarily virtuous by its core identity and nature, and is
focused on selflessness in preference to the glorification of another's value.
Just as Jesus poured
himself out in Philippians 2. Just as God is determined to glorify those He
truly loves in Romans 8.
We see that serious love is
about cherishing and rejoicing in the value of someone else, not just the
personal pleasure you derive from being around them.
This is a key distinction
and difference between serious love and feelings love....
Eros can definitely be selfish
because (according to Socrates and maybe others who praises it) Eros is based
on something you yourself lack, which seems to be met in the presence of the
one whom you feel like you love.
Value = The Moral Definition of Love
4/12/17; 6/3/17; 3/31/22 (recompiled from FIRST
LOVE)
Defining Love Morally
Love is cherishing the real value of someone or something.
Love is cherishing / knowing / acknowledging / rejoicing in / boasting in / delighting in / setting the heart on / promoting someone’s real value and best interest.
Most people miss evaluate the actual value of other people.
You can estimate the value of another person based on how they make you feel -- this is fraudulent, and selfish, and the boasts of lust.
Most people feel their own feelings for other people, and call this “love”.
Butt love is not about you and your feelings, but about another person and their actual value.
You can estimate the value of someone based on how you feel about them, and not the truth. -- this is foolish and treacherous and fraudulent.
Your feelings don’t matter. If you do not value someone as God has valued them, you hate who they really are.
If you do not love someone enough to know and acknowledge who they really are, you hate who they really are.
You have not ever met the one whom you do not acknowledge.
Love rejoices in the truth
(See: the next point: No Value = No Love)
No Value = No Love
3/8/17; 3/31/22 (recompiled from FIRST LOVE)
You do not Have Love!
Love is doing what is in people’s best interest
If you believe something false about someone you do not love them.
If someone is a great success at something and then you condescendingly and naively don’t acknowledge that , or you even belittle that which they are good at, you do not love them.
If someone belongs in your life as a savior, and you do not recognize that you need their help nor will you receive their salvation, you do not love them.
Love means that you allow people to serve the purpose that they were designed to serve in your life. When you exclude them from the very thing that they are good at in benefiting your life, you hate them and do not acknowledge the value that God has attributed to them for your life.
Believing false things about people, and looking down on them where you should be looking up to them, and not ignoring the excellent and praiseworthy qualities that God has given them to benefit your life, doesn’t love them but hates them.
Get honest about your disgusting shallowness and lack of love for people!
The love of God is to obey his Commandments. What are you doing going around saying that you can’t believe his truth that you need to forsake everything to be his disciple!?
When God says that he hates people, what are you doing claiming to love God while finding excuses to not believe Bible verses?
God’s hatred of evil is more loving to the poor than your evil and wicked and blind heart has ever even conceived!
Gods discrimination against the rich is the perfect love which she has chosen for the poor.
You are not loving! Because your heart is blind and full of compromise and sin, and you do not have space in your faith to love God and exalt the pool above all the people of the earth like his heart does.
What are you doing going around making excuses not to believe in absolute and extreme predestination? You do not love God! And you Calvinists, what are you doing going around with your dirty and foolish fleshly Concepts as though you don’t have to obey everything Jesus says in order to go to heaven?
You make excuses not to obey Jesus and get discipled
You make excuses not to turn the other cheek new line you make excuses not to believe that divorce and remarriage is adultery
You make excuses to believe that you don’t have to be spiritual, and that you can sit there and be natural and blind and ignorant and still love God and still know the truth
Here Comes God shining his glorious and perfect truth through the poor and humble and extremely righteous truth walks right in front of your face, and you make your ignorant and foolish and dirty and demonic excuses not to cling to the truth inside of people that love you
The Galatians originally did well to receive Paul as anointed one and the Thessalonians were praised for receiving the truth and Paul, but you go around with your shallow and worthless and cold blooded unloving heart and make excuses not to treat them as though they are the same as Jesus walking around in the flesh!
While you walk around in your independent security and guarantees of deluded salvation, these truly poor whom you deny to be able to save you, are a truer Jesus on Earth than your pathetic and unjust anti-Christ relationship with the devil whom you claim is in heaven.
Make no mistake. You will be rejected for your life of shallowness and darkness and lovelessness and your countless excuses to deny Justice to the poor who ach to save your life!
You’re sorry and reched excuses to treat the poor as though they are not Jesus, and you’re worthless Soul be tormented with fire when judgment and curse Ignace goes out against you and declares just like you refused to believe! In as much as you did it to the least of these my brothers you did it to me!
You are unloving indeed
Because it is the poor who go about in unrestricted eagerness and true love cleaning to the Everlasting Light of the perfect God which shines through the poor
It is you who are unloving, yes so unloving that you can’t unstop your bowels enough to be moved with loving eagerness and open up your arms to be helped by those who would gladly sacrifice their well-being to save your unworthy soul
You are unloving to God because you are uncomfortable when Phineas stabs the singing Israelite
You are unloving to man because you uncomfortable with the blessed and perfect canonical honor that the Galatians originally gave to Paul in treating him just like Jesus.
You have failed every Manner and every degree of love, and broken every important commandment of the deepest priority and God’s rule book
It is your wretched and hypocritical self who have no love in your soul to give what is good to the poor when they desperately need it.
Much worse, your darkened and perverted Soul won’t turn long enough to realize that you actually need everything that the poorest of this Earth has in order to save your worthless and sinning wretched soul.
You have no idea how to love people until you learn to rejoice in the truth that God has worked through their lives on Earth.
You have no idea how to love God until you learn how to walk around with faithfulness in his house like Moses, and cling to every scandalis Bible verse that is treated as heresy throughout all the churches in America
You disobey the truth and you are full of hypocritical unbelief because you are full of riches and are miserably destitute of real love.
Never Thirst Again, With Honor
1Co_14:
If we would be rich in
giving "abundant honor" so that this "abundance"
continually covered more honor than each one was asking we could easily never
be lacking any needed feelings of Love among us.
Cherishing Value = Love
3/25/22
Love = cherish the value
Love = intensely recognize,
regard, consecrate, prioritize, be happiest toward ... someone's real value,
including their potential value.
Love is when you consider
sin even experience someone like God thinks about them
Rock Solid Love
SOM, and…
See/compile: Pe_ Herein
2Pe_1:7, etc. – Virtue Additions
· Discussed under 1st John 2 – Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love
\//\
1Jo_2:9-11 – Love Brothers/Obeyers = No Scandal
·
See: 1st John 2 –
Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love; No
Hypocritical Love(lessness); Rock Solid Love; Reward of Love
Love Passages <<<
TRC
General references to
Pro_10:12; 1Co_13:1; Gal_5:13; Phi_1:9; 1Th_4:9; 1Pe_4:8; 1Jo_2:10; 1Jo_4:21
…
Impartial
Deu_10:19
Unselfish
Mat_22:39
Proof of Discipleship
Joh_13:35
Christ's Love the Standard of
Joh_15:12
Sincere
Rom_12:9; Rom_13:9
Abounding
1Th_3:12; Heb_13:1; Jam_2:8
Fervent
1Pe_1:22; 1Jo_4:7
…
Examples of
1Sa_18:3; Act_20:38; Rom_16:4; 2Co_12:15; Phi_1:8; Phi_4:1; 2Ti_1:17
Torry
Selfless Love
Joseph
Gen_45:15;
Hospitality
Obadiah
1Ki_18:4;
Centurion
Luk_7:5;
Lydia --
Act_16:15;
Sharing:
Epaphroditus
Phi_2:25; Phi_2:26; Phi_2:30;
Philippians
Phi_4:15-19;
Knowing Valuable Identity = Love
Kid Love vs Adult Love
· Loving an adult calls for different actions (and attitudes) than loving a child.
· Treating an adult like a child disarranges/disrespects/ignores/attacks all the years that they have spent creating something valuable with their life.
· Loving a wise person does not require the same actions as loving a baby.
· Babies feel Loved when you Love them like a baby.
· Wise people are only being seriously Loved when you actively love their wisdom (just as with anything else valuable about someone).
Loving a Knowable Person = Different Than Babies
· Real Love is about knowing someone else.
· You do not Love what you do not long to know.
· You do not Love when you disrespect the core value of the one you claim to love.
· There is not much to know about an infant unless something is spiritually revealed, therefore loving a baby can be somewhat generic.
· Loving adults is quite particular and unique.
· Brute beasts (shallow hypocrites) treat animal love as though it is anything even close to love, but it is not anything notable, except as a crime.
· Loving someone who has grown up requires identifying the unique valuable identity that has been accomplished through their life.
Why is it that people might say that they want to love other people and yet they don't spend time focusing on them and learning about them and understanding how they feel, and especially, who they are?
To this day, my earthly
family does not know me: They do not know…
· my strengths or weaknesses,
· my greatest hopes or my most vulnerable fears, or…
· even much of my personality.
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2/27/22
haSun_5:36pm
i always thought it was interesting that 1 co 13 mentions possibly loving acts like giving your body to be burned or giving all your stuff into morsels of food (implying to be given to the poor). These seem like useful kind acts and yet they fall out of it.
Wanted to hear your thoughts on that
Answers
(1) Liberals today tend to do all kinds of useful things to help poor people, but in Truth, they have no real love at all because:
- Liberals are sending all these people to hell that they are pretending to help.
- Liberals never know how to really care and help the Truly poor since they are too busy hating them.
- Liberals can easily flop out when the rubber hits the road, and persecution comes, and you need real courage to sacrifice for the truly poor (not just money).
(2) HardCore people can be tempted with extreme sacrifices without remembering their “first love” -- where is all the fresh and soft eagerness?
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Yearning -- Cherishing Yearns to Know
Cherishing someone's value starts
with yearning to know what their value is to begin with, so that you might
actually cherish what you have counted important enough to invest sufficient
time to regard in the first place.
All other love is fake and
hypocritical, not being based on reality.
You do not love what you do
not take time to even think about to know.
Lazy Love is sinful, vain,
and hypocritical.
Lazy Love flatters itself
by awarding itself the trophy of "loving others" while in reality
doing them the injustice of complacency, and therefore disqualifying itself
from being real Love by very definition.
Lazy Love is fake.
Lazy Love is sinful and
selfish (egocentric) making oneself the subject and focus of love instead of
the one loved.
Jesus was selfless, pouring
himself out to death, as a servant (Php_2), washing their feet (even of the one
who betrayed him), loving so truthfully until the end that the miserable
creature could finally be truly valued...
Son_8:6-7 – Fiery Unquenchable Love = Beyond Price
Pro_15:17 – Poor Love-food Better Than Rich Hate-Food
· What kind of poor-begging/yearning to be around the righteous is this?
· What does love know about obeyer’s identity that the flesh hates?
Emotional Dependence
4/8/22
Jacob said I will go down
to the Sheol morning for my son
afterward Jacob's Spirit
was revived when he heard the truth about his son
for now we live if you stand fast in the face
he had the sentence of
death in US
Identity Justice – Knowing People’s “Inspired Identity” = Love
See: 1Jo_3: herein
>> the Sheep and the
Goats
· Recognizing Divine identity
· Refresh
Moses vs. the Flesh
· Moses found himself often unloved by those who would not believe in his inspiration...
· Moses was constantly pushed back by the doubting flesh and constantly contradicted by the hard-heartedness of sinning flesh
Mary’s Identity
-- Required in Order to Love
Take Mary for An
Example of Required Identification in Order to Love
·
Blasphemously saying that you “forgive Mary
for fornication” is in no way loving to her, but is pure satanic hypocritical
hatred (and yet this is the total sum of virtually all “love” in Christianity
today).
·
The core identity of who she is, is tied up
with “God being inside of her”, and the only way to Love God or her, or any
other valuable person, is to recognize the real identity of the real God inside
of the real Mary! -- which is the Truth of God in her.
·
…but they concluded she had committed
prostitution! And…
·
Luk_2:7 – ‘they found no place for them in the inn’
·
Things could often look quite desolate/bleak
for Mary ever getting any real love/justice, but thankfully…
·
Mat_1:18-21, etc. – Joseph gets Truth about Mary from divine righteousness
revealed from heaven
·
Luk_2:21-38 – Simeon and Anna recognized the monotheistic baby
Anointed One …& the Blessed Mary
Think
about many other Biblical Friendships/Relationships
·
Moses & Joshua (Exo_33:11 – Joshua stayed in the prayer tent)
·
Ruth & Naomi (Rth_1:16-17 – Ruth Begged Naomi for Her God)
·
David & Jonathan (1Sa_23:17 – Jonathan knew David would
be king)
1Sa_20:17, 1Sa_20:41-42;
·
Solomon & the Shunamite – Let's not
forget their blessed relationship!
·
Elijah & Elisha (2Ki_2:2-10:9 – Elisha didn't want to leave Elijah)
·
Paul & Timothy (Php_2:20 – ‘I have no one else like Timothy’)
·
The General Loving Reciprocation of the NT
Holy Ones (Act_2:46; Heb_10:33-34; Rom_16:3-4; Col_1:4; 1Th_3:6; 2Ti_1:16-18; Phm_1:7-9; Heb_11:25)
· Abigale & David (1 Samuel 25)
David & Saul
ź David would not let go of Saul's
“Anointed”/Inspired identity...
ź …is that loving, or what?
Rom_9:1-3 – Paul could wish to go to Hell for Israel
· see: Love Atones (discussed) & Love Enemies & Identity Justice
\//\
>>Scrip:
Moses’
intercession: blot me out of your book
The Identity Crisis of Lacking Love
truly qualitatively believing that you are loved is an
identity war:
· You've got to believe that God so loved the world, and,
· You've got to Believe that He is 'the son of God Who Loved me and gave himself over me'
· You have to acknowledge the goodness of God's character to actually love people in general including people like you - that he is really that good and therefore you know he loves you, and,
· You also have to know who you are in order to escape the hypocritical love of apostate end times heresy
· If you don't know who God is, you will envision him as a hard man who doesn't love you
· If you don't know who you are he will be swallowed up alive by Antichrist with all of his flatteries of love, or you will be beat down with hopelessness not knowing the Justice toward your real identity, which also declares who God really is
Faithful Past, Loving Present
Faithfulness toward the past maintains loving value in the
present
Leviticus - fear father and
mother
>>Scrip:
they didn't remember the
good that Gideon had done for them
>> TSK
David remembers that Saul
was anointed
Barnabas was a good man
Notice that it doesn't
matter whether the people themselves are good or not or whether they remain
faithful or not, the lover can still remember the value of the past to maintain
love in the present.
Receive! -- We’re COMMANDED to Know/Receive People’s Real identity
Not
only are we commanded to know and honor the real definition of someone in the
Love Chapter, but we are reminded of this constantly throughout the examples we
just mentioned (previously) as well as frequent/constant reminder-commands all
throughout the Scriptures:
1Th_5:12 – Recognize [εἰδέναι V-RAN
– be having seen] those chopping/laboring in/among you
TSK: to know: 1Co_16:18, Phi_2:19, [Phi_2:29] Heb_13:7, Heb_13:17
[Know Leaders]
Rom_15:7 – Receive one
another [προσλαμβάνεσθε
ἀλλήλους]
TSK:
receive: Rom_14:1-3, Mat_10:40, Mar_9:37, Luk_9:48
3Jo_1:8-10 – Receive those [ὀφείλομεν
TSBαπο/Aὑπολαμβάνειν
τοὺς
τοιούτους] who have been
cast out of heretics-lead churches… Diotrephes does not receive-upon us [Διοτρεφής
οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται
ἡμᾶς]
TSK: to receive: …Mat_10:14, Mat_10:40, Luk_11:7…
3Jn_1:11-12 – Demetrius known by the
Truth
Php_2:25-30 (esp. v. 29) – Receive-Toward Epaphroditus in all favor and
value/honor [προσδέχεσθε…μετὰ
πάσης χαρᾶς,
καὶ τοὺς
τοιούτους ἐντίμους
ἔχετε,] [also: Phi_2:19]
1Co_16:17-18
– Know Upon Those who refresh Like Stephanas, Fortunatus, & Achaicus
(Quoted below)
2Co_7:2 – Receive /
make space for us [in you] [Χωρήσατε
ἡμᾶς]
Joh_14:9 – has it been so long a
time and have you not known me Philip?
Joh_17:3; 1Jo_2:13; 1Jo_5:20; Col_2:2
Also
see: TSK > Reciprocal
2Th_1:8 – “in
flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God” (LSV)
2Th_1:8 ἐν
πυρὶ φλογός,
διδόντος ἐκδίκησιν
τοῖς μὴ εἰδόσιν
Θεὸν καὶ τοῖς
μὴ ὑπακούουσι
τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ
Php_3:10 – I long to
know Him (…and de we really long to know Him even when He is in others?)
Identity Recognition/Reception = Heaven/Reward
Identity Cup
· Mat_10:41-42 – receiving a prophet, righteous man, & little one with bulletproof reward;
· Mar_9:41 – a drink in the name of a disciple;
The Sheep & The
Goats
· Mat_25:34-40 – done it unto the least of these my brothers, done it unto me;
· Special Love For Disciples
Unity of Obeyers -- Reciprocating Love
The Unity of Obeyers /
Real Disciples Which Results from Biblical Love
Psa_133:1-3 – Unity, oil, Aaron's beard, due of Herman, Mountains of Zion, blessed Ongoing Perpetual Life;
· Receiving = Loving
· Unity = Eternal life -- don’t leave earth without it!
Phi_2:2 – Love Produces Unity (Perfect!)
· Same Love/accord/mind
How to Love with Knowledge
@Al: Template for Cherishing Knowledge?
Sunday, March 20th 2022
AlSun_3:28am
@hd QnA
Is there a questionnaire template
that we can have to help us towards cherishing each other and prying into
knowing who each other is?
What kind of questions can
we practically ask each other?
Answers
What are they/you doing/being that is superior in
real value/virtue that compels me to glorify/prioritize/submit to/join?
Idolatry of Pseudo Identities vs. Loving Identity
6/30/22
believing false things
about people's identity is the same type of sin as idolatry.
and why it is super important
to make sure that you love God out of all of your heart soul mind and strength,
yet as a pointed prerequisite for this love is correctly identifying the real
identity of the real God, and this point is made explicit in the gospels that
you first have to apprehend and identification of God's oneness before you can
Love him exclusively like you're supposed to.
and if you jump the gun and
skip the prerequisites and act like you love God out of all of your heart soul
mind and strength and yet you have set up a false identification of him either
in the form of a picture or a statue or a heretical imagination contrary to his
real character, won't God count this as spiteful hatred?
yes, indeed, the Bible is
very clear that those who commit idolatry hate him:
>> Scrip:
ten commandments
in the Bible is also clear
that this includes setting up heretical theologies in your heart as idols in
your mind:
>> Scrip:
little children keep your
selves from idols
so when you claim to love
God and yet set up an idol in an image or in your heart, it doesn't matter how
much you claim to love God out of every part of your being, because you
bitterly hate him with your idolatry.
and just as the first
commandment of loving God with everything is preceded by identifying core
orthodox character traits of the right God before loving him with everything,
so also love your neighbor as yourself, being the second greatest commandment
of the law, and being grouped together successively by rabbis including Jesus,
it goes without saying that you must also identify at least some basic accurate
picture of who someone is in order to claim to love them.
after all, you've got to
identify who God is before you can love him with everything and avoid the
hatred against him of idolatry, and this command is like the second command
according To Jesus therefore it has the same prerequisite of identifying
someone's identity. and furthermore, the very command of loving your neighbor
as yourself demands that you actually care about the essence of who someone is
because you care about your own uniqueness and wouldn't want someone completely
mocking and blaspheming everything special and important about you...
if you had not stolen any
money or murdered anyone and yet someone said they love you even though you
stole money and murdered someone, that is not love but hatred. and if you are
to love your neighbor as yourself, you are not allowed to believe horrible
heretical blasphemous lies against them and claim that you love them.
and by the way, that
includes the righteous whom you always love to hate and persecute:
if they really are
righteous then you are not allowed to say you love Miriam "even though she
committed prostitution", because that is mean and spiteful hatred and
blasphemy against God and man, just like all of the flesh's fake love claims
for righteous people while doing them completely hateful evil and blaspheming
nearly every special Divine good thing about them.
you're fake and hateful
worldly love may indeed come from your shallow heart, but as long as you hold
on to your idolatry against someone and love some pseudo identity in their
place your negation of who they are is more hateful than all of your claims of
Love could ever be...
repent of your pseudo
identities now because you are committing the same sin as idolatry against God
when you fake who someone is and claim to love them.
you need to repent even
more of pseudo identities against the righteous which the flesh is absolutely
addicted to habitually blaspheming and believing the worst about, because when
the time comes that the righteous are joined to the godhead then everyone will
know at judgment that you have committed idolatry against God in heaven and
against God on Earth my blaspheming and killing those whom you claim to love...
indeed the judgmental
saying is fulfilled that 'in as much as you did or didn't do it to the least of
these my brothers you did it or didn't do it to me...' (Mat 25)
Perceptual Identity Crisis
See: GoG > Perceptual
Identity Crisis
Goodness-of-God.htm#PerceptualIdentityCrisis
Agape+
The COMPANION VIRTUES of Love that particularly CHERISH in
a felt and demonstrated ways, and flow forth
from serious and Divine Agape Love, forming into the different Biblical words
for Love
Only after you establish serious Agape Love do you then have the blessed benefit and privilege of legitimate, felt, cherishing Loves:
2Pe_1:7, etc. – Virtue Additions
· Discussed under 1st John 2 – Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love
Rom_12:9-10 – Non-hypocritical, Multifaceted Love Resulting in Honoring Others Above Yourself
· Discussed under Love is About Value (comp. Companion Virtues; No Hypocritical Love(lessness); Agape+)
Warm Liking-Love - Commanded
2/13/22
-- Under Construction --
Loving Obeyers with
Righteousness
Most of the commands and
benefits in the epistles are based on Loving real Obey-All Disciples (Obeyers).
They will know you’re my
disciples by your love for one another
This does NOT refer to
people, church people, or anyone else in the World, but rather specifically to
OBEYERS
As we have opportunity do
good to all but especially…
Believing Perfect Love
Church People Really Don’t Believe in Love
Church People Don’t Real Believe Each Other to be
Seriously Valuable
· Church people don’t live in intentional communities usually, and then they have the absurdity and inconsistent hypocrisy that they are going to spend eternity with each other.
· Even though church people know other church people are too sinful to live around, yet…
· They think they are going to be made tolerable after going to heaven
· That is not the way Paul thought of the righteous assembly.
· If you want the benefits of Biblical unity (as seen above in previous points) you got to pay the price of being in covenant with True people who is worth living with for eternity starting now, even if that means intentional community.
Overseer’s Wife Said:
4/6/25 4:47 PM
Btw, maybe church people justify their feelings of not
wanting to be around people now but being happy to be around them in eternity
because they believe that God is going to "wipe away every tear" and
fix everyone's issues, and thus at that point they will be happy to be around
them for eternity cuz there's no issues to be aggravated with
Disciple Notes:
Church people have a pagan superstition that they will like people later on even if they don’t like them now.
Overseer’s Answer:
Indeed, but the Real Righteous Assembly Smells (2Co_2:), and looks like Anointed One (2Co_3: – 4) as New Creations of God’s righteousness (2Co_5:) separated from the world (2Co_6:) -- they are like Jesus already right NOW, and that special cherishing is what all of these passages reflect in Paul’s attitude, as he wishes to be with them NOW on earth, like in Romans 1, as seen in Longing for Rome below, and the following examples
Disciple Notes:
You are not both going to heaven and not liking each other. At least one of you are going to the path of hell, if not both of you with that mentality.
Wife’s Notes: Church People Don't Believe Love
Church people don't live in intentional communities because they really don't want to be around each other that much. And then they have the absurdity to think that they are going to happily spend eternity with these people! That is NOT the way Paul thought of the righteous assembly
If you want the benefits of biblical unity then you've got to pay the price to be in Covenant with true people
Wife’s Notes: The Hypocrisy of Church Thought
6:03 PM
Liking people in heaven after they've been perfected -This is not a biblical or logical train of thought.
Two people can't both be saved AND you smell bad to each other
Either both of you are lost, or one of you is going to hell.
The real righteous assembly looks like Anointed One and smells like Anointed One NOW
If righteous people smell bad to you now it's because you are dying and in a direction in your way to hell. If people smell bad to you and you don't want to hang out with them it's because they are either 1) unrighteous or 2) you are unrighteous and on your way to hell
Wife’s Notes: Consistency
In the Bible you smell the same to God, and to those being saved, and to those perishing
You're not allowed to abominate the sanctity of a real believer by not liking them
Love Debt Owed
We Owe Love to Obeyers
GPT: we owe one another:
·
Love (Rom_13:8)
·
Kindness /
χρηστότης (Eph_4:32; Gal_5:22)
·
Gentleness and humility (Tit_3:2;
2Ti_2:24)
·
Tenderheartedness and
forgiveness (Col_3:12-14)
That is a Love debt that is pending, and if we realize this Truth, it can change a lot in how we reciprocate with obeyers.
So Be Positive Towards Obeyers
Romans 13:8 we owe each other love
Galatians - through love slave-serve one another
Positivity Toward Obeyers
Be positive towards obeyers
Positivity Conquers Your Issues
· What if one of the most powerful potent immediate things you can easily do to conquer almost all sin was simply to be more positive?
· Sound too good to be true?
· That temptation to not believe it is that easy is probably because the positivity required is something your flesh does not want to be positive towards.
· Is this being positive towards God?
· Yes, but not the way you think, because your flesh does not want to do this positivity.
· That effective, potent positivity (which is so full of promises) is towards God on earth, doing the horizontal justice of serious Love toward obeyers, not towards your fantasy fairytale deity in the sky, and your flesh is in total rebellion towards this.
· If you think about all the things you struggle with a gigantic part of it is simply being positive towards the right people, without inconsistent hypocrisy.
Wife’s Notes: Positivity Conquers Your Issues
What if one of the most powerful potent immediate things you can easily do to conquer almost all sin was simply to be more positive?
Sounds to good to be true?
That temptation to not believe that it's that easy is probably because the positivity required is something that the flesh does not want to be positive into.
Is this being positive toward God? Yes, but not the way you think. Because your flesh does not want to do this positivity. That effective, potent positivity is towards God on earth, NOT your fantasy of god in heaven. Your flesh is in total rebellion against that positivity.
Look at all the things you struggle with right now...A gigantic amount of it is tied into simply being positive towards the right people (in the right way without inconsistent hypocrisy).
So, now that we know we must / got to be positive toward obeyers…
the next question is…
Wife’s Notes: Doing Good Overcomes Exploitation Fears
Overcoming Fears of
Exploitation of Obeyers by Doing Good
1Pe 3:13-14 KJV
And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled
How to Love Each Other?
How do we seriously Love, and re-Love, each other so that we all help save each other, through longing to spend eternity with each other, by consistently starting right now, with the inspired saving Truth we communicate and reciprocate into each other, when we connect to each other’s truest inspired identity through worshiping the same clean God?
Wife’s Notes: How to Love?
How do we seriously love and re love each other? How do we help save each other through longing to spend eternity with each other? We can be consistent and start right now, with the inspired saving Truth we communicate and reciprocate into each other. We can connect to each other's truest identity and inspiration through worshipping the same clean God.
Naive Positivity?
Why
is it so Hard to be Positive?
What about fears of naive positivity and then are being taken advantage of?
Is there any reward for being more responsible / serious when others don’t notice your better practice?
Then if you don’t express enough disapproval of their inferior defaults, then they might just keep going on taking advantage of you…
Wife’s Notes: Naive Positivity?
How to crucify the fear of being taken advantage of if you just be positive towards people even though they are hurting you?
Answers
The puzzle piece that you're missing is "reciprocate and supply". You're supposed to be giving virtue to them. You are afraid because you have not established giving over to the other the virtue that you yourself owe them. If you give them what you're supposed to give them then eventually it will pan out in the end. They will either respond and be changed, or they will become like Judas (whom truth purified out).
If you're afraid then it's because you are not being a virtue solution provider.
Jesus knew of Judas being a thief and such, and he was able to patiently and virtuously convict, and convict, and convict him... And in the end Judas couldn't take it anymore and he killed himself and he is now dead.
Rebuking
Pro_29:1 He who is
often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Pro_29:1 A reprover is
better than a stiff-necked man, for when the latter is suddenly set on fire,
there shall be no remedy.
Pro_29:1 κρείσσων
ἀνὴρ ἐλέγχων ἀνδρὸς
σκληροτραχήλου·
ἐξαπίνης γὰρ
φλεγομένου αὐτοῦ
οὐκ ἔστιν ἴασις.
Romans
Notice the establishment of virtue is top priority for what Paul wants to accomplish as “fruit” among the assembly at Rome.
Wife’s Notes: Judas purified out / Purged out by Truth
Pro_29:1 He who is often rebuked and keeps stiffening his neck will suddenly be destroyed without remedy
Therefore We can initially purify our community simply by enduring in Truth.
>> purification by Truth
contributing Truth to each other, includes conviction as needed.
There is not as much to fear, because as long as you DO something about your fears, you have nothing to despair about, because Truth will process most exploitation.
No Exploitation
By default the flesh requires social contracts to force you into privacy protection
The flesh won’t do that without you forcing it and threatening it to be sued for large amt of money for the damage you do for breeching privacy
You are a wolf when you are struggling to be positive towards the right person, because you are exploiting something you are supposed to be protecting. -- and you are despising instead of protecting and building up!
When you live around each other you get acquainted with privileged information and you are not allowed to despise their weaknesses.
Michal liked David because she was not privileged with him, but once she got him, she exploited the privileged vulnerability of information she had access to
Familiarity breeds contempt = the flesh!
Wife’s Notes: No Exploitation
You're a wolf when you are struggling to be positive towards the right person because you exploit something you are supposed to be protecting. When you live around each other you become acquainted with privileged information, which you are NOT to cash in on when it hurts them the worst. You are to use privileged information for the best interests of others.
Michal towards David - You want what you don't have, but then when you achieve it you take it for granted. Familiarity breeds contempt.
…
You can be positive obeyers for forgiving them and giving to them
Unity is available by first forgiving people
And then be positive
And then if, for example, you feel afraid of being taken advantage of then repent of doing something wrong by not giving over to another the virtue required to promote reciprocation. The reason you despair is because you are giving over and not taking action. You can be optimistic when you are doing something to make a better tomorrow. With every temptation God makes a way out so that you can bear under it. There is always something virtuous you can do!
Giving Virtue Conquers Fear
· The human experience is about having babies and teaching them the word of God.
· Humans often forget to do the second part of the commission to teach your children the Word of God
· That’s why the world will be full of blood at Jesus’ Return, because they did the first part of filling the earth, but rebelled against the second part of Teaching them Truth like Adam was to do with Eve
You are afraid of being vulnerable to others because you have not established what you need to give over to them the virtue that the other person need. If you don’t give over what you are supposed to give to them, then you doubly reap destruction, Because you stop giving over what is owed, and then you also fear forgiving others / being positive towards obeyers as well.
If you are afraid of being walked over is because you are not being a virtue solution provider
When you see the end of the wicked you don’t envy them you pity them. This helps you to love people and exhort them to have a good end
Since you have the privilege of writing as a female
How you love your neighbor as yourself includes correcting them
What if you write but you don’t have an answer? Then repent
of the same sin yourself.
If you don’t empower then you don’t have an answer
Don’t despise others if you don’t have an answer to empower them.
The reason you despair is when you don’t take action
You can be optimistic when you are doing something to make a better tomorrow
Wife’s Notes: Lingering Fears of Exploitation
Still Have Fears of Your Positivity Being Abused?
If you're afraid of being walked over, it's because you are not being a virtue solution provider
Give truth to others, including conviction of necessary and if you are spiritual (Galatians 6:1)
Conviction is any insightfulness to speak words of convicting, convincing proof that raises moral awareness of liability, guilt, and truth
What do you do if you are not being spiritual?
Maybe you're not spiritual enough to give over a moral answer?
Can I speak ANY words that prove a moral issue?
If not then maybe you can at least have an inquiring conversation with the other person and maybe they can give you an answer to your concerns. Maybe they can convict you
And/or you can repent and change yourself
If you can't convict them then you are in no better situation than them
Wife’s Notes: Contributions of The Body
Romans 12, 1Cor 12, Eph 4 - The Lord has arranged each member in the body as he has chosen. Each body part is going to have a unique advantage such as perspectives, perceptions, aptitudes, access to various virtues, etc.
So do (A) your part and (B) take action against your fears of virtue-lacking people, and instead (C) contribute Truth to them, including (D) Conviction! (whenever necessary)
Then you can want to be around the righteous for eternity, starting right NOW!
the consistency of non-hypocrisy positively Loves the right people just like Anointed One, and wherever there is lacking, a member of Jesus’ body builds up the lack in others, including exhortation and even conviction.
Wife’s Notes: Take Action: Provide Answers & Conviction
If you know something that is not right, or you know that something is going awry, then take action and write/speak an answer for it. A monotheistic love for your neighbor is to rebuke your neighbor (Lev_19:) and not just let things slide.
You either have an answer for others or you need to repent yourself until you have a better answer than them. You are sharing in the same character flaws that they have if you can't inspire them to change.
You don't know anything unless you can empower others to do better.
If I feel like something is wrong yet I can't empower them then the responsibility is on me.
Convicting
Gal_6: He who is spiritual restore such as one
What do you do if you are not spiritual?
Is conviction the same as restoring someone?
Conviction can be any insightfulness that allows someone else to see their liability
Conviction could be the part that points out the problem
Restoring someone is telling them how to put it back together right (bringing them to the truth)
Spiritual Correction
If you are not sure how spiritual you are your first question
should be
can I speak any words that prove a moral issue here?
Can I give anything to the situation?
Remember, you give first you don’t have to fear being exploited
If you can’t give anything you still got some options
· Maybe they can convict you, and/or…
·
You can repent yourself –
because remember if you can’t convict them you are just as liable as they are
this repentance is like the garden of gethsemane. If you don’t let go of that
hypocrisy it will kill you in the end. You will make yourself evil by that
hypocrisy
· Take another with you, then the church – then someone who is spiritual can help
Disciple Question: Perfection Still Needs Testing?
5:08 PM
So there could be a question mark even though God said Job was perfect, etc to where the devil still had a reason to trouble him?
Perfection Still Needs Testing
Job was perfect
but Job still had some question mark for the devil to test
Hence Job vented and God answered “who is this who darkens My council”
Jesus is perfect
But…
Mat_4:4 / Luk_4:4 – Willingly suffered in the garden
Watch and pray suffering
He learned obedience through the things He suffered
Why does a perfect person need to be tested?
Because we still have a humanity to sacrifice
You should be thinking that is wise and impressive to pay the price now, as quick and early I possible can
We are working on preparing the way for those preparing the way. I’m doing the work of the two witnesses to get ready for the two witnesses. They have not been established or revealed yet.
Wife’s Notes: Assembly’s Trial – Still Needed
The Assembly Needs to
Go Thru a Trial
The assembly needs to go thru a trial. And that trial will cause 5 to fail and 5 to win.
If you logically embrace crucifixion willingly ahead of time then you get to be apart of the wakeup call that happens later to the wise & foolish virgins, and the call to 'come out from among her my people'. And a mystery is who gets to even be apart of the one who hears the voice of the bridegroom and the friend of the groom and the voice calling out in the wilderness?
Elijah the restorer wakes them up. And who will be a type of John the Baptist? John the Baptist takes care of the Bride. The 10 virgins represent the fundamental number of an Assembly (I.e. enough people to build and assembly). This doesn't mean that there are not apostles and those taking care of the assembly, like the friend of the bridegroom (the restorer of Israel).
Wife’s Notes: Serious Enough for Accountability?
What Constitutes
Needing to Go to Your Brother?
Well, the results is that you need to agree on everything
If this feels out of reach then it is only because you are not doing enough prayer/zeal/virtue/work on your end.
Feeling frustrated at someone without being able to convict them is the hypocrisy of your own flesh
You are in a fight between life and death
Perfect unity is within reach if you will just be spiritual and responsible to do what God is telling you to do. Think right and do enough work on your end so that when you come to talk to your brother or sister then it is not nearly as much of a problem (in yourself) by the time you get to them.
We need optimized communication by doing sufficient leg work on our own end.
Don't be lazy!
We Need to Agree on Everything
How serious does a disagreement need to be before that process of 2 and 3 witnesses needs to bring in correction?
Answer: The result is that we need to agree on everything.
It only feels out of reach if you are not doing enough work on your end
When you have an issue and you can’t convict someone,
Hear and do what God is telling you to do. Think right and do enough work on your end so it is not nearly enough of a problem as it use to be.
It is work but it is not ground sweat work.
It is a total different ball game when you do enough work on your end.
God’s commandments are not burdensome when you do enough work on your end. Die to your flesh be spiritual Die to your own rationale/thinking
They do by nature the things contained in the law is the right thinking
When brothers dwell together in unity is sweet, it is not burdensome.
Correction Process of Perfecting the Assembly
Mat_18:
1Co_6: someone wise among you
Gal_6: someone spiritual among you
Acts 15 Jerusalem council
Gal_2: same story as Acts 15 where they had to bring it before the church
The answer to churchianity is imperfection
The answer to the Bible Bride is perfection. You have to be aiming for perfection to be the spotless bride in the end. When she has no spot it is linked to judging the church.
The Bible Works! Stop giving up to evangelicalism that aims at imperfection. Stop agreeing to disagree
Jesus’ bride is spotless/no imperfection/no blemish/nothing to accuse her of
Your prayers do affect angels fighting to get to you.
In heaven morality rules. On earth might is right.
Rom_6 & 12: talk about logical crucifixion
You are as Liable if You Can’t Convict
…Therefore YOU Repent, even though you are flustered at them
You’re afraid of being exploited by an obeyer by being too positive towards them
Is your fear totally unfounded in every single case? Not necessarily, but you are in danger of hypocrisy because if you hold anything against them and hold back your positivity toward them and yet you can’t convict them, you’re actually in danger by holding back positivity and cheerfulness and optimism toward them because you are just as liable as they are when you can’t convict them and you can count on that and you can guarantee yourself that because that is descriptive it is predictive and it carries the weight of being prescriptive – because its Biblical
Building Up
The Lord has arranged each member in The Body as He has chosen.
Each body part is going to have an advantage such as their perspective, their aptitude -- their access to virtue.
This advantage does NOT to allow anyone to be stunted in their growth just because others are better at certain virtues.
This is about each other up until we all arrive as a perfect man Jesus
“Smart People” Struggling to Forgive
Forgiveness is Harder for “Smart People” with “Knowledge”
When you struggle to forgive people and because you think you have more wisdom you are in a dangerous situation. Notice how children quickly forgive each other? You don’t want to be a grown fool
You need to repent of demonic wisdom and not holding things against people. If you don’t do something virtuous with your knowledge it is going to kill you just like money increase without giving the right way will kill you.
Wife’s Notes: “Smart People” Struggling to Forgive
You do not struggle to forgive people because you have more knowledge than a child and thus you are able to hold people more accountable. You struggle with forgiving people because you are being fooled (and are being a fool). Don't flatter yourself with demonic, worldly wisdom that James already told you to repent of. Additionally you are supposed to be leaning into being Anointed One's body. You are supposed to supply being a solution provider. Don't hold back circulation!
The Luxury of Knowledge
Knowledge is often, by default, a type of luxury.
Knowledge is often times like money.
If you don't do something virtuous with your knowledge then it's going to kill you.
Increasing Without Inspiration
Life is not just about growing. Life, and the human experience, is about having babies and teaching them the Word of God. We do need to increase in knowledge to fill the earth, but you need to reproduce virtue as you grow & gain.
Increasing babies and Knowledge without the Word of God is why the world will be destroyed in the end, and full of blood from those who simply “filled the earth” without supplying the Word of God to those it grew and multiplied.
Wife’s Notes: Hypocrisy Leading to Death
Hypocritical
Unforgiveness
Don't say, 'oh I just can't forget and let that go what so-in-so did. They just can't be allowed to get away with that!'
If you don't stop holding on to that attitude/way of thinking then you will destroy yourself
If people do something wrong then you should have the backbone of integrity to prove that there is a moral issue at hand, WITHOUT wrath or anger or anything like that
Remember how even God talked to murderous Cain, 'is it right that you be the way you are?' Look at how temperate and self controlled and logical God was towards a dark filled murderer!
Wife’s Notes: Sanity Talked Into Yourself
Remember to Talk Some
Sanity Into Yourself
Example
Psalm 42:5 (KJV): "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."
Psalm 43:5 (KJV): "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."
Wife’s Notes: Logical Crucifixion
So Pray Until...!
Sweat it out until you've died to sin
And you know you have successfully died to sin when you are loving people enough to have answers for them
Enter into the agony of Anointed One and pray hard against the contradictions you feel in and around you
Toss-n-turn over the need to have spiritualness in your life that overturns all the evil you see/hear/feel/face
If we sin and have unconquered fleshiness then we are in danger of the Devil having leverage to go back up into heaven with a prosecution case
Surrender to the truth and be vulnerable to perfection
Our aim is perfection
And perfection requires sacrifice
Wife’s Notes: Positivity Toward Obeyers
ETO: Wife’s Notes: Our Mission
The two witnesses have not been officially revealed yet
What we at least know that we are working on is 'preparing the way for those preparing the way'. We are doing the work of the 2 witnesses to get ready for the 2 witnesses
Preparing a truth proclamation that the Bride could be perfect one day, and we are seeking to gather ammunition and a supply of truth for her to win and not falter when she is shaken and purged
Crowns: Obeyer’s Are Each Other’s Glory
Be Crowns to Other Obeyers
Php_4: Longed for Crowns of Endurance & Agreement!
Php_4:1
Therefore, my beloved and longed for brothers, my joy
and crown, in this way stand fast [στήκετε] in the Lord, beloved.
Php_4:1
῞Ωστε, ἀδελφοί
μου ἀγαπητοὶ
καὶ ἐπιπόθητοι,
χαρὰ καὶ
στέφανός
μου, οὕτω
στήκετε ἐν
Κυρίῳ, ἀγαπητοί.
Php_4:1 ωστε
αδελφοι μου
αγαπητοι και
επιποθητοι
χαρα και
στεφανος μου
ουτως στηκετε
εν κυριω αγαπητοι
Php_4:2 I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche
to be of the same mind in the Lord.
Php_4:2
Εὐοδίαν
παρακαλῶ καὶ
Συντύχην
παρακαλῶ τὸ
αὐτὸ φρονεῖν
ἐν Κυρίῳ.
Php_4:2 SBAευοδιαν Tευωδιαν
παρακαλω και
συντυχην
παρακαλω το
αυτο φρονειν
εν κυριω
TSK: my joy: Phi_2:16, 2Co_1:14, 1Th_2:19, 1Th_2:20, 1Th_3:9
“Stand Fast” = Virtue Perseverance
· Στήκετε (Php_4:1) = stay in the same “stood” place -- consistency and non-hypocrisy of perseverance in truth and virtue.
· We need virtue and faith upgrades to continually endure more like full-time believers.
· Use your shared royal valuable identity and virtue-love into each other as moral power to persevere in endurance in clean righteousness
Perfect divine Unity is possible when virtue is established!
1Th_2: Crowns of Companionship for Eternity
ES: Paul's
Longing to See Them Again
1Th_2:17 But we,
brothers, being unwillingly separated from you for a short season, in presence,
not in heart, were all the more eager to see your face with much desire.
1Th_2:17
῾Ημεῖς δέ, ἀδελφοί,
ἀπορφανισθέντες
ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν
πρὸς καιρὸν ὥρας,
προσώπῳ οὐ
καρδίᾳ,
περισσοτέρως
ἐσπουδάσαμεν
τὸ πρόσωπον
ὑμῶν ἰδεῖν
ἐν πολλῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ.
1Th_2:17 ημεις δε
αδελφοι
απορφανισθεντες
αφ υμων προς
καιρον ωρας
προσωπω ου
καρδια
περισσοτερως
εσπουδασαμεν
το προσωπον
υμων ιδειν εν
πολλη επιθυμια
1Th_2:18 Therefore we
desired to come to you--I, Paul, time and again--but Satan hindered us.
1Th_2:18
διὸ ἠθελήσαμεν
ἐλθεῖν πρὸς
ὑμᾶς, ἐγὼ
μὲν Παῦλος,
καὶ ἅπαξ καὶ
δίς, καὶ ἐνέκοψεν
ἡμᾶς ὁ
Σατανᾶς.
1Th_2:18 Aδιοτι TSBδιο
ηθελησαμεν
ελθειν προς
υμας εγω μεν
παυλος και
απαξ και δις
και ενεκοψεν
ημας ο σατανας
1Th_2:19 For what is our hope, or joy,
or crown of boasting? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus
at His coming?
1Th_2:19
τίς γὰρ ἡμῶν
ἐλπὶς ἢ
χαρὰ ἢ
στέφανος
καυχήσεως, ἢ
οὐχὶ καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ
Κυρίου ἡμῶν
᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ ἐν
τῇ αὐτοῦ
παρουσίᾳ;
1Th_2:19 τις γαρ
ημων ελπις η
χαρα η
στεφανος καυχησεως
η ουχι και
υμεις
εμπροσθεν του
κυριου ημων ιησου
TSχριστου εν
τη αυτου
παρουσια
1Th_2:20 For you
are our glory and joy.
1Th_2:20 ὑμεῖς
γάρ ἐστε ἡ
δόξα ἡμῶν
καὶ ἡ χαρά.
2Co_1: Interdependent Boast-Rejoicing
2Co_1:14 CAB just as also you have understood us in part,
that we are your boasting [καύχημα], as indeed [καθάπερ] you also are ours, in the day of the Lord [|Aημων|] Jesus.
2Co_1:14
καθὼς καὶ ἐπέγνωτε
ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ
μέρους, ὅτι
καύχημα ὑμῶν
ἐσμεν,
καθάπερ καὶ
ὑμεῖς ἡμῶν,
ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ
τοῦ Κυρίου |Aημων| ᾿Ιησοῦ.
Rom_1: Longing for Rome
Paul
Wants to Come to the Assembly at Rome
Rom_1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus
Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Rom_1:8
Πρῶτον μὲν
εὐχαριστῶ τῷ
Θεῷ μου διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ ὑπὲρ
πάντων ὑμῶν,
ὅτι ἡ πίστις
ὑμῶν
καταγγέλλεται
ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ
κόσμῳ.
Rom_1:8 πρωτον
μεν ευχαριστω
τω θεω μου δια
ιησου χριστου Aπερι TSBυπερ
παντων υμων
οτι η πιστις
υμων
καταγγελλεται εν
ολω τω κοσμω
Rom_1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve
with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of
you always in my prayers,
Rom_1:9
μάρτυς γάρ
μού ἐστιν ὁ
Θεός, ᾧ
λατρεύω ἐν
τῷ
πνεύματί μου
ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ
τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ,
ὡς ἀδιαλείπτως
μνείαν ὑμῶν
ποιοῦμαι,
Rom_1:10 requesting
if somehow now at sometime I shall succeed in the will of God to
come to you.
Rom_1:10
πάντοτε ἐπὶ
τῶν προσευχῶν
μου δεόμενος
εἴ πως ἤδη
ποτὲ εὐοδωθήσομαι
ἐν τῷ
θελήματι τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
Rom_1:10 παντοτε
επι των
προσευχων μου
δεομενος Aει Aπως TSBειπως ηδη
ποτε
ευοδωθησομαι
εν τω θεληματι
του θεου
ελθειν προς
υμας
Rom_1:11 For I
long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that
you may be established [στηριχθῆναι]--
Rom_1:11
ἐπιποθῶ
γὰρ ἰδεῖν ὑμᾶς,
ἵνα τι μεταδῶ
χάρισμα ὑμῖν
πνευματικὸν
εἰς τὸ
στηριχθῆναι ὑμᾶς,
Rom_1:12 that is, that
I may be encouraged together among you through the mutual faith
both of you and me.
Rom_1:12
τοῦτο δέ ἐστιν
συμπαρακληθῆναι
ἐν ὑμῖν
διὰ τῆς ἐν ἀλλήλοις
πίστεως ὑμῶν
τε καὶ ἐμοῦ.
Rom_1:13 Now I do not
want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I
was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among
you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
Rom_1:13
οὐ θέλω δὲ
ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν,
ἀδελφοί, ὅτι
πολλάκις
προεθέμην ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς,
καὶ ἐκωλύθην
ἄχρι τοῦ δεῦρο,
ἵνα τινὰ
καρπὸν σχῶ
καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν
καθὼς καὶ ἐν
τοῖς λοιποῖς
ἔθνεσιν.
Rom_1:13 ου θελω
δε υμας
αγνοειν
αδελφοι οτι
πολλακις
προεθεμην
ελθειν προς
υμας και
εκωλυθην αχρι του
δευρο ινα TSκαρπον
τινα BAκαρπον
σχω και εν υμιν
καθως και εν
τοις λοιποις εθνεσιν
Rom_1:14 I am a debtor
both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.
Rom_1:14
῞Ελλησί τε
καὶ
βαρβάροις,
σοφοῖς τε
καὶ ἀνοήτοις
ὀφειλέτης εἰμί·
Rom_1:15 So, as much
as is in me, I am eager [πρόθυμον] to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
Rom_1:15 οὕτω τὸ
κατ᾿ ἐμὲ
πρόθυμον καὶ
ὑμῖν τοῖς ἐν
῾Ρώμῃ εὐαγγελίσασθαι.
Wife’s Notes: Romans 1
Romans 1 - Paul longs to be around them in order to give them something favorable out of himself. This is one of his motivations.
When you really love people then there is this deep desire to see more and more establishment and down standing and firmness of others in the good arrangement of the Truth. John's greatest joy was to see his children walking in the truth.
Do you believe that you can give something true & valuable to others? If you believe that you can give over righteousness to others then you will be more eager to be around them.
Your flesh, even if it meant saving itself from burning in hell forever, it just won't put a smile on its face towards the right thing and towards the right people.
Undoing Untruth Against the Righteous
Succeeding by Negativity Against The Truth is hard to reverse!
A psychologist once said that progress facilitates brain growth. But if that progress is gained through dishonesty/a lie then it's going to be a long path to go back and undo the warpness that has happened from your brain having developed through the wrong pathways
Php_1: Paul Longs for the Assemblies -- with Inspired Bowels
Paul
Loves the Assemblies
Similar to Rom_1:
Php_1:8 CAB For God is my witness, how greatly I
long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
Php_1:8
μάρτυς γάρ
μού ἐστιν ὁ
θεός, ὡς ἐπιποθῶ
πάντας ὑμᾶς
ἐν
σπλάγχνοις ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ.
Php_1:8 μαρτυς
γαρ μου TSBεστιν ο
θεος ως
επιποθω παντας
υμας εν
σπλαγχνοις TSBιησου
χριστου Aιησου
Php_1:9 And this I pray, that your love may
abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception,
Php_1:9
καὶ τοῦτο
προσεύχομαι, ἵνα
ἡ ἀγάπη ὑμῶν
ἔτι μᾶλλον
καὶ μᾶλλον
περισσεύῃ ἐν
ἐπιγνώσει
καὶ πάσῃ αἰσθήσει,
Php_1:9 και
τουτο
προσευχομαι
ινα η αγαπη
υμων ετι
μαλλον και
μαλλον
περισσευη εν
επιγνωσει και
παση αισθησει
Php_1:10 that you may approve
the things that are excellent, in order that you may be sincere
and without offense till the day of Christ,
Php_1:10
εἰς τὸ
δοκιμάζειν ὑμᾶς
τὰ
διαφέροντα, ἵνα
ἦτε εἰλικρινεῖς
καὶ ἀπρόσκοποι
εἰς ἡμέραν
Χριστοῦ,
Php_1:10 εις το
δοκιμαζειν
υμας τα
διαφεροντα ινα
ητε
ειλικρινεις
και απροσκοποι
εις ημεραν
χριστου
Php_1:11 having been
filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus
Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Php_1:11
πεπληρωμένοι
καρπὸν
δικαιοσύνης
τὸν διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ εἰς
δόξαν καὶ ἔπαινον
Θεοῦ.
Php_1:11 πεπληρωμενοι Aκαρπον TSBκαρπων δικαιοσυνης Aτον TSBτων δια ιησου χριστου εις δοξαν και επαινον θεου
Notice the virtue-Truth-“Fruit”-priority again that is tied into real Love & faithful longing for each other.
Gal_4: Truth Prioritized Over Relationships!
Paul Risks Broken Relationships in this Life for the
Truth that Inherits the Next
Gal_4:15 CAB What then was your blessing? For I bear you
witness that, if possible, you would have torn out your own eyes and given them
to me!
Gal_4:15
τίς οὖν ἦν ὁ
μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν;
μαρτυρῶ γὰρ
ὑμῖν ὅτι εἰ
δυνατὸν τοὺς
ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν
ἐξορύξαντες ἂν
ἐδώκατέ
μοι.
Gal_4:15 Aπου TSBτις ουν TSBην ο
μακαρισμος
υμων μαρτυρω
γαρ υμιν οτι ει
δυνατον τους
οφθαλμους υμων
εξορυξαντες TSBαν εδωκατε
μοι
Gal_4:16 Have I therefore become your enemy by
speaking the truth to you?
Gal_4:16 ὥστε ἐχθρὸς
ὑμῶν γέγονα
ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;
Emotionally Dependent
Real Love = preparing for coming
Notice how emotionally dependent Paul is, and calls us to be, in these example passages…
Wife’s Notes: Crowns
3/30/25…4/1/25; 4/3/25; 4/12/25
Complacent Slouching
Being emotionally dependent on each other will put you in a position/orientation where you can rejoice at the coming of the Lord
If you are slouching and complacent now then you are setting yourself up for shame at His coming. So how do we rev up? Cuz you don't/won't win a race by slouching.
Crave Each Other
1Thess_2:17 emotional lust, craving, and unresolve til you get something
Proclaimers Need Saving Faith & Love
Even Disciples, Proclaimers, Apostles Need to Be Saved
with Real Faith & Love
Even to his own disciples, Jesus in the midst of sending them out to preach to say things like, 'unless you are converted and become as children then you will not in no way enter the kingdom of heaven'
How can you be having childlike faith and real love brewing in you?
Real Love symptoms:
*Wanting & craving to be together and around each other
If you don't crave this then you are in danger of shame at His coming
Why would you not want to be around other righteous people?
The devil has some very cunning devices and cuts in on us to deceive us into such shocking ways of thinking and feeling
*The righteous need to pray together all the time!
Why would you not pray together? Personal issues, private meditation...prioritizing other things...Constrained bowels (2Cor_6:12)...distrust of each other? At odds with each other? Disconnected or disjointed or brokenness somewhere?
Why don't you feel related to each other? Simply believing heresies about each other and believing in pseudo identities about each other can make you feel this way
Repenting into Crowns
Zealous Faith to Repent
See: SRP > Zealous Faith to Repent
Sin-Repentance-Perfection.htm#ZealousFaithtoRepent
Who’s the Cause?
How do you tell if you are the problem or they are the problem?
If you are the problem then you need to repent
If they are the problem then you need to promote what the other person needs: like exhortation and or conviction.
Eager to Be Together
As soon as you are willing, I want to pray with you
There is all kind of “money we are leaving on the table”, i.e. camaraderie/friendship when we neglect doing eagerness in Truth to each other.
Virtue Upgrades
What are the next steps towards virtue upgrades?
Which have pre-requisites of being sensitive, perceptive and constantly aware of your desolation - that drives you to ask. If you are not doing this, then you should be afraid of not making it.
Value - Love
Praying together
Wife’s Notes: *Persistence in discipleship:
You need to be asking other righteous people: what are
the next steps towards virtue upgrades?
A prereq of asking questions like this is that you need to be sensitive and constantly aware of the desolation of your flesh
You need to be constantly thinking about how you can repent, and how you can get more virtue, and what you can do differently today, etc
Wife’s Questions
lingering questions:
(1) Time Scarcity
How to process time scarcity? What if you want to ask persistent discipleship questions but you hesitate due to not seeing a fair way to travel, where you have sufficient time to both ask your question and to hear an adequate answer for your question? I thought we wanted to be careful about being overly general with our questions and just asking blanket million dollar questions, and thus putting the majority of the leg work on the one answering. Speaking of, don't we want to make sure we've done enough work on our end in generating a well timed and thought out question? And don't we also want to give the one answering a fair shot at being able to give a good response? We don't want to put each other in a "hit and run" predicament do we? But then again, I suppose if we fulfill the prereq of being very aware and sensitive to the desolation of our flesh then asking those types of questions, and answering them, would probably be a lot easier and efficient even in constrained time crunches...
See: Optimized Talking
(2) Strings Attached
-- Under Construction --
(3) Faith to Change
How to process feelings of things not changing? What do you do if you face feelings that you've talked about/thru certain topics over and over before, and you don't feel like you're making much progress, at least not quickly at all, and there is still yet need to talk further? How can you fight to take heart that things will indeed change even if you must face the same social situations and discussions over and over again? Believing that things can change seems like it's at the core of a lot of discouragement and any draggings of zeal towards each other...
(4) Judgement-Phobia
We mentioned, "why would you not want to be around the righteous?" (As the overseer had asked previously when teaching)
Well, church people often say things like they feel most judged by other church people. People don't want to be condemned. And humans generally don't like being misunderstood, and much less scrutinized by others.
Furthermore, people get comfortable with the way they want to live and they don't like others "cramping their style" and inconveniencing the way they feel they need to manage their own life.
People naturally have very different ways of applying life and living it out, and it takes A LOT of work to transpose and converge the way you live with another person, and much more work with an entire community. The world would go so far as to say that it's all just a very impractical and inconvenient way of living.
I know the churchy mentality as a whole is just hogwash and worldly, and you need to forsake such doctrines and ways of thinking when coming into Covenant with the Truth. We're not supposed to be those who draw back, but rather press in and come into the light and welcome being "scrutinized" by the light and becoming light in the process. That being said, are there any ways in which we can fortify ourselves from being affected by churchy schools of thought that fears/avoids judgment, condemnation, and incompatibleness from others?
Optimized Talking
See: RAS >
Righteous-Assembly.htm#OptimizedTalking
Refresh -- The Refreshing Love of Knowledgeable
Identity Cherishing
The issues we have with
each other are really issues we have with Truth.
Our limitations we
experience toward each other are really just the limitations we have placed
upon the Truth.
Refreshing Love happens
when you start seriously Loving God & People,
and this refreshing especially happens through the resulting warm virtues that
flow from serious Love, and furthermore this refreshing happens even more when
you obey the New Command to have Jesus-Like Love…
-- When you Love people like that, lots of Refreshing Love happens!
>> the Sheep and the
Goats
· Recognizing Divine identity
· Refresh
Real Friend Refreshes with Faithful Love
Pro_17:17 – Friend always loves, brother for adversity;
· Discussed under Faithful Love; comp. Refresh
Unity Refreshes
Col_2:2 – Knitting Love = Comfort
Special Love of Disciples
1Pe_1:22
· Discussed under No Hypocritical Love(lessness)
See: 1Jo_3: herein
Please Your Neighbor
>> Scrip:
please his neighbor
Not Pleasing / Not Giving a
Good Day...
· Does not acknowledge who someone is (Bible obligates you toward their refreshment based on their inspired identity)
· Does not consider someone else's identity
· Does not even properly value them as a person, much less does it reverence their inspired identity
· Is not wise or considerate toward justice - you owe a gigantic debt!
· Is not the wisdom the flows out of Love
2Ti_1 -- Onesiphorus & Family Refresh Paul
2Ti_1:16 LSV may the LORD give
kindness [ἔλεος] to the house of Onesiphorus,
because he ·refreshed
me many times [πολλάκις
με ἀνέψυξε], and ·was not ashamed of my chain [ἅλυσίν
μου οὐκ ἐπαισχύνθη],
2Ti_1:16 GRVii+ δωηG1325V-2AAO-3S δίδωμι to give ελεοςG1656N-ASN ἔλεος compassion οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κυριοςG2962N-NSM κύριος lord τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the ονησιφορουG3683N-GSM Ὀνησίφορος profit-bearer οικωG3624N-DSM οἶκος a dwelling οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because πολλακιςG4178ADV πολλάκις many times μεG3165P-1AS μέ me ανεψυξενG404V-AAI-3S ἀναψύχω to cool off καιG2532CONJ καί and τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the αλυσινG254N-ASF ἅλυσις a fetter μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me ουκG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not επαισχυνθηG1870V-AOI-3S ἐπαισχύνομαι to feel shame for something ναβ [επησχυνθηG1870V-API-3S ἐπαισχύνομαι to feel shame for something] τσ
2Ti_1:17 LSV but being [γενόμενος] in Rome, ·he sought me very diligently
and found [me] [σπουδαιότερον
ἐζήτησέ με
καὶ εὗρε];
2Ti_1:17 GRVii+ αλλαG235CONJ ἀλλά other things γενομενοςG1096V-2ADP-NSM γίνομαι to cause to be ενG1722PREP ἔν in ρωμηG4516N-DSF Ῥώμη strength σπουδαιωςG4709ADV σπουδαίως earnestly να [σπουδαιοτερονG4706A-ASM-C σπουδαιότερον very promptly] τσβ εζητησενG2212V-AAI-3S ζητέω to seek μεG3165P-1AS μέ me καιG2532CONJ καί and ευρενG2147V-2AAI-3S εὑρίσκω to find
2Ti_1:18 LSV may the LORD give to him
to find kindness [ἔλεος] from [παρὰ] the LORD in that day [there (ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ)]; and you very well [βέλτιον
– i.e. thrown-over/better] know how much he ministered [διηκόνησε] in Ephesus.
2Ti_1:18 GRVii+ δωηG1325V-2AAO-3S δίδωμι to give αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he, she, it οG3588T-NSM ὁ the κυριοςG2962N-NSM κύριος lord ευρεινG2147V-2AAN εὑρίσκω to find ελεοςG1656N-ASN ἔλεος compassion παραG3844PREP παρά near κυριουG2962N-GSM κύριος lord ενG1722PREP ἔν in εκεινηG1565D-DSF ἐκεῖνος that one τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the ημεραG2250N-DSF ἡμέρα day καιG2532CONJ καί and οσαG3745K-APN ὅσος as as ενG1722PREP ἔν in εφεσωG2181N-DSF Ἔφεσος Ephesus διηκονησενG1247V-AAI-3S διακονέω to be an attendant βελτιονG957N-ASNADV βελτίον better συG4771P-2NS σύ thou γινωσκειςG1097V-PAI-2S γινώσκω to know
1Co_16 -- Refreshing Trio: Stephanas, Fortunatus, & Achaicus Refresh Paul
1Co_16:17 LSV and I rejoice over the
coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because these ·filled up the lack of you [ὑμῶν
ὑστέρημα {< ὑπό}
οὗτοι ἀνεπλήρωσαν];_
1Co_16:17 GRVii+ χαιρωG5463V-PAI-1S χαίρω to be cheerful δεG1161CONJ δέ but επιG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the παρουσιαG3952N-DSF παρουσία a being near στεφαναG4734N-GSM Στεφανᾶς from καιG2532CONJ καί and φορτουνατουG5415N-GSM Φορτουνάτος fortunate να [φουρτουνατουG5415N-GSM Φορτουνάτος fortunate] τσβ καιG2532CONJ καί and αχαικουG883N-GSM Ἀχαϊκός an Achaian οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the υμετερονG5212S-2APN ὑμέτερος yours να [υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you] τσβ υστερημαG5303N-ASN ὑστέρημα a deficit ουτοιG3778D-NPM οὗτος the he ανεπληρωσανG378V-AAI-3P ἀναπληρόω to complete
1Co_16:18 LSV for they refreshed [ἀνέπαυσαν] my spirit and yours;
acknowledge [ἐπιγινώσκετε], therefore [οὖν], those who [are] such.
1Co_16:18 GRVii+ ανεπαυσανG373V-AAI-3P ἀναπαύω to repose γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the εμονG1699S-1ASN ἐμός my πνευμαG4151N-ASN πνεῦμα a current of air καιG2532CONJ καί and τοG3588T-ASN ὁ the υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you επιγινωσκετεG1921V-PAM-2P ἐπιγινώσκω to know upon some mark ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the τοιουτουςG5108D-APM τοιοῦτος truly this
Phm 1 -- Philemon's Refreshing Love & Faith
Phm_1:4 LSV I give thanks [Εὐχαριστῶ] to my God, always [πάντοτε] ·making mention of you in [μνείαν
σου
ποιούμενος ἐπὶ] my prayers,
Phm_1:4 GRVii+ ευχαριστωG2168V-PAI-1S εὐχαριστέω to be grateful τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the θεωG2316N-DSM θεός god μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me παντοτεG3842ADV πάντοτε every when μνειανG3417N-ASF μνεία recollection σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee ποιουμενοςG4160V-PMP-NSM ποιέω to make επιG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition τωνG3588T-GPF ὁ the προσευχωνG4335N-GPF προσευχή prayer μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me
Phm_1:5 LSV hearing of [that
of]
your [the
(τὴν)] love and [the (τὴν)] faith that you have to the Lord
Jesus and toward all the holy ones,
Phm_1:5 GRVii+ ακουωνG191V-PAP-NSM ἀκούω to hear σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the αγαπηνG26N-ASF ἀγάπη love καιG2532CONJ καί and τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the πιστινG4102N-ASF πίστις persuasion ηνG3739R-ASF ὅς who, which εχειςG2192V-PAI-2S ἔχω to hold προςG4314PREP πρός forward to τονG3588T-ASM ὁ the κυριονG2962N-ASM κύριος lord ιησουνG2424N-ASM Ἰησοῦς Jesus καιG2532CONJ καί and ειςG1519PREP εἰς to πανταςG3956A-APM πᾶς all τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the αγιουςG40A-APM ἅγιος sacred
Phm_1:6 LSV that the fellowship [κοινωνία] of [that of] your faith may ·become working [ἐνεργὴς
γένηται] in the [a] full knowledge [ἐπιγνώσει] of every good thing that [is] in [usναβ] youτσ toward [εἰς] Christ Jesusτσβ;
Phm_1:6 GRVii+ οπωςG3704ADV ὅπως what how ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the κοινωνιαG2842N-NSF κοινωνία partnership τηςG3588T-GSF ὁ the πιστεωςG4102N-GSF πίστις persuasion σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee ενεργηςG1756A-NSF ἐνεργής active γενηταιG1096V-2ADS-3S γίνομαι to cause to be ενG1722PREP ἔν in επιγνωσειG1922N-DSF ἐπίγνωσις recognition παντοςG3956A-GSN πᾶς all αγαθουG18A-GSN ἀγαθός good τουG3588T-GSN ὁ the ενG1722PREP ἔν in ημινG2254P-1DP ἐγώ to us ναβ [υμινG5213P-2DP σύ to you] τσ ειςG1519PREP εἰς to χριστονG5547N-ASM Χριστός anointed [ιησουνG2424N-ASM Ἰησοῦς Jesus] τσβ
Phm_1:7 LSV for we have much
[πολλὴν] joy [χαρὰννασ |χαριν βτ (same root as v.4)] and ·comfort in [upon that of] your love [παράκλησιν
ἐπὶ τῇ ἀγάπῃ
σου], because [ὅτι] the yearnings [σπλάγχνα] of the holy ones have been
refreshed [ἀναπέπαυται] through you, brother.
Phm_1:7 GRVii+ χαρανG5479N-ASF χαρά cheerfulness νασ [χαρινG5485N-ASF χάρις graciousness] βτ [---G5484ADV χάριν through favor of] βτ γαρG1063CONJ γάρ assigning a reason [εχομενG2192V-PAI-1P ἔχω to hold] τσβ πολληνG4183A-ASF πολύς much εσχονG2192V-2AAI-1S ἔχω to hold να καιG2532CONJ καί and παρακλησινG3874N-ASF παράκλησις imploration επιG1909PREP ἐπί superimposition τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the αγαπηG26N-DSF ἀγάπη love σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because ταG3588T-NPN ὁ the σπλαγχναG4698N-NPN σπλάγχνον an intestine τωνG3588T-GPM ὁ the αγιωνG40A-GPM ἅγιος sacred αναπεπαυταιG373V-RPI-3S ἀναπαύω to repose διαG1223PREP διά through σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee αδελφεG80N-VSM ἀδελφός a brother
…
Phm_1:20 LSV Yes, brother, may I have
profit [ὀναίμην (Lex:
ὀνίνημι) – i.e.
use/benefit/help/satisfaction/gratification] of you in the LORD; refresh [ἀνάπαυσόν] my yearnings [σπλάγχνα] in the LORD;
Phm_1:20 GRVii+ ναιG3483PRT ναί yes αδελφεG80N-VSM ἀδελφός a brother εγωG1473P-1NS ἐγώ I σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee οναιμηνG3685V-2ADO-1S ὀνίνημι to gratify ενG1722PREP ἔν in κυριωG2962N-DSM κύριος lord αναπαυσονG373V-AAM-2S ἀναπαύω to repose μουG3450P-1GS ἐγώ of me ταG3588T-APN ὁ the σπλαγχναG4698N-APN σπλάγχνον an intestine ενG1722PREP ἔν in χριστωG5547N-DSM Χριστός anointed να [κυριωG2962N-DSM κύριος lord] τσβ
Phm_1:21 LSV I wrote to you ·having been confident in your
obedience [Πεποιθὼς
τῇ ὑπακοῇ
σου], having known [εἰδὼς
– seen]
that you will also do above [ὑπὲρ] what I may say;
Phm_1:21 GRVii+ πεποιθωςG3982V-2RAP-NSM πείθω to convince τηG3588T-DSF ὁ the υπακοηG5218N-DSF ὑπακοή attentive hearkening σουG4675P-2GS σύ of thee εγραψαG1125V-AAI-1S γράφω to grave σοιG4671P-2DS σύ to thee ειδωςG1492V-RAP-NSM οἶδα to see οτιG3754CONJ ὅτι that, because καιG2532CONJ καί and υπερG5228PREP ὑπέρ over αG3739R-APN ὅς who, which να [οG3739R-ASN ὅς who, which] τσβ λεγωG3004V-PAI-1S λέγω to lay forth ποιησειςG4160V-FAI-2S ποιέω to make
If you are not refreshing
the Holy Ones, are you Loving them?
What limits refreshment?
2Co_6 -- Paul’s Unconstrained Love
2Co_6:11 LSV Our mouth has been open
to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged [πεπλάτυνται
– i.e. molded out flat/wide]!
2Co_6:11 GRVii+ τοG3588T-NSN ὁ the στομαG4750N-NSN στόμα the mouth ημωνG2257P-1GP ἐγώ of us ανεωγενG455V-2RAI-3S ἀνοίγω to open up προςG4314PREP πρός forward to υμαςG5209P-2AP σύ you κορινθιοιG2881A-VPM Κορίνθιος a Corinthian ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the καρδιαG2588N-NSF καρδία the heart ημωνG2257P-1GP ἐγώ of us πεπλατυνταιG4115V-RPI-3S πλατύνω to widen
2Co_6:12 LSV You are not restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] in us, and [δὲ
– however]
you are restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] in [that of] your [own] yearnings [σπλάγχνοις],
2Co_6:12 GRVii+ ουG3756PRT-N οὐ no, not στενοχωρεισθεG4729V-PPI-2P στενοχωρέω to hem in closely ενG1722PREP ἔν in ημινG2254P-1DP ἐγώ to us στενοχωρεισθεG4729V-PPI-2P στενοχωρέω to hem in closely δεG1161CONJ δέ but ενG1722PREP ἔν in τοιςG3588T-DPN ὁ the σπλαγχνοιςG4698N-DPN σπλάγχνον an intestine υμωνG5216P-2GP σύ of you
2Co_6:13 LSV and [δὲ – however] ·[as]
a [τὴν – the] repayment of the same kind [αὐτὴν
ἀντιμισθίαν] (as to children I say [it]), be enlarged [πλατύνθητε]—also you!
2Co_6:13 GRVii+ τηνG3588T-ASF ὁ the δεG1161CONJ δέ but αυτηνG846P-ASF αὐτός he, she, it αντιμισθιανG489N-ASF ἀντιμισθία requital ωςG5613ADV ὡς which how τεκνοιςG5043N-DPN τέκνον a child λεγωG3004V-PAI-1S λέγω to lay forth πλατυνθητεG4115V-APM-2P πλατύνω to widen καιG2532CONJ καί and υμειςG5210P-2NP σύ you
Comforting Obeyers is Real Love
2/29/24
comfort my people
comfort one another with
these words
Internal Reverence Produces Love
We need to maintain an
internal reverence, respect, fear for each other, and when we reverence each
other from the heart soul then faithfulness mutuality respect and Love are
inevitable because real value is at hand.
External performance and
conformity is woefully insufficient (doesn't cut it).
Lacking fear toward each
other has its relationship consequences. Shared Love is among its most
cherished vital precious casualties.
To be virtuous is a tall
order, and who can reach the prestigious Royal call of clean serious Divine
Love? Attaining to such glorious heights is a prize to be coveted. Such
demanding virtues are demanded of us, and the world will stand in awe and
wonder at us if we win. And yet with so much at stake, and having demanded
virtues hanging over our necks that are impossibly high for the flesh, we ought
not to neglect so great a salvation by calling the Master a hard man, but
rather we ought to fear with great thankfulness since he has brought near and
made accessible the lofty produce of Love by The nearness of fear and humility.
these virtues, in several important ways, we're too far from us in Deuteronomy
30, on the other side of the sea, up in heaven, and buried in hell, yet in
Moses and now even more through Anointed One, God has brought near to us all
access to infinite virtue when we obey and give over a reasonable response to
do what he said to do.
The Happiness of Refreshing Love
3/7/22
· See: Love Atones
· Love Doesn't guilt trip unnecessarily
· Love is when you resolve your bad feelings and then bring over there best / something true to the righteous, leaving them happier (favorably rejoicing) than when you find them (whenever possible)
· Love is more polite, friendly, & refreshing than delightful British charm
Get Fresh
Other dates (mostly June-July 2015); 7/13/15;
9/14/15; 9/18/15; 9/30/15-10/1/15; 10/30/16; 3/31/22 (retitled from Freshness to Get Fresh)
Getting Fresh
10/28/16; 10/30/16
We need to Talk About it…
>>Scrip:
Revelation says to remember your first Love
Ephesians says to be eager toward each other with good bowels from the very core of your being
There is something fresh and immeasurably exciting about anything being possible...
There is something unobstructed and eager and vulnerable and Without Limits and full of faith and optimistic Outlook and hope for a better tomorrow...
Those who have grown up and feel like they have already conquered life, are actually conquered by the deception of this life...
Imagine that anything was possible in your heart and you were fresh with romance and passionate about being the amazed with others...
Could you possibly imagine that this could be you one day again?
Could you possibly become vulnerable and eager again to believe that this freshness and eagerness and life could raise up in you and hope and goodness and rejoicing in faith and in Salvation?
Imagine that you were not just discouraged but that when you went through trials you actually bounced back up and said in the rejoicing of your heart, I knew God would come through and I knew he would make all things better and prove himself faithful in the end...
Some trials and triumphs oscillate at a higher level... What if that was you?
Open your arms up and stop Crossing them. Open your heart up to a new way of living...
Why You Should Want
Freshness!
12/3/15
No despising
Always loving prayer
A hair away from excitement at any moment.
No flesh to defend.
No hidden agendas.
And rather than having despising, being simple, eager,
life-ifying...
It is very motivating when someone is innocent, clean,
eager, loving, faithful, jealous, very quickly jealous and excited.
Always believing in prayer.
Always willing to save you by praying life over you.
Always caring about what is best and what is spiritual.
Always soft, tender, eager.
Always safe to be around.
Never indangering your soul with sorrow or shame or
despising or hurt or unbelief.
Always being excited and ready to love and provoke you
into more faith and more prayer.
Eager and soft, innocent and undefiled, never having any
flash or personal agenda to defend. Not walking around hurt, or like a landmine
ready to blow up from whenever you say something wrong.
Always thinking and believing the best about you.
A refuge of bliss and fun and love that will dust you off
as soon as any unbelief seeks to taint your reputation.
Always optimistic about your hope and your character.
Always flowing in kindness and being on your side instead
of the Devils. Always believing in more kindness that you have for your own
soul.
And here is some big stuff: you never have to compete or
prove anything -- cleanness allows them to believe the best about you without
competition or requiring you to strain yourself to prove your goodwill towards
them.
That is it healthy safety and a refuge which is always
available, with door's always open, for you to run into with love and warmth
and safety and truth and encouragement and life and prayer.
Their self perception is not so huty so as to be easily
hurt when criticized.
Rather than carrying around hurt, having healing and life
in abundance sufficient to heal others.
Most people end up being self serving, because they break
under discouragement so fast that they do so before other people's needs ever
come get a fair chance to come before their face.
But a person with something fresh living inside of them
does not walk around hurt. Nor do they walk around getting easily hurt. They
have a good ness living inside of them that is addictive and makes them needed
by the poor and meek of the earth who are hungry for food.
David and Jonathan
Proverbs: a faithful friend...
The opposite of being fresh:
David and Michael
David and his discouraged followers
the spirit of the Lord is upon me...
blessed are the feet...
the days will come when you will long to see the son of
man...
when Peter heard that it was the Lord, he threw himself
on the sea...
you can be fresh now...
these things are not prerequisits:
knowledge
experience
every developed spiritual gift...
etc.
Doing something fresh is how you pray for each other.
It's how you do non despising
Digging in this direction is a gold mine. It's how you
win big time in unity.
How to be Kind
10/15/15
Scrip:
Bowels of
mercy
Nice
loving kindness
Brittish
Hyper Politness vs. Ghetto Lazyness vs. Rich Snobs
Polite
pleasantness
> be
pleasant toward all men...
My family
Cashiers
They are
not a rock
Why do you
go through they checkout line focused on expressing how well they are serving
YOU???
Don't
exploit: 'the customer is always right' -- that is primarily for the MERCHANT
to know, and not you (esp. If you have been prone toward density in this area).
Don't wait
for them to become your neighbor, YOU make them your customer to please as much
as possible.
>Scrip:
become all
things to all men...
please all
men in everything
We who are
strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak...
Note: if
this applies within the Assembly, how much more toward the utter helplessness
of outsiders!
Even if
the merchnt seems to owe you anything, that can be due to our great economy
which affords so many options -- in a poorer economy, you would owe THEM
something!
>Scrip:
Blessed is he who sells grain...
And even if
they still owe you something in this context, yet if nothing else, YOU owe them
testimony even when no one else owes them a thing!
>scrip:
I have endebted myself to all men...
You should
always be conscious of what you are preaching to all who see you (both insiders
and outsiders).
Remember:
they are not a rock. By default, you owe EVERYONE that you com in contact with,
a good day.
>Scrip:
he has scattered his gifts to the poor...
Don't sit
there and love to be served... When it is more blessed to give than to receive!
>Scrip:
/\
After
leaving you, they should have no excuse to not believe the good anouncement...
Gal: as we
have opportunity, let us do good to all men... Esp.
For some
reason, whenever we are (1) buying something, or (2) asking someone for help,
or (3) going through a trial, we start thinking that the main goal &
measurement of success here is pleasing ourselves, and it is not!
Stop being
a consumer.
You're
asking the store cleark for help. You got one change to do justice to God's
name, and you got one chance to shine something kind and useful in their life.
Why not
rather be concerned with being that one person in their day who makes their day
go good for them?
Why are
you focused on your shallow need of finding a product when God's testimony and
their soul are on the line? Don't be embarrassed at judgement for such shallow
and short sighted selfishness. Don't embarrass your spirit with how your
selfish soul treats people.
Get Fresh in Trial
9/30/15; 10/1/15
Most people wait until they are out of a trial to develop
love and faithfulness...
but there is a big problem: You have God competing
against you! You try to get Him to help you when your feeling good and He keeps
persistenly seeking you to actually honor and love and believe Him when it
actually costs you in a trial... And He is going to win!
David: I will not offer something to God if it does not
cost me anything...
Courageously Give to
Others
Give Bread Away
Choose Courage
The Real Display of Integrity, Love, and Faith
9/30/15;
3/31/22
Some say, “Integrity is what you do when no one is
looking” -- true, but even truer is the integrity is doing faith when you are
most discouraged!
In the same way also, loving people is most realistically
measured when you are at your worst state. -- think about the demonstration of
this on the cross.
If you are in the faith, it is most clear when you are
down. -- now is the only time you can actually when…
…
When will we finally see that it is the Cannanite woman’s
job to believe for healing out of the Jewish Rabbi who is calling her a dog?
This gets more and more important when the coming day
comes, and fruit is demanded of you.
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9/14/15
Sacrifice: you will not show up before Me empty...
Take words with you
Prodical son
There is an honor in fighting to show up w something...
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Act_20:33-35 CAB I have
desired the silver or gold or clothes of no one. 34 You yourselves know that these hands rendered
service to my needs, and those who were with me. 35 By all things I have shown you, that thus
laboring it is necessary to help those
being weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to
receive.' "
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7/14/15
> import Titus mode?
Neh: I was afraid to be sad before him...
Daniel was amazed and then later went about his work /
the kings business
always be ready to
give an answer for the hope that is in you...
The ambition: don't walk around empty! (carry words w you
so you can always be ready)
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Speak heartily.
Don't speak with the reserves / leftovers
Have something that others can believe off of...
6/23/15-6/24/15
...
It is your job as a daughter to please your dad. It is
your reverence to take that responsibility. When you are young all you do is sit
there and receive love from parents, whenever you are older it is wrong and
irreverent to sit there now that the time has past where you should be seeking
to please and bring something.
You should over do your side of encouraging
"up"
>Scrip: Pray for me that a door would open...
...
Not forsaking... Provoing one another
Exhort one another daily
> tsk
Psalms hymns spiritual songs
How to "get fresh" w one another
Pray for me... That a door may open...
Find bbs (in Prayer!?): they were in Paul's heart
because he always prayed for them...
Bring words with you...
> tsk
Law: you shall not show up empty handed!
Dust the dust of complacentcy off of you, and burn deeply
in prayer and cry out to love other people enough to have something for them!
Jesus' Bowels Were Moved With Compassion... then He
Healed Them
When you love people whatever favor you have the most
access to will pour out of you. Not only will you give them healthy-ness, but you
will be excited to see Justice flowing out of your life! Low and behold, your
light will dawn when you love people.
Might I suggest to you that this is often why many of us
cannot get anywhere spiritually at times, because you don't love people enough to
stir yourself up with zeal to get something that will enCourage others.
Stir yourself up with eager zeal.
Jump every day.
Get whatever you can get to serve and chear others up
based on faithfulness to their soul, not only making it your vital honor to love
your neighbor as yourself, but to even love them like Jesus loved them (a new
commandment).
Stailness
7/12/15
Stailness has to do with spending your whole day worrying about your own problems so much that you are not doing the honor of thinking about the glory of others... You are not ready because you have been so impressed and occupied with things that are truly less impressive than other people's glory.
Despising Versus Freshness
4/3/22
>> Scrip:
you see this woman, you
haven't given me a kiss but she hasn't stopped kissing my feet
people are so often
hesitant to beg, but What is the alternative?
(be honest enough to admit
what the alternative is)
or are you so gullible so
as to believe yourself, and trust yourself, so as to constantly and naively
underestimate the depth of your evil and the destruction of relying upon
yourself instead of begging others for help?
...
4/3/22
The freshness of cherishing
includes admiring, glorifying, craving, hot breathing over superior things.
No admiration of superior
virtue = no cherishing
Hypocritical Despising Judgments
1/9/14
If it worked for me it should work for you
>> even how church testimonies work
>> this is not true until you are
experiencing a "type" that is a pattern for others to imitate
>> fasle confidence of sucessful moments
of intensity can embolden you to compare yourself with others before God has
given you a true virtue above them (that actually meets their moral need if
they would imitate--1Ti_1:16.)
Pharisee vs. Tax Collecter
comparing themselves among themselves are not
wise
Job's Friends -- such s trfongaith in divine
retrebution (you must get what you deserve, becuase we are doing well, you must
being doing bad because of sin)
who sinned this man or his parents...
Keep
Feeling Happy
Unity of faith
- Eph_4:
- Col_3:
Stay Happy
after fumbled words
You got to be
militant to not let anything move you -- don't be gullible!!!
>>Scrip:
Keep bond of faith
This is about continuing to believe
Don't be so soon shaken from your mind...
...
We are Much like the newspaper: we wish
that we could leave that situation and that people would be righteous enough to
automatically lead themselves into loving and valuing us...
Sympathy/rationality/sanity/realizing our
value/not holding uncontrollable circumstances against us/etc.
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Titus m
3/2/15
Having the good anouncement, so as to save
other peole, is when you have hope for life when no one else does
- Davind encouraged himsel
- Jesus also had the answer on the stormy
boat
- Paul on the boat in the storm had an
answer
- Paul and Silas in prison
Now, we all need the good anouncement as
much as we can get, and even Paul and Jesus had the exaporating sentence of death
in them as they faced trials, but somewhere we cannot constantly be in a
posture of non-choice, being dragged arround in hopelessness, especially after
we have heard the message that is potant enough to save you at every hour.
Faith is always a choice, and doubt is
always a perversion.
There are times when you are called to be
quietly crucified in pressed down faith without actively converting anyone else
in the process. There are times when your primary obligation is to endure,
hurt, receive and grieve in sorrow, and grown under a weight of hopeless, being
beside yourself (although not in dispare), all while prophetically befriending
'unatractive' truth in the process.
But that is the minority of
your trials. Most of the time you should be singing in the prison with Paul and
Silas!
---
If you see me with a down cast
countenance, you have got to not be even more discouraged than me by my
expression, otherwise you are leaving me out alone, hanging out to dry, and
when I am tempted to believe the worst about my life, you are tempted too! This
reinforces insanity and forces me to face the fact that I can not trust or rely
on anone to believe the best for me, but it is all back on me again to figure
out courage because there is no help for me...
Don't let it be like clock work that you
are always consistently less encouraged than me. I want to turn to the
righteous and get a different story than what I just heard, but if you then
say, 'actually, yah, you do sound pretty hopeless and we feel ashamed over you
too', then I have no faithful people on the earth to help me, and I have to go
hope for myself on my own. Surey you can not always happen to be discouraged
every single time I am over myself.
Struggle for yourself, and that is fine,
but for others you ought to be provoked to hope larger than they do for their
value honor and glory. You should be provoked to not in no way accept any
hopelessness for others as this is your own vital honor for faithfulness...
Then I am your glory...
Otherwise we are back to salvation 101,
and I have to start over on my own to bring myself and everyone else along...
(Don't let every pressure always instantly fall back on me...) and then I will
always get in late because the whole world's pressure is always on me (so painfully
predictable!), and I have no safe refuge of courage... And I am reminded and
told again that I am alon in the world... (btw: i even know married couples
that feel this way) I have to still protect my courage from those I am puring
out everything to help... If I am down, hay, your on your own, but if I am
incouraged then others will be happy to share.
I need to look in and see something
different that says, no way are you that worthless/hoeless, no way are we
willing to tollerate that shame, not for our valued true one... I do not need
to come in and hear: 'yah, actually, that bad report about you sounds prety
convincing'...
It is enough to be discouraged for
yourself because you feel unvaluable, but feeling discouraged for others is
much, much worse, so much so Fathfulness cannot tollerate it or swallow it. The
vital honor and loving others more than yourself, like Jesus did, is the only
way you can save others and pass the test to be great sacrificer that will live
by others living.
Being discouraged for yourself can be a
matter of courage and faith, or just bearing hurt, without sinning at all,
until you are helped and healed.
Being discouraged for others, especially
when they are not sinning, is definitely a sin against love,
faithfulness/fidelity, zeal, sanity, foundational faithfulness and love toward
another.
If your courage is hurt for yourself, it
can be said that you are humble, pressed down, pressured, gloriously tried,
affliced, and faithfully remaining in hope for God to help. -- and you should
be consumed with zeal and faith to always maintain seeing them this way!
(quick: now is time to establish what you will believe and if you will pass the
test to not dispise hidden glory!)
If you are discouraged for others, you
will then be guilty of looking down on others, and there is a trechery and
betrayal going on when you have no love, or faith, or selfless good deeds to
foundationally remain faithful in covenant with another.
Whatever happened to holding other in
honor preferring them above yourselves?
> scrip!/tsk
> your zeal for me...
Heaven is a lot less tolerant to this,
because thinking evil of another is a different thing than thinking evil of
yourself.
all are to lay down their life for each
other, and even if they cannot find love or value or hooe for themselves, they
should at least resist the lazy?/complacency toward others.
If you are not easily provoked to be
zealous for other people's courage and faith then you are not a nurisher and
life-giver.... Not faithful and reliable for mission...
If one is discouraged, don't auto-compete
to be more discouraged than they are about them, or yourself, or the group as a
whole...
A leader without a Titus can still pull a
David, but then they who recieve will only be recipients and not collaborers of
life.
It is totally a choice of faithfulness to
be constantly undiswayable and excited about another person's greatness. If you
vlaue and reverence them, then you will be encouraged to be arround them even
when they are discouraged about themselves.
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How to be
titus?
Admire Paul...
Remember, whoever you admire/deeply respect can encourage you... And if you let
them encourage you, you will also encourage them as Titus did to Paul.
- If you do not
know how to lawfully admire one quality (ex. wisdom), admire another virtue
(ex. faith). If you cannot lawfully admire one virue, do not dare unlawfully
neglect others you should be admiring...
- Don't let the
sun go down on your evil
- Speak good
all of your days
>> scrip:
he spoke neither good nor bad...
>
communication is the fundamental building blocks of relationships.
> WillINGLY
Neglecting this is inviting someone out of your life... Indifference can be
worse than Wishing they did not live...
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Ecc4: Two are
better than one... If onw falls the other can help them up
When you do not beliieve another's
Discouragement
Encouragement is no longer just for leaders /
Encouragement is not "just for leaders" anymore
Original title: Making A Chain that is
Stronger Than it's Weakest Link!
> I love
titus because you cannot say that great encouragement and sacrificial hope is
just for leaders...
--
12/28/14
No matter how
weak you were, H is generally someone you could pray through your own issues
with and quickly find help, life, reciprocation...
''''--
The biggest
oposition to titus mode is wild and untaimed fleshly passions that rage and
flare up to sabatage abunant hope (which God has called you to provide for
others), and promote fear and shame based on ideals and values and goals that
should not even be there in the first place.
They transform
themselves from materialistic lusting after cars and luxurious vanities into
religious beliefs and spirits that are still blaspheming the self denial of John
the Baptist. Although reachaged, they are the same lusts that you had in the
world that despre of good self-denial today. The solution to despising and
despairing against John is to take up your cross and become a hoping 'John the
Batist' with him who belives in life and goodness and embraces the cross.
Evil passions
strip you of goodness so that you cannot afford to save others with your
outlook and perception of them. If you have hope, even in the worst case
scenario you can pray life for them. But without Titus' faith you cannot
resolve how to hope when naomi is Bitter...
--
12/26/14
You can choose
to be excited to see someone everyday. Being excited every time someone comes
home is a choice, just as I did with my room mates in 2004-2005. -- I AM
talking about people you see and live with everyday, and doing this 24 hrs a
day, as much as possible, for years and years...
This is one of
the fundamental needs for marriage, defeting all despising, etc.
This is one of
the main reasons why H could theoretically marry without as much spiritual
danger.
When you are
always more enCouraged w exciting love about Paul/Naomi, then despising does
not have any room to operate. Paul will then urgently need you arround, and you
will get the very best of the "insider glories" of the missions trips
he goes on.
You must always
be more enCouraged about others and their cause than they are themselves...
Make this your
absolute vital and honor!
You would not
go out of your house without clothes on, would you? Imagine the people whom you
were supposed to convince to believe and be decipled and them remembering when
you did not believe the rightousness that they were supposed to do! How could
you live this down and tell them to believe in your God when they are more hopeful
for themselves than you are? How are your friends and your leaders going to be
your glory at judgement (>> scrip) if you did not participate in their
acquisition of salvation, and you left them to figure out and maintain their
unique and vital greatness themselves?
When John the
Baptist was sitting in prison, with who knows how many sorrows and social
shame, he was thinking about the unthinkable greatness and mysteries of Jesus.
And likewise Jesus had no discouragement of John's situation, but gave him the
highest praises a man could get... Jesus and John were acostomed to this
(multiple times: "behold the Lam of God").
Pray: Lord
remove this horible blight from my record! Let me no more walk out of my room
without over-extended faith for others! -- Wether they be your leaders or your
fellow disciples, it is time to shune foolishness/folly and be Titus for each
other.
---
If you are habitually going slower than me, then
how are we ever supposed to "encourage ONE ANOTHER with these
words"?? (1thess)
If encouragement is typically one way, then we
are not doing titus yet, but we are still building the basic foundations of the
faith.
--
Titus does not
wait arround to see incouraging things (i.e. Faith by sight and satiation), and
mope about until bleeding David gets himself together enough to encourage
everyone, but Titus seeks to encourage Paul, especially when Paul is as bitter
as Naomi with the sentence of death.
--
Is being excited about someone a feeling or a
choice?
Can you choose who you 'fall in love with?'
For Those who believe, being excited about
people every day is a choice, not a feeling.
Job's worlwind...
> if God comes down in a whirle wind and you are still
amased at my shame, I am going to walk into the fire and shed off my
discouragement, and you will be stuck on the outsiide of the fire, unable to
enter with me lest you loose your life from the purity of the anger of God.
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9/3/14
Vital honor of Titus faith: do not wait for
others to be encouraging to you before you yourself are encouraging to them.
Do not be benieth other people's level of
encouragement, be above it, lifting other people up
It is very wrong to get
complacent/comfortable/used to/in the habit of having other people's
encouragement/level of displayed faith as a cealing so that you always, always
wait for them to move upward first before you go up into faith and corporate
helpfulness.
What can we do to make all of this happen? It
can be done without gloating over other people's sorrow, and without loudness
filling up a leadership vacuum.
--
Cultivate a constant awareness of other people's
needs.
obsess over how to be pleasant, encouraging,
value adding, (i.e. puttiing plusses in people's account and shying away from
the rudeness of taking withdrawles!)
Don't make the waitress feel bad about the food
that she worked so hard to serve you and other customers. She already soght to
make you and other happy; don't make her earn her pay/tip and disarrange her
satisfaction with her own work just because you are the one paying. Remember
that God made both of you, and in seeking her faith through you, you should
rather be so over bussied with earning her trust that you would be ashamed to
seem to make her earn her pay. Providing an unmistakable testimony of Goog
fidelity (of unblamable concern) from you is infinitely more urgent than
assuring good food or good service from them. You need to save their day more
than you need to save your meal, because then they have no excuse to not also
save their soul.
You shall remember the trials they likely have
at home, and treae them like they need to be saved more right now than you do.
)) scrip: even as i (/Anointed one)' do not seek
to please myself, but others...
)) provide no offence to jew, greek or ch of God
Remember to percieve your own tone of voice,
facial expressions, body language, to give every oportunity to communicate
value and kind encouragement to strangers to save them even if they do not have
the strength to care about you.
)) when we were without strength
Remember that you are the one that is suposed to
be reverencing truth, not them. You were made different for a purpose and
mission. Don't let darkness and hardness ruin the strength of your veil.
Let all offence be the prophetic scandal of
truth, and never the (insensitive, selfish) roodness of your manners
Also, likewise, don't ever allow yourself off
the hook by feeling that their needs are too impossible or elusive to keep up with.
Gain zeal for truth and understanding by Contrast your own lack of
understanding with the complexity of their need. When you see an abiss,
absolutely believe that God searches the abbiss and will show you its resolving
end.
))) srcrip: god searches abbiss and deepth of
heart
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Man Down, But Still in honor
>> Scrip Naomi & Ruth
>> Job
\/
For my shame in particular... brain stressed,
but heart searching...
What if i was in a brain accedent, would you
still be warm to my presence?
excuse him if he looses his understanding
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makes it to where, if one of us is week, we all
still work... so far there have been dibilitation limitations / problems
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7/28/14
Is one of the most definitive, potant and
critical virtues we can aprehend at this season.... don't stay hurt! Have
something to help others - esp. in "encouragement" even more than
Money...
look up:
David ecouraged himself,
You have endured w me through my trials
he who prophecies speaks to... Encouragement,
ect.
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Struggling With Despising Other People's Exaltation
- Don't be bitter, and enviously create bad motives and sins in other people's hearts which you cannot see. Instead, be faithful to judge their actions, and hold them accountable if they are living in sin and disobeying the Bible.
Ecc_7:21-22
CAB Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak,
lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22 For many
times he shall trespass against you, and repeatedly shall he afflict your
heart; for thus also have you cursed others.
(Pro_11:9)
- When you struggle
with despising others within your heart, you are more prone to be suspiciously
despising as though others are despising also.
- Despising makes you
always think that exalted people should have sorrow with it (envy), but...
Pro_10:22
CAB The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it
enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.
When you struggle
with pride and despising then this bad posture makes you resentful when others
are innocently and righteously exalted.
don't be envious when
Moses or David is exalted
1Co_12:26 CAB And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together; or if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.
-Your eye is
definitly evil when you always see everone else as struggling with pride,
because you will see this no matter how humbled and desporatly broken their
life becomes.
- This heart
insesantly says, "You are still struggling with pride arn't you?"
- it does not say
"a brused reed He will not break"
- mirium/ Korah said,
"you take too much on yourself," but Moses was the most humble person
on he earth in spite of his exaltation (they had envy)
Num_12:1-3 CAB And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses took; for he had taken an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they said, Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? Has He not also spoken to us? And the Lord heard it. 3 And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth.
Examples
of Envy
Be warned with these Examples
Mat_27:18/ Mar_15:10 - Chief prists Handed over Jesus
Act_5:14-17, Act_7:9, Act_13:14-16, Act_13:40-45
- Don't violate God's
truth and exalt yourself to police people's hidden motives, since you
resentfully think you see pride, and your evil eye judges them as haveing
failed when God has excepted them
Rom_14:2-4 CAB One indeed believes that he may eat all things, but another, being weak, eats only vegetables. 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. 4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or he falls. And he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
- Have the integrity
to glory in the humility of the exalted person that God has excepted!
Main thing: make sure that nothing is in your heart because of the exalted person
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>>Scrip:
I will make the most tender woman have an evil eye toward her husband
Comp: Don’t Make
People Owe You Anything!
>>Scrip:
Don’t let anyone despise your youth
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Pro_21:10 KJV+ The soulH5315 of the wickedH7563 desirethH183 evil:H7451 his neighbourH7453 findeth noH3808 favourH2603 in his eyes.H5869
Pro_21:10 The soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man.
Pro_21:10 ψυχὴ ἀσεβοῦς
οὐκ ἐλεηθήσεται
ὑπ᾿ οὐδενὸς τῶν
ἀνθρώπων.
Psa_143:2 WEB Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Psa_143:2 CAB And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight shall no man living be justified.
Psa_143:2 (142:2) καὶ μὴ
εἰσέλθῃς εἰς
κρίσιν μετὰ τοῦ
δούλου σου, ὅτι
οὐ δικαιωθήσεται
ἐνώπιόν σου πᾶς
ζῶν.
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Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by
confessing our parents' shortcomings.
~ Laurence J. Peter
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be
conscious of none.
~ Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
The fault finder will find faults even in
paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English
Politician and Author
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Mir Considerations -
Don't Be
Prepared To Despise, But to Love!
- Call: H??
- you probably would be shocked w how many
demons she faces, so prepare to not be shocked, but instead be prepared to love
- don't stare or be amazed by deformities,
shameful terrors... Be loving a head of time, and don't be unprepared so that
you are irresponsible w your soul & attitude, & have provision so that
the flesh can't help but dispise and mk a cene and be impressed with things
that hate & shame others...
- Jesus was like One from whom men hide
their faces... Don't be a dog and 'hide your face' from whatever animalistic
reactions you may have... Be a creature of logos, and choose to love your
species!
Take someone Else’s Word for it, and Forgive Them!
12/28/16
Exo_22:11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both,
whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall
accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Exo_22:11 an oath of God shall be between both, each
swearing that he has by no means been guilty in the matter of his
neighbor's goods; and so his master shall hold him guiltless, and he shall not
make compensation.
Exo_22:11 (22:10) ὅρκος
ἔσται τοῦ θεοῦ ἀνὰ
μέσον ἀμφοτέρων
ἦ μὴν μὴ αὐτὸν
πεπονηρεῦσθαι
καθ᾿ ὅλης τῆς
παρακαταθήκης
τοῦ πλησίον·
καὶ οὕτως
προσδέξεται ὁ
κύριος αὐτοῦ,
καὶ οὐκ ἀποτείσει.
Spiritual Extraversion Takes on Despising
5/15/16
Michal Despised David
2Sa_6:1, etc.
2Sa_6:14-23
1Ch_15:14-29
Background:
1Ch_15:14 – prep
1Ch_15:16 – singers
1Ch_15:17 – Heman
1Ch_15:21 – harps (LXX: to make a loud noise)
1Ch_15:22 – teaching MT: "the song" / LXX: "the bands"
Main Story:
1Ch_15:25-29
1Ch_15:25 – bring...Ark...with joy/gladness
1Ch_15:28 – Loudness
1Ch_15:29 – despising
David's spiritual 'extraversion' was an
opposition to despising
Despising- in the world, you should recoil until there
is a justice issue at hand.
Example: Glorified H over having a possible repeat
customer.
When it is time to glorify God, don’t recoil.
You want
to make sure that your recoiling in society is because of humility and not
because of fear of despising
You do not have to fix other people to get free
of despising. This is not about other people it is about you. You have a
jurisdiction to govern your own heart. If you can fix yourself first, then you
will have enough consolation to bear with the weak. Open your eyes and don't
get tricked.
Joh_12:28-36 –
Jesus prayed in the middle of everything...
Being immune to despising and holding on to that
immunity requires you to have a tthrought awareness and perception on how much
intimacy you should trust people with.
Be perceptive of other people's faithfulness.
You should be striving to know how much to not trust people without despising
them and having a loving kind expression towards them.
on one hand: you better be right with these
spiritual 'extraversions',
But on the other hand: if you are right you can
wage a good warfare against despising.
It requires you not to care about the athism of
others.
Immunity to the Fear Of Their Projected Shame (Despising / Attacks) Happens When...
·
you are "secure" in the hope of your value.
·
you're foundationally set on the approval of truth
·
you have resolved all guilt
·
you are aware that you are not throwing your hand in with their
cheapening/despising.
·
Real cheapening can only happen if the one despised owns up to the
disgrace that is being spoken over them
·
if you are innocent, and do not fall into their desception, you can go
on unscathed and innocent of their continual guilt and stain.
---------------
Al Notes
Take a survey of your soul (so that you can be immune to despising and be merciful to others where mercy is due):
Do I have guilt?
Am I owning guilt?
Was I accidently despising them?
Have I accidently cooperated with them and are/become like them?
Have I accidently shared a disproportionate/inappropriate amount of intimacy with them?
Am I inside of Justice / walking with Justice (moving according to favor)?
Am I struggling
with fearing correction? Reminder- the Lord loves/approves those whom he
corrects. Don’t hem yourself in by giving yourself the only option of approval
being praise. Also, children, when they are trained as children, do not feel
despised. Those who struggle with despising, they the most struggle with being
[as a child and being] corrected.
---------------
Predictable Procedures whenever you feel the fear of Despising
Step 1 stop blaming other people for your fear
of being despised
>> stop looking at other people and
blaming them for being the source of your problem. They are not the source of
the problem! so repent of being the very thing you claim to fear.
Step 2 take an inventory of your soul:
·
Am I inside of juctise when I am doing this?
·
Have I accidentally cooperated with them and become like them
·
Have I accidentally shared a disproportionate amount of initimacy with
them
Jesus minds down and despises the shame,
not those struggling to live.
I (and others) have said some hard and
inappropriate things to V, and she has very quickly bounced back in hope and
happiness again...
Question: How to Resolve the Fear of not being
approved
you do something, and then we all need
affirmation
you just hear crickets
maybe even the overseer has his head down like
in fleshly churches
Pro_3:11; Heb_12:5
apart of
loving the affirmation of truth is being open to correction. Make room
and leave room to be corrected and redirected. Apart of despising in this
scenerio is to be closed to the very thing you need the most.
Those who struggle with despising are the ones
who struggle the most with being corrected
What to do when you have corporated with
despising somehow?
·
repent of being like them (to what degree did I ended up being like
them?)
·
It might just be a little repentance,
·
but a little repentance can break a big yoke.
Once you have resolved the insanity of injustice
in your own soul then you can take strategic steps to curb the insanity in
other people. You have to have a solid and innocent basis of not being
hypocritical and being blameless and guiltless in the process.
Despising
5/6/12
>> Despising
is no respecter of righteousness, it is a seaser of *oportunity*
>> deal with
it now...
remembers past
faults
remember that it is
not you that speaks profaning things in your mind.
big thing: recieving
correction from anyone
- balam
- hard to be
corrected vy a child younger than you (oh, evolved pagan!)
- king-to-be needs
to reverence the book of proverbs, even though Solomon is trying to kill him
- out of the mouth
of babes you have perfected praise
- they comlain about
cildrens praises, but Jesus says...
- 'their littlness
is actually the perfect thing that God wants to express truth to hard-hearted
people'
BBS: Despising
How Recieving Shame
and Despising Makes Our Expression Feel Shallow and Hypocritical
12/11/12-12/12/12
H:
- at first, humans
are often all-out indulgers in shame (children run along with the clan even
when they are insulted all along the way),
- then they can
become disenchanted with expression when care for value finally comes about.
- but, the more you
deal with approval,
The more you feel
undespised from heaven the freer you are to rejoice loudly when you approach
God's throne, the easier it is to not feel hypocritical when leaping over
inhibited expressions.
BBS: Despising
7/9/13
Youth said to
Elisha: Go up bald man
the sins of
blasphemy, gossip, and slandar are also related to despising
Titus Mode
6/15/14;
7/26/14; 8/8/14; 9/6/14; 10/5/14; 12/19/14; 12/20/14; 12/21/14; 12/26/14;
2/13/15-2/14/15; 2/24/15; 4/15/15; 7/14/15 (recompiled); 7/22/15; 12/17/15;
3/28/16-3/29/16
TitusMode
---------------
4/5/16
Don’t Speak Depressed Dishonoring whispers to each other
If you give the leftovers, don’t be surprised when you reap perversion…
Facial
Expressions Count
5/4/16
Cain’s Face
fell
Gen_31:2 – Jacob saw the face of Laban was not toward him
>> TSK
Care about
giving someone a good day.
Stop being
selfish / limited in your “liking” people…
Faithfulness
of Happiness
5/4/16
How many times do
we have to talk through things and see that there really is something better to
believe in besides despair and hurt unbelief?
It is one thing
if there are isolated events of special trial (such as Sarah vs. Hagar and
Abraham), but we have gone through the exact same discouragements over and over
and over again, and we have kept acting like truth has almost never been
established before.
Our
discouragements have been exaggerated and uncalled for.
Unfaithful
Discouragements Toward Each Other
We have said
that our bowels should have a smiley face on the depths of them.
>>Scrip
Col_3:?
When you
fear/respect/admire someone, they very easily light up your day.
Days without
number I have cheerfully honored the face of my own disciples more than they
have honored me.
Still to this
day I think some of you are more important than you think I am, because you are
not as encouraged at my face as I am longing toward the value of your presence.
There are
justice issues at hand.
…
Isn’t there a
better way you can guess at others motives / the situation as being better than
what you are currently guessing about it?
---------------
April 2016; 4/13/16
delayed
gratification... hoping to deny sorrow now so that you will be their hero in the
end... this is the patienc of God with saving all men, and we need to love and
feel this honor...
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Your
Lack of Faithful Happiness toward Truth Endangers Your Soul at Judgment
3/29/16; 2/12/17
It is often
hard to conceive at first, but you will receive harsh judgment for not being
happy.
God actually
judges people for not “kissing the son” (as the MT says).
You are going
to be judged based on how happy you are toward the truth.
>>Scrip:
You have
forgotten your first love…
---------------
12/17/15
consider:
people think:
it is humble to be sad, and people are just lucky/exalted when they are happier
than me...
but consider
the sacrificial service of chosing courage and truth for people.
the most
selfless people choose faith, courage, and happy excitement to serve others.
there is a
degree where we need to reverse our concept of which person is 'the poor
victem', and who is actually more poor in choosing the service of being a
hero...
it is a choice
to be happy/excited to see people...
---------------
If one falls
down, two will lift him up
You do not have
to be discourage when one falls down
---------------
Choose Courage
3/27/16
Get in a Job-like posture
Stir up faith-zeal
· Even if it is with your pinky finger
· Clean faith-zeal is loving the things that are good and giving over a reasonable response of love and adoration that fulfills heavenly justice
Pray before everything you do so that you may do it well, and in optimism and faith.
· Esp. when you are about to interact with people.
· You always owe everyone else to believe for them more than they might have strength or courage to believe for their own soul.
>>Scrip:
No limp hands or knees
Despising
7/18/16;
7/21/16; 8/5/16; 10/5/16 (Recompiled from RTF notes); 2/20/17
(added/recompiled: Struggling With
Despising Other People's Exaltation & Examples of Envy); 2/8/19
>> Pop: Love [ JCH | dhg | other?]
>> does this belong in Love or
JCH???
>> dhg: Despising - Something that needs to be Perceived
>> RTF BB Notes -- just search for “Despising” (mk sure
there is nothing left to think through and add here)
>> compare other notes throughout this doc… (i.e. do a search)
Despising vs. Titus
8/4/14-8/5/14
Despising is not the feminine nurturing heavenly
mother
the worst thing about despising and
"feeling guilty for others", is that when you should be a Titus for
others*, by rescuing and healing and relieving the afflicted, who are weak and
near falling, you are more discouraged and disparing over them than they are
about themselves, even though they are the ones about to be crushed.
[* it is
your glory, exaltation, vital honor and privileged duty to be Titus]
they should be able to look out from under the
gloomy load of condemnation and unjust accusations against them, and they
should find strength to couragiously through off all their enemies. But when
you should be good to them, you are more ashamed at them than they are bout
themselves. Now David has to not only comfort himself but also those unfaithful
who are about to stone him.
Doing justice and being the cause of ithers
believing in truth is your greatest honor and privilage
--
7/13/14
more than Israel: - David had to encourage
himself when they spoke of stoning him - David had to encourage others, even
after his own son had died - by nature, leaders often hurt alone... but Titus
likes to change that
--
Yes: morn w those who morn
but NOT
Be discouraged with those who are discouraged
Let's make a chain that is not as week as its weakest
link
2Co_1:8-11 – Paul and others were very tribulated, w the sentence of death in them
2Co_1:23-24
\/
2Co_2:1-4 –
they are his favorable joy & victer's crown
\/
2Co_2:13
\/
2Co_7:6
Php_4:1
1Th_2:19
Psa_69:1-37
esp.
Psa_69:3
Psa_69:5
Psa_69:6
Psa_69:7
Psa_69:20
Psa_69:26
(Psa_69:29)
(Psa_69:33)
Good Customer Service
10/2/16; 10/4/16; 10/13/16; 11/12/16; 3/9/17
---------------
Informing Your Customers in Love
The Loving And Serving
Way To Expose Information To Your Customers
9/10/15*; 2/20/17; 3/9/17 (recompiled; slightly revised; re-titled:
Informing Your Customers in Love)
[original title: Mediation
Counseling]
A hasty word stirs up strife
> Insert V/Ay notes...
Be a 'man of peace' / a 'peace doer'
What do you think? Do you view them as a
rock? Do you habe no consideration for the emotional impack your words will
cause?
Is it so un-obvious to you that I am
fighting as hard as I can do bring about mutual faith in this situation?
Don't kid yourself: you are not all so
emotionally fixed yourself either, and you cannot bear any blunt news either
without it endangering your soul to tip over and sink. Now if you are both not
fixed, what makes you think that problematic words from one hurt person to
another hurt person will somehow fix them and relieve you?
If you can barely survive with your own
feelings, why would you dump even more unresolved feelings when we are finally
on the brink of barely signing a peace treaty?
We are not talking about being dishonest
or even about holding information back indefinitely (even if discression and
love might look for a fit season). But what we are saying is that irrationality
disturbs peace and is one of the most insulting and unloving things you can do.
Unplanned and off the cuff statements are especially evil when great things are
at stake. It is time to get sequential, rational, intentional, in reverence of
fit love and prefering to prioritize valuing and building up others.
A word fitly spoken is gold!
If it is critical to resolve now, and it
must needs be, then speak on with carefulness and light. But if it can wait,
don't insult peace by troubling a fragile situation just as it sees a little
hope.
---------------
11/13/16; 11/15/16
everyone always needs the alternative to entertainment reinforced upon their soul continually.
is an addiction worth feeding.
if you make someone turn to caffeine to be stimulated, you might not have done your job loving them extravagantly yet...
---------------
Mic_2:8 WEB But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and
clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
Mic_2:8 CAB Even before time My people withstood him as an enemy against his peace;
they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.
Mic_2:8 καὶ ἔμπροσθεν
ὁ λαός μου εἰς ἔχθραν
ἀντέστη· κατέναντι
τῆς εἰρήνης αὐτοῦ
τὴν δορὰν αὐτοῦ
ἐξέδειραν τοῦ ἀφελέσθαι
ἐλπίδα
συντριμμὸν
πολέμου.
---------------
11/7/16
Express your pleasure/appreciation toward others
learn to be wiser than a seductress in pleasing and enticing others (unlike so many wives I've known)
---------------
It is your job to make sure other people have a good day!
Imagine that you are still working as a cashier for Publix.
The customer is always right.
What right do we have to demand more from someone else socially?
Money alters the social behavior and status of people in this world, but not for us, lest we perish along with it.
Good Customer Service Means Protecting The Vulnerable Soul Of Your Customer
10/13/16
Part of good customer service is expressing your kind good appreciation for the customer in a way that makes sure that they feel good.
Part of good customer service is making sure that the customer is not left vulnerable to random feelings of feeling unimportant and invaluable.
Some animals, by their very nature, get spoked with fear as they go about throughout the forest seeking to preserve their life.
Humans also experience random feelings of fear, especially with the aggravation of demons and despising and the competitions to survival in our society.
The soul is extremely vulnerable to random feelings of hurt and discouragement, and it is your job as one who knows the store well to guide the customer into consolation and assurance so that you make sure that they have a good experience and navigate through all of the pitfalls and fears of going into “your store”.
>>Scrip:
Don’t let each one only look after his own things, but also the things of his brother
Galatians: bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of anointed one
--
Don’t Make People Owe You Anything!
10/5/16
Do not try to get an apology out of someone when one is not needed in order to satisfy justice.
Sometime all justice needs can be met positively without any debt ever being felt, and you should bear all wrongs so that others do not suffer needlessly.
Remember: you goal should be righteousness, out of a pure heart and unhypocritical faith -- and if you make someone say they are sorry with more sorrow than what promotes clean life, you have become self-servicing and not a sacrificial servant who saves other people’s lives.
>> TSK
1Ch_29:9 WEB Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
1Ch_29:9 CAB And the people rejoiced because of the willingness, for they offered willingly to the Lord with a full heart; and King David rejoiced greatly.
1Ch_29:9 καὶ εὐφράνθη
ὁ λαὸς ὑπὲρ τοῦ
προθυμηθῆναι, ὅτι
ἐν καρδίᾳ πλήρει
προεθυμήθησαν
τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ
Δαυιδ ὁ βασιλεὺς
εὐφράνθη μεγάλως.
1Ch_29:10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
1Ch_29:10 And King David blessed the Lord before the congregation, saying, Blessed are You, O Lord God of Israel, our Father, from everlasting and to everlasting.
1Ch_29:10 καὶ εὐλόγησεν
ὁ βασιλεὺς
Δαυιδ τὸν κύριον
ἐνώπιον τῆς ἐκκλησίας
λέγων Εὐλογητὸς
εἶ, κύριε ὁ θεὸς
Ισραηλ, ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν
ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος
καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.
1Ch_29:17 WEB I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
1Ch_29:17 CAB And I know, O Lord, that You are He that searches the hearts, and You love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart. And now I have seen with joy Your people, who are present here, willingly offering to You.
1Ch_29:17 καὶ ἔγνων,
κύριε, ὅτι σὺ εἶ
ὁ ἐτάζων καρδίας
καὶ δικαιοσύνην
ἀγαπᾷς· ἐν ἁπλότητι
καρδίας
προεθυμήθην πάντα
ταῦτα, καὶ νῦν τὸν
λαόν σου τὸν εὑρεθέντα
ὧδε εἶδον ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ
προθυμηθέντα
σοι.
1Ch_29:18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you;
1Ch_29:18 O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel our fathers, preserve these things in the thoughts of the heart of Your people forever, and direct their hearts toward You.
1Ch_29:18 κύριε ὁ
θεὸς Αβρααμ καὶ
Ισαακ καὶ
Ισραηλ τῶν πατέρων
ἡμῶν, φύλαξον
ταῦτα ἐν διανοίᾳ
καρδίας λαοῦ
σου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα
καὶ κατεύθυνον
τὰς καρδίας αὐτῶν
πρὸς σέ.
1Ch_29:20 WEB David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
1Ch_29:20 CAB And David said to the whole congregation, Bless the Lord our God! And all the congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and they bowed the knee and worshipped the Lord, and bowed down to the king.
1Ch_29:20 καὶ εἶπεν
Δαυιδ πάσῃ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ
Εὐλογήσατε κύριον
τὸν θεὸν ὑμῶν·
καὶ εὐλόγησεν
πᾶσα ἡ ἐκκλησία
κύριον τὸν θεὸν
τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν
καὶ κάμψαντες
τὰ γόνατα
προσεκύνησαν
τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ τῷ
βασιλεῖ.
>> note: the purified heart has no parania of idolatry in bowing!
>> God love a cheerful giver
>> es NT search: Willingly
This is the whole goal and point of the New Covenant:
Willingly entering into a betrothal covenant and willingly staying faithful
This is the heart-purifying righteousness of faith -- it does not work when forced too harshly, therefore all forbearance and gentleness and self-sacrificial service is absolutely necessary for those who aspire to be found heroic and warmly and intimately loved by the Father -- because his favorites are those who share His sacrificaial and patient heart and go and seek and save that which was lost.
It is time to bear all things -- especially if you want to be one of God’s favorites and gyo from being a field to one day being an actual colaborer with God in saving and building up other people’s lives into an eternal house for God
Gal: where is the blessedness which you spoke of?
There is a Nicer Way to Say That
BBS: LoveP
BBS: EncV -- encouragement verses
3/3/16; 11/3/16
David: we have come on a good day
>Tsk
Nehemiah: may the King live forever
Song of Songs: the whole book
Can you think of other poetic examples of saying things in a kinder way
throughout the Bible?
Love -- That’s Easy for You to Say!
10/2/16
On one hand those who have life more together have got to not hold the depressed up to having all their love together.
· They are not serving people all the time
· They are still in their trial
· It is hard to love people with less practice and less wiggle room from your own depression
On the other hand, even depressed people have to cry out for love
· Life happens to you when you first give your bread away
Love Atones
3/7/22-3/8/22; 3/13/22; 3/25/22
(incl. compilations); 3/29/22; 4/3/22
Love Covers/Satisfies/Appeases/Atones/Perpetuates
Get:
John 15 A – Obedience Produces Father & Son Love
<<<
& following passages
>> search: world
Love keeps no records of
wrongs
Father forgive them because
they don't know what they are doing
Steven cried out don't hold
this sin against them
Pro_24:17-18 – Don’t rejoice in your heart if enemy falls
· Discussed under Love Atones (comp. Love Enemies)
· Love Atones -- It is demanded for us to forgive our enemies and see them like God sees them -- with redemptive mercy / atonement
Pro_10:12 – Love covers all sins;
See: Pe_
Pro_17:9 – Covering is Love, repeating is separating;
· Comp. Pro_17:9 (Covering is Love), Pro_17:17 (Friend always loves)
1Pe_4:8 – Love Covers Multitude of sins
· See: 1Pe_1:22 (Non-hypocritical); 1Pe_4:8 (Love Covers Multitude) -- Fervent Love; 2Pe_1:7, etc. – Virtue Additions
Rom_5:7-8 – While
still being sinners, Anointed One Died over us
· see: Love Atones (discussed) & Love Enemies
· stands a commendation of Love
\//\\/
Rom_9:1-3 – Paul could
wish to go to Hell for Israel
· see: Love Atones (discussed) & Love Enemies & Identity Justice
· identity
· Selflessly
· Wishing to go to Hell for someone else
· More Truth = More Tears
…
1jn4
>> TSK
forgive as anointed one
forgave
3/8/22
knowing who someone is
makes you realize how valuable they are and then when you share God's heart
about the real value of their real identity you love them, and this love
produces atonement on their behalf in your heart, because love covers a
multitude of sins.
...
Love does not
"Satan" / attack / thoroughly throw accusations against the
righteous, likely accuser of the brothers does night and day...
Love covers over all sins /
a multitude of sins, and thinks the best (1co13), and does not betray (and
despise) the vulnerability of closeness when people spend more time getting to
know each other.
Love does not seize the
opportunity of special privileged exposure to someone's "every day
weaknesses" and exploit it to throw accusations against them like the
devil does.
perversion exploits the
privileges of extra closeness with someone, but love counts it as a privilege
and an honor, and brings about more honor with its special privileges, not
accusations and exploitations of weakness to bring about shame.
reality is that it is a
shame to the one who exploits close relationships to produce Shame from getting
a chance to find something to accuse...
Love
Doesn't Blaspheme
Love Avoids Blasphemy & Accomplishes Forgiveness
delighting in Mercy more
than sacrifice means that you do not condemn the innocent
Consider the many glorious
praiseworthy virtues of perfect love…
· Love is always preoccupied with rejoicing with the truth too much too stoop down to blaspheme.
· Love keeps no records of wrongs because it is too preoccupied and paying a love debt which covers (satisfies for) these wrongs
· Not only does love not blaspheme but it is actually so busy redeeming and forgiving that it can't so much is begin to blaspheme
·
Love keeps no records of
wrongs and is rather instead covering a multitude of sins
·
Love
has this amazing ability to redeem and fix relationships for all those who Love
to Love.
Love does not damage what is good when it is too busy rejoicing with the good (1Co_13:).
Real Love also forgives sins.
....
Mercy not Sacrifice then
you would not have condemned the guiltless
>> TSK
…
1Jn_4: -- Love means we
need to Satisfy for each other
2/28/22
Love Admires What is Superior
2/11/22; 2/13/22; 3/6/22
1Co_13:
no admiration of what is
better than you / what is godly = no Love / no recognition of cherishing value
to what God demands
....and the angels grown
over inappropriate perversions and absurdities
Michael’s
Increased Despising
Michael
lived out the predictable shame and bitter perverted evil of unbelieving flesh
that never knows how to faithfully love...
Ruth's Faithful Love
2/6/22
Rth_1:8 – Naomi blesses Ruth & Orpah with Divine
Kindness
Rth_1:15-17 – Ruth Begged Naomi for
Her God
Rth_2:20 – Naomi sees her kind blessing
happening
Rth_3:10 – Ruth’s Kindness praised
Rth_4:15 – Ruth’s Faithful Kindness
called Love / Ruth's Faithful Cherishing = Love
Rth_4:14 WEB The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this
day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
Rth_4:14 CAB And the woman said to Naomi, Blessed is
the Lord, who has not allowed a redeemer to fail you this day, even to make
your name famous in Israel.
Rth_4:14
καὶ εἶπαν αἱ
γυναῖκες πρὸς
Νωεμιν Εὐλογητὸς
κύριος, ὃς οὐ
κατέλυσέ σοι σήμερον
τὸν ἀγχιστέα,
καὶ καλέσαι τὸ ὄνομά
σου ἐν Ισραηλ,
Rth_4:15 WEB He shall be to you a restorer of
life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves [“אהבתך”
('a·he·Va·tech)] you, who is better to you than seven
sons, has borne him.
Rth_4:15 CAB
And he shall be to [εἰς] you a
restorer [ἐπιστρέφοντα] of your soul [ψυχὴν], and one to cherish [nourish ABP/ a nourisher CT –
διαθρέψαι] in your old age; for your daughter-in-law [νύμφη] who has loved [ἀγαπήσασά] you, who is better [ἀγαθή] to you than seven sons, has born him.
Rth_4:15 καὶ ἔσται
σοι εἰς ἐπιστρέφοντα
ψυχὴν καὶ τοῦ
διαθρέψαι τὴν
πολιάν σου, ὅτι ἡ
νύμφη σου ἡ ἀγαπήσασά
σε ἔτεκεν αὐτόν,
ἥ ἐστιν ἀγαθή
σοι ὑπὲρ ἑπτὰ υἱούς.
Notice: Ruth's ADMIRING, cherishing, faithfulness
toward drawing out the potent monotheistic really of Naomi's real value, no
matter how profoundly hidden it initially was at that time of trial.
Consider
the exciting redemption of Ruth's monotheistic faithfulness and the disciples who
remained with Anointed One through his trials...
Value in the Afterlife = The Focus and Forgiving
Power of Real Love
2/28/22
1Co_7: How do you know, oh
wife if you might save
1Pe_3:
Sir_:
Forget those who are dead
The wicked won’t be made
righteous until hell
That’s our solution for
forgiving them, as long as we see reasonably believe the Word of God and see
that their sins are being satisfied by the beginnings of judgement…
A heart that really
believes the Truth about the state of departed souls is overtaken with more
sympathy for their suffering than any hurt that sinners caused them while
alive…
We got to use this in the
meantime to love them and forgive them and pray for their real salvation…
Where a tree falls there it
will lay
>>TSK
All this shows that ‘Love
covering a multitude of sins’ is about the potential value of them being saved
while still alive.
That’s why we especially
pray for those still alive, because they have the most potential value of being
redeemed…
Mercy after the grave is
more of an attempt to salvage as much as possible after the condition has
mostly already fallen upon them (unless they never heard the Truth and were
righteous).
Even judging the church is an
issue of value:
So that his spirit might be
saved
Steven: Don’t count this
sin against them
Focusing on their
potential/hopeful salvation (greatest value) give you the power to Love them
and send away / forgive all their sins -- that’s real Love, which is powerful
when it Truly perceives someone’s greatest value.
The Point: While
liberals ignore justice and even aggressively cause increasing suffering
against the life of the poor, yet the poor righteous have a powerful real
answer in the value-consciousness of Real Love to forgive these same perverts
who sin against them and damage them endlessly with persecutions.
Anti-Love
Usurping Perspectives ≠ Love
Rom_15: Issues of conscience --
1Co_12: We all have knowledge.. it puffs Up
1Co_13: Love does not puff up
Unnecessary Negativity
Unnecessary negativity is
not refreshing.
Rom1: Astorge
>>Scrip:
without natural affection
unusual hardening away from
Love, even what is ready by default
Unnecessary Negativity Examples
how does not unnecessary negativity happen?
· interpreting each other in the worst possible sense instead of always defaulting and leaning toward the best possible sense
· is there a way that what they said could be understood in a positive way? if so, then why are you choosing the negative option?
· reminder: creating your own conflict is vanity, because you are wrapping your emotions up in falsehood -- things that are not true
· just as a person watching a lie dramatized in a movie is foolish in vain when they get their emotions wrapped up in deception that is killing them, so similarly also with us if we create our own conflict and wrap our emotions around things that are not true
· our emotions do not belong to lies
· wasteful conversation escalation happens when a discussion that could otherwise have been purely informational consideration in nature is turned into something emotionally charged when taking things personally for no reason
· we should not return any man evil for evil, and likewise we should not return anyone escalation for escalation in an emotionally charged dialogue...
· numerous times the one who says, "don't escalate" in an escalated tone is the one who started the escalation...
· kill The flesh: do atonement in private in prayer and resolve and reconcile them back to your heart before ever involving them and then raise the pitch of your voice to a high and pleasant tone and give them a good day when discussing the friction at hand
· yes, raise the pitch of your voice to a pleasant tone more cheerful and courteous than a European and give them a good day in exchange for the groaning of your flesh which you have crucified and destroy all the vanity of unneeded escalation and negativity
· your unnecessary negativity and groaning is not worthy of being preserved - execute the flesh and rid the council of the righteous of wasted time, deceived emotions, vain taxation, sub divinity, and rotten worthless failure
Knowing Less Over Time ≠ Love (or Truth)
Required/Important/Mandatory
Attitude To...
· Not lose eagerness toward each other
· Remember that we are not in danger of getting to know each other too much, but we are in danger of forgetting who each other is, and knowing each other LESS.
· Embrace the solution of faithfulness, Loving Truth... and slaying/crucifying foolishness!
Written Meditation (Started
While Walking):
Onlookers so often
typically wish that others would not give up so quickly on their marriages,
relationships, and other good, optimistic/peaceful feelings toward other people
in general. But these very same on lookers just like all other humans end up
repeating the exact same mistakes and living out the exact same broken
relationships as everyone else they have previously observed. They think they
understand how things should be in our human relationships, but in many ways,
nothing is more far from the Truth. They have been gullible and deceived just
like the other people they used to observe and correct in their hearts. They
have been deceived just like everyone else by the abomination of foolishness.
The Truth about our
Relationship Problems:
In our relationship trials, we (humans) do not tend to know each other more as time goes on, but actually less -- as we tend to forget our first Love, toward God and toward each other (Rev_2:4).
We are not knowing each
other more and problems are arising, but we are forgetting each other and
knowing each other less, and the resulting unfaithfulness ravages/reeks untold
and unending problems!
Our First Love is the faithful one that actually acknowledges indeed (in work and in Truth – 1Jo_3:18) who God is and who others are -- with a reasonable response to the real character of who God is, including who He is through each other.
The first Love does not
ever lose the only orthodox honeymoon in Song of Songs.
When you
lose/diminish/forget your first exciting Love for someone (your “honeymoon”),
beware, because foolishness has found you and is eating away at the reality of
who people (really) are -- and is replacing their real glory with
pseudo-identities!
The Real glory of the real
God does not ever diminish with age or time!
Do you care to know the
real God, including Him in others?
Family Slackening
In some sense, "family
slackening" or "familiarity slackening" is almost unavoidable.
You're supposed to
"lose down" when you enter your house, not necessarily "tighten
up".
However whenever loosening
lessons honor, it is always the more “loosened” one who is at fault for
relationship dishonors.
Examples: being short,
rude, too casual, drooping face or posture at the occurrence of value, not
standing in honor and aw of value, interrupting,
The familiarity that breeds
contempt is a defining character flaw of moral/virtue losers.
>> Scrip:
blessed is the one who
always fears
>> TSK
don't be a bear to your own
household
when waiting for Anointed
One and sometimes each other we should still be girded.
Unfaithful Constriction
1/14/22
1 Corinthians 13 - 'Love is
faithful'
our mouth is open to you
you are not restricted in
US
Love is not slow...
slow to believe all the
prophets have written
Greek: nothroui
Imagine Love Renewal
What if we ran into eager disciples that had not learned the artificial staleness of protestantism or the restricted compassions of de-educated modern cultures?
How much eagerness would they have and how would we fare as they fell at our feet to love and beg us for truth after we had grown so hard?
Pay the Love Debt!
>> Scrip:
continual debt to love
We got to get serious about
who we are as Bible Obeyers, especially since the Bible prophesize that the
righteous will again perceive....
It's time to get serious
about perceiving who each of us is and to no longer be slack-handed to zealously
give over the gaping love debt that is crying out under the heavens for
justice!
1Jn_4:
Make sure you hold yourself
as an obsessive-compulsive debtor, feverishly going about seeking to zealously
pay the Love debt, and yet making sure at the same time to bear with all
patience and long suffering (hot breathing), for the elect's sake, if they do
not yet pay a reasonable love debt back to you.
We got to get up and stop
being lazy in our attitude toward how much we owe to give over...
Yes, we are being tempted,
and yes we are very vulnerable to being lazy and complacent and unreasonable
when it comes to the gigantic debt before us, that has barely even begun to be
paid....
>> Scrip:
even if the more I love the
less I am loved
The only time you have a responsibility
to be zealous when people are not paying the love debt back to you is when you
have real wisdom and truth that is in their best interest to rebuke them
with...
All other trials should be
willingly endured and all injuries and pain willingly received until truth
gives you enough understanding to do something to help the other person in
their best interest...
Love = Eager
>>Scrip:
She Loved Much
Fervent love for one another
Forgiven Much = Love Much
One of the biggest hindrances to "Loving Much" is not believing you have been guilty.
this principle can span from totally disconnected people to totally great people who are in danger of forgetting their first Love.
When you believe and take responsibility for your guilt, then you have every bit of fuel to “be zealous and repent”.
· How much are you going to express and do Love?
· How much do you really feel unworthy, and How much do you feel “forgiven of much”?
· Is your perceived “forgiveness” an insufficient trickle that actually begs justice to give you separation in order to correct you into truth?
· Is it an overflowing river of faithfulness and affirmation of orthodox hopes?
· Real faith overflows with moving gratitude.
entitlement vs. Mary-ing much after being forgiven much
Side Note: How to Take a Hold of Forgiveness at a Distance by Faith
· If you want to love much, it goes without saying that you have to believe that you have been forgiven much.
· If you are struggling to believe that your sins have been forgiven, then how do you even begin to get to that point to where you can love?
· A lot of times we have to start (and re-start) from scratch if we want real Orthodoxy.
>> He reconciled the whole world to God all at once
>> TSK
Behold the Lamb that was already killed for you, and has already redeemed us to God, and taken away our sins in one courageous and marvelous work…
You are not waiting on God to forgive you, He is waiting on you to be thankful enough to believe in the Sacrifice He already made.
Side Note Hint: if you ever want to easily know or determine “who is waiting on who”, you can easily find that out by considering who is or isn't being faithful in this situation.
The Point: Much Forgiveness Calls for Doing Much Love
· If You’ve Been Forgiven Much, Then Believe it and start doing much real Love!
· Whether you feel forgiven or you don’t feel forgiven, it is time to love without excuses!
Slave Love is the Answer
Remember that it is Biblical and healthy and righteous and amazingly good to walk around feeling slavishly indebted to love other people without ever having come close to paying off that debt. (See: Scriptures quoted below)
Rom_13:8 CAB Owe nothing [μηδεν] to no one [μηδενι], except to love one another…
Remember:
· debt = slavery
· We are not supposed to be slaves of men, except when it comes to loving each other
Gal_5:13 CAB …but [ἀλλὰ] through [διὰ] [the (τῆς)] love ·[slave] serve [δουλεύετε] one another [ἀλλήλοις].
Gal_5:13 ῾Υμεῖς
γὰρ ἐπ᾿ ἐλευθερίᾳ
ἐκλήθητε, ἀδελφοί·
μόνον μὴ
τὴν ἐλευθερίαν
εἰς ἀφορμὴν
τῇ σαρκί, ἀλλὰ
διὰ τῆς ἀγάπης
δουλεύετε ἀλλήλοις.
The Reward of Love -- No Sin Problems
Other date(s); 3/25/22;
Love = No Sin
Problems / No Scandal
1Jo_2:9-11 – Love Brothers/Obeyers = No Scandal
·
See: 1st John 2 –
Worldly Lust vs. the Father’s Love; No
Hypocritical Love(lessness); Rock Solid Love; Reward of Love
there is a real sense in
which:
If you would just Love
people all your problems would go away.
or to put it more specifically,
practically, and concretely:
If you would just stop
undervaluing people, treating them like they are less valuable than they really
are, you wouldn't fall into any sins.
Doing Faithful Love Without Excuses
Intro Notes to This Exhortation
· I could start with basics first, like reviewing all the Greek Words for “love”, but instead I’m jumping right into particular issues / needs.
· Even though we are not primarily focusing on Greek words, for what it’s worth, unless otherwise specified, most of what we’re talking about correlates with agape.
· This is a very simple exhortation.
· I have sought to do a deepening and thorough job in the form of an orderly exhortation to really tackle the less tangible and unspoken illusiveness of certain trials.
· Even though this exhortation is simple, it needs to take on some new and serious depth in us.
· Feel free to start waving a handkerchief or saying “amen” or something if you start to see how these things apply in so many ways to any particular needs.
· Among other things, this exhortation might contradict numerous values that some females might especially often hold dear, so,
· Let’s get ready to die to some assumptions and default values and apprehend True ones.
Bible Readings
1Co_13
Rev_2 & 3
No Nonsense -- Our Obvious Context
· Of course, it goes without saying that we are talking about the REAL stuff of REAL Love here, as seen in the Bible.
· We don’t have any time to fool around with the fake non-sense.
· None of this: “I love you because my affection toward you is heart-felt!”
· Let’s not be foolish, shallow, and perverted at any point when talking about love.
·
Let’s always, always be
ready to quickly shoot down perversion by asking the obvious and simple
question:
Are you doing what is in my best
interest?
· <<V: Reinforcing what God says about someone is the most loving thing you can do to anyone on the face of the earth>>
Seek Truth Love, Not Feelings Love
Truth vs. Feelings Love – Understanding the Competition
· The more heaven loves you, the more God will demand that you only be satisfied with real love.
· Don’t pray or seek or ask that heaven would love you less!
· It is vain to wait for and hope for feelings of love, while neglecting real love.
· <<V: 1st be even more zealous to demand faithful love from yourself towards God instead of being bent out of shape “waiting” for feelings of love>>
· <<Fake love is marked by wanting to feel love 1st>>
· <<When you go through a trails and you’re zealous to want to feel love 1st is vanity, vanity in trials = not winning >>
· <<Are you unsatisfied? You need to realize that is a blessing. You don’t realize but that is the best thing that could happen to you.>>
· << If you feel love with doing love you are being deceived. Is it loving to be trick?
· Truth wants to prove things to be True.
· Truth Love would rather starve the feelings in order to obtain the truth.
Love rejoices together with
the Truth (1Co_13:6)
· While you wait for feelings of love, God waits for your faithfulness.
· He is willing to starve the feelings of those He chastises if He can get them to produce the real Truth.
· It is vain to wish for feelings, while being slow to cry out for Truth, because God, the Truth, will insist on justice and propriety, and will abundantly decrease your feelings in honor of His Truth.
Fake Love
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
Get Serious About The Truth, Even If You Have To Ask For A Spanking
· Stop believing feelings love and defending vanity.
· Get off of your high chair and start being a worshiper of God.
· A slave of the Truth gladly receives the honorable value of real love in whatever (potentially uncomfortable) form their Worshipful King chooses to give it, even if it’s in the form of chastisement.
· A worshiping slave of humility says, “thank you loving and righteous Master for spanking me, because this was the most loving and valuing thing that you could do for me in light of my real needs. Please do not stop Loving me until you have fulfilled Your wise counsel in me, and conformed me to Your superior wisdom, kindness, virtue, goodness, and real Love.”
“Feelings Love” is…
· False
· Not worth it
· Disappointing
· Results in more trials
· Pushes you away from Truth Love
· Endangers and competes against God’s real, special love for your life
Confusing Encouragement for “Love” = “Feelings Love”
On one hand, it is not bad at all to wish/pray for consolation, encouragement, and good feelings from heaven, but on the other hand it is bad to call that “love”. When you confuse these concepts you assign the wrong priority to your own good feelings, and this is “Feelings Love”, and this turns out real bad and shallow and fake for you in the end as a result.
<<V: some trials are optional, it is up to you whether or not you want more pain and suffering based upon your willingness to change from where you are at now to where you need to be.
There are trials that you go through that gives you more crown
There are trials that you go through that make you more virtuous
And there are optional trials, which you can avoid.
Discernment/Perception can give you a vantage point in terms of trials
Being self-discipline, giving over faithful love / what God wants is a way for you to avoid optional trials.
All humans should be unsatisfied until you give over what God is demanding out of you from your trials.
Real Love ≠ Happy Feelings
· 100% of your love for God includes making Him happy.
· God’s real Love for you does not always include making you happy.
· God’s real Love for you includes both encouragement and discipline.
· God’s real love for you does not always include feelings of encouragement.
· God’s real love is not feelings love.
· We can “assure our hearts” (see 1Jo_3:19) of God’s Love for us by faith (or faithfulness) even if we are not encouraged, as long as we are not reverencing feelings love.
Ready to Learn About Truth Love?
Based on these warnings and exhortations, hopefully you want the real deal now, so let’s further explore and search out a few particular solid principles on how to filter out the garbage, and recognize the Truth.
Shocker: Real Love Does Not Require Spending Time Together
It’s Epiphany Time!
Let’s talk about Doing
Faithful Love Without the Potential Excuses of Distance and Separation.
Remember your BFF?
· What happened to them?
· They were your BFF, and,
· All it took was time and distance, and then all of the sudden they are gone.
MrS Apostasy
· He was emotionally persuaded (and probably still is) that he loves people
· As soon as I increased distance (took away stimulation from his shallowness) he changed his positions
1Corinthians 13 Love…
· Does not seek its own (example: “I feel in my heart that I love you”.)
· It always remains…
We need to learn to prioritize quality faithfulness above quality time, immeasurably.
Real Love Outlives Excuses
With Real Love…
· Real best friends do not need to have the privilege of spending time together in order to remain faithful to love each other supremely.
· A man does not need physical things before he can cherish & adore his wife.
· A wife does not need to spend time & talk together before she can be emotionally excited about her husband.
>>
Do you see how feelings love puts conditions on doing love?
If you don’t first establish faithful love that’s when you will have real deal prostitution
The main need to finding emotional love in our culture is to first find faithful love.
Whatever bad feelings you get now is small and in comparision to God’s reward, so be faithful
>>
Real Love Passes the Test of “Absence” & All Other Trials
Real Love Endures
Through Trials, Including “Absence”
· Real love requires WANTING to spend time together, but it does not require actually spending time together as a cause of its existence, or even a condition to its persistence.
· Although real love results in WANTING time together, and every kind of life-sharing bliss, yet even more, real love also rejoices in proving itself True by enduring in excellent faithfulness and blamelessness and full cherishing when the benefits of circumstances are not available and are contrary to all rejoicing.
· Real Love is an “always” thing (as seen in 1Co_13).
· Real Love is “always” doing what is truly best / most valuing for others.
· Real Love is not there when you spend time together, and then lacking when hardships come.
· Real Love does not go along with demons, for yourself or others.
· Real Love, by very definition, is recognized by being the only love that ultimately remains when circumstances contradict it.
· Real love stirs itself up in zeal to do the impossible and prove before all that it came from the virtue of heaven and not the flesh of men.
· You do not have any more love than that which you DO in your hardest trials. (Like always, notice the present-tense).
· Look outside of your trial, identify the Truth, be enabled to do Love. (Remember: Love does not do demonic cooperation.)
· Real Love does not correlate with circumstances.
· It exists in abundant strength and it can even overflow in gloriously expressing itself, all in the most confounding circumstances.
· It does not wait around for kindness or even justice to be given to it before it gets zealous for the Truth in others.
· Real Love is what Abigale stunningly did on behalf of her household and also toward David when saving her household.
· Real Love is not a fair weather friend, but it always smiles by faith, courageously boasting in every possible value and goodness available in others.
· Real Love is what David did to Saul when Saul personally deserved to be killed.
· If real love can spare someone who tried to kill you, then it can very gloriously pass the test of absence, and every other trial and contradiction of your soul.
Truth Love Faithfully Uses Absence, But Feelings Love Abuses Togetherness
· Truth Love is often refined and drawn out by absence.
· Shallowness wants togetherness, then fruit (although, even then it will only give over external compliance at best).
· Truth Love wants fruit, then togetherness.
· Feelings Love is upset when the feelings are deprived by absence.
· Truth Love is upset when togetherness and good feelings interfere with Truth verification and refinement of real Love.
Examples of Long-Distance Love Relationships
The Range of Long-Distance Trials
Long-Distance Trials
May Refer to…
· Geographical distance (some greater distance, some lesser)
· Relationship distance (in some cases people could be geographically close, yet on relational probation & emotional distance)
· People & People – People separated/distanced from other people
· People & God – Distance between God and people
· People & People on behalf of People & God
· A punishment for (bad) sin
· A trial to refine (good) faith
· Circumstantial/Unwilling separations (especially when 2 humans are separated against their will)
· Intentional separations (especially by God and or His representatives, for punishment and or refinement)
· A variety, combination, and or variation of these things
The Point: No matter what the variations may be, all of these Long-Distance Trials successfully and effectively draw out and contrast whether people’s love is feelings love or Truth Love.
Distance Trials always prove if always Love is close or distant.
Abraham & Lot
· They were separated by Flocks and Land, But United by Faithfulness, Love, & Prayers…
· Abraham and Lot continued in faithful love even after they had to separate to make room for their flocks & herdsmen.
· After Lot chose the better land (which was all Abraham’s Divine inheritance), and after they had been (formally) separated for some time, Abraham prayed and God rescued righteous Lot from Sodom.
[Distance
Side Note: How far away was Lot from Abraham after they formally separated?
-- At first, not as far, but later they moved even further apart when Abraham
continued wandering. -- By the time Lot reached Sodom, they were at a significant
distance but their different locations were still within a potentially viewable
range. (Gen_19:28-29).
The Talmud describes them as still being close enough to visit each other.
Later however, their distance increased as Abraham had to travel and continue
wandering (Gen_20:1, etc.).]
Abraham & Melchizedek
Abraham Loved the Truth in Melchizedek, even though their lives were often providentially assigned to different locations.
Rebecca Relatives
Rebecca’s relatives were supposed to love her indefinitely even though they did not have a hope of ever seeing her again.
Pioneering Patriarchs -- in General
· Other Patriarchs were spreading abroad across the face of the land -- the human population has to grow, and God had said to spread out and multiply.
· No matter what time in history you find yourself, always make sure that you are getting busy with what God is currently doing upon the earth, even if you have to bear great personal losses to your own soul.
· Enjoying Personal relationships often had to take a back seat to prioritize the important mission that God was accomplishing (Such as Rebecca’s Divinely confirmed, far away marriage).
· Note: Although enjoying relationships might have to take a back seat to prioritize God’s agenda, it goes without saying that it is impossible that real love should take a backseat to anything in order to obey righteous love (i.e. God).
· Enjoying relationships is not the same as Real Love -- these have very different priorities on them!
Jacob and Leah
Joseph's Trials And Exaltation
· Joseph was separated from his family and all the love he ever knew in this life when he was sold into slavery and brought into Egypt.
· Joseph remained faithful to the faith of the God of his fathers throughout his hardest trials.
· Ironically, after being exalted, his faithfulness was particularly stretched yet again when his brothers showed up in person in Egypt looking for grain.
· Joseph’s separation trials began when his brothers sold him away, and they were revisited when his brothers came back into his life again.
Joseph Was Exalted
& Comforted in the Midst of His Separation Trials
Gen_41:51 LB And Joseph
called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh; “For God,” he said, “has made me
forget all my toils [WEB: toil], and all
my father’s house.”
Gen_41:51 ἐκάλεσεν
δὲ Ιωσηφ τὸ ὄνομα
τοῦ πρωτοτόκου
Μανασση, ὅτι Ἐπιλαθέσθαι
με ἐποίησεν ὁ
θεὸς πάντων τῶν
πόνων μου καὶ πάντων
τῶν τοῦ πατρός
μου.
Joseph Still Cared
About his Father
Gen_43:27 WEB He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
Gen_43:27 LB And he asked them, “How are you?” And he said to them, “Is your father, the old man of whom you spoke, well? Does he still live?”
Gen_43:27 ἠρώτησεν
δὲ αὐτούς Πῶς ἔχετε;
καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς
Εἰ ὑγιαίνει ὁ
πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ
πρεσβύτερος, ὃν
εἴπατε; ἔτι ζῇ;
Joseph Still Loved
His Brother Benjamin
Gen_43:29 WEB He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
Gen_43:29 LB And Joseph lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said, “Is this your younger brother, whom you spoke of bringing to me?” And he said, “God have mercy on you, my son.”
Gen_43:29 ἀναβλέψας
δὲ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς
Ιωσηφ εἶδεν
Βενιαμιν τὸν ἀδελφὸν
αὐτοῦ τὸν ὁμομήτριον
καὶ εἶπεν Οὗτος
ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὑμῶν
ὁ νεώτερος, ὃν εἴπατε
πρός με ἀγαγεῖν;
καὶ εἶπεν Ὁ θεὸς
ἐλεήσαι σε, τέκνον.
Gen_43:30 WEB Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
Gen_43:30 And Joseph was troubled, for his heart yearned over his brother, and he wanted to weep; and he went into his chamber, and wept there.
Gen_43:30 ἐταράχθη
δὲ
Ιωσηφ--συνεστρέφετο
γὰρ τὰ ἔντερα αὐτοῦ
ἐπὶ τῷ ἀδελφῷ
αὐτοῦ--καὶ ἐζήτει
κλαῦσαι· εἰσελθὼν
δὲ εἰς τὸ ταμιεῖον
ἔκλαυσεν ἐκεῖ.
Joseph Still Mercifully Loved His Other Brothers Too
Gen_45:2 WEB He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Gen_45:2 And he uttered his voice with weeping; and all the Egyptians heard, and it was reported to the house of Pharaoh.
Gen_45:2 καὶ ἀφῆκεν
φωνὴν μετὰ
κλαυθμοῦ· ἤκουσαν
δὲ πάντες οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι,
καὶ ἀκουστὸν ἐγένετο
εἰς τὸν οἶκον
Φαραω.
Gen_45:3 WEB Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
Gen_45:3 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; does my father yet live?” And his brothers could not answer him, for they were troubled.
Gen_45:3 εἶπεν δὲ
Ιωσηφ πρὸς τοὺς
ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ
Ἐγώ εἰμι Ιωσηφ·
ἔτι ὁ πατήρ μου
ζῇ; καὶ οὐκ ἐδύναντο
οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἀποκριθῆναι
αὐτῷ· ἐταράχθησαν
γάρ.
Gen_45:4 WEB Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen_45:4 And Joseph said to his brothers, “Draw near to me”; and they drew near; and he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Gen_45:4 εἶπεν δὲ
Ιωσηφ πρὸς τοὺς
ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ
Ἐγγίσατε πρός
με. καὶ ἤγγισαν.
καὶ εἶπεν Ἐγώ εἰμι
Ιωσηφ ὁ ἀδελφὸς
ὑμῶν, ὃν ἀπέδοσθε
εἰς Αἴγυπτον.
Gen_45:5 WEB Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gen_45:5 Now then, do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Gen_45:5 νῦν οὖν
μὴ λυπεῖσθε
μηδὲ σκληρὸν ὑμῖν
φανήτω ὅτι ἀπέδοσθέ
με ὧδε· εἰς γὰρ
ζωὴν ἀπέστειλέν
με ὁ θεὸς ἔμπροσθεν
ὑμῶν·
One of the true test if someone is loving you is how quickly
they are to forgive you.
think about it, it God doesn’t love you why is He so quick to forgive you.
Gen_50:20 WEB As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Gen_50:20 LB You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and many people might be fed.”
Gen_50:20 ὑμεῖς ἐβουλεύσασθε
κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ εἰς
πονηρά, ὁ δὲ θεὸς
ἐβουλεύσατο
περὶ ἐμοῦ εἰς ἀγαθά,
ὅπως ἂν γενηθῇ ὡς
σήμερον, ἵνα
διατραφῇ λαὸς
πολύς.
Gen_50:21 WEB Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Gen_50:21 And he said to them, “Do not fear, I will maintain you, and your families. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Gen_50:21 καὶ εἶπεν
αὐτοῖς Μὴ φοβεῖσθε·
ἐγὼ διαθρέψω ὑμᾶς
καὶ τὰς οἰκίας ὑμῶν.
καὶ παρεκάλεσεν
αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐλάλησεν
αὐτῶν εἰς τὴν
καρδίαν.
Joseph’s faithful love passed the test of absence and exaltation with flying colors.
Moses Preparing in the Wilderness
Moses had forsaken all the treasures of Egypt to be with the people of God, but when persecution came for his deeds of righteous salvation, he had to flee and be separated from his righteous family and all Israel for 40 years.
Moses & Jethro
Moses and Jethro separated and reunited numerous times.
Moses & His Wife
When Moses went down to rescue Israel from Egypt, he sent his wife back home to his father in law.
Moses and his wife were morally required to choose to do faithful love during this time of temporary separation.
Miriam’s Leprosy
In Numbers 12, like other lepers, Miriam had to be separated and spend a week outside of the camp, separated from everyone's company. This punishing trial gave Miriam time to regain and reestablish perfect and clean faithfulness and love toward her brother Moses, and the God who possessed him.
Lepers -- Are They
Guilty or Not Guilty?
· In Miriam's case, she had done something wrong.
· In other cases, people may have become leprous without doing anything wrong.
· Jesus said that a certain man was born blind without having done any particular sin to “deserve it” – Joh_9:2.
· In both cases, with both guilty and not guilty scenarios, lepers experienced trials of separation that should draw out their faithfulness toward the God of Truth.
Why Even Mention a
Short Week?
Although we could say that a week is not that long, and we could question if we should even bring up this shorter example of separation, yet when we go through even a small trial it often feels like forever. For example, I have had long separations from my wife being sick. Even though some of these cases were less than a week, they were a long time for me.
Family Purity Separations
· As the Law of Moses declares: All Men, both Jews and Gentiles, have to be separated from their women during their women's monthly cycle.
· This might call for a week of separation every month.
· And as if a week every month was not enough, men might also have to be separated from their wives for as much as a whole month after they give birth!
· All of this waiting in separation can feel like forever, especially to the “poor men”.
· However, especially as much as a woman might get more righteous than the average spoiled female in our culture, separation could also feel like a long time for a more righteous wife too.
The Israelites, God, & the Promised Land
Who Is Causing the
Separation Here?
· God truly wanted to be with the Israelites, and,
· even though they falsely accused God of not wanting to bring them into a good land or "be with/among them",
· they were actually the ones causing separation.
· they were prolonging the conquest and inheritance of the Promised Land
Comparing &
Contrasting the Failure of the Israelites with the Virtue of Leah
· Remember what we said about how Leah did what she could to pursue real love with Jacob.
· Even though Jacob struggled at first to fulfill his role of loving Leah, yet on Leah’s side of the parable, this contradicting story still fulfilled its purpose of drawing out righteous eagerness from Leah.
· And Even though we might wonder how much Leah realized about the greatness-es and glories that were at stake, yet it pleased and fulfilled the mysteries and staggering profoundness of the virtues of heaven for Leah to painfully yearn toward the hidden infinities of greatness concealed in her husband Jacob.
· Even though God never struggles to meet His obligations, yet often times it feels like God hates us when He withdraws from us.
· If you don't have the virtue of Leah, you're in danger of seeming to wait on God, and yet nothing is ever going to move toward closeness until you do your part.
Jas_4:8 CAB Draw near to God
and He will draw near to you. Cleanse
your hands, you
sinners; and purify [ἁγνίσατε]
your hearts, you
double-minded [δίψυχοι
– tice-souled / double-soul-ed].
Often times we think we are waiting on God to come close to us, but God is waiting on us to make room and catch up with His passionate jealous-zeal for us, so that we will actually be able to come close to Him.
Rahab
After doing amazing Justice to the spies of Israel, Rahab waited faithfully for her own people and her own city to be defeated so that she could be with the people of Truth.
God Left Samson!
Jdg_16:20 WEB She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and ·shake myself free [ואנער]. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him. [“מעליו׃ סר”].
Jdg_16:20 LB And Delilah said, “The Philistines are upon you, Sampson.” And he awoke out of his sleep and said, “I will go out [JdgA: and do (ποιήσω)] ·as at former times [JdgA (ABP): καθώς as αεί continually before; JdgB: ὡς ἅπαξ καὶ ἅπαξ], and ·shake myself [JdgA (ABP): αποτινάξομαι G660 I shall brush myself off; JdgB: ἐκτιναχθήσομαι]”; and he did not know [ἔγνω] that the Lord had departed from him [JdgA (ABP): απέστη G868 left απ' G575 from αυτού G1473 him; JdgB: ἀπέστη ὁ κύριος ἀπάνωθεν αὐτοῦ -- απέστη = Lex: ἀφίστημι = ἀπό + ἵστημι (“to stand” -- Strong’s)].
Jdg_16:20 καὶ εἶπεν
Δαλιδα Ἀλλόφυλοι
ἐπὶ σέ, Σαμψων.
καὶ ἐξυπνίσθη ἐκ
τοῦ ὕπνου αὐτοῦ
καὶ εἶπεν Ἐξελεύσομαι
ὡς ἅπαξ καὶ ἅπαξ
καὶ ἐκτιναχθήσομαι·
καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἔγνω
ὅτι ἀπέστη ὁ κύριος
ἀπάνωθεν αὐτοῦ.
Jdg_16:21 WEB The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they
brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at
the mill in the prison.
Jdg_16:21 And the Philistines took
him, and put out his eyes,
and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he
became a grinder in the prison house.
Jdg_16:21 καὶ ἐκράτησαν
αὐτὸν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι
καὶ ἐξέκοψαν
τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
αὐτοῦ· καὶ κατήνεγκαν
αὐτὸν εἰς Γάζαν
καὶ ἐπέδησαν αὐτὸν
ἐν πέδαις
χαλκείαις, καὶ ἦν
ἀλήθων ἐν οἴκῳ
τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου.
An Unbearable Sting
We Can’t Afford
· There is a certain unbearable sting to the departure of God from Samson.
· It is a weight we can never afford to bear.
· We have no guarantee that we will ever come back to the glory of the Truth like Samson did.
· Samson’s spiritual eyes were not perceiving, and his physical eyes were also put out as well.
· We got to grab hold of Truth to make sure we feel and care and respond faithfully to the absence and withdrawal of God if He ever even slightly steps back!
See: Pulpit on Jdg_16:20
TSK: I will go: Jdg_16:3, Jdg_16:9, Jdg_16:14, Deu_32:30, Isa_42:24, Hos_7:9
Hos_7:9 WEB Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
Hos_7:9 LB Strangers devoured his strength, but he did not know it; yes, gray hairs came upon him, yet he did not know it.
Hos_7:9 κατέφαγον
ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν
αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς δὲ
οὐκ ἐπέγνω· καὶ
πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν
αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς
οὐκ ἔγνω.
Of course, Jesus most profoundly mentioned this reality in John 15:
Joh_15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. Just [καθὼς] as the branch cannot [οὐ δύναται] bear [φέρειν] fruit on its own [ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ – from itself], unless [ἐὰν μὴ] it abides in the vine, so [οὕτως] neither [οὐδὲ – ABP: not even] ·can [not in Greek] you unless [ἐὰν μὴ] you abide in Me.
Joh_15:4
μείνατε ἐν
ἐμοί, κἀγὼ
ἐν ὑμῖν.
καθὼς τὸ κλῆμα
οὐ δύναται
καρπὸν
φέρειν ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ,
ἐὰν μὴ TSBμεινη |Aμένῃ| ἐν
τῇ ἀμπέλῳ,
οὕτως οὐδὲ ὑμεῖς,
ἐὰν μὴ ἐν ἐμοὶ
TSBμείνητε.
|Aμενητε|
Joh_15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears [φέρει] much [πολύν] fruit; because [ὅτι] apart [χωρὶς – separated/spaced] from Me ·you can do [δύνασθε ποιεῖν – SOM word for bearing/doing fruit] nothing [οὐδέν].
Joh_15:5 ἐγώ εἰμι
ἡ ἄμπελος, ὑμεῖς
τὰ κλήματα. ὁ
μένων ἐν ἐμοὶ
κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ,
οὗτος φέρει
καρπὸν
πολύν, ὅτι
χωρὶς ἐμοῦ
οὐ δύνασθε
ποιεῖν οὐδέν.
Joh_15:6 If
anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out [ἐβλήθη
ἔξω] like [ὡς]
a [τὸ – the]
branch and dries up; and they gather [συνάγουσιν]
them and throw them ·into
BAthe
fire, and they are burned [εἰς
BAτὸ
πῦρ
βάλλουσι,
καὶ καίεται].
Joh_15:6 ἐὰν
μή τις TSBμείνῃ |Aμενη| ἐν
ἐμοί, ἐβλήθη
ἔξω ὡς τὸ κλῆμα
καὶ ἐξηράνθη,
καὶ
συνάγουσιν αὐτὰ
καὶ εἰς BAτὸ πῦρ
βάλλουσι,
καὶ καίεται.
Joh_15:7 If you abide in Me, and [that of] My words [τὰ ῥήματά μου] abide in you, you will ask [TSBαιτησεσθε |Aαἰτήσασθε|] ·what ever [ὃ ἐὰν] you may desire [θέλητε], and ·it shall be done [γενήσεται] for you.
Joh_15:7 ἐὰν
μείνητε ἐν ἐμοὶ
καὶ τὰ ῥήματά
μου ἐν ὑμῖν
μείνῃ, ὃ ἐὰν
θέλητε TSBαιτησεσθε |Aαἰτήσασθε|,
καὶ
γενήσεται ὑμῖν.
See the Cringe!
· From these passages, we can certainly feel the unbearable sting of God’s departure, and we ought to all the more cringe lest at any time we come in danger of rejection.
· Let those trials of separation which are already assigned to us suffice us.
· We have no need of trials of shameful departures because we were not True to the holy and righteous zeal in heaven.
After We Take
Warning, Let’s Also Take Courage
· Samson faithfully took to heart the severe separation trials and reached out toward the Truth in the mist of his shameful and cold loneliness.
· Samson responded courageously in faithful love to his painful punishment, and gave up his life in faithful power to cling to Monotheism in desperate Love.
· Despite his rough and even perilous beginnings, Samson ended well in the hall of Faith.
· Samson responded well to is trials of separation.
Saul & Samuel
Many times over many years Saul expressed many eager yearnings toward the prophetic Truths in Samuel, on up to the night before Saul’s death, but Saul kept sinning in unfaithfulness against Samuel & the Word of God:
(1) When Samuel was away from Saul, (among many other things) Saul sinned by Offering a pagan “personal relationship” sacrifice (1Sa_13:1, etc.), and,
(2) by sparing king Agag (1Sa_15:1, etc.)
(3) Later Saul was unfaithful to Samuel by persecuting David, whom Samuel had Anointed to be the next king.
(4) By the time Saul called Samuel up from the dead (1Sa_28:1, etc.), Samuel could not prophesy any good blessing over Saul, but only defeat and death.
David, Jonathan, & Michael
· David profoundly befriended Saul’s son Jonathan, and married Saul’s daughter Michael.
· David had to leave Jonathan, and even his wife Michael, when it was time to flee from their dad Saul.
· Jonathan and David had real, faithful love going on that remained throughout their separation.
· Ultimately Michael did not feel enough love to keep her faithful to David while he was gone.
· Michael’s brother Jonathan was a better friend, as a spiritual brother, than she was a wife.
· Michael’s love evaporated in a short season of separation, shame, and trials.
· Jonathan and David faithfully loved the Truth in each other when Saul sought to kill David, and yet Jonathan’s sister, who was David's own wife, was not faithful to him or concerned about Truth and eternal life.
· David loved Jonathan even unto the point when Jonathan was killed in battle.
· When Jonathan was killed, David said Jonathan's love was better than women (as if David knew this by experience or something).
· David even loved Jonathan after Jonathan’s death by showing special love and mercy to his crippled son (as seen in the EXCLUSIVITY Bible study).
· Neither danger nor sword, nor togetherness nor separation, nor life nor death separated David’s God-hearted Love for Jonathan.
2Sa_1:25 WEB How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the
battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
2Sa_1:25 CAB How the mighty have fallen in the midst of
the battle! O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon your high places!
2Sa_1:25 πῶς ἔπεσαν
δυνατοὶ ἐν μέσῳ
τοῦ πολέμου·
Ιωναθαν ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη
σου τραυματίας.
2Sa_1:26 WEB I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2Sa_1:26 CAB I am grieved for you [ἀλγῶ ἐπὶ σοί], my brother [ἄδελφέ] Jonathan; you were very [σφόδρα] lovely [ὡραιώθης] to me; [that (of)] your love [ἀγάπησίς] to me was wonderful [ἐθαυμαστώθη] beyond [ὑπὲρ] the love [ἀγάπησιν] of women.
2Sa_1:26 ἀλγῶ ἐπὶ
σοί, ἄδελφέ μου
Ιωναθαν· ὡραιώθης
μοι σφόδρα, ἐθαυμαστώθη
ἡ ἀγάπησίς σου ἐμοὶ
ὑπὲρ ἀγάπησιν
γυναικῶν.
2Sa_1:27 WEB How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of
war perished!
2Sa_1:27 CAB How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons
of war perished!”
2Sa_1:27 πῶς ἔπεσαν
δυνατοὶ καὶ ἀπώλοντο
σκεύη πολεμικά.
Note: Homosexuality is a man lying with a man as lying with a woman. (Lev_20:13) -- a perverted crime of sexual murder which is comparative with (and contradistinguished from) being with a woman.
Jonathan’s “brotherly” love was “passing” “beyond” “above” women, because it was spiritual and excellent in the Clean Truth.
[2 Chapters later: 2Sa_3:14 –
David says: Bring me my wife…]
Solomon & God
God never fully left Solomon.
Song of Songs: Separations & Reunions
Faithful Reunions in
Song of Songs
· In Song of Songs, Solomon probably had to go away for kingly business, perhaps sometimes even on extended journeys.
· We see some kinds of themes of reunion in the book.
· The privilege of faithful reunions is a result of enduring in faithfulness when there was absence.
· Perfect love is faithful and delights in being true to the end, throughout all seasons, even when the experience feels deprived.
Testing Separations
in Song of Songs
Son_5:6
WEB I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart [“נפשׁי”
– soul] went out [“יצאה”
KJV (fig.): failed] when he spoke. I looked for him, but I
didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.
Son_5:6 CAB I opened [ἤνοιξα] to my kinsman [ἀδελφιδῷ]; my kinsman [ἀδελφιδός] was gone [παρῆλθεν]: my soul [ψυχή μου] failed [ἐξῆλθεν – came out; ABP: came forth] at his speech: I sought him, but did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.
Son_5:6 ἤνοιξα ἐγὼ
τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ
μου, ἀδελφιδός
μου παρῆλθεν·
ψυχή μου ἐξῆλθεν
ἐν λόγῳ αὐτοῦ, ἐζήτησα
αὐτὸν καὶ οὐχ εὗρον
αὐτόν, ἐκάλεσα
αὐτόν, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσέν
μου.
Isa_50:2 WEB Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
Isa_50:2 LB Why [τί ὅτι] did I come, and there was no man? Why did I call [ἐκάλεσα], and there was none to obey [ὑπακούων]? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.
Isa_50:2 τί ὅτι ἦλθον
καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἄνθρωπος;
ἐκάλεσα καὶ οὐκ
ἦν ὁ ὑπακούων;
μὴ οὐκ ἰσχύει ἡ
χείρ μου τοῦ ῥύσασθαι;
ἢ οὐκ ἰσχύω τοῦ
ἐξελέσθαι; ἰδοὺ
τῇ ἀπειλῇ μου ἐξερημώσω
τὴν θάλασσαν
καὶ θήσω
ποταμοὺς ἐρήμους,
καὶ ξηρανθήσονται
οἱ ἰχθύες αὐτῶν
ἀπὸ τοῦ μὴ εἶναι
ὕδωρ καὶ ἀποθανοῦνται
ἐν δίψει.
We hope to talk more about this when addressing Hosea (and comparing these things with what Paul says and does to the Corinthians).
Obadiah & Elijah
Obadiah was faithful and keeping cherishing in his heart for Elijah while they were away from each other for extended seasons of time.
1Ki_18:7 WEB As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?
1Ki_18:7 LB And Obadiah [Αβδιου] was alone [μόνος] in the road; and Elijah came alone [μόνος] to meet him [εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτοῦ]. And Obadiah made haste [ἔσπευσεν], and fell upon his face [ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ], and said, “My lord Elijah, is it you [Εἰ σὺ εἶ αὐτός – CT: Art thou he]?”
1Ki_18:7 καὶ ἦν
Αβδιου ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ
μόνος, καὶ ἦλθεν
Ηλιου εἰς συνάντησιν
αὐτοῦ μόνος·
καὶ Αβδιου ἔσπευσεν
καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ
πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ
καὶ εἶπεν Εἰ σὺ
εἶ αὐτός, κύριέ
μου Ηλιου;
Elisha & Elijah
When Elijah was taken up (raptured) Elisha was separated from Elijah for the rest of his life, and had to continue in faith and Truth and Love without the direct comfort of Elijah being there with him in person.
Elisha remained faithful to keep loving Elijah after Elijah was gone from this earth.
2Ki_2:13 WEB He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
2Ki_2:13 LB And he took up the [μηλωτὴν] mantle of Elijah, which fell from off him upon Elisha; and Elisha returned, and stood upon the brink of the Jordan.
2Ki_2:13 καὶ ὕψωσεν
τὴν μηλωτὴν
Ηλιου, ἣ ἔπεσεν ἐπάνωθεν
Ελισαιε, καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν
Ελισαιε καὶ ἔστη
ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους
τοῦ Ιορδάνου·
2Ki_2:14 WEB He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" When he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.
2Ki_2:14 And he took the mantle [μηλωτὴν] of Elijah, which fell from [ἔπεσεν ἐπάνωθεν] off him, and struck [ἐπάταξεν] the water, [καὶ οὐ διέστη – not in English] and said, “Where is the Lord God of Elijah [Ποῦ ὁ θεὸς Ηλιου αφφω]?” And he struck the waters [καὶ ἐπάταξεν τὰ ὕδατα], and ·they were divided [διερράγησαν] ·this way and that [ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα]; and Elisha went over [διέβη].
2Ki_2:14 καὶ ἔλαβεν
τὴν μηλωτὴν
Ηλιου, ἣ ἔπεσεν ἐπάνωθεν
αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπάταξεν
τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ οὐ
διέστη· καὶ εἶπεν
Ποῦ ὁ θεὸς
Ηλιου αφφω; καὶ
ἐπάταξεν τὰ ὕδατα,
καὶ διερράγησαν
ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα,
καὶ διέβη
Ελισαιε.
2Ki_2:15 WEB When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2Ki_2:15 Elisha Succeeds Elijah And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho ·on the opposite side [ἐξ ἐναντίας] saw him, and said, “The spirit of Elijah has rested upon [Ἐπαναπέπαυται…ἐπὶ] Elisha.” And they came ·to meet [εἰς συναντὴν] him, and ·bowed down before him to [upon] the ground [προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν].
2Ki_2:15 καὶ εἶδον
αὐτὸν οἱ υἱοὶ
τῶν προφητῶν οἱ
ἐν Ιεριχω ἐξ ἐναντίας
καὶ εἶπον Ἐπαναπέπαυται
τὸ πνεῦμα
Ηλιου ἐπὶ
Ελισαιε· καὶ ἦλθον
εἰς συναντὴν αὐτοῦ
καὶ προσεκύνησαν
αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.
God Left Hezekiah!
2Ch_32:30 WEB …Hezekiah prospered [εὐοδώθη – good way-ed/road-ed] in all his works.
2Ch_32:30 LB …Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
2Ch_32:30 αὐτὸς
Εζεκιας ἐνέφραξεν
τὴν ἔξοδον τοῦ ὕδατος
Γιων τὸ ἄνω καὶ
κατηύθυνεν αὐτὰ
κάτω πρὸς λίβα
τῆς πόλεως
Δαυιδ· καὶ εὐοδώθη
Εζεκιας ἐν πᾶσι
τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ.
2Ch_32:31 WEB However in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in [ἐπὶ] the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
2Ch_32:31 Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors [πρεσβευταῖς] of the princes [ἀρχόντων] of Babylon, who were sent [ἀποσταλεῖσιν] to [πρὸς] him, to inquire of him concerning [πυθέσθαι παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ] the wonders [τέρας] which came upon the land, the Lord left him [ἐγκατέλιπεν (same as Hos_5:7)], to test him [τοῦ πειράσαι αὐτὸν], to know [εἰδέναι] what was in his heart [τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ].
2Ch_32:31 καὶ οὕτως
τοῖς
πρεσβευταῖς τῶν
ἀρχόντων ἀπὸ
Βαβυλῶνος τοῖς
ἀποσταλεῖσιν
πρὸς αὐτὸν πυθέσθαι
παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ τὸ τέρας,
ὃ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐγκατέλιπεν
αὐτὸν κύριος
τοῦ πειράσαι αὐτὸν
εἰδέναι τὰ ἐν τῇ
καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ.
2Ch_32:32 WEB Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his
good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2Ch_32:32 Death of Hezekiah And the
rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his kindness, behold, they are written in the
prophecy of Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet, and in the book of the kings of
Judah and Israel.
2Ch_32:32 καὶ τὰ
κατάλοιπα τῶν
λόγων Εζεκιου
καὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ,
ἰδοὺ γέγραπται
ἐν τῇ προφητείᾳ
Ησαιου υἱοῦ
Αμως τοῦ προφήτου
καὶ ἐπὶ βιβλίου
βασιλέων
Ιουδα καὶ
Ισραηλ.
_, Psa
Note: These important withdrawal principles are profoundly repeated throughout Hosea and by Paul.
Hosea & Gomer
· Hosea redeemed his wife and then had her sit alone to prove her, to see if she would take up any virtue.
· Like we said earlier: Truth glories in testing and proving things True.
· If quality time jeopardizes the real faith/faithfulness of real love, it is better to love alone in hurt so we can ultimately rejoice together in hope.
This testing separation and distance is actually a big theme of Hosea.
Hosea 3 – Love, Sit,
Return
Go Love Gomer
Again, Make Her Sit, & Afterward She Will Return -- The
Brilliant Formula for Separation Correction
Hos_3:1 WEB Yahweh said to me, "Go again, loveH157 [“אהב”] a woman lovedH157 [“אהבת”] by another [KJV: of her friend] [“רע”H7453], and an adulteress, even as Yahweh lovesH160 [“כאהבת” (diff Strong’s number, but essentially the same)] the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, ·and loveH157 [“ואהבי”] cakes of raisins."
Hos_3:1 CAB And the Lord said to [πρός]
me, “Go yet [Ἔτι πορεύθητι],
and love [ἀγάπησον]
a woman that loves [ἀγαπῶσαν]
[nasty] evil things [ἀγάπησον
γυναῖκα ἀγαπῶσαν
πονηρὰ], [and
(καὶ) (is)] an adulteress [μοιχαλίν],
even as [καθὼς] the Lord [ὁ θεὸς (LXX variation?)]
loves [ἀγαπᾷ] the children [υἱοὺς] of Israel,
and they have respect [ἀποβλέπουσιν]
to [ἐπὶ] strange gods [θεοὺς ἀλλοτρίους],
and love [φιλοῦσιν –
like / warmly love]
cakes of dried grapes [πέμματα
μετὰ σταφίδων].”
Hos_3:1 Καὶ εἶπεν
κύριος πρός με Ἔτι
πορεύθητι καὶ ἀγάπησον
γυναῖκα ἀγαπῶσαν
πονηρὰ καὶ
μοιχαλίν, καθὼς
ἀγαπᾷ ὁ θεὸς τοὺς
υἱοὺς Ισραηλ
καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀποβλέπουσιν
ἐπὶ θεοὺς ἀλλοτρίους
καὶ φιλοῦσιν πέμματα
μετὰ σταφίδων
Hos_3:2 WEB So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Hos_3:2 So I hired [ἐμισθωσάμην] her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.
Hos_3:2 καὶ ἐμισθωσάμην
ἐμαυτῷ
πεντεκαίδεκα ἀργυρίου
καὶ γομορ κριθῶν
καὶ νεβελ οἴνου
Hos_3:3
WEB I said to her, "You shall stay [MT:
“תשׁבי”H3427; LXX: καθήσῃ
– sit (as in Deu_21:13:
MT: “וישׁבהH3427”; LXX:
καθίεται)] with [LXX: ἐπ᾿] me many days. You shall not
play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will
also be so toward you."
Hos_3:3 And I said to
her, “You shall wait
[καθήσῃ – sit]
for me many days [Ἡμέρας
πολλὰς καθήσῃ ἐπ᾿
ἐμοὶ]; and ·you
shall not [in no way] commit fornication [οὐ μὴ πορνεύσῃς],
·neither shall you be[come] for [or:
to] another man [οὐδὲ
μὴ γένῃ ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ
[as in Rom_7:3 –
αρα ουν ζωντος
του ανδρος
μοιχαλις
χρηματισει εαν
γενηται
ανδρι ετερω];
and I will be for [ἐπὶ] you.”
Hos_3:3 καὶ εἶπα
πρὸς αὐτήν Ἡμέρας
πολλὰς καθήσῃ ἐπ᾿
ἐμοὶ καὶ οὐ μὴ
πορνεύσῃς οὐδὲ
μὴ γένῃ ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ,
καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σοί.
Hos_3:4
WEB For the children of Israel shall abide [“ישׁבו”H3427
– sit
(same as before)]
many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and
without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
Hos_3:4 For
the children of Israel shall abide [καθήσονται
– sit
(same as before)]
many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice,
and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without manifestations.
Hos_3:4 διότι ἡμέρας
πολλὰς καθήσονται
οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ
οὐκ ὄντος
βασιλέως οὐδὲ ὄντος
ἄρχοντος οὐδὲ
οὔσης θυσίας οὐδὲ
ὄντος
θυσιαστηρίου
οὐδὲ ἱερατείας
οὐδὲ δήλων.
Hos_3:5 WEB Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
Hos_3:5 And afterward [μετὰ ταῦτα] shall the children of Israel return [ἐπιστρέψουσιν], and shall seek [ἐπιζητήσουσιν] the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed [ἐκστήσονται] at [ἐπὶ] the Lord and at [ἐπὶ] [that (of) (τοῖς)] His goodness in [ἐπ᾿] the latter days [ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν].
Hos_3:5 καὶ μετὰ
ταῦτα ἐπιστρέψουσιν
οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ
καὶ ἐπιζητήσουσιν
κύριον τὸν θεὸν
αὐτῶν καὶ
Δαυιδ τὸν
βασιλέα αὐτῶν·
καὶ ἐκστήσονται
ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ
καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς
αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων
τῶν ἡμερῶν.
A Lord Uses Love to
Call for Faithfulness
Although Hosea was Gomer’s physical, husband-lord (as Genesis 3, Psalm 45, Sarah, & Peter says*) yet he wanted her faithfulness – therefore he used absence (and not “brute force”) to call to her heart and exhort her to choose the Truth.
[* Gen_3:16; Psa_45:11; Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6]
God/Hosea Doing REAL
Love
Note: “Love” ≠ Togetherness, but (in this passage) Love actually = sitting & waiting alone without comforts.
The Point: How can we cooperate with this “Love, Sit, Return” formula?
“Return” – for
Disciples & non-Disciples
The original context was the Jewish nation, but how
might that play out with gentiles who stop sinning?
“Return” not only applies to Jews and Gentiles,
but it also applies to disciples as well as to those who have never
known the way of truth.
(A) “Return” – for Disciples
Rev_2:5
CAB Remember therefore from where you
have fallen, and repent and do the first works; but if not, I
am coming to you quickly and I will remove your lampstand out of its place,
unless you repent.
Rev_2:5
μνημόνευε οὖν
πόθεν BAπέπτωκας
|TSεκπεπτωκας|,
καὶ
μετανόησον
καὶ τὰ πρῶτα
ἔργα ποίησον·
εἰ δὲ μή, ἔρχομαί
σοι SBταχὺ |Tταχει|
καὶ κινήσω
τὴν λυχνίαν
σου ἐκ τοῦ
τόπου αὐτῆς,
ἐὰν μὴ
μετανοήσῃς.
(B) “Return” – for non-Disciples
Isa_53:6 WEB
All we like sheep have
gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way…
Isa_53:6 CAB
All we like sheep have
gone astray; everyone has wandered in his way…
Isa_53:6 πάντες ὡς
πρόβατα ἐπλανήθημεν,
ἄνθρωπος τῇ ὁδῷ
αὐτοῦ ἐπλανήθη·
καὶ κύριος παρέδωκεν
αὐτὸν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις
ἡμῶν.
See: 1Pe_2:25 where Isa_53:6
is specially applied to gentiles.
_
Hosea 5 – The Unfaithful
Will Not Find Him Who Has Withdrawn
Hos_5:6 WEB They will go with their flocks and with their
herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawnH2502 himself from them.
Hos_5:6 CAB They shall go [πορεύσονται] with [μετὰ] sheep and calves ·diligently to seek [out] [τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι] the Lord; but they shall not find Him [οὐ μὴ εὕρωσιν αὐτόν], for He has withdrawn Himself from them [ἐξέκλινεν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν – bent/slanted from them; fig. shunned/declined].
Hos_5:6 μετὰ
προβάτων καὶ μόσχων
πορεύσονται
τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι
τὸν κύριον καὶ
οὐ μὴ εὕρωσιν αὐτόν,
ὅτι ἐξέκλινεν ἀπ᾿
αὐτῶν,
Hos_5:7 WEB They are unfaithful
to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimateH2114
[זרים (Lexical: זוּר) – turned
asside / starnge (same as “strange
gods” & the “stange woman”* in Proverbs)] children. Now ·the
new moon [KJV: a month] willH2320
[“חדשׁ”] devour
them with their fields.
Hos_5:7 CAB For they have forsaken [ἐγκατέλιπον (same as 2Ch_32:31 with Hezekiah)] the Lord; for strange [ἀλλότρια – lit. other] children [τέκνα] have been born [ἐγεννήθησαν] to them: now [νῦν] shall the cankerworm [ἡ ἐρυσίβη – ABP: blight**] devour [καταφάγεται] them and their heritage [κλήρους].
Hos_5:7 ὅτι τὸν
κύριον ἐγκατέλιπον,
ὅτι τέκνα ἀλλότρια
ἐγεννήθησαν αὐτοῖς·
νῦν καταφάγεται
αὐτοὺς ἡ ἐρυσίβη
καὶ τοὺς κλήρους
αὐτῶν.
[* Strange woman: Pro_2:16, Pro_5:3, Pro_5:10,
Pro_5:17, Pro_5:20, Pro_22:14]
[** “blight” = “a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews,
rusts, and smuts” (Google)]
The unfaithful are living in sin, as He says again a few verses later…
Hosea 5 – God Departs
Until They Acknowledge Sin & Seek Earnestly
Hos_5:15 WEB I will go and return to my place, until ·they acknowledge their offense [“יאשׁמו” (Lex: “אשׁם”) – guilt], and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
Hos_5:15 LB ·I will go [πορεύσομαι] and return [ἐπιστρέψω] to [εἰς] My place [τὸν τόπον μου], ·until they are brought to nought [ἕως οὗ ἀφανισθῶσιν – ABP (mostly lit.): “until of which time they should be removed from view”; Note: Gr “un-appear” can = fig. “rot”], ·and then [καὶ] ·shall they seek [upon] [ἐπιζητήσουσιν] My face [τὸ πρόσωπόν μου].”
Hos_5:15 πορεύσομαι
καὶ ἐπιστρέψω
εἰς τὸν τόπον
μου, ἕως οὗ ἀφανισθῶσιν·
καὶ ἐπιζητήσουσιν
τὸ πρόσωπόν
μου, ἐν θλίψει αὐτῶν
ὀρθριοῦσι πρός
με λέγοντες
Hosea 7 – The
Unrepentant Waist Away in Ignorant Isolation from Truth
Hos_7:9 WEB Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
Hos_7:9 LB Strangers [ἀλλότριοι] devoured [κατέφαγον] his strength [ἰσχὺν], but he did not [δὲ οὐκ] know [ἐπέγνω] it; yes [καὶ], gray hairs came upon him [πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ], yet he did not know it [ἔγνω].
Hos_7:9 κατέφαγον
ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν
αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς δὲ
οὐκ ἐπέγνω· καὶ
πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν
αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς
οὐκ ἔγνω.
The Toll of
Unrepentance
· Unrepentance takes an unbearable toll on you. (Remember Samson?)
· Until Gomer gets like the virtue of Leah, separations are multiplied, and waiting continues.
Important Note: Paul later does this exact same (spiritual) withdrawal from the Corinthians (2Co_1:23-24 -- as quoted below).
Unlike hardened sinners, let’s respond faithfully to God’s separations from us!
Cry & Wait for Redemption – The Right Response to Gomer’s Discipline
Psalms 30 – I Cried
When God Hid His Face
Psa_30:6 WEB As for me, I said in my prosperityH7959 [“בשׁלוי” (Lex: “שׁלו”) – Strong’s: “tranquil, that is, secure or successful” (H7951 > H7959)], "I shall never be moved."
Psa_30:6 LB And I said in my prosperity [εὐθηνίᾳ*], ·“I shall never be moved.” [Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα]
Psa_30:6 (29:7) ἐγὼ δὲ
εἶπα ἐν τῇ εὐθηνίᾳ
μου Οὐ μὴ
σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν
αἰῶνα.
Psa_30:7 WEB You, Yahweh, ·when
you favored [?] me [YLT: in Thy good pleasure]
[“ברצונך” – i.e. Strong’s: “delight, desire,
favour, (good) pleasure”], made my mountain
stand strong; but when you hid
your face, I was troubled.
Psa_30:7 O Lord, in Your ·good pleasure [θελήματί – will (determined / actively chosen / intentional / purposful / decreed)] You added [παρέσχου – lit. held next to] ·strength to my beauty [τῷ κάλλει μου δύναμιν]; but [δὲ] You turned away [ἀπέστρεψας] Your face [τὸ πρόσωπόν σου], and I was troubled G5015 [ἐγενήθην τεταραγμένος – i.e. became stirred/troubled/agitated].
Psa_30:7 (29:8) κύριε, ἐν
τῷ θελήματί
σου παρέσχου τῷ
κάλλει μου δύναμιν·
ἀπέστρεψας δὲ
τὸ πρόσωπόν
σου, καὶ ἐγενήθην
τεταραγμένος.
Psa_30:8 WEB I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh ·I made supplication [“אתחנן׃” (Lex: “חנן”), (chânan) – Strong’s: properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (that is, move to favor by petition)]:
Psa_30:8 To[ward] [πρὸς] You, O Lord, ·will I cry [κεκράξομαι]; and to[ward] [πρὸς] [that of] my God [τὸν θεόν μου] ·will I [be bound to] make supplication [δεηθήσομαι (V-FPI-1S)].
Psa_30:8 (29:9) πρὸς σέ,
κύριε, κεκράξομαι
καὶ πρὸς τὸν θεόν
μου δεηθήσομαι
* εὐθηνίᾳ
“A prosperity, plenty, LXX
Ge.41.29, al., Ph.2.1, al.;”
“2 personified as a goddess,
Abundance, Plenty,”
“3 generally, abundance”
“2 alargess of corn”
http://translate.enacademic.com/%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1/el/
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Isiah 8 – I Will Wait
For Him Who Hides His Face
Isa_8:17 WEB I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isa_8:17 LB And one shall say, “I will wait [Μενῶ] for God, who has turned away [ἀποστρέψαντα] His face [τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ] from the house of Jacob, and ·I will trust in Him [πεποιθὼςV-RAP-NS [Lex: πείθω] ἔσομαιV-FMI-1S ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ – ABP: I will be yielding upon him].”
Isa_8:17 καὶ ἐρεῖ
Μενῶ τὸν θεὸν τὸν
ἀποστρέψαντα
τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ
ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου
Ιακωβ καὶ
πεποιθὼς ἔσομαι
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ.
When Gomer gets like the virtue of Leah, God is about to move in with glorious exaltations of closeness and rewards.
Isiah 54 – A Redeemed Wife, Forsaken No More!
Isa_54:6 WEB For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved ·in spirit [“רוח” (rûach)], even a wife of youth, when ·she is cast offH3988 [“תמאס” – KJV: thou wast refused; WS: “A verb meaning to reject, to despise, to abhor, to refuse. The primary meaning of this word is to reject or treat as loathsome.”]," says your God.
Isa_54:6 LB The Lord has not
[οὐχ] called [κέκληκέν]
you as a deserted [καταλελειμμένην]
and faint-hearted [ὀλιγόψυχον
– meager-soul-ed] woman, nor [οὐδ᾿]
as a woman ·hated from her youth [ἐκ
νεότητος
μεμισημένην],”
says your God.
Isa_54:6 οὐχ ὡς
γυναῖκα καταλελειμμένην
καὶ ὀλιγόψυχον
κέκληκέν σε κύριος
οὐδ᾿ ὡς γυναῖκα
ἐκ νεότητος
μεμισημένην, εἶπεν
ὁ θεός σου·
Isa_54:7 WEB "For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies [“וברחמים” – lit. wombs (see: WS)] will I gather you.
Isa_54:7 “·For
a little while [χρόνον
μικρὸν] ·I
left [κατέλιπόν]
you; but with [μετὰ]
great mercy [ἐλέους
μεγάλου] will I have
compassion upon [ἐλεήσω
– mercy] you.
Isa_54:7 χρόνον
μικρὸν κατέλιπόν
σε καὶ μετὰ ἐλέους
μεγάλου ἐλεήσω
σε,
Isa_54:8
WEB In overflowing [“שׁצף”*
(shetseph) – surge/outburst; KJV: little] wrath I hid my face
from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have
mercy on you," says Yahweh your Redeemer.
[* “שׁצף” (H8241) -- from:
“שׁטף” (H7857) WS: “gush, to cleanse, to conquer, to
drown, to overflow, to overwhelm, to rinse, to run, to rush, to wash away”]
Isa_54:8 In
a little wrath [θυμῷ
μικρῷ] ·I
turned away [ἀπέστρεψα]
My ·face [πρόσωπόν]
from [ἀπὸ] you; but [καὶ – and] with everlasting
mercy [ἐν ἐλέει αἰωνίῳ]
will I have compassion upon [ἐλεήσω
– I will mercy] you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer
[ὁ ῥυσάμενός
σε κύριος –
that of your rescuer-lord].
Isa_54:8 ἐν θυμῷ
μικρῷ ἀπέστρεψα
τὸ πρόσωπόν
μου ἀπὸ σοῦ καὶ
ἐν ἐλέει αἰωνίῳ
ἐλεήσω σε, εἶπεν
ὁ ῥυσάμενός σε
κύριος.
Isa_54:9 WEB "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Isa_54:9 “From the time of the water of Noah this is My purpose; as [καθότι] ·I swore [ὤμοσα] to him ·at that time [ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ ἐκείνῳ], saying of the earth, ‘I will no more ·be angry [θυμωθήσεσθαι] with [ἐπὶ] you, ·neither [μηδὲ] when [ἔτι] you are threatened [ἔτι μηδὲ ἐν ἀπειλῇ σου],
Isa_54:9 ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος
τοῦ ἐπὶ Νωε τοῦτό
μοί ἐστιν· καθότι
ὤμοσα αὐτῷ ἐν
τῷ χρόνῳ ἐκείνῳ
τῇ γῇ μὴ θυμωθήσεσθαι
ἐπὶ σοὶ ἔτι
μηδὲ ἐν ἀπειλῇ
σου
Isa_54:10 WEB For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; ·but my loving kindness [KJV: kindness] [“וחסדי”H2617 (i.e. chesed) – merciful kind “bowing” Love; some say: loyal/faithful/covenant Love (comp. 2Sa_22:26 H2616; Psa_18:25 H2616 -- verbal form)] shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isa_54:10
shall the mountains [ὄρη]
depart [μεταστήσεσθαι],
nor [οὐδὲ]
shall your hills [βουνοί]
be removed [μετακινηθήσονται];
so [οὕτως]
neither [οὐδὲ] ·shall
My mercy fail you [τὸ παρ᾿
ἐμοῦ σοι ἔλεος ἐκλείψει],
nor [οὐδὲ] shall the covenant
[διαθήκη]
·of [that of] your
peace [τῆς εἰρήνης
σου] ·be at
all removed [οὐ μὴ
μεταστῇ]; for [γὰρ] the Lord who is gracious
[Ἵλεώς – merciful] to you has spoken it [εἶπεν].’
Isa_54:10 τὰ ὄρη
μεταστήσεσθαι
οὐδὲ οἱ βουνοί
σου μετακινηθήσονται,
οὕτως οὐδὲ τὸ
παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοι ἔλεος
ἐκλείψει οὐδὲ
ἡ διαθήκη τῆς εἰρήνης
σου οὐ μὴ
μεταστῇ· εἶπεν
γὰρ κύριος Ἵλεώς
σοι.
This proves there is absolutely no divorce after God takes His people home to be with them after He has permanently redeemed them.
And as Isiah says earlier…
Isa_12:1 WEB In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort [“ותנחמני׃”H5162] me.
Isa_12:1 LB And ·in that day [there] [ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ] you shall say, “·I will bless [Εὐλογήσω] You, O Lord; for [διότι – through that] ·You were angry with [ὠργίσθης] me, but [καὶ] ·You have turned aside [ἀπέστρεψας] Your wrath [τὸν θυμόν σου], and ·have pitied [ἠλέησάς] me.”
Isa_12:1 Καὶ ἐρεῖς
ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ
Εὐλογήσω σε, κύριε,
διότι ὠργίσθης
μοι καὶ ἀπέστρεψας
τὸν θυμόν σου
καὶ ἠλέησάς με.
Ways to Inherit
Redemption
· Stop taking personal offense. (thinking you deserve better treatment than this)
· See how innocent heaven is in withdrawing from you.
· Get more zealous about giving over justice than you are about feeling forsaken.
·
If
you have zeal to be affirmed / comforted more, where is your even hotter zeal
to change yourself unto justice?
· Stop being amazed at how bad it feels like you have been treated.
· Get much more zealous about how great a debt you owe.
· (Remember: love is an orthodox and healthy debt to go around obsessing over to pay back! -- unlike other obsessive indebtedness-es, etc.)
· So often people can get so zealous about their needs to feel loved and be encouraged, but are so perversely apathetic when it comes to paying back love, honor, and reverence, and eternal thankfulness for what has been done for them.
· Stop being like Cane and get like the “dog woman”.
· Stop being like unfaithful Gomer and get like amazing Leah!
Can You Hope to Be a Redeemed and Beloved Wife?
Jeremiah & Us
Doing-Faithful-Love--07--Jeremiah-to-Apostles--8.20.17.mp3
Jeremiah had many trials that contradicted his longing for real Truth and Love…
· Not given many recorded disciples (as far as we read)
· Thrown into a dry well
· Held in prison
· Harshly persecuted throughout his lifetime
In all of this Jeremiah served us in faithful love, giving us the Word of God, even though he was separated from us by many trials and thousands of years.
1Pe_1:12 CAB
·To them [οἷς]
·it was revealed [ἀπεκαλύφθη]
that, not to themselves,
but to BAyou
|TSus|
·they were ministering [διηκόνουν]
·these things [αὐτά],
·which things were now announced [ἃ νῦν ἀνηγγέλη]
to you
by [διὰ] ·those
who [τῶν] ·proclaimed
the gospel [εὐαγγελισαμένων]
·to you [ὑμᾶς]
by [TSBἐν
– in; Aεν] ·the Holy
Spirit [Πνεύματι
῾Αγίῳ] sent [ἀποσταλέντι]
from [ἀπ᾿] heaven--·things
which angels desire to look into [εἰς
ἃ ἐπιθυμοῦσιν
ἄγγελοι
παρακύψαι –
παρακύψαι = “to bend beside, that is, lean over (so as to peer within)”
(Strong’s)].
1Pe_1:12 οἷς ἀπεκαλύφθη
ὅτι οὐχ ἑαυτοῖς,
BAὑμῖν
(you) |TSημιν (us)| δὲ
διηκόνουν αὐτά,
ἃ νῦν ἀνηγγέλη
ὑμῖν διὰ τῶν
εὐαγγελισαμένων
ὑμᾶς TSBἐν |Aεν|
Πνεύματι ῾Αγίῳ
ἀποσταλέντι
ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ,
εἰς ἃ ἐπιθυμοῦσιν
ἄγγελοι
παρακύψαι.
Esther, King Xerxus, & Mordecai
Queen Esther remained faithful to Mordecai even when she was married off to a Pagan King.
Zechariah & Elizabeth
· Zechariah was allotted to do priestly work in Jerusalem.
· While Zechariah was doing priestly work he was away from Elizabeth and their home in the hill country.
· They had to cherish each other in their hearts by faith while away from each other.
· As my wife famously pointed out: when Zechariah returned home, they evidently got busy loving on each other without a lot of talking!
John the Baptist & Jesus
John the Baptist and Jesus loved each other and cherished and prized each other without wavering even during their times of Separation in the beginning, even until the point where John the Baptist was loving the Truth from within a prison.
Formerly Demonized Man & Jesus
The man who had been possessed needed to maintain love for Jesus, even after Jesus left that region.
Apostles & Assemblies
· In Acts the Apostles were traveling all around and loving all the Assemblies in various locations at the same time.
· Consider all the epistles that speak of “long-distance love relationships” between the Assemblies and the apostles.
· The Epistles of The Apostles exhort the readers to love each other and the Apostles even when they are so far apart they have to write letters to communicate.
Paul Loving At A Distance
Love -- While Being
Absent
There are particular examples in the New Testament where Paul does real love to the Colossians, the Thessalonians, and the Corinthians while being physically absent, but spiritually together/present.
Col_2:5 CAB ·For though indeed [εἰ γὰρ καὶ – because if also] I am absent [ἄπειμι] in the flesh, yet [ἀλλὰ] ·I am [being] [εἰμι] ·[together] with [σὺν] you in [the (τῷ)] spirit, rejoicing [χαίρων] [and (καὶ)] to see [βλέπων – seeing] [that of (τὴν)] your orderliness [τάξιν – arrangement] and the steadfastness [στερέωμα – established/“confirmed”/“standing”] of [that of (τῆς)] your faith in[to] [εἰς] Christ [Χριστὸν – anointed one].
Col_2:5 εἰ γὰρ
καὶ τῇ
σαρκὶ ἄπειμι,
ἀλλὰ τῷ
πνεύματι σὺν
ὑμῖν εἰμι,
χαίρων καὶ
βλέπων ὑμῶν
τὴν τάξιν
καὶ τὸ
στερέωμα τῆς
εἰς Χριστὸν
πίστεως ὑμῶν.
1Th_2:17 CAB But we, brothers, ·being unwillingly separated from [ἀπορφανισθέντεςV-APP-NPM ἀφ᾿ – lit. from-orphaned from; ASRV (fig.): bereaved (comp. Joh_14:18*)] you for [πρὸς] a short season [καιρὸν ὥρας (comp. Mat_10:19**)], in presence [προσώπῳ], not in heart [οὐ καρδίᾳ], were all the more [περισσοτέρως] eager to see your face [ἐσπουδάσαμεν τὸ πρόσωπον ὑμῶν ἰδεῖν] with much desire [ἐν πολλῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ].
1Th_2:17 ῾Ημεῖς
δέ, ἀδελφοί,
ἀπορφανισθέντες
ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν
πρὸς καιρὸν ὥρας,
προσώπῳ οὐ
καρδίᾳ,
περισσοτέρως
ἐσπουδάσαμεν
τὸ πρόσωπον
ὑμῶν ἰδεῖν
ἐν πολλῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ.
1Th_2:18 Therefore we desired [ἠθελήσαμεν] to come to you [ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς]--I, Paul [ἐγὼ μὲν Παῦλος], time and again [καὶ ἅπαξ καὶ δίς]--but [the] Satan hindered [ἐνέκοψεν (Lex: ἐγκόπτω = ἐν + κόπτω)] us.
1Th_2:18 TSBδιὸ |Aδιοτι| ἠθελήσαμεν
ἐλθεῖν πρὸς
ὑμᾶς, ἐγὼ
μὲν Παῦλος,
καὶ ἅπαξ καὶ
δίς, καὶ ἐνέκοψεν
ἡμᾶς ὁ
Σατανᾶς.
1Th_2:19 For [γὰρ] what [τίς] is our hope [ἐλπὶς], or [ἢ] joy [χαρὰ], or [ἢ] crown of boasting [στέφανος καυχήσεως]? [or (ἢ)] Is it not even [καὶ] you, ·in the [toward] presence of [ἔμπροσθεν – lit. in toward countenance / fig. in toward presence (of)] our Lord Jesus [TSΧριστοῦ] ·at [in that of] His coming [ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ – in that of his being next to (παρουσίᾳ = πάρειμι (lex) = παρά + εἰμί -- same as “παρὼν” in 1Co_5:3)]?
1Th_2:19 τίς
γὰρ ἡμῶν ἐλπὶς
ἢ χαρὰ ἢ
στέφανος
καυχήσεως, ἢ
οὐχὶ καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ
Κυρίου ἡμῶν
᾿Ιησοῦ TSΧριστοῦ ἐν
τῇ αὐτοῦ
παρουσίᾳ;
1Th_2:20 For [γάρ] you are [ἐστε] [that of] our glory [ἡ δόξα ἡμῶν] and [the (ἡ)] ·[favorable] joy [χαρά].
1Th_2:20 ὑμεῖς
γάρ ἐστε ἡ
δόξα ἡμῶν
καὶ ἡ χαρά.
2:19-20 elsewhere
[* Joh_14:18 – Jesus said he
would not leave His disciples as “orphans”.
** Mat_10:19 CAB
But whenever they hand you over, do not worry how or what you should speak. For
it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak;
Mat_10:19 ὅταν δὲ TSBπαραδιδῶσιν
|Aπαραδωσιν| ὑμᾶς, μὴ
μεριμνήσητε
πῶς ἢ τί
λαλήσητε·
δοθήσεται
γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν
ἐκείνῃ τῇ
ὥρᾳ τί TSBλαλήσετε. |Aλαλησητε|]
1Co_5:3 CAB For I
indeed [ἐγὼ
μὲν γάρ], TSBas
[TSBὡς]
·being
absent [lit. (away) from being] in [the] body [ἀπὼν τῷ
σώματι (ἀπὼν
= ἄπειμι (lex) = ἀπό
+ εἰμί)] but [δὲ] present [παρὼν
=
πάρειμι (lex) =
παρά + εἰμί, (same as
“παρουσίᾳ” in 1Th_2:19)] in [the (τῷ)] spirit,
have already judged (·as though [ὡς] ·I
were present [παρὼν])
him who [τὸν]
has ·done this deed [κατεργασάμενον]
in this way [οὕτω],
1Co_5:3 ἐγὼ
μὲν γάρ TSBὡς ἀπὼν
τῷ σώματι, παρὼν
δὲ τῷ
πνεύματι, ἤδη
κέκρικα ὡς
παρὼν τὸν οὕτω
τοῦτο
κατεργασάμενον,
Also: 2Co_10:1, 2Co_10:11
2Co_13:2 CAB ·I have
previously said [προείρηκαV-RAI-1S],
and ·I say beforehand [προλέγωV-PAI-1S],
as being present [παρὼνV-PAP-NSM] the second time [τὸ
δεύτερον], and ·now being absent [ἀπὼνV-PAP-NSM νῦν]
TSBI
write [TSBγράφω]
·to those who
have sinned before [τοῖς
προημαρτηκόσι],
and ·to all the rest [τοῖς
λοιποῖς], that if [ἐὰν]
I come again I will not spare
you [φείσομαι
(same as 2Co_1:23)],
2Co_13:2
προείρηκα
καὶ προλέγω,
ὡς παρὼν τὸ
δεύτερον,
καὶ ἀπὼν νῦν
TSBγράφω
τοῖς
προημαρτηκόσι
καὶ τοῖς
λοιποῖς πᾶσιν,
ὅτι ἐὰν ἔλθω
εἰς τὸ πάλιν
οὐ φείσομαι·
2Co_13:3 since you [ἐπεὶ] are seeking [ζητεῖτε] proof [δοκιμὴν] of [τοῦ] Christ [Χριστοῦ] speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but [ἀλλὰ] strong
[δυνατεῖ] in you.
2Co_13:3 ἐπεὶ
δοκιμὴν ζητεῖτε
τοῦ ἐν ἐμοὶ
λαλοῦντος
Χριστοῦ, ὃς εἰς
ὑμᾶς οὐκ ἀσθενεῖ,
ἀλλὰ δυνατεῖ
ἐν ὑμῖν.
These last two references are in the context of Judging the Church, and besides the primary, original application, these passages (along with the joyfulness of Colossians and Thessalonians) also help us remember and stay aware that throughout many other passages in general, Paul is exhorting the Corinthians (and other Assemblies) to love while not being present. -- And this even includes The Love Chapter of 1st Corinthians 13!
Galatian & Corinthian Discipline
Paul, the Galatians,
& the Corinthians
Doing-Faithful-Love--09--Gal-and-Cor-Discipline--10.29.17.mp3
It is profitable for us to understand the discipline and probations that come upon us in different ways and different seasons…
We Have Seen the
Disciplinary Separations Concerning…
· Miriam’s Leprosy
· The Israelites, God, & the Promised Land
·
How God Left Samson!
·
Between Saul & Samuel
·
(The complex, but partially
disciplinary posture between Solomon
& God)
·
The Testing Separations in Song of Songs
·
How God Left Hezekiah!, and especially,
·
Between Hosea & Gomer.*
* Hosea Reminders –
in Particular
· Hosea 3 – Love, Sit, Return;
· A Lord Uses Love to Call for Faithfulness
· Hosea 5 – The Unfaithful Will Not Find Him Who Has Withdrawn
· Hosea 5 – God Departs Until They Acknowledge Sin & Seek Earnestly
· Hosea 7 – The Unrepentant Waist Away in Ignorant Isolation from Truth
· >> Cry & Wait for Redemption – The Right Response to Gomer’s Discipline
· Psalms 30 – I Cried When God Hid His Face
· Isiah 8 – I Will Wait For Him Who Hides His Face
· Isiah 54 – A Redeemed Wife, Forsaken No More!
Now let’s compare Hosea’s disciplinary separations with Paul, the Galatians, & the Corinthians.
When Paul was away from the Galatians and the Corinthians there were serious unfaithfulnesses and breaches of lovelessness against Paul and the Truth. But while many of them were unfaithful in their long-distance relationship, Paul held on to absolutely True faith and love for them, enduring long and extended absences without sinning against their life, and profit, and salvation.
Gal_4:10
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
Gal_4:10 ἡμέρας
παρατηρεῖσθε
καὶ μῆνας
καὶ καιροὺς
καὶ ἐνιαυτούς.
Gal_4:11 I am afraid for you, lest somehow I have worked hard for you in vain.
Gal_4:11 φοβοῦμαι
ὑμᾶς, TSBμήπως |Aμη Aπως | εἰκῇ
κεκοπίακα εἰς
ὑμᾶς.
Gal_4:12 Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also am as you are. You have not wronged me at all.
Gal_4:12
Γίνεσθε ὡς
ἐγώ, ὅτι κἀγὼ
ὡς ὑμεῖς, ἀδελφοί,
δέομαι ὑμῶν.
οὐδέν με ἠδικήσατε·
Gal_4:13 You know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the gospel to you the former time.
Gal_4:13 οἴδατε
δὲ ὅτι δι᾿ ἀσθενείαν
τῆς σαρκὸς
εὐηγγελισάμην
ὑμῖν τὸ
πρότερον,
Gal_4:14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise nor disdain, but as an angel of God you received me, even as Christ Jesus.
Gal_4:14 καὶ
τὸν
πειρασμὸν TSBμου TSBτὸν |Aυμων| ἐν
τῇ σαρκί
μου οὐκ ἐξουθενήσατε
οὐδὲ ἐξεπτύσατε,
TSBἀλλ᾿
|Aαλλα| ὡς ἄγγελον
Θεοῦ ἐδέξασθέ
με, ὡς
Χριστὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν.
Gal_4:15 What then was your blessing? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me!
Gal_4:15 TSBτίς |Aπου| οὖν TSBἦν ὁ
μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν;
μαρτυρῶ γὰρ
ὑμῖν ὅτι εἰ
δυνατὸν τοὺς
ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν
ἐξορύξαντες TSBἂν
ἐδώκατέ
μοι.
Gal_4:16 Have I therefore become your enemy by speaking the truth to you?
Gal_4:16 ὥστε ἐχθρὸς
ὑμῶν γέγονα
ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;
Gal_4:17 They are zealous about you in the wrong way; but they wish to shut you out, so that you will be zealous about them.
Gal_4:17 ζηλοῦσιν
ὑμᾶς οὐ
καλῶς, ἀλλὰ
ἐκκλεῖσαι ὑμᾶς
θέλουσιν, ἵνα
αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε.
Gal_4:18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.
Gal_4:18 καλὸν
δὲ TSBτὸ
ζηλοῦσθαι ἐν
καλῷ
πάντοτε καὶ
μὴ μόνον ἐν
τῷ παρεῖναί
με πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
Gal_4:19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you!
Gal_4:19 TSBτεκνία |Aτεκνα|
μου, οὓς πάλιν
ὠδίνω, |TSBαχρις| Aμέχρις οὗ
μορφωθῇ
Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν·
Gal_4:20 And I wanted to be present with you just now and to change my tone; because I am uncertain about you.
Gal_4:20 ἤθελον
δὲ παρεῖναι
πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἄρτι
καὶ ἀλλάξαι
τὴν φωνήν
μου, ὅτι ἀποροῦμαι
ἐν ὑμῖν.
The Corinthian Correction
Particularly Included Distance
· Paul corrected the long-distance unfaithfulness of the Galatians and the Corinthians.
· Interestingly, as we have been seeing, Paul’s correction of the Corinthians especially includes particularly emphasized themes of stepping back and separating from their unfaithful money and their unfaithful company.
· Their unfaithfulness was done at a distance, and now Paul exhorts them at a distance to willingly reverse their crying sins of injustice and save themselves.
· Throughout the Corinthian epistles Paul is not exhorting the Corinthians to love him when he gets there in person, but for integrity sake, he is exhorting them to do real love to him and the Truth before he gets there.
Deu_2:4
WEB Command the people, saying, You are
to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in
Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
Deu_2:4
LB And command the people, saying, “You
are going through the territory of your brothers the children of Esau, who
dwell in Seir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly.
Deu_2:4 καὶ τῷ
λαῷ ἔντειλαι λέγων
Ὑμεῖς
παραπορεύεσθε
διὰ τῶν ὁρίων τῶν
ἀδελφῶν ὑμῶν υἱῶν
Ησαυ, οἳ
κατοικοῦσιν ἐν
Σηιρ, καὶ φοβηθήσονται
ὑμᾶς καὶ εὐλαβηθήσονται
ὑμᾶς σφόδρα.
Deu_2:5
WEB don't contend with them; for I will
not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to
tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
Deu_2:5
Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land, not
even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given Mount Seir to the children
of Esau as an inheritance.
Deu_2:5 μὴ συνάψητε
πρὸς αὐτοὺς πόλεμον·
οὐ γὰρ μὴ δῶ ὑμῖν
ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς αὐτῶν
οὐδὲ βῆμα ποδός,
ὅτι ἐν κλήρῳ δέδωκα
τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ησαυ τὸ ὄρος τὸ
Σηιρ.
Deu_2:6
WEB You shall purchase food of them for
money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that
you may drink.
Deu_2:6
Buy food from them for money, and eat, and you shall receive water from them by
measure for money, and drink.
Deu_2:6 βρώματα ἀργυρίου
ἀγοράσατε παρ᾿
αὐτῶν καὶ φάγεσθε
καὶ ὕδωρ μέτρῳ
λήμψεσθε παρ᾿
αὐτῶν ἀργυρίου
καὶ πίεσθε.
2nd Corinthians 1 – I No Longer Came in Order To Spare You
2Co_1:23 CAB Moreover [δὲ – but] I call upon [the (τὸν)] God ·as a witness [μάρτυρα] against [ἐπὶ – upon] [ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ] [that of (τὴν)] my soul, that ·in order to spare* [φειδόμενος (later, he says he will “not spare”: 2Co_13:2)] you, I came ·no more [οὐκέτι] to [εἰς] Corinth.
2Co_1:23 ᾿Εγὼ
δὲ μάρτυρα
τὸν Θεὸν ἐπικαλοῦμαι
ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν
ψυχήν, ὅτι
φειδόμενος ὑμῶν
οὐκέτι ἦλθον
εἰς
Κόρινθον.
2Co_1:24 Not that ·we lord it over [κυριεύομεν] your faith, but [ἀλλὰ] are fellow workers [συνεργοί] for your joy [χαρᾶς]; ·for by [the] faith you stand [τῇ γὰρ πίστει ἑστήκατε].
2Co_1:24 οὐχ ὅτι
κυριεύομεν ὑμῶν
τῆς πίστεως,
ἀλλὰ
συνεργοί ἐσμεν
τῆς χαρᾶς ὑμῶν·
τῇ γὰρ
πίστει ἑστήκατε.
[* “spare” – Str: “Of uncertain affinity”; See (as
WS says): “Act_20:29; Rom_8:32
[cf. Sept: Gen_22:12]; 1Co_7:28; 2Co_1:23)”]
2nd Corinthians 1 – “Not Lording” = Waiting in Absence for Willing Faith
· We don’t “lord” (it over) your faith, which means…
· we wait on your willing choice (i.e. Paul “spared” as many of them as possible from forced excommunication against their choice), and…
· we wait so your heart will be clean by this “willing choice”, which means…
· we have to wait in absence (Paul “came no more into Corinth”) to reach that far down into a heart that is still needing correction.
· This allows people a chance to thoroughly think and consider so that they might willingly do things in heart-purifying & saving “faith” without any external pressure (which might confuse this heart-issue).
· Remember: Truth glories in proving things True -- If they wait until Paul comes to swiftly punish people in person, and then they supposedly want to “repent” when externally felt social pressure is upon them, then the social accountability of heart-purifying faith is obscured and frustrated and removed, and deception and false repentance is rampant and fortified in the air.
· Paul shuns this perversion and falsehood, even if he is misunderstood as being harsh and unloving in the midst of his wise insistence on real love.
· Important note on Judging the Church: What might it look like if Paul came and did not spare some of them who persisted in unrepentant sin? – they may be put out of the church for a time of “doing penance” before being received again into communion.
· How much more (potentially) permanent separation might it cause, and how much harder it might be to ever admit these back into the church if they did not repent at the hearing of Paul’s letters?
·
There is an important sense
where even Jesus generally does not force His Lordship over people in this age,
so that they can willingly cry out “Lord Jesus” (Rom_10) by real faith.
-- and, of course, in the age to come this changes drastically: Php_2:9-11; Isa_45:23-24;
Rom_14:11. Therefore,
· if Jesus comes back, what hope will there be for those who have not repented at the hearing of the Scriptures?
· What hope was there for the rich man in hell who did not repent at the hearing of the Law and the Prophets?
· Who is being more loving here: Paul, in extending his absence and distance, or the critical Corinthians, who criticized him for it?
· We see that Paul might endanger any hope for many of the Corinthians getting to willingly repent by his premature presence if he were there in person.
· It’s really only those True Monotheists who glory in wording things by faith into acknowledged reality without the stimulation of externally felt experience.
· Those rough and strict Monotheists just keep on denying the natural pleasures of our own assumptions and reaching for something perfect and objective that does not please the flesh.
· They will stop at nothing to absolutely infuriate all flesh in order to please God.
· They “stubbornly” refuse to spare any emotions or feelings in order to obtain real Love.
· Summary: If we “don’t lord” then we have to “wait on your willing choice” which means we have to “wait in absence” for your faithfulness. -- that’s what this sub-point is all about.
And remember we said earlier with Hosea and Gomer:
Although Hosea was Gomer’s physical, husband-lord (as Genesis 3, Psalm 45, Sarah, & Peter says*) yet he wanted her faithfulness – therefore he used absence (and not “brute force”) to call to her heart and exhort her to choose the Truth.
[* Gen_3:16; Psa_45:11; Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6]
Note: “Love” ≠ Togetherness, but (in this passage) Love actually = sitting & waiting without comforts.
And what does Paul’s distance “spare” them from? -- from forced and swift and potentially harsh excommunication, as he says later in the same letter (as we have already quoted):
2Co_13:2 CAB I have previously said [προείρηκαV-RAI-1S],
and I say beforehand [προλέγωV-PAI-1S],
as being present [παρὼνV-PAP-NSM] the second time [τὸ
δεύτερον], and now being absent [ἀπὼνV-PAP-NSM νῦν]
TSBI
write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come
again I will not spare you [φείσομαι (same
as 2Co_1:23 -- quoted
above)],
2Co_13:2
προείρηκα
καὶ προλέγω,
ὡς παρὼν τὸ
δεύτερον,
καὶ ἀπὼν νῦν
TSBγράφω
τοῖς
προημαρτηκόσι
καὶ τοῖς
λοιποῖς πᾶσιν,
ὅτι ἐὰν ἔλθω
εἰς τὸ
πάλιν οὐ
φείσομαι·
Remember God saying that if He went in the midst of the hard-hearted Israelites for a moment, He would completely consume them?
And what is Jesus going to do to unbelievers when He returns in person?
In 2nd Corinthians, we see that Paul is partly being like a parable of Jesus by giving warnings of His coming, and exhorting them to willingly give over faithful love and obedience “from the heart” (as in Rom_6:17, etc.) in the meantime.
(And of course, we can compare this with 1Co_5 and all the other passages on Judging the Church to get a very good picture of what Paul is talking about.)
3Jn_1:7 for on behalf
of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the pagans.
3Jn_1:7 ὑπὲρ
γὰρ τοῦ ὀνόματος
αὐτοῦ ἐξῆλθον,
μηδὲν
λαμβάνοντες ἀπὸ
τῶν ἐθνικῶν.
3Jn_1:7 υπερ γαρ του ονοματος Sαυτου εξηλθον μηδεν λαμβανοντες απο των Aεθνικων TSBεθνων
3Jn_1:8 We
therefore ought to receive such, in order that we may become fellow workers
with the truth.
3Jn_1:8 ἡμεῖς
οὖν ὀφείλομεν
ὑπολαμβάνειν
τοὺς
τοιούτους, ἵνα
συνεργοὶ
γινώμεθα τῇ
ἀληθείᾳ.
3Jn_1:8 ημεις ουν οφειλομεν Aυπολαμβανειν TSBαπολαμβανειν τους τοιουτους ινα συνεργοι γινωμεθα τη αληθεια
3Jn_1:9 CAB I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves the preeminence over them, does not receive us.
3Jn_1:9 ῎Εγραψά
τι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ·
ἀλλ᾿ ὁ
φιλοπρωτεύων
αὐτῶν
Διοτρεφής οὐκ
ἐπιδέχεται ἡμᾶς.
3Jn_1:9 εγραψα Aτι τη εκκλησια αλλ ο φιλοπρωτευων αυτων διοτρεφης ουκ επιδεχεται ημας
3Jn_1:10 On account of this, if I come, I will call to mind his works which he does, slandering us with evil words. And not being content with that, he does not receive the brothers, and hinders those who desire to, casting them out of the church.
3Jn_1:10 διὰ τοῦτο,
ἐὰν ἔλθω, ὑπομνήσω
αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργα
ἃ ποιεῖ,
λόγοις
πονηροῖς
φλυαρῶν ἡμᾶς·
καὶ μὴ ἀρκούμενος
ἐπὶ
τούτοις, οὔτε
αὐτὸς ἐπιδέχεται
τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς
καὶ τοὺς
βουλομένους
κωλύει καὶ ἐκ
τῆς ἐκκλησίας
ἐκβάλλει.
3Jn_1:10 δια τουτο εαν ελθω υπομνησω αυτου τα εργα α ποιει λογοις πονηροις φλυαρων ημας και μη αρκουμενος επι τουτοις ουτε αυτος επιδεχεται τους αδελφους και τους βουλομενους κωλυει και εκ της εκκλησιας εκβαλλει
3Jn_1:11 Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.
3Jn_1:11 ᾿Αγαπητέ,
μὴ μιμοῦ τὸ
κακὸν, ἀλλὰ
τὸ ἀγαθόν. ὁ
ἀγαθοποιῶν ἐκ
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν·
ὁ κακοποιῶν
οὐχ ἑώρακε
τὸν Θεόν.
3Jn_1:11 αγαπητε μη μιμου το κακον αλλα το αγαθον ο αγαθοποιων εκ του θεου εστιν ο TSδε κακοποιων ουχ εωρακεν τον θεον
Self-Restrained: 2nd Corinthians 3, 5, & 6 – You’re Restrained in Your Own Bowels!
We Have Loved You, Now
You Love Us
-11/5/17
Now let’s talk more specifically about why there are multiple “separations”* between Paul and the Corinthians: It’s called “LOVE”, and the lack thereof.
(* Think: Geographically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, etc.)
2Co_3:2 CAB Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2Co_3:1 ᾿Αρχόμεθα
πάλιν ἑαυτοὺς
συνιστάνειν; SAἢ |TBει| μὴ χρῄζομεν,
ὥς τινες
συστατικῶν ἐπιστολῶν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἢ
ἐξ ὑμῶν TSBσυστατικῶν;
2Co_3:2 You are our letter, having been written in our hearts, being known and being read by all men;
2Co_3:2 ἡ ἐπιστολὴ
ἡμῶν ὑμεῖς
ἐστε, ἐγγεγραμ
2Co_5:12 CAB For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give to you an opportunity of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not Ain heart.
2Co_5:12 οὐ TSBγὰρ πάλιν
ἑαυτοὺς
συνιστάνομεν
ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ
ἀφορμὴν
διδόντες ὑμῖν
καυχήματος ὑπὲρ
ἡμῶν, ἵνα ἔχητε
πρὸς τοὺς ἐν
προσώπῳ
καυχωμένους
καὶ TSBοὐ |Aμη Aεν| καρδίᾳ.
2Co_6:11 CAB O
Corinthians! We have spoken openly [Τὸ στόμα ἡμῶν
ἀνέῳγε
πρὸς ὑμᾶς – we have openedV-2RAI-3S
(second peRfect) Our mouth] to[ward]
[πρὸς] you, our heart has been ·opened wideV-RPI-3S [πεπλάτυνται
– lit. flattened wide (as a road)].
2Co_6:11 Τὸ
στόμα ἡμῶν
ἀνέῳγε
πρὸς ὑμᾶς,
Κορίνθιοι, ἡ
καρδία ἡμῶν
πεπλάτυνται·
2Co_6:12 You are not restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] by [ἐν – in] us, but [δὲ] you are restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] by [ἐν – in] ·your own affections [bowels] [τοῖς σπλάγχνοις ὑμῶν].
2Co_6:12 οὐ
στενοχωρεῖσθε
ἐν ἡμῖν,
στενοχωρεῖσθε
δὲ ἐν τοῖς
σπλάγχνοις ὑμῶν·
2Co_6:13 ·Now in return for the same [τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀντιμισθίαν]--I speak [λέγω] as [ὡς] to children [τέκνοις]--you also be opened wideV-APM-2P (Passive iMperative) [πλατύνθητε – lit. flattened wide (as a road)].
2Co_6:13 τὴν δὲ
αὐτὴν ἀντιμισθίαν,
ὡς τέκνοις
λέγω,
πλατύνθητε
καὶ ὑμεῖς.
2Co_6:12 CAB …you are restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] by [ἐν – in] ·your own affections [bowels] [τοῖς σπλάγχνοις ὑμῶν]…
2Co_6:14 CAB Do not become ·unequally
yoked [ἑτεροζυγοῦντες]
with unbelievers [ἀπίστοις];
for what [τίς γὰρ]
participation [μετοχὴ
(Lex)G3352 (fem. noun) <
μετέχωG3348 * (verb) < μετάG3326 +
ἔχωG2192] is there for righteousness [δικαιοσύνῃ]
with lawlessness [ἀνομίᾳ]?
And what [|Aη| τίς TSBδὲ] ·communion
is there for [κοινωνίαN-NSF – i.e. reciprocation is
there with] light [φωτὶ] with [πρὸς – toward] darkness [σκότος (same as SOM)]?
[* Strong’s: G3348 μετέχω metechō
met-ekh'-o From G3326 and G2192; to share or participate; by implication
belong to, eat (or drink): -
be partaker, pertain, take part, use.]
2Co_6:15 ·And [but] what [τίς δὲ] agreement is there for [συμφώνησιςN-NSF – lit. symphony / together-sound-ness is there with] Christ [Anointed one] with Belial [the devil] [TSBΧριστῷ |Aχριστου| πρὸς ||TBAβελιαρ | SΒελίαλ||]? Or what part [μερὶς] is there for a believer with an infidel [ἄπιστος (apistos) – an unbeliever]?
2Co_6:15 τίς δὲ
συμφώνησις TSBΧριστῷ |Aχριστου| πρὸς ||TBAβελιαρ | SΒελίαλ||; ἢ
τίς μερὶς
πιστῷ μετὰ
ἀπίστου;
2Co_6:16 And [but] what [τίς δὲ]
union [συγκατάθεσιςG4783
(lex) (fem. noun) <
συγκατατίθεμαιG4784
* (verb) < σύνG4862 +
κατατίθημιG2698
< κατάG2596 + τίθημιG5087]
is there for the temple of God with
idols? For you [i.e.
Bible Obeyers] are the temple of the living God, just as God has
said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people."
[* WS on
συγκατατίθεμαι
(G4784): lit. “To place or lay down with another, to deposit with” (WS), or
fig. “to deposit one's vote with others in the urn, to give one's vote with
others.” (WS) Or “Figuratively, to assent to, agree with, to consent, with the
dat. (Luk_23:51).” (WS)]
2Co_6:16 τίς δὲ
συγκατάθεσις
ναῷ Θεοῦ
μετὰ εἰδώλων;
TSBὕμεῖς
|Aημεις| γὰρ ναὸς
Θεοῦ TSBἐστε |Aεσμεν|
ζῶντος,
καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ
Θεὸς ὅτι ἐνοικήσω
ἐν αὐτοῖς
καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω,
καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν
Θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ
ἔσονταί |TSBμοι| Aμου λαός.
2Co_6:17 Therefore "Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Lord. "Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."
2Co_6:17 διὸ |TSBεξελθετε| Aἐξέλθατε
ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν
καὶ ἀφορίσθητε,
λέγει
Κύριος, καὶ ἀκαθάρτου
μὴ ἅπτεσθε, κἀγὼ
εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς,
2Co_6:18 "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."
2Co_6:18 καὶ ἔσομαι
ὑμῖν εἰς
πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς
υἱοὺς καὶ
θυγατέρας,
λέγει Κύριος
παντοκράτωρ.
The Point: Probationary separations must happen when people don’t do faithful Love.
2nd Corinthians 6: In Return For The Same – Do Good Back to Those Who Have Done Good to You
· We have heard it said, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
· And now we can also say, do good love back to others as they have done to you.
· (Actually, according to Jesus, we should have already known this from the command to honor your father and mother.)
· Do justice, and complete the loop of kindness, and enter into reciprocation.
· If you haven’t done good unto others as you would have them do unto you, then at least learn from others who have done good to you, and do good back to them.
· Take a hint from a good heart who has done good unto you and learn how to do the same back to them.
The Point of
“Returning the Same”
· Breaking the loop of faithful Love is an injustice and unfaithfulness that calls for probationary separations.
· unfaithfulness requires probation -- got that?
· Paul did Truth Love to the Corinthians, and now he waits in a disciplinary posture until they get serious and do Truth love back to him and to the Truth.
2nd Corinthians 6: Children Crave Love, But Grown-Up Perfection Knows How to Give It
· Notice that in 2nd Corinthians 6, you have to tell “children” to love.
· One sign of being perfectly grown and complete is loving way more than you are asked to love.
· (Interestingly, Paul starts thinking about perfection of growth when talking about Love in 1Co_13.)
· The young begin their lives self-centered.
· The old glorify their lives by learning to care about others.
· The young often want to be known as strong and good looking, but older people are supposed to have gained a reputation for being wise and loving.
· When two people compete, an older person can win an argument by their stunning superior love for the other person.
· Whoever truly loves the other person more, is the ultimate winner of all arguments.
· Though competitions may flare up in a moment of disagreement, yet if thought is involved, when the two go to their rooms the loser and all who saw the argument will have to admit that the one who loved more was more right.
·
A
wise person will not forget kindness shown in the midst of relationship
friction.
How might the eternally wise God think about you if you do real love?
11/6/17
· Want to be perfectly righteous in clean and selfless service unto the Truth and ready for mega rewards and glorification?
· Make sure your zealous ambition never has to be asked or told to love people more.
The Point of Childish
vs. Perfect Love
· Real Love always makes you the winner of all frictions in relationships.
· Real Love is the highest requirement of faithfulness.
· Through Real Love you can even obligate God to bring you out of probation (including Paul and all other righteous ones)!
· If “unfaithfulness requires probation” then the faithfulness of Real Love calls for togetherness, and
· God will by no means remain indebted to His own justice forever.
2nd Corinthians 7 – Receive Us…You are in our Hearts
2Co_7:1
CAB
Therefore [ταύτας
οὖν], having these promises [ἐπαγγελίας],
beloved, let us cleanse [καθαρίσωμεν]
ourselves from all filthiness [μολυσμοῦ]
·of the
flesh [σαρκὸς]
and spirit [πνεύματος],
perfecting [ἐπιτελοῦντες]
holiness ·in the fear of
God [ἐν
φόβῳ Θεοῦ – in God phobia/fear].
2Co_7:1 ταύτας
οὖν ἔχοντες
τὰς ἐπαγγελίας,
ἀγαπητοί,
καθαρίσωμεν ἑαυτοὺς
ἀπὸ παντὸς
μολυσμοῦ
σαρκὸς καὶ
πνεύματος, ἐπιτελοῦντες
ἁγιωσύνην ἐν
φόβῳ Θεοῦ.
2Co_7:2
Receive us in your hearts [i.e.
2Co_6:11-13] [Χωρήσατε
ἡμᾶς – (comp. Gen_13:6 LXX {Abraham & Lot};
Mat_15:17 {food in stomach})]. ·We
have wronged [ἠδικήσαμεν
– i.e. damaged with injustice/unrighteousness] no one [οὐδένα],
·we have
corrupted [ἐφθείραμεν]
no one [οὐδένα],
·we have
defrauded [ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν]
no one [οὐδένα].
2Co_7:2
Χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς·
οὐδένα ἠδικήσαμεν,
οὐδένα ἐφθείραμεν,
οὐδένα ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν.
2Co_7:3 I do not speak to condemn you [κατάκρισιν];
for I have said before [προείρηκα]
that you are in our hearts [ὅτι
ἐν ταῖς
καρδίαις ἡμῶν
ἐστε], so that [εἰς
τὸ] we die together [συναποθανεῖν]
and we live together [συζῆν].
2Co_7:3 TSBοὐ
πρὸς
κατάκρισιν |Aου|
λέγω·
προείρηκα
γὰρ ὅτι ἐν
ταῖς
καρδίαις ἡμῶν
ἐστε εἰς τὸ
συναποθανεῖν
καὶ συζῆν.
2Co_7:4 Great is my confidence toward you,
great is my boasting concerning you. I have been filled with comfort. I am
exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
2Co_7:4 πολλή
μοι παρρησία
πρὸς ὑμᾶς,
πολλή μοι
καύχησις ὑπὲρ
ὑμῶν·
πεπλήρωμαι τῇ
παρακλήσει, ὑπερπερισσεύομαι
τῇ χαρᾷ ἐπὶ
πάσῃ τῇ
θλίψει ἡμῶν.
/ LLO?
So, how do you “make room” for people? (i.e. do faithful Love)
You can find answer to the question in v. 2 by looking in v. 1 (preceding) as well as in v. 3 (following).
Compare this with the astounding Faithfulness of Ruth in Rth_1:15-16 (as quoted in Luxury Proves You’re Condemned)!
Comfort is the Result of Making Room
2Co_7:13 CAB Because of this we have been comforted. And in [ἐπὶ – upon] your comfort we rejoiced exceedingly more over [ἐπὶ – upon] the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2Co_7:13 Διὰ τοῦτο
παρακεκλήμεθα.
ἐπὶ BAδὲ
τῇ
παρακλήσει TSBυμων |Aἡμῶν|
περισσοτέρως
|TSδε| μᾶλλον ἐχάρημεν
ἐπὶ τῇ
χαρᾷ Τίτου, ὅτι
ἀναπέπαυται
τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ
ἀπὸ πάντων
ὑμῶν·
2nd Corinthians 11 & 12 – Not Because We Don’t Love You
When refusing to receive money from the Corinthians, Paul says:
2Co_11:11 CAB Why [διατί]? Because [ὅτι] I do not love you? God knows [by perception] [οἶδεν]!
2Co_11:11 TSδιατί |BAδια BAτι|; ὅτι οὐκ ἀγαπῶ
ὑμᾶς; ὁ
Θεὸς οἶδεν.
Paul anticipates a soul-ish misunderstanding with refusing their money in much the same way as he had already anticipated their misunderstanding when he passed up their company.
2Co_12:15 CAB And I [very] gladly [ἥδιστα – lit. most pleasurably (superlative)] will spend [δαπανήσω (Lex: δαπανάω [verb] < δαπάνη [noun]) – expense/spend/cost] and be expended [ἐκδαπανηθήσομαι – i.e. spent out] for [ὑπὲρ] [that (of)] your souls; ·although [εἰ καὶ] the more abundantly [περισσοτέρως] I love you, ·the less [ἧττον – WS: “Worse, inferior, weaker”] I am loved.
2Co_12:15 ἐγὼ
δὲ ἥδιστα
δαπανήσω καὶ
ἐκδαπανηθήσομαι
ὑπὲρ τῶν
ψυχῶν ὑμῶν,
εἰ TSBκαὶ
περισσοτέρως
ὑμᾶς TSBἀγαπῶν |Aαγαπων| TSBἧττον |Aησσον| ἀγαπῶμαι.
Paul abstains from their presence and their money -- not because he doesn’t love them, but because they needed to love him in Truth.
They might be tempted, as well as we, to say, “if you would just come and spend time with us we could develop our relationship and that would establish our mutual love for each other!” -- and that is just the point…
John: Let us Love One Another
1Jn_4:7 CAB Beloved [᾿Αγαπητοί], let us love one another [ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους], because [ὅτι] love is ·[out] of [ἐκ] God; and everyone that loves has been born [γεγέννηται] ·[out] of [ἐκ] God and knows [γινώσκει] [the (τὸν)] God.
1Jn_4:7 ᾿Αγαπητοί,
ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους,
ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη
ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ
ἐστι, καὶ πᾶς
ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ
τοῦ Θεοῦ
γεγέννηται
καὶ γινώσκει
τὸν Θεόν.
1Jn_4:8 He that does not love ·does not [οὐκ] know [ἔγνω] [the (τὸν)] God, because [ὅτι] [the (ὁ)] God is love [ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν].
1Jn_4:8 ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν
οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν
Θεόν, ὅτι ὁ
Θεὸς ἀγάπη
ἐστίν.
______________________
Hebrews: Let the Brotherly Love Remain
Heb_13:1 CAB Let [the (῾Η)] ·brotherly love [φιλαδελφία] remain.
Heb_13:1 ῾Η
φιλαδελφία
μενέτω.
Heb_13:2 Do not ·forget [ἐπιλανθάνεσθε – let lie hidden-upon / let escape your notice] hospitality [φιλοξενίας – (warm) liking of strangers], for [γὰρ] through [διὰ] this some have unwittingly [ἔλαθόν] entertained [ξενίσαντες – lit. stranger-tended / cared for strangers] angels.
Heb_13:2 τῆς
φιλοξενίας
μὴ ἐπιλανθάνεσθε·
διὰ ταύτης
γὰρ ἔλαθόν
τινες
ξενίσαντες ἀγγέλους.
Paul & Assembly at Roman
In Romans Paul cares about the assembly at Rome even before having met them (Rom_1:8-13).
Rom_1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ
for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Rom_1:8 Πρῶτον
μὲν εὐχαριστῶ
τῷ Θεῷ μου
διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ TSBὑπὲρ |Aπερι| πάντων ὑμῶν,
ὅτι ἡ πίστις
ὑμῶν
καταγγέλλεται
ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ
κόσμῳ.
Rom_1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my
spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you
always in my prayers,
Rom_1:9 μάρτυς
γάρ μού ἐστιν
ὁ Θεός, ᾧ
λατρεύω ἐν
τῷ
πνεύματί μου
ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ
τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ,
ὡς ἀδιαλείπτως
μνείαν ὑμῶν
ποιοῦμαι,
Rom_1:10 requesting if somehow now
at sometime I shall succeed in the will of God to come to you.
Rom_1:10
πάντοτε ἐπὶ
τῶν προσευχῶν
μου δεόμενος |TSBειπως| Aεἴ
Aπως
ἤδη ποτὲ εὐοδωθήσομαι
ἐν τῷ
θελήματι τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
Rom_1:11 For I long to see you, so
that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be
established--
Rom_1:11 ἐπιποθῶ
γὰρ ἰδεῖν ὑμᾶς,
ἵνα τι μεταδῶ
χάρισμα ὑμῖν
πνευματικὸν
εἰς τὸ
στηριχθῆναι ὑμᾶς,
Rom_1:12 that is, that I may be encouraged
together among you through the mutual faith both of you and me.
Rom_1:12 τοῦτο
δέ ἐστιν
συμπαρακληθῆναι
ἐν ὑμῖν
διὰ τῆς ἐν ἀλλήλοις
πίστεως ὑμῶν
τε καὶ ἐμοῦ.
Rom_1:13 Now I do not want you to be
ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was
hindered until now), that I might have some fruit [NOT “that we might
develop our relationship”] among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
Rom_1:13 οὐ
θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς
ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοί,
ὅτι πολλάκις
προεθέμην ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς,
καὶ ἐκωλύθην
ἄχρι τοῦ δεῦρο,
ἵνα |TSκαρπον| τινὰ BAκαρπὸν σχῶ
καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν
καθὼς καὶ ἐν
τοῖς λοιποῖς
ἔθνεσιν.
From all of these references, we should love the apostles as we read their epistles, and even the early church, without having ever met them personally yet.
Any More Long-Distance Love Examples?
· There are LOTS of examples in the Bible about Long-Distance relationships with extended separation.
· Can you think of any more examples in Scripture or in your life?
· A large percentage of our small remnant Assembly has been separated at numerous seasons.
· How do these exhortations apply to us?
The Ultimate Love Separation
Consider that the ultimate Love of your life is far away in heaven (in some sense) and He is testing your love.
How Did This Separation Happen to Begin With?
The First Step Back
Gen_3:8 WEB They heard
the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden [“בגן” (LEX:
גּן)] in the
cool [“היום”
(LEX: רוּח) – i.e. spirit; Vul: auram post meridiem
(evening breeze)] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
Gen_3:8 CAB And they heard the voice [τὴν
φωνὴν] of the Lord God [κυρίου τοῦ
θεοῦ] walking [περιπατοῦντος] in the
garden [παραδείσῳ
< “פּרדּס” (used later in OT: Neh_2:8;
Ecc_2:5; Son_4:13)] in the cool of the day [τὸ
δειλινόν – ABP: at dusk; CT: evening]; and
both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the
midst of the trees of the garden.
Gen_3:8
Καὶ ἤκουσαν τὴν
φωνὴν κυρίου
τοῦ θεοῦ
περιπατοῦντος
ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ
τὸ δειλινόν, καὶ
ἐκρύβησαν ὅ τε
Αδαμ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ
αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ προσώπου
κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ
ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ ξύλου
τοῦ παραδείσου.
There Still Used to
Be Closeness with The Creator
Genesis 1 – 4 – God used to talk much more freely with Adam, Eve, Cain, and presumably Able.
Notice that this applies to even a sinful murderer like Cain (Genesis 4)!
Multiplied Distance
Gen_6:3 WEB Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive [i.e. go toward judgement] with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will
his days be one hundred twenty years."
Gen_6:3 CAB And the Lord God [κύριος
ὁ θεός] said, “·My Spirit [τὸ πνεῦμά
μου] shall ·by no means [Οὐ μὴ] remain
[καταμείνῃ] with
[ἐν – in/among] ·[that of] these men [τοῖς ἀνθρώποις
τούτοις] ·[into the] forever [εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα], ·for [διὰ τὸ] they are
[being] flesh [διὰ τὸ εἶναι
αὐτοὺς σάρκας], but
their days shall be 120 years.”
Gen_6:3
καὶ εἶπεν κύριος
ὁ θεός Οὐ μὴ
καταμείνῃ τὸ
πνεῦμά μου ἐν
τοῖς ἀνθρώποις
τούτοις εἰς τὸν
αἰῶνα διὰ τὸ εἶναι
αὐτοὺς σάρκας, ἔσονται
δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτῶν
ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἔτη.
Note: See/read context!
God Steps Back: Deu_31:17-1?
Deu_32:20 WEB He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Deu_32:20 CAB and said, ‘I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days [ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων]; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.
Deu_32:20 καὶ εἶπεν
Ἀποστρέψω τὸ
πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿
αὐτῶν καὶ δείξω
τί ἔσται αὐτοῖς
ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων· ὅτι
γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη
ἐστίν, υἱοί, οἷς
οὐκ ἔστιν πίστις
ἐν αὐτοῖς.
Jesus: It is to Your
Advantage That I go Away
Joh_16:5 CAB "But now I am going to Him who sent Me,
and none of you asks Me, 'Where are You going?'
Joh_16:5
νυν δε υπαγω
προς τον
πεμψαντα με
και ουδεις εξ
υμων ερωτα με που
υπαγεις
Joh_16:6 "But because I have spoken these things to you,
sorrow has filled your heart.
Joh_16:6
αλλ οτι ταυτα
λελαληκα υμιν
η λυπη πεπληρωκεν
υμων την
καρδιαν
Joh_16:7 Nevertheless I
speak the truth to you. It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do
not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him
to you.
Joh_16:7
αλλ εγω την
αληθειαν λεγω
υμιν συμφερει
υμιν ινα εγω
απελθω εαν γαρ Bεγω
μη απελθω ο παρακλητος
ουκ ελευσεται
προς υμας εαν
δε πορευθω πεμψω
αυτον προς
υμας
The Solution:
Spiritual Closeness by FAITH
Eph_2:11 CAB Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in
the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision [ἀκροβυστία] by
[ὑπὸ] what
[τῆς] is
called the Circumcision [περιτομῆς] made by
hands [χειροποιήτου] in the
flesh--
Eph_2:11
Διὸ
μνημονεύετε ὅτι
TSBὑμεῖς
ποτὲ |Aυμεις| τὰ ἔθνη
ἐν σαρκί, οἱ
λεγόμενοι ἀκροβυστία
ὑπὸ τῆς
λεγομένης
περιτομῆς ἐν
σαρκὶ
χειροποιήτου,
Eph_2:12 that at that time [καιρῷ] [there (ἐκείνῳ)] you were apart from Christ, ·being [having been] estranged from [ἀπηλλοτριωμένοιV-RPP-NPM –
Eph_4:18; Col_1:21; Psa_58:3; Eze_14:5] the
commonwealth [τῆς
πολιτείας – city-cen-ship (incl. freedom & sociological
benefits: Act_22:22-29, esp. v. 28)] of Israel and strangers [ξένοι] ·to the covenants [τῶν
διαθηκῶν] ·of [the] promise [τῆς ἐπαγγελίας], not
having hope and atheists [ἄθεοι] in the
world.
Eph_2:12
ὅτι ἦτε TSBἐν
τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ
χωρὶς Χριστοῦ,
ἀπηλλοτριωμένοιV-RPP-NPM
τῆς πολιτείας τοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ
καὶ ξένοι
τῶν διαθηκῶν
τῆς ἐπαγγελίας,
ἐλπίδα μὴ ἔχοντες
καὶ ἄθεοι ἐν
τῷ κόσμῳ.
Eph_2:13 But now in Christ [Χριστῷ] Jesus, you who once were far away have come to be near by the blood of Christ.
Eph_2:13
νυνὶ δὲ ἐν
Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ
ὑμεῖς οἵ
ποτε ὄντες
μακρὰν TSBἐγγὺς
ἐγενήθητε |Aεγγυς| ἐν τῷ
αἵματι τοῦ
Χριστοῦ.
Eph_2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and who destroyed the dividing wall of separation,
Eph_2:14
αὐτὸς γάρ
ἐστιν ἡ εἰρήνη
ἡμῶν, ὁ
ποιήσας τὰ ἀμφότερα
ἕν καὶ τὸ
μεσότοιχον
τοῦ φραγμοῦ
λύσας, τὴν ἔχθραν,
ἐν τῇ
σαρκὶ αὐτοῦ
Col_1:21 CAB And you, who once were alienated and enemies
in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
Col_1:21
Καὶ ὑμᾶς
ποτε ὄντας ἀπηλλοτριωμένους
καὶ ἐχθροὺς
τῇ διανοίᾳ
ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις
τοῖς πονηροῖς,
Col_1:22
νυνὶ δὲ ἀποκατήλλαξεν…
Compare the Limitations of Nearness in the Old Testament
Psa_65:4
WEB Blessed is one whom you choose, and
cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the
goodness of your house, your holy temple.
Psa_65:4 CAB Blessed is he whom You have chosen [ἐξελέξω]
and adopted [προσελάβου
– i.e. taken toward (Yourself)]; he shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be
filled with the good things of Your house; Your temple is holy.
Psa_65:4 (64:5) μακάριος
ὃν ἐξελέξω καὶ
προσελάβου·
κατασκηνώσει ἐν
ταῖς αὐλαῖς
σου. πλησθησόμεθα
ἐν τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς
τοῦ οἴκου σου· ἅγιος
ὁ ναός σου,
θαυμαστὸς ἐν
δικαιοσύνῃ.
Num_16:9
WEB seems it but a small thing to you,
that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to
bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and
to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
Num_16:9 Is it a
little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation
of Israel, and brought you near to Himself to minister in the services of the
tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for
them?
Num_16:9 μὴ μικρόν
ἐστιν τοῦτο ὑμῖν
ὅτι διέστειλεν
ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ ὑμᾶς
ἐκ συναγωγῆς Ισραηλ
καὶ προσηγάγετο
ὑμᾶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν
λειτουργεῖν τὰς
λειτουργίας τῆς
σκηνῆς κυρίου
καὶ παρίστασθαι
ἔναντι τῆς
συναγωγῆς
λατρεύειν αὐτοῖς;
Num_16:10
WEB and that he has brought you near,
and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood
also?
Num_16:10 And He
has brought you near and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you, and do
you seek to be priests also?
Num_16:10 καὶ
προσηγάγετό
σε καὶ πάντας
τοὺς ἀδελφούς
σου υἱοὺς Λευι
μετὰ σοῦ, καὶ
ζητεῖτε ἱερατεύειν;
1st Peter:
Whom Having Not Seen, You Love
1Pe_1:8 CAB Whom not having seen [ SAἰδότες [lex: ὁράω]|TBειδοτες – see: Gr below], you love, in [εἰς] whom [ὃν] now [ἄρτι] not seeing [ὁρῶντες], but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy [ἀγαλλιᾶσθε χαρᾷ ἀνεκλαλήτῳ – α + ἐκλαλέω (call out)] and glorified,
1Pe_1:8 ὃν οὐκ || SAἰδότεςG3708
[lex: ὁράω – perceive
/ WS: see with perception] | TBειδοτες|| ἀγαπᾶτε,
εἰς ὃν ἄρτι
μὴ ὁρῶντες,
πιστεύοντες
δὲ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε
χαρᾷ ἀνεκλαλήτῳ
καὶ
δεδοξασμένῃ,
1Pe_1:9
obtaining [κομιζόμενοι
(lex: κομίζω) – i.e. taking care of]
for yourselves ·the outcome [τὸ τέλος]
[of that of (τῆς)]
your faith--·the [a] salvation of your souls [σωτηρίαν
ψυχῶν].
1Pe_1:9
κομιζόμενοι
τὸ τέλος τῆς
πίστεως TSBὑμῶν |Aυμων|,
σωτηρίαν ψυχῶν.
2Co_5:8 CAB but [δὲ] we are confident [θαρροῦμεν] and prefer [εὐδοκοῦμεν] rather [μᾶλλον] ·to be away from home from the body [ἐκδημῆσαι ἐκ τοῦ σώματος], and ·to be at home [ἐνδημῆσαι] with [πρὸς] the Lord.
2Co_5:8 θαρροῦμεν
δὲ καὶ εὐδοκοῦμεν
μᾶλλον ἐκδημῆσαι
ἐκ τοῦ
σώματος καὶ
ἐνδημῆσαι
πρὸς τὸν
Κύριον.
Then we Will
Ever be With the Lord
1Th_4:16 CAB Because the Lord Himself [αὐτὸς] ·shall descend from [καταβήσεται ἀπ᾿] heaven with [ἐν] ·a word of command [κελεύσματι], with [ἐν] the voice [φωνῇ] of an archangel [ἀρχαγγέλου], and with [ἐν] the trumpet [σάλπιγγι] of God, and the dead in Christ [Χριστῷ] ·shall rise [ἀναστήσονται – will stand up again] first.
1Th_4:17 Then we ·who are
alive [οἱ ζῶντες]
and remain [οἱ
περιλειπόμενοι
(ironically, same as 1Th_4:13
-- unbelievers)] ·shall
be caught up [ἁρπαγησόμεθα
– snatched/“raptured”
(ἁρπ-)] together [ἅμα – at the same time] ·[together]
with [σὺν] them in the
clouds [ἐν
νεφέλαις] ·[in]to
[εἰς] meet[ing] [ἀπάντησινG529 ~ ἀπό + ἀντί
(derivative) = “meet
against” (Strong’s on G528) / “encounter” (Strong’s on G528/G529) from
properly correlating opposite (directions)] the Lord in[to] [εἰς] the air [ἀέρα]. And
thus [οὕτω –
in this way] we shall always be [together] with the Lord [πάντοτε
σὺν Κυρίῳ ἐσόμεθα].
1Th_4:18 So then [῞Ωστε] comfort [παρακαλεῖτε] one another [ἀλλήλους] with [ἐν] ·[that of] these words [τοῖς λόγοις τούτοις].
· Your postures toward heaven and earth are mirrored in each other, especially in the face of virtue.
· Consider the separations you have from heaven and earth.
· What virtues do these separations call for?
· Separation Virtue Paradox: Pursuing virtue in the context of Separation can be a paradox.
· Appreciate Separation Fruit: There is a sense in which some of us are being required to see the good fruit & purpose of exile/separation/distance.
·
· How is it profitable for Jesus to go away?
· Hate Separation Complacency: There is a sense (to a certain limited degree) in which there has actually not been enough frustration over distance and lovelessness among us (even though some may be very dissatisfied with Separation-seasons among us).
· Love the Fruit; hate the complacency!
· Don’t tolerate numb, lazy, dragging complacency.
· Mediocre love requests separation & requires / calls for distance.
· Make sure (in all of your trials) that you are waiting on God, rather than God waiting on you.
· Get Separation Zeal: First move from mere dissatisfaction to face your frustration (as much as you have to), all by all means get zealous over the pain of separation!
· If you have already endured long frustrations, then get the hope of Truth.
· Loving Separation Virtue is actually the solution to ending Separation Complacency, particualarly when you are sitting upright and speeding The Day of the Lord.
· You can speed the process and the coming day of redemption and exaltation by giving over justice and bearing fruit and “hastening the Day of the Lord”.
· The sooner you fulfill all justice and bear fruit through your willing choice of faith and Truth, the sooner absence is no longer required on your behalf.
·
We should pass (and
re-pass) the test of absence so we can come together in full rejoicing and
faith.
(And how many happy reunions might we have in this life?)
· We should live this way on up to the ultimate reunion in the sky.
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Context: after speaking of an unforgivable state, and being a cursed thorn, Hebrews says:
Heb_6:9 CAB But we are persuaded [Πεπείσμεθα] concerning [περὶ] you, beloved, of better [mightier (see: Greek below…)] things and ·those pertaining to [ἐχόμενα] salvation, even though [εἰ καὶ – if also] we speak ·in this manner [οὕτω].
Heb_6:9
Πεπείσμεθα
δὲ περὶ ὑμῶν,
ἀγαπητοί,
τὰ || BAκρεισσοναG2908 (St: Neuter of an
alternate form of G2909) | TSκρείττοναG2909
(mightier/better) |
καὶ ἐχόμενα
σωτηρίας, εἰ
καὶ οὕτω
λαλοῦμεν.
Heb_6:10 For [γὰρ]
[the (ὁ)]
God is not unjust [ἄδικος]
·to forget [ἐπιλαθέσθαι
– ἐπι &
λανθάνω = St: lie hid; fig. forget / out of
notice; sometimes: fig. lay low,
as in Mar_7:24, Luk_8:47; Act_26:26; (Heb_13:2 – don’t forget
hospitality)] your work and [the (TSBτοῦ)]
TSBlabor
[κόπου]
of [the (τῆς)]
love which you have shown [TBAἐνεδείξασθε
|Sενδειξασθε|] toward [εἰς] [that
of (τὸ)]
His name, in that ·you have ministered [διακονήσαντες]
to the saints [ἁγίοις],
and ·do minister [διακονοῦντες].
Heb_6:10 οὐ γὰρ ἄδικος
ὁ Θεὸς ἐπιλαθέσθαι
τοῦ ἔργου ὑμῶν
καὶ TSBτοῦ TSBκόπου τῆς
ἀγάπης ἧς TBAἐνεδείξασθε
|Sενδειξασθε| εἰς τὸ ὄνομα
αὐτοῦ,
διακονήσαντες
τοῖς ἁγίοις
καὶ διακονοῦντες.
Heb_6:11 But [δὲ] we desire [ἐπιθυμοῦμεν] ·that each one [ἕκαστον] of you [ὑμῶν] show [ἐνδείκνυσθαι] the same [τὴν αὐτὴν] ·[speedy] diligence [σπουδὴν] to the full assurance of hope until the end,
Heb_6:11 ἐπιθυμοῦμεν
δὲ ἕκαστον ὑμῶν
τὴν αὐτὴν ἐνδείκνυσθαι
σπουδὴν πρὸς
τὴν
πληροφορίαν
τῆς ἐλπίδος
ἄχρι τέλους,
Heb_6:12 lest you become dull, but become imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Heb_6:12 ἵνα μὴ
νωθροὶ
γένησθε,
μιμηταὶ δὲ
τῶν διὰ
πίστεως καὶ
μακροθυμίας
κληρονομούντων
τὰς ἐπαγγελίας.
DOING Real Love is More Important Than Feeling Loved
· Just because you may not be feeling love throughout many seasons of trials, that does not mean that you have any reason to stop doing real love.
· Distance and trials give no excuse to be loveless, but on the contrary,
· We need to get all the more zealous to DO real love when we are not feeling as much love as we crave.
Act_20:35 CAB …remember [additionally (τε)] the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, '·It is more [rather] blessed [μακάριόν ἐστι μᾶλλον] to give [διδόναι] than [ἢ – lit: or] to receive [λαμβάνειν].' "
Get up, ‘give your bread away’ (Isa_58:6-8, Isa_58:10), and DO real Love by willing faith without excuses.
Summary: How Do you Know When Your being Faithful?
How can you detect the pleasure and approval from heaven?
Why am I Being Tested by Times of Separation?
Probation and/or Refinement -- 2 Reasons for Separation Testing
· Sometimes extended testings of absence are because of the need to reestablish faithfulness. (as seen throughout all of the previous references)
· Other times Separation testings are simply there to refine your faith, “which is more precious than gold” (1Pe_1:7-9 -- quoted below).
· Either your character is still in Probation and/or your faith is being refined as gold
No matter what reason your faith might be tested by difficult separations, make sure you win gloriously so you can be rewarded with greatness and much rejoicing in the end, when all consolations reunite for praises and exaltations and rewards.
So why are you going through long-distance trials?
It actually depends on your level of probation.
The Fruit of Refinement Separation Testing
1Pe_1:7 LB so that the genuineness [testing and approving] of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though being tested with fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1Pe_1:7 ἵνα τὸ
δοκίμιον ὑμῶν
τῆς πίστεως Aπολυτιμότερον
|TSBπολυ TSBτιμιωτερον| χρυσίου
τοῦ ἀπολλυμένου
διὰ πυρὸς
δὲ
δοκιμαζομένου
εὑρεθῇ εἰς
ἔπαινον καὶ TSBτιμὴν
TSBκαὶ |Bεις| δόξαν |Aκαι Aτιμην| ἐν ἀποκαλύψει
᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
1Pe_1:8 Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,
1Pe_1:8 ὃν οὐκ SAἰδότες
|TBειδοτες| ἀγαπᾶτε,
εἰς ὃν ἄρτι
μὴ ὁρῶντες,
πιστεύοντες
δὲ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε
χαρᾷ ἀνεκλαλήτῳ
καὶ
δεδοξασμένῃ,
1Pe_1:9 obtaining for yourselves the outcome your faith—the salvation of your souls.
1Pe_1:9
κομιζόμενοι
τὸ τέλος τῆς
πίστεως TSBὑμῶν
|Aυμων|, σωτηρίαν
ψυχῶν.
The Fruit of Probation Separation Testing
What is the purpose
and hope and goal if you are hurting at a distance because of your own
probation?
· The purpose of all of this long-distance testing is to give you a chance to actually have truth and life instead of being evil and treacherous in the Darkness.
· Probation is about quarantine.
· The gratifying stimulation of being around righteous people can madden the unfaithfulness of your already crazy soul.
· If you have nurtured unfaithfulness around the righteous, it is much better for you to face and fix your integrity issues in the pain of loneliness.
· When you are on probation, you do not need more input and investment, you need more output and fruit.
· If justice is your goal, then lonely trials have loads of usefulness and relevance.
· If you are not eager to rejoicing in this opportunity for justice, then why would you pretend to be interested in the Truth to begin with?
· Starve the flesh.
· Build up Godly passions.
· Store up a reward of faithful Love.
· Why should you wish for Moses to bear with unbelieving flesh?
· Why are you not rather burning inside to astonish Jesus with your faith? (i.e. “Faithful Love” -- as we have been talking about)
· Don't buck against God's correction.
· Don't despise His chastening.
· Don't blaspheme and contradict his Orthodox arrangement of your life.
· It will not go better for you if God or people invest more in you.
· It will go better for you if you get up and get jealous to give over some justice and bear some fruit.
· Get jealous and grab your trial by the horns.
· Believe and receive correction until it raises you up from the dead.
· Get like the repentant Corinthians got, and be jealous and indignant to clear yourself.
· Don't be a flesh ball and contradict your correction.
· Get spiritual and outdo the trial of your correction by giving over more faithful Love than is demanded from you.
What Zeal to Clear
Yourselves
2Co_7:5 CAB For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; outside were fightings, inside were fears.
2Co_7:5 Καὶ
γὰρ ἐλθόντων
ἡμῶν εἰς
Μακεδονίαν οὐδεμίαν
ἔσχηκεν ἄνεσιν
ἡ σὰρξ ἡμῶν,
ἀλλ᾿ ἐν παντὶ
θλιβόμενοι· ἔξωθεν
μάχαι, ἔσωθεν
φόβοι.
2Co_7:6 Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
2Co_7:6 ἀλλ᾿ ὁ
παρακαλῶν
τοὺς
ταπεινοὺς
παρεκάλεσεν ἡμᾶς
ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τῇ
παρουσίᾳ
Τίτου·
2Co_7:7 and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted over you, as he reported to us your earnest longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.
2Co_7:7 οὐ
μόνον δὲ ἐν
τῇ παρουσίᾳ
αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ
καὶ ἐν τῇ
παρακλήσει ᾗ
παρεκλήθη ἐφ᾿
ὑμῖν, ἀναγγέλλων
ἡμῖν τὴν ὑμῶν
ἐπιπόθησιν,
τὸν ὑμῶν ὀδυρμόν,
τὸν ὑμῶν ζῆλον
ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, ὥστε
με μᾶλλον
χαρῆναι,
2Co_7:8 Because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not regret it, even if I did regret it. For I perceive that the same letter made you sorry, though only for a season.
2Co_7:8 ὅτι εἰ
καὶ ἐλύπησα
ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ
ἐπιστολῇ,
οὐ
μεταμέλομαι,
εἰ καὶ
μετεμελόμην·
βλέπω TSBγὰρ Aγαρ ὅτι
ἡ ἐπιστολὴ
ἐκείνη, εἰ
καὶ πρὸς ὥραν
ἐλύπησεν ὑμᾶς.
2Co_7:9 Now I rejoice, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance; for you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.
2Co_7:9 νῦν
χαίρω, οὐχ ὅτι
ἐλυπήθητε, ἀλλ᾿
ὅτι ἐλυπήθητε
εἰς
μετάνοιαν· ἐλυπήθητε
γὰρ κατὰ
Θεόν, ἵνα ἐν
μηδενὶ
ζημιωθῆτε ἐξ
ἡμῶν.
2Co_7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, without regret; but worldly sorrow produces death.
2Co_7:10 ἡ γὰρ
κατὰ Θεὸν
λύπη
μετάνοιαν εἰς
σωτηρίαν ἀμεταμέλητον
TSBκατεργάζεται·
|Aεργαζεται|
ἡ δὲ τοῦ
κόσμου λύπη
θάνατον
κατεργάζεται.
2Co_7:11 For behold this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you, even an eagerness to defend, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In all things you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in this matter.
2Co_7:11 ἰδοὺ
γὰρ αὐτὸ
τοῦτο, τὸ
κατὰ Θεὸν
λυπηθῆναι TSBὑμᾶς,
πόσην
κατειργάσατο
ὑμῖν
σπουδήν, ἀλλὰ
ἀπολογίαν, ἀλλὰ
ἀγανάκτησιν,
ἀλλὰ φόβον,
ἀλλὰ ἐπιπόθησιν,
ἀλλὰ ζῆλον, BAἀλλὰ |TSαλλ| ἐκδίκησιν.
TSAἐν
παντὶ
συνεστήσατε ἑαυτοὺς
ἁγνοὺς εἶναι
TSBἐν
τῷ
πράγματι.
2Co_7:12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who was wronged, but so that your diligence on our behalf might be made known to you before God.
2Co_7:12 ἄρα εἰ
καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν,
οὐχ TSBεἵνεκεν |Aενεκεν|
τοῦ ἀδικήσαντος
οὐδὲ TSBεἵνεκεν
|Aενεκεν|
τοῦ ἀδικηθέντος,
ἀλλ᾿ TSBεἵνεκεν |Aενεκεν|
τοῦ φανερωθῆναι
τὴν σπουδὴν TBAὑμῶν |Sημων|
τὴν ὑπὲρ TBAἡμῶν |Sυμων|
πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐνώπιον
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
2Co_7:13 Because of this we have been comforted. And in your comfort we rejoiced exceedingly more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2Co_7:13 Διὰ τοῦτο
παρακεκλήμεθα.
ἐπὶ BAδὲ
τῇ
παρακλήσει TSBυμων |Aἡμῶν|
περισσοτέρως
|TSδε| μᾶλλον ἐχάρημεν
ἐπὶ τῇ
χαρᾷ Τίτου, ὅτι
ἀναπέπαυται
τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ
ἀπὸ πάντων
ὑμῶν·
TSK on 2Co_7:11
carefulness: 2Co_7:7, 1Co_12:25, Tit_3:8
clearing: Gen_44:6, Gen_44:7, 1Co_5:13, Eph_5:11, 1Ti_5:21, 1Ti_5:22
indignation: 2Sa_12:5-7, Neh_5:6-13, Neh_13:25, Job_42:6, Jer_31:18-20, Dan_6:14, Mar_3:5, Eph_4:26
fear: 2Co_7:1, Psa_2:11, Pro_14:16, Pro_28:14, Rom_11:20, Phi_2:12, Heb_4:1, Heb_12:15, Heb_12:16, 1Pe_1:17, Jud_1:23
vehement: Psa_38:9, Psa_42:1, Psa_130:6, Psa_145:19, Son_8:6, Isa_26:8, 1Pe_2:2
zeal: 2Co_9:2, Psa_69:9, Psa_119:139, Joh_2:17, Act_17:16
revenge: Psa_35:13, Mat_5:29, Mat_5:30, Mar_9:43-48, Rev_3:19
approved: 2Co_6:4, 2Co_13:7, Rom_14:18, 2Ti_2:15
Jesus’ Only Astonishments
in Scripture: Faith & Unfaith
· Mat_8:5-13 – Jesus hot-breathed at such great faith [ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐθαύμασε]
· Mar_6:1-6 – Jesus hot-breathed because of their unbelief/unfaith [ἐθαύμαζε διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν αὐτῶν]
The Answers Of Being Faithful & Being
Spiritual
Being faithful is your first answer for a trial of separation, and being spiritual is your ultimate answer.
· Jesus is the comforter
· Paul is spiritual and able to be in more than one place at the same time, and rejoices over the good truth in the assemblies.
The Answer of Ruth’s Forsake All Presence
Ruth: the rewarding answer to separation trials is when you finally get to forsake all and gladly be around the righteous!
Dear God, Please Don’t Forsake Me!
We should plead that we never suffer stinging and unbearable trials like Sampson suffered.
Psa_27:8 WEB When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."
Psa_27:8 LB My heart said to You, “I have diligently sought Your face”; Your face, O Lord, I will seek.
Psa_27:8 (26:8) σοὶ εἶπεν
ἡ καρδία μου Ἐζήτησεν
τὸ πρόσωπόν
μου· τὸ πρόσωπόν
σου, κύριε, ζητήσω.
Psa_27:9 WEB Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
Psa_27:9 Do not turn Your face away from me, do not turn away from Your servant in anger; be my helper, O God my Savior, do not forsake me; do not overlook me.
Psa_27:9 (26:9) μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς
τὸ πρόσωπόν
σου ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, μὴ
ἐκκλίνῃς ἐν ὀργῇ
ἀπὸ τοῦ δούλου
σου· βοηθός
μου γενοῦ, μὴ ἀποσκορακίσῃς
με καὶ μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς
με, ὁ θεὸς ὁ σωτήρ
μου.
Psa_27:10 WEB When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.
Psa_27:10 For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to Himself.
Psa_27:10 (26:10) ὅτι ὁ
πατήρ μου καὶ ἡ
μήτηρ μου ἐγκατέλιπόν
με, ὁ δὲ κύριος
προσελάβετό
με.
Psa_51:11 WEB Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.
Psa_51:11 LB Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not remove Your Holy Spirit from me.
Psa_51:11 (50:13) μὴ ἀπορρίψῃς
με ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου
σου καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα
τὸ ἅγιόν σου μὴ
ἀντανέλῃς ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ.
Psa_51:12 WEB Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psa_51:12 Restore to me the joy of
Your salvation; establish me with Your directing Spirit.
Psa_51:12 (50:14) ἀπόδος
μοι τὴν ἀγαλλίασιν
τοῦ σωτηρίου
σου καὶ πνεύματι
ἡγεμονικῷ στήρισόν
με.
Psa_119:116 WEB Uphold me according to your word, that I may
live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Psa_119:116 LB Uphold
me according to Your word, and revive me; and make me not ashamed of my hope.
Psa_119:116 (118:116) ἀντιλαβοῦ
μου κατὰ τὸ λόγιόν
σου, καὶ ζήσομαι,
καὶ μὴ καταισχύνῃς
με ἀπὸ τῆς
προσδοκίας
μου.
Psa_119:117 WEB Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have
respect for your statutes continually.
Psa_119:117 Help me,
and I shall be saved; and I will meditate on Your statutes continually.
Psa_119:117 (118:117) βοήθησόν
μοι, καὶ σωθήσομαι
καὶ μελετήσω ἐν
τοῖς δικαιώμασίν
σου διὰ παντός.
If we give our bread away, then we have His sure promises to hold us close in trials of distance.
Deu_4:29 WEB But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu_4:29 And there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find Him whenever you shall seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.
Deu_4:29 καὶ ζητήσετε
ἐκεῖ κύριον τὸν
θεὸν ὑμῶν καὶ εὑρήσετε,
ὅταν ἐκζητήσητε
αὐτὸν ἐξ ὅλης τῆς
καρδίας σου καὶ
ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς
σου ἐν τῇ θλίψει
σου·
Deu_4:30 WEB When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
Deu_4:30 And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall hearken to His voice.
Deu_4:30 καὶ εὑρήσουσίν
σε πάντες οἱ λόγοι
οὗτοι ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτῳ
τῶν ἡμερῶν, καὶ
ἐπιστραφήσῃ
πρὸς κύριον τὸν
θεόν σου καὶ εἰσακούσῃ
τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ·
Deu_4:31 WEB for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Deu_4:31 Because the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you; He will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord has sworn to them.
Deu_4:31 ὅτι θεὸς
οἰκτίρμων κύριος
ὁ θεός σου, οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει
σε οὐδὲ μὴ ἐκτρίψει
σε, οὐκ ἐπιλήσεται
τὴν διαθήκην τῶν
πατέρων σου, ἣν ὤμοσεν
αὐτοῖς.
Deu_31:6 WEB Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
Deu_31:6 LB Be courageous and strong; fear not, neither be cowardly nor afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will He by any means forsake you, nor desert you.
Deu_31:6 ἀνδρίζου
καὶ ἴσχυε, μὴ
φοβοῦ μηδὲ
δειλία μηδὲ
πτοηθῇς ἀπὸ
προσώπου αὐτῶν,
ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεός
σου ὁ προπορευόμενος
μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν ἐν ὑμῖν
οὐ μή σε ἀνῇ οὔτε
μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ.
Jos_1:5 WEB No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
Jos_1:5 LB Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you.
Jos_1:5 οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται
ἄνθρωπος
κατενώπιον ὑμῶν
πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας
τῆς ζωῆς σου, καὶ
ὥσπερ ἤμην μετὰ
Μωυσῆ, οὕτως ἔσομαι
καὶ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ
οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω
σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί
σε.
1Ch_28:20 WEB David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.
1Ch_28:20 LB And David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong, and of good courage, and do it: fear not, neither be terrified; for the Lord my God is with you; He will not forsake you, and will not fail you, until you have finished all the work of the service of the house of the Lord. And behold the pattern of the temple, even His house, and its treasury, and the upper chambers, and the inner store rooms, and the place of propitiation, and the plan of the house of the Lord.
1Ch_28:20 καὶ εἶπεν
Δαυιδ Σαλωμων
τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ Ἴσχυε
καὶ ἀνδρίζου
καὶ ποίει, μὴ
φοβοῦ μηδὲ
πτοηθῇς, ὅτι κύριος
ὁ θεός μου μετὰ
σοῦ, οὐκ ἀνήσει
σε καὶ οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ
ἕως τοῦ συντελέσαι
σε πᾶσαν ἐργασίαν
λειτουργίας οἴκου
κυρίου.
I Will Hold
Your Right Hand
Isa_41:13 WEB For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right
hand, saying to you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.'
Isa_41:13 LB For I am your God, who holds your right hand,
who says to you,
Isa_41:13 ὅτι ἐγὼ ὁ
θεός σου ὁ κρατῶν
τῆς δεξιᾶς σου, ὁ
λέγων σοι Μὴ
φοβοῦ,
Isa_41:14 WEB Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men
of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the
Holy One of Israel.
Isa_41:14 ‘Do not
fear, O Jacob, and you Israel, few in number; for I have helped you,’ says your
God, He that redeems you, O Israel.
Isa_41:14 Ιακωβ, ὀλιγοστὸς
Ισραηλ· ἐγὼ ἐβοήθησά
σοι, λέγει ὁ θεὸς
ὁ λυτρούμενός
σε, Ισραηλ.
Isa_41:15 WEB Behold, I have made you into a new sharp
threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them
small, and will make the hills like chaff.
Isa_41:15 Behold, I
have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a wagon; and you shall
thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff;
Isa_41:15 ἰδοὺ ἐποίησά
σε ὡς τροχοὺς ἁμάξης
ἀλοῶντας
καινοὺς
πριστηροειδεῖς,
καὶ ἀλοήσεις ὄρη
καὶ λεπτυνεῖς
βουνοὺς καὶ ὡς
χνοῦν θήσεις·
Isa_41:16 WEB You will winnow them, and the wind will carry
them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You
will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa_41:16 and you
shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall
scatter them; but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.
Isa_41:16 καὶ λικμήσεις,
καὶ ἄνεμος λήμψεται
αὐτούς, καὶ
καταιγὶς διασπερεῖ
αὐτούς, σὺ δὲ εὐφρανθήσῃ
ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις
Ισραηλ. καὶ ἀγαλλιάσονται
Isa_41:17 WEB The poor and needy seek water, and there is
none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of
Israel, will not forsake them.
Isa_41:17 “And the
poor and the needy shall rejoice; for when they shall seek water, and there
shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the
God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them;
Isa_41:17 οἱ πτωχοὶ
καὶ οἱ ἐνδεεῖς·
ζητήσουσιν γὰρ
ὕδωρ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται,
ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν ἀπὸ
τῆς δίψης ἐξηράνθη·
ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεός,
ἐγὼ ἐπακούσομαι,
ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ,
καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω
αὐτούς,
Heb_13:5 CAB Let your way of life be without loving money, being satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, "By no means shall I desert you, nor in any way shall I forsake you;"
Heb_13:5 ᾿Αφιλάργυρος
ὁ τρόπος, ἀρκούμενοι
τοῖς παροῦσιν·
αὐτὸς γὰρ εἴρηκεν·
οὐ μή σε ἀνῶ
οὐδ᾿ οὐ μή
σε || Bεγκαταλειπω | TSAἐγκαταλίπω·
||
Heb_13:6 so that being confident, we may say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
Heb_13:6 ὥστε
θαρροῦντας ἡμᾶς
λέγειν·
Κύριος ἐμοὶ
βοηθός, TSBκαὶ |Aκαι|
οὐ
φοβηθήσομαι·
τί ποιήσει
μοι ἄνθρωπος;
Compare: Spiritual
Interface: Salvation Holy Spirit
Bible Study
Joh_14:15-18 – ‘I will come to you…I will not leave you as orphans’
Also:
Joh_14:19-29
Especially:
Joh_14:25-27
(Spirit of truth: Joh_15:26, Joh_16:13; 1Jo_2:27, 1Jo_4:6)
Out of Overflow of Heart, Mouth Speaks
For this Point, See our Spiritual Interface teaching under, Confessions of Justice & Power.
increasing in knowing that person's value
...
>> open rebuke better than secret
>> TSK
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Over and over again we have talked about making good confessions.
While we do not want to recreate that yet again here, we do want to take to heart the good words that real love always does.
While Real Love does
not equate with spending time together
Real Love does very often equate with what you actually say -- (as long as it is a true and consistent overflow of the heart)
Remember: “most of what we’re talking about correlates with agape”
Speaking out words all real love is not just for filling someone else’s craving for warm feelings
Speaking out love is fulfilling your truth and justice requirements, and being serious enough to do their real deal to the point that it automatically has to overflow out of your mouth.
If we cannot express our love in terms of geography, how then should we learn and be compelled and constrained to overflow our love into righteous expression?
If real love endures through trials of absence, how much more ready is it to smile when there is peace?
Trials may vary, but are you ready to lift your head up and smile when love does the least thing to give you value?
Out of Overflow, Mouth Speaks
Love that is not constantly expressed is not abundantly possessed. Love that is not coming out of your mouth is shallow in your heart.
3/2/17
remember: good confessions to God and man are needed
sorry I can't stand...
\/
not each concerned about his own affairs
2co: rather affirm him in the faith
> TSK
Ruth -- the female who was the ideal example of faithful love
The it came out of her mouth
Resurrecting & Surpassing Your First Love
1/8/17; 4/2/17; Other dates (4/3/17- 4/30/17 -- See:
DO Faithful Love -- NO Excuses!)
Losing vs Keeping First Love -- Girl Questions
H: Laboring Without
Hope = Losing 1st Love?
3) is laboring without hope the same thing as losing your first love?
Al: How to Do the
First Works
Apostacy
Forgetting 1st love
See how far you have fallen
How to guard against it?
Just do 1st works -- easier said than done…
Need knowledge
Need helps
Can’t just say: you used to be more eager, so just be more eager
You used to sing more, or pray at least 1 hr --
· can you do those pragmatics?
· Do that as you reach for that particular help you need?
· What are Practical things you can do to maintain excellence, even if you don’t feel excellent…
Man: Answer: How Much Knowledge do you Need Before you can DO Love?
In some cases and in some seasons you might need more knowledge in order to wage a good warfare. But often you do not need as much knowledge as you think, but perhaps you need some pointed and strategic reminders that drive home the depth and reality of things you have previously theorized and now need to perfect through faithfulness and endurance.
What Do You Need to Change? -- We Know it Could be…
· Just believe (about yourself) and/or Just DO (justice to others)
· Believe that you DO Love (people & God)
· Believe that you are righteous in your true deepest core
· Believing in Goodness?
· Just do Justice --
· You cannot believe your heart is good when your hands are bad
Is there anything we have watched ourselves do that contradicts our hope?
Could we have done anything at any season to sabotage our faith and courage to love?
So (like Al asked) other than just knowing we need help, what are some practical things we can apprehend to redirect our life into 1st love?
Remove The Bad & Apprehend The Good
Like many virtue-mysteries (where we want to change), we got to look at the added bad things and the missing good things.
We Need to Stop the Bad
· Commissions we have done, and,
· Omissions we have neglected
Reminders of Repentance for Stopping Lovelessness
Like all repentance, we got to take care of business so that we have made the qualitative changes to assure our soul that none of these sins are in danger of entering the present tense, lest they sabotage the deep subconscious foundation of our faith.
We got to be poised and eager and ready to jump when someone finally gives us the knowledge we need in order to leap out of our ruts and permanently establish ourselves on higher ground.
Garbage Blocks Love
·
example: idols
·
stopped up bowels
·
Selfishness
·
Beware of egocentrism
·
lovelessness is a result of coldness
·
when you lack love, usually it is
after you have been amazed with something else which is untrue.
·
What are some other non-romantic
things that you can think of that stop you from loving?
·
Not reading Bible
·
Worrying about cares
·
Others?
>>Scrip:
Held Back By Your Own Passions
Give the Best Energy
4/16/17
David passionately crying for Johnathan
give each other the best
give each other your energy
Mat_8:22; Luk_9:60 – let the dead burry their own dead
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David, Johnathan, & Saul
Other date(s); 5/24/20
Ruth
1Sa_13: -- Saul is rejected by Samuel
1 Samuel 18 – Jonathan made a covenant with David
1Sa_18:1-5 – Soul joined
1Sa_18:5 – 20:42
1Sa_16
1Sa_20:42 – Go in peace
1Sa_23:15-18
2Sa_1:11-12 (also:
2Sa_1:17-27) – How long for Saul and
Johnathan???
2Sa_1:23-27 – how the mighty have fallen
Love One Another
Rom_13:8 – continuing debt
Joh_13:34 – new commandment
Eph_4:2-3 “With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."
Col_3:14 “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."
1Jo_4:16: “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."
Eph_4:2: “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."
1Pe_4:8: “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
Joh_15:12: “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."
1Co_13:13: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
No Quiet Talking
-- Under Construction --
discouraged quiet talking...
sometimes this reinforces weak
courage...
can be the opposite of a motivational
speaker -- who honors the souls of those who listen to him by speaking with a
full and warm voice, with value and richness in his speech...
...
…
think: soldier: "sir, yes
sir!" (Bible compared us to soldiers)
Real-Deal Love Basics
3/14/17
How Much do Love Feelings Matter?
For yourself: focus on selfless love to others -- without insisting on feelings
For others: make them feel as loved as possible without sinning or sacrificing their real best interest
Like vs. Love
~March 2017
Pro_13:24 WEB One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Pro_13:24 He that spares the rod hates his son, but he that loves carefully chastens him.
Pro_13:24 ὃς φείδεται
τῆς βακτηρίας,
μισεῖ τὸν υἱὸν
αὐτοῦ· ὁ δὲ ἀγαπῶν
ἐπιμελῶς
παιδεύει.
This is a perfect example of the difference between real love and the liking of the flesh.
Ever one likes to declare that they love everyone else, but they doesn’t do what’s in their best interest!
Each one will declare his own goodness
But
He is like one who boasts of the faults gift, and is like clouds without rain
Love + Like = Real Love
Anything less, without
these both, is fraudulent and fake and hypocritical
3/29/17
When “Like” is Real Love
3/29/17
>>Scrip:
The Disciple whom Jesus Liked.
>>Scrip:
Jesus found an ultra-faithful, amazing, supernatural way to like-love Peter, even while Peter felt very irrelevant and “unclean”.
Love gives you insight and even foresight of ways to really love people.
Find a way to like people.
If not, then you are not obeying the commands to love people.
God finds ways to like humans -- by making them in His image!
As long as we are part of God’s hot romantic parable, He has moved Himself to like-love us, based on His own genius and generous passions and compassions.
If humans are still partaking of God’s icon and nature, and still playing His parables, He has indebted Himself to like His own handiwork.
By the time the
Judgement rolls around, it will be time to re-constitute us as different
creatures.
One group is upgraded into Divinity, and, ‘we don’t even yet know what we will be, we just know we will be like Him’
The other group is ultimately downgraded and stripped of everything good, no longer bearing any likeness that compels God’s heart to love them, but being raised unto a resurrection of condemnation, they will feel absolute hatred and rejection from The same One who gave them a time of life in the flesh bearing God’s favorable Love, with untold oportunities to connect to Justice and the Favor of God, and to care and enter into being pleasing…
But they took the kindness of the Creator for granted, and now only shame and nakedness and hatred awaits them…
>>Scrip: /\
Current hell: as though still related (Luk_16:)
Ultimate hell: no longer related -- total rejoicing over the wicked, for those who can be “unashamed at His appearing”
The Point: when Judgement comes, then it will be fitting for all the righteous to loath the degraded creatures of unrighteousness, but in the meantime, as long as humans are part of God’s Love Story, and as long as God keeps feeling obliged to care about people and find ways to motivate Himself to keep feeding them and giving them kind rain, to this same degree and in this same way, we too should Love people, and even find ways to value and like them as much as possible.
If someone is an Ahab, or if God starts treating someone like Haman in the meantime, then fine.
But other than totally reprobate religious people, wait till the Judgement to not like people.
Also keep in mind that sometimes God has assigned you to Love Esau for now, while He hates him from eternity.
Again, once you are no longer related to Esau, then things can be different. But in the meantime, fulfill your mysterious post.
Steven even loved hypocrites and pleaded that sin would not be held against them
Caring for Consolation Feelings
10/7/16
obsessing over each other's consolation feelings
this is how you hear Words for people
scrip:
Jesus' bowels were moved before He served out healing
Hebrew Words for Love
2/19/17
Ahchab
Chesed -- Steadfast Love
English: Wedding commitments: For richer or poorer
Bible: Ruth is a potent illustration of the potential strong virtue of this word.
H2617 -- 241
Verses; 247 Occurrences + H2616 -- 3 Verses & Occurrences
KJV+ Gen_19:19 (); Gen_20:13
(); Gen_21:23 (); Gen_24:12
(); Gen_24:14 (); Gen_24:27
(); Gen_24:49 (); Gen_32:10
(); Gen_39:21 (); Gen_40:14
(); Gen_47:29 (); Exo_15:13
(); Exo_20:6 (); Exo_34:6
(); Exo_34:7 (); Lev_20:17
(); Num_14:18 (); Num_14:19
(); Deu_5:10 (); Deu_7:9 ();
Deu_7:12 (); Jos_2:12
(); Jos_2:14 (); Jdg_1:24
(); Jdg_8:35 (); Rth_1:8
(); Rth_2:20
(); Rth_3:10
(); 1Sa_15:6 (); 1Sa_20:8
(); 1Sa_20:14 (); 1Sa_20:15
(); 2Sa_2:5 (); 2Sa_2:6 (); 2Sa_3:8 (); 2Sa_7:15 (); 2Sa_9:1
(); 2Sa_9:3 (); 2Sa_9:7 (); 2Sa_10:2 (); 2Sa_15:20
(); 2Sa_16:17 (); 2Sa_22:26
(H2616;
), > 2Sa_22:51 (H2617; ); 1Ki_2:7 (); 1Ki_3:6 (); 1Ki_8:23 (); 1Ki_20:31
(); 1Ch_16:34 (); 1Ch_16:41
(); 1Ch_17:13 (); 1Ch_19:2
(); 2Ch_1:8 (); 2Ch_5:13 (); 2Ch_6:14
(); 2Ch_6:42 (); 2Ch_7:3
(); 2Ch_7:6 (); 2Ch_20:21 (); 2Ch_24:22
(); 2Ch_32:32 (); 2Ch_35:26
(); Ezr_3:11 (); Ezr_7:28
(); Ezr_9:9 (); Neh_1:5 (); Neh_9:17 (); Neh_9:32
(); Neh_13:14 (); Neh_13:22
(); Est_2:9 (); Est_2:17 (); Job_6:14
(); Job_10:12 (); Job_37:13
(); Psa_5:7 (); Psa_6:4 (); Psa_13:5 (); Psa_17:7
(); Psa_18:25 (H2616; ), > Psa_18:50
(H2617);
Psa_21:7 (); Psa_23:6
(); Psa_25:6 (); Psa_25:7
(); Psa_25:10 (); Psa_26:3
(); Psa_31:7 (); Psa_31:16
(); Psa_31:21 (); Psa_32:10
(); Psa_33:5 (); Psa_33:18
(); Psa_33:22 (); Psa_36:5
(); Psa_36:7 (); Psa_36:10
(); Psa_40:10 (); Psa_40:11
(); Psa_42:8 (); Psa_44:26
(); Psa_48:9 (); Psa_51:1
(); Psa_52:1 (); Psa_52:8
(); Psa_57:3 (); Psa_57:10
(); Psa_59:10 (); Psa_59:16
(); Psa_59:17 (); Psa_61:7
(); Psa_62:12 (); Psa_63:3
(); Psa_66:20 (); Psa_69:13
(); Psa_69:16 (); Psa_77:8
(); Psa_85:7 (); Psa_85:10
(); Psa_86:5 (); Psa_86:13
(); Psa_86:15 (); Psa_88:11
(); Psa_89:1 (); Psa_89:2
(); Psa_89:14 (); Psa_89:24
(); Psa_89:28 (); Psa_89:33
(); Psa_89:49 (); Psa_90:14
(); Psa_92:2 (); Psa_94:18
(); Psa_98:3 (); Psa_100:5
(); Psa_101:1 (); Psa_103:4
(); Psa_103:8 (); Psa_103:11
(); Psa_103:17 (); Psa_106:1
(); Psa_106:7 (); Psa_106:45
(); Psa_107:1 (); Psa_107:8
(); Psa_107:15 (); Psa_107:21
(); Psa_107:31 (); Psa_107:43
(); Psa_108:4 (); Psa_109:12 ();
Psa_109:16 (); Psa_109:21
(); Psa_109:26 (); Psa_115:1
(); Psa_117:2 (); Psa_118:1
(); Psa_118:2 (); Psa_118:3
(); Psa_118:4 (); Psa_118:29
(); Psa_119:41 (); Psa_119:64
(); Psa_119:76 (); Psa_119:88
(); Psa_119:124 (); Psa_119:149
(); Psa_119:159 (); Psa_130:7
(); Psa_136:1 (); Psa_136:2
(); Psa_136:3 (); Psa_136:4
(); Psa_136:5 (); Psa_136:6
(); Psa_136:7 (); Psa_136:8
(); Psa_136:9 (); Psa_136:10
(); Psa_136:11 (); Psa_136:12
(); Psa_136:13 (); Psa_136:14
(); Psa_136:15 (); Psa_136:16
(); Psa_136:17 (); Psa_136:18
(); Psa_136:19 (); Psa_136:20
(); Psa_136:21 (); Psa_136:22
(); Psa_136:23 (); Psa_136:24
(); Psa_136:25 (); Psa_136:26
(); Psa_138:2 (); Psa_138:8
(); Psa_141:5 (); Psa_143:8
(); Psa_143:12 (); Psa_144:2
(); Psa_145:8 (); Psa_147:11
(); Pro_3:3 (); Pro_11:17 (); Pro_14:22
(); Pro_14:34 (); Pro_16:6
(); Pro_19:22 (); Pro_20:6
(); Pro_20:28 (); Pro_21:21
(); Pro_25:10 (H2616; ); Pro_31:26 (); Isa_16:5
(); Isa_40:6 (); Isa_54:8
(); Isa_54:10 (); Isa_55:3
(); Isa_57:1 (); Isa_63:7
(); Jer_2:2 (); Jer_9:24 (); Jer_16:5
(); Jer_31:3 (); Jer_32:18
(); Jer_33:11 (); Lam_3:22
(); Lam_3:32 (); Dan_1:9
(); Dan_9:4 (); Hos_2:19 (); Hos_4:1
(); Hos_6:4 (); Hos_6:6 (); Hos_10:12 (); Hos_12:6
(); Joe_2:13 (); Jon_2:8
(); Jon_4:2 (); Mic_6:8 (); Mic_7:18 (); Mic_7:20
(); Zec_7:9 ();
Greek Words for Love
2/19/17; 5/6/17
Eros -- Sounds Like “Arrow”
2/19/17; 5/6/17
“Arrow” -- think: a valentine heart with an arrow going through it
We can also partly remember erotic.
The REAL love of the soul.
Experiential
The cherishing of nice things / “beauty” (Plato)
Plato’s Symposium > Platonic love (eros)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_love
Disney Culture perversely worships and romanticizes mythical and evil and false notions that experienced love is somehow “deeper” and more profound…
“You decide: Were Jonathan and David merely good friends (experiencing brotherly love), or was there a deeper (romantic) level to their relationship?”
http://wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/biblical_evidence/david_jonathan.html
5/7/17
Storge -- Sounds like “Stork”
2/19/17;
Natural affection of family
Philia -- Philadelphia -- Might Sound like “family”
2/19/17; 5/6/17
This is one of the main words in the Bible used to completely condemn the filthy and perverted love-claims of baby boomers.
Was Under Agape:
Zinia -- ancient Greece
Formal / ritual love
A host and his guest
Zinophilia
Agape
2/19/17; 5/6/17
The established and serious love.
Pop culture: “pure”/ideal love
Sloppy Agapy
2/19/17
Agape Myth Propigated
“it doesn’t have the motivation of particle reasons. This is why it is often translated as ‘the love of the soul’, because it transcends our mind and our body…” ‘christ didn’t die because of any benefit it would give him, but just out of pure love for others’
YouTube:
Word Play LOVE - It's All Greek to Me
2/19/17
Mercy-Love -- the Forgotten Greek Synonym for Love
In addition to the other standard Greek words for love, There is also Mercy-Love
Hos_2:23 AndG2532 I will sowG4687 herG1473 to myselfG1683 uponG1909 theG3588 earth;G1093 andG2532 I will loveG25 the oneG3588 notG3756 being loved.G25 AndG2532 I will sayG2046 to the oneG3588 notG3756 my people,G2992 G1473 [2my peopleG2992 G1473 1You are];G1510.2.2 G1473 andG2532 heG1473 shall say,G2046 [2 the lord G2962 G3588 3my GodG2316 G1473 1You are].G1510.2.2 G1473
Hebrew and Greek Are A Start, but Can Still Stop Short
4/22/17
Let us not love in word or tongue,
but in action and truth.
In Bible times, even they had challenges with the word to “love” -- and they had numerous Greek words for it! (how much worse off are we with only one word and much more lust, vanity, and falsehood?!)
Love God More Than People
4/23/17
Leviticus 10
also: later (21 - 23 ish) when the laws are given that priests and especially the high priest cannot defile himself for family who has died
phinias is later a fulfill ment roof this, and gets a permanent covenant of priesthood and peace for loving God more than people.
Shema
Matthew 10
Luke 14
Jesus made his standards abundantly clear
Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins
2/15/17-2/16/17
Love Covers A
Multitude Of Sins & Faithfulness covers a multitude of gaps
Sir: excuse him if he goes crazy
The truth is, other people are much closer to perfection than you are (especially at the moment you are despising them in your heart). In fact, you can’t really tell for sure that what they did was actually sinful.
Realize that what they did was so small, and that you still cannot tell whether or not they are perfect.
You are not really perceiving any sin that you cannot forgive.
Think: Naomi
David remembered as righteous
Eventually, you could turn around and trust David, that he was righteous, and was speaking the perfect words of God.
After all, when is the last time your repentance was Divinely inspired prophecies from God, and written down Bible?
2/16/17
bad drivers in traffic.
Mike: you cannot help someone if you don't like them -- this is partly true.
you should always do everything arround 'saving yourself and your hearers'
> scrip
let your heart receive liking for your neighbor -- that's what i've been thinking through and practicing...
look at their face and humanity and pitty them and allow yourself to like them as a living human you should .
David d Johnathan...
Chose to Be Happy To See Someone
2/14/17
Being happy to see someone is a choice.
Consider the choices that affect this and make this happen.
This is an issue of integrity and faithfulness, and the of justice And mercy.
Love Makes You True
2/12/17
Think About These Examples…
· Gen_4:1, etc. – Cain vs Abel
· Jacob vs Esau – (at first there was some sort of a disconnect between Jacob and Isaac, but that was resolved through righteous and favorable ambition and love-faith. -- Love won in the end!)
· Joshua vs. Kora
· Peter (jumping in the water) vs. Judas (jumping to his death)
· How many times did Judas harden his heart when truth corrected him?
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The “Shema,” B. …All Law Hangs On…
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God Vs. Human Love
-- Under Construction
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9:36, 14:14, Mar6:34
8:2
18:27, Lk. 10:33, 15:20
1:415:19
Getting Love-Truth & Refusing to Win A Fleshly Argument
See: TRUTH Obsession!
No Competition Against the Righteous
3/6/17
Sports
1/1/04 (Thursday); 1/2/04 (Word:
Created); 4/15/09 (Word: Modified); 2/23/17; 3/6/17 (recompiled)
1Th_2:19 For [γὰρ] what [τίς] is our hope [ἐλπὶς], or [ἢ] joy [χαρὰ], or [ἢ] crown of boasting [στέφανος καυχήσεως]? [or (ἢ)] Is it not even [καὶ] you, ·in the [toward] presence of [ἔμπροσθεν – lit. in toward countenance / fig. in toward presence (of)] our Lord Jesus [TSΧριστοῦ] ·at [in that of] His coming [ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ – in that of his being next to (παρουσίᾳ = πάρειμι (lex) = παρά + εἰμί -- same as “παρὼν” in 1Co_5:3)]?
1Th_2:19 τίς
γὰρ ἡμῶν ἐλπὶς
ἢ χαρὰ ἢ
στέφανος
καυχήσεως, ἢ
οὐχὶ καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ
Κυρίου ἡμῶν
᾿Ιησοῦ TSΧριστοῦ ἐν
τῇ αὐτοῦ
παρουσίᾳ;
1Th_2:20 For [γάρ] you are [ἐστε] [that of] our glory [ἡ δόξα ἡμῶν] and [the (ἡ)] ·[favorable] joy [χαρά].
1Th_2:20 ὑμεῖς
γάρ ἐστε ἡ
δόξα ἡμῶν
καὶ ἡ χαρά.
2:19-20 elsewhere
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YT: prepare to be shocked
tragedies are happening. people are crying
themselves to sleep. Young lives are being crushed and destroyed in
hopelessness. People's dreams are shattered. Loved ones are divorcing.
children's entire Hope is being murdered by taking their parents and family
away from them. people are dying in complete shame and failure. Tragedy is
ravaging Untold masses of lives. Will you do something different?
> see INSP
all of these miseries and Evils are
your fault as long as you keep tipping over the Domino's that eventually cause
all of these unbearable darknesses.
lovelessness promotes the same Bitter
End that all hopeless people are dying in.
stop sitting there in complacency and
unbelief as though you can't do anything different to make a change!
if you actually cared enough to have
the Integrity to believe the Truth, you would have a revolution inside of you
that was so fiery hot that it would save all of those who were slipping away in
despair.
being Loveless is partially
consenting to people getting divorced, people's lives ending in bitter failure,
people's dreams being completely crushed, people's hopes being completely
murdered....
when will you stop consenting and
start standing up against the Holocaust?
when will you stop being a part of
the problem and start being the one true answer that people have ever seen?
every time you dabble in mediocre
things and every time you do what everyone else is doing and every time you
lack Zeal and passion in the same sorts of ways that other people are
complacent and dead, you are recreating the exact same problem over and over
again when someone finally had a chance to make a difference.
in many comparable ways like country
music, Gone With the Wind plays off of the aching unresolved hurt that no one
cares to be courageous enough to change.
...
you are passing people in cars every
day, and you don't care. You are passing through grocery stores and you do not
have an answer for them. You say you love people, but you cannot give them hope
or give them an answer for courage.
if someone were suicidal the best you
can do is repeat the same garbage that they are too honest to deceive
themselves with.
...
I know that many who hear these
things are sitting there and waiting for me to explain myself. Now that I have
raised all of the problems, you want to know why I am so bold to insist that
there is a solution.
and while you think that you are
sitting there on the edge of your seat waiting on me, I'm waiting on you, to
take action!
...
March 2017; 3/14/17
David vs Saul
Jonah loved God, but not the people.
God was able to use that to get him to love the people like he loved the
people.
13:34 MKJV)
Jam
Gal
13:8-10 WEB)
Mat
, and you shall not
Heb
2Co
Mar
Luk
13:34 MKJV)
one another13:35 MKJV)
Gal
23 …
Jesus
Joh
Joh
(Joh
Joh
Ordained Hate
Righteous Hatred
2/10/04;
3/4/17 (recompiled); 3/6/17
-- Under Construction --
Psalms_139:21 – Don't I Hate Them Who Hate You
Psa_139:21 WEB Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Psa_139:21 LB Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate You? And have I not wasted away because of Your enemies?
Psa_139:21 (138:21) οὐχὶ
τοὺς μισοῦντάς
σε, κύριε, ἐμίσησα
καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς
σου ἐξετηκόμην;
Psa_139:22 WEB I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Psa_139:22
I have hated them with perfect hatred;
they were counted [ἐγένοντό]
as my enemies.
Psa_139:22 (138:22) τέλειον
μῖσος ἐμίσουν
αὐτούς, εἰς ἐχθροὺς
ἐγένοντό μοι.
Psa_139:23 WEB Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Psa_139:23 Prove me [δοκίμασόν], O God, and know my heart; examine me [ἔτασόν], and know my paths;
Psa_139:23 (138:23) δοκίμασόν
με, ὁ θεός, καὶ
γνῶθι τὴν καρδίαν
μου, ἔτασόν με
καὶ γνῶθι τὰς
τρίβους μου
Psa_139:24 WEB See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Psa_139:24
and see if there is any way of iniquity [ἀνομίας
– lawlessness] in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
Psa_139:24 (138:24) καὶ ἰδὲ
εἰ ὁδὸς ἀνομίας
ἐν ἐμοί, καὶ ὁδήγησόν
με ἐν ὁδῷ αἰωνίᾳ.
God Hates
Lev_26:30 ASV And I will
destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead
bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my
soul shall abhor you.
(also see V. 24)
Hos_9:15 KJVA All their
wickedness is
in Gilgal: for there I hated them:
for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all
their princes are
revolters.
Mal_1:2-3 KJV yet I loved Jacob,
3
And I hated Esau…
Rom_9:13 KJVA As it is
written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated.
David Hated
2Sa_5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth
the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that
are hated of David's soul.
>> see: LXX!
Psa_26:3-6 KJVA For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have
walked in thy truth. 4 I have not
sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5 I
have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the
wicked. 6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will
I compass thine altar, O LORD:
>> see: LXX!
Psa_31:5-6 KJVA Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast
redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. 6 I have hated them that regard
lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
>> see: LXX!
Hatred Commanded
Luk_14:26 EMTV If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his
father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own
life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Luk_16:13 EMTV-Based No servant can serve two masters, for either
he will hate the one and love
the other, or else he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and money."
Psa_101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:
I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
>> see: LXX!
Psa_119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding:
therefore I hate every false way.
>> see: LXX!
Psa_119:113 SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I
love.
Psa_119:128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I
hate every false way.
Rom_12:9 WEB …Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Conditional Love
...
10/21/16
-- Under Construction --
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will
find me.
I love those that love me, and they that seek me shall find
me.
Love First, and Then Your Needs Will Be Met
-- Under Construction --
True Fast
Isa_58: –
Give And It Will Be Given To You
Luk_6:36-38 CAB
Therefore be compassionate, just as your Father also is
compassionate. 37 "And judge not, and you shall not be
judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be
forgiven. 38 Give, and it shall be given to you:
good measure, pressed down and shaken and running over they shall give into
your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it shall be measured back
to you."
Luk_6:36-38 Greek
Γίνεσθε οὖν
οἰκτίρμονες,
καθὼς καὶ ὁ
πατὴρ ὑμῶν
οἰκτίρμων ἐστί. 37
Καὶ μὴ
κρίνετε, καὶ
οὐ μὴ κριθῆτε·
μὴ
καταδικάζετε,
καὶ οὐ μὴ
καταδικασθῆτε.
ἀπολύετε,
καὶ ἀπολυθήσεσθε· 38
δίδοτε, καὶ
δοθήσεται ὑμῖν·
μέτρον
καλὸν,
πεπιεσμένον
καὶ
σεσαλευμένον
καὶ ὑπερεκχυνόμενον
δώσουσιν εἰς
τὸν κόλπον ὑμῶν·
τῷ γὰρ αὐτῷ
μέτρῳ ᾧ
μετρεῖτε, ἀντιμετρηθήσεται
ὑμῖν.