Righteous Finance$
The righteousness of hating money and redeeming the
worthless things in this world for something truly meaningful and great.
Josiahs Scott,
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12/28/07; June 2009; 8/25/09; 1/11/10; 2/5/10; 6/11/10; 6/15/10;
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· Job was Righteousness, NOT Luxurious!
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Salvation = Goal of Money Hating
· Money Hating - Defined: Hating Evil; Redeeming Everything
· Heretic Video: [Un]Biblical Principles Of Provision
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Salvation
Still Needed -- from Luxury
· Joh_12
· “Now” is the Time to Hate Money
· Luke Poverty -- Counting by 2s
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1Ti_6
· Evil Eye
· Tithe
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Stewardship
- StewardshipConcepts
- ImproveStewardship
- StewardshipAccountability
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Preview of Anti-Money Passages. 13
Hate & Despise
Money -- Mat_6 & Luk_1614
Anti-Money Examples
to Consider15
No One's Preaching
Money Hatred16
For Unbelievers, by
Unbelievers16
The Prosperity Gospel
is Mislabeled17
Anti-prosperity Gospel Errors18
(1) Video: Dave Ramsey Blasphemes the Biblical Gospel of Poverty. 19
(2) Video: Ray Comfort “Hats Prosperity Preaching” But Does the Same
Root Sins19
Ray Comfort is Comfortable with Sinful Money. 20
(3) Video: Vlad Pretends like the ‘Poverty Gospel’ Exists20
(4) Video: Dry Pseudo-Conservative Anti-Gospel21
ALL Churchianity is Luxuriously Sinful21
Money Hating - Defined: Hating Evil; Redeeming
Everything22
Money Hating =
Doctrine of Sin22
Fleshly Intuition
≠ Money Hatred23
Redemption = Goal,
Not Annihilation23
Giving = Redemptive
Money Hatred23
The Redemption of Our
Stuff & Our Lives Through Sacrificial Hatred23
Hating Flesh, Soul,
& Money = Salvation24
Hoping for Redemption
of All Things24
Hatred = The Path to
Holiness24
Redemption and
Inheritance Through Righteousness24
Money Hating is About
Redemption from Sin24
Hate Evil, with God,
to Redeem Everything25
Redemption Explains
Money Hatred25
Good to Bad -- Money’s Fall from Goodness. 25
Sirach & Num –
Good Things Were Made for Good People30
Sinner’s Money for
the Righteous33
Genesis 3: Sinning
with 3 Goods34
Genesis 3 & 4:
the Land is Double-Cursed!34
Gen_6 – Good Beauty,
Going Bad35
Exo_12 – Israelites
Got Gold from Egyptians39
Exo_32 – Ground Gold
(After Golden Calf)40
Exo_33 – Golden Calf:
Take Off Jewelry41
Israelites Illustrate
Sin for Us All -- the Downfall of Goodness…42
Deuteronomy 7 –
Anathema vs. Moses -- Getting Accursed with the Cursed Thing. 43
Joshua 6 & 7 –
Achan’s Anathema vs. Joshua44
Disciple Notes:
Achan, Sincerity, & Strongholds45
Wife’s Notes: Achan,
Gen_2, Strongholds That Discourage46
What Can we Learn
from Anathematized Money?48
Disciple Notes:
Thinking Right49
Wife Notes: Thinking
Right <<<<50
Bad People Defile --
incl. Money64
Gold’s “Goodness” --
Compared and Surpassed66
Holy Temple Can't
Have Dirty Money67
1Co_7 – Not Using-Down-Intensely
…because this world is Passing Away67
Disciple Notes: the
World’s Season68
Wife’s Notes: Die to
This Age’s Sorrow & Laughter68
1Jn_2 – Don’t Love
the World …because… it’s Passing Away71
“Now” is the Time to Hate Money. 71
Disciple Notes: Luke
6, 14, 1672
Disciple Notes: Luke,
Mysteries, “Hate” Required75
Overseer’s Wife’s
Notes: Luke, Mysteries, “Hate” Required76
Literal “Yes, Lord!”
= Required / Cooperation76
Luk_6:25 a – Filled,
Without Going to Hell?78
Gal_1: Saved from this Standing in Age. 79
1Ti_4: Good-Reverence
Rewards into this Now Life &
Beyond79
1Ti_6 – Rich in Now
Age vs. Eternal Life About to Be80
2Ti_4 – Demas
Forsakes Paul for the “Now Age”81
Isa_65 – Already
Having Your Reward83
Get Rewarded in the
Next Age84
Luk_6:20-23 – Blessed
Mourners NOW86
Luk_6:24-25 – Woe to
Those Laughing NOW88
This Age vs. The Age To Come -- in Luke. 88
Disciple Notes:
Hating Money NOW89
Luke Poverty -- Counting by
2s90
Preview: Counting Poverty by 2s Throughout Luke90
Luke 1 – The Real Blessed Virgin Marry!91
Luke 4 – Bread-less Anointed Proclaimer to the Poor 91
Luke 8 – Choking Money vs. Light91
Luke 14 – Forsake ALL: Hate Family & Soul92
Disciple Notes:
Literal Hatred that’s Non-emotional93
Joh_12 – Hate Soul
Now… The Ruler of This World = Judged93
Wife’s Notes: Hate
Soul In This World98
"Hating
Family" vs. "Hating Money" -- Compared & Contrasted. 100
Paradise Lost; Reverence Required. 104
The Doctrine of Sin
is what Money-hating is About104
Question the Effect
of Sin on Your Integrity105
Probation Multiplied
by Continued Sin106
Mechanisms of Good
& Bad: Evil Temporarily Wins in Physics107
Polluted Lives Ruin
Nice Gifts108
Polluted Gifts: Worse
Than Never Having Been Created109
Humans Lost All
Goodness & We Need to Repent!109
Take Responsibility
for Human Sin!109
Stop Sins of
Self-Exaltation!109
Lots of Righteous
Rich People?110
Learning: Exciting,
Yet Hard111
Riches Defined --
Hebrew & Greek111
Blessed
Multiplication & Land-filling in Genesis111
Virtue Praised with
Inspired Admiration112
Suffering Explained,
Not Created112
Suffering IS
Explained in Job114
Job Quoted in the New
Testament116
Earthly Perspective:
Obey First, Understand Later118
Flaws vs. Integrity
-- Character Comparisons119
Job Helps or Hinders
Money-Hatred?119
Job’s Lessons:
Suffering, Endurance, Healing, & Hating Money119
Losing Money Shows
Real Value120
Be Saved Through
Job’s Example120
Revealed
Righteousness = Gospel121
Job Reveals Saving
Gospel Righteousness122
Job was Righteousness, NOT Luxurious! 122
Suffering with a
Revealed Righteous Foundation <<123
Job_1: Job’s Initial
Prosperity & Sacrifices for His Children124
Numerics of Job’s
Blessings125
Righteous Prospering
in Job126
Satan Accuses &
Requests Attacks127
Job_1: It All Started
With Indulgence…131
Job_1: Destroyed
While Drinking: Children Perish in their House of Indulgence. 133
Job_1: Job’s Initial
Response to Loss133
Job’s Guilty Children
-- Are Factual134
Bildad: Job’s Children
Executed for Sin137
Lev_10: Aaron's Sons
Executed: Nadab and Abihu137
Job Couldn’t Spare
His Children140
Job_20: Zophar
Blasphemes Job of Sinful Indulgence148
Job_21: Job
Vindicated as NOT Spending Days in
Prosperity150
Job_22: Eliphaz Says
Job Was Wicked153
Job_29: Job Laments
Losing Protection, Abundance, & Exaltation154
Job_31: Helped
Victims & Hated Idolatry158
Job_31: Let Any
“Land-Crying” Curse with Briars161
Job 32 – 37: Elihu’s
Speeches162
Job_36: Elihu’s False
Accusations?162
Job_42: Job’s Repentance
& Vindication164
Job 42: Job's Friends
Rebuked164
Job_42: Job Gets Back
Double -- Latter Prosperity165
Job's Wife was
Thinking Wrong!167
The Catastrophe of
Job's Wife And Children168
Relationships Hurt by
Thinking Wrong170
Job's Children
Affected by His Wife?170
GEP: Examples of Motherly
Influence170
Careless
Consumptiveness Kills171
>>> Lessons
from Job’s Indulgent Children – to Consider171
Reminder Quotes of
Job’s Virtue vs. His Children’s Indulgence174
Job’s “Kingdom 1st”
Strategy175
“IF” He Will Bless --
Linguistic Technical Note178
Job's Inspired
Money-Hatred179
Job Helps Money
Hatred -- the BIGGEST POINT!180
(1) Exemplification
Revelation182
(2) Suffering
Thunderstorm Revelation182
(3) Heavenly
Courtroom Revelation184
Abraham Gives Up
Promised Land189
Abraham is the Father
of faith:189
Gen_13: Abraham Gave
up Better Land to Lot193
Isaac’s Rule: Stay in
the Promised Land! -- no Egypt!195
(A) Jacob Got Esau's
Birthright and Blessing197
Moses & Israelites Were Rich?. 200
Boaz is Strong with
Field & Reapers201
Jabez: No Sorrow with
Prospering204
The Righteous Rich Were Not Rich To Themselves. 205
The Righteous Forsake Money205
Righteousness Often
Changed Righteous People’s Riches205
A Roman Centurion Who
Built a Synagogue206
Good &
Sacrificial vs. Fake and Rich207
Act_16:13-15 – Lidia
Dealer in Purple207
Luk_6:38 – Press
Down, Shaken Together208
Imitate Rich OT
Holy-ones -- in the NC for the Poor???209
Universal vs.
Individual Requirements209
No One Ever Talked
Like This Man215
New Covenant Cup in
My Blood216
Gal: Revealed
Righteousness217
Veil Removed &
Glory Shining219
1Pe_1: Peter’s
Revealed Mystery219
1Co_2: Apostle’s
Revealed Spiritual Wisdom Mystery220
Col_1: Paul’s
Revealed Mystery221
Eph_3: Paul’s
Revealed Mystery221
Rom_16: Mystery
Revealed from Beginning of the World -- Climax of Romans. 222
New Changes Between Covenants223
Old Heroes Don’t
Overrule New Requirements223
Technical Orthodoxy
for Money Hatred <<224
Circumstantially Poor
Or Rich? <<<224
Covenant Blessings
are Different!224
Ignoring Covenant
Change Quickly Perverts Blessings225
HEAVEN is a Huge
Covenant Difference!226
New Covenant Updates on Money227
Change in Money --
Applying The NC Difference227
New Covenant Updates
on Money227
Tainted Money (its NOT the Only Evil) 229
Blinding Bribes that
Bypass Truth230
Flesh Likes
Especially tainted Money230
Hate Tainted Money
(& Normal Money As Well)231
Choking Cares =
Riches & Pleasures232
“Poor in Spirit” =
Goal of Hating Money234
Giving to Righteous =
Holy-ifying235
Philosophy is NOT the
Solution to the Dangers of Wealth237
Don’t Even Trust Holy
Money on Earth238
“Trusting Money” --
Defined238
Psa_62: DON’T Set
Heart on Increasing Riches238
Pro_11:
Money-Trust-er = Fool238
Mar_10: Hard for
Money-Trust-er to Get Kingdom239
Mat_6: Treasure for
Yourselves239
Proof of Trusting vs.
Distrusting Money239
Don't Treasure up to
YOURSELF241
Rich = Evil = Hell --
Truth!242
Camel & Needle
≈ Rich & Man Kingdom243
Rich Fade Away: The
Rich Person Will Fade Away IN HIS WAYS244
Two Masters: Hate
& Despise Money247
“Not Liking Silver”
≈ “Not Liking Money”247
When “Not Liking” Is
“Not Wearing”247
When Don't “Love” Money = No Confrontation
& Conviction248
Liking Money --
Justified by Church People249
Wanting to Be Rich
& Liking Money249
Examples of Phileo As Friend. 250
NO Liking Money =
Salvation253
Liking Self + Silver
= End-times Apostasy254
Disciple Notes: Love,
Community, Helping, & Patience255
The Didache on Money
/ Silver255
Power of Money --
Despise it!255
Overseer’s Wife’s
Notes: Woes of Money Trust & Fondness256
The Apostasy of
Liking Silver256
The Point: Hating =
Not Liking = Not Loving256
Don’t Store up For YOURSELVES257
Wicked Store Up for
the Righteous257
Giving = Salvation (Reminder-Preview) 257
Treasuring Shows
Heart -- NOT the Other Way Around!258
Testing Your
Treasures -- Disciple Question258
1Ti_6 – Want to be Rich = Trap. 258
Talk Like Jesus About
Money -- Disciple Notes258
Disciple Notes:
Supernatural Provision vs. Luxury258
Disciple Notes:
1Ti_6: Liking Silver vs Hating Money259
Salvation = Goal of Money Hating. 266
Review / follow-up: <<<<<<<<. 266
Heretic Video: [Un]Biblical Principles Of Provision. 267
Poor By Hating = Real Salvation. 267
Disciple Notes:
Conscious Begs You to Get Poor267
Salvation Still Needed -- from Luxury. 268
Preview List of
Problematic Vulnerabilities268
Skipping Logical
Requirements Restrictions (Rule-Breaking)269
Excitement is
Forfeited By “Speeding”!270
The Unforgiveness of
Luxury271
Materialism & Idolizing
Possessions272
Example Realms in
Endangered by Consumptiveness273
The Solution to Consumptiveness274
Trees Protected from
Lust-mongers -- in Deuteronomy & Ezekiel275
Thinking Wrong Messes
Up Relationships276
Assuming
Non-inspiration ≈ Thinking Wrong277
Deception of Wrong
Thinking277
The Peace of Thinking
Right277
Hebrews: No Liking
Money in Daily Life278
Rich Saved Only
Through Forsaking278
Sharing is the Answer
to Poverty279
The Solutions to Pay
Attention To280
Previews of Feminine Luxury281
Intro Questions About
Women & Money/Riches281
Social Dynamics of
Feminine Luxury284
The Responsibility
& Potential of Women285
The Dirty Pampering
of Feminine Luxury286
How Much Should
Single Women Sacrifice?287
Female Devils Following Satan288
Prostitution form Genesis to Revelation. 288
Genesis 6 & Enoch
Reminders288
Proverbs: Piggish vs. Virtuous Woman. 289
Pro_11: Golden Pig
Nose, Trusting in Money289
Pro_31: Superiority
of a Virtuous Woman290
Isaiah 3 & 32: Rich Women Prostituting Against
God’s Poor290
(A) Isa_3: God’s Poor
People -- Oppressed by Leaders in Israel290
(B) Isa_3: Religious
Girls, Balded for Immodesty, Luxury, & Pride!291
(C) Isa_32: Fools
Corrected for Hurting the Poor292
(D) Isa_32: Women At
Ease: Judged Until Saved293
Amos: God Hates Religious Luxury! 294
Amo_4: Female Cows
Oppressing the Poor294
Amo_6: Woe to Those
at Ease in Zion294
Eze_13: Women Sewing
Pillows On Every Elbow296
Eze_16: Sodom’s Sin –
Embodied By Luxurious Prostitutes296
1Ti_2 & All
Saved…with Modesty, NOT Luxury Clothes297
1Pe_3: Fear &
Subjection, NOT Luxury Clothes297
1Ti_5: REAL Widows
vs. Pleasure Indulgers298
Women can Escape by
Obeying Self-denial!299
Clothing Examples & Applications. 300
Refusing to Live
month to month303
Debt – Repent of Slave-Luxury304
The Borrower is
Servant to The Lender307
Inspired Requests of
Truth!308
Disciple Notes: Mat_6 = End Times Prep309
Wife Notes: Mat_6 = End Times Prep312
Supernatural
Provision And Not Worrying Has A Governing Context...320
Homelessness Required for Salvation in the end times! 321
Voluntary Giving is
the Rule of Private Property323
The Righteousness of “Scattering”. 327
Where to Give All
Your Money?327
3. “Giving
Restrictions” in the Epistles327
5. Always
Avoid Going to Court328
Don’t Store up for
Yourselves…332
Evil Eye – Giving/
SOM Summary334
Don't Run Away From
Slavery335
Don’t
Give to Modern Preachers336
Who is The REAL TV Preacher Begging for Money?. 337
Provision for Community Needs338
Progressively Revealed Leadership. 338
Don’t Muzzle Worthy Workers342
Supporting
Leaders – In General343
Honor Father and Mother = Supporting with Money. 343
Taking Nothing from
the Gentiles345
The Righteous Don't
Want Your Dirty Money345
When To Receive
Financial Help346
Finances to Dedicated
to God, His temple, and His Service347
Integrity with
Distributing Money347
Tithes -- State of
the Union348
Tithing – What is
Increasing348
Tithes for Living, Offerings For Special Projects. 348
Why Tithe In The New Testament At All?. 349
New Covenant Tithing
Preview351
Purpose -- What was
this tenth to be used for?352
Bitterly Cursed or
Faithfully Accepted?354
Where Can Jews Offer
Sacrifices?355
Levels of Stewardship
-- in this World356
Delegated Authority
& Responsibility358
Physical Biblical
Managements Include…358
Stewardship Often
Affects Us in the NT Through…360
Stewards of People & Things. 360
Managers of People
& Things361
Faithfulness
Required of Stewards365
Jesus’ Stewardship
Parables – Targeted at the Disciples & Apostles365
Apostle’s Stewardship of Mysteries366
Stewardship Includes Eating, etc. 366
The Stewardship of Favor
– For All Disciples366
Testing Spiritual & Physical Stewardships. 367
(A) Testing Spiritual
Stewardship367
(B) Testing Physical
Stewardship368
(C) Summary of
Spiritual & Physical Stewardship-Morality368
Demoting Unfaithful Stewards. 368
Remember Ownership,
Demotion, & Death, & Then Escape While You Can! 369
Sin Guarantees
Demotion by Death370
Ugly Money --
Considerations from Luke 16370
Someone Else Owns
Everything (Reminder)370
Empowerment &
Criticism Basics371
The World’s vs. The
Assembly’s Empowerment371
Reverencing Lack of
Ability372
A Bad Steward & A
Bad Critic373
Romans 1-2 is a Good
Example of “righteous judgement”:374
Learning From Bad
Examples of Criticism374
Have Knowledge Before
Giving Criticism374
Who’s Accountable to
Sewing & Reaping?375
Judgement Warnings
for Critics of Stewards376
Beware of Critical
Hypocrisy Against Good Stewardship377
Assuming Ability
& Advantages380
Begging for What You
Don’t Have385
How or to Budget or
WHAT is Budgeting?386
Forecasting Is Also
Biblical <<<<<<<<<387
Delegating Responsibilities387
Funds Given to
Apostles & Deacons388
Accounting for
Transported Gift388
Micromanaging =
Demoting (1st Stage)389
Joseph’s Stewardship
– Successful Delegations389
No Accounting
Required from Faithful Workmen391
The Point: Let’s
Examine Ourselves391
Wife’s Providential
Question About Deals391
Virtuous Answers to
Contentment in Deal Hunting (Summary)392
Loss Management vs.
Better Profits394
No Rush -- Rush is NOT the Answer. 397
Mat_16:23 – Get
behind me Satan397
No Rush = Required
for Accurate (& Favorable) Value Assessment399
Deceptive Behavioral
Manipulation400
Psalm 11 – No
Mountain Fleeing400
Patience for
Providence to Come401
Money is NOT the
Answer -- for the Righteous401
Premature Knowledge =
Sinful Deals401
Trust During
Temporary Ignorance401
Don’t Assume the
Grass is Greener401
The Humility of Not
Assuming The End of a Matter402
Recognizing
Providential Dependence402
Contentment with
Providence -- Knowing Heaven Knows Best402
Providence Overrules
Preparation402
Hate Money
Preview of Anti-Money Passages
Quick Preview of Anti-Money
· Mat_5:3 – Blessed poor-crouching-beggars in spirit
· Luk_6:20-26 – blessed poor-crouching-beggars ...now & Woe to Rich!
· Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13 – Hate & Despise Money
· See: Luke Poverty -- Counting by 2s (incl. Luke 16)
· 1Ti_6: – Wanting Riches = Foolish Trap
Hate & Despise Money -- Mat_6 & Luk_16
Hate Money -- Two Masters to Choose from
The Bible does not say you just need to avoid making money your idol, Jesus explicitly commands you to “hate” it:
Mat_6: Hate & Despise Money
Mat_6:24
CAB No one is able to [slave-]serve [δουλεύειν] two
masters; for either he will hate the
one, and he will love the other, or else he will be devoted [ἀνθέξεται – i.e.
hold-loyal (NKJV: loyal)] to the one, and he will despise the other. You cannot serve
God and money.
Mat_6:24 Οὐδεὶς
δύναται δυσὶ
κυρίοις
δουλεύειν· ἢ
γὰρ τὸν ἕνα
μισήσει καὶ
τὸν ἕτερον ἀγαπήσει,
ἢ ἑνὸς ἀνθέξεται
καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου
καταφρονήσει.
οὐ δύνασθε
Θεῷ
δουλεύειν
καὶ μαμωνᾷ.
Mat_6:24 ουδεις δυναται δυσι κυριοις δουλευειν η γαρ τον ενα μισησει και τον ετερον αγαπησει η ενος ανθεξεται και του ετερου καταφρονησει ου δυνασθε θεω δουλευειν και BAμαμωνα TSμαμμωνα
Luk_16: Hate & Despise Money
Luk_16:13
CAB No [household-]servant
[οἰκέτης] can
serve two masters, for either he will hate the
one and love the other, or else he will be devoted [ἀνθέξεται – i.e.
hold-loyal (NKJV: loyal)] to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve
God and mammon."
Luk_16:13 Οὐδεὶς
οἰκέτης
δύναται δυσὶ
κυρίοις
δουλεύειν· ἢ
γὰρ τὸν ἕνα
μισήσει καὶ
τὸν ἕτερον ἀγαπήσει,
ἢ ἑνὸς ἀνθέξεται
καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου
καταφρονήσει.
οὐ δύνασθε
Θεῷ
δουλεύειν
καὶ μαμωνᾷ.
Luk_16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money [φιλάργυροι], were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.
Luk_16:14 ῎Ηκουον
δὲ ταῦτα
πάντα TSBκαὶ οἱ
Φαρισαῖοι
φιλάργυροι ὑπάρχοντες,
καὶ ἐξεμυκτήριζον
αὐτόν.
Luk_16:15 And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves
before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men
is an abomination before God.
Luk_16:15 καὶ εἶπεν
αὐτοῖς· ὑμεῖς
ἐστε οἱ
δικαιοῦντες ἑαυτοὺς
ἐνώπιον τῶν
ἀνθρώπων, ὁ
δὲ Θεὸς
γινώσκει τὰς
καρδίας ὑμῶν·
ὅτι τὸ ἐν ἀνθρώποις
ὑψηλὸν
βδέλυγμα ἐνώπιον
τοῦ Θεοῦ. |TSεστιν |
Pictorial Summary
Either:
God: Hate & Despise ↔ Money: Love & Hold-Loyal-Devotion
Or:
God: Love & Hold-Loyal-Devotion ↔ Money: Hate & Despise
Jesus said “OR” [ἢ] (Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13).
You will go to hell for lying and saying you can “find a balance between these two extremes” when Jesus said you ‘CAN’T’ * (Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13)!
[* Mat_6:24 Οὐδεὶς
δύναται
δυσὶ κυρίοις
δουλεύειν…; Luk_16:13 Οὐδεὶς
οἰκέτης δύναται
δυσὶ κυρίοις
δουλεύειν…]
Money vs. God – Incompatibility
You are supposed to ‘Love God with all
your soul’, and that means you have to hate money with all your soul
because you can’t love or even tolerate both “masters”, and you can’t bend the
arrow which Jesus has straightened.
Remember that these are just previews, so keep reading to get all the details of everything else that the context teaches.
The Point: You are not allowed to lie against the Truth and pretend that you have anything to do with the Truth of the Bible if you are not hating money.
We can all very easily see that if you don’t hate money you are in rebellious apostasy and hating God on your way to hell.
Anti-Money Examples to Consider
· Joh_2:14-15 – Jesus Turning over the Money Changers
· Jesus repeatedly told stories where “the good guy” always seems to depreciate money (Luk_12:16-21, for example)
· Luk_12:20-21 – This Night Your Life Will Be Demanded of you -- treasuring up to yourself
Heb_10:32-36 – Joyfully accepting confiscation of
possessions (context: Heb_10:24-36)
Joh_10:17-18 – Giving life willfully
(Not Compulsively:
compare 1Pe_3:14 with 1Pe_3:1-13)
When considering and being confronted with these constant anti-money examples all throughout the Bible, most church people harden their hearts and still claim that they can like money as long as they (supposedly) ‘don’t trust in it’.
Empowerment of Hating Money
I want you to be able to see that when you
really understand the principles of how and why you should hate money because it
is tainted with sin this root concept and explanation helps you to be able to
wage a good warfare with all other seemingly good things in your life that have
been tainted with sin. (Because, after all, money hating is really about the
doctrine of sin at its core)
now you can have a more firm understanding
in your knowledge to use as rational logical leverage to wage a good warfare
against secular music and songs that get stuff in your head and movies you used
to enjoy, and potentially most important of all, you can use it as to wage a
good warfare against all fake knowledge and puffing pride of confidence so that
you can tear down all invalid subtle pseudo-knowledge and sin tainted
confidence and wrong thinking in general so that you can actually obtain to the
poor begging of those who are blessed and saved...
No One's Preaching Money Hatred
No one preaching ‘poverty gospel’
-- Under Construction --
See: Prosperity Lite
Vlad Pretends like the ‘Poverty Gospel’ Exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkEI6GnvUo
How Rich Am I?
Most modern people are “the Rich Young
Ruler”
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i
Therefore, since we’re basically all rich
compared to the rest of the world, we can firmly say: it is harder for a modern person to get heaven than
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle!
Prosperity Gospel Errors
Errors of Prosperity Preaching
-- Under Construction --
Preview Summary
You can keep what you are blessed with
You can make yourself happy with abundance
(as you see fit)
You can tell God what you want and you can
name it and claim it, moan it and own it, blab it and grab it - no clean
inspiration required
For Unbelievers, by Unbelievers
Prosperity Preachers Are Unbelievers
-- Under Construction --
Finding your own pleasure
Jer_23?
Doing what you already wanted to do as an
unbeliever, pagan, atheist
The Prosperity Gospel is Mislabeled
Prosperity Preaching is
Mislabeled
-- Under Construction --
Prosperity Church people are technically
mislabeled which can contribute to the confusion and deception. Prosperity
preachers don't in fact actually preach simple biblical prosperity, which would
actually be encouraging if that's all they did, but rather prosperity preachers
are actually wealth accumulation peaches. Therefore, wealth gospel, name it and
claim it, blab it and grab it, moan it and own it, are more accurate descriptions
of these heretical anti-Bible wolves.
But again, when you start talking about
wealth gospel people usually deceptively add health and wealth gospel as though
health is not part of the Gospel when healing is distinctively part of the real
good message in the Bible whereas wealth accumulation is not and is totally
opposed and contradictory toward it.
There is a promise for healing in the
Bible but there is not a promise allowing you to accumulate personal wealth in
the New Covenant, which specifically explicitly forbids such monetary crime.
So prosperity Church people are actually
wealth and riches church people that justify owning personal wealth and
personally enjoying the finer pleasures and "symbols" or expensively
bragging merchandise of luxury, and therefore they need to hear the most
explicit repentance demands against their wolf-like heresy. Wealth and riches
Churchianity are the most flagrant wolves that need to be totally opposed for
goofy mindless sloppiness...
Rich church people who justify owning
personal wealth are the most Goofy and sloppy and mindless and evil and call
for the harshest condemnation.
Wealth church people need to be told to
repent of loving money and treasuring personal riches and feeling entitled to
enjoy luxurious pleasures for which they will be burned forever under the most
dreadful Doom of the scriptures, starting with the blessed hope of the end
time’s judgment on Earth...
All prosperity preachers who are
encouraging the storing up and gathering of personal riches and wealth are
already predicted to be destroyed with unbearable burning in the wrath of God
against the prostitute in Revelation 17 and 18
Prosperity, as well as "prosperity
light" Church people need to be told to repent of justifying personal
accumulation of wealth and pleasurable enjoyment of abundant riches.
Prosperity preachers are teaching that
you're justified and enjoying the pleasures of riches and boastful expensive
merchandise to lavish yourself in this life. Prosperity light church people might
simply feel entitled to their personal riches and wealth even though they don't
explicitly preach the indulgence of full-fledged prosperity preachers. All of
these are evil and apostate disobeyers.
Prosperity and prosperity light and the
rest of church all need to be told to repent of indulging in the pleasures of
riches and all need to hear that the ultimate solution that even
anti-prosperity preachers need here is that you actually need to obey the Bible
to vehemently aggressively hate money and fulfill the socially accountable
actions of avoiding all personal wealth and riches.
never mind any church philosophy that says
it's about the heart, or they just give it all to their lord, and say they're
just managers and don't own all of the wealth that they indulge in and enjoy,
because this hypocritical heretical philosophy is dirty and condemned with hot
destruction and doom.
100 Fold Prosperity
When preaching about 100 Fold Prosperity In
Genesis 26 with Isaac and Jesus's promise in Matthew 19 and in Mark 10, Joseph
Prince points out that the 100-fold prospering is for this age and the age to
come, which is theoretically applicable except after describing that biblical
promise and concept, he adds a very deadly unbiblical statement as an
attachment to poison every scripture reference his mentioned by going on to say
"who says you can't have the best of both worlds?"
Most of what he said was technically
correct up until the point where he said "who said you can't HAVE the best
of both worlds?"
Joseph Prince with his designer clothes
and rings introduces the anti-biblical idea that when God multiplies 100 fold
that you can have it in this life and in the next life, and that is not what
the old covenant teaches much less is it even conceivably permissible in the
New Covenant that demands you to not hold on to all that God blesses you with.
Anti-prosperity Gospel Errors
Errors of Anti-prosperity Preaching
Prosperity Lite: The Rest of the Problem!
It is often
wrongly imagined that only prosperity churches are promoting “the love of
money”, but virtually all churches today are participating in plenty of luxury
heresy by not obeying Jesus’ commands to hate and despise money.
Here are some
very important examples of church people indulging in luxury while pretending
to oppose the prosperity gospel…
Fighting Heresy With Heresy
Church people like to fight heresy with
heresy
Non prosperity preachers and teachers
often act like the prosperity versus are not there in the Bible in order to
fight prosperity teaching, but the reason they do this is because they're
making the same root mistake as the prosperity preachers by indulging in luxury
and confidence and pride and non inspiration, and they are disobeying the Bible
and the same basic ways as prosperity people by not begging, and sacrificing
this life, and shunning luxury.
Non-prosperity teachers resort to
dismissing prosperity Bible verses in an attempt to fight prosperity preachers,
because they haven't repented of sharing the same root heresy of confidence and
luxury and indulgence and enjoying riches and making yourself happy with your
prosperity and thinking that you can keep whatever God blesses you with...
But that doesn't work!
(1)
Video: Dave Ramsey Blasphemes the Biblical Gospel of Poverty
Video Title: Why
The Prosperity Gospel Is Wrong!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJjUxyIwbA
In general:
Dave Ramsey is a classic example of not being a prosperity gospel preacher, but still disobeying money-hatred commands.
Dave Ramsey is not ashamed of being rich and liking money.
In this video:
Dave Ramsey
Pretends there is an Anti-Wealth Movement (or Poverty
Gospel).
Even though the
title says “Why The Prosperity Gospel Is
Wrong!” Dave Ramsey is also criticizing the supposed “anti-wealth
movement” that doesn’t even really exist.
Notice that
Dave Ramsey is saying that he does not believe The
Prosperity Gospel, but this doesn’t help him much to escape luxury crimes,
because he still contradicts the Biblical Gospel that condemns rich people, and
calls it “blasphemy” against the cross to suggest that the “blood” (or rather
ketchup) can’t cover even those sinful rich
people.
(2)
Video: Ray Comfort “Hats Prosperity Preaching” But Does the Same Root Sins
Video Title: THIS Is Why I Hate Prosperity Preaching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcS-Zk71x8Y
Notice that Ray
Comfort says, “It doesn’t particularly worry me that prosperity preachers say
that god wants you to prosper. You can find that in scripture; Abraham was
rich; there is nothing wrong with money; the bible speaks of the love of money that’s the root of all
evil.”
He even has a
thumbnail showing “8 Keys to god's System of Wealth”.
Ray Comfort
says ‘I’ve never heard of a well-known prosperity preacher preach christ
crucified for the sin of the world’, but what happens when one does say that? What
happens when they start saying normal evangelical things and still promote
liking money?
Ray
Comfort is Comfortable with Sinful Money
It should be pointed out and noticed that
Ray Comfort is comfortable and is not disturbed by liking money since he even
uses the liking of money in his tracks, by giving you $1 million dollar bills
to pass out as tracks and even putting the Gospel of John like it's a stack of
money! This really is gross disturbingly demented apostate hard-hearted blind rebellion,
and therefore he has no moral foundation to actually say he hates the
prosperity Gospel since he himself is doing the gross foundation of the same
exact sins.
Missing
the Root-Heresy
Even though
these popular preachers, like Dave Ramsey (who’s crewed), Ray Comfort (who’s
considered extremely conservative), and many others, are not considered
“prosperity preachers”, yet they are destitute of the Biblical Gospel and can’t
get at the root cause of why exactly prosperity preachers are evil and heretical.
Weather they
are prosperity preachers (proper) or they are considered mild or even
“conservative preachers”, they are all in the same rebellious apostasy against
Jesus’ commands to hate and
despising money.
Remember: Ray
Comfort says, “…You can find that in scripture; Abraham was rich; there is nothing wrong with money”
And this illiterate attitude (shared between liberals and pseudo-conservatives) pretends like Jesus, the Bible, and Truth Proclaimers today have not already addressed Rich Holy-Ones? (especially in the Old Covenant). When Jesus and His apostles later taught money hatred for the New Covenant they obviously are NOT ignoring the many examples of Rich Holy-Ones (especially in the Old Covenant).
We have to obey
both the examples of Rich Holy-Ones (especially
in the Old Covenant) as well as Jesus New Covenant commands to hate and despise money in order to
inherit heaven.
(3) Video: Vlad Pretends like the ‘Poverty Gospel’ Exists
Video Title: Problems with POVERY ⧸ PROSPERITY Gospel - Pastor Vlad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkEI6GnvUo
In this video the Pastor Vlad preacher pretends as if he is balancing out to
extremes and of course he imagines that he himself is in the middle biblical
realm.
Whereas in actuality the Bible does preach a poverty gospel, and that poverty
gospel is not being preached today no matter what he pretends is being said out
there among some church people.
Vlad (1) misrepresents the poverty gospel
as though it exists today, which it clearly doesn't, and then (2) he argues
against the poverty gospel by creating
straw man arguments, which are not logically linked to the very notion or idea
of an actual poverty gospel, and
then (3) pretends to defeat the so-called poverty
gospel by “balancing” the imagined threat by defeating an enemy that
doesn't actually exist or fit the description which he pretends to be
defeating.
He comes against the by suggesting that it promotes
being, poor,
sick, busted, and disgusted, and that is not correct, accurate, factually true, or correlating
with the sad reality that’s out there in churches.
To his credit, Vlad is not nearly as sleazy as so many prosperity preachers,
and perhaps he's not a full-blown prosperity preacher, but he still has the
root heresy of not hating and despising money like Jesus commands, which means
he's a Bible disobeyer, which means he's not a Truth proclaimer, or real
disciple, and is leading people away from the Bible's Gospel of Poverty by
defeating an illogical, imaginary, straw man argument, by misrepresenting and
mischaracterizing a so-called poverty gospel,
which just perpetuates the same old heresy of Bible disobedience so that no one
can ever get to the real Truth of the Bible and obey Jesus and actually hate
and despise money like the Bible actually, literally, explicitly, clearly, and
repeatedly says.
(4) Video: Dry Pseudo-Conservative Anti-Gospel
Video Title: What Is Wrong with the Prosperity Gospel？
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPvhYZ1jdeM
General Principles of
Heresy (in this video)
This dry hypocritical nasty gross pseudo
conservative pretends to be straight
in his truth (which is really goof) as though he cares anything about
objective scientific monotheistic rational intellectually honest Bible
teaching, preaching, and or observance. But these sort of fake dry hypocrites
are some of the most disturbing and Bible hating hypocrites there are out
there.
They are unbiblical, disobedient, and
hypocritical and then pretend as if / like they are correcting some kind of
sloppy heresy just because they're not as goofy as the rest of churchianity,
when in fact they are more notorious and devious and underhanded by denying the
truth and the name of being more serious.
And as if the sheer complacency and
dryness were not evident enough that this preacher teacher is a wolf and a
dirty hypocrite, yet in addition to this clearly observable phenomena and
characteristic attitude, he goes on to have the nerve and the sheer audacity to
blaspheme the Bible and the Gospel which Jesus preached, and turn around and
immediately discount The Hardcore Holy True and righteous Gospel which Jesus
proclaimed to the rich man as if it were “not the gospel” just because it
doesn't line up with Evangelical foolishness and extra biblical heresy of
imagine pseudo-conservative fantasies that hate and despise everything the
Bible actually says.
ALL
Churchianity is Luxuriously Sinful
-- Under
Construction --
Prosperity
churches really are some of the worst church has to offer today, but the rest of
the church is lost in total heresy and disobedience as well.
Luxury and
prideful indulgence is not just limited to Prosperity churches.
All of
churchianity today is filthy and guilty of luxury crimes, even when they say
that they claim to “hate” prosperity preaching.
Although prosperity preaching is some of
the nastiest filth in all of churchianity, yet in a very important sense,
prosperity preachers have the same root problem that the rest of church and he
has:
All Church people, including pseudo-conservatives
and non-prosperity preachers, still like money, and still don't hate it, and
they don't think money is wrong in and of itself, and they still enjoy luxury
and pride for themselves.
Even non prosperity preachers still think
that rich people in the Bible could be evidence that we can enjoy luxury today,
when that's not what the circumstantially rich righteous people in the Bible
ever did...
Virtually no one in church is preoccupied
and concerned with taking the threats against rich people all throughout the
scriptures seriously enough to fear God and flee from the wrath to come.
Money Hating - Defined: Hating Evil; Redeeming Everything
Let’s glimpse at a preview of large
principles and considerations before going into all of the details necessary
for proving the moral rules that are required.
Money Hating = Doctrine of Sin
It is absolutely essential and vital to
realize that the doctrine of money hating is really about the doctrine of sin.
Hating Sin = Money Hatred
· When the Bible talks about morally hating money, it is talking about hating your sinfulness against money — i.e., how your flesh has made money unclean and how you need to do something to redeem it into eternal value.
Emotional Hatred of Money
We need to not only understand the hatred
of money from a limited intellectual awareness but we also need to express full
solidarity/faithfulness/camaraderie with Jesus’s rule on hating money which
means we need to understand money hatred on a much deeper passionate emotional
level.
Fleshly Intuition ≠ Money Hatred
· Intuition vs. Prescription: Money hatred is not a call to a preconceived fleshly intuition – you don’t trust your intuition or senses, we are talking about monotheism that prescribes the solution in addition to describing the problem.
· Ignorance: Money Hatred is NOT about foolish deduction and moral ignorance
· True Knowledge: we are talking about real knowledge here.
· Monotheism’s Prescriptions: If your fleshly intuition had understood the problem already, you wouldn’t have fallen into sin to begin with, which is why you need monotheism to point out the problem and the solution.
Saying: if
you really hated money then you would destroy it / not use it
is virtually the same as saying: if you really hate the sinful flesh you would kill
people
Annihilation ≠ Money Hatred
· Elimination: Hating money is not about resenting and seeking to eliminate its existence.
· Particles or Sin?: Burning money might be a fleshly way to hate it, but that is incriminating the particles and the physical substance of the money instead of the human evil it entails -- without an awareness of your sin which has made it evil.
Redemption = Goal, Not Annihilation
Just as God wishes for the redemption and
ultimate salvation of all mankind, so also we, when managing the valuable
things of this life, are not seeking out its pulverization, unless indeed it has
become so sinful that God has rejected it and is done with its value for now
and it is so abominated that you're not allowed to imagine its redemption or
Holiness in this life.
Giving = Redemptive Money Hatred
· Selfless Hatred: Hating money is about despising your own right to use its potential value.
· Giving Context: Whenever Jesus is teaching money hating, He is simultaneously teaching you to give it away.
· Stay Prescriptive: We should not replace the Biblical “giving” solution with the philosophical Annihilation solution of ignorant human intuition.
· Sharing is Selfless: Money hatred is not so much that you stop someone else from getting it; it is that you stop yourself from getting too much of it.
· Redemptive Hatred: Sacrifice into Holiness, Redemption & Eternal Value = Money Hatred
The Redemption of Our Stuff & Our Lives Through Sacrificial Hatred
And when we thoroughly realize this
enough, then Romans 8 becomes very critical to understanding how not only are
we hating our life in this age and hoping for it to be redeemed but we are also
subjecting the valuables of this world, knowing that they too must be destroyed
because of sin, yet because of our current need for righteousness we are
sanctifying whatever we can with our bodies and our possessions to bring all
things into Truth, so that eventually all things climactically reach redemption
through the practice of righteousness of the children of God on the Earth, to
resurrect not only our bodies through His power, but also through His power in
us, to resurrect this entire creation, which (for this life) we have carried
about in subjection and chastisement to bring into Holiness and perfection, as
we subject things in this age right now unto holiness and despise its sin, both
in our money as well as our very bodies, so also we are directing such
sacrifices in this current Holiness in hope that the sin can be overcome by the
satisfaction of Jesus into eternal life.
Redemption Back to Good
If money was created bad, then we would burn it, but since it went from good to bad through our sin, monotheism has prescribed a redemptive solution to ransom it back into something valuable.
Hating Flesh, Soul, & Money = Salvation
Notice that money hating correlates with hating
our flesh and soul in this life, and both are redeemed and ultimately saved
through sacrificial hatred in this Now Age.
Hoping for Redemption of All Things
Just as we hate the physical things that
seem nice, in both our bank account as well as our body, so also we are hoping
for their redemption.
Hatred = The Path to Holiness
This does not imply that we are seeking
out the utter destruction and erasure of nice things in this life but that
through hatred of them we find the only Orthodox biblical path for their
satisfaction to cause them to go into being acceptable and holy for the use of
the Master through the Truth.
Redemption and Inheritance Through Righteousness
So also those who sin with them will
completely and utterly lose them, but the righteous are the ones who redeem
them into Holiness and end up inheriting the entire land, and yet also all
things of the entire creation which are particularly redeemed through the
righteous redemption and resurrection of the children of God themselves.
Money Hating is About Redemption from Sin
Since money hating is really about the
doctrine of sin, therefore money hating is also tied into the doctrine of the
satisfaction of God and the redemption of Jesus Anointed One.
Holification Redeems
All satisfaction-appeasement and
redemption spectacularly accomplished by God includes the immediate current
present here and now activity of holification and subjection in righteous
humble crucifixion and self-denial in order to look forward through the smog of
sin into the ultimate redemption and salvation of everything in the universe,
from our bodies to the world to all of its riches and valuables to the
principalities of Heaven that we can't even comprehend right now, yet we are destined
to redeem this creation and judge even the angels through this Holiness that we
presently now enjoy the privilege of walking out in righteousness, anticipating
the hope of eternal redemption and powerful salvation through Jesus at the
climax and culmination of all things.
Hate Evil, with God, to Redeem Everything
But just as God desires all men to be
ultimately saved and calls them to become holy in the meantime and does so by hating
their sinfulness and despising their despicableness and pulling down their
pride and subjecting their boasting and re-adjusting our perspective of the
value of humans through the insightful perceptive revealing lens of redemption,
so also through the hatred of the fake value of money, which has been degraded
by the nastiness of sin, we look to reverently and zealously subject such nasty
despicableness for the Express purpose of its holification and redemption for
the Master's use and His ultimate salvation, through the resurrection which is
at first into us, and then also accomplished through us to redeem the entire
universe.
-- Under Construction --
Redemption Explains Money Hatred
Big Questions: If you hate money, does
that mean you would not use money?
How do you hate your soul if indeed the giant
goal of the New Covenant is to save your soul?
If you hate your soul, does that mean it
might pose a challenge to you wanting to save your soul?
Money Hatred is Required!
Warning: Not hating money makes you sinful, dirty, unrighteous, rejected, and disconnected from the Truth and the Fatherhood of The One Who Created you!
Good to Bad -- Money’s Fall from Goodness
Compare: (A) Good to Bad -- Money’s Fall from Goodness (B) The Evil of Money (C) Holy-ifying Money -- Shows that it is DIRTY!
Problem: Prosperity preachers act like nothing
ever happened to the goodness of Gen_2 Gold & money.
Preview: Gen_1:31; Gen_2:12; Pro_25:11; Psa_19:10; Exo_33:5-6
Why Hate Money?
<<<<<<<<<<<
-- Under Construction --
Deceptive
It’s sin-tainted
Rotting
Wanting or even liking it will kill you
We are not worthy, yet
We’re still in double-probation
“Good” in Hebrew & Greek
· Hebrew Good: טוב = Basket-tent-peg-house
· Greek Good: καλόν -- Beautiful-Good
Hebrew: i.e. a basket of good surrounding & affixing to the house (Lev_27:14 = interesting interplay of words)
Hebrew is eventually used to communicate beauty as
well (similar to Greek Meaning): Gen_6:2;
Est_1:10
(For example)
God Mad All to be Good
Compare: (A) RiFi → God Mad All to be Good (B) RiFi → ALL Things Cleaned (C) EFF → Every Creature of God is Good
Numerics: 7 & 12
(A) Genesis 1: 7 Goods +1
· God saw it was good, 7 Times: (1) Gen_1:4, [Gen_1:8 LXX only], (2) Gen_1:10, (3) Gen_1:12, (4) Gen_1:18, (5) Gen_1:21, (6) Gen_1:25, (7) Gen_1:31 (All Good)
· MT = 7 Goods
· LXX = 7 Goods +1
(B) Genesis 2: 5 Goods
· (1)(2) Gen_2:9 x2 (sight & food…Tree) [Gen_3:6], (3) Gen_2:12 (gold), (4) Gen_2:17 (tree instructions), (5) Gen_2:18 (not good…man…alone)
If you take Adam’s 7 and add it to Moses’ 5 you get another beautiful number 12.
12 total Goods, including 1 not good converted into a good (Gen_1:31 ← Gen_2:18), when adding up Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. (LXX might be subtracting the 1 not good from the other 12 goods.)
7 & 12 Goods: 7 (CH 1) & 12 (CH 1 & 2) are good important numbers.
After creating man, after authorizing them to rule creation (as a climax), it says…
(C) Gen_1:31 –
God Saw Everything He Made Was Good
Gen_1:31 WEB God saw everything that he had made,
and, behold, it was very good.
There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Gen_1:31 LB And God saw everything that He had made, and
behold, they were very good
[καλὰ λίαν]. And there was evening and there
was morning, the sixth day.
Gen_1:31 καὶ εἶδεν
ὁ θεὸς τὰ πάντα,
ὅσα ἐποίησεν,
καὶ ἰδοὺ καλὰ λίαν.
καὶ ἐγένετο ἑσπέρα
καὶ ἐγένετο
πρωί, ἡμέρα ἕκτη.
Everything was Good-Beautiful, Until
Sin
· Maybe we partly know what is already going on here…
· Good People: “Everything Good” that God Created (Gen_1:31) Included Animals (1Ti_4:4-5) and People (Gen_1:26-30; Gen_6:2; Est_1:10; etc.)
· People Before Sin: People weren’t originally Sinful, nor were they defiling creation with sin at the time they were created.
·
Good Gold: “Everything” being made “good-beautiful”
also included Gold --
because it’s part of “everything”, as seen above, and it was not sinful.
· Celebrated Goodness: It seems that there is some type of free rejoicing in good beauty before sin.
· Did it all stay good?
Gen_2: Good Gold of Havilah
Gold Was First Created Good (Esp. in
Havilah)
Comp. (A) Good Gold of
Havilah & (B) Havilah’s
Biblical History (C) Saul vs Amalek
& Havilah
Gen_2:11-12 –
The Gold is Good of that Land (of Havilah)
Gen_2:9 WEB Out of the ground
Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight [the tree that follows was good to look at], and good
for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil.
Gen_2:9 LB And God caused to spring up also out of the
earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Gen_2:9 καὶ ἐξανέτειλεν
ὁ θεὸς ἔτι ἐκ τῆς
γῆς πᾶν ξύλον ὡραῖον
εἰς ὅρασιν καὶ
καλὸν εἰς βρῶσιν
καὶ τὸ ξύλον τῆς
ζωῆς ἐν μέσῳ τῷ
παραδείσῳ καὶ
τὸ ξύλον τοῦ εἰδέναι
γνωστὸν καλοῦ
καὶ πονηροῦ.
Gen_2:10 WEB A river went out of
Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads. [Just think of the concepts of a well water garden like in the psalms and
song of Solomon]
Gen_2:10 And a river proceeded out of Eden to water the garden, and it
divided itself there into four heads.
Gen_2:10 ποταμὸς
δὲ ἐκπορεύεται
ἐξ Εδεμ ποτίζειν
τὸν παράδεισον·
ἐκεῖθεν ἀφορίζεται
εἰς τέσσαρας ἀρχάς.
Gen_2:11 WEB The name of
the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Gen_2:11 LB The name of the
one is Pishon, this is that which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Gen_2:11 ὄνομα
τῷ ἑνὶ Φισων· οὗτος
ὁ κυκλῶν πᾶσαν
τὴν γῆν Ευιλατ, ἐκεῖ
οὗ ἐστιν τὸ
χρυσίον·
Gen_2:12 WEB and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the
onyx stone.
Gen_2:12 And the gold
of that land is good, there
also is carbuncle and emerald.
Gen_2:12 τὸ δὲ
χρυσίον τῆς γῆς
ἐκείνης καλόν·
καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐστιν ὁ
ἄνθραξ καὶ ὁ λίθος
ὁ πράσινος.
Disciple Notes:
12/22/24
Sir has seen first-hand how the flesh has hated him when they love money
Stop thinking wrong with your oxen so you won’t blunder your spiritual life
Think right as soon as you get out of bed
Stop thinking contrary.
You can’t keep blundering your humanity and then expect to come to the throne room of God and expect to be a new humanity/creature
When you find excuses to embrace learning things that is hard for you, then that is not the right thinking
This attitude will affect your ability to
We need to do warfare against not imitating each other more mature way of thinking.
You are dwarfing your spiritual progress when you are neglecting at hand virtues
More literally form the MT:
Gen_2:10-12 MechTr
and~River Go.out~ing(ms) from~Eden [Pleasure]
to~>~make~Drink At the~Garden
and~from~There he~will~be~Divide.apart and~he~did~Exist to~Four
Head~s 11
Title the~Unit Pishon [Scatter] He the~Go.around~ing(ms) At
All Land the~Hhawilah [Twisting]
Which There the~Gold
12
and~Gold the~Land the~She
Functional There the~Amber
and~Stone the~Shoham
Abundant
Goodness
· We see that the Abundant Goodness of all things like the Garden of Eden, beautiful gold, animals, and even people, were all given with nearly unrestricted goodness, blessed pleasures, and exciting delights.
· God was very generous and abundant when He created and blessed humans with so many good things. Therefore
· it is very sinful to contradict the goodness God is trying to bless us
· It is very sinful to contradict the goodness that God wants to bless us with. (BTW: Today this is especially the case with marriage).
· Neither Jesus or those who obey are contradicting prosperity preaching
· Prosperity preachers has the theory that enables loving money but all churchianity has the practice of luxury – proof is that you never (virtually) hear that you need to hate and despise money.
How Good is
Gold?
Mid-point Questions &
Considerations
· Obeyers demand that we fear God and zealously obey Jesus to “hate” “evil money” (we call it hate and we call it evil money), but most church people (including non-prosperity preachers) audaciously and outrageously and blasphemously pretend like the (initial) “goodness” of gold proves that obeyer’s zealous and clean obedience to Jesus is false and unbiblical.
· Typical Wicked prosperity church people pretend that “the law of first mentions” shows that gold is inherently good. (slide of hand magic trick)
· They then build upon this to pretend and teach that the fact of originally “good gold” overrules (and flips over) obeyers when they obediently obey Jesus’ Words and declare that money is evil.
· See: Heretic Video: [Un]Biblical Principles Of Provision
· How does an obeyer fight this hateful sinful heresy?
· Church perverts are ignoring the doctrine of sin and denying and pretending like the corruption of good does not practically exist in the Bible, but…
· Humans are not allowed to be illogical denialists and ignore the doctrine of sin!
Initial
Answers
· A naïve person is going to think that God is talking all good about “gold” in Genesis because He simply has no problems with it.
· In contrast to church ignorance, we see that Havila has a history (see: Havilah’s Biblical History)
· Church people and modern people as a whole have a very short attention span and short sighted narrow perceptive, and have a nearly useless reading comprehension when it comes to moral things.
· But the Bible is the longest running legacy in all of human history.
· Havila’s good gold is just the beginning of the story, which does NOT imply or teach that its original goodness is the moral of the story, or take-away, or key point of the story of Havila’s “good gold”.
· There is nothing in the Bible that implies that you are supposed to read that “Havilah had good gold” and walk away and think that gold is good
· Remember: the doctrine of sin exists, which includes the initial “goodness” of gold in Gen_2 and our corruption and fall from goodness in Gen_6.
Gold = Good, Before Sin (reminder)
· Good Gold: We know gold is included in everything being beautiful good, as seen in Gen_2 because it was before the fall of sin in Gen_3.
· Repeated Good: Genesis and the Repeated Declaration of Good: When Genesis 2 (Gen_2:12) says the gold of that land is good -- this is a repeat and parallel of God’s declarations of all things being good in Genesis 1 (Gen_1:31).
The Divine Purpose in Free Will and Sin
The mechanism for choosing sin was an inherently good mechanism.
God did not create something bad when He created the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
(We struggle so much about God allowing evil in the world but it is more of a struggle with our own hypocrisy because it is not as if / like we really dislike bad that much. We only dislike its consequences, but we are actually not that adverse to its root causes)
The Goodness of Gold and Humanity’s Struggle
The goodness of gold is humanity struggle to do good with the good God gave them.
And why is good gold mentioned there toward the beginning of Genesis?
It is touching a nerve of the core of our entire humanity, and that is why it is there.
The goodness of the gold in Gen_2 is very related to the goodness of gold God wants us to be motivated by in the kingdom of heaven, but there is this nasty problem of sin that is intervening between the two…
Gold started good, has gone bad for now, and
we are waiting by faith for Truth to make it good for us again, through the
Truth of God’s salvation from sin, whose name is Jesus.
We are waiting for it to be good and we are not willing to say it is good in our sight by default until it is saved!
The Point: Gold was a good thing, which was a part
of a totally good creation, just like people were also totally good before the
fall (in Gen_3).
And everything went bad, including Gold & people.
Good gold is Just like how people use to be good but messed up the entire creation.
It’s time to get rid of sin in order to
fight for the redemption of the entire universe…
Sirach & Num – Good Things Were Made for Good People
Maybe you’re starting to get the picture
that sin messes up the goodness of everything, including gold and all money.
But let’s go on to examine the purpose of why God gave beautiful things to people in the first place to begin with…
Let’s simplify: God gave beautiful things
for morally good people
Technical note:
LXX sometimes uses various Greek synonyms
for good, but MT is simpler and uses
the same Hebrew word for good in
many of these cases.
Nobody is good but the father Amen, but
people use to be good and now we can borrow God’s goodness to partake of his
good things now
We await a day a day where we are not just
borrowing goodness but actually fully participating in tit after we graduate
from our probation. Adam and eve failed but now it is in our court to stop
failing.
(A) Sir_39:25-27 – Good Things Have Been Created For The Good
Good things created for the good from the beginning
Sir_39:25 from the beginning,
he provided good things
for the good, but for the wicked good things and bad.1
1 [ Sir_39:25] Heb, Lat / LXX
“sinners
bad
things”
Sir_39:25 For the good [τοῖς
ἀγαθοῖς] are good things [ἀγαθὰ] created from the beginning: so evil things for sinners.
Sir_39:25 ἀγαθὰ
τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἔκτισται
ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς, οὕτως
τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς
κακά.
Sir_39:26 Chief of all needs for human life
are water and fire, iron and salt,
the heart of the wheat, milk and honey,
the blood of the grape, and oil, and cloth;
Sir_39:26 The principal things for the whole use of man's life are water,
fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape,
and oil, and clothing.
Sir_39:26 ἀρχὴ
πάσης χρείας εἰς
ζωὴν ἀνθρώπου, ὕδωρ
καὶ πῦρ καὶ σίδηρος
καὶ ἅλας καὶ
σεμίδαλις
πυροῦ καὶ γάλα
καὶ μέλι, αἷμα
σταφυλῆς καὶ ἔλαιον
καὶ ἱμάτιον·
Sir_39:27 for the good all these are good,
but for the wicked they turn out evil.
Sir_39:27 All these things are for good [ἀγαθά] to the godly [εὐσεβέσιν]: so to the sinners they are turned into evil.
Sir_39:27
ταῦτα πάντα τοῖς
εὐσεβέσιν εἰς ἀγαθά,
οὕτως τοῖς ἁμαρτωλοῖς
τραπήσεται εἰς
κακά.
Sir_39:28 There are storm winds created to punish,
which in their fury can
dislodge mountains;2
2 [ Sir_39:28] Heb, Syr / LXX “can scourge mightily”
Sir_39:28 There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their
fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force,
and appease the wrath of him that made them.
Sir_39:28 Ἔστιν
πνεύματα, ἃ εἰς ἐκδίκησιν
ἔκτισται καὶ ἐν
θυμῷ αὐτοῦ ἐστερέωσεν
μάστιγας αὐτῶν·
ἐν καιρῷ
συντελείας ἰσχὺν
ἐκχεοῦσιν καὶ
τὸν θυμὸν τοῦ
ποιήσαντος αὐοὺς
κοπάσουσιν.
when destruction must be, they hurl all their force and appease the anger of their Maker.
Sir_39:29 Fire and hail, famine, disease;
these too were created for
punishment;3
3 [ Sir_39:29] DSS(frag), Heb(B) / LXX
“.
Also in his storehouse, kept for the proper time, are fire and hail, famine, disease”
Sir_39:29 Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created
for vengeance;
Sir_39:29
πῦρ καὶ χάλαζα
καὶ λιμὸς καὶ θάνατος,
πάντα ταῦτα εἰς
ἐκδίκησιν ἔκτισται·
Sir_39:30 ravenous beasts, scorpions, vipers,
and the avenging sword to exterminate the wicked:
all these were created to meet a need,
and
are
kept in his storehouse for the
proper time;4
4 [ Sir_39:30] DSS(frag), Heb(B) / LXX
omits
“all these were…proper
time”
Sir_39:30 Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword
punishing the wicked to destruction.
Sir_39:30
θηρίων ὀδόντες
καὶ σκορπίοι
καὶ ἔχεις καὶ ῥομφαία
ἐκδικοῦσα εἰς ὄλεθρον
ἀσεβεῖς·
Sir_39:31 in doing his bidding they rejoice,
in their assignments they do not disobey his command.
Sir_39:31 They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready
upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not
transgress his word.
Sir_39:31 ἐν
τῇ ἐντολῇ αὐτοῦ
εὐφρανθήσονται
καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
εἰς χρείας ἑτοιμασθήσονται
καὶ ἐν καιροῖς
αὐτῶν οὐ παραβήσονται
λόγον.
Sir_39:32 So from the first I took my stand, and wrote down as my theme:
Sir_39:32 Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon
these things, and have left them in writing.
Sir_39:32
Διὰ τοῦτο ἐξ ἀρχῆς
ἐστηρίχθην καὶ
διενοήθην καὶ ἐν
γραφῇ ἀφῆκα
Sir_39:33 the works of the Lord are all of them good;
every need when it comes he fills.
Sir_39:33 All the works of the Lord are good: and he will give every needful
thing in due season.
Sir_39:33
Τὰ ἔργα κυρίου
πάντα ἀγαθὰ καὶ
πᾶσαν χρείαν ἐν
ὥρᾳ αὐτῆς
χορηγήσει,
Sir_39:34 No cause then to say, “This is not as good as that”;
for each shows its worth at the proper time.
Sir_39:34 So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in time
they shall all be well approved.
Sir_39:34
καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν εἰπεῖν
Τοῦτο τούτου
πονηρότερον, πάντα
γὰρ ἐν καιρῷ εὐδοκιμηθήσεται.
Sir_39:35 So now with full joy of
heart
proclaim and
bless the name of the Holy One.5
5 [ Sir_39:35]Heb(B) / LXX
“of
the
Lord”
Sir_39:35 And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and mouth,
and bless the name of the Lord.
Sir_39:35 καὶ νῦν ἐν πάσῃ
καρδίᾳ καὶ στόματι
ὑμνήσατε καὶ εὐλογήσατε
τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου.
Can Good People Have Good
Things Without Being Bad?
· Goodness and Corruption Have a Big Dilemma/Question
·
The main question is if good people can,
and to what degree can they, partake of good without becoming bad, because as
soon as a partaker of good becomes bad then that good becomes bad unto them
like Adam and Eve partaking of the good fruit prematurely.
·
The mechanism of sin was created by God
as a good thing.
(B) Good Promised Land Intended
for a Righteous Nation
Num_14:5 WEB Then Moses and Aaron
fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children
of Israel.
Num_14:5 LB And Moses and Aaron fell
upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
Num_14:5 καὶ ἔπεσεν
Μωυσῆς καὶ
Ααρων ἐπὶ πρόσωπον
ἐναντίον πάσης
συναγωγῆς υἱῶν
Ισραηλ.
Num_14:6 WEB Joshua the son of
Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land,
tore their clothes:
Num_14:6 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of
those that spied out the land, tore their clothes,
Num_14:6 Ἰησοῦς
δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ναυη καὶ
Χαλεβ ὁ τοῦ
Ιεφοννη τῶν
κατασκεψαμένων
τὴν γῆν διέρρηξαν
τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν
Num_14:7 WEB and they spoke to all
the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed
through to spy it out, is an exceeding
good [טובה] land.
Num_14:7 LB and spoke to all the congregation of the
children of Israel, saying, “The land which we surveyed is indeed very good [ἀγαθή ἐστιν
σφόδρα σφόδρα].
Num_14:7 καὶ εἶπαν
πρὸς πᾶσαν
συναγωγὴν υἱῶν
Ισραηλ λέγοντες
Ἡ γῆ, ἣν
κατεσκεψάμεθα
αὐτήν, ἀγαθή ἐστιν
σφόδρα σφόδρα·
Num_14:8 WEB If Yahweh delight in
us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows
with milk and honey.
Num_14:8 If the Lord delights in us, He will bring us into this land,
and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Num_14:8 εἰ αἱρετίζει
ἡμᾶς κύριος, εἰσάξει
ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν γῆν
ταύτην καὶ δώσει
αὐτὴν ἡμῖν, γῆ ἥτις
ἐστὶν ῥέουσα γάλα
καὶ μέλι.
Num_14:9 WEB Only don't rebel
against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us:
their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear
them.
Num_14:9 Only do not depart from the Lord; and do not fear the people of
the land, for they shall be as food to us; for the season of prosperity has
departed from them, but the Lord is among us; do not fear them.”
Num_14:9 ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ
τοῦ κυρίου μὴ ἀποστάται
γίνεσθε· ὑμεῖς
δὲ μὴ φοβηθῆτε
τὸν λαὸν τῆς γῆς,
ὅτι κατάβρωμα ἡμῖν
ἐστιν· ἀφέστηκεν
γὰρ ὁ καιρὸς ἀπ᾿
αὐτῶν, ὁ δὲ κύριος
ἐν ἡμῖν· μὴ
φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς.
Num_14:10 WEB But all the
congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the
Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
Num_14:10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones; and
the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all
the children of Israel.
Num_14:10 καὶ εἶπεν
πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγὴ
καταλιθοβολῆσαι
αὐτοὺς ἐν λίθοις.
καὶ ἡ δόξα κυρίου
ὤφθη ἐν νεφέλῃ ἐπὶ
τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ
μαρτυρίου ἐν πᾶσι
τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ.
The Goodness of the Promised Land is
repeated numerous times:
TSK: an exceeding good land: Num_13:27, Deu_1:25, Deu_6:10, Deu_6:11, Deu_8:7-9
Reciprocal:
Exo_3:8 - unto a
good Jdg_18:9 - Arise Pro_15:19 - way of
the slothful Jer_2:7 - brought
They
defile my good land with their abomination
Jer_2:7 / Lev_18:25 – Defiling the Land with Abominations
The Point: God wanted to take the Promised Land
away from the Horribly Evil Canaanites and give it to Abraham’s children to be
Righteous and Good People on the Good Land.
God children were supposed to be good
Children of Abraham/God
The Point: God made good things for good people,
NOT for perversion and sin!
Whenever sin is present, the very purpose
of good things is in danger of being totally lost.
Sinner’s Money for the Righteous
Pro_13:21 WEB Misfortune pursues
sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
Pro_13:21 CAB Evil shall pursue
sinners, but good shall overtake the righteous.
Pro_13:21 ἁμαρτάνοντας
καταδιώξεται
κακά, τοὺς δὲ
δικαίους
καταλήμψεται ἀγαθά.
Pro_13:22 WEB A good man leaves an
inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored
for the righteous.
Pro_13:22 A good man shall
inherit children’s children, and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the
just.
Pro_13:22 ἀγαθὸς
ἀνὴρ κληρονομήσει
υἱοὺς υἱῶν,
θησαυρίζεται
δὲ δικαίοις
πλοῦτος ἀσεβὼν.
Ecc_2:26 WEB For to the man who
pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives
travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God.
This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecc_2:26 CAB For God has given wisdom, knowledge, and joy
to the man who is good in His sight, but He has given to the sinner trouble, to
add and to heap up, that He may give to him that is good before God; for this
is also vanity and grasping for the wind.
Ecc_2:26 ὅτι τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ
τῷ ἀγαθῷ πρὸ
προσώπου αὐτοῦ
ἔδωκεν σοφίαν
καὶ γνῶσιν καὶ
εὐφροσύνην·
καὶ τῷ ἁμαρτάνοντι
ἔδωκεν
περισπασμὸν
τοῦ προσθεῖναι
καὶ τοῦ
συναγαγεῖν τοῦ
δοῦναι τῷ ἀγαθῷ
πρὸ προσώπου
τοῦ θεοῦ· ὅτι
καί γε τοῦτο
ματαιότης καὶ
προαίρεσις
πνεύματος.
Pro_10:22 WEB Yahweh's blessing
brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Pro_10:22 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.
Pro_10:22 εὐλογία
κυρίου ἐπὶ
κεφαλὴν δικαίου·
αὕτη πλουτίζει,
καὶ οὐ μὴ
προστεθῇ αὐτῇ
λύπη ἐν καρδίᾳ.
Genesis 3: Sinning with 3 Goods
· Gen_3:5-6, Gen_3:22
· The word beautiful good is mentioned 3 times Gen_3, and ever reference to good in Gen_3 is to the good tree which is being used for bad
· The introduction of sin started with defiling good with bad
All the goodness described in Gen_3 is being exploited by premature
indulgence before graduating probation:
Beauty Ends Up Vain
· Good to Vain: Beautiful good is a very important concept to the entire foundation of the Bible, and this is especially surprising when we compare that with the end of Proverbs that say beauty is vain.
· Hate Money to Leave Sin: Sin is the reason we are commanded to hate money -- so stop sinning and/or hypocritically complaining about such “negative preaching” against money, and start being a part of the solution by being redemptive and righteous!
The Point: they started using good beauty
for bad
Genesis 3 & 4: the Land is Double-Cursed!
-- Under Construction --
The same land that grew the good food is
now growing thorns
Gen_3:17 / Isa_24:5-6 – Sin-Cursed Land
Gen_4:10-12 / Num_35:33 – Murder-Cursed Land
Gen_6:8, Gen_8:21 – Only the Righteousness of Noah Can Reverse the Curse
Gen_5: = mostly Genealogy, but then the story
continues against sin…
Gen_6 – Good Beauty, Going Bad
At first reading, the church person sees discontinuity, but when you get
morally educated then you see continuity,
and a continuation of Truth.
“Beauty” here = Good-Beautiful, just like in Genesis 1
& 2
In Gen_6 they are continuing to defile it with
sin
(A) Angels Take Beautiful-Good
Women
Gen_6:2 WEB that God's sons saw that
men's daughters were beautiful [same as Gen_1and 2], and they
took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
Gen_6:2 LB that the sons of God, having seen the
daughters of men, that they were beautiful [καλαί εἰσιν], took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Gen_6:2 ἰδόντες
δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ
θεοῦ τὰς θυγατέρας
τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὅτι
καλαί εἰσιν, ἔλαβον
ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας
ἀπὸ πασῶν, ὧν ἐξελέξαντο
.
Gen_6:2 = Est_1:10
Gen_6:2 is the same Beautiful-Good-ness as Est_1:11.
Read: Gen_6:1-8
Gen_6:1
WEB It happened, when men began to
multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Gen_6:1 LB The Wickedness and Judgment of Man And it
came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were
born to them,
Gen_6:1 Καὶ ἐγένετο
ἡνίκα ἤρξαντο
οἱ ἄνθρωποι
πολλοὶ γίνεσθαι
ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ
θυγατέρες ἐγενήθησαν
αὐτοῖς.
Gen_6:2
WEB that God's sons saw that men's
daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they
chose.
Gen_6:2
that the sons of God, having seen the daughters of men, that they were
beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Gen_6:2 ἰδόντες
δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ
θεοῦ τὰς θυγατέρας
τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὅτι
καλαί εἰσιν, ἔλαβον
ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας
ἀπὸ πασῶν, ὧν ἐξελέξαντο
.
Gen_6:3 WEB Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive
with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred
twenty years."
Gen_6:3
And the Lord God said, “My Spirit shall by no means remain with these men forever,
for they are flesh, 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.
Gen_6:4
WEB The Nephilim were in the earth in
those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters.
They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of
renown.
Gen_6:4
Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons
of God came in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them. Those were
the giants of old, the men of renown.
Gen_6:4 οἱ δὲ γίγαντες
ἦσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις
ἐκείναις καὶ
μετ᾿ ἐκεῖνο, ὡς
ἂν εἰσεπορεύοντο
οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ
πρὸς τὰς θυγατέρας
τῶν ἀνθρώπων
καὶ ἐγεννῶσαν ἑαυτοῖς·
ἐκεῖνοι ἦσαν οἱ
γίγαντες οἱ ἀπ᾿
αἰῶνος, οἱ ἄνθρωποι
οἱ ὀνομαστοί.
Gen_6:5
WEB Yahweh saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.
Gen_6:5
And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied
upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was meditating on evil
continually,
Gen_6:5 Ἰδὼν δὲ
κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὅτι
ἐπληθύνθησαν
αἱ κακίαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων
ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ
πᾶς τις διανοεῖται
ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ
ἐπιμελῶς ἐπὶ τὰ
πονηρὰ πάσας τὰς
ἡμέρας,
Gen_6:6
WEB Yahweh was sorry that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Gen_6:6
that God took it to heart that He had made man upon the earth, and He pondered
it deeply.
Gen_6:6 καὶ ἐνεθυμήθη
ὁ θεὸς ὅτι ἐποίησεν
τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς, καὶ
διενοήθη.
Gen_6:7
WEB Yahweh said, "I will destroy
man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals,
creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made
them."
Gen_6:7
And God said, “I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth,
even man and beast, and reptiles, along with the birds of the sky, for I am
grieved that I have made them.”
Gen_6:7 καὶ εἶπεν
ὁ θεός Ἀπαλείψω
τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὃν
ἐποίησα, ἀπὸ
προσώπου τῆς γῆς
ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕως
κτήνους καὶ ἀπὸ
ἑρπετῶν ἕως τῶν
πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ,
ὅτι ἐθυμώθην ὅτι
ἐποίησα αὐτούς.
Gen_6:8
WEB But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
Gen_6:8
But Noah found grace before the Lord God.
Gen_6:8 Νωε δὲ εὗρεν
χάριν ἐναντίον
κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ.
(B) Enoch
· Obviously, the content of Enoch is anticipated by Gen_6 and even quoted by Jude.
· These same events of Genesis 6 are elaborated in the texts we have from various copies of Enoch.
· Just because there are lots of / a lot of / many variations doesn’t mean we should ignore Enoch or the rest of the Bible.
· Textual problems teach us to strive to focus on where the texts agree, and proceed with more caution when there are more variations.
(C) The King Deposes Beautiful-Good
Queen Vashti
Est_1:10 WEB On the seventh day,
when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded…
Est_1:10 LB Now on the seventh day the king, being merry,
told…
Est_1:10 ἐν δὲ τῇ
ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ
ἡδέως γενόμενος
ὁ βασιλεὺς εἶπεν
τῷ Αμαν καὶ
Βαζαν καὶ
Θαρρα καὶ Βωραζη
καὶ Ζαθολθα καὶ
Αβαταζα καὶ
Θαραβα, τοῖς ἑπτὰ
εὐνούχοις τοῖς
διακόνοις τοῦ
βασιλέως Ἀρταξέρξου,
Est_1:11 WEB to bring Vashti the
queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the
princes her beauty; for she
was beautiful.
Est_1:11 to bring the queen in to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the
princes, and her beauty to the nations, for she was beautiful.
Est_1:11 εἰσαγαγεῖν
τὴν βασίλισσαν
πρὸς αὐτὸν
βασιλεύειν αὐτὴν
καὶ περιθεῖναι
αὐτῇ τὸ διάδημα
καὶ δεῖξαι αὐτὴν
πᾶσιν τοῖς ἄρχουσιν
καὶ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν
τὸ κάλλος αὐτῆς,
ὅτι καλὴ ἦν.
The Cost of Beauty and Disobedience
In some sense, Queen Vashti Had Good Appearance, but was deposed for not using it to honor her husband.
To over simplify the royal crown was part of what he wanted to show to the nations and she choose not to use the beauty for his honor and so a righteous beautiful woman took her place.
Are there any times where we are in danger
of turning the good things we’ve been given, into bad?
Rich Prostitute
You have made yourself rich
through your prostitutions
Compare: (A) Rich Prostitute (B) Bad People Defile
Hopefully you are starting to see why sin
turns good things into evil…
Old Covenant Prophets
to Revelation
Now we can see that the Old Covenant Prophets to Revelation Confront and Condemn the evil money of the Rich Prostitute
The money has gone from good to evil and
so has the beauty of the rich prostitute who has sinned in order to get it
-- Under Construction --
Remember: Luke 11, etc. when they stole houses, etc.!
This definitely
made money evil through sin -- and religious people are at the forefront of
this human corruption!
>> link!
(A) Prophets Confront the Rich
Prostitute
Preview: Hos_2:5; Eze_23:30; Nah_3:4; Isa_23:16-18.
Hosea_2:5
Hos_2:5 NKJV For their mother has
played the harlot; she who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said,
"I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool
and my linen, my oil and my drink."
Hos_2:5 MT כִּ֤י
זָנְתָה֙
אִמָּ֔ם הֹבִ֖ישָׁה
הֹרָתָ֑ם כִּ֣י
אָֽמְרָ֗ה
אֵלְכָ֤ה
אַחֲרֵי֙
מְאַהֲבַ֔י
נֹתְנֵ֤י
לַחְמִי֙
וּמֵימַ֔י
צַמְרִ֥י
וּפִשְׁתִּ֖י
שַׁמְנִ֥י
וְשִׁקּוּיָֽי׃
Hos_2:5 LXX ὅτι ἐπόρνευσεν
ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῶν,
καὶ κατήνησεν ἡ
τίκτουσα αὐτούς·
διότι εἶπεν,
Πορεύσομαι ὀπίσω
τῶν ἀγαπώντων
με, οἳ διδόασιν ἄρτους
καὶ ὕδωρ, ἱμάτιον
καὶ λίνον, ἔλαιον
καὶ σίκερα.
Ezekiel_23:30
Eze_23:30 NKJV I will do these
things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you
have become defiled by their idols.
Eze_23:30 MT אֵת אֵ֛לֶּה
אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּ֑ךְ
אֲשֶׁר זָנִ֣ית
אַחַרֵ֣י
הַגּוֹיִ֔ם
אֲשֶׁ֖ר
נִטְמֵ֥את
בְּגִלּוּלֵיהֶֽם׃
Eze_23:30 LXX ταῦτα ἐποιήθησάν
σοι ἐν τῇ
πορνεία σου ὀπίσω
τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ ἐν
τοῖς
βδελύγμασιν αὐτῶν
ἐμιάνθης.
Nahum_3:4
Nah_3:4 NKJV Because of the multitude
of harlotries of the seductive harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells
nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.
Nah_3:4 MT מֵרֹ֣ב
זְנוּנֵ֗י
זוֹנָה֙ ט֣וֹבַת
חֵ֔ן בַּעֲלַ֖ת
כְּשָׁפִ֑ים
הַמֹּכֶ֣רֶת
גּוֹיִ֗ם
בִּזְנוּנֶ֔יהָ
וּמִשְׁפָּח֖וֹת
בִּכְשָׁפֶֽיהָ׃
Nah_3:4 LXX ἀπὸ πολλῶν
πορνειῶν
πόρνης ἐυπροσώπου
καὶ ἐκ θαυμαστῶν
φαρμάκων ἡ τῶν ἐθνῶν
πωλούσα διὰ τὰς
πορνείας αὐτῆς
καὶ φυλὰς ἐκ
φαρμάκων αὐτῆς.
Isaiah_23:16-18
Isa_23:16-18 NKJV Take a harp, go
about the city, you forgotten harlot; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that
you may be remembered. And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the
Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. Her
gain and her pay will be set apart for the Lord; it will not be treasured nor
laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat
sufficiently, and for fine clothing.
Isa_23:16-18 MT קְחִי־כִנּ֗וֹר
סֹ֤בִי עִיר֙
זוֹנָ֔ה
נִשְׁכָּחָ֖ה
הֵיטִ֣יבִי
נַֽגֵּן־הַרְבִּי־שִׁיר֑י
לְמַ֖עַן
תִּזָּכֵֽרִי׃
וְהָיָ֞ה
מִקֵּ֣ץ
שִׁבְעִ֣ים
שָׁנָ֗ה יִפְקֹ֤ד
יְהוָה֙
אֶת־צֹ֔ר
וְשָֽׁבָה
לְאֶתְנַנָּ֗ה
וּזָנְתָה֙
אֶת־כָּל־מַמְלְכ֣וֹת
הָאָ֔רֶץ
עַל־פְּנֵ֖י
הָאֲדָמָֽה׃
וְהָיָ֞ה
סְחָרָ֧הּ
וְאֶתְנַנָּ֛הּ
קֹ֖דֶשׁ
לַיהוָ֑ה
לֹֽא־יֵֽאָצֵ֣ר
וְלֹֽא־יֵֽהָסֵ֗ן
כִּי֩
לַיֹּשְׁבִ֨ים
לִפְנֵ֤י
יְהוָה֙
יִֽהְיֶה־סְחָרָ֔הּ
לֶאֱכֹ֖ל
לְשָׂבְעָ֑ה
וְלִמְכַסֶּ֖ה
עָתִֽיק׃
Isa_23:16-18 LXX λάβε κιθάραν, ἐλίσσευε
τὴν πόλιν, ἐξέβη
ἡ πόρνη ἐμνήσθη
ἀγαθῶν τῶν ὑπὲρ
πόλιν· οἴκουσε
δὲ κύριος σὲ ἑβδομήκοντα
ἔτη· καὶ ἡ πόλις
πειραθήσεται
καὶ ἀποδώσει τὸ
ἀργύριον ἐφʼ ὅλας
τὰς βασιλείας
τῆς γῆς.
(B) Revelation climatically Condemns
the Rich Prostitute
Rev_18:3 CAB For all the
nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings
of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
have become rich through the wealth of her luxury."
Rev_18:3 ὅτι ἐκ
τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ
θυμοῦ τῆς
πορνείας αὐτῆς
πέπωκαν
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη,
καὶ οἱ
βασιλεῖς τῆς
γῆς μετ᾿ αὐτῆς
ἐπόρνευσαν,
καὶ οἱ ἔμποροι
τῆς γῆς ἐκ
τῆς δυνάμεως
τοῦ στρήνους
αὐτῆς ἐπλούτησαν.
Rev_18:3 οτι εκ
του οινου του
θυμου της
πορνειας αυτης
Bπεπτωκασι
Aπεπωκαν TSπεπωκεν
παντα τα εθνη
και οι
βασιλεις της
γης μετ αυτης
επορνευσαν και
οι εμποροι της
γης εκ της δυναμεως
του στρηνους
αυτης
επλουτησαν
The Defilement of Riches and Corrupt Beauty
Notice that fornication is defiling the
goodness of riches -- that was once good a long time ago in a garden far, far
away…
Maybe it is still beautiful but it has
lost the purpose of its beauty. How then can we rejoice in such defiled riches
when God is so grieved by them, or do you think for a moment that the money we
do commerce with is free from a legacy of defilement
Rev_18:9 CAB "The kings
of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall
weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, [do you see
the demotion? Is it not as if / like Sirach says that they partook of good and
it became bad]
Rev_18:9 Καὶ
κλαύσονται αὐτὴν
καὶ κόψονται
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ
οἱ βασιλεῖς
τῆς γῆς οἱ
μετ᾿ αὐτῆς πορνεύσαντες
καὶ
στρηνιάσαντες,
ὅταν βλέπωσι
τὸν καπνὸν
τῆς πυρώσεως
αὐτῆς,
Rev_18:9 και Aκλαυσουσιν
Bκλαυσουσι
TSκλαυσονται
TSαυτην
και κοψονται
επ BAαυτην TSαυτη
οι βασιλεις
της γης οι μετ
αυτης
πορνευσαντες
και
στρηνιασαντες
οταν Bβλεπωσι TSAβλεπωσιν
τον καπνον της
πυρωσεως αυτης
Rev_18:10 standing from afar on account of the fear of her
torment, saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city!
Because in one hour your judgment came.'
Rev_18:10 ἀπὸ
μακρόθεν ἑστηκότες
διὰ τὸν
φόβον τοῦ
βασανισμοῦ αὐτῆς,
λέγοντες· οὐαὶ
οὐαί, ἡ
πόλις ἡ
μεγάλη,
Βαβυλὼν, ἡ
πόλις ἡ ἰσχυρά,
ὅτι μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἦλθεν
ἡ κρίσις σου.
Rev_18:10 απο
μακροθεν
εστηκοτες δια
τον φοβον του βασανισμου
αυτης λεγοντες
ουαι ουαι η
πολις η μεγαλη
βαβυλων η
πολις η ισχυρα
οτι TSεν μια
ωρα ηλθεν η
κρισις σου
Rev_18:11 "And the merchants of the earth shall weep and
mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:
Rev_18:11 Καὶ
οἱ ἔμποροι τῆς
γῆς κλαίουσι
καὶ πενθοῦσιν
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ, ὅτι
τὸν γόμον αὐτῶν
οὐδεὶς ἀγοράζει
οὐκέτι,
Rev_18:11 και οι
εμποροι της
γης Bκλαυσουσι
TSAκλαιουσιν
και Bπενθησουσιν
TSAπενθουσιν
επ Aαυτην TSBαυτη
οτι τον γομον
αυτων ουδεις
αγοραζει
ουκετι
Rev_18:12 merchandise of gold and silver,
precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind
of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most
precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
Rev_18:12
γόμον
χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου
καὶ λίθου
τιμίου καὶ
μαργαρίτου
καὶ βυσσίνου
καὶ σηρικοῦ
καὶ
κοκκίνου,
καὶ πᾶν
ξύλον θύϊνον
καὶ πᾶν σκεῦος
ἐλεφάντινον
καὶ πᾶν σκεῦος
ἐκ ξύλου
τιμιωτάτου
καὶ χαλκοῦ
καὶ σιδήρου
καὶ
μαρμάρου,
Rev_18:12 γομον
χρυσου και
αργυρου και λιθου
τιμιου και Aμαργαριτων
TSBμαργαριτου
και BAβυσσινου
TSβυσσου
και Bπορφυρου
TSAπορφυρας
και Aσιρικου TSBσηρικου
και κοκκινου
και παν ξυλον
θυινον και παν
σκευος
ελεφαντινον
και παν σκευος
εκ ξυλου τιμιωτατου
και χαλκου και
σιδηρου και
μαρμαρου
Rev_18:13 and cinnamon and incense, perfume and frankincense, wine
and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and
bodies and souls of men.
Rev_18:13 καὶ
κινάμωμον
καὶ ἄμωμον
καὶ
θυμιάματα
καὶ μύρον
καὶ λίβανον καὶ
οἶνον καὶ ἔλαιον
καὶ
σεμίδαλιν
καὶ σῖτον
καὶ κτήνη
καὶ πρόβατα,
καὶ ἵππων
καὶ ῥεδῶν
καὶ σωμάτων,
καὶ ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων.
Rev_18:13 και Aκινναμωμον
Aκαι Aαμωμον
TSBκιναμωμον
και θυμιαματα
και μυρον και
λιβανον και
οινον και
ελαιον και
σεμιδαλιν και
σιτον και TSAκτηνη
TSAκαι
προβατα Bκαι Bκτηνη
και ιππων και Bραιδων
TSAρεδων
και σωματων
και ψυχας
ανθρωπων
Rev_18:14 The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you,
and all the sumptuous things and the gaudy things have perished from you, and you
shall by no means find them no more.
Rev_18:14 καὶ ἡ
ὀπώρα τῆς ἐπιθυμίας
τῆς ψυχῆς
σου ἀπώλετο
ἀπὸ σοῦ,
καὶ πάντα
τὰ λιπαρὰ
καὶ τὰ
λαμπρὰ ἀπῆλθεν
ἀπὸ σοῦ,
καὶ οὐκέτι
οὐ μὴ αὐτὰ
εὑρήσεις.
Rev_18:14 και η
οπωρα Aσου της
επιθυμιας της
ψυχης TSBσου
απηλθεν απο
σου και παντα
τα λιπαρα και
τα λαμπρα BAαπωλετο
TSαπηλθεν
απο σου και
ουκετι ου μη Bευρης
TSευρησης
αυτα Aευρησουσιν
Rev_18:15 The merchants of these things, who became rich from her,
shall stand at afar on account of the fear of her torment, both weeping and
sorrowing,
Rev_18:15 οἱ ἔμποροι
τούτων, οἱ
πλουτήσαντες
ἀπ᾿ αὐτῆς, ἀπὸ
μακρόθεν
στήσονται
διὰ τὸν
φόβον τοῦ
βασανισμοῦ αὐτῆς
κλαίοντες
καὶ πενθοῦντες,
Rev_18:16 and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, she who was
clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and having been gilded with gold
and precious stones and pearls!
Rev_18:16
λέγοντες·
Οὐαὶ οὐαί,
ἡ πόλις ἡ
μεγάλη, ἡ
περιβεβλημένη
βύσσινον καὶ
πορφυροῦν
καὶ κόκκινον
καὶ
κεχρυσωμένη ἐν
χρυσίῳ καὶ
λίθῳ τιμίῳ
καὶ
μαργαρίταις,
Rev_18:16 TSBκαι
λεγοντες ουαι
ουαι η πολις η
μεγαλη η
περιβεβλημενη
βυσσινον και
πορφυρουν και
κοκκινον και κεχρυσωμενη
Aεν BAχρυσιω TSεν TSχρυσω
και λιθω τιμιω
και Aμαργαριτη
TSBμαργαριταις
Rev_18:17 Because in one hour such great wealth was laid waste.'
And every captain, and all those sailing along the coast, and sailors, and as
many as work on the sea, stood from afar
Rev_18:17 ὅτι
μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἠρημώθη
ὁ τοσοῦτος
πλοῦτος. Καὶ
πᾶς
κυβερνήτης
καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἐπὶ
τόπον πλέων
καὶ ναῦται
καὶ ὅσοι τὴν
θάλασσαν ἐργάζονται,
ἀπὸ
μακρόθεν ἔστησαν,
Rev_18:17 οτι
μια ωρα
ηρημωθη ο
τοσουτος
πλουτος και
πας κυβερνητης
και πας TSεπι TSτων TSπλοιων
ο BAεπι BAτοπον
BAπλεων TSομιλος
και ναυται και
οσοι την
θαλασσαν
εργαζονται απο
μακροθεν
εστησαν
Rev_18:18 and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her burning,
saying, 'Who is like this great city?'
Rev_18:18 καὶ ἔκραζον
βλέποντες
τὸν καπνὸν
τῆς πυρώσεως
αὐτῆς,
λέγοντες·
τίς ὁμοία
τῇ πόλει τῇ
μεγάλῃ;
Rev_18:18 και
εκραζον BAβλεποντες
TSορωντες
τον καπνον της
πυρωσεως αυτης
λεγοντες τις
ομοια τη πολει
τη μεγαλη
Rev_18:19 "And they threw dust on their heads and were crying
out, weeping and sorrowing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, by which
all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! Because in one hour she
was laid waste.'
Rev_18:19 καὶ ἔβαλον
χοῦν ἐπὶ
τὰς κεφαλὰς
αὐτῶν καὶ ἔκραζον
κλαίοντες
καὶ πενθοῦντες,
λέγοντες· οὐαὶ
οὐαί, ἡ
πόλις ἡ
μεγάλη, ἐν ᾗ
ἐπλούτησαν
πάντες οἱ ἔχοντες
τὰ πλοῖα ἐν
τῇ θαλάσσῃ
ἐκ τῆς
τιμιότητος αὐτῆς·
ὅτι μιᾷ ὥρᾳ
ἠρημώθη.
Rev_18:19 και
εβαλον χουν
επι τας
κεφαλας αυτων
και εκραζον
κλαιοντες και
πενθουντες Bκαι
λεγοντες ουαι
ουαι η πολις η
μεγαλη εν η
επλουτησαν
παντες οι
εχοντες BAτα
πλοια εν τη
θαλασση εκ της
τιμιοτητος
αυτης οτι μια
ωρα ηρημωθη
Exo_12 – Israelites Got Gold from Egyptians
We are seeing a repeat of humanity fall
into sin as exemplified through the children of Israel
Moses got The Israelites to Ask for Lots of Nice Things from the Egyptians…
Exo_12:35 WEB The children of
Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
Exo_12:35 LB And the children of Israel did as Moses
commanded them, and they asked of the Egyptians articles of silver and gold and
apparel.
Exo_12:35 οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ
Ισραηλ ἐποίησαν
καθὰ συνέταξεν
αὐτοῖς Μωυσῆς,
καὶ ᾔτησαν παρὰ
τῶν Αἰγυπτίων
σκεύη ἀργυρᾶ
καὶ χρυσᾶ καὶ ἱματισμόν·
Exo_12:36 WEB Yahweh gave the
people favor in the sight of
the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the
Egyptians.
Exo_12:36 And the Lord gave His people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they lent to them; and they
plundered the Egyptians.
Exo_12:36 καὶ κύριος
ἔδωκεν τὴν χάριν
τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ ἐναντίον
τῶν Αἰγυπτίων,
καὶ ἔχρησαν αὐτοῖς·
καὶ ἐσκύλευσαν
τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους.
Devine favor following through lost people
– image that irony
That is the source of good gold for Egypt
Israel gains as Egypt lost
Notice that Moses told them to do this
This is not describing them as greedy for
gold but rather showing us how happy God is to give it to them
Key word here is favor in the sight of the
Egyptians
Good Gold Again, At First
· At first, this is a notable kindness from God to show His love and delight with the Israelites.
· After all, they were getting ready to celebrate a marriage covenant with the Monotheistic God!
· So notice that the luxury of the garden of delight is most appropriate with Eden’s last delight of the blessedness of marriage.
· God has been anticipating the covenant of Sinai from the beginning of confronting Pharaoh
· God absolutely cherishing this event as say in Jer_2. -- He was love struck with them
· Principle: Egyptians probably sinned greatly with gold, but when Israelites plundered it from the Egyptians, this plundering, evil people loosing temporal good for the benefit of good people, is a good thing that made the gold a redeemed into good gift to the children of Israel, because Israel herself had not sinned with it!
· But did things ever go bad with Israel as it did for the rest of humanity in Genesis?
What we are seeing is that mysteries are being introduced and we are waiting for the rest of God revelations to explain why they are happening
· This includes things like gold in Gen_2 the seed of the woman in Gen_3 and the collecting to jewels in Exo_12
· We get part of the picture here and we get a whole lot more explain to us in Jer_2
· Jer_2 is one of those places to understand real love
· In Exo_12 god is absolutely loving his people and telling them to go collect jewels
Preview Exo_17 Amalek interrupts them along the way and God hates them for it
By Exo_20 we are getting the 10 commandments
Exo_32 and 33 it is a burning mountain. Started as a burning bush in Exo_3 and ended up in a mountain in 33:
Exo_32 – Ground Gold (After Golden Calf)
After the stinky-abominable of the golden-Calf-Idol, their gold was again made into a filthy and condemned stinky abomination just as if / like it was for humans…
Exo_32:20 – Moses Ground Calf into Powder & Made them Drink It
Exo_32:19 WEB It happened, as soon
as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses'
anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them
beneath the mountain.
Exo_32:19 LB And when he drew near to the camp, he saw the
calf and the people dancing; and Moses, being very angry, cast the two tablets
out of his hands and broke them to pieces under the mountain.
Exo_32:19 καὶ ἡνίκα
ἤγγιζεν τῇ
παρεμβολῇ, ὁρᾷ
τὸν μόσχον καὶ
τοὺς χορούς, καὶ
ὀργισθεὶς θυμῷ
Μωυσῆς ἔρριψεν
ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν
αὐτοῦ τὰς δύο
πλάκας καὶ συνέτριψεν
αὐτὰς ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος.
Exo_32:20 WEB He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it
on the water, and made
the children of Israel drink of it.
Exo_32:20 And having taken the calf which they made, he consumed it with fire, and ground it very small, and scattered it
on the water, and made the children of Israel to drink it.
Exo_32:20 καὶ
λαβὼν τὸν μόσχον,
ὃν ἐποίησαν,
κατέκαυσεν αὐτὸν
ἐν πυρὶ καὶ κατήλεσεν
αὐτὸν λεπτὸν
καὶ ἔσπειρεν αὐτὸν
ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ
ἐπότισεν αὐτὸ
τοὺς υἱοὺς
Ισραηλ.
Exo_32:21 WEB Moses said to
Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin
on them?"
Exo_32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, “What have this people done to you,
that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”
Exo_32:21 καὶ εἶπεν
Μωυσῆς τῷ
Ααρων Τί ἐποίησέν
σοι ὁ λαὸς οὗτος,
ὅτι ἐπήγαγες ἐπ᾿
αὐτοὺς ἁμαρτίαν
μεγάλην;
Exo_32:22 WEB Aaron said,
"Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they
are set on evil.
Exo_32:22 And Aaron said to Moses, “Be not angry, my lord, for you
know the impulsiveness of this people.
Exo_32:22 καὶ εἶπεν
Ααρων πρὸς
Μωυσῆν Μὴ ὀργίζου,
κύριε· σὺ γὰρ οἶδας
τὸ ὅρμημα τοῦ
λαοῦ τούτου.
There is a forced acknowledgment of how
evil they have made their money
Do we see the bitter destructive
cursed-anathema, which needs to happen to gold when it is used for sin by those
who know better?
What then does sin do to
the original goodness of gold?
How deep into stinky
abomination does sin get our money into?
Exo_33 – Golden Calf: Take
Off Jewelry
After Golden Calf, Israelites Commanded To Take Off Gold (in Exo_33:5-6)
Exo_33:5 WEB Yahweh
said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your
midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry
from you, that I may know what to do to you.' "
Exo_33:5 LB For the Lord said
to the children of Israel, “You are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I
bring on you another plague and destroy you: now then put off your glorious
apparel, and your ornaments, and I will show you what I will do to you.”
Exo_33:5 καὶ εἶπεν
κύριος τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ Ὑμεῖς
λαὸς σκληροτράχηλος·
ὁρᾶτε μὴ πληγὴν
ἄλλην ἐπάξω ἐγὼ
ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς καὶ ἐξαναλώσω
ὑμᾶς· νῦν οὖν ἀφέλεσθε
τὰς στολὰς τῶν
δοξῶν ὑμῶν καὶ
τὸν κόσμον, καὶ
δείξω σοι ἃ ποιήσω
σοι.
Exo_33:6 WEB The children
of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
Exo_33:6 So the sons of Israel took off their ornaments and their
array at the mount of Horeb.
Exo_33:6 καὶ
περιείλαντο οἱ
υἱοὶ Ισραηλ τὸν
κόσμον αὐτῶν
καὶ τὴν
περιστολὴν ἀπὸ
τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ
Χωρηβ.
The fleshly temptation here is to say,
“That doesn’t apply to me because I didn’t make a golden calf”, but the rest of
the Bible shows that it does
apply to us.
God’s Judgment on
Defiled Luxury
· Do you hear God’s attitude towards luxury when it is defiled?
· God was willing to give the Israelites gold when they left Egypt (they plunder the Egyptians, as seen previously) but He takes it from them when they sin with it.
· Likewise, God put originally good gold in the earth, and then later tells us to hate it because of our sin.
Remember that Paul is drawing out the
moral of the story showing us that Israel is an illustration to show us how
sinful the flesh is
So… Why Hate Money?
The Point: Sin is a very good reason to hate money,
indeed!
We can successfully do this when we stop
finding excuses to say it doesn’t apply to us
What Good things are we tempted to turn into
bad?
· Money?
· A prosperous society?
· Intelligence and knowledge?
· Other Advantages & gifts?
Israelites Illustrate Sin for Us All -- the
Downfall of Goodness…
Remember that Paul is the answer for understanding
how this does apply to us
Light to Sin: An Example
to Follow, or to Learn to Repent?
Israel was supposed to be a light to the
nations… (Rom_2,
etc.)
But when Israel failed through the potency
of utter human sinfulness, she instead temporarily became a distinct object
lesson of how evil human sin is.
Instead of a light of truth she become an
object lesson of sin
Just like gold started good and became bad
for humans through sin in Genesis, so also we are re-taught this same lesson
through the example sinful Israel.
This principle is expounded throughout Romans:
None Righteous: Both Jews and Greek
are All Under Sin
Rom_3:9 What then? Are we any better? Not at
all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under
sin.
Rom_3:9 Τί οὖν;
προεχόμεθα;
οὐ πάντως·
προῃτιασάμεθα
γὰρ ᾿Ιουδαίους
τε καὶ ῞Ελληνας
πάντας ὑφ᾿ ἁμαρτίαν
εἶναι,
Rom_3:10 Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not
one,
Rom_3:10
καθὼς
γέγραπται ὅτι
οὐκ ἔστι
δίκαιος οὐδὲ
εἷς·
Rom_3:10 καθως
γεγραπται Bοτι TSAοτι ουκ
εστιν δικαιος
ουδε εις
What we see is that Paul is taking the
example of the Israelites and not teaching us about light but instead he is
teaching us about sin interestingly enough.
Deuteronomy 7 – Anathema
vs. Moses -- Getting Accursed with
the Cursed Thing
Anathema is a very particular way in which Israel teaches the whole world about how evil money is.
Pagan church people need to catch up to this basic monotheistic orthodoxy!
Church hypocrites like to pretend that money
itself isn’t evil.
Church people say the heart is what matters
not the material itself.
The doctrine of anathema teaches us that the stuff itself is bad.
And church people nauseate the righteous from their pagan philosophy.
This incrimination and hatred of the material itself is key (very important) for what anathema teaches us about money.
So remember: The doctrines of anathema already taught the exact opposite of what rebellious church people stubbornly and ignorantly teach.
Exodus Calf to Deuteronomy
Anathema: So, moving from Exodus to Deuteronomy
we hear the teachings of Anathema…
Deu_7:24-26 – When you Hold On to Anathematized Things it Gets You
Anathematized
Deu_7:24 WEB He will deliver their
kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the
sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed
them.
Deu_7:24 LB And He shall deliver their kings into your
hands, and you shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in
opposition before you, until you have utterly destroyed them.
Deu_7:24 καὶ
παραδώσει τοὺς
βασιλεῖς αὐτῶν
εἰς τὰς χεῖρας ὑμῶν,
καὶ ἀπολεῖται
τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν ἐκ
τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου·
οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται
οὐδεὶς κατὰ πρόσωπόν
σου, ἕως ἂν ἐξολεθρεύσῃς
αὐτούς.
Deu_7:25 WEB You shall burn
the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it
for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu_7:25 You shall burn with fire [κατακαύσετε
πυρί] the graven images of their gods: you shall not covet their silver [οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις
ἀργύριον], neither shall you ·take to yourself· gold
[χρυσίον] from them, lest you be snared [πταίσῃς] by it, for it is an abomination
[βδέλυγμα] to the Lord your God.
Deu_7:25 τὰ
γλυπτὰ τῶν θεῶν
αὐτῶν κατακαύσετε
πυρί· οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις
ἀργύριον οὐδὲ
χρυσίον ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν
καὶ οὐ λήμψῃ
σεαυτῷ, μὴ πταίσῃς
δι᾿ αὐτό, ὅτι
βδέλυγμα κυρίῳ
τῷ θεῷ σού ἐστιν·
Deu_7:26 WEB You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You
shall utterly detest it,
and you shall utterly abhor
it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deu_7:26 And you shall not bring an
abomination into your house [οὐκ εἰσοίσεις
βδέλυγμα εἰς τὸν
οἶκόν σου], so should you be an accursed
thing like it [ἔσῃ
ἀνάθημα ὥσπερ
τοῦτο]; you shall utterly detest
it [προσοχθίσματι
προσοχθιεῖς *], and altogether abominate
it [βδελύγματι
βδελύξῃ], because it is an accursed thing [ὅτι ἀνάθημά ἐστιν].
Deu_7:26 καὶ οὐκ
εἰσοίσεις βδέλυγμα
εἰς τὸν οἶκόν
σου καὶ ἔσῃ ἀνάθημα
ὥσπερ τοῦτο·
προσοχθίσματι
προσοχθιεῖς
καὶ βδελύγματι
βδελύξῃ, ὅτι ἀνάθημά
ἐστιν.
[* WS on G4360,
προσοχθίζω: “…from prós (G4314), to, at, against, and ochthízō (n.f.), to be grieved,
offended, take ill, which is from áchthos
(n.f.), burden, load. To be burdened, grieved, indignant, to be grieved toward
someone, angry…”]
We got an example of hating cursed gold with
the calf and we got a teaching of hating cursed gold in Deu_7
Idolatry of gold stinks to God and this is
tying the golden calf with the golden idols of the pagans.
He is telling them to imitate Moses’ hot
anger with them.
It did not say it is a heart issue, it
says God thinks it stinks. And the heart issue comes into play when you don’t
hate it.
If you bring it into your house, you can
become disgusting to God. The first thing you need to ask yourself is it an
anathema?
You need to be zealous to abhor stinky
idols
The question is: how much does the money
of our age stink?
Are you sinning with it or did the
Egyptians sin with it?
Only if you are using it for good then in
some cases you can bring it into your house, but in other cases you can’t even
bring it into your house.
The worst thing you can do with an anathema thing is the lust and bring it
into your house.
Joshua 6 & 7 – Achan’s Anathema vs. Joshua
Spelled: Achan, but maybe/sometimes
pronounced like Aken; Hebrew: “ןָכָע”
This is what Achan did in Joshua's day,
which fulfills so many other Scriptures…
(A) Warning: Jos_6 – Joshua Warned Against Money-Lust: when fighting
Jericho
Jos_6:18 WEB But as for you, only
keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted
it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of
Israel accursed, and trouble it.
Jos_6:18 LB But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest you set your
mind upon and take of the accursed thing,
and you make the camp of the children of Israel an accursed
thing, and destroy us.
Jos_6:18 ἀλλὰ ὑμεῖς
φυλάξασθε σφόδρα
ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος,
μήποτε ἐνθυμηθέντες
ὑμεῖς αὐτοὶ λάβητε
ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος
καὶ ποιήσητε τὴν
παρεμβολὴν τῶν
υἱῶν Ισραηλ ἀνάθεμα
καὶ ἐκτρίψητε ἡμᾶς·
Jos_6:19 WEB But all the silver,
and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come
into Yahweh's treasury."
Jos_6:19 And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy
to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.”
Jos_6:19 καὶ πᾶν
ἀργύριον ἢ
χρυσίον ἢ χαλκὸς
ἢ σίδηρος ἅγιον
ἔσται τῷ κυρίῳ,
εἰς θησαυρὸν
κυρίου εἰσενεχθήσεται.
There is a distinction: When the children
of Israel sin with gold it is destroyed when the ignorant pagan sin with gold
it can be redeemed and given to God
In this particular example, he is telling
us how an anathema thing could be redeemed without being ground into powder
The redemption of an accused thing could
be used to honor the monotheistic God and not into your house for yourself
Whenever it comes to dirty money, you
always have to find rempti9ve ways of how to clean it
It is like defeating lust, the first step
is seeing how bad and stinky it is before you can defeat it. You have to see
how bad money is, if you say it is not that bad, you will never defeat it. When
you understand the fall of sin then you will really hate money
Some Protestant and/or reformed theologian
thinks he is teaching the depravity of man
and then he says you don’t have to hate
money -- he has no idea what sin is.
Hating money is the doctrine of sin &
how evil/depraved humans are, and how dirty they have made everything under
their hands that was otherwise originally given to them as nice and valuable.
(B) Lust: Jos_7 – Achan Fails!
Jos_7:1-26
– Achan Takes Forbidden Money (and
Many Israelites Die as a Result)
Jos_7:21 – Robe (MT: Shinar/Babylon-area)
MT is implying that the
place that God starting giving us good is anathematize
Disciple Notes: Achan, Sincerity, & Strongholds
Idolizing Sincerity / Trusting in Sincerity
Achan’s Story: Lessons on Sincerity
It’s
a sad story, what should we learn from that story?
Achan
didn’t confess until the lot incriminated him
He
seems like he has come to the point of sincerity.
Sincerity Falls Short of Salvation
Sincerity
does not make up for luxury
Mr.
S kept on accidentally using the word sincere, it is very/real hard for your
flesh to accept what we started seeing in Achan
The Danger of Trusting Sincerity
When
you trust in sincerity, you embrace insincerity
Your
flesh is still hard hearted because your flesh still believes in sincerity
Orthodoxy Over Sincerity
When
you realize that sincerity doesn’t save you, the only other option is
orthodoxy: does anyone know what the right word is? The only thing you have
left when you kill the idol of sincerity is Biblical begging.
The Struggle Against Strongholds
You
still struggle with begging because you still have strongholds in your flesh of
admiring sincerity, you still believe in it in your flesh and that is why you
still struggle.
[Strongholds
imply the need to beg more.
Therefore, if you feel the threatening
doom of luxury and consumptiveness and you're not urgently eagerly asking,
you're being illogical and inconsistent and need to repent and change
Hating money is for the purpose of
becoming a beggar.]
The Conviction of Achan’s Story
You
are hard of hearing so lean it and let the story of Achan convict your flesh
unless you are willing for his entire destruction to be in vain for no reason
The Idol of Sincerity Exposed
Motives,
intentions, sincerity- you don’t understand your own energizing and inner
workings of your own heart. You are ignorant as
you can possible be when your actions are bowing to the idol of
sincerity – just in the same way church people praise it out right, just in the
same way they praise liking money, they still don’t know the doctrine of sin.
Sincerity Cannot Ransom the Soul
What
we are seeing with Achan is an illustration that sincerity does not make up for
luxury; it will not ransom your soul
Wife’s Notes: Achan, Gen_2, Strongholds That Discourage
Joshua 7 - Achan
When you justify yourself because of sincerity, then you still have no idea about, and no understanding of, the doctrine of sin and how deeply sinful the flesh really is.
Even Achan confessed to his sin, and church people, haven't even caught up to that
And we see with Achan that sincerity will not make up for luxury. It will not ransom your soul. It will not save you.
When you realize that sincerity can't save you then the only thing you have left (when you kill the idol of sincerity) is orthodoxy and biblical begging
When you struggle with begging then you still have strongholds in your flesh of admiring sincerity. You still believe in it in your flesh. That's why you struggle so much with begging.
Don't be hard of hearing. Lean into & Embrace the Truth. Crucify your flesh. Take Achan's example seriously,
…unless indeed you're willing for his entire destruction to be in vain and not taken to heart.
Gen 2 & the Gold of Havilah
Gen 2 & the Gold of Havilah
A naive person is going to think that God is talking all good about gold cuz he just has no problem with it.
But we see that in Gen 3 God promises a crushing of the serpent's head and a redemption from the bad that is occurring
We are very short sighted, but the Bible is the longest running adventure saga in human history
Ex Isa introduces the "suffering servant" but then we have to wait hundreds & hundreds of years to know what he's talking about
Similarly, there is a history of Havilah, and it is just introduced in the beginning of Genesis, but that is not where it stops! Yes, it starts with good, but bad does happen...
Why does Gen 2 talk about the "good gold of Havilah"?
Started out good
But got dirty by Amalek...
Gen 25 Ishmaelites were living from Havilah to Shur
Amalek likes the sinful gold of Havilah cuz he attacked Israel in Exo 17 when she was simply passing through Sur
"Sinful gold" cuz Amalek is sinning with it by buying selling trading and fighting for it
1Sam 15 Saul felt the enmity of the people
But God hated them all the way to every single good thing they had
Wake up call- your flesh does not hate sinful gold enough!
Sincerity didn't save Saul either in 1Sam 15!
God hated Amalek's prosperity, which included the goodness of Havilah that God had to anathematize
Strongholds That Discourage
How to overcome feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, depressed, and such over the fear of being snared, trapped, hated, and destroyed with any move you make in this luxurious culture and setting we live in?
If you press into it sufficiently then it is encouraging
If you are neglecting it then is it discouraging
Your conscious can nag you because something is not fixed. Something is still wrong
It is not necessarily saying that you are sinning
But if your flesh has uncrucified strongholds in it then that will and should disturb you
Your conscious nags you until you pray enough; your conscious is pleading with you to get poor.
If your body has not been dismantled in a particular, AND you have a working conscious because you have exposed yourself to monotheism (which serves the purpose of convicting your flesh as guilty of sin), then your awakened & sharpened conscious will nag you about sin until it is resolved by knowledge and willful cooperation with the truth.
Don't drown & numb your conscious by outside stimulation and
entertainment and niceties
Your flesh has strongholds that need to be dismantled so that your body can be
an acceptable temple for the One Spirit that is holy
When you're begging God in prayer sufficiently then the fruit of that will be that you see the righteous as having the answers you need and you will be dependent on them (as opposed to acquiring your own independent knowledge and being content with your own way of surviving in life)
Biblical humility always begs
What Can we Learn from Anathematized Money?
Extremes
Teach Canonical Rules
Extremes Teach Us Moral
Rules to Bring Over More “Moderate” Situations
As is always the case in the Bible (as I
insistently teach): whenever your foolish
eyes are blurry about a moral principle, then take it to the extreme, find out
what the principle is, then know for certain that the same rules govern less
extreme cases and circumstances.
Extremes are not the exceptions to the
rules they are the rules!
We really must / need/got to confront the
hypocrisy of the flesh, which loves “balance” instead of extreme Truth.
Moral extremes are not the exceptions to the
rule, they are the rule.
If you hate the object of sin in the most
extreme cases of sin, such as anathema, therefore we also know that we still
hate the objects of sin when the sin is less absolute and extreme to that
object
You are not allowed to say you only hate
the object of money when it is anathematized because on the contrary the
doctrine of anathema teaches us that money is an object to hate, therefore you
have to take Jesus seriously when he says to hate money.
You are not allowed to flip flop and
hijack terms and manipulate definitions: anathema reinforces Jesus’ money
hatred
Morality is NOT Balanced
(Reminder)
The reason I can say that Extremes are
required (as the rule and not the exception to it) is because we are talking about
morality. We are not talking about “a well-balanced diet” where the extremes
are the exceptions (i.e. this food is
good, except when taken in extremes -- Health Food is Only good when taken in
moderation). In the physical realm, which is not moral, a flesh
monger often finds refuge for his foolish worldly philosophies, saying that extremes are the exception to the rule,
but we have got to stop this rebellious insanity of adding insult to injuries
by misapplying the a-moral
principles of “balance” in this physical life to the extreme morality of the kingdom of heaven. Case
in point: Is the hatred of money
because of physics? Is it because money is not pretty? Even if it is pretty in
this life, you still need to hate it because of the overruling moral authority
of the next life -- which is a very unbalanced way of the morality of heaven
overthrowing the balance of this life, along with all of the anathematized
flesh mongers who indulge in it.
Extremes Are The Rule, NOT the Exception!
· Physics are balanced, but moralities are extreme
· The principles of Anathema are not limited to Anathema, as an extreme exception to the rule.
· The principles of Anathema are not isolated from our reality, but are the governing rules for it.
· Extremes don’t tell us what is irrelevant to our life, but emphatically tell us how our life should be lived!
The only reason people look for a balance is because they are minding things on the earth instead of where Jesus is at.
Anathematized Money is
the Worst Riches (The Most Extremely Defiled Money)
· Does the most extremely defile money mean that it is the exception to the rule or is it the rule?
· Anathematized money teaches us the rules of the extremely dirty money and we need to know that its principles apply even in not as extreme situation.
· It is an issues of degrees not an issue of extremity.
· All of these Anathema passages show us, and command us to have, a negative view on money to the degree that it has been dirtied by sin.
· When Jesus says to generally hate and despise money, He was not joking!
· Hating the evil material itself, against the grain of our stubborn lustful hearts, is what the Bible is actually teaching us.
· Jesus’ general money hatred is back up by (and comparable to) Moses’ particular Anathema hatred. – even if they might be in different degrees.
· Moses says t make it stink to yourself, and Jesus says to hate and despise it, that is not that different even though it was said in different degrees
· Maybe you can take unspecified money into your house, but be careful to hate it so that it does not become accursed unto you and anathematize you!
Disciple Notes: Thinking Right
-- Under Construction --
The Danger of Trivializing Sin
Beware to not trivialize your sin, don’t underestimate how much your flesh contributes to your own problems.
Church Flesh today is not even caught up to the honest confession of Achan, who died for his sin.
Morning Reflections on Responsibility
When you wake up in the morning your first response needs to be: how can I be less consumptive, how can I be more humble, how can I prioritize the hard worker,
Owning Up to Sin
how can I own up to my sin more, I am my worst enemy and am responsible for the most evil in my life to date. Don’t trivialize your sin.
Tremble Before God for Redemption
Find out how you can find ways to be on your knees trembling before God asking for redemption. How can I get the Truth to the people across the world begging for Truth and dying in their sin.
Fear Taking What’s Forbidden
You better be afraid when you take when you shouldn’t take. -- see: Didache
Good Intentions Aren’t Enough
You can still be disposable even with good intentions.
Wife Notes: Thinking Right <<<<
-- Under Construction --
Sun_5:37pm
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GPT title addition, the original is below
Humanity’s Struggle with Goodness
The goodness of gold reflects humanity's
challenge to handle God's good gifts responsibly, waiting for full restoration
through Christ.
Borrowing God’s Goodness
Sirach 39 reminds us that humanity, once
good, now borrows God’s goodness until ultimate redemption after probation.
Adam’s Failure, Our
Responsibility
Adam and Eve failed, leaving us
responsible for restoring goodness through faith and obedience.
Goodness for the Believing
Righteous
Numbers 14 shows the promised land
intended for the faithful, but humanity’s sin thwarted its goodness.
Premature Exploitation of Good
Genesis 3-4 illustrates humanity’s misuse
of good things, leading to thorns and worsening corruption.
From Good to Evil Desires
Genesis 6 depicts the sons of God turning
good beauty into temptation, repeating the cycle of sin.
Plundering Egypt with Purpose
Exodus 12 reveals God’s favor in Israel plundering
Egypt, preparing for a marriage covenant at Sinai.
Golden Calf: Goodness Defiled
Exodus 32 shows gold, once a blessing,
becoming an abomination when Israel sins with it.
Burning Bush to Burning Mountain
Exodus charts the journey from God's revelation
at the burning bush to Israel’s rebellion with the golden calf.
Forced Acknowledgment of Evil
Moses made Israel drink their idol’s
ashes, confronting the evil they made of their wealth.
The Stinking Idolatry of Gold
Deuteronomy 7 emphasizes God's hatred for
idolatrous gold, illustrating how sin corrupts good things.
Anathema: Devoted for Destruction
The term “anathema” signifies cursed items
destined for destruction unless redeemed for God’s use.
Hypocrisy of Loving Money
Church teachings that minimize money's
evil contrast sharply with the Bible’s call to hate sin-stained wealth.
Lessons from Israel’s Failure
Paul uses Israel’s downfall to teach the
doctrine of sin, calling us to reject love for defiled riches.
Extremes Reveal Moral Rules
Moral extremes, like anathematized money,
teach universal principles about sin and goodness.
Money’s Defilement and Redemption
Anathematized money teaches us to hate
sin-stained wealth and use resources only for God’s glory.
Serving God with All Blessings
Devote every blessing—money, beauty,
knowledge, and strength—to building God’s kingdom.
Flesh’s Contribution to Ruin
Recognize how much your flesh worsens your
problems, contributing to sin and failure.
Morning Pleas for Humility
Begin each day asking how to be less
consumptive, more humble, and more faithful in serving others.
Wake Up to Responsibility
Admit your sin, stop blaming others, and
own up to your responsibility for the world’s evil.
Daily Choices with Eternal Impact
Luxury denies the needs of the poor;
judgment will reveal the consequences of selfish indulgence.
Begging as Morning Discipline
Humble yourself daily in prayer, crying
out for righteousness and wisdom to meet others’ needs.
Prioritize True Virtue
Reject superficial self-congratulations;
seek righteousness and genuine virtue through God’s pleasure.
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The goodness of gold is about humanity's struggle
to do good with the good things that God gave to them
It started good, but it has gone bad for
now, and we are waiting for God to make it good again through Jesus; so in the
meantime, we are not willing to say that it is pleasant in our sight, by default.
Sir 39 good things were originally created
for good people
People used to be good
Now we can borrow God's goodness to
participate in God's goodness, to partake of any good things, through his mercy
We await a day where we are not just
borrowing God's goodness, but we will be entirely good again, actually fully
partaking of it after graduating from our human probation
Adam and Eve failed, and now the ball is
in our court to stop failing
Numbers 14 the good promised land was
intended for the believing righteous
God's children were supposed to be good
All of the references of good in Genesis 3
are describing an exploitation of good, by a premature I diligence before
graduating probation
Gen 3 &4
The same land that grew good fruit is now
giving thorns
And things just take a nosedive and get
worse
Gen 6
At first reading the ignorant church
person sees discontinuity, but when you're morally educated you see and
excellence of unity and continuity
God's sons saw that the daughters of men
were good beautiful
We got to ask ourselves if there are any
times where we are tempted to turn good things into bad things?
The money has gone from good to evil, and
so has the beauty of the rich prostitute who has sinned in order to get it.
Exo 12
We're seeing a repeat of humanity's fall
into sin, as exemplified through the children of Israel.
God wanted his children to gain from the
loss of the Egyptians
Through Moses God commanded the children
of Israel to plunder the Egyptians
This shows God's delight and FAVOR given
to them to do so
The luxury of the garden of delights is
most appropriate when it is tied with Eden's last survivors of celebrating a
marriage
God had been anticipating the covenant of
Sinai from the beginning of confronting pharaoh
They are collecting jewels because they
are getting ready to go make a marriage covenant
God was absolutely love-struck with them
and cherished this event, according to Jeremiah 2
Preview of exodus 17, Amalek interrupts
and gets in the way and fights Israel. But by exodus 19/20 they are finally
arriving at Sinai...Exodus 32/33 before God can get much done, Israel is making
a golden calf, and their gold is made again into a filthy and condemned stinky
abomination
Things started as a burning bush in Exo 3
and ended up a burning mountain by Exodus 33
Moses makes them drink the powdered ash
water of their idol- there is a forced acknowledgement of how evil they have
made their money
After the golden calf they are commanded
to take off their gold (God took it from them when they signed with it)
The fleshly temptations is to say that
"that doesn't apply to me because I didn't make a golden calf", but
the rest of the Bible shows us that it does apply to us.
Remember that Paul is the answer to understanding
how all this applies to us. They are illustrating the downfall of goodness for
all of us.
Instead of Israel being a beacon of light
& truth, she became an object lesson of sin.
Paul takes the example of the Israelites,
and is teaching us about sin (not about light, which should have been).
Sun_5:37pm
Moving from Exodus Calf to Deuteronomy
Anathema
The term Anathema:
Hebrew version connotates 'gathering up
for doom'
In Greek - to arrange up, in a total way,
and to give up to burning
Church people say that money is not the
problem, your heart is the real problem
"The heart is what really matters;
the material itself is not bad"
But this in essence is pagan philosophy
The doctrine of anathema teaches us that
the stuff itself is bad
Idolatry of gold stinks to God, and this
tying the golden calf with the golden idols of the pagans
Deut_7:24-26 God tells them to imitate Moses's hot
anger with them
It did not say here that it is a heart
issue.
It said that God hates IT. God thinks it
stinks
It becomes a heart issue when you don't
hate it
Am I willing to enjoy something that has
been abominated by sin?
If you bring it into your house then you
will become disgusting to God by it
You need to be asking yourself what are
the boundaries
First step is to admit that something
stinks
Next question is how much does it stink
and why?
How much does the money of our age stink?
Are you sinning with it, or did the
"Egyptians" sin with it?
Is there a way to redeem it?
Be zealous to abhor idols
If it's anathema then you can't even bring
it into your house
The worst thing you can do with an
anathema thing is to lust and bring it into your house
Deut 7/ Joshua 7
When fighting Jericho Joshua said to 'only
keep YOURSELF from the devoted/accursed/anathema things...'
But all the silver and gold and containers
of brass and iron are holy unto God, and they will be carried into the Treasury
of the Lord. In this particular example he is telling us how an anathema thing
can be redeemed without grinding it into powder. How to redeem it? By taking it
to God's house, NOT your own house, and use it to honor God, not yourself.
Whenever it comes to dirty money, you
always have to follow Divine revelation in how to clean it.
Hating money is essentially the same as
the doctrine of sin.
And you don't understand a basic
elementary teaching of sin when you don't hate money.
We really got to confront the hypocrisy of
the flesh
Extremes are not the exceptions to the
rules, they are the rules
Extremes teach us moral rules that carry
over into "moderate" situations
The reason we can say this is because we
are talking about MORALITY
We are not talking about physics and a
balanced diet and such. In this physical realm, a flesh monger finds refuge in
his cherished philosophies of being balanced, and therefore excludes extremes
as though they are the exceptions to the rules.
So we need to ask the question, is the
hatred of money because of physics? Is it not pretty?
Even if it's pretty you still need to hate
it
Anathematized money is the worst riches
(not all $ is anathema; anathema is the extreme of dirty money)
Does the most extremely defiled money mean
that it's the exception to the rule? Or is it the rule?
Anathematized money teaches us the rules
about the extreme dirtiness of money
The anathematized passages teach us to
have a negative view on money to the degree that it has been defiled by sin.
Jesus' general money hatred is backed up by, and comparable to, Moses'
particular anathema hatred, even if it's to particular degrees.
You might can take unspecified money into
your house, but be careful to hate it so that it doesn't become accursed unto
you and anathematize you
When you give all the blessings that God
has given you to build us his house then you are safe.
Blessings include not just money, but
beauty, knowledge, strength, your advantages, possessions, etc.
Are you tempted to think independently?
And to act independently? Is it hard for you to agree with the righteous? Is it
hard for the righteous to agree with you?
If you're tempted to think different from
each other and from the counsel of heaven, then you are not far from anathema.
Don't underestimate how much your flesh
contributes to your own problems and ruin.
Sun_6:13pm(edited)
How to practically hate & handle
money?
First ask yourself and obsess over
"How can I do good?"
Next ask yourself, "what is God
saying [to do]?
Next, be fully convicted over the reality
that you are often your worst enemy. Your flesh clunks about and bungles things
up, and gets yourself in more moral failures than you need to be in.
So next, STOP:
Trivializing your sin
Down playing your responsibility
Outsourcing your guilt
Stop acting like you know more than you do
Stop seeking out & prioritizing independent
knowledge
Stop doing what seems good in your eyes
Wake up in the morning and say
How can I be less consumptive?
How can I be more humble?
How can I think right?
How can I give wages to the hard working
laborer?
How can I be more responsible?
How can I give more truth to people who
ache for it & are crying out for it?
How can I give people food?
How can I serve truth to others?
How can I own up to my sin more?
How can I admit & come to terms with
the fact that I am my worst enemy. My flesh does not know God; I am most
responsible for all the evil in my life
Don't be naive
Don't congratulate yourself
Find out more reasons to be on your knees
More reasons to cry out
Morning begging:
the reasonable and consistent response to
these urgent morning pleas is begging
It is therefore easier to think right when
you have already been prepared to receive from others almost everything you so
desperately need
Your daily choices have a resounding
effect on what happens throughout the whole world
Luxury is so bad because someone else over
there is crying out for help while you give yourself more than you need
There is a danger of you taking more than
you need
On judgment there is none of this nonsense
of ignoring cause & effect
Yes you are most responsible for those in
your local locality
But if you don't work to discover the
needs of the poor then you will not be excused for that
How can I reach the person who has no coat
because I have "2 coats"?
How can I prioritize the right people?
Let kings do what they do; but you better
tremble.
Don't reward yourself
Don't live in pleasure!
Warm fuzzies from doing something socially
commendable is totally dispensable
Getting righteousness in prayer to do real
virtue and interfacing with the burning pleasure of God is everything
[Disciple]
Sun_10:17pm
Thanks for taking notes, I appreciate
reading through them again as I prepare for prayer.
Monday, November 11th 2024
[Overseer’s Wife]
Mon_7:38am(edited)
= -) thanks
Yeah I'm reading over those "wake up
in the morning and say to yourself" questions/statements now...
[Overseer]
Mon_7:38am
Yayy for notes! :+)
Mon 8:01am
morning begging:
I was going to also mention (but didn't
get to):
The reasonable and consistent response to these
urgent morning pleas is begging
It is therefore easier to think right when
you have already been prepared to receive from others almost everything you so
desperately need
[Overseer’s Wife]
Mon_8:27am
I added that in my notes above. Because
I'm putting it in my prayer journal list document now
[Overseer]
Mon_8:27am
that makes me smile :+)
….
Beg for Right Thinking
Begging Is Essential For Thinking Right
-- Under Construction --
Teachable Disciples Can Receive
from Others
It's so much easier to receive from others
what you need when you're humble enough to desperately beg to think right.
Begging for Answers
When you are crying out to think right
this is also evidenced by a continual posture of begging to get more
information that you need in order to live more righteously.
Beg to Escape
Intimidation of High Money Hatred Standards
if you feel overwhelmed by the high
standards of money hatred then the only reasonable response is for you to be
asking the righteous for help dying to be rich - begging for help to escape the
money that you need to hate is the only reasonable response to Jesus's high
standards
(that you should be producing is asking
for help / begging)
When you actually open your mouth and
start asking others for help and begging them for salvation that proves that
you are starting to really understand the doctrines then and the requirement to
hate money
Not Independence, But
Neediness
· Thinking Right is NOT Self-flattering Independence, But a Willingness to Need Truth from the Righteous.
·
It's not that you just figure out your
own way to think right independently and congratulate yourself for being better
than everyone else (i.e. the matrix complex – I’m the one and I know how
everyone else is wrong), it's that you are begging through serious humility to
think right and are absorbing Truth from wherever you can get it and seriously
honoring the righteous above all people on the whole planet.
Begging No Matter Where
Truth is At
Serious devotion to thinking right drives
you to the point of desperation so that you beg for Truth wherever you can get
it from.
Deficiency-Honesty Honors
the Righteous
And when you see that you yourself are
deficient on your own, then you end up honoring the righteous in the most
virtuous and extravagant ways, and end up loving people for real, because you
are valuing them according to the reality of Justice, to beg out of them what
you need, and this ends up zealously contributing value to their real identity,
which gives you life, which is exactly what you need in order to have the
Orthodox formula for real Love.
Don’t forget humility is the point for
crucifying luxury and Biblical humility always begs
Havilah’s Biblical History
Comp. (A) Good Gold of
Havilah & (B) Havilah’s
Biblical History (C) Saul vs Amalek
& Havilah
Back to Havilah
· Why did Genesis 2 talk about the Good Gold of Havilah?
· Let’s consider what happened to Havilah & its good gold after Genesis 2
Where is Havilah? -- East of Egypt, Below Assyria
Gen_25:17 WEB These are the years
of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit
and died, and was gathered to his people.
Gen_25:17 LB And these are the years of the life of
Ishmael: 137 years. And he breathed his last and died, and was added to his
fathers.
Gen_25:17 καὶ ταῦτα
τὰ ἔτη τῆς ζωῆς
Ισμαηλ· ἑκατὸν
τριάκοντα ἑπτὰ
ἔτη· καὶ ἐκλιπὼν
ἀπέθανεν καὶ
προσετέθη πρὸς
τὸ γένος αὐτοῦ.
Gen_25:18 WEB They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt,
as you go toward Assyria.
He lived opposite all his relatives.
Gen_25:18 And he dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt [ἥ ἐστιν κατὰ
πρόσωπον Αἰγύπτου], in the direction of Assyria [ἕως ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς Ἀσσυρίους]; he dwelt in the presence of all his brothers.
Gen_25:18 κατῴκησεν
δὲ ἀπὸ Ευιλατ ἕως
Σουρ, ἥ ἐστιν
κατὰ πρόσωπον
Αἰγύπτου, ἕως ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς Ἀσσυρίους·
κατὰ πρόσωπον
πάντων τῶν ἀδελφῶν
αὐτοῦ κατῴκησεν.
More literally form the MT:
Gen_25:17-18 MechTr and~These
Year~s Live~s Yishma'el
[El will
listen] Hundred
Year and~Three~s Year
and~Seven Year~s and~he~will~Expire and~he~will~Die and~he~will~be~Gather To
People~him 18 and~they(m)~will~Dwell from~Hhawilah
[Twisting] Until Shur [Caravan] Which
Upon Face~s Mitsrayim [Troubles] >~Come~you(ms) Ashur [Step]~unto Upon Face~s
All Brother~s~him he~did~Fall
[i.e. (A) Mitsrayim = Egypt in Hebrew & (B) Ashur = Assyria]
1Sa_15:7 WEB Saul struck the
Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
1Sa_15:7 And Saul struck Amalek from Havilah to Shur, fronting Egypt.
1Sa_15:7 καὶ ἐπάταξεν
Σαουλ τὸν
Αμαληκ ἀπὸ
Ευιλατ ἕως
Σουρ ἐπὶ προσώπου
Αἰγύπτου.
Havilah x7 -- Numerics
· The word Havilah is mentioned (apparently, at least) 7 times in the Bible:
· Gen_2:11; ·Gen_10:7; Gen_10:29 (people’s names); Gen_25:18 (Ishmaelites Havilah to Shur); 1Sa_15:7 (Saul vs. Amalekites -- Havilah to Shur); ·1Ch_1:9; 1Ch_1:23 (people’s names)
· Havilah’s repeated return in Scripture implies an unfinished theme that was initially started in a mystery but continues to be elaborated on until it is completed with a moral to the story later on in Scripture
So…
Havilah: Gold, Amalek, & Saul -- Historical Review-Preview
· Preview: (A) Good Gold (Gen_2); (B) Amalek Attacks (Exo_17); (C) Saul Retaliates (1Sa_15)
· Gen_2:11-12 – Havilah’s Gold is Good (Created that Way)
· Gen_25:18 – Ishmaelites (nomadic) Living from Havilah to Shur (the people in these area tend to be nomadic)
· Exo_17:8-16 – Amalek Attacks & is Defeated by Joshua (with Moses’ hands raised)
· Exo_17:14-16 – Amalek Doomed in a special Scroll of Memorial of Vengeance
· Jdg_6:3-5 – Nomadic Amalekites traveled/traded? from Havilah to Shur (1Sa_15:7 – see: Saul vs. Amalek)
· 1Sa_15 – Saul Fights Amalek “from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt” (1Sa_15:7 WEB)
Amalek likes the sinful goldof havilah,
how? Because he attacked Israel in Exo_17 when she was simpliy passing through Shur
Btw the earth is the Lord’s and the
fullness of it, you are not allowed to be hard nose pagan and persecute God’s
people
Amalek Overview
Skip these Details?
This section can be somewhat skipped or
simply skimmed for now (especially if you're just reading through this) since
it is mostly data that supports a few technical details that might need to be
referenced in other places when teaching these things.
Genesis 36: From Esau?
Esau → Eliphaz → Amalek
i.e. Amalek = grandson of Esau
vs. Edomites
But…
Num_24:21 – first
among nations?
Amalek Doomed
Exo_17:8-13; Deu_25:17-19; 1Sa_15:2
Amalek’s Wars Against
Israel
Num_13:29 – Israel intimidated by them (when spying out the Promised
Land)
Num_14:45 – Israel Defeated by Amalek (when rebelling against Moses)
Jdg_3:12-13 – Israel Defeated by Amalek + Amonites + Eglon king of
Moab
Jdg_6:3 – Amalek + Midianites + people of the East -- plundered
Israel’s food (until Gideon saved them)
1Sa_15 – Saul
1Sa_27:8-9 – David Attacks Amalek
(1Sa_27:8
– Amalekite …are
inhabitants of the land from of old), as you come to Shur and to the land of
Egypt)
1Sa_30:1-31– Amalekite raid on Ziklag (until David Defeats the
Amalekites)
I would call them the pirates of the desert
1Ch_4:41-43 – Extermination mostly finished (Generally/Nationally), by
the sons of Simeon in the days of Hezekiah
[Est
– Haman’s Plot -- the Agagite +
King Xerxes]
See: https://www.gotquestions.org/Amalekites.html
(not an endorsement, obviously)
Haman the
Agagite
Est_3:1, Est_3:10; Est_8:3, Est_8:5
Haman the Agagite -- considered a descendant of the Amalekite king Agag?
Gill: “both the Targums make to descend from Amalek…
the apocryphal Esther he is said to be a Macedonian… Sulpitius the historian says (h) he was a Persian…Agag might be the
name of a family or city in Persia, of which he was; and Aben Ezra observes,
that some say he is the same with Memucan, see Est_1:14 ”
Nomadic Arabians
(A) Nomadic Ishmaelites
Genesis 25 - Ishmaelites from Avila to
Shur
Gen_37:27-28 – Joseph Sold to Ishmaelites
(2) Nomadic Amalekites
Nomadic: Amalekites & Midianites
[&Ishmaelites] Were Nomadic -- as a
Pestilence Against Israel
Jdg_6:3 WEB So it was, when
Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the
east; they came up against them;
Jdg_6:3 LB And it came to pass when the children of
Israel sowed, that Midian and Amalek
went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.
Jdg_6:3 καὶ ἐγένετο
ἐὰν ἔσπειραν οἱ
υἱοὶ Ισραηλ, καὶ
ἀνέβαιναν
Μαδιαμ καὶ
Αμαληκ, καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ
ἀνατολῶν συνανέβαινον
αὐτοῖς·
Jdg_6:4 WEB and they encamped against them, and destroyed
the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance
in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
Jdg_6:4 And they encamped
against them, and destroyed their fruits until they came to Gaza;
and they left no sustenance in the land of Israel, not even ox or donkey among
the herds.
Jdg_6:4 καὶ
παρενέβαλον εἰς
αὐτοὺς καὶ κατέφθειραν
τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτῶν
ἕως ἐλθεῖν εἰς
Γάζαν καὶ οὐ
κατέλιπον ὑπόστασιν
ζωῆς ἐν τῇ γῇ
Ισραηλ οὐδὲ ἐν
τοῖς ποιμνίοις
ταῦρον καὶ ὄνον·
Jdg_6:5 WEB For they came up with their livestock and their tents;
they came in as locusts for multitude;
both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land
to destroy it.
Jdg_6:5 For they and their stock
came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there
was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel,
and laid it waste.
Jdg_6:5 ὅτι αὐτοὶ
καὶ αἱ κτήσεις
αὐτῶν ἀνέβαινον,
καὶ αἱ σκηναὶ αὐτῶν
παρεγίνοντο
καθὼς ἀκρὶς εἰς
πλῆθος, καὶ αὐτοῖς
καὶ τοῖς καμήλοις
αὐτῶν οὐκ ἦν ἀριθμός,
καὶ ἤρχοντο εἰς
τὴν γῆν Ισραηλ
καὶ διέφθειρον
αὐτήν.
Jdg_6:6
WEB Israel was brought very low because
of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
Jdg_6:6
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian.
Jdg_6:6 καὶ ἐπτώχευσεν
Ισραηλ σφόδρα ἀπὸ
προσώπου
Μαδιαμ, καὶ ἐβόησαν
οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ
πρὸς κύριον
Jdg_6:7
WEB It happened, when the children of
Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
Jdg_6:7
And the children of Israel cried to the Lord because of Midian.
Jdg_6:7 ἀπὸ
προσώπου
Μαδιαμ.
The Bible is alsways one sided from God moral perspective
Saul vs Amalek & Havilah
Saul Sinned by taking Good Things from Amalek’s Prosperity from
Havilah
Comp. (A) Good Gold of
Havilah & (B) Havilah’s
Biblical History (C) Saul vs Amalek
& Havilah
1Sa_15:1-3 – Samuel Divinely commissions Saul
to completely destroy Amalek – that means to anathematize every single good
thing they have
In
fulfillment to Exo_17
1Sa_15:7 – Saul attacks the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur
(Initially attempting to fulfill Exodus
17)
1Sa_15:8-9 – Saul Did Not Destroy All / Anathematize (like God commanded)
1Sa_15:8 WEB He took Agag the
king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the
edge of the sword.
1Sa_15:8 LB And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive,
and he killed all the people and Hierim with the edge of the sword.
1Sa_15:8 καὶ
συνέλαβεν τὸν
Αγαγ βασιλέα
Αμαληκ ζῶντα
καὶ πάντα τὸν
λαὸν Ιεριμ ἀπέκτεινεν
ἐν στόματι ῥομφαίας.
1Sa_15:9 WEB But Saul and the
people spared Agag, and the best
[מֵיטַ֣ב] of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
and all that was good [הַטּ֔וֹב], and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was
vile [נְמִבְזָ֥ה] and refuse [וְנָמֵ֖ס], that they destroyed utterly.
1Sa_15:9 And Saul and all the people saved Agag alive, and the
best [τὰ ἀγαθὰ] of the flocks, and of the herds, and of the fruits, of the
vineyards, and of all the good things [πάντων τῶν ἀγαθῶν]; and they would not destroy them [οὐκ ἐβούλετο
αὐτὰ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι]. ·But every worthless and despised thing they destroyed
[καὶ πᾶν ἔργον ἠτιμωμένον
καὶ ἐξουδενωμένον
ἐξωλέθρευσαν].
1Sa_15:9 καὶ
περιεποιήσατο
Σαουλ καὶ πᾶς ὁ
λαὸς τὸν Αγαγ ζῶντα
καὶ τὰ ἀγαθὰ τῶν
ποιμνίων καὶ τῶν
βουκολίων καὶ
τῶν ἐδεσμάτων
καὶ τῶν ἀμπελώνων
καὶ πάντων τῶν ἀγαθῶν
καὶ οὐκ ἐβούλετο
αὐτὰ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι·
καὶ πᾶν ἔργον ἠτιμωμένον
καὶ ἐξουδενωμένον
ἐξωλέθρευσαν.
11/17/24
Amalek and Sinful Gold
We have seen the doctrine of anathema already and we have seen that the Amalek like the sinful gold of Havilah. Amalek
Saul’s Snare of Compromise
However now we found that Saul has been snared by the prosperity of the Amalekite which they partly got from Havilah
Saul felt the enmity of the people in 1Sa_15 but God hated them all the way to every single good thing they have—
Saul succumbed to the Amalekites’ wealth, failing to reflect God’s total hatred for sin-stained riches.
Wake Up to Sin’s Stain
hear the wakeup call, your flesh does not hate sinful gold enough
Your flesh’s failure to hate sinful gold mirrors Saul’s compromise and God’s call for purity.
1Sa_15:10-30 – Saul Rejected
1Sa_15:31-35 – Samuel Kills Agag
Samuel Corrects the Sin & Completes
the Destruction of Amalek’s Good things from Havilah
Note: Samuel’s reluctant (1Sa_15:10-30) return with Saul (1Sa_15:31) is implicitly based on correcting
Saul’s sin, by killing Agag (1Sa_15:31-35) as the “chief” sinful thing they
spared, which apparently includes the other good things that they sinfully
spared (1Sa_15:8-9, 1Sa_15:14, etc.)
Religious Money-liking
Disobedience
· Saul was religious about liking money -- when keeping illegal valuables he justified it with religious excuses.
· Saul kept hypocritically saying that he was doing good to Samuel’s God, when he was actually following his own pagan personal guidance spirits.
· Talk about thinking wrong by stinky/abominable hypocrisy!
· This is illogical inconsistent treacherous hypocrisy that still accurately describes what the flesh is doing in virtually all churches unto this day.
Sincerity does NOT Solve Luxury!
Did Achan sincerity save him when luxury
was at hand? How about Saul?
God hated Amalek prosperity which included
its gold, so what started good ended bad.
Just as Saul served as a disposable vessel
or minister of wrath against Amalek, it very well could be that our own leaders
are ministers of wrath, intended to be disposed of afterwards.
…
In the beginning of the Bible the riches
of Havilah were described as good, but by first Samuel 15 we see its prosperity
cursed to destruction.
We see that Genesis and 1st Samuel are
cooperating in telling us a thorough and completing story of the doctrine of
the fall of sin.
Most church people don't think about this
and it never occurs to them that hating money is about the doctrine of sin.
This is a very vital follow-up that
describes Good gold as cursed to destruction.
This potently shows that if you stick with
the Bible's mysteries long enough it turns out into such a surprising and
dramatic testimony of moral purity and spiritual truth that you never imagined
could be possible before enduring until you open the doors to its moral
mysteries.
At first Genesis 2 could seem like a
materialistic phrase of gold if fragmented and quoted in referenced in the
wrong hands, however when you see that the Bible is working together to tell
you a very drawn-out story of monumental moral significant then everything
finally has a moral to the story and finally makes sense.
Just as first Samuel 15 tells the rest of
the story introduced in Exodus 17 against destroying Amalec , so also 1st
Samuel 15 follows up on the good prosperity of Genesis 2 with the goodness of
riches and gold turned into a devoted thing unto burning through its sinful
inhabitants.
The good and finer things of the earth
were designed for good people to accomplish important missions for the sake of
God's glory and the salvation of people - anything beyond this is a curse unto
destruction.
Just as Adam and Eve sinned with the
garden and lost all of its goodness, so also the Amalekites sinned with Havilah
and lost all of their privileges of trading good from there, and anathematized
all of its abundant goodness and prosperity.
You got to watch out from Getting Accursed with the Cursed Thing
So the rich abundance of gold which God
originally created to be beautiful good, was eventually cursed and
anathematized in the process of merchandising and prospering under the hands of
the evil Amalekites.
Their prospering started with God's good
beautiful gold and ended with anathematized cursed prosperity of cattle and
even people.
In 1Sa15 the Amalekites had evidently
prospered greatly from the rich resources of the (originally good) gold of
Genesis 2 in the land of Havilah,
but God absolutely hated their prosperity
so bitterly, for their filthy hard-nosed pagan sin, that He anathematized their
entire luxury of prospering, in striking hatred against all of their riches,
and He doomed the entirety of their abundance down to their very animals to be
completely burnt up and destroyed in utter disgust and wrathful vengeance.
The Point: Havilah's gold started good in Genesis
2, but the resulting goodness of prosperity under the hands of sinners ended up
anathematized and getting Saul rejected as king for cherishing it's tainted and
cursed goodness in 1 Samuel 15
Throughout the Old Covenant we see a very
strong theme of rejecting money which is made dirty by sin.
This strong theme is taken even further in
the New Covenant.
Bad People Defile -- incl. Money
Compare: (A) Rich Prostitute (B) Bad People Defile
Be Careful to not get Cursed by Association, with things or
people.
Pro_11:21 – United Wicked Punished
Pro_11:21 LSV Hand to
hand [WEB: Most certainly],
the wicked [WEB: evil] is not
acquitted [WEB: unpunished], || And the seed of
the righteous has escaped [WEB: but the seed of the righteous will
be delivered].
Pro_11:21 LB He that unjustly strikes hands [χειρὶ χεῖρας ἐμβαλὼν
ἀδίκως] shall not be unpunished [οὐκ ἀτιμώρητος
ἔσται], but he that sows righteousness shall receive a faithful
reward.
Pro_11:21 χειρὶ
χεῖρας ἐμβαλὼν
ἀδίκως οὐκ ἀτιμώρητος
ἔσται, ὁ δὲ σπείρων
δικαιοσύνην λήμψεται
μισθὸν πιστόν.
2Co_6:17 – Come out from among
them
2Co_6:16 CAB And what union is there for the temple of God
with idols? For you 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."
2Co_6:16 LSV And what
agreement to the temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living
God, according as God said, “I will dwell in them, and will walk among [them],
and I will be their God, and they will be My people,
2Co_6:16 τίς
δὲ
συγκατάθεσις
ναῷ Θεοῦ
μετὰ εἰδώλων;
ὕμεῖς γὰρ ναὸς
Θεοῦ ἐστε ζῶντος,
καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ
Θεὸς ὅτι ἐνοικήσω
ἐν αὐτοῖς
καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω,
καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν
Θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ
ἔσονταί μου
λαός.
2Co_6:16 τις δε
συγκαταθεσις
ναω θεου μετα
ειδωλων Aημεις
TSBυμεις
γαρ ναος θεου Aεσμεν
TSBεστε
ζωντος καθως
ειπεν ο θεος
οτι ενοικησω
εν αυτοις και
εμπεριπατησω
και εσομαι
αυτων θεος και
αυτοι εσονται Aμου TSBμοι
λαος
2Co_6:17 CAB 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 LSV for this reason, come forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, says the LORD, and do not touch an unclean thing, and I will receive you,
2Co_6:17 διὸ ἐξέλθατε
ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν
καὶ ἀφορίσθητε,
λέγει
Κύριος, καὶ ἀκαθάρτου
μὴ ἅπτεσθε, κἀγὼ
εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς,
2Co_6:17 διο Aεξελθατε TSBεξελθετε εκ
μεσου αυτων
και αφορισθητε
λεγει κυριος
και ακαθαρτου
μη απτεσθε
καγω
εισδεξομαι υμας
2Co_6:18 CAB "I will be a Father
to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."
2Co_6:18 LSV and I will be for a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the LORD Almighty.”
2Co_6:18 καὶ ἔσομαι
ὑμῖν εἰς
πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς
ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς
υἱοὺς καὶ
θυγατέρας,
λέγει Κύριος
παντοκράτωρ.
TSK on 2Co_6:17: come: 2Co_7:1, Num_16:21, Num_16:26, Num_16:45, Ezr_6:21, Ezr_10:11, Psa_1:1-3, Pro_9:6, Isa_52:11, Jer_51:6, Act_2:40, Rev_18:4
Rev_18:4 CAB And I heard another voice from heaven saying,
"Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins, and lest
you receive of her plagues.
Rev_18:4 Καὶ ἤκουσα
ἄλλην φωνὴν ἐκ
τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
λέγουσαν· ἐξέλθετε
ἐξ αὐτῆς ὁ
λαός μου, ἵνα
μὴ συγκοινωνήσητε
ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις
αὐτῆς, καὶ ἵνα
ἐκ τῶν πληγῶν
αὐτῆς μὴ
λάβητε·
Rev_18:4 και
ηκουσα αλλην
φωνην εκ του
ουρανου λεγουσαν
Aεξελθατε
Bεξελθε TSεξελθετε
TSBεξ TSBαυτης
ο λαος μου Aεξ Aαυτης
ινα μη
συγκοινωνησητε
ταις αμαρτιαις
αυτης και TSινα TSμη TSλαβητε
εκ των πληγων
αυτης BAινα BAμη BAλαβητε
This is Rich Prostitute who’s defilement includes celebrated sinful money.
[Compare: (A) Rich Prostitute (B) Bad People Defile]
Hate Money Because of Sin!
As seen throughout the previous points:
The Source Defiles the
Path
The Bible is commanding us to hate money
because of how evil it is. Remember that money is generated through
prostitution and murders and sins, therefore its glory and splendor and appeals
of value on not something to rejoice in because in trading it and in praising
it men have sinned against God and man and therefore it's desirableness and
beauty is to be detested because it has been so profaned and defiled with blood
in the process of it's beauty being prostituted in the concepts of men's
admiration of it.
Evil Personifications
that Choke
Riches chokes with pleasures and
anxieties, it has poisonous rust, it has a pagan Syrian deity spirit behind it,
it is unrighteous, wanting it kills you into hell, being rich send to the
hell...
If riches are described as a poisonous
resting unrighteous sinful enemy that's trying to choke you which is backed by
a track record of sin any Spirit of pagan Satan worship, why would you not hate
it?
Money is full of unrighteous sin and is
trying to kill you and is possessed by evil spirits therefore it is morally
logical to hate money and it is Biblically commanded for your salvation.
Through defrauding men and dishonoring God
the rich grow richer
Jam 2; 5; etc.
Jam_5:1 CAB
Jam_5:2
Jam_5:4
Jam_5:4
Jam_5:5
Jam_5:6
see: Rich Prostitute
1Timothy_6:10
(reminder)
Solomon is called 'a lover of women' in
English, but in Greek he is said to 'warm-fond-like women' that he was not
allowed to like.
1Ki_11:1 – Solomon Liked Women (which were) Other/Foreigners
Gold’s “Goodness” -- Compared and Surpassed
Pro_25:11 WEB A word fitly spoken is
like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Pro_25:11 LB As a golden apple in a necklace of
sardius, so is it to speak a wise word.
Pro_25:11 μῆλον
χρυσοῦν ἐν ὁρμίσκῳ
σαρδίου, οὕτως
εἰπεῖν λόγον.
Pro_25:12 WEB As an earring of gold,
and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
Pro_25:12 In an earring of gold a precious sardius is also set; so
is a wise word to an obedient ear.
Pro_25:12 εἰς ἐνώτιον
χρυσοῦν σάρδιον
πολυτελὲς δέδεται,
λόγος σοφὸς εἰς
εὐήκοον οὖς.
Psa_19:7 WEB Yahweh's law is
perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the
simple.
Psa_19:7 LB The law of the Lord is
perfect, converting souls; the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing
babes.
Psa_19:7 (18:8) ὁ νόμος
τοῦ κυρίου ἄμωμος,
ἐπιστρέφων
ψυχάς· ἡ
μαρτυρία κυρίου
πιστή, σοφίζουσα
νήπια·
Psa_19:8 WEB Yahweh's precepts are
right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the
eyes.
Psa_19:8 The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the
commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.
Psa_19:8 (18:9) τὰ
δικαιώματα
κυρίου εὐθεῖα,
εὐφραίνοντα
καρδίαν· ἡ ἐντολὴ
κυρίου τηλαυγής,
φωτίζουσα ὀφθαλμούς·
Psa_19:9 WEB The fear of Yahweh
is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous
altogether.
Psa_19:9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever and ever: the
judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether.
Psa_19:9 (18:10) ὁ φόβος
κυρίου ἁγνός,
διαμένων εἰς αἰῶνα
αἰῶνος· τὰ κρίματα
κυρίου ἀληθινά,
δεδικαιωμένα ἐπὶ
τὸ αὐτό,
Psa_19:10 WEB More to be desired
are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the
extract of the honeycomb.
Psa_19:10 To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone; sweeter
also than honey and the honeycomb.
Psa_19:10 (18:11) ἐπιθυμητὰ
ὑπὲρ χρυσίον
καὶ λίθον τίμιον
πολὺν καὶ γλυκύτερα
ὑπὲρ μέλι καὶ
κηρίον.
Psa_19:11 WEB Moreover by them is
your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
Psa_19:11 For Your servant keeps to them; in the keeping of them there is
great reward.
Psa_19:11 (18:12) καὶ γὰρ
ὁ δοῦλός σου
φυλάσσει αὐτά·
ἐν τῷ φυλάσσειν
αὐτὰ ἀνταπόδοσις
πολλή.
Psa_19:12 WEB Who can discern his
errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Psa_19:12 Who will understand his transgressions? Purge me from my secret
sins.
Psa_19:12 (18:13)
παραπτώματα τίς
συνήσει; ἐκ τῶν
κρυφίων μου
καθάρισόν με.
Psa_19:13 WEB Keep back your
servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I
will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Psa_19:13 And spare Your servant from the attack of strangers; if they do
not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear
from great sin.
Psa_19:13 (18:14) καὶ ἀπὸ
ἀλλοτρίων φεῖσαι
τοῦ δούλου σου·
ἐὰν μή μου
κατακυριεύσωσιν,
τότε ἄμωμος ἔσομαι
καὶ καθαρισθήσομαι
ἀπὸ ἁμαρτίας
μεγάλης.
Psa_19:14 WEB Let the words of my
mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my
rock, and my redeemer.
Psa_19:14 So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart,
be pleasing continually before You, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.
Psa_19:14 (18:15) καὶ ἔσονται
εἰς εὐδοκίαν τὰ
λόγια τοῦ στόματός
μου καὶ ἡ μελέτη
τῆς καρδίας
μου ἐνώπιόν
σου διὰ παντός,
κύριε βοηθέ
μου καὶ λυτρωτά
μου.
Holy Temple Can't Have Dirty Money
No Dirty Money in Holy Temple
Dirty Money not Allowed in God's
Temple
Mat_27:6 – Judas's bribery money could not be put into the temple
Deu_23:18 – the price of a prostitute not brought into holy place
This World is Passing Away
See: WOW & Don’t Love the World (mentioned herein as well)
1Co_7
– Not Using-Down-Intensely …because this world is Passing Away
1Co_7:29 CAB But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened; so that
from now on even those having wives should be as though they had none,
1Co_7:29 τοῦτο
δέ φημι, ἀδελφοί,
ὁ καιρὸς
συνεσταλμένος
τὸ λοιπὸν ἐστίν·
ἵνα καὶ οἱ ἔχοντες
γυναῖκας ὡς
μὴ ἔχοντες ὦσι,
1Co_7:29
τουτο δε φημι
αδελφοι Sοτι
ο καιρος
συνεσταλμενος Aεστιν το
λοιπον TSBεστιν ινα
και οι εχοντες
γυναικας ως μη
εχοντες ωσιν
1Co_7:30 and those weeping as though not weeping, and those rejoicing as
though not rejoicing, and those buying as though not possessing,
1Co_7:30 καὶ
οἱ κλαίοντες
ὡς μὴ
κλαίοντες,
καὶ οἱ
χαίροντες ὡς
μὴ
χαίροντες,
καὶ οἱ ἀγοράζοντες
ὡς μὴ
κατέχοντες,
1Co_7:31 and those using this
world [Aτον
Aκοσμον TSBτω TSBκοσμω] as not using it up [καταχρώμενοι]. For ·the form of this world
[τὸ σχῆμα
τοῦ κόσμου
τούτου] is passing away
[παράγει].
1Co_7:31 καὶ
οἱ χρώμενοι
τῷ κόσμῳ
τούτῳ ὡς
μὴ
καταχρώμενοι·
παράγει γὰρ
τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου.
1Co_7:31 και οι
χρωμενοι Aτον Aκοσμον
TSBτω TSBκοσμω
TSBτουτω ως
μη
καταχρωμενοι
παραγει γαρ το
σχημα του
κοσμου τουτου
Mistranslations
1Co_7:31
NIV those who use the things
of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present
form is passing away.
1Co_7:31
ESV and those who deal with
the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form
of this world is passing away.
1Co_7:31
NKJV and those who use this
world as not misusing [it.] For the form of this world is passing away.
Disciple Notes: the World’s Season
Disciple-Notes.htm#theWorldsSeason
Dying to the World’s Season
Shorten season
You need to die to your sadness and you need
to die to your happiness and this leads you to die to your purchases
Not using it down means being
anti-consumptive
That of this world is parallel to a
shorten season
The arrange world has a certain doom to it
which is associated with a doom (temporary) time in history
World ≈ season
Wife’s Notes: Die to This Age’s Sorrow & Laughter
Sun_5:10pm(edited)
Die to the Now Age
You must die to both sadness and happiness,
rejecting the purchases and pleasures of this passing, doomed world.
1Cor_7:29...
You need to die to your sadness
You need to die to your happiness
And this leads you to dying to your
purchases
Not "using it down" means being
anti-consumptive
"That of this world" is
paralleled with a shortened season
The arranged world has a certain doom to
it, and it is associated with a temporary doomed time in history
If you are dying to the "crying"
of this life then you need to also die to the rejoicing of this life (buying
stuff and marriage is included)
If you don't die to/aren’t in the posture
of dying to the rejoicings of this life then you are not going to be able to
overcome the sorrows of this life
The Doomed Age vs. Perpetual Life
The "now" age—temporary and
evil—is passing away. It contrasts sharply with eternal life, the age to come,
which remains forever.
The world = sinful here-n-now life =
season = passing away (1John 2 cross ref)
The word "now" is associated
with a time or age where we are required to hate because it's evil
This is telling us to not hold on to it,
so don't hold on to it because it's passing away and is doomed
Contrasted with "remaining into the
perpetualness"
1Tim_4:8, 2Tim_4:10
This now life = this now age
They both stand as opposites to that which
is about to be
The god of This Age
The devil rules this evil age, blinding
unbelievers. The time of this world is as bad as it gets, destined for judgment
and destruction.
2Cor_4:4
'The god of this age has blinded the minds
of unbelievers'
The time of this age is possessed by the
devil, as its god
Is it bad enough yet? That's as bad as
it's going to get
This is implicitly, contextually directly
contrasted with what is about to be
John_12:31
Sometimes a season of an evil age is
directly associated with "this world". And sometimes "now"
is associated with this world
Woes for This Worldly Now
Luke 6 condemns worldly laughter of this now
age, standing in direct contrast to the eternal joy of the coming life. Take
this warning literally.
So when Luke 6 says "woe to those who
are laughing now...", then yes we ought to still take that literally and
continue to obey all the Bible by concluding that those who are laughing
according to this now age (i.e. worldly laughter) will be condemned.
Now is talking in direct contrast to
eternal life (the age to come)
////
Context: Now vs. Eternal
The Bible’s hyper-contextual nature
highlights contrasts like "now" versus the eternal kingdom. Luke 6
condemns worldly laughter and fullness now, not all laughter or abundance, as
God’s future filling and joy are everlasting.
The Bible is dependent on context. It is
hyper contextual actually.
We can safely say, as those obeying all
the bible, that this is not talking about all abundance filling and laughing.
It is specifically talking about NOW, as opposed to the kingdom of heaven
coming. Luke 6 is not talking about any laughter; he is talking about NOW laughter.
Whatever laughter we can apprehend from future kingdom laughter will never be
lamented or taken away. As one obeying all the bible, I am not allowed to say
that this is talking about all laughter.
Redeeming Time in Evil Days
Ephesians_5:16 urges wisdom in redeeming the season
because the days are perverted—rooted in the same word for the devil as
"the evil one" in the Lord’s Prayer.
Eph_5:16
Walk around not as unwise but as wise,
buying out the season (fig. redeeming the time) because the days are being
perverted evil (the same word to describe the devil in the Lord's prayer -
perverted one...it means bad, evil!)
Godly Fulfillment vs. Fleshly
Filling
Luke 6 warns against being filled by the
world, while Luke 1 and Matthew 5 promise hope for the hungry and righteous who
are filled by God.
Luk_1:46-55 (God will fill the hungry with good
things) + Luke 6 (woe to those who are filled by the world with worldliness) = Mat_5:6 (a hope of the righteous being filled)
There's a direct contrast when God fills
someone versus someone already being filled NOW by the means of the flesh
Laughter That Lasts
Laughter isn’t condemned but must arise
from faith in God’s eternal goodness, not fleeting worldly satisfaction that
perishes with this age.
Laughing chronologically now is ok, as
long as you are reaching forward and your laughter is by faith in the good that
will come and remain.
But laughing in a way that will die with
the destruction of this world then that is the NOW laughter that is bad
Are you laughing because you're making
yourself happy, or is God putting a smile on your face and making you happy?
Die to Self-Indulgence
Righteousness means dying to this age:
sharing blessings, rejecting selfish indulgence, and trusting in God’s ongoing
provision rather than storing up for yourself
So the righteous can laugh and even be
filled and such...But the catch - die to this life, hate this age, keep giving
your bread away when God blesses you so that you don't cut off supernatural
provision
Don't store up for yourself, and hold down
tightly for yourself, and treat yourself, etc.
Testing Your Laughter
Evaluate the fruit of your laughter: does
it draw you closer to God’s soundness, reverence, and love, or erode your
integrity and bring emptiness?
When you bow your knee in prayer then you
need to be close to what God is saying.
If you can't hear what God is saying then
reflect back on your day and repent of being fleshly. You've got too much of
this NOW life in between you and God, and you may have even laughed at things
or entertained the things of this temporary life that will be destroyed.
Repent from the Fleshly Life
If you can’t hear God in prayer, reflect on your day, repent of indulging in fleeting worldly joys, and align yourself with the eternal.
Walk throughout your life and test your laughter:
What fruit does it bear?
Are you closer towards soundness? Are you closer to entering into being heard by God (thru your reverence and obedience- Heb_5:7; John_9:31 say that God doesn't hear sinners)? Are you closer to prophecy? Are you closer towards loving people?
Or do you keep jeopardizing & eroding your integrity? Are you closer towards emptiness at the end of the day? Or are you closer to letting out a sigh of relief and rejoicing at having been helped by God?
Prayer Through Obedience
Hearing God requires reverence and obedience (Heb_5:7), for God does not listen to sinners (Joh_9:31).
1Jn_2
– Don’t Love the World …because… it’s Passing Away
1Jn_2:15 CAB Do not
love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone
loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn_2:15 Μὴ ἀγαπᾶτε
τὸν κόσμον
μηδὲ τὰ ἐν
τῷ κόσμῳ. ἐάν
τις ἀγαπᾷ
τὸν κόσμον,
οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ ἀγάπη
τοῦ πατρὸς ἐν
αὐτῷ·
1Jn_2:16 Because everything that is in the world--the lust of the flesh,
and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life [βίου]--is not from the Father but is from the world.
1Jn_2:16 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.
1Jn_2:17 And the world
[κόσμος] is passing away,
and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
1Jn_2:17 καὶ ὁ
κόσμος
παράγεται
καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία
αὐτοῦ· ὁ
δὲ ποιῶν τὸ
θέλημα τοῦ
Θεοῦ μένει
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
Forsake the Doomed Present World
to this sinful, fleeting life and prepare for the
perpetual; let go of what is destined for doom!
World
≈ sinful here and now life
Contrasted
with remaining into the perpetual-ness
It
is telling us to die to this life and it is telling us this world is doom, so
don’t hold on to it!
Get ready to forsake it
See:
Don’t Love the World
Stuff & Time
“This World” targets the material of the physical creation and the people who possess it with evil. -- This is all being destroyed.
Besides describing the material itself and the people who abusively organize it for hatred, the Bible also described the doomed corruption of this life in terms of a time period, or age, of evil…
(as we have just seen and are about to see)
“Now” is the Time to Hate Money
“Now” vs. “Then” – This “Now Age”
The word now is associated with a time or
age where we are required to hate its evil.
There are several moral synonyms in
English & Greek for the general concepts for “now” vs. “then”, some other
time in the future, which become very important for hating money.
Disciple Notes: Luke 6, 14, 16
The
Challenge of Christ’s Words
Jesus’ words are so hardcore that it is even mentally challenging academically for us to understand what we are supposed to do with the Words.
The conventional solution or response has been to try to change the Bible which is hypocrisy/blasphemy/apostasy/rebellion
Any JC that is not the Bible is antichrist. The Bible in its original essence is Jesus
Joh_10:35 – The Scripture cannot be broken
Rom_3:4 / Psa_51:4 – Let God be true and every man a liar
Joh_12:48 – The word Jesus spoke will judge you on the last day
Submitting to Jesus' Hard Words
>> GPT Summary: Jesus’ words in
Luke are so intense that understanding what to do with them is mentally and
spiritually challenging. Commands like hating money and even hating people
(from the One who taught love) feel overwhelming. The common response—to
reinterpret or soften the Bible—is hypocrisy and rebellion.
To truly make Jesus Lord, we must embrace that
the Scriptures are unchangeable, as Jesus declared, “The Scriptures cannot be
broken.” God’s truth stands, even if it exposes our flaws. The scandal of
Jesus’ teachings has shaken both hypocrites and seemingly sincere believers.
Without submission to the “hard verses,” we risk spiritual loss, as Jesus
warned, “Even what one seems to have will be taken away.”
Jesus' words in Luke is so hard core that
it's actually challenging to know what he even wants you to do, because it can
be so overthrowing.
It's mentally challenging to academically
understand what we're supposed to do with his words
You have hating money, hating people (from
him who told us to love even our enemies)...in the book of Luke
The conventional response and solution is
to try to change the Bible, which is hypocrisy/blasphemy/apostasy/rebellion
You're not making Jesus Lord of nothing if
you're trying to change the Bible
And Jesus said that if you unlordify the
Scriptures then you are a hypocrite
The Bible is Jesus (the Word of God)
And changing the Bible is not going to
work
Jesus said the scriptures cannot be broken
Let God be true and every man a liar. Even
if the Bible seems to call me a liar then that's very much a possibility; but
it is impossible for God to be called a liar.
The scandal of Jesus has not only scandal
hypocrites in our day but it has scandals people who have otherwise seemed to
be real brothers and sisters
If you don't do something to submit to the
"hard verses" then you will become bad and apostate. 'Even what one
seems to have will be taken away from him'
The
Scandal of Christ’s Words
>>
GPT Summary: Jesus’ teachings challenge not only hypocrites but even sincere
believers. Without submission to His hard truths, apostasy looms. Scripture
demands obedience before full understanding, revealing the depth of our sin and
our debt to God.
The scandal of Jesus has not only scandal hypocrites in our day but it has scandal people who seem to be real brother and sisters
If you do not do something to submit to these hard verses you will apostate from whatever you have
Sinning against the Bible includes the sinning that hardens you like what the Bible warns you against
Wisdom literature in the Bible means you obey it until you understand it and that pre-suppose that you believe in its track record
We owe a tremendous debt from how evil our flesh is, when we trivialize how evil we are then we cross examine the Scriptures
Obeying Before Understanding
Luke 6
Woe to you who are filled now - does that
mean I should never eat unto being full?
Woe to you who laugh now- does that mean
that I should never laugh?
Luke might be declaring what Jesus initially
spoke to the crowds ('many crowds were following him')
In the Matthew accounts there is more
explanation to Jesus' own disciples on the side
Wisdom literature in the Bible says that
you obey it before you understand it, and that presupposes that you believe
what you heard first
Strategic Counsel: Be Last to Enter
>> GPT Summary: Luk_16:13 contrasts love
and hate, showing the necessity of hating money. Why? This is because loyalty
to worldly wealth leads to injustice and spiritual failure. To enter the narrow
gate (Luke 13), one must embrace being “last”—poor, humble, and least honored.
This requires strategic counsel: arrange your priorities under Christ, hate
even family ties when necessary, and accept losing out in this life to gain
eternal life.
In Luk_16:13 hate and despise and love and hold loyal to are pointing in the opposite direction
What does it mean to hate money and why hate it in the first place?
You are a worker of injustice because you are not strong enough to enter into that door
Whatever the case I got to be last……?[better transition?]
You are not supposed to understand these words in this flesh
Joh_6 we know you have the word of life
Luke 13 strong enough to go through the door gate, Luk_6 strong enough
Key word: strategic counsel
You can only hear if you can hear
Can you see from these passages that you need to be last somehow, you need to hate your family members
Somehow you need to arrange your beginning under substances
To enter into the narrow gates and be Jesus’ disciples
Being last would be poor humble losing out in this life the least honored in a company of people
The Cost of True Discipleship
Luke_13:22-
Are there few who are saved?
V24 you need to agonize and be strong
enough to enter into
V27 Workers of injustice are not strong
enough to enter into the door
V30 the only hope in this passage is that
whatever happens you better be counted as the "LAST" who will be
first
Luke_14:25-35
V27 not doing powerful ability to be his
disciples
Luke_16:13-
Hate & despise vs. Love & hold
loyal to
Can you see from these passages that you
need to be last? (Poor, humble, missing out on this life, the least exalted in
the world)
Somehow you need to hate your family
members
Somehow you need to hate money
Somehow you need to arrange away all your
substance to be counted as his disciple
Losing
Spiritual Perspective
>>
GPT Summary: The moment you lose sight of what is spiritual, even
the assembly becomes worldly. You are under constant observation—by God, the
devil, angels, and a great cloud of witnesses. The heavenly Jerusalem needs no
headcovering, but once the flesh engages, the world intrudes. This aligns with
the great multitudes following Jesus and parallels the warning that many will
seek to enter but not succeed.
As soon as you lose perspective of what is spiritual then even the assembly can be the world.
You are being looked at by God, the devil, the angels, a great cloud of witness
If it was just the heavenly Jerusalem you would not need headcovering but
The instant the flesh recognizes then you are dealing with the world/men
What sets the stage for the context of this passage is that great multitudes were following him….
Parallels with many will seek to enter in
To the degree that….
Disciple Notes: Luke, Mysteries, “Hate”
Required
Hardcore Luke, Mystery Obedience, “Hate” Required to Be
Saved
Luke’s Hardcore Gospel Mysteries
Luke especially has more hard core
statements of Jesus than the rest of the Bible.
They are so hardcore it is even hard for
the righteous to obey them even when they want to.
This dynamic is actually part of the
gospel, like gospel of Luke for example to leave you hanging on issues of
salvation
Church gives you messages of salvation
assurance, there is a place for a type of assurance but church people are
violating the mystery of salvation that Jesus and Paul and others as well warn
us not to intrude upon
Violating a mystery includes places like
11Ti_3 when talking
about the requirements of the overseer and deacon servant. The deacon servant
is supposed to hold onto the mystery of the faith/truth with a pre conscience
without violating it
That doesn’t mean there is no answer to
the mystery it teaches us that the flesh cannot carry its intuitions into
violating that mystery
If Jesus says to hate your money and even your
family it doesn’t matter if flesh groans in darkness and complains that that
doesn’t make sense, because the truth has already declare the holiness of Jesus
hardcore statements to be mysterious
Complaining is begging the question and
you are not allowed to be illogical as a human.
So church is giving you salvation
assurance while Jesus is leaving salvation issues hanging so that something in
you that doesn’t happen in church where salvation never ceases to be an issue.
The false prophets are saying peace, peace where there is no peace. Salvation
and peace and synonymous in the Bible
If the gospels leave salvation issues an
issue we need to say yes Lord, even if you don’t understand
When someone says he didn’t really mean that, that actually
shows that they are not saved. They are violating the mystery and they are not
making Jesus their Lord
Luke is the hardcore gospel, and there is
still a lot of questions need to be answered
Overseer’s Wife’s Notes: Luke, Mysteries,
“Hate” Required
Sun_5:44pm(edited)
Escaping the Now Age Condemnation
If the Gospels leave salvation issues a
mystery, then to obey that mystery we need to say "yes Lord", even if
we don't understand
Does "woe to laughing" exclude
the possibility that God could give you good laughter?
Hate family...?
Hate & despise money...?
Jesus said you're bad if you are filled
now
Paul said that at times he's been filled
What do we conclude from this? Not that
Jesus thinks that Paul is bad. Paul himself said that for was happy with him,
as with a pleasing aroma
Scripture References:
Isa_65:15-15
PSA_37:29
PSA_112:1-3
Isa_32:17
Luk_12:31-34
Mar_10:29-30
1Co_3:21-23
Everything you do better be fruitful unto
God. If it is fruitful then it will remain into the perpetual age, and it will
not be considered as part of the "now" age (i.e. woe to those who
laugh NOW).
Whatever you say, eat, wear, do, buy,
etc., better be fruitful unto God
Obeying God's commands are not a part of
this now age because the heavens & earth will pass away but his words WILL
NOT
So yay, there is an escape for the dreaded
condemnation of this now age!
Literal “Yes, Lord!” = Required / Cooperation
Most church people think that Jesus must
have been speaking in hyperboles so we don’t have to take Him seriously and
actually obey either of these commandments.
As one rebellious apostate said:
Our
Lord Jesus used hyperbole...
If
any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be
my disciple. Luke_14:26
Whoso
eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him
up at the last day. Joh_6:54
Remember we are saying that part of the
gospel is to say “yes Lord”, not “no”.
Whatever you do, don’t say “no” when Jesus
says “yes”!
If you temporarily had God favor and you
lose it, either way God wins.
Samson example teaches us that people can
have God favor but if you keep sinning then sin eventually catches up to you
and undoes your favor.
You can be tempted to say that what really
matters is if you have God’s favor, but what really matters is if you
KEEP God’s favor!
After you say “yes Lord”, that puts you in
a posture of obedience and that is the only context to understand the Bible in.
Nothing can be understood in the context
disobedience
there is no knowledge apart from the
monotheistic Lord:
Pro_21:30 – There is no council against the Lord
All fleshly/human “wisdom”, intelligence, prudence, and planning can’t win against God.
nothing matters apart from obedience!
Understanding mysteries is a holiness
reserved for those who fear God.
You know what happens when you disobey and
go on to explain the Bible?
What is left after disobedience is fleshly
intuition.
You will be deceived by hearing and not
doing (as Jam_1:22 says), therefore you don’t really have or know anything after you
disobey a passage you intend to teach.
Jam_1:22 – You will be deceived by hearing and not doing
Even if I explain some of this mystery and
you don’t obey it, you will not understand it MORE, you will understand it
LESS!
Luk_6:25 a – Filled, Without Going to Hell?
When you come to Luke you have to answer it
on the terms of the Scriptures being Lord so you can never explain a
passage away by saying “it does mean that”, “it can’t be that”, “it’s not
literal”, “it’s speaking figuratively”, etc.
Can you ever be Filled, Without Going to
Hell?
Luk_6:24-25 woe to you who are rich…Woe to you who have been filled [Aνυν]… Woe ·to you [TSBυμιν] [those (οἱ)] who laugh…
(Quoted more particularly,
with more insight, below…)
Does woe
to laughing exclude the possibility of you ever laughing again?
What about Eating Fasting and Feasting (as we
thoroughly discuss in our Bible Study)?
Php_4:18 – I Have Been Filled
Php_4:18 CAB And I have all things and abound. I have been
made full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
Php_4:18 ἀπέχω
δὲ πάντα,
καὶ περισσεύω·
πεπλήρωμαι
δεξάμενος
παρὰ ᾿Επαφροδίτου
τὰ παρ᾿ ὑμῶν,
ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας,
θυσίαν
δεκτήν, εὐάρεστον
τῷ Θεῷ.
Jesus said that that people are bad when they have been filled but how can Paul have been filled? We can’t say Jesus is saying Paul is bad!
To make this more intense, Paul is saying it is a good smell sacrifice that pleases God.
How can these 2 things continue to both be True at the same time?
We have to know in order to obey all the Bible for real / Biblical salvation.
How might you Get successfully filled
while simultaneously escaping hell from Jesus’ “woe” is actually a particular
phenomenon that is special and distinct for the righteous.
There is a partial answer in Mat_5:10 when comparing the gospels, But we still have to answer what the immediate significance of Luke is and how it can stand at all as a statement.
Even if we compare the Gospel Luke with Matthew, still, Luke has to be saying something immediately effective that stands on its own.
Counting by 2s in Luke answers this question most spectacularly…
But first, let’s keep looking at the challenging texts…
Paul Defines This Now Age
Paul contributes towards understanding this
mystery
A Problem & A
Solution with “NOW”
· We Need Understanding: We need to understand what “now” is referring to in Luk_6:24 & similar passages(that’s a Problem)
· The Good news: Thankfully Paul went up to the 3rd heaven (2Co_12:2) and can reliably explain this to us (1Ti_2:) what now is talking about ! (that’s a Major Solution)
2Co_12:2 – Paul went up to the 3rd heaven
Preview: 1Ti_4 & 6 & 2Ti_4: Now Age/Life vs. That Which Is Coming/About to be/come -- this is how Paul helps us know much more specifically what Jesus is talking about
Let’s look at and consider these examples…
Gal_1: Saved from this Standing in Age
Gal_1:3 CAB Grace to you and peace from God the
Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal_1:3
χάρις ὑμῖν
καὶ εἰρήνη
ἀπὸ Θεοῦ
πατρὸς καὶ
Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
Gal_1:3
χαρις υμιν
και ειρηνη απο
θεου πατρος TSBκαι TSBκυριου ημων
Aκαι Aκυριου
ιησου χριστου
Gal_1:4 who gave [δόντος] Himself for [ὑπὲρ] our sins, so that He might
deliver us from this present evil age [ὅπως ἐξέληται
ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ
TSBἐνεστῶτος
αἰῶνος |Aτου Aενεστωτος| πονηροῦ], according to the will of our God [κατὰ τὸ
θέλημα τοῦ
Θεοῦ] and Father,
Gal_1:4 τοῦ
δόντος ἑαυτὸν
ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
ἡμῶν, ὅπως ἐξέληται
ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ
TSBἐνεστῶτος
αἰῶνος |Aτου Aενεστωτος| πονηροῦ κατὰ τὸ
θέλημα τοῦ
Θεοῦ καὶ
πατρὸς ἡμῶν,
Gal_1:4 του
δοντος εαυτον Bπερι TSAυπερ των
αμαρτιων ημων
οπως εξεληται
ημας εκ του TSBενεστωτος
αιωνος Aτου
Aενεστωτος
πονηρου κατα
το θελημα του
θεου και πατρος
ημων
Gal_1:5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Gal_1:5 ᾧ ἡ
δόξα εἰς
τοὺς αἰῶνας
τῶν αἰώνων·
ἀμήν.
1Ti_4: Good-Reverence Rewards into this Now Life & Beyond
1Ti_4:7 CAB But reject profane and old wives' tales, and
exercise yourself unto godliness.
1Ti_4:7 τοὺς
δὲ βεβήλους
καὶ γραώδεις
μύθους
παραιτοῦ,
γύμναζε δὲ
σεαυτὸν πρὸς
εὐσέβειαν·
1Ti_4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable a little, but godliness [εὐσέβεια] is profitable for all things, having promise ·of the present life [ζωῆς τῆς νῦν] ·and of the coming life [καὶ τῆς
μελλούσης].
1Ti_4:8 ἡ
γὰρ σωματικὴ
γυμνασία
πρὸς ὀλίγον
ἐστὶν ὠφέλιμος,
ἡ δὲ εὐσέβεια
πρὸς πάντα ὠφέλιμός
ἐστιν, ἐπαγγελίαν
ἔχουσα ζωῆς
τῆς νῦν καὶ
τῆς
μελλούσης.
1Ti_4:9 Trustworthy is this word and worthy of all acceptance.
1Ti_4:9
πιστὸς ὁ
λόγος καὶ
πάσης ἀποδοχῆς
ἄξιος·
Moral vocabulary is happening here.
(A) “Gym” Side Note:
Anabaptist might be disturbed to find the word “gym” is in the Bible, but it is really not a moral problem, because commanded gymnasium-izing is communicating a private preparation where you can be uncovered in a non-coed environment. The proper use of a gym, especially in the mount of a monotheist, is the private preparation in secret before you execute your strength in public
So while the word “gym” might alert people trying to be morally conservative, yet it is actually a testament to how morally conservative the Bible is when it uses words that we’ve stretched into unbridled immorality.
(B) Now
The word “now” is also building up a particular vocabulary that can be “lost in translation”
TSK on 1Ti_4:8: having: Deu_28:1-14, Job_5:19-26, Psa_37:3-4, Psa_37:16-19, Psa_37:29, Psa_84:11, Psa_91:10-16, Psa_112:1-3, Psa_128:1-6, Psa_145:19, Pro_3:16-18, Ecc_8:12, Isa_3:10, Isa_32:17-18, Isa_33:16, Isa_65:13-14, Mat_5:3-12, Mat_6:33, Mat_19:29, Mar_10:19-20, Luk_12:31-32, Rom_8:28, 1Co_3:22, 2Pe_1:3-4, 1Jo_2:25, Rev_3:12, Rev_3:21
In 1Ti_4:8 Paul had already talked about this Now Life & Beyond.
Paul Returns to this contrasting theme of this Now Life & Beyond in chapter 6:
1Ti_6:6 CAB But godliness
[εὐσέβεια] with contentment is great
gain [πορισμὸς
μέγας].
1Ti_6:6 ἔστι
δὲ πορισμὸς
μέγας ἡ εὐσέβεια
μετὰ αὐταρκείας.
Greek: instead of saying profit in 1st Timothy 6, it says it furnish you with useful things, and that is a parallel to the great gain in 1st Timothy 4.
It is important to notice when Paul returns to this theme, because it is very relevant to what He’s about to say to answer what “now” means, especially as we continue to read and consider 1st Timothy 6…
1Ti_6
– Rich in Now Age vs. Eternal Life About to Be
Rich in Now
Age vs. Give into the Eternal Life that is About to Be
1Ti_6:17 CAB Command those who are rich in this present age [ἐν τῷ νῦν
αἰῶνι] not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of
riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,
1Ti_6:17 Τοῖς
πλουσίοις ἐν
τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι
παράγγελλε
μὴ ὑψηλοφρονεῖν,
μηδὲ ἠλπικέναι
ἐπὶ πλούτου
ἀδηλότητι, ἀλλ᾿
ἐν τῷ Θεῷ
ζῶντι, τῷ
παρέχοντι ἡμῖν
πάντα
πλουσίως εἰς
ἀπόλαυσιν,
1Ti_6:17
τοις
πλουσιοις εν
τω νυν αιωνι
παραγγελλε μη
υψηλοφρονειν
μηδε ηλπικεναι
επι πλουτου
αδηλοτητι αλλ Aεπι TSBεν TSBτω θεω TSBτω TSBζωντι τω
παρεχοντι ημιν
TSπλουσιως
παντα BAπλουσιως
εις απολαυσιν
1Ti_6:18 to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing,
1Ti_6:18 ἀγαθοεργεῖν,
πλουτεῖν ἐν ἔργοις
καλοῖς, εὐμεταδότους
εἶναι,
κοινωνικούς,
1Ti_6:19 storing up for yourselves a good foundation for the future [εἰς τὸ
μέλλον], that they may lay hold of eternal life.
1Ti_6:19 ἀποθησαυρίζοντας
ἑαυτοῖς
θεμέλιον
καλὸν εἰς
τὸ μέλλον, ἵνα
ἐπιλάβωνται
τῆς αἰωνίου
ζωῆς.
1Ti_6:19 αποθησαυριζοντας εαυτοις θεμελιον καλον εις το μελλον ινα επιλαβωνται της Aοντως TSBαιωνιου ζωης
The word now is being repeated again, along with perpetual-age, as well as the contrasting phrase about to be.
That which is about to be is ≈ eternal life
This Now Life [ζωῆς τῆς νῦν] (1Ti_4:8) ≈ This Now Age [τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι] (1Ti_6:17)
Notice the repeated and paralleled terms.
Both the current life and age are paralleled together and contrasted consistently with (they both stand of opposite of that which is about to be):
That which is about to be (1Ti_4:8; 1Ti_6:19) [καὶ τῆς μελλούσης; εἰς τὸ μέλλον]
2Ti_4
– Demas Forsakes Paul for the “Now Age”
2Ti_4:7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race, I have
kept the faith.
2Ti_4:7 τὸν ἀγῶνα
τὸν καλὸν ἠγώνισμαι,
τὸν δρόμον
τετέλεκα,
τὴν πίστιν τετήρηκα·
2Ti_4:7 τον TSBαγωνα TSBτον καλον Aαγωνα
ηγωνισμαι τον
δρομον
τετελεκα την
πιστιν τετηρηκα
2Ti_4:8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not only
to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing.
2Ti_4:8
λοιπὸν ἀπόκειταί
μοι ὁ τῆς
δικαιοσύνης
στέφανος, ὃν ἀποδώσει
μοι ὁ Κύριος
ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ,
ὁ δίκαιος
κριτής, οὐ
μόνον δὲ ἐμοὶ,
ἀλλὰ καὶ πᾶσι
τοῖς ἠγαπηκόσι
τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν
αὐτοῦ.
2Ti_4:8
λοιπον
αποκειται μοι
ο της
δικαιοσυνης στεφανος
ον αποδωσει
μοι ο κυριος εν
εκεινη τη ημερα
ο δικαιος
κριτης ου
μονον δε εμοι
αλλα και Aπασι
TSBπασιν
τοις Aηγαπηκοσι
TSBηγαπηκοσιν
την επιφανειαν
αυτου
2Ti_4:9 Be diligent to come to me quickly.
2Ti_4:9
Σπούδασον ἐλθεῖν
πρός με
ταχέως·
2Ti_4:10 For Demas has forsaken
[ἐγκατέλιπεν] me, ·having loved this present world
[ἀγαπήσας
τὸν νῦν αἰῶνα], and traveled to Thessalonica--Crescens to Galatia, Titus to
Dalmatia.
2Ti_4:10 Δημᾶς
γάρ με ἐγκατέλιπεν
ἀγαπήσας
τὸν νῦν αἰῶνα,
καὶ ἐπορεύθη
εἰς
Θεσσαλονίκην,
Κρήσκης εἰς
Γαλατίαν,
Τίτος εἰς
Δαλματίαν·
We must be totally caught up with and
obsessing over something that is not now.
Don’t love the now age!
TSK
on 2Ti_4:10 (enhanced)
hath: 2Ti_4:16, 2Ti_1:15, Mat_26:56, Act_13:13, Act_15:38, 2Pe_2:15
having: Luk_9:61-62 (Mr. Too Slow),
Luk_14:26-27 (Hate...), Luk_14:33 (Forsake All), Luk_16:13 (God
vs. money), Luk_17:32 (Remember Lot's wife), Phi_2:21 (seeking
their own interests), 1Ti_6:10 (liking silver), 1Jo_2:15-16
(Don't Love World),1Jo_5:4-5 (Conquer the World)
TSK (above) is helpful on illustrating what it means to Love this now age…
The Point: The Dreaded “now” which both Jesus and
Paul refer to is this “Now Age”, which is in direct contrast to the one to come, which starts when the
Kingdom of Heaven comes to earth – and brings eternal life?
So why is this “now” age so bad?
The bible is targeting these things as
evil and rejoicing of the prospect of them perishing.
People have fallen into sin and this
entire time we are in is bad
Now Age “Wisdom”
1Co_3:18 CAB Let no one deceive
himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this
age [τῷ αἰῶνι
τούτῳ], let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
1Co_3:18
Μηδεὶς ἑαυτὸν
ἐξαπατάτω· εἴ
τις δοκεῖ
σοφὸς εἶναι ἐν
ὑμῖν ἐν τῷ
αἰῶνι τούτῳ,
μωρὸς
γενέσθω, ἵνα
γένηται
σοφός.
1Co_3:18
μηδεις
εαυτον
εξαπατατω ει
τις δοκει
σοφος ειναι εν
υμιν εν τω
αιωνι τουτω
μωρος γενεσθω
ινα γενηται
σοφος
1Co_3:19 For the wisdom of this world
[τοῦ κόσμου
τούτου] is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches
the wise in their craftiness";
1Co_3:19 ἡ
γὰρ σοφία
τοῦ κόσμου
τούτου μωρία
παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ
ἐστι.
γέγραπται
γάρ· ὁ
δρασσόμενος
τοὺς σοφοὺς
ἐν τῇ
πανουργίᾳ αὐτῶν·
2Co_4
– The god of This Age
2Co_4:3 CAB But even if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden
among those who are perishing,
2Co_4:3 εἰ
δὲ καὶ ἔστι
κεκαλυμμένον
τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
ἡμῶν, ἐν τοῖς
ἀπολλυμένοις
ἐστὶ
κεκαλυμμένον,
2Co_4:3 ει
δε και εστιν
κεκαλυμμενον
το ευαγγελιον
ημων εν τοις
απολλυμενοις
εστιν
κεκαλυμμενον
2Co_4:4 among whom the god of this age [ὁ θεὸς τοῦ
αἰῶνος
τούτου] has blinded
[ἐτύφλωσε] the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the
gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on
them.
2Co_4:4 ἐν οἷς
ὁ θεὸς τοῦ
αἰῶνος
τούτου ἐτύφλωσε
τὰ νοήματα
τῶν ἀπίστων
εἰς τὸ μὴ αὐγάσαι
αὐτοῖς τὸν
φωτισμὸν τοῦ
εὐαγγελίου
τῆς δόξης
τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὅς
ἐστι εἰκὼν
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
2Co_4:4 εν
οις ο θεος του
αιωνος τουτου
ετυφλωσεν τα
νοηματα των
απιστων εις το
μη αυγασαι TSBαυτοις τον
φωτισμον του
ευαγγελιου της
δοξης του χριστου
ος εστιν εικων
του θεου
2Co_4:5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and
ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.
2Co_4:5 οὐ
γὰρ ἑαυτοὺς
κηρύσσομεν ἀλλὰ
Χριστὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν
Κύριον, ἑαυτοὺς
δὲ δούλους ὑμῶν
διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦν.
2Co_4:5 ου γαρ
εαυτους
κηρυσσομεν
αλλα TSBχριστον
ιησουν Aχριστον
κυριον εαυτους
δε δουλους
υμων δια ιησουν
Saying that Gen_2 gold is good is buffoonery
You need to get your basic facts straight
the past was good the present is sinful and the future need salvation
The time of this age is possessed by the devil, as its god, and
that’s how bad this age really is!
Is it bad enough yet for you? That’s how
bad it gets in the Bible…
This is
directly-implicitly/contextually
contrasted with what is about to be
Joh_12:31 CAB Now [νῦν] is the judgment of this world [τοῦ κσμου
τούτου]; now [νῦν] the ruler of this world shall be cast out.
Joh_12:31 νῦν
κρίσις ἐστὶ
τοῦ κσμου
τούτου, νῦν ὁ
ἄρχων τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου ἐκβληθήσεται
ἔξω.
(discussed in greater detail later on)
Sometimes season of an evil age is associated with this world
and sometimes now is associated with the
evil of this world
And we see this as the way Paul talks and
the way Jesus talks
Jesus came down from heaven and Paul went
up to the 3rd heaven and so it would make sense they would talk the
same
In Joh_12: we have now added the “now world” to
this doomed life and age.
Loving this now world/age = loving Satan
Mid-point about Luke 6 – this is why we
are doing so much work to show you can obey it and it actually works
You don’t take the Bible figurative when
the Bible talks in extremes.
The Bible is calling you to obedience not
the rebellion of figurative interpretations
Deu_13:5 (& Jer_28:16) – he has spoken (rebellion) to turn you away from the Lord
your God
Ephesians also says that the days
themselves are perverted evil, and that is the same term as the devil who is
the perverted evil one…
Eph_5:16 – Ephesians the days are evil
Mat_6:13 – Deliver us from the evil one
Redeem Evil Season & Days
Eph_5:15 CAB See then that you walk carefully, not as unwise, but as wise,
Eph_5:15
Βλέπετε οὖν
πῶς ἀκριβῶς
περιπατεῖτε,
μὴ ὡς ἄσοφοι,
ἀλλ᾿ ὡς
σοφοί,
Eph_5:15
βλεπετε ουν TSBπως ακριβως
Aπως
περιπατειτε μη
ως ασοφοι αλλ
ως σοφοι
Eph_5:16 redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.
Eph_5:16 ἐξαγοραζόμενοι
τὸν καιρόν, ὅτι
αἱ ἡμέραι
πονηραί εἰσι.
This is an evil time and Paul is using
lots of parallel terms just like Jesus did
Perverted-evil [πονηραί] days (Eph_5:16) = rescue us from the perverted-evil
one [τοῦ
πονηροῦ] (Mat_6:13
Lord’s prayer)
(heretical pastor says “this just means
that the days are evil it just means that the days are extremely difficult not
that they are actually bad
Now we see World/life/age/Season/Days/NOW are all evil.
Is money-hating part of the requirement to
despise of our current time period of evil?
This is the sense of forsaking all in Luk_14:25-35
But what about hating family… and your
very own soul?
Isa_65
– Already Having
Your Reward
Mat_6:2 – They have their reward
This is a dreadful failure of condemnation…!
Look at the glories of the future for the righteous and the gloom for the wicked
Isa_65:12 WEB I will destine you
to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I
called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that
which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
Isa_65:12 LB I will deliver you up to the sword, you shall
all fall by slaughter; for I called you, and you did not listen; I spoke, and
you refused to hear; and you did evil in My sight, and chose the things in
which I do not delight.”
Isa_65:12 ἐγὼ
παραδώσω ὑμᾶς
εἰς μάχαιραν, πάντες
ἐν σφαγῇ πεσεῖσθε,
ὅτι ἐκάλεσα ὑμᾶς
καὶ οὐχ ὑπηκούσατε,
ἐλάλησα καὶ
παρηκούσατε
καὶ ἐποιήσατε
τὸ πονηρὸν ἐναντίον
ἐμοῦ καὶ ἃ οὐκ ἐβουλόμην
ἐξελέξασθε.
Isa_65:13 WEB Therefore thus says
the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall
be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be
thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be
disappointed;
Isa_65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, My servants shall eat,
but you shall hunger; behold, My servants shall drink, but you
shall thirst; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be
ashamed;
Isa_65:13 Διὰ τοῦτο
τάδε λέγει κύριος
Ἰδοὺ οἱ δουλεύοντές
μοι φάγονται, ὑμεῖς
δὲ πεινάσετε· ἰδοὺ
οἱ δουλεύοντές
μοι πίονται, ὑμεῖς
δὲ διψήσετε· ἰδοὺ
οἱ δουλεύοντές
μοι εὐφρανθήσονται,
ὑμεῖς δὲ αἰσχυνθήσεσθε·
Isa_65:14 WEB behold, my servants shall
sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and
shall wail for anguish of spirit.
Isa_65:14 behold, My servants shall exalt with joy, but you
shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the grief of
your spirit.
Isa_65:14 ἰδοὺ οἱ
δουλεύοντές
μοι ἀγαλλιάσονται
ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ, ὑμεῖς
δὲ κεκράξεσθε
διὰ τὸν πόνον τῆς
καρδίας ὑμῶν
καὶ ἀπὸ
συντριβῆς πνεύματος
ὀλολύξετε.
Isa_65:15 WEB You shall
leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants
by another name:
Isa_65:15 For you shall leave your name for a loathing to My
chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you;
but My servants shall be called by a new name,
Isa_65:15
καταλείψετε
γὰρ τὸ ὄνομα ὑμῶν
εἰς πλησμονὴν
τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς
μου, ὑμᾶς δὲ ἀνελεῖ
κύριος. τοῖς δὲ
δουλεύουσιν αὐτῷ
κληθήσεται ὄνομα
καινόν,
Next verses: new heavens & Earth
The idea of already having your reward
is a dreaded condemnation ….
Get Rewarded in the Next Age
Forsaking
This Age = Salvation & Rewards in the Next Age
Inherit Land Live Forever
Psa_37:29 WEB The righteous shall
inherit the land, and live in it forever.
Psa_37:29 LB But the righteous shall inherit the earth,
and dwell upon it forever.
Psa_37:29 (36:29) δίκαιοι
δὲ κληρονομήσουσι
γῆν καὶ
κατασκηνώσουσιν
εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος
ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς.
See: Psa_37:3-4, Psa_37:16-19, Psa_37:29
Will Be
Psa_112:1 WEB Praise Yah! Blessed
is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psa_112:1 LB Alleluia. Blessed is the man that fears the
Lord; he will delight greatly in His commandments.
Psa_112:1 (111:1)
Αλληλουια. Μακάριος
ἀνὴρ ὁ φοβούμενος
τὸν κύριον, ἐν
ταῖς ἐντολαῖς
αὐτοῦ θελήσει
σφόδρα·
Psa_112:2 WEB His seed will be mighty in the land. The
generation of the upright will be blessed.
Psa_112:2 His descendants shall be
mighty in the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Psa_112:2 (111:2)
δυνατὸν ἐν τῇ γῇ
ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα
αὐτοῦ, γενεὰ εὐθείων
εὐλογηθήσεται·
Psa_112:3 WEB Wealth and riches
are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
Psa_112:3 Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his
righteousness endures forevermore.
Psa_112:3 (111:3) δόξα
καὶ πλοῦτος ἐν
τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ,
καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη
αὐτοῦ μένει εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος.
These principles are referenced in the NT
Eternal Peace & Consolation
Isa_32:17 WEB The work of
righteousness will be peace;
and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isa_32:17 LB
And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and
the righteous shall be confident forever.
Isa_32:17 καὶ ἔσται
τὰ ἔργα τῆς
δικαιοσύνης εἰρήνη,
καὶ κρατήσει ἡ
δικαιοσύνη ἀνάπαυσιν,
καὶ πεποιθότες
ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος·
See/Read: Isa_32:11-20
Sell Stuff; Get Eternity
Luk_12:31 CAB But seek the kingdom of God, and all these
things shall be added to you.
Luk_12:31 πλὴν
ζητεῖτε τὴν
βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ,
καὶ ταῦτα
πάντα
προστεθήσεται
ὑμῖν.
Luk_12:31
πλην ζητειτε
την βασιλειαν Aαυτου TSBτου TSBθεου και
ταυτα TSBπαντα
προστεθησεται
υμιν
Luk_12:32 Do not fear, little flock, because your Father is well pleased
to give to you the kingdom.
Luk_12:32 Μὴ
φοβοῦ, τὸ
μικρὸν
ποίμνιον· ὅτι
εὐδόκησεν ὁ
πατὴρ ὑμῶν
δοῦναι ὑμῖν
τὴν
βασιλείαν.
Luk_12:32 μη
φοβου το
μικρον
ποιμνιον οτι
ευδοκησεν ο
πατηρ υμων
δουναι υμιν
την βασιλειαν
Luk_12:33 Sell your possessions
and give alms; make for yourselves money bags which do not grow old, an unfailing
treasure in the heavens, where a thief does not come near, nor does a moth
destroy.
Luk_12:33
πωλήσατε
τὰ ὑπάρχοντα
ὑμῶν καὶ
δότε ἐλεημοσύνην·
ποιήσατε ἑαυτοῖς
βαλλάντια μὴ
παλαιούμενα,
θησαυρὸν ἀνέκλειπτον
ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς,
ὅπου κλέπτης
οὐκ ἐγγίζει
οὐδὲ σὴς
διαφθείρει·
Luk_12:33
πωλησατε τα
υπαρχοντα υμων
και δοτε ελεημοσυνην
ποιησατε
εαυτοις Aβαλλαντια
TSBβαλαντια
μη παλαιουμενα
θησαυρον
ανεκλειπτον εν
τοις ουρανοις
οπου κλεπτης
ουκ εγγιζει
ουδε σης
διαφθειρει
Luk_12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Luk_12:34 ὅπου
γάρ ἐστιν ὁ
θησαυρὸς ὑμῶν,
ἐκεῖ καὶ ἡ
καρδία ὑμῶν
ἔσται.
Notice how you are getting rid of things now for the future time
Get Rewarded Now & Then When
Forsaking This Life
Mar_10:29 CAB So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly,
I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters
or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My sake and for the sake
of the gospel,
Mar_10:29 ἀποκριθεὶς
δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
εἶπεν· ἀμὴν
λέγω ὑμῖν,
οὐδείς ἐστιν
ὃς ἀφῆκεν οἰκίαν
ἢ ἀδελφοὺς ἢ
ἀδελφὰς ἢ
πατέρα ἢ
μητέρα ἣ
γυναῖκα ἢ
τέκνα ἢ ἀγροὺς
ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ
καὶ ἕνεκεν
τοῦ εὐαγγελίου,
Mar_10:29 Aεφη TSBαποκριθεις Bδε TSδε ο ιησους TSBειπεν αμην
λεγω υμιν
ουδεις εστιν
ος αφηκεν
οικιαν η
αδελφους η
αδελφας η TSBπατερα TSBη μητερα η Aπατερα TSBγυναικα η
τεκνα η αγρους
ενεκεν εμου
και Aενεκεν
Bενεκεν του
ευαγγελιου
Mar_10:30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time
[νῦν ἐν τῷ
καιρῷ τούτῳ]--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and
fields, along with persecutions--and in
the age to come, eternal life [ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι
τῷ ἐρχομένῳ
ζωὴν αἰώνιον].
Mar_10:30 ἐὰν
μὴ λάβῃ ἑκατονταπλασίονα
νῦν ἐν τῷ
καιρῷ τούτῳ
οἰκίας καὶ
ἀδελφοὺς
καὶ ἀδελφὰς
καὶ μητέρας
καὶ τέκνα
καὶ ἀγροὺς
μετὰ διωγμῶν,
καὶ ἐν τῷ
αἰῶνι τῷ ἐρχομένῳ
ζωὴν αἰώνιον.
See: Mat_19:29
We see that you keep getting
rid of this now age and God is just going to keep giving you more.
So in summary…
1Jn_2:25 CAB And this is the promise which He Himself
promised to you--eternal life.
1Jn_2:25 καὶ αὕτη
ἐστὶν ἡ ἐπαγγελία
ἣν αὐτὸς ἐπηγγείλατο
ἡμῖν, τὴν
ζωὴν τὴν αἰώνιον.
All
Things Are Yours
1Co_3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours:
1Co_3:21 ὥστε
μηδεὶς
καυχάσθω ἐν
ἀνθρώποις·
πάντα γὰρ ὑμῶν
ἐστιν,
1Co_3:22 whether Paul or Apollos
or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to
come-all things are yours.
1Co_3:22 εἴτε
Παῦλος εἴτε ᾿Απολλὼς
εἴτε Κηφᾶς εἴτε
κόσμος εἴτε
ζωὴ εἴτε
θάνατος εἴτε
ἐνεστῶτα εἴτε
μέλλοντα, πάντα
ὑμῶν ἐστιν,
1Co_3:22
ειτε παυλος
ειτε απολλως
ειτε κηφας
ειτε κοσμος
ειτε ζωη ειτε
θανατος ειτε
ενεστωτα ειτε
μελλοντα παντα
υμων TSBεστιν
1Co_3:23 And you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
1Co_3:23 ὑμεῖς
δὲ Χριστοῦ,
Χριστὸς δὲ
Θεοῦ.
Don’t boast in men = don’t rejoice in the temporarily reputation that people have in this society
Remember you keep forsaking everything and you keep getting everything
What we are seeing is that when you are in covenant you forsake everything, and you own everything.
We are seeing that Paul is expounding on a key phrase, “this now age”.
And what’s wrong with this “now age”?
The devil is in it and the time itself is full of sin.
Luk_6:20-23 – Blessed Mourners NOW
Luk_6:20 CAB Then He lifted up His eyes toward His
disciples, and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the
kingdom of God.
Luk_6:20 Καὶ
αὐτὸς ἐπάρας
τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
αὐτοῦ εἰς
τοὺς μαθητὰς
αὐτοῦ ἔλεγε·
μακάριοι οἱ
πτωχοί, ὅτι ὑμετέρα
ἐστὶν ἡ
βασιλεία τοῦ
Θεοῦ.
Luk_6:21 Blessed are you who hunger now
[νῦν], for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now [νῦν], for you shall laugh.
Luk_6:21
μακάριοι οἱ
πεινῶντες νῦν, ὅτι
χορτασθήσεσθε.
μακάριοι οἱ
κλαίοντες νῦν, ὅτι
γελάσετε.
Luk_6:22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when[ever] [ὅταν = Mat_5:11] they shall exclude
you, and shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, ·because of [ἕνεκα] the Son of Man.
Luk_6:22
μακάριοί ἐστε,
ὅταν
μισήσωσιν ὑμᾶς
οἱ ἄνθρωποι,
καὶ ὅταν
ἀφορίσωσιν ὑμᾶς
καὶ ὀνειδίσωσι
καὶ ἐκβάλωσι
τὸ ὄνομα ὑμῶν
ὡς πονηρὸν ἕνεκα
τοῦ Υἱοῦ
τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
Luk_6:23 Rejoice in that day [ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ] and leap for joy! For behold, your
reward ·is great in heaven
[πολὺς ἐν τῷ
οὐρανῷ]; for in like manner [κατὰ
Aτὰ Aαὐτὰ |TSBταυτα|] their fathers did
to the prophets.
Luk_6:23 BAχάρητε |TSχαιρετε| ἐν ἐκείνῃ
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ
καὶ σκιρτήσατε·
ἰδοὺ γὰρ ὁ
μισθὸς ὑμῶν
πολὺς ἐν τῷ
οὐρανῷ·
κατὰ Aτὰ Aαὐτὰ |TSBταυτα| γὰρ ἐποίουν
τοῖς
προφήταις οἱ
πατέρες αὐτῶν.
Notice that Jesus is not harping on the good gold of Havilah; He is trying to save you from the sin that came after Havilah
When He says whenever, that is telling you that there are various points that persecution can happen
When He says in that day there, means that there are potentially many different days within the word NOW in which you could be persecuted
It might not happen every single day within NOW
“Now” x2 (in the blessings) (Luk_6:21; Luk_6:25) ≈ in that day there (Luk_6:23) whenever-it-may-be [ὅταν] (Luk_6:22) they persecute you (Luk_6:22-23; Mat_5:10-12)
Comp.
Matthew
Mat_5:10
CAB Blessed are those who
have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
Mat_5:10
μακάριοι οἱ
δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν
δικαιοσύνης, ὅτι
αὐτῶν ἐστιν
ἡ βασιλεία
τῶν οὐρανῶν.
Mat_5:11
"Blessed are you whenever [ὅταν = Luk_6:22] they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds
of evil against you falsely for My sake.
Mat_5:11
μακάριοί ἐστε
ὅταν ὀνειδίσωσιν
ὑμᾶς καὶ
διώξωσι καὶ
εἴπωσι πᾶν
πονηρὸν ῥῆμα
καθ᾿ ὑμῶν
ψευδόμενοι ἕνεκεν
ἐμοῦ.
Mat_5:11
μακαριοι
εστε οταν
ονειδισωσιν
υμας και διωξωσιν
και ειπωσιν
παν πονηρον TSBρημα καθ
υμων Aψευδομενοι TSBψευδομενοι
ενεκεν εμου
Mat_5:12
Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they
persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Mat_5:12
χαίρετε
καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε,
ὅτι ὁ μισθὸς
ὑμῶν πολὺς
ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς·
οὕτω γὰρ ἐδίωξαν
τοὺς
προφήτας
τοὺς πρὸ ὑμῶν.
Eze_9:4 – mark on the foreheads of those mourning in Jerusalem
· Mourners: sigh and groan / deeply grieved / hurting from disgust over the abominations (idolatry, violence, immorality, and corruption) committed in Jerusalem
· Protection Mark: like Passover (blood on doorposts; avoid 10th plague, death of first born)
· ≈ Rev_7:1-8 – 144,000 Sealed (Revelation’s seal of protection on the servants of God)
· Sad because of defiled luxury in this now age, and doomed judgment against Jerusalem
· There was sin in Jerusalem in Eze and Now there is sin in this NOW age
· If we can recognize that the past was good and the present is evil then we can reach forward to salvation in the future
· Your wrong thinking is part of the NOW age and you need to mourn it and crucify it so you can use that sacrifice to springboard you into connecting with the right GOD
· Your brain has been trouble by sin and it will die with this NOW age, so you need to mourn it and change your thinking
+You’re bless when you are mourning NOW because the NOW age is evil
You’re bless because you’re mourning because of sin
Luk_6:24-25 – Woe to Those Laughing NOW
Luk_6:24 CAB "But woe to you who are rich, because you have received your consolation.
Luk_6:24 Πλὴν
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν
τοῖς
πλουσίοις, ὅτι
ἀπέχετε τὴν
παράκλησιν ὑμῶν.
Luk_6:25 Woe to you who have been filled [Aνυν], for you shall be hungry. Woe ·to you [TSBυμιν] [those (οἱ)] who laugh now [νῦν = Luk_6:21], for you shall mourn and weep.
Luk_6:25 οὐαὶ
ὑμῖν οἱ ἐμπεπλησμένοι,
ὅτι
πεινάσετε. οὐαί
ὑμῖν οἱ
γελῶντες νῦν, ὅτι
πενθήσετε
καὶ
κλαύσετε.
Luk_6:25 ουαι
υμιν οι
εμπεπλησμενοι Aνυν
οτι πεινασετε
ουαι TSBυμιν οι
γελωντες νυν
οτι πενθησετε
και κλαυσετε
You don’t draw back as those do who are
destroyed in … you lean in more and you obey more so you can understand it.
At least start by saying yes Lord even if
it is hard at first and keep obeying until you understand it and to where it
makes sense.
It is enduring with the details is what
makes you great in God’s kingdom. You need a virtue connection when you pray.
The Point: woe to [the] rich… filled… laugh now (i.e. this now age instead of the one about to be)
We can safely say as those obeying all the
Bible that this is not talking about all those abundantly filled and laughing,
it is specifically talking about those now filling and laughing.
Whatever laughter we can take from the
future kingdom will not be lamented or taken away. As one obeying all the Bible
I am not allowed to say this is talking about all laughter.
This Age vs. The Age To Come -- in Luke
The Sons of This Age --
Are Skilled in Pragmatics
Luk_16:8 CAB So the master praised the unrighteous manager
because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age [οἱ
υἱοὶ τοῦ αἰῶνος
τούτου] are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light [φρονιμώτεροι
ὑπὲρ τοὺς
υἱοὺς τοῦ
φωτὸς εἰς
τὴν γενεὰν TBAτὴν ἑαυτῶν
εἰσι].
Luk_16:8 καὶ ἐπῄνεσεν
ὁ κύριος
τὸν οἰκονόμον
τῆς ἀδικίας,
ὅτι φρονίμως
ἐποίησεν· ὅτι
οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ
αἰῶνος
τούτου
φρονιμώτεροι
ὑπὲρ τοὺς
υἱοὺς τοῦ
φωτὸς εἰς
τὴν γενεὰν TBAτὴν ἑαυτῶν
εἰσι.
The Sons of This Age --
Get Married vs. Resurrection
Luk_20:34 CAB And Jesus answered and said to them, "The
sons of this age
[οἱ υἱοὶ
τοῦ αἰῶνος
τούτου] marry and are given in marriage.
Luk_20:34 καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς
ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς· οἱ
υἱοὶ τοῦ αἰῶνος
τούτου γαμοῦσι
καὶ
έκγαμίσκονται·
Luk_20:34 και TSBαποκριθεις
ειπεν αυτοις ο
ιησους οι υιοι
του αιωνος
τουτου
γαμουσιν και Aγαμισκονται
TSBεκγαμισκονται
Luk_20:35 But those who ·have been counted worthy [καταξιωθέντες] to attain that age
[τοῦ αἰῶνος
ἐκείνου
τυχεῖν], and the resurrection from
the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
Luk_20:35 οἱ
δὲ
καταξιωθέντες
τοῦ αἰῶνος
ἐκείνου
τυχεῖν καὶ
τῆς ἀναστάσεως
τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν
οὔτε γαμοῦσιν
οὔτε
γαμίζονται·
Luk_20:35 οι
δε
καταξιωθεντες
του αιωνος
εκεινου τυχειν
και της
αναστασεως της
εκ νεκρων ουτε
γαμουσιν ουτε Aγαμιζονται Bεκγαμιζονται
TSεκγαμισκονται
Luk_20:36 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are
sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Luk_20:36 οὖτε
γὰρ ἀποθανεῖν
ἔτι δύνανται·
ἰσάγγελοι
γάρ εἰσι
καὶ υἱοί εἰσι
Θεοῦ, τῆς ἀναστάσεως
υἱοὶ ὄντες.
Luk_20:36 Aουδε
TSBουτε γαρ
αποθανειν ετι
δυνανται
ισαγγελοι γαρ
εισιν και υιοι
εισιν TSBτου θεου
της αναστασεως
υιοι οντες
Sacrifice-rs
Rewarded Now & Eternally
Luk_18:29 CAB So He said to them, "Assuredly I say to
you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or
children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
Luk_18:29 ὁ δὲ
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς·
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν
ὅτι οὐδείς ἐστιν
ὃς ἀφῆκεν οἰκίαν
ἢ γονεῖς ἢ ἀδελφοὺς
ἢ γυναῖκα ἢ
τέκνα ἕνεκεν
τῆς
βασιλείας τοῦ
Θεοῦ,
Luk_18:29 ο δε
ειπεν αυτοις
αμην λεγω υμιν
οτι ουδεις
εστιν ος
αφηκεν οικιαν
η Aγυναικα TSBγονεις η
αδελφους η Aγονεις TSBγυναικα η
τεκνα ενεκεν
της βασιλειας
του θεου
Luk_18:30 who shall not
receive many times more in this present
time [ἐν τῷ
καιρῷ τούτῳ], and in ·the age to come
[τῷ αἰῶνι
τῷ ἐρχομένῳ] eternal life."
Luk_18:30 ὃς οὐ
μὴ ἀπολάβῃ
πολλαπλασίονα
ἐν τῷ καιρῷ
τούτῳ καὶ ἐν
τῷ αἰῶνι
τῷ ἐρχομένῳ
ζωὴν αἰώνιον.
Luk_18:30 ος Aουχι
TSBου μη Aαπολαβη TSBαπολαβη
πολλαπλασιονα
εν τω καιρω
τουτω και εν τω
αιωνι τω
ερχομενω ζωην
αιωνιον
Disciple Notes: Hating Money NOW
If I already have comfort from the money that
means I’m missing out on the comfort that comes from God and his kingdom that
is coming in the future
The idea of already having your reward is
in the sense of premature privileges through similar cross-reference
He concluded a 3 part woe with the word
now
When those nice-sits are tied in with the
now age – whose God is the devil, where the time is evil
If you are laughing with the things of the
here and now life
If anything you take pleasure in stops
when this age stops you are doom with this life to the same degree you indulged
Everything you do, whether you eat or
drink or wear etc. better be because God commanded it
You should celebrate when you can eat food
when God can do that in the same way in eternal life
This is exactly why Paul said
1Co_10:31 – if you eat or drink doing it all to the glory of God…
and
Col_3:17 – Do All in the name of Jesus Anointed One
Isa_66: Jewish feasts are fulfilled in the
Kingdom of God
Eating the way God has commanded is NOT
part of this now age, but of the age to come in the new heavens and new earth, which
is all under the rule of the Kingdom of God
There is an escape for the dreaded
condemnation of the here and now age.
…
The Point: Hopefully now we know that this “Now” is the Time (or “age”) to Hate Money,
so that we can inherit the next age
Luke 6 + Luke 1 = Mat_5:6
Luke 6 is Governed By Luke 1 --
& Both are Combined in Mat_5:10
-- Under Construction --
Remember:
Luk_6:24-25 – Woe to the Filled… (seen above)
Mat_5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness,
for they shall be filled.
Mat_5:6
μακάριοι οἱ
πεινῶντες
καὶ διψῶντες
τὴν
δικαιοσύνην, ὅτι
αὐτοὶ
χορτασθήσονται.
This agrees with the
preceding authoritative context of Isiah 65...
But how can we know for sure that this is all what Jesus is talking about specifically in Luk_6:24-25 when he’s saying woe to the filled?
Is this concept confirmed
in Luke somehow?
How can Luke Stand to make
an immediate and accurate statement about a hope of ever being filled when he
says woe to the filled?
Luke already anticipated
everything we’ve been saying
Luke Poverty
-- Counting
by 2s
Preview:
Counting Poverty by 2s Throughout Luke
Luke 1 starts
off with blessing the poor beggars (as seen immediately below), but (for whatever
reason) I noticed that if you count by 2s from chapter 4 through 18, each chapter contributes to the Gospel of poverty,
hating money, and not worrying. This helps explain Mat_6 in the SOM in many ways.
Luke
1 – The Real Blessed Virgin Marry!
Luk_1:50-54 – Proud thrown down… poor
filled with good
·
“Redemptive mercy” = SOM Mat_5 – 6 vocabulary
Luk_1:50 CAB And His mercy is on those who fear Him from
generation to generation.
Luk_1:50 καὶ
τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ
εἰς γενεὰς
γενεῶν τοῖς
φοβουμένοις αὐτόν.
Luk_1:50 και
το ελεος αυτου
εις γενεας Aκαι Aγενεας
TSBγενεων
τοις
φοβουμενοις
αυτον
Luk_1:51 He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud
in the imagination of their hearts.
Luk_1:51 ᾿Εποίησε
κράτος ἐν
βραχίονι αὐτοῦ·
διεσκόρπισεν
ὑπερηφάνους
διανοίᾳ
καρδίας αὐτῶν·
Luk_1:51
εποιησεν
κρατος εν
βραχιονι αυτου
διεσκορπισεν
υπερηφανους
διανοια
καρδιας αυτων
Luk_1:52 He has overthrown the mighty from their thrones, and exalted
the lowly.
Luk_1:52 καθεῖλε
δυνάστας ἀπὸ
θρόνων καὶ ὕψωσε
ταπεινούς,
Luk_1:52
καθειλεν
δυναστας απο
θρονων και
υψωσεν ταπεινους
Luk_1:53 He has filled the hungry [ἐνέπλησεν] with good things, and the rich [πλουτοῦντας] He has sent away empty.
Luk_1:53 πεινῶντας
ἐνέπλησεν
ἀγαθῶν καὶ πλουτοῦντας
ἐξαπέστειλε
κενούς.
Luk_1:53
πεινωντας
ενεπλησεν
αγαθων και
πλουτουντας
εξαπεστειλεν
κενους
Luk_1:54 He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy,
Luk_1:54 ἀντελάβετο
᾿Ισραὴλ
παιδὸς αὐτοῦ
μνησθῆναι ἐλέους,
Luk_1:54
αντελαβετο
ισραηλ παιδος
αυτου μνησθηναι
ελεους
Luk_1:55 As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed
forever."
Luk_1:55
καθὼς ἐλάλησε
πρὸς τοὺς
πατέρας ἡμῶν,
τῷ ᾿Αβραὰμ
καὶ τῷ
σπέρματι αὐτοῦ
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
Now we start Counting by 2s…
Luke
4 – Bread-less Anointed Proclaimer to the Poor
Luk_4:4 – fasting / bread-less-ness
[Mat_4:17 – repent…kingdom is close]
Luk_4:18-19 – spirit anointed me to
proclaim good message to poor-beggars
Luke
6 – SOM
Luk_6:20-26 – blessed poor, woe to rich
Luk_6:27-36 – love enemies & give
Compare the
blessed poor in Luke 6 with the poor filled in Luke 1.
We are required
to submit to the preceding authoritative governing context and see the unity
that Luke 6 & 1 has with Mat_5.
Luke
8 – Choking Money vs. Light
Luk_8:14 – Cares, Riches, Pleasures Choke to no
fruit
·
See what an enemy riches are?
·
This is Not just limited to “loving money”!
·
Money itself is evil, as constantly
confirmed later, all throughout…
Luk_8:16-18 – lamp is there for a reason!
↓↑
Luk_11:33-36 – Lamp is about the eye -- i.e.
greed vs generosity
Luke
10 – Martha
Luk_10:41-42 – Martha with divided cares
Luke
12 – Greed vs Giving
Luk_12:13-15 – Greedy inheritor vs. jealous
brother
Luk_12:16-21 – The Fool Who Built Bigger
Barns
·
Luk_12:21 – Not rich toward God
Luk_12:22-31 – so, don’t worry
Luk_12:32-34 –
·
Luk_12:32 – Father’s
pleasure to give kingdom
·
Notice the goal is you need GOD to give,
not you to cheat!
·
Luk_12:33 – sell, give
mercies, permanent un-fail-able money bags / treasures in heaven
·
Luk_12:34 – Treasure
& heart are in the same place
Luk_12:35 – be ready
·
Think: be ready to jump when the end time
come upon us!
·
Supernatural provision and ultimate reward
is there for those ready to jump
Luk_12:42-48 – Rewards & punishment
Luk_12:49-53 – Fire on the earth
·
Hating money does not create successful
& easy relationships with the world
Mal_1:8 – Bringing Cheap Sacrifices
See if your governor will accept this from your hand
Hag_1:4 – Is it time for you to live in
paneled houses while my house is in ruins?
Luke
14 – Forsake ALL: Hate Family & Soul
Preceding
context:
Tower fall:
repentance urgently required
[Luk_13:22-30 – few saved? -- YES!]
Luk_14:25-35 – forsake [lit. arrange-away]
all beginning-under-substance
How to Apply Family Hatred? --
Questions Are Required
· Since we are told to love people in one place, and Jesus is now talking about hating people in this place, this then therefore pressurizes us to ask the question: in what sense are we supposed to hate our family and our own soul?
· Whenever two statements initially appear to be incompatible, our proper reasonable Bible obedient response is to ask in what ways either or each of these extreme statements are being particular in some way, form, or fashion...
Disciple Notes: Literal Hatred that’s Non-emotional
People always want to draw back unto destruction, recoiling away
from the hard sayings of the Scriptures, by saying you can’t
take it literally.
People act as if / like if they obey it
literally then that means you are doing to be angry with your family
But he is literally saying to hate your
own soul (included soul) and that excludes emotional hatred because he has chop
off the emotional part of you that emotional hatred your family, which means
that you would have to be hating them in a non-emotional sense
The very thing you are afraid and
complaining about is the very thing he has amputated from the context of what
he is talking about
Whoever talked about non emotional hatred?
That is a new concept actually
No man ever spoke like this man
Jesus doesn’t use words like everyone else;
He is talking about something specific/special you don’t already know about
When we talk about emotions, the Bible is
talking about the soul
The reason people can’t understand how to
obey it literally because they are not doing the hating your own soul part
But how are you supposed to hate your soul
when you are supposed to save it?
How am I supposed to hate my soul when it
is not just temporarily here?
Joh_12
– Hate Soul Now…
The Ruler of This World = Judged
Preview
Joh_2:23 – Many believed
Joh_12:6 – Greedy Judas
Joh_12:19 – Complaining Worldly Pharisees
Joh_12:20-22 – Ignored Greeks
John 2 Losers – Jesus Did Not Have
Faith in their Faith
Joh_2:23 CAB Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the feast, many
believed [πολλοὶ
ἐπίστευσαν] on His name, beholding the signs which He was doing.
Joh_2:23 ῾Ως
δὲ ἦν τοῖς ῾Ιεροσολύμοις
ἐν τῷ
πάσχα ἐν τῇ
ἑορτῇ,
πολλοὶ ἐπίστευσαν
εἰς τὸ ὄνομα
αὐτοῦ,
θεωροῦντες αὐτοῦ
τὰ σημεῖα ἃ ἐποίει.
Joh_2:23 ως
δε ην εν BAτοις
ιεροσολυμοις
εν τω πασχα εν
τη εορτη
πολλοι επιστευσαν
εις το ονομα
αυτου
θεωρουντες
αυτου τα
σημεια α
εποιει
Joh_2:24 But Jesus did not trust [ἐπίστευεν] Himself to them, because He knew all men,
Joh_2:24 αὐτὸς
δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς
οὐκ ἐπίστευεν
ἑαυτὸν αὐτοῖς
διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν
γινώσκειν
πάντας,
Joh_2:24
αυτος δε TSBο ιησους
ουκ επιστευεν Aαυτον TSBεαυτον
αυτοις δια το
αυτον
γινωσκειν
παντας
Joh_2:25 and had no need that anyone should testify concerning man,
for He himself knew what was in man.
Joh_2:25 καὶ ὅτι
οὐ χρείαν εἶχεν
ἵνα τις
μαρτυρήσῃ
περὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου·
αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐγίνωσκε
τί ἦν ἐν τῷ
ἀνθρώπῳ.
(John 3 goes on to exemplify this conflict in the account of Nicodemus: Joh_3:1-21)
John 12 – Greed, Greeks,
& Pharisees = Initial (Preceding) Context
· Joh_12:1-9 – Jesus Anointed by Marry of Bethany
·
Murderous Money Greed: Judas…
(A) didn’t really care for the poor (Joh_12:6)
(B) was a complaining thief (Joh_12:6) who
(C) wanted more money, &
(D) “then” [τότε/καὶ]
went & got more after this (Mat_26:14-16/Mar_14:10-11/[Luk_22:3-6]) – so
(E) Judas likes/loves money
· Joh_12:9-19 – Jews wanting to see Jesus (Pharisees complain in Joh_12:19)
· Joh_12:20-22 – Greeks want to see Jesus
Joh_12:6 – Judas said this not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief
Also: Mat_26:8–9 Mar_14:4-5; (Pro_26:24–25; Isa_29:13;
Mat_23:28; Tit_1:16)
Neither Judas nor the religious leaders cared about God/Truth/the poor, but only worldly money, power, & popularity…
The religious leaders did not care about the Truth any more than Judas…
When the Greeks want to see Jesus (Joh_12:20-22) this was the complaint of the religious leaders:
The World Has
Gone After Him!
Joh_12:19 CAB The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "You see that
you are not doing any good. Look [ἴδε], the world
has gone after Him! [ὁ κόσμος
ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ
ἀπῆλθεν]"
Joh_12:19 οἱ οὖν
Φαρισαῖοι εἶπον
πρὸς ἑαυτούς·
θεωρεῖτε ὅτι
οὐκ ὠφελεῖτε
οὐδέν; ἴδε ὁ
κόσμος ὀπίσω
αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθεν.
Joh_12:19 οι ουν φαρισαιοι Aειπαν TSBειπον προς εαυτους θεωρειτε οτι ουκ ωφελειτε ουδεν ιδε ο κοσμος οπισω αυτου απηλθεν
Greeks want to see Jesus (Joh_12:20-22) ≈ the world has gone after Him! [ὁ κόσμος ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθεν] (Joh_12:19)
Notice the religious leaders were worldly. – They cared about the world going after him
(Pharisee must have thought they were sheep stealing and we have heard that before. When church leaders are preoccupied by numbers – the very idea that they are preoccupied about sheep stealing means they don’t care about Jesus’ sheep because the Bible says that no one can snatch them from his hand
Is that happening today when church leaders are all preoccupied with numbers?
Greeks Ignored by Jesus
· The Goofy Pope tried to pretend like we should draw inspiration from the Greeks, & we should help show JC to people, despite the fact that the actual Jesus in the Bible did the exact opposite to the unworthy world!
· Neither Jesus’ response (the words which He says) nor the narrative itself (what John himself told us) ever tells us what ever happened to the ignored Greeks.
· Usually you don’t use an exclusion to make a point but this is a pointed exclusion
· All we get after mentioning the Greeks (Joh_12:20-22) is instructions on how to die (Joh_12:23-26)…
Die, Hate Soul in this World, &
Follow Jesus
Joh_12:23 CAB But Jesus answered them, saying, "The
hour [ἡ ὥρα] has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.
Joh_12:23 ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς
ἀποκρίνατο
αὐτοῖς
λέγων· ἐλήλυθεν
ἡ ὥρα ἵνα
δοξασθῇ ὁ
Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
Joh_12:23 ο δε
ιησους Aαποκρινεται
TSBαπεκρινατο
αυτοις λεγων
εληλυθεν η ωρα
ινα δοξασθη ο
υιος του
ανθρωπου
Joh_12:24 CAB Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of
wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Joh_12:24 ἀμὴν
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν,
ἐὰν μὴ ὁ
κόκκος τοῦ
σίτου πεσὼν
εἰς τὴν γῆν
ἀποθάνῃ, αὐτὸς
μόνος μένει·
ἐὰν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ,
πολὺν καρπὸν
φέρει.
Joh_12:24
αμην αμην
λεγω υμιν εαν
μη ο κοκκος του
σιτου πεσων
εις την γην
αποθανη αυτος
μονος μενει εαν
δε αποθανη
πολυν καρπον
φερει
Joh_12:25 He that loves his life
shall lose it, and he that hates his life
[ὁ μισῶν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ] in this world [ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ τούτῳ] shall keep it for eternal life.
Joh_12:25 ὁ φιλῶν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
ἀπολέσει αὐτήν,
καὶ ὁ μισῶν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ τούτῳ,
εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον
φυλάξει αὐτήν.
Joh_12:25 ο
φιλων την
ψυχην αυτου Aαπολλυει TSBαπολεσει
αυτην και ο
μισων την
ψυχην αυτου εν
τω κοσμω τουτω
εις ζωην
αιωνιον
φυλαξει αυτην
Joh_12:26 And if anyone serve Me, let him follow Me [ἐμοὶ ἀκολουθείτω]; and where I am, there My servant shall be also [think:
Cross!]. If anyone serve
Me, him My Father will honor.
Joh_12:26 ἐὰν
ἐμοί διακονῇ
τις, ἐμοὶ ἀκολουθείτω,
καὶ ὅπου εἰμὶ
ἐγὼ, ἐκεῖ
καὶ ὁ
διάκονος ὁ ἐμὸς
ἔσται· καὶ ἐάν
τις ἐμοὶ
διακονῇ,
τιμήσει αὐτὸν
ὁ πατήρ.
Joh_12:26 εαν
εμοι TSBδιακονη
τις Aδιακονη
εμοι
ακολουθειτω
και οπου ειμι
εγω εκει και ο
διακονος ο
εμος εσται TSBκαι
εαν τις εμοι
διακονη
τιμησει αυτον
ο πατηρ
The World:
Joh_12:19 the world has gone after Him! [ὁ κόσμος ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθεν]
Joh_12:25 …he that hates his life [ὁ μισῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ] in this world [ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ]
Side note: church people like to preach Jesus alone and Jesus himself says he is dying so he would not be alone
He is only telling you to hate your soul in this world
Notice that hating your soul in this world is towards the purpose of saving it into eternal life!
This has nothing to do with interrupting the Bible figuratively
That is completely/totally, literally, morally relevant with hating your soul in this very world because it is junk up with sin, Of course you’re supposed to hate it in this world
Greek Popularity is answered with dying… to your soul & the world! (Joh_12:19; Joh_12:24-25)
The Pharisees were complaining with envy for this world, and Jesus is telling you to die to the world
Does “this world” ≈ the Now Age?
Glory and honor are being parallel and this accomplished with following Jesus unto death
Contrast: “The hour” (Joh_12:23) vs. this world (Joh_12:25) / Age
Parallel: “follow Me” [ἐμοὶ ἀκολουθείτω] (Joh_12:26) ≈ ‘come Behind/after me’ [ἔρχεται ὀπίσω μου] (Luk_14:27)
Ruler of This World Thrown
Out
Joh_12:31 CAB Now
[νῦν] is [ἐστὶ] the judgment ·of this world
[τοῦ κσμου
τούτου]; now [νῦν] the ruler of this world shall be cast out [ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου ἐκβληθήσεται
ἔξω].
Joh_12:31 νῦν
κρίσις ἐστὶ
τοῦ κσμου
τούτου, νῦν ὁ
ἄρχων τοῦ
κόσμου
τούτου ἐκβληθήσεται
ἔξω.
Do you see the judgement of this Now World?
(Remember how the devil offer Jesus the
kingdom and glories of this now world and how he says that it has been given to
me and Jesus says no, I do not want that garbage
Luke14: tasteless salt is thrown out
If you love money, you follow the devil
and get thrown out with his ruler-ship.
This tells us both how to live life,
and how to finish life well…
Dying Bad
If you die without following Jesus, you
are the devils martyr
You get thrown out when the devil gets
thrown out with this NOW age.
Dying Well
Jon_12 is one of the best friends you ever
met
But Dying well, with Jon_12 as your friend, in an optimistic context,
to bear much fruit just like Jesus conceives of a seed that dies specifically
to make more life.
NOW Things Are Different!
Notice that NOW something has especially
happened against worldliness.
The world will never be the same after
Jesus intersects death into this now age
Notice the New Covenant updates against
this Now Age, now that Jesus has
intensely condemned all sin in the flesh (Rom_8:3)
after dying
Now Age
Now [νῦν] ≈ ·of this world [τοῦ κσμου
τούτου] (Joh_12:31)
So, Indeed: “this world” Does ≈ the Now Age!
The Point: Now
is the time to hate your own soul (& family) in this Now Age/World!
Hate Soul -- in Luke 14 & John 12
Hate Soul: Luk_14:26
[μισεῖ…και την TSBεαυτου
ψυχην Aεαυτου]; Joh_12:25 [ὁ μισῶν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ τούτῳ];
Why did Jesus despise the Popularity of
the World?
Are worldly people really all that evil
(as evil as the Bible says) and vain in their faith toward Jesus?
Has the Bible proven the evil of this
worldly age of sinful flesh to you yet?
Forsake the Fame of Fake Faith
Sinful
Condemned Fame Shallow/Non-Sacrificing, Fake Faith
Joh_12:42 CAB Nevertheless even from among the rulers
many [ἀρχόντων
πολλοὶ] believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they
did not confess [ὡμολόγουν
(i.e. same greek as Rom_10:9)] Him, lest they should be excommunicated;
Joh_12:42 ὅμως
μέντοι καὶ ἐκ
τῶν ἀρχόντων
πολλοὶ ἐπίστευσαν
εἰς αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ
διὰ τοὺς
Φαρισαίους οὐχ
ὡμολόγουν, ἵνα
μὴ ἀποσυνάγωγοι
γένωνται·
Joh_12:43 for they loved the praise
of men more than the praise of God.
Joh_12:43 ἡγάπησαν
γὰρ τὴν
δόξαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων
μᾶλλον ἤπερ
τὴν δόξαν
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
We see the now age/world is about the
glory of men instead of the glory of God
Jesus says it is time for the son of man
to be gloried and these arch rulers were not caring with getting glory from God
because they were preoccupied with getting glory from the Pharisee, the world,
this now age.
The Jewish Rulers believed in Him (Joh_12:42) similar to the gentile Greeks (Joh_12:20-22),
much like those shallow “believers” at the feast (Joh_2:23-25)
and all of these are excluded.
This failure of the rulers is an echo from
10 chapters ago in Joh_2:23-25 (quoted
above)
Blindness (Reminder)
Notice that False Doctrine & Money
blinds (1Ti_6:)
≈ the god of this age blinds (2Co_4:4)
Liking money / disobeying Jesus ≈ liking
& loving the World & following the god of this age ≈ getting
blinded and trapped to fall into hell
Hate Worldliness -- in John 12
Pharisees are jealous for fame in this world (Joh_12:19), but Jesus despises & Hates worldly popularity (Joh_12:25) and associates the world with the devil (Joh_12:31)
“in this very world” [ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ τούτῳ]
(Joh_12:25) ≈ this Now World/Age (Joh_12:31) -- where you’re supposed to hate your
soul (& family) (Joh_12:25)
So…
Luk_14:26 - hate your soul
Joh_12:25 - hate your soul in this world
Luke 16 - Hate & Despise Money
End-Times Salvation
Requires Hating Your Soul!
Rev_12:11 – Overcame by Blood, Testimony, & No
Soul-love
Overcame by
Blood of the Lamb, Word of
Testimony, & Not Soul-love unto Death
Rev_12:10 CAB Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,
"Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and
the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers, the one who accused them
before our God day and night, has been thrown out of heaven.
Rev_12:10 καὶ ἤκουσα
φωνὴν μεγάλην
ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ
λέγουσαν· ἄρτι
ἐγένετο ἡ
σωτηρία καὶ
ἡ δύναμις
καὶ ἡ
βασιλεία τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἡμῶν
καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία
τοῦ Χριστοῦ
αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐβλήθη
ὁ κατήγορος
τῶν ἀδελφῶν
ἡμῶν, ὁ
κατηγορῶν αὐτῶν
ἐνώπιον τοῦ
Θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἡμέρας
καὶ νυκτός.
Rev_12:10 και
ηκουσα φωνην
μεγαλην TSλεγουσαν
εν τω ουρανω BAλεγουσαν
αρτι εγενετο η
σωτηρια και η
δυναμις και η
βασιλεια του
θεου ημων και η
εξουσια του
χριστου αυτου
οτι BAεβληθη
TSκατεβληθη
ο Aκατηγωρ TSBκατηγορος
των αδελφων
ημων ο
κατηγορων Aαυτους TSBαυτων
ενωπιον του
θεου ημων
ημερας και
νυκτος
Rev_12:11 And they overcame him
[ἐνίκησαν αὐτὸν] by [διὰ] the blood of the Lamb [τὸ
αἷμα τοῦ ἀρνίου
] and by the word of
their testimony [καὶ
διὰ τὸν
λόγον τῆς
μαρτυρίας αὐτῶν], and they did not love their lives to the death [καὶ οὐκ ἠγάπησαν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῶν
ἄχρι θανάτου].
Rev_12:11 καὶ
αὐτοὶ ἐνίκησαν
αὐτὸν διὰ
τὸ αἷμα τοῦ ἀρνίου
καὶ διὰ τὸν
λόγον τῆς
μαρτυρίας αὐτῶν,
καὶ οὐκ ἠγάπησαν
τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῶν
ἄχρι θανάτου.
Wife’s Notes: Hate Soul In This World
12/15/24
Sun 5:03pm(edited)
Jesus said to hate your own family and even your own soul
But if you conclude that you should be angry with your family then you are not hating your own soul. But you would rather be validating your own soul
By including your soul as an object of hatred, Jesus has excluded emotional activity from hatred (because your soul is your emotions)
Jesus has amputated the part of hatred that you know how to naturally identify with
"No man ever spoke like this man" - Joh_7:46
Whoever talked about hating in a non-emotional way? That is a new concept actually
If you can at least obey Jesus by "hating" your soul, then you can begin to understand how you are to hate your family in a non-emotional valid way
John 12 context:
Murderous greedy Judas -Judas loved money
Worldly Pharisees preoccupied by numbers by the world going after Jesus in Bethany, when they were hoping that people would be gathering "to their church" in Jerusalem to celebrate the feast (Passover?)
Pharisees must have thought Jesus was sheep stealing (and we've heard that before)
People coming to see Lazarus
Greeks coming to see Jesus...
Neither Jesus' response (i.e. the words he said) nor the narrative itself (i.e. what John communicates to us) tells us what happened to the Greeks.
Usually you don't use an exclusion to make a point, however this is a pointed exclusion.
All we get after the introduction of the Greeks is instructions on how to die.
Side note: church people like to preach "JC alone" but Jesus said that dyeing makes him not alone. Jesus himself said that he was dying so that he would not be alone.
There is some kind of contrast with "the Greeks want to see you" and "Die"
John includes the Greeks just to show that Jesus doesn't care about that
And look at what Jesus goes on to say next
Joh_12:25
The one hating his soul IN THAT OF THIS ARRANGED WORLD will save it and keep it in the next age
The sense, or the way, that you hate your soul is to hate your soul in the existence of this world
Notice how hating your soul in this world is towards the purpose of saving it I to eternal life
This has nothing to do with interrupting the Bible figuratively
I am commanded to literally hate my soul, as it exists in this current world
It is totally, literally, morally relevant to hate your soul in this very world...because it is junked up with sin
Pharisees were complaining about jealousy for the world
And Jesus is telling us to die to the world
Glory and honor are being paralleled
And this is accomplished through dying (i.e. following Jesus unto death)
V31 NOW is being the judgement of that of this arranged world
See the word "now" being paralleled with world
Do you see the judgement of this now world?
He is throwing the ruler of this world out, together with this world, like it's garbage
Tasteless salt or thrown out. In the same way the arch ruler of this world is thrown out
If you love money, for ex, then you follow the devil and get thrown out with his ruler ship
I need to look forward to dying well
And John 12 will help you know how to beat your brain in the right shape to think right and thus die well in the end
If you're on Jesus' team and you die well then your death will produce more life for others
If you're not living everyday like that then it's questionable if you'll ever have the courage to die like that
It's talking about dying in an optimistic context -looking at the reward of saving others
Notice that something has especially happened against worldliness
The world would never be the same after Jesus intersects death to this now age.
Now that Jesus has condemned all sin in the flesh, the world has never been the same, and the New Testament has been updated with a superior way of living, into the purpose of salvation for others and for your own soul too
Joh_12:43 the now age is about the glory of men
Let's pray for courage to escape the social pressures of this now age
Now you can obey hating all in the sinfulness of this world!
"Hating Family" vs. "Hating Money" -- Compared & Contrasted
Similarities and
Differences Compared and Contrasted Between 'Hating Family and Stuff' in Luke
14 and 'hating and Despising Money' in Luke 16
Luk_9: context
Luke 14 - Hate Family
Luke 16 - Hate
and despise money
So, what's the difference, if any, in hating money & hating family?
(A) Similarities
· Both are included in the gospel of Luke, and are only differentiated by two chapters.
· Both are implied in Luke 14: hate family & leave all possessions.
· Both are things to sacrifice for the kingdom of heaven.
· Both are part of this now age!
· Both are redeemed, or potentially redeemed, in the future through you by hating them now.
· Sacrificial expenditure, preference, and priority, are the format of hatred for both hatreds.
· i.e. expense, expenditure, sacrifice, crucifixion.
(B) Differences
· The consciousness of a person can be redeemed if they cooperate
· The consciousness behind money cannot be redeemed
·
By righteous
Hatred of this Now Age…
(i) You are trying to save the consciousness behind the family member who you
are hazarding and sacrificing
(ii) You are trying to send the consciousness behind the metal or idle to hell
-- in the condemnation of harsh just judgement
The Point: The Consciousness Behind Money vs.
People = The Difference!
Luke
16
8/31/24; 9/1/24
Luk_16:1-8 – Unrighteous steward
Luk_16:8-13 – Applications from unrighteous
steward
·
Luk_16: – Hate money
·
Luk_16:14 – Pharisees mock
·
Warn likers of silver -- the opposite of
hating money
Luk_16:15 – Social self-justification with
stinky hearts
Luk_16:16 – Law, Prophets, John, & Kingdom
·
Notice he’s talking about getting into the kingdom,
not just “getting rewards” like church liars focus on
·
Violence of john’s entrance into the kingdom
recalls his courageous martyrdom
Luk_16:16 CAB The law and the prophets
were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been
preached, and everyone enters forcibly into it.
Luk_16:16 ῾Ο
νόμος καὶ οἱ
προφῆται ἕως ᾿Ιωάννου·
ἀπὸ τότε ἡ
βασιλεία τοῦ
Θεοῦ εὐαγγελίζεται,
καὶ πᾶς εἰς
αὐτὴν
βιάζεται.
Luk_16:16 ο
νομος και οι
προφηται Aμεχρι
TSBεως
ιωαννου απο
τοτε η
βασιλεια του
θεου
ευαγγελιζεται
και πας εις
αυτην βιαζεται
Mat_11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until
now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men seize it.
Mat_11:12 ἀπὸ
δὲ τῶν ἡμερῶν
᾿Ιωάννου τοῦ
βαπτιστοῦ ἕως
ἄρτι ἡ
βασιλεία τῶν
οὐρανῶν βιάζεται,
καὶ βιασταὶ
ἁρπάζουσιν
αὐτήν.
√GNT-V
By describing the heavenly riches as True
in Luk_16, he has
declared the earthly riches as false along with all of its dirty
unrighteousness that is to be hated and despised
Luk_16:17 – keriah-horns
are permeant
Luk_16:18 – Divorce and Remarriage condemned
Luk_16:19-31 – Rich man and Poor-begging
Lazarus
·
It’s about obeying all the Bible
·
Luk_16: –
·
Luk_16: –
Luke 16 Steward
-- Under Construction --
Videos
“Why did Jesus
commend the unjust steward?”
“The Most
Difficult Parable – Luke_16:1-12”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkL2Yuxe_18&pp=ygURdW5yaWdodGVvdXMgbW9uZXk%3D
>>>>PENDING:
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Luk_16:1 –
·
the word devil is defined
Luk_16:2 -
Luk_16:3 –
·
forgiveness is defined
Luk_16:4 -
Luk_16:5 -
Luk_16:6 –
·
the word document is defined
Luk_16:7 –
·
the word document is defined
Luk_16:8 -
Luk_16:9 – the money/mammon of the
unrighteous-ness
·
you
need to make yourself angel friends (Luk_16:22) out of
unrighteous money
Make Friends
with Who???
Who can receive
you into ongoing tents?
Most church
people focus on making worldly and sometime even “unrighteous” friends, as if
they can welcome you into eternal tents?
Confused and
confusing people are confusing the parable with the point.
That is disobeying
the word “parable” -- which requires us to “through” the parable “next-to”
something that is inherently dissimilar.
When “it” or
“They” or “you” fail?
>>Scrip:
Luk_12:21 – not rich toward God
Luk_12:32-34 – money bags that don’t fail
(33)
·
Luk_12:32 – Fear not
·
Luk_12:33 – he want to give you
·
Luk_12:34 – so you give
Rich toward God
(Luk_12:) ≈ Rich in Good Works (1Ti_6:)
i.e. freely
giving abundance to those in need = context of all these passages
Heb_13: free from love of money… Lord is my helper
One guy was so
confused that he said JC was being sarcastic:
Question
19： Does
Luke 16_9 mean
that we should have friends of the world？
Luk_16:10 – faithful in little or much
Luk_16:11 – the unrighteous mammon
Luk_16:12 – faithful
Luk_16:13 – no serving 2 Lord’s
·
Hate money
Luk_16:14 – religious warm-likers of silver
·
He had been saying these things to his
disciples (Luk_16:1), but the
religious people were listening in and mocking him based on what he was saying
to others that was none of their business
·
The religious Pharisees were doing social
cheating
·
Notice that religious flesh so frequently
does not tolerate audience specification
·
Liking silver is the direct opposite of
hating money
Luk_16:15 -
Luk_16:16 -
Luk_16:17 -
Luk_16:18 -
Luk_16:19 – Lampifying the happy treasures and
riches of this life without righteousness
·
This is a bad rich man in contrast to the
previous 2 stories in Luk_15 and 16
Luk_16:20 -
Luk_16:21 -
Luk_16:22 – angels carried poor man (see verse
9)
Luk_16:23 -
Luk_16:24 -
Luk_16:25 -
Luk_16:26 -
Luk_16:27 -
Luk_16:28 -
Luk_16:29 -
Luk_16:30 -
Luk_16:31 – This is about your relationship with
the Bible
Luke
18 – Rich Young Ruler
Luk_18:18-30 – Rich Young Ruler
·
Luk_18:24-30 – Harder
for rich man to enter than a camel through needle
Luk_18:31-43 – crucifixion predicted
Embrace Poverty
-- Under Construction --
Pro_23:3 ESV "Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food."
The
Point of Luke
Poverty
9/1/24
Get a begging attitude to be saved from money! -- That’s how this whole Gospel started!
Luk_1:50-54 – Proud thrown down… poor
filled with good
Proclaiming
Good Message to Beggars
Mat_4: → SOM
Luk_4:4 – fasting / bread-less-ness
[Mat_4:17 – repent…kingdom is close]
Luk_4:18-19 – spirit anointed me to proclaim good message to poor-beggars
Paradise Lost; Reverence Required
The Reverent Response
Which Is Required After Humans Have Been Demoted From Paradise
The Doctrine of Sin is what
Money-hating is About
Money-hating
Depends on the Doctrine of Sin
· Understanding and embracing the doctrine of money-hating goes straight back to having a clear and reasonably sufficient Orthodox doctrine of sin to begin with.
· Most church people are appalled at the thought of being required to hate money, because they don't even have an approximately Biblical doctrine of sin.
· If you embrace the reality of sin on honest terms, then money hating is the inevitable consequence which logically follows as a necessary moral result and requirement.
2Th_2:7 – the mystery of lawlessness
A basic awareness of the reality of how
evil people are, and an approximately Biblical concept of the need to
absolutely dismantle the body of sin in the New Covenant, and the new stringent
demands of being spiritual now, make money-hating an obvious Truth, (and even a
"no-brainer" which is so easy that an elementary disciple could
grasp), so that we must easily, quickly, heartily, fully, and enthusiastically
accept Jesus's heart purifying rules to hate money...
Question the Effect of Sin on Your Integrity
To What Degree Does Sin
Affect You?
· Humans sinned and have been messing up our species from a very long time ago. So...
· How much of these sins still affect us personally to this day, and how much are we individually and personally troubled by the combined and collective effects and responsibilities of the sins of our peoples?
· To what degree are we affected by the violations of the human species and of our cultures and of our families and of our own selves?
· To what degree do we have character breaches and holes in our integrity that trouble the potentially good things of this life with dangers and threats of violations and sins?
· To what degree do the violations of our peoples (on various levels) endanger the stability of our personal integrity, and leave us vulnerable toward temptation and possible sin?
· And if humans have lost nearly all of their integrity through unbridled and outrageous sin, how should we contradict this strong tendency and reverse this long track-record to overcome all the odds in our own personal lives and finally make the difference with something new and living and righteous and redemptive on the earth?
Losing Eden
Sinning in the garden
got humans universally disqualified from enjoying the full goodness of God's
good creation, and through this fall humans were totally excluded from the
surpassing goodness of the Garden of Eden.
Humans lost their lofty position of
blissful exaltation, and even the common enjoyment of the land (“Earth”) itself
was rebuked and cursed for the sake of their sin.
Even the common ground (or land) of the Earth was cursed for man's
sake to bring up thorns as a rebuking punishment for sin (Gen_3:17-18).
The only delightful memorial they were
allowed to take with them from the garden was marriage.
Sng_4:12 – You Are a Garden of Delights
Son_7:6 WEB How
beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights !
Son_7:6 LB How
beautiful [ὡραιώθης] are you, and how sweet [ἡδύνθης] are you, my love! [ἐν τρυφαῖς
σου – CAB: …in thy delights (Son_7:7); ABP: in your luxuries; CT (fig.): how delightful!]
Son_7:6 (7:7) Τί ὡραιώθης
καὶ τί ἡδύνθης,
ἀγάπη, ἐν τρυφαῖς
σου;
SoS Celebrates with Physical Pleasures
They go on throughout this book to elaborate
praises toward the physical beauty of each other throughout this entire book,
comparing each other to the most beautiful things throughout creation,
including Pharos’s chariots, etc.
Whether it is outright outrage of overt fornications
and adulteries or even the potential subtleties of stale, boring, complacent
marriage, which the fornicating flesh hates God with, if you had any idea
of what The Garden of Song of Solomon means to God, you would be
in tears for all that the flesh does to profane the very memory of Loving God
this way…
Stop being so happy about the unending
murders of sin, and instead cherish and rejoice in the last delights which God
has left us from His favorite purity in the Garden.
Re-contamination
When considering
how humans Lost Eden, we see that
sinning with good things makes you less permitted, authorized, capable and
worthy of enjoying them without reviving their associated crimes and being
re-contaminated by the original sin which was sown into them from their initial
human violations.
Man Condemned Creation,
along with Himself
Rom_5:12 – through one man's sin death entered the world
· Sin & Death: Man brought sin and death/destruction.
Rom_8:20 – the creation was unwillingly subjected to vanity (not of its own will)
· Temporal: “vanity” includes the futility of decay and dying and being dismantled and destroyed and prevented from continuing forever.
Take Responsibility for
Destroying Good
Notice that humans are guilty for contaminating
creation and bringing it under their own curse of vanity and death, and
therefore humans now have to also take responsibility for how they messed up
God’s good creation. Humans are required to not hastily authorize themselves to
indulgently enjoy the good that they are guilty of condemning with their sin,
lest the humans willingly embrace their own evil and die with the physical
luxuries that are being condemned from it.
Probation Multiplied by Continued Sin
· Humans were already in a type of limiting probation from their lack of knowledge when they were first created, and their performance was being monitored based on their responsibilities in the garden of luxurious bliss, to demonstrate to the universe if they could be trusted with good things, or not (with such privileges).
· Humans failed miserably with exalted luxuries, pleasures, and privileges, and as a whole, the human species has not stopped increasing miserable failures ever since.
· If they demonstrated that they could not be trusted without knowledge, how much more scrutinizing probation is required for them now that they have defiled the knowledge they have, and have used it to continue multiplying unending sin ever since?
· If God puts you in double-probation, you need to cooperatively, reverently, and intensely hold yourself there, and remain in humble subjected probation until you're found worthy to escape the humiliation of your sin.
Self-Exaltation is Deadly
Authorizing yourself prematurely with
permissiveness and freer indulgence to partake of pleasurable privileges only
establishes your own moral incompetence and bankrupt unworthiness, and proves
your compulsive habits of continuously breaking rules, and demonstrates your
slavery to sin, and seals your condemning death, and intensifies your
condemnation all the more.
You ought to walk slowly, and lowly, with
humility and reverence, with patient self-subjection, and fear of rebuke as you
carefully walk forward, especially if you might happen to carry any good things
in your hands, and make sure that you never go faster than virtue lest you
hasten (or speed up) your own early execution, being dwarfed by a rebuke
against your hasty violations.
1Ch_13:9-12 – the Lord made a breach against Uzza for touching the ark and David was scared of the Lord
Notice that Uzza was accidently
too permissive and was struck down dead because of it, and yet David had the
logical and rational response of pausing and waiting in fear and reverence
before happily moving forward again.
Good Overcome by Bad
In this physical universe, the defiling
sin which humans committed with God's good gifts counts against these nice
things more than the goodness which God originally invested in them.
As "free moral agents" invested
(and endued and endowed) by God with the substantial and potent weightiness of
making moral choices, which resound and cascade throughout the entire universe
until they reach heaven, the sin that humans commit is more substantial,
weighty, and serious than the potency of the original goodness which nice
things originally had when they were first created as good by God and given to
humans.
Hag_2:12-14 – Unholy Defiles Holy, but Holy Doesn’t Clean Unholy
1Co_5:6-7 – A little Leaven Defiles The Whole Lump (i.e. Incl.
People)
Mechanisms of Good & Bad: Evil Temporarily Wins in Physics
Bad is stronger than niceness, in a universe which is only ruled
by the morally bankrupt weakness of physics.
A Redemptive Mechanism is
Missing in Physics
The first physical creation of cosmic
goodness was not created with a built-in redemptive mechanism to overcome the
mechanisms of sin and their potential destruction, which were also created by
God, and activated most directly by human choices to sin.
The physical universe has no working
solution, or redemptive mechanism,
to go to when it is molested and overthrown by the surpassing metaphysical
forces of sin that are brought about through humans.
Morally Bad Mechanisms
Overcame Physical Niceness
So, since the universe was vulnerable
without any redemptive capacity under the government of humans, therefore, the
mechanisms of sin, which God created as originally good, overpowered the
worthiness of the mechanisms of goodness which God also created throughout the
universe, because the mechanisms of sin are moral and therefore rule the
universe from their moral leverage and potency, (just as morality itself is the
metaphysical foundation of the entire physical universe), while the universe
itself is only an "a-moral" physical creation (without moral power),
which can only be built on top of, substantiated, and held together on the
foundation of the metaphysical reality of morality.
Moral Choices Overcame
Physical Niceness
Because the physical creation runs off of
physical brute force, and is not strong in itself toward morality, and
therefore has no redemptive mechanism or capacity built into itself from the
beginning to recover from evil (which is metaphysical), therefore the physical
universe is morally vulnerable, especially after the good God, who originally
created a good physical universe, proceeded to give mankind an even stronger potency
of making moral decisions which could pollute, defile, contaminate, invalidate,
and ultimately destroy the physical goodness of the physical creation with the
overruling moral evil of sin, if he so chose.
Observable Responsibility
Requires Humbled Response
· We can very easily observe that the visible universe is essentially physical and that morality is metaphysical.
· Therefore the moral curse that came on the physical universe and made niceness into something to despise is essentially observable because of sin.
· We are required to honestly embrace these observable realities and heartily justify Jesus and the rest of the Bible as literally True when God commands us to hate money.
Polluted Lives Ruin Nice Gifts
The sin of humans in Genesis 3 onward got so bad that they made God regret that He even made humans to begin with by Genesis 6.
If the filthy perversion of people makes
God regret making them to begin with, and humans are the most valuable known
physical things in the universe, how much easier is it for humans to grieve God
for all of the nice things (including inanimate objects and even animals) that
He gave them?
If the sin of mankind grieves God so
deeply that He regrets making the people
themselves, how much easier is it for Him to regret giving them nice
things when they sin with them,
and how much more are we obligated to regret sinning with them, and guard
against any more indulgent sin with every ounce of our strength, since we risk
recklessly playing around with our very own doom that hangs over us,
threatening condemnation against our indulgence?
Polluted Gifts: Worse Than Never Having Been
Created
· God's good, or rather nice, physical gifts to men were overcome by His even stronger moral gifts to men to make choices to sin with them.
· Therefore what God made good was made even more bad by man, so that it lost its worthiness to be counted good under the curse and weight of the surpassing bad.
· God gave it to you good, but when you do evil with it you make it worse than never having been created in the first place, which is why you get less permission to use whatever you sin with.
Humans Lost All Goodness & We Need to Repent!
· Humans lost the goodness of paradise, and perverted the goodness of their very own bodies, and lost their very own lives from sin.
· The rebuke is thorough; therefore our reverent response must be weighty.
· Humans invalidated their access to the garden of delights and imposed on themselves the death penalty for sinning with the abundance of so many good things that were given to them, and they even proceeded to make God so furious with their multiplied sin that He issued an early execution against all mankind to end the wildness of their unbridled indulgence in hatred.
· Humans invalidated their privileges, defiled the value of their bodies, and overthrew their very right to live.
Take Responsibility for Human Sin!
It's high time we took personal
responsibility for the sin of our species, as those partaking of human nature,
with all its fallen sinfulness, liability, and guilt, and with all of its
benefits and weighty obligations, and it's also way past overdue and high time
we took convicting responsibility for the outrages of our ages, and the sins of
our societies, and the crimes of our cultures, and the failures of our
families, and own up to the unworthiness of our own selves.
Stop
Sins of Self-Exaltation!
Naively congratulating yourself to enjoy
good things without the knowledge of reverence, and rewarding yourself with
unauthorized privileges without the brokenness of repentance has been the
unbridled outrage of all human history, and if you continue in this monotonous
predictable repeated unending heritage of gloomy perversion and hateful
rebellion, you will go to hell just like nearly all humans have been doing from
the beginning, while pridefully destroying themselves for the sake of
self-flattery, for all of these ages since the beginning.
The angels will not pardon your outrage
for continuing Hitler's campaign
from the fall of man until now, and repeating the same old bloodshed that
people have been ignoring since they defiled the earth.
The crimes of outrage have already been
accomplished, and we dare not add, nor much less multiply them yet any further!
If we proceed to pick up any nice things
which He made, how fearful and reverent and careful and sober and slow to
indulge and congratulate ourselves should we be, lest we violate against the
Creator yet more, and lest we add yet more wrath against our species and death
come upon the food that is in our mouths while we're chewing it *, and the
entire sum of goodness in the entire world is burnt up in the fury of His
unbearably hot anger against our unbridled violations of hatred which continue
to multiply and increase unto this day?
* Num_11:33 / Psa_78:30-31 – wrath came on them while the food was in their mouths
Conclude on Action
· Let Naivety continue no more!
· It is high time to reverse our track record, and finally change and embrace full reverence and all lowly subjection, and engage all fierceness and moral violence against sin and its hateful campaign of permissive luxurious indulgence!
· It’s time to stop playing games of denial and finally take Jesus seriously enough to obey His commands to hate and despise money!
Rich Holy-Ones?
Patriarchal Lessons
About Money
-- Under Construction --
The rich Patriarchs in the Old Testament
are by far one of, if not the most, exploited biblical confusions which are
abused to blasphemously rebel against Jesus's commands to hate money.
There are drastic problems with every
church person’s view of money and “rich Bible heroes”, especially the rich Old
Testament patriarchs.
See: Prosperity Lite
Compare & Contrast
There are similarities and there are some
differences between the old and the new covenants, therefore we are left with a
few very important questions about money and riches...
Root Question: is it okay to be rich like
The Patriarchs as long as you’re generous and righteous?
Lots of Righteous Rich People?
There Are Numerous Righteous Rich People
in the Bible:
· OT: Job, Lot, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Boaz, David, Solomon, Hezekiah, etc.
· NT: Joseph of Arimathea, at least 2 Roman centurions, etc.
…But Rich Get Hell!
-- Under Construction --
See: The Abraham Enigma
TSK on 1Ti_6:17 : rich: Gen_13:2, Job_1:1-3, Mat_19:23, Mat_27:57, Luk_19:2, Luk_19:9, Luk_19:10
If the Rich Get Hell, does that mean that the
righteous can never be rich?
Learning: Exciting, Yet Hard
· Learning from “rich” OT patriarchs is both exciting and challenging.
· Obviously it’s exciting for obeyers because the doctrine of imitation confronts, contradicts, and incriminates the flesh and compels the selfish flesh to be crucifies and gives us hope of escaping sin and the flesh by imitating these amazing Bible heroes.
· However the flesh tries to block obeyers from imitating the OT saints because the devil boasts that they were rich in a way the overules the New Covenant gospel, good mesage, of and to the poor beggars, as if the obedience of New Covenant poor begging is an unnecessary and meaningless sacrifice…
Riches Defined -- Hebrew & Greek
Hebrew: Heavy-Strong
Greek: Full-Abundant
Adds no sorrow to it?
Blessed Multiplication & Land-filling in
Genesis
Building the earth with blessed
multiplication was man's original commission.
Preview: Adam, Eve, Noah, &
Abraham
God blessed Adam, Eve, Noah, and Abraham
to be fruitful and multiply and fill the land
Gen_1:28 NKJV "Then God blessed them, and God said to
them, 'Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion
over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.'"
Gen_9:1 NKJV "So God blessed Noah and his sons, and
said to them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.'"
Gen_12:2 NKJV "I will make you a great nation; I will
bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing."
Gen_22:17 NKJV "Blessing I will bless you, and
multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as
the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate
of their enemies."
OT: Spread
Out & Fill the LAND: Gen_2, Gen_5, Gen_11, & onward
What was God working on in the Old
Testament?
Abraham is told he will get LAND,
children, blessings and provisions...
What was God working on with Abraham?
Is there any different priorities and emphasis
in the New Covenant?
Before considering all of the rich people
named in the Old Testament and a few even in the New Testament, we should get
the Foundation of our bearings straight that God started off the book of
Genesis by ordaining and prescribing that humans should multiply under his
blessing and fill the earth.
Prosperity preachers habitually,
notoriously, and continually pretend like there hasn't been a change in
covenants that governs how we're supposed to prioritize God's mission and deep
prioritize money by hating it...
Even most average church people are
similarly engrossed in the world so much that they can't even see the kingdom
of heaven being proclaimed in the scriptures and demanding us to forsake and
hate and die in crucify to this life now under new covenant with the newly
revealed Revelations of following Jesus into crucifixion and bringing about the
culmination of the end times.
Job Basics
The Basics of the Book of Job
3/16/25
Virtue Praised with Inspired Admiration
3/16/25
Job is about that admiration you get when
you see someone go through bad things and faithfully endure in uncommon virtue
to do good.
Suffering Explained, Not Created
Job doesn't create the problem of
suffering, it explains it.
It is precisely because the Bible
describes the universe so accurately that it gains its credibility.
If disbelievers blaspheme the Bible,
seeking to discredit it, they should hold it in their minds that this is why
they themselves are considered without credibility.
Simply pretending like the Bible is not
credible does nothing to improve your own credibility, since logical people
have been pressured under the Bible's credibility to believe it for thousands
of years.
It is specifically because the Bible
describes the universe accurately, that gives it its credibility and compels
people continually throughout these ages to give heed to it, and believe it,
and try to assimilate its Truth into their lives, and therefore when a free
thinker pretends like the Bible is not credible the general consciousness of
humanity testifies against them, having observed that the book of Job is, like
the rest of the Bible, credible in describing universe.
That being said, the book of Job does not
create the problem of suffering, it explains it.
With staggering consistency in describing
the universe the Bible is putting forth the problem of suffering and the
observation that there are two different powers pushing an opposite directions,
one toward Harmony and life and another pointing and pushing toward chaos and
destruction.
The hypocrisy of those who criticize The
book of Job, as disbelievers, pretends like there is a complaint that could be
levied against the book of Job, as though the book itself we're creating the
phenomena of bad happening to good people,
when the devil (somewhat) makes a bet with
God to hurt Job for no reason, even though Job was good. But the
book of Job actually does nothing to create
this phenomenon (bad happening to good
people) since it is plainly and universally observable that bad
things happen to people striving to be righteous all the time, so that you would have to stick your head in the
sand in an attempt to ignore it. The powers of evil are constantly unfairly
inflicting injustice on those striving for cleanliness, order, harmony,
righteousness, and Truth, and the powers of chaos nearly never stop trying to
destroy those who are pushing against them toward the good and harmony and
salvation of mankind.
The hypocrisy of disbelief pretends like
the book of Job creates this problem of evil, which is total absurdity for a
logical brain of a human which is bound to the rules of scientific observation.
Thanks be to the Bible for being courageous
and bold, with enough depth and understanding to actually confront the
phenomena of evil in the universe and courageously plunge forward to actually
explain it.
Again, this is an observable phenomenon
that chaos fights against those who push toward Harmony and life in the
universe, and the hypocrisy of disbelievers pretends like they are finding
fault with the Bible but the real difference between the disbeliever and the
claims of the Bible is that the disbeliever is pretending like it is scientifically
permissible to think of the universe as being without a consciousness behind
it, whereas we can all see the leftover residual results of consciousness
throughout the entire universe and through every aspect of our existence. now
we even get to peer into DNA and all kinds of other information stored in our
cells and the fabric of the universe, and this is the leftover residual
information which cannot be generated without a mind. information doesn't
spontaneously exist out of chaos but something has to push against the powers
of chaos to communicate truth and Harmony and order and that communication
results in information and there is no such thing as information being
observably generated on its own out of chaos without an interruption in the
principles of entropy and overruling the powers of chaos and decay to bring
about life and success and Harmony and Truth in the universe.
So, well heckler's pretend like they're
criticizing The book of Job they're actually hypocritically ignoring the root
issue that they're actually dishonestly pretending that the powers of the
universe, which are striving for chaos, are not conscious, and that's
the real issue of hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty with disbelievers. In
illogical unscientific inhumane prejudice, they already assume that the powers
of chaos pushing against the life of the universe are not conscious, and
then they have the audacity to add insult to intellectual injury by pretending
like the book of Job is creating
the problem which was already there, and they give no credit to the fact that
Job is actually finally offering the only solution to which all scientific and
logically bound people are searching to resolve.
Suffering IS Explained in Job
Suffering IS Explained in the Book
of Job
Some say, “suffering is not explained” in
Job?
I find it extremely strange that so many
people (way too many!) say that suffering is not explained in the book of Job,
when that is only the limited initial
perspective Job had, which is distinctly different from what perspective
The book of Job is intentionally giving us as the reader, and is eventually
revealed to Job, which does
in fact explain why suffering takes place.
Most people are so morally bankrupt that
they can't read the book even though it's speaking directly to their face...
The reason that suffering happens is being
pre-explained To Us by the court scene in heaven which shows that God's justice
extends to answer the entire universe which we as humans do not understand when
we're going through trials and are limited localized perspective and
experience. the book of Job zooms us out of our sheltered bubble to see why
suffering happens on the Earth from a universal perspective of being
responsible to Justice throughout the universe.
That's why I find it so strange that Bible
teachers and commentators are constantly saying that the book of Job doesn't answer the very thing that it does actually set out to answer at the
very beginning...
The Devil is Bad in Job
The devil is bad, even in early
representations of him in Job and elsewhere
Job_1:11 – the devil is inconsistent in his accusations, because
his first supposition was proven false and then he offers another accusation in
job 2 which proves that he is being inconsistent and without fortitude in the
truth.
The devil's goal is not to be consistent
with his claims when they are proven incorrect, but his goal is to accuse even
if it departs from the Truth.
Some have foolishly suggested that the
devil is a neutral character in early Hebrew literature, but being inconsistent
with the truth as a prosecutor is portraying him as a bad guy in The book of
Job and pretending like he is neutral is intellectually dishonest and blasphemous
against the literature that they claim to analyze.
The devil is not a neutral character in
some metaphorical narrative, but rather he is being contrasted in a very
ironical way with the sons of God even when he seems to still hold the position
as one to report to God and one who can Levy and accusation of prosecution
against God's favorite people, yet he is not being flattered with parallel
descriptions with them even though he has parallel privileges with God's sons.
Job_2:3 – ruining Job without a cause is not the characteristic of
a neutral character but of one very diabolical, indeed
The devil is not being called one of
“God's sons”, so it is indeed quite blasphemous for Mormons to invent the idea
that he's the brother of God's only begotten son.
Job Summary
-- Under Construction --
Patterns
Job 3 – 21 – Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar x2
Job 22 – 37 – Eliphaz, Bildad, * Elihu (Job 32 – 37) x1
Job precedes & responds to each Speech
* Job 26 – 31: Job’s Longest Series of Speeches
God, Job
GPT Job Summary
This summary was commissioned by us
for GPT to write, but is partly being refined by us further as we get to read
Job 1: Job’s faith tested through loss and suffering
Job 2: Satan afflicts Job; friends arrive silently
Job 3: Job laments his birth and suffering
Job 4: Eliphaz (A) claims Job’s suffering is deserved
Job 5: Eliphaz urges Job to seek God
Job 6: Job defends himself, rebukes his friends
Job 7: Job complains about his suffering to God
Job 8: Bildad (B) insists Job’s children died for sin
Job 9: Job acknowledges God’s power, pleads innocence
Job 10: Job questions God’s justice and purpose
Job 11: Zophar (C) accuses Job of hidden wickedness
Job 12: Job mocks friends, affirms God’s wisdom
Job 13: Job challenges friends, appeals to God
Job 14: Job laments life’s brevity and suffering
Job 15: Eliphaz (A) rebukes Job’s defiance, warns judgment
Job 16: Job calls friends worthless, seeks advocate
Job 17: Job despairs, accuses friends of mockery
Job 18: Bildad (B) describes the fate of the wicked
Job 19: Job feels abandoned, hopes in Redeemer
Job 20: Zophar (C) accuses Job of sinful indulgence (we wrote that)
Job 21: Job refutes wicked always suffering argument
Job 22: Eliphaz (A) accuses Job, urges repentance
Job 23: Job longs for God’s justice and presence
Job 24: Job observes wicked prosper without punishment
Job 25: Bildad (B) says none are righteous before God
Job 26: Job affirms God’s power over creation
Job 27: Job maintains innocence, describes wicked’s fate
Job 28: Job speaks on wisdom’s true source
Job 29: Job recalls former blessings and honor
Job 30: Job mourns his present suffering and shame
Job 31: Job declares his righteousness before God
Job 32: Elihu (D) rebukes Job and his friends
Job 33: Elihu claims God speaks through suffering
Job 34: Elihu defends God’s justice and judgment
Job 35: Elihu says Job’s righteousness benefits none
Job 36: Elihu praises God’s justice and power
Job 37: Elihu describes God’s majesty in creation
Job 38: God (E) challenges Job from the whirlwind
Job 39: God questions Job about creation’s wonders
Job 40: Job humbles himself; God rebukes him
Job 41: God describes Leviathan’s terrifying power
Job 42: Job repents; God restores his fortunes
Job Quoted in
the New Testament
1Co_3:19;
Rom_11:35
(A) Catching the Wise
Preview: Eliphaz in Job_5:13 (MT) is quoted
by Paul in 1Co_3:19
See: Job Quoted in the New Testament
ES: Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper
Job_4:1 WEB Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Job_4:1 LB Eliphaz: Job Has Sinned Then Eliphaz the
Temanite answered and said,
Job_4:1 Ὑπολαβὼν
δὲ Ελιφας ὁ
Θαιμανίτης λέγει
…
Eliphaz
Describes Catching
Job_5:12 WEB He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So
that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
Job_5:12 frustrating the
counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
Job_5:12 διαλλάσσοντα
βουλὰς πανούργων,
καὶ οὐ μὴ ποιήσουσιν
αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν
ἀληθές.
Job_5:13 WEB He takes
the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job_5:13 who takes the wise in their wisdom
[ὁ καταλαμβάνων
σοφοὺς ἐν τῇ φρονήσει], and subverts the counsel of the crafty.
Job_5:13 ὁ
καταλαμβάνων
σοφοὺς ἐν τῇ
φρονήσει, βουλὴν
δὲ πολυπλόκων ἐξέστησεν·
Paul
Quotes Catching
1Co_3:19 CAB For the wisdom of this
world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness" [ὁ δρασσόμενος
τοὺς σοφοὺς
ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ
αὐτῶν];
1Co_3:19 ἡ
γὰρ σοφία
τοῦ κόσμου
τούτου μωρία
παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ
ἐστι.
γέγραπται
γάρ· ὁ
δρασσόμενος
τοὺς σοφοὺς
ἐν τῇ
πανουργίᾳ αὐτῶν·
Paul is NOT quoting this LXX text that we
have quoted here, but aligns with the Hebrew MT we currently have.
(B)
Repaying God?
Preview: God in Job_41:11
(MT) is partly quoted by Paul in Rom_11:35
See: Job Quoted in the New Testament
ES: Elihu Condemns Job
Job_35:7 WEB If you are righteous, what do you give him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
Job_35:7 LB And suppose you are righteous, what will you
give Him? Or what shall He receive from your hand?
Job_35:7 ἐπεὶ
δὲ οὖν δίκαιος
εἶ, τί δώσεις αὐτῷ;
ἢ τί ἐκ χειρός
σου λήμψεται;
This is similar in concept
to the New Testament, but is not quoted like this next passage…
God
Questions Job
Job_41:11 WEB Who has first given to me, that I should
repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
Job_41:11 Or who will resist Me, and stand their ground, since the whole world under heaven is Mine?
Job_41:11 (41:3) ἢ τίς
ἀντιστήσεταί
μοι καὶ ὑπομενεῖ,
εἰ πᾶσα ἡ ὑπ᾿ οὐρανὸν
ἐμή ἐστιν;
Paul
Rom_11:34 "For who has
known the mind of the LORD? Or who has been His counselor?"
[Job_15:8, Job_36:22, Isa_40:13, Jer_23:18, 1Co_2:16]
Rom_11:34 τίς
γὰρ ἔγνω νοῦν
Κυρίου; ἢ
τίς
σύμβουλος αὐτοῦ
ἐγένετο;
Rom_11:35 "Or who has
first given to Him, and it shall be repaid to him?"
Rom_11:35
ἢ τίς
προέδωκεν αὐτῷ,
καὶ ἀνταποδοθήσεται
αὐτῷ;
[Comp.: Mat_20:15, 1Co_4:7]
Paul is NOT quoting or referencing this
LXX text that we have quoted here, but aligns with the Hebrew MT we currently
have.
The Point: Job MT (Hebrew) is quoted and/or
referenced by the New Testament more than the LXX (Greek), unlike most cases.
· In Job_5:13 the Greek LXX [ὁ καταλαμβάνων σοφοὺς ἐν τῇ φρονήσει] is NOT being quoted in 1Co_3:19 [ὁ δρασσόμενος τοὺς σοφοὺς ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτῶν]. And Similarly…
· in Job_41:11 even the English shows that Rom_11:34 (given…repaid = MT Job_41:11) is not quoting the text translated into and from the LXX we have quoted (resist…stand their ground)
Themes Missed in Job...
Job Questions & Themes
· Money
· Rewards
· Indulgence
· Suffering
· Endurance
· Exaltation
· Relationships
· Real Love
Earthly Perspective: Obey First, Understand
Later
· The firm and previously established integrity of the creator demands logical honesty to extend faith into the realms that have not yet been explored
· Physical mysteries of creation imply much greater moral mysteries of justice
· Be shocked by the physical, and stand back in aw at the metaphysical
· The incomprehensibility of the physical universe teaches trust toward the grandeur metaphysical realities of suffering injustice while waiting for truth
· Trust in God's surpassing management of the universe now, and then get a heavenly perspective later after passing the test
Universal Justice Required
· God is the ruler of the universe, not just of human affairs
· God is interested in revealing his Justice to the entire universe which often mystifies humans with limited experiences and perspectives
· Humans are in a probationary posture before the justice court of heaven
· Especially, and particularly, ever since humans fell from virtue the attacker accuser prosecutor Satan has a warranted place in the universe to question the reliability and truthfulness of humanity
· God's justice is being revealed to the universe, not just humans, and therefore the universe has a prerogative to question the faithfulness of humans in light of the special goodness which has been given to them from above
· Heaven grants goodness to the humans which it manages and therefore heaven is entitled to more answers than humans in a way that proves to the universe whether or not the humans are still rebelling or if they have legitimately converted toward love faithfulness life and truth
· Hecklers who proactively disbelieve the book of Job along with the rest of the bible are betraying their own intellectual dishonesty by pretending that humans can be trusted and they are embracing the absurdity that people are not in probation and as if so-called supposedly good people have established any track record of innocence and good and truth at large within our human experience.
· Job is showing us that even the best performers are still liable to the heritage of their fallen human flesh and need to be tested in accordance with the will of the king of the universe, and these pending proofs and confirmations are legitimate claims of happen against humans
Preview of Job & Money
Main Money Passages in Job
Main
Passages that Teach About Money in Job
Job_1:1-3
Job_29:1-25
Job_31:16-40
Job_42:11-15
Flaws vs. Integrity -- Character Comparisons
After starting well, we can hopefully keep
moving through Job and comparing and contrasting the character flaws of most
everyone else in the book, which are in direct contrast to Job's integrity, so
we can imitate Job's breathtaking righteousness, perseverance, and faith, and
so we can also inherit logical righteous salvation and escape all the
destruction, judgment, and condemnation of being sinful luxurious rich people.
Job Helps or Hinders
Money-Hatred?
Big Question: Does Job’s example of prospering in the
OT challenge our NT hatred of money, or does he support not liking silver?
Most church people are going to have this
corrupted intuition that Job helps prosperity preaching.
Church people are going to say Job was
rich, so I can be rich too.
At first that sounds intuitive, but the
problem is, it’s dead wrong!
When we start trying to preach money
hatred because of the good message of Jesus Anointed One we’re gonna be
directly opposed for reinforcing Jesus’s words when church people bring up
examples like Job as if his example strengthens their case and weakens ours
case when arguing for the good message of Jesus Himself.
Job’s Lessons: Suffering, Endurance, Healing,
& Hating Money
Besides teaching us one of the biggest
examples of faithful endurance in suffering and believing God for healing (as
James highlights, as seen in Jam_5:11 below), the book of Job also teaches us some of the earliest foundational examples of not liking money
in the Bible.
And if Job is indeed a real example of not
liking money, then he is also a patriarch of money hatred because Luke 16 shows
us that the opposite of liking silver along with the Pharisees is hating money
according to Jesus and Luke’s definition of those terms. So you have to submit
to the bible’s definition of its own vocabulary in order to take it on its own
terms and believe that the Bible is inspired and inherited eternal life by
obeying it.
All we have to do at first to determine
this reality is to discover and demonstrate if job likes money or he doesn’t
like money. And we also have to consider if his righteous example is closer to
the Pharisees who like silver or if his example is actually being given in
direct contrast to those who were indulgent and luxurious in this life.
Jam_5:11 – James highlights Job as one of the biggest examples of
faithful endurance in suffering
Jam_5:11 CAB Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You
have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is
compassionate and He is merciful.
Jam_5:11 ἰδοὺ
μακαρίζομεν
τοὺς ὑπομένοντας·
τὴν ὑπομονὴν
᾿Ιὼβ ἠκούσατε,
καὶ τὸ
τέλος Κυρίου
εἴδετε, ὅτι
πολύσπλαγχνός
ἐστιν ὁ
Κύριος καὶ
οἰκτίρμων.
Jam_5:11
ιδου
μακαριζομεν
τους Aυπομειναντας
TSBυπομενοντας
την υπομονην
ιωβ ηκουσατε
και το τελος
κυριου Bιδετε TSAειδετε
οτι
πολυσπλαγχνος
εστιν TSAο TSAκυριος
και οικτιρμων
This endorsement of Job by James includes
all of Job’s virtues of enduring in despising money for the sake of preferring
God.
Losing Money Shows Real Value
Real Love:
Deconstruction Uncovers Truth
Job's trials help us consider where our
root source of value should come from, when all of our possessions and
relationships are destroyed and taken away from us. Sometimes we have to be
dismantled before we can uncover what is really True. When you find the Truth
about value, perhaps when your valuables are taken away, then you finally get a
chance to discover real Love.
Job is actually teaching us what real
value is through losing money, and as soon as you understand what real value
is, then you also know what real love is.
And that’s priceless!
Be Saved Through Job’s Example
Job's example is here to save us, with the
Word of God flowing through his trials, shining out the glory of his
righteousness worked in and through him by Divine inspiration, and legislated
unto us by his virtuous logical upright faithful obedient legacy and example of
clean Truth.
The Point: Job’s Example is here to save us, so let’s follow him in hating money.
Even if every church person on earth is just about using him as an example of justifying their luxurious indulgence and congratulating themselves for being rich as if they are similar in any sense with Job…
The Gospel of Job
Why Call Job “The Gospel”?
Saying Job
is not part of the Gospel deprives and defrauds the Truth from a
person's life before they even read the book.
BTW I don't title this section The Gospel of Job for my sake, or
necessarily directly for the sake of the righteous, as much as I title it for
the sake of confronting hypocritical, heretical, morally illiterate church
people who are in rebellion against the Truth of God's serious Good Message,
which is proclaimed throughout the entire Bible, and is realized and actualized
in a person's life by obeying all the Bible - from, and into, all real
salvation from sin.
Ironically and strangely, way too many
church people would actually cringe and be flustered and deeply offended at
hearing the title which implies that Job
is the Gospel...
"Job doesn't have a gospel!" says
the heretical theorologist church person.
Church people are busy saying that various
Truth and parts of the Bible are "not the gospel", and this
buffoonery and heretical, liberal free thinking needs to be executed within the
sinful flesh which vomited it up.
This churchy pseudo-orthodox criminal
falsehood against Job, and those who read it, is the very reason why Job is
made into a flop (a completely
useless failure) in the minds and hearts of church people who have no idea what
Truth is needful to gain from the book of Job.
Job Suffered Like Jesus
(Ironically this is somewhat of a side
point at first, but...)
What if Job teaches us something about
Jesus who was rich and exalted (2Co_8:9; Phi_2:6, etc.) but then suffered unjustly including horrible afflictions
and the loss of virtually everything and then was miraculously restored and
exalted more than ever before?
2Co_8:9 CAB For you know the grace [favor] of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that though He was rich, yet on account of you He became poor, that you through
His poverty might become rich.
2Co_8:9
γινώσκετε
γὰρ τὴν
χάριν τοῦ
Κυρίου ἡμῶν
᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ, ὅτι
δι᾿ ὑμᾶς ἐπτώχευσε
πλούσιος ὤν, ἵνα
ὑμεῖς τῇ ἐκείνου
πτωχείᾳ
πλουτήσητε.
Revealed Righteousness = Gospel
But instead of sinful disobedience against
the Good Message, one of the vital ways we can recognize the real Good Message
Gospel, which brings salvation, for example, is when it reveals saving
righteousness (Rom_1:16-18 as quoted below), Truth, and virtue that
are necessary for salvation, and places this cleanness and saving righteousness
in stark contrast to sin and wrath:
Rom_1:16-18 – Not Ashamed
of Good Message, Including Revealed Righteousness & Wrath
I'm not ashamed of the good message which
is the power of God ...because the wrath of God has been revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness
Rom_1:16 CAB For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, both to
the Jew first and to the Greek.
Rom_1:16 Οὐ
γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι
τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
τοῦ Χριστοῦ·
δύναμις γὰρ
Θεοῦ ἐστίν
εἰς σωτηρίαν
παντὶ τῷ
πιστεύοντι, ᾿Ιουδαίῳ
τε πρῶτον
καὶ ῞Ελληνι.
Rom_1:16 ου γαρ
επαισχυνομαι
το ευαγγελιον TSBτου TSBχριστου
δυναμις γαρ
θεου εστιν εις
σωτηριαν παντι
τω πιστευοντι
ιουδαιω τε
πρωτον και
ελληνι
Rom_1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is
written, "The just shall live by faith."
Rom_1:17
δικαιοσύνη
γὰρ Θεοῦ ἐν
αὐτῷ ἀποκαλύπτεται
ἐκ πίστεως
εἰς πίστιν,
καθὼς
γέγραπται· ὁ
δὲ δίκαιος ἐκ
πίστεως ζήσεται.
Rom_1:17
δικαιοσυνη
γαρ θεου εν
αυτω
αποκαλυπτεται
εκ πιστεως εις
πιστιν καθως
γεγραπται ο δε
δικαιος εκ
πιστεως
ζησεται
Rom_1:18 For [γὰρ – because] the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven
upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness.
Rom_1:18
᾿Αποκαλύπτεται
γὰρ ὀργὴ
Θεοῦ ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ
ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἀσέβειαν
καὶ ἀδικίαν
ἀνθρώπων τῶν
τὴν ἀλήθειαν
ἐν ἀδικίᾳ
κατεχόντων,
We see that whenever God speaks Truth and
revelation, He also inherently reveals righteousness in direct contrast
with sin and evil, which bring wrath. This revelation of righteousness is the
Good Message of salvation from sin, Who is “Jesus” (Mat_1:21), and tells us how
we can get into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Job Reveals Saving Gospel Righteousness
Job teaches us revealed righteousness
about how to not like money and indulge like his guilty children, and to
instead in direct contrast, be poor and deny the luxuries and indulgence of
this life, and this revealed righteousness in Job testified to throughout the
book by Job's exciting and clean example, fits directly within the initial
proclamation and announcement of the New Covenant Kingdom of Heaven saving
righteousness of Jesus's real Good News Gospel which begins with a thundering blessing of the poor in spirit (Mat_5:3)
and moves on to not like silver and to hate money (Mat_6: Luk_16:) which is
exactly the foundation which Job's life builds, proclaims, and reveals to us.
Job was Righteousness, NOT Luxurious!
Was Job Rich?
· The story of Job is, all too often, inaccurately oversimplified by church people.
· Church people inaccurately misrepresent Job as being rich, but this is vividly misleading.
Job was NOT Indulgent
· Job's Righteousness was NOT Indulgent in Riches
See: Be Rich Like Job?
& Comp. Consumptiveness
Suffering with a Revealed Righteous Foundation <<
· Most people have thought of Job as a story about suffering, and so it is.
· But most people have missed the foundation of Job, which is HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, and his endurance in divinely inspired revealed righteousness, which suffers and is later rewarded.
· Most people think about suffering but they don’t think about being righteous like Job, which is the foundation of enduring suffering for doing good –
· Job’s righteousness is revealed as new information contrary to the flesh as the foundation upon which the book of Job is built.
· Some of this is told in reverse chronology, but because of our immoral … it is a flop because you are a flop not the Bible
· If you miss Job’s his particular revealed righteousness of self-denial, as most all do, then the book of Job will only be poetry to you, and you will fail to be saved by the moral of Job’s story!
Eze_33:30 WEB As for you, son of man, the children of your
people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one
to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the
word that comes forth from Yahweh.
Eze_33:30 LB “And as for you, son of
man, the children of your people are they that speak concerning you by the
walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying,
‘Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord.’
Eze_33:30 καὶ σύ,
υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, οἱ
υἱοὶ τοῦ λαοῦ
σου οἱ λαλοῦντες
περὶ σοῦ παρὰ τὰ
τείχη καὶ ἐν τοῖς
πυλῶσι τῶν οἰκιῶν
καὶ λαλοῦσιν ἄνθρωπος
τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ
λέγοντες Συνέλθωμεν
καὶ ἀκούσωμεν
τὰ ἐκπορευόμενα
παρὰ κυρίου,
Eze_33:31 WEB They come to you as the people comes, and
they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them;
for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their
gain.
Eze_33:31 They approach you
as a people that come together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but
they will not do them; for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart
goes after their pollutions.
Eze_33:31 ἔρχονται
πρὸς σέ, ὡς
συμπορεύεται
λαός, καὶ κάθηνται
ἐναντίον σου
καὶ ἀκούουσιν
τὰ ῥήματά σου,
καὶ αὐτὰ οὐ μὴ
ποιήσουσιν, ὅτι
ψεῦδος ἐν τῷ στόματι
αὐτῶν, καὶ ὀπίσω
τῶν μιασμάτων ἡ
καρδία αὐτῶν.
Eze_33:32 WEB Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song
of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they
hear your words, but they don't do them.
Eze_33:32 And you are to
them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear your words,
but they will not do them.
Eze_33:32 καὶ γίνῃ
αὐτοῖς ὡς φωνὴ
ψαλτηρίου ἡδυφώνου
εὐαρμόστου, καὶ
ἀκούσονταί
σου τὰ ῥήματα
καὶ οὐ μὴ ποιήσουσιν
αὐτά.
Eze_33:33 WEB When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that
a prophet has been among them.
Eze_33:33 But whenever it
shall come to pass, they will say, ‘Behold, it is come’; and they shall know
that there was a prophet in the midst of them.”
Eze_33:33
καὶ ἡνίκα ἂν ἔλθῃ,
ἐροῦσιν Ἰδοὺ ἥκει·
καὶ γνώσονται ὅτι
προφήτης ἦν ἐν
μέσω αὐτῶν.
We have not confronted the flesh enough to
get the revelation of the book of Job.
Would it surprise you if Job revealed something
counter to the flesh?
Job’s revelation of righteousness can save
you, if you let it.
The fact that it reveals righteousness
includes the fact that it will change the default way your flesh sins its way
into hell, along with the rest of the conventionally sinning world.
Job is here to make you change, be
unconventional, counter-cultural, and strange to them, so let’s dig in and Embrace the Revolution!
Job is easily exploited by prosperity
preachers, by saying “Job is rich, so I can be rich too”
Job_1: Job’s Initial Prosperity & Sacrifices for His Children
Preview
Job_1:2 – 7 3
Job_1:4 – Kid’s Feast
Job_1:5 – Job Mediates
Job is Virtuous, Prosperous,
and even Redemptive of his unworthy indulgent children
Job_1:1 WEB There was a man in
the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright,
and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Job_1:1 LB There was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose
name was Job; and that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining
from everything evil
[παντὸς πονηροῦ
πράγματος].
Job_1:1 Ἄνθρωπός
τις ἦν ἐν χώρᾳ
τῇ Αυσίτιδι, ᾧ ὄνομα
Ιωβ, καὶ ἦν ὁ ἄνθρωπος
ἐκεῖνος ἀληθινός,
ἄμεμπτος, δίκαιος,
θεοσεβής, ἀπεχόμενος
ἀπὸ παντὸς
πονηροῦ πράγματος.
Job_1:2 WEB There were born to
him seven sons and three daughters.
Job_1:2 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Job_1:2 ἐγένοντο
δὲ αὐτῷ υἱοὶ ἑπτὰ
καὶ θυγατέρες
τρεῖς.
Job_1:3 WEB His possessions also were seven thousand
sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household;
so that this man was the greatest
of all the children of the east.
Job_1:3 And his possessions
consisted of seven thousand sheep,
three thousand camels, five
hundred yoke of oxen, five
hundred female donkeys in the
pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great many servants on the earth; and that man was most noble of the men of the east.
Job_1:3 καὶ ἦν
τὰ κτήνη αὐτοῦ
πρόβατα ἑπτακισχίλια,
κάμηλοι τρισχίλιαι,
ζεύγη βοῶν
πεντακόσια, ὄνοι
θήλειαι νομάδες
πεντακόσιαι,
καὶ ὑπηρεσία
πολλὴ σφόδρα
καὶ ἔργα μεγάλα
ἦν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς· καὶ ἦν ὁ ἄνθρωπος
ἐκεῖνος εὐγενὴς
τῶν ἀφ᾿ ἡλίου ἀνατολῶν.
Job_1:4 WEB His sons went and
held a feast in the house
of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three
sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job_1:4 And his sons, visiting one another, prepared a banquet every [each] day, taking
with them also their three sisters to eat
and drink with them.
Job_1:4
συμπορευόμενοι
δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ
πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐποιοῦσαν
πότον καθ᾿ ἑκάστην
ἡμέραν
συμπαραλαμβάνοντες
ἅμα καὶ τὰς τρεῖς
ἀδελφὰς αὐτῶν ἐσθίειν
καὶ πίνειν μετ᾿
αὐτῶν.
Job_1:5 WEB It was so, when the
days of their feasting had run their course, that Job
sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered
burnt offerings according
to the number of them all. For Job said,
"It may be that my sons have sinned,
and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.
Job_1:5 And when the days
of the banquet were
completed, Job sent and purified them [ἐκαθάριζεν αὐτοὺς], having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them, according to
their number, and one calf for a sin
offering for their souls; for Job said, “Lest perhaps my sons have thought evil, and cursed God in their minds.” Thus, then Job did continually.
Job_1:5 καὶ ὡς ἂν
συνετελέσθησαν
αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ πότου,
ἀπέστελλεν
Ιωβ καὶ ἐκαθάριζεν
αὐτοὺς ἀνιστάμενος
τὸ πρωὶ καὶ
προσέφερεν
περὶ αὐτῶν θυσίας
κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν
αὐτῶν καὶ μόσχον
ἕνα περὶ ἁμαρτίας
περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν
αὐτῶν· ἔλεγεν
γὰρ Ιωβ Μήποτε
οἱ υἱοί μου ἐν
τῇ διανοίᾳ αὐτῶν
κα κὰ ἐνενόησαν
πρὸς θεόν. οὕτως
οὖν ἐποίει Ιωβ
πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.
Job is the opposite of everyone else’s
perverted-evil.
Questions
· What does Job’s superior integrity teach us about money then?
· Are all birthdays wrong?
· What do Job’s feasting children teach us, esp. when contrasted with Job?
See: Consumptiveness
Numerics of Job’s Blessings
Initial: 7 3 .5 .5 -- 7 3
7,000 sheep, 3,000
camels, 500 oxen, 500 donkeys, 7
sons, & 3 daughters
Final: 14 6 1 1 -- 7 3
14,000 sheep, 6,000
camels, 1,000 oxen, 1,000 donkeys, 7
sons, & 3 most beautiful
daughters
Job_1:2
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Job_1:3
And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels,
five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very
great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was
most noble of the men of the east.
Disciple Notes:
3/23/25
Point out that the number 3 is important
in Job
3 messengers of destruction
3 friends (+ one at the end)
3 cycles of debate
3 revelations
3 most beautiful daughters
We are not getting how contrast Job was
from everyone else in the book of Job especially his 10 children
There is no one of the land like Job; he
is special and contrasted with everyone else.
One of the first things blocking us from
unlocking the 3 revelations of Job
Upfront we can see that Job’s children are
guilty – factual not an interpretation
It is in fact clearly being taught in the
first part of Job
>>Scrip:
Let none of you suffer as an evil doer
What credit is it to you if you do evil
and you suffer for it
There is a difference between waiting and
indulging while you are supposed to be waiting.
To learn something from Job you have to
imitate him in direct contrast to everyone else in the book
You are not going to learn anything if you
are a little bit or a lot like the other character flaws in the book
They are making themselves happy with the
abundance they have
>>Scrip:
Abigail waited until he husband was done
feasting and told him the news the next morning
Initial suspicions include:
They are celebrating their own birthday
They are eating and drinking (feasting)
They are celebrating multiples days
Job cleaned them – Wait, why didn’t they
clean themselves?
They ate food and Job gave up food
They might have sinned whereas Job was
completely perfect.
Job had to keep doing this, which implies
that they didn’t stop.
In verse 13 it describes eating and
drinking as being vulnerable to the devil.
The implication is that the devil can
legitimately kill them without any hesitation from God.
Sir is laboring really hard so you can see
that he is not interpreting it.
Righteous Prospering in Job
Righteous Prosperity in Job
Job initially
shows us that being righteous can make you prosperous – there goes that
“classic principle” you hear about, were righteous believing people get blessed
with abundance, but with Job’s particular example, are we about to hear a
“prosperity message” or a money-hatred message?
Moses’ Prosperity Promises are
Similar to the Beginning of Job
Moses’
Emphasis on Prosperity is Similar to the Beginning of Job
This righteous prospering principle is
very much emphasized in the books of Moses (like Deuteronomy for example) as
promises to the Israelites for inheriting the Promised Land.
Moses essentially told the Israelites:
Just be good and you get a lot of stuff including the Promised Land.
So, Moses sounds similar to Job, at least
at first.
Job’s Loss Exemplifies Suffering,
NOT Money
Job’s ultimate
example does not actually guarantee wealth from righteousness; Job
actually teaches that you can be righteous and lose all of your stuff.
Wife’s Notes: Job Teaches Virtue Then
Prospering
Job does not guarantee wealth from
righteousness, but rather Job teaches that you might be righteous and still
lose all your wealth.
It is Biblical to teach that you can be righteous
and get a lot of stuff - yes!
But does that orthodox principle reinforce
prosperity preachers? No!
Why? Because within that orthodox
principle is the teaching that you can be righteous and lose all your wealth
and receive boils, sores, and evil, yet still be blessed by God (as we clearly
see in Job).
Self-Denial Reminders
Besides the fact that Job is about suffering, we also need to remember how even the principles of Job’s abundance and prospering were NOT like the wealth accumulation and indulgence of prosperity preachers!
We need to remember self denial
See: Be Rich Like Job?
The Point: Job Teaches Righteous Prospering, Suffering, & Money Hatred
(Other people are going to pretend like you don’t have to be faithful to embrace and acknowledge these implications of money hatred, but that doesn’t matter because it does actually teach this clear enough, especially when combined with Luke 16.)
Job Teaches righteous prospering, just like numerous other Bible passages, were God gives you more and more because of your generous virtue, but it also teaches righteous suffering & losing everything, and most importantly Job teaches us the foundational virtues of money-hatred, just like Jesus teaches, which is NOT anything like the prosperity gospel, no matter how much abundance Job started or ended with!
Satan Accuses & Requests Attacks
· Job 1 - 2 – Accuses Job's motives (Job_1:6-12; Job_2:1-7)
· Zec_3:1-2 – Accuses the high priest Joshua / Jesus
· Luk_22:31 – Satan has asked to sift you [Peter]
· Rev_12:10 – The Accuser of our brothers (day & night)
Luk_22:31 CAB And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon!
Behold, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.
Luk_22:31 Εἶπε
δὲ ὁ Κύριος·
Σίμων Σίμων,
ἰδοὺ ὁ
Σατανᾶς ἐξῃτήσατο
ὑμᾶς τοῦ
σινιάσαι ὡς
τὸν σῖτον·
Luk_22:31 TSBειπεν TSBδε TSBο TSBκυριος
σιμων σιμων
ιδου ο σατανας
εξητησατο υμας
του σινιασαι
ως τον σιτον
Luk_22:32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and
when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."
Luk_22:32 ἐγὼ
δὲ ἐδεήθην
περὶ σοῦ ἵνα
μὴ ἐκλίπῃ
ἡ πίστις σου·
καὶ σύ ποτε ἐπιστρέψας
στήριξον
τοὺς ἀδελφούς
σου.
Luk_22:32 εγω δε εδεηθην περι σου ινα μη BAεκλιπη TSεκλειπη η πιστις σου και συ ποτε επιστρεψας Aστηρισον TSBστηριξον τους αδελφους σου
You can be great out of this world and
still not be saved yet.
>>Scrip:
Unless you are converted as children, you
won’t enter the Kingdom
>>Scrip:
Jesus was sifted by the
devil in the wilderness was proceeded by His identity
The devil doesn’t have the
virtues of self-control, although he does have mindfulness and strategy
Disciple Notes:
3/23/25
Simon, Simon
· This is a reference to his humanity, it is vivid, it is cherishing, and it is convicting as well.
· This is distinctly absent of sharpness and is communicating sympathy and hopeful optimism.
· I’ve begged for you means he sympathized and ….
Question: Is it easier to
know if others are being sifted by the devil instead of yourself? Because Jesus
told Peter that the Satan ask to sift him but Job didn’t know what was going on
in the beginning of his trials?
Answer: No, not
necessarily. It is about people’s real value for both others and yourself. You
need to know people’s real value and cherish it. Cherishing who is Job can help
you unlock what is going on in heaven. In the book of Job, Job didn’t know who he
fully was. He is telling us
If you are still reaching,
outside of who you really are for value then that is one of the things that beg
the trials to come upon you.
The wilderness temptation
for Jesus was immediately preceded by Jesus’ real identity.
First, John the Baptist
saying Behold the Lamb of God
Second, This is my
Son…voice from heaven
Third, The dove descending
upon him. = That is him being Christified christen. Now he is functioning as
the anointed One.
Compare that Jesus knew
that it was His time to be sifted, when he was thrown into the wilderness
Good Prayer to learn from
Job:
Nothing
bad can happen to me unless my Father allows it
Jam_1:13 – God Does Not Tempt With Nasty-Evil
Jam_1:13 CAB Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am
tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself
tempt anyone.
Jam_1:13
Μηδεὶς
πειραζόμενος
λεγέτω ὅτι ἀπὸ
TSτου Θεοῦ
πειράζομαι· ὁ
γὰρ Θεὸς ἀπείραστός
ἐστι κακῶν,
πειράζει δὲ
αὐτὸς οὐδένα.
Jam_1:14 But each one is tempted by his
own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced by them.
Jam_1:14 ἕκαστος
δὲ
πειράζεται ὑπὸ
τῆς ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας
ἐξελκόμενος
καὶ
δελεαζόμενος·
Jam_1:15 Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when
it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Jam_1:15 εἶτα ἡ
ἐπιθυμία
συλλαβοῦσα
τίκτει ἁμαρτίαν,
ἡ δὲ ἁμαρτία
ἀποτελεσθεῖσα
ἀποκύει
θάνατον.
Jam_1:16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jam_1:16 Μὴ
πλανᾶσθε, ἀδελφοί
μου ἀγαπητοί.
Jam_1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes
down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of
turning.
Jam_1:17 πᾶσα
δόσις ἀγαθὴ
καὶ πᾶν
δώρημα
τέλειον ἄνωθέν
ἐστι καταβαῖνον
ἀπὸ τοῦ
πατρὸς τῶν
φώτων, παρ᾿ ᾧ
οὐκ ἔνι
παραλλαγὴ ἢ
τροπῆς ἀποσκίασμα.
To Vent,
or Not to Vent?
Notice that sometime when
you’re being tempted, you urgently need to establish orthodox confessions,
rather than messy venting of your ignorant feelings. Once you’re righteousness
is given over sufficiently, then you can prophetically vent -- this is a
long-standing theme throughout the Bible.
The
Point: Because God only
does Good, therefore it is the evil devil who accuses righteous people.
Job_1 – 2: Satan Destroys
A Preview of Job’s Initial Loss
(A) Satan
Requests Destruction of Possessions
Job_1:6-12 – Satan accuses Job & asks God’s permission to Do Evil to
Job…
Job_1:9-10 – “Does Job Freely Love God?”
· We need to make sure we Love God for the right reasons, not just if He gives us lots of stuff!
· The Devil could theoretically accuse us in this way, and we must be ready to pass the test as early as possible!
(B) Satan
Executes Destruction of Possessions
Job_1:13-19 – Satan destroys Job’s abundance, his servants, & his
children
· Job_1:14, Job_1:17, etc. – Attackers steal and kill
· Job_1:16 – Fire from heaven
· Job_1:18-19 – Wind blows the house down (on children)
(C) Satan
Requests Again & Destroys Job’s Flesh
Job_2:1-7
Thief
Steals, Kills, & Destroys
Joh_10:10 – The Thief Comes To Steal Kill & Destroy
Joh_10:10 CAB The thief does not come except to steal, and
to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may
have it more abundantly.
Joh_10:10 ὁ
κλέπτης οὐκ ἔρχεται
εἰ μὴ ἵνα
κλέψῃ καὶ
θύσῃ καὶ ἀπολέσῃ·
ἐγὼ ἦλθον ἵνα
ζωὴν ἔχωσι
καὶ περισσὸν
ἔχωσιν.
God wants us to know that
Satan has asked to hurt righteous people
Satan is the accuser of
the brothers
Yes, God instigates the
conversation with the devil, because He is using the resources of heaven to
prove His justice – but that doesn’t mean He likes what the prosecutors of the
court of heaven actually does.
Yes, God does care about
showing us the Truth to us but He is also manages showing truth and justice to
the entire universe.
This is not something
created by the Bible, it is a phenomena that is explained by the Bible.
What’s the consolation?
God is in control
We have to be courageous
toward all trials
You have to believe you’re
going to win
God’s desired will verses
His enforced will
Prove Your Truth NOW!
·
Question:
How to make sure you are Loving God for who
He Is, not just for what He can provide for you?
· Consider Satan’s requests against Job…
· Do we already hate money enough to pass the test, or are we leaving questions unanswered that give the devil extra leverage to sift us?
· Are we leaving questions unanswered? If so, we are letting ourselves open to be targeted by the devil sifting us
· We had better make sure we can pass the test whenever Satan requests trials against us!
· We must make sure our heart Loves God without nice externals!
· The longer you wait to prove your virtue the more trials wait in front of you, and the less certain your future is.
· Stop procrastinating the proof of your faith!
· Hate money NOW! – Don’t procrastinate!
· Our work is to press towards the day when he is thrown out of heavens and has nothing left to accuse us of.
· That day when the devil is thrown out of heaven is also the day when Jesus is motivated to come back to receive a bride without blemish
· Prove your faithfulness to Truth without nice things NOW!
· Repent away from indulgence, expenditure, and consumptive-ism NOW!
If you can’t prove to each other and society that you hate money, how much more is it lacking before heaven’s court to prove that you hate money?
If you don’t prove you Truth now, then you are failing to plan and are planning to fail like Job’s children…
Job_1: It All Started With Indulgence…
Destructions
Started With Indulgence…
It
all started on a sad day of flesh-indulgence…
Job_1:13 WEB It fell on a day
when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking
wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job_1:13 And it came to pass on a certain day, that Job’s sons and his daughters were drinking
wine in the house of their elder brother.
Job_1:13 Καὶ ἦν ὡς
ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη, οἱ
υἱοὶ Ιωβ καὶ αἱ
θυγατέρες αὐτοῦ
ἔπινον οἶνον ἐν
τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
αὐτῶν τοῦ
πρεσβυτέρου.
Job_1:14 WEB that there came a
messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys
feeding beside them,
Job_1:14 And behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him,
“The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were feeding near them;
Job_1:14 καὶ ἰδοὺ
ἄγγελος ἦλθεν
πρὸς Ιωβ καὶ εἶπεν
αὐτῷ Τὰ ζεύγη τῶν
βοῶν ἠροτρία,
καὶ αἱ θήλειαι ὄνοι
ἐβόσκοντο ἐχόμεναι
αὐτῶν·
…
The devil cut in on Job’s
virtue routine before he could make sacrifice for his evil children.
The devil seized the
opportunity to kill his children before Job can do atonement for them to save
them.
Unworthy Servants
Unworthy Servants – Their Examples
Teach Us Reverent and Holy Relationships
Job_1:14-17 – Job’s servants weren’t worthy to spare
either (similar to his children in Job_1:19, seen below)
Presumable the servants are like his
children because remember there is no one on the land like Job.
It makes sense (after seeing this example)
why you would want to establish more virtuous employee relationships and
practices…
The book of Job gives us motivation to do
things differently
His children were described as unworthy
and his servants might have been destroyed for similar ways
In significant contrast:
Rth_2:4 – Boaz & His Servants Bless Each Other in Monotheistic
Lord
Rth_2:4 WEB Behold, Boaz came from
Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with you. They answered him,
Yahweh bless you.
Rth_2:4 LB And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers,
“The Lord be with you.” And they said to him, “The Lord bless you.”
Rth_2:4 καὶ ἰδοὺ
Βοος ἦλθεν ἐκ
Βαιθλεεμ καὶ εἶπεν
τοῖς θερίζουσιν
Κύριος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν·
καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ
Εὐλογήσαι σε κύριος.
Eldest or Elder? (Technical
Variation Question)
Job_1:18 – it was evidently Job’s firstborn’s birthday (MT), or at least one of
the oldest sons (LXX) Job had who was involved in this
So, the variation question is: Eldest (MT) or elder (LXX) brother?
In Job, this virtue is significantly
missing.
Luk_13:4-5 – The tower in Siloam that fell and kill them
If you don’t repent you will all perish in
the same way.
Disciple Notes:
God is going to bring universal tragedy to
mankind except for the repentant righteous
Whenever God allows particular tragedies
to happen it is a merciful reminder of the doom that awaits all of those who
don’t repent.
Every time a tragedy strikes in front of
our eyes within our lifetime we should take it gratefully as a merciful
reminder to be reverent, fear God, depart from evil, and to seek out the
salvation of everyone at hand that we can warn.
The 3 servants who were spared are there
to present to Job in the worst way possible
It is saying the powers that rule the
universe hate you and are out to get you and it leaves the death of his
children for last.
Heb_3:14 – If We Hold On…
Heb_3:13 but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called
"Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of
sin.
Heb_3:13 ἀλλὰ
παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς
καθ᾿ ἑκάστην
ἡμέραν ἄχρις
οὗ τὸ
σήμερον καλεῖται,
ἵνα μὴ
σκληρυνθῇ
τις ἐξ ὑμῶν
ἀπάτῃ τῆς
ἁμαρτίας·
Heb_3:13
αλλα
παρακαλειτε
εαυτους καθ
εκαστην ημεραν
αχρις ου το
σημερον
καλειται ινα
μη σκληρυνθη TSAτις εξ υμων Bτις απατη
της αμαρτιας
Heb_3:14 For we have become
partakers of Christ, if indeed ·we hold fast the beginning of the assurance
[ὑποστάσεως] firm [βεβαίαν
κατάσχωμεν] until the end,
Heb_3:14
μέτοχοι
γὰρ
γεγόναμεν τοῦ
Χριστοῦ, ἐάνπερ
τὴν ἀρχὴν
τῆς ὑποστάσεως
μέχρι τέλους
βεβαίαν
κατάσχωμεν,
Heb_3:14
μετοχοι γαρ TSBγεγοναμεν
του χριστου Aγεγοναμεν
εανπερ την
αρχην της
υποστασεως
μεχρι τελους
βεβαιαν
κατασχωμεν
Heb_3:15 while it is said: "Today, if you hear His voice, do not
harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
Heb_3:15 ἐν τῷ
λέγεσθαι·
σήμερον ἐὰν
τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ
ἀκούσητε,
μὴ
σκληρύνητε
τὰς καρδίας
ὑμῶν ὡς ἐν
τῷ
παραπικρασμῷ.
Heb_6:11 – Show the Same
Diligence To Firm Until The End
We
desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of faith
firm until the end
Heb_6:10 CAB For God is not unjust to forget your work and
labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered
to the saints, and do minister.
Heb_6:10 οὐ
γὰρ ἄδικος ὁ
Θεὸς ἐπιλαθέσθαι
τοῦ ἔργου ὑμῶν
καὶ τοῦ κόπου
τῆς ἀγάπης ἧς
ἐνεδείξασθε
εἰς τὸ ὄνομα
αὐτοῦ,
διακονήσαντες
τοῖς ἁγίοις
καὶ διακονοῦντες.
Heb_6:10 ου
γαρ αδικος ο
θεος
επιλαθεσθαι
του εργου υμων
και TSBτου TSBκοπου της
αγαπης ης Sενδειξασθε
TBAενεδειξασθε
εις το ονομα
αυτου διακονησαντες
τοις αγιοις
και
διακονουντες
Heb_6:11 But we desire [ἐπιθυμοῦμεν] that each one of you show
[ἐνδείκνυσθαι] the same diligence [σπουδὴν] to [πρὸς] the full assurance of hope
[τὴν
πληροφορίαν
τῆς ἐλπίδος] until the end [ἄχρι τέλους],
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.
Job_1: Destroyed While Drinking: Children Perish in their House of Indulgence
Job_1:18 WEB While he was still speaking,
there came also another, and said, "Your
sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their
eldest brother's house,
Job_1:18 CAB While he was yet speaking, another messenger
came and said to Job, “While your sons and
your daughters were eating and drinking with their older
brother,
Job_1:18 Ἔτι τούτου
λαλοῦντος ἄλλος
ἄγγελος ἔρχεται
λέγων τῷ Ιωβ Τῶν
υἱῶν σου καὶ τῶν
θυγατέρων σου ἐσθιόντων
καὶ πινόν των
παρὰ τῷ ἀδελφῷ
αὐτῶν τῶν
πρεσβυτέρῳ
Job_1:19 WEB and behold, there
came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the
house, and it fell on the young men,
and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
Job_1:19 suddenly a great wind came from across the desert, and caught the
four corners of the house, and the house fell upon your children, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped, and have come to tell you.”
Job_1:19 ἐξαίφνης
πνεῦμα μέγα ἐπῆλθεν
ἐκ τῆς ἐρήμου
καὶ ἥψατο τῶν
τεσσάρων γωνιῶν
τῆς οἰκίας, καὶ
ἔπεσεν ἡ οἰκία ἐπὶ
τὰ παιδία σου,
καὶ ἐτελεύτησαν·
ἐσώθην δὲ ἐγὼ
μόνος καὶ ἦλθον
τοῦ ἀπαγγεῖλαί
σοι.
Job_1: Job’s Initial Response to Loss
Job_1:20 WEB Then Job arose, and
tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
Job_1:20 So Job arose and tore his clothes, and shaved his head, and
fell on the ground and worshipped,
Job_1:20 Οὕτως ἀναστὰς
Ιωβ διέρρηξεν
τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἐκείρατο τὴν
κόμην τῆς
κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ
καὶ πεσὼν χαμαὶ
προσεκύνησεν
καὶ εἶπεν
Job_1:21 WEB He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
Job_1:21 and said, “I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Job_1:21 Αὐτὸς
γυμνὸς ἐξῆλθον
ἐκ κοιλίας
μητρός μου,
γυμνὸς καὶ ἀπελεύσομαι
ἐκεῖ· ὁ κύριος ἔδωκεν,
ὁ κύριος ἀφείλατο·
ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ ἔδοξεν,
οὕτως καὶ ἐγένετο·
εἴη τὸ ὄνομα
κυρίου εὐλογημένον.
Job_1:22 WEB In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with
wrongdoing.
Job_1:22 In all these events that befell him, Job did not sin before the Lord, and
did not impute wrong to God.
Job_1:22 Ἐν τούτοις
πᾶσιν τοῖς
συμβεβηκόσιν
αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν
Ιωβ ἐναντίον
τοῦ κυρίου καὶ
οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἀφροσύνην
τῷ θεῷ.
Also Comp.
Job_2:10 – Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?
Job’s Guilty Children -- Are Factual
Job’s Children Are Implied Guilty --
Do You Obey it?
This is actually a core element to Job’s reveal righteousness
There is something disturbing, alerting, concerning and alarming that warns us today
Job’s righteousness is being contrasted to his children wickedness
An alarm should be going off that says that could be me perishing in that house.
Jesus already told us that unless you change your knowledge you will perish in the exact same way.
When you see a tragedy in the Bible, you should be asking yourself, is it because they are worst sinners?
What that should be is telling me is that I am sinning and I need to stop/repent or else I will die the same way.
All the Bible is talking about all the Bible simultaneously and we need to link it and stop fragmenting the Bible/localizing it.
The flesh quite often does not like to submit to the binding obligations of Biblical implications.
You have to obey all the Bible to obey any of it.
Job’s children are an exemplification and illustration of failure while Job is an exemplification and illustration of success
You need to take these facts to their logical implications and conclusions
You need to beat the flesh and demand that it submit to the implications of how evil Job’s children were
As we read Job we are fighting our very own live flesh in real time to not be like his children.
Reminders:
· Job Mediates for his Children (Job_1:5)
· They indulge and do not save themselves (Job_1:4, Job_1:12-13, Job_1:19)
· This implies that they are guilty, and are executed for their guilt – and now you need to make sure you don’t perish like that, for example they are luxurious and indulgent
· You can’t be like everyone else or you will perish like everyone else.
The flesh is going to say that is an interpretation
It does not want to admit that his children were really that evil
SO repent
Do you have any problems with these Bible-obedient implications, how guilty they are?
The Bible commands that you stop being a regular consumer indulgent person.
If you stay a consumer after reading the Book of Job you have totally missed it
Is your illiterate and illogical flesh tempted to say that I’m interpreting and that we cannot zealously demand universal acknowledgement and submission to these facts that contrast and even define Job’s righteousness, to teach True repentance and obedient faith toward the contrasting righteousness of Job??
You are required logical righteousness of
monotheism to embrace these implications:
Job Cleans His Children
Job had to take the initiative to make his
children clean after their feasting. They did not have the integrity, Love of
God, virtue, care, or righteousness needed or required to take care of their
own need for cleanness and redemption for themselves; much less could they
avoid their habitual defilement in the first place.
That means they are dirty from eating and
drinking, something totally failed in their feasting.
Don’t forget that Job’s children were
executed and you are not allowed to ignore God’s willingness to dispose of
them.
And in direct contrast, did God have a
willingness to dispose of Job? And what about Job’s servants? Were they
disposable as well?
Keep in mind that we’re not trying to
explain the whole universe here, but we are trying to read the book of Job
honestly and deeply and seriously enough to submit to the inevitable
implications that are binding upon us when submitting to the reading
comprehension of what Job is actually teaching us.
The Bad Heart of Job’s Children
They were thinking wrong, had the wrong
priorities, were looking outside of themselves for value, were not doing enough work on their own end
to correct themselves and their wrong thinking, but instead they were
luxurious, indulgent, careless, lazy thinking, and worthy of judgment.
How do I know that? It’s called
implications.
They are thinking about food instead of
redemption after the whole world was destroyed from sin.
This tells us a lot about how we need to
change from sin unto the virtuous righteousness of thinking right according to
virtue and Truth of Job…
If you’re not sure about how unworthy
Job’s children were, then maybe you yourself are in danger of questioning God’s
justice, and you probably should pay attention when we come back to this theme
when considering how Job’s servants were also disposed of…
Job’s Reverent Concern
Job said that his sons might have sinned
against God, and he did this redemption continually which shows us that his children
were in a continual posture of a reckless and concerning lifestyle, which
troubled Job’s heart, and we should also be in continual concern for rich and
indulgent people today, even ourselves, who might still continue to live in
luxury like that, and our concern should even include ourselves if we’re in
that probationary danger of risking indulgence.
Don’t trust yourself; don’t believe in
your flesh; don’t be lazy with your character flaws; be continually concerned
with the monotheistic revelation
that you need redemption from the perils and
pitfalls and character flaws of your indulgent flesh.
Escape from the tower of silo before it
kills you along with the entire human race under the judgement of universal
tragedy.
Implications Required -- as a Result
You don’t just get to pretend to cooperate
with a surface level reading of Job.
Biblical wisdom literature has a built-in
mechanism designed for meditation and long-lasting reflection to synthesize put
together its intended results.
As a human with a logical brain, you are
required to embrace the moral implications of what you are forced to conclude
if you honestly read Job for the moral of the story, and constantly
change and assimilate all of its virtue obedience-es into the
example of your life.
Obligations
When you read that Job’s children were
executed for their evil then you need to change to be the exact opposite of
them. And that is what it means to consistently change and obey all the Bible.
You have to obey all the Bible to obey any of it
If you are Bible obeyer, you have to obey
and embrace the deeper implications which result after taking the text more
seriously.
Remember: BOND …
Job suspected they sinned because their
lifestyle is so that they normally do that when they feast
They left question marks in Job’s mind
that they might have sinned and if you leave question mark in the righteous
mind or God’s mind then what do you think will happen to you?
Ironically, a lot of church people are
going to hypocritically pretend like we are “interpreting” the book of Job by
saying that Job’s children were disposable
because of their lack of virtue, however it is actually overtly
obvious that they are ignoring the fact that Job directly said that my sons might have sinned (Job_1:5), they are ignoring that and its
implications, that Job had a very good reason for wondering that because of his
careful virtue and concern for his reckless children, and this aspect is
documented throughout the rest of the entire book, and Job’s righteousness
stands in stark contrast to their lack of sacrificial redemption, and
their lack of autonomous virtue, and their lack of God’s Word being written on
their heart… -- get this: You have to obey this aspect, because your required
to OBEY ALL of the book of Job, including its implications which means
faithfully remembering all that it morally says when you keep faithfully
meditating on its wisdom…
The Point: As a human with a logical brain, you’re
required to accept and believe the Biblical
implications against Job’s children, and you’re not logically
allowed to blaspheme obeyers of interpreting
when they obediently proclaim your required obedience to these chronicled
implications throughout this book.
After hearing a preview of these
implications, do you still have any doubts about the evils of Job’s children
and Job’s attempt to satisfy God for them?
Remember:
Let Job be a Revolutionary revelation of
righteousness!
Your flesh is going to rebel in real time
when reading the book of Job.
Bildad: Job’s Children Executed for Sin
Bildad Says: Job’s Children were Terminated for Sin -- but then also implicitly blasphemes Job
Job_8:4 WEB If your children
have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their
disobedience.
Job_8:4 If your sons have sinned before Him, He has cast them away
because of their transgression.
Job_8:4 εἰ οἱ υἱοί
σου ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον
αὐτοῦ, ἀπέστειλεν
ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίας
αὐτῶν.
Job_8:5 WEB If you want to seek
God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Job_8:5 But you be early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
Job_8:5 σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε
πρὸς κύριον παντοκράτορα
δεόμενος.
Job_8:6 WEB If you were pure and upright,
surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your
righteousness prosperous.
Job_8:6 If you are pure and true, He
will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of
righteousness.
Job_8:6 εἰ
καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός,
δεήσεως ἐπακούσεταί
σου, ἀποκαταστήσει
δέ σοι δίαιταν
δικαιοσύνης·
The nature of being imperfect is that you get some things right and some things wrong
Was Bildad partly correct about Job’s children, or are we “interpreting” by saying that they were executed for their unworthiness?
Lev_10: Aaron's
Sons Executed: Nadab and Abihu
Comp. See: RiFi → Aaron's Sons Executed & EFF
→ Aaron's Sons Executed
Comp. Job’s
Initial Response to Loss & Aaron's
Sons Executed
Job & Aaron
Vindicate God in the Loss of their Children
· Job_1:20-21 – Job justified God when his indulgent children were executed
· Lev_10:1-11 – Moses tells Aaron to vindicate God in the same way when Aaron's sons were executed for strange fire
·
Comp. Job’s Initial Response to Loss
& Aaron's Sons Executed
·
Job
(Job_1:20-21) and Aaron (Lev_10:1-11) justified God when their kids
perished, because they saw that their execution was warranted.
·
That implies guilty children
·
The fact that they both agree that
the execution makes sense implies that they got what was coming to them, That
is suppose to happen to sinners
Job vs. Aaron --
Different Circumstances, but Same Morality
The main difference between Job and
Aaron is that Job was not a Jewish priest, including the fact that he also
already had defiled skin from the sickness, which would make him disqualified
physically for Jewish priestly service, even if he was otherwise found to be
Jewish. -- despite their differences, they both displayed the virtue of
justifying God against the execution of sinful flesh.
Watch out against doing self expression
instead of prescription.
Lev_10:1 WEB Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took
his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh,
which he had not commanded them.
Lev_10:1 LB And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
took each his censer, and put fire in it, and threw incense on it, and offered strange fire before the Lord,
which the Lord did not command them,
Lev_10:1 Καὶ
λαβόντες οἱ δύο
υἱοὶ Ααρων
Ναδαβ καὶ
Αβιουδ ἕκαστος
τὸ πυρεῖον αὐτοῦ
ἐπέθηκαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ
πῦρ καὶ ἐπέβαλον
ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ θυμίαμα
καὶ προσήνεγκαν
ἔναντι κυρίου
πῦρ ἀλλότριον, ὃ
οὐ προσέταξεν
κύριος αὐτοῖς.
Lev_10:2 WEB And fire came forth
from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they
died before Yahweh.
Lev_10:2 and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died [ἀπέθανον] before the Lord.
Lev_10:2 καὶ ἐξῆλθεν
πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου
καὶ κατέφαγεν
αὐτούς, καὶ ἀπέθανον
ἔναντι κυρίου.
Lev_10:3 WEB Then Moses said to
Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy
to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'
" Aaron held his peace. [Job children needed
to be cleaned after the event which implies they were unholy]
Lev_10:3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is the thing which the Lord
spoke, saying, ‘I will be sanctified among them that draw near to Me,
and I will be glorified in the whole congregation.’” And Aaron was pricked
in his heart.
Lev_10:3 καὶ εἶπεν
Μωυσῆς πρὸς
Ααρων Τοῦτό ἐστιν,
ὃ εἶπεν κύριος
λέγων Ἐν τοῖς ἐγγίζουσίν
μοι ἁγιασθήσομαι
καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ
συναγωγῇ
δοξασθήσομαι.
καὶ κατενύχθη
Ααρων.
Lev_10:4 WEB Moses called Mishael
and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them,
"Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the
camp."
Lev_10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elisaphan, sons of Uzziel, sons of
the brother of Aaron's father, and said to them, “Draw near and take your
brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
Lev_10:4 καὶ ἐκάλεσεν
Μωυσῆς τὸν
Μισαδαι καὶ τὸν
Ελισαφαν υἱοὺς
Οζιηλ υἱοὺς τοῦ
ἀδελφοῦ τοῦ
πατρὸς Ααρων
καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς
Προσέλθατε καὶ
ἄρατε τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς
ὑμῶν ἐκ προσώπου
τῶν ἁγίων ἔξω τῆς
παρεμβολῆς.
Lev_10:5 WEB So they drew near,
and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.
Lev_10:5 And they came near and took them in their coats out of the
camp, as Moses said.
Lev_10:5 καὶ
προσῆλθον καὶ ἦραν
ἐν τοῖς χιτῶσιν
αὐτῶν ἔξω τῆς
παρεμβολῆς, ὃν
τρόπον εἶπεν
Μωυσῆς.
Lev_10:6 WEB Moses said to Aaron,
and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your
heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not
be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole
house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Lev_10:6 And Moses said to Aaron, and Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that
were left, “You shall not uncover your heads, and you shall not tear your
clothes, so that you do not die, and so there should be wrath on all the
congregation. But your brothers, even all the house of Israel, shall
lament for the burning, with which they were burned by the Lord.
Lev_10:6 καὶ εἶπεν
Μωυσῆς πρὸς
Ααρων καὶ
Ελεαζαρ καὶ
Ιθαμαρ τοὺς υἱοὺς
αὐτοῦ τοὺς
καταλελειμμένους
Τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν
οὐκ ἀποκιδαρώσετε
καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν
οὐ διαρρήξετε, ἵνα
μὴ ἀποθάνητε
καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν
συναγωγὴν ἔσται
θυμός· οἱ ἀδελφοὶ
ὑμῶν πᾶς ὁ οἶκος
Ισραηλ κλαύσονται
τὸν ἐμπυρισμόν,
ὃν ἐνεπυρίσθησαν
ὑπὸ κυρίου.
Lev_10:7 WEB You shall not go out
from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing
oil of Yahweh is on you." They did according to the word of Moses.
Lev_10:7 And you shall not go forth from the door of the tabernacle of
witness, that you do not die; for the Lord's anointing oil is upon you.”
And they did according to the word of Moses.
Lev_10:7 καὶ ἀπὸ
τῆς θύρας τῆς
σκηνῆς τοῦ
μαρτυρίου οὐκ ἐξελεύσεσθε,
ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνητε·
τὸ γὰρ ἔλαιον τῆς
χρίσεως τὸ παρὰ
κυρίου ἐφ᾿ ὑμῖν.
καὶ ἐποίησαν
κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμα
Μωυσῆ.
Lev_10:8 WEB Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,
Lev_10:8 And the Lord spoke to
Aaron, saying,
Lev_10:8 Καὶ ἐλάλησεν
κύριος τῷ
Ααρων λέγων
Lev_10:9 WEB "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you,
nor your sons with you, when you go into the
Tent of Meeting, that you don't die:
it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
Lev_10:9 “You shall not drink wine
nor strong drink, you and your sons
with you, whenever you enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when you
approach the altar, so shall you not die;
it is a perpetual statute for your generations,
Lev_10:9 Οἶνον
καὶ σικερα οὐ πίεσθε,
σὺ καὶ οἱ υἱοί
σου μετὰ σοῦ, ἡνίκα
ἂν εἰσπορεύησθε
εἰς τὴν σκηνὴν
τοῦ μαρτυρίου, ἢ
προσπορευομένων
ὑμῶν πρὸς τὸ
θυσιαστήριον,
καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνητε
(νόμιμον αἰώνιον
εἰς τὰς γενεὰς ὑμῶν)
Lev_10:10 WEB and that you are to make
a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean
and the clean;
Lev_10:10 to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between
clean [καθαρῶν] and unclean,
Lev_10:10
διαστεῖλαι ἀνὰ
μέσον τῶν ἁγίων
καὶ τῶν βεβήλων
καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν
ἀκαθάρτων καὶ
τῶν καθαρῶν.
Lev_10:11 WEB and that you are to
teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."
Lev_10:11 and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes, which the
Lord spoke to them by Moses.”
Lev_10:11 καὶ
συμβιβάσεις
τοὺς υἱοὺς
Ισραηλ πάντα τὰ
νόμιμα, ἃ ἐλάλησεν
κύριος πρὸς αὐτοὺς
διὰ χειρὸς
Μωυσῆ.
This implies that Aaron can learn to stop
his indulgent sons from being exceuted by stopping indulgent drinking
After Aaron's sons were executed, a
breach of indulgence was revealed…
There is no mention of wine until after the
execution which implies that the execution revealed a problem of indulgence,
just like it implicitly did with Job’s children
Then restrictions against carless
indulgence were added.
This can also be partly reminiscent of…
Temporary Marriage Prohibition
Exo_19:10, Exo_19:15 – Sanctify The People… Don't Approach A Woman
GPT: God commands Moses to sanctify the people before
meeting Him at Mount Sinai
Exo_19:9
WEB Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold,
I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you,
and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to
Yahweh.
Exo_19:9
LB And the Lord said to
Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a pillar of a cloud, that the people may hear
Me speaking to you, and may believe you forever.” And Moses reported the words
of the people to the Lord.
Exo_19:9 εἶπεν
δὲ κύριος πρὸς
Μωυσῆν Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ
παραγίνομαι
πρὸς σὲ ἐν στύλῳ
νεφέλης, ἵνα ἀκούσῃ
ὁ λαὸς λαλοῦντός
μου πρὸς σὲ καὶ
σοὶ πιστεύσωσιν
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. ἀνήγγειλεν
δὲ Μωυσῆς τὰ ῥήματα
τοῦ λαοῦ πρὸς κύριον.
Exo_19:10
WEB Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to
the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their
garments,
Exo_19:10
And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and solemnly charge the people, and
sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments.
Exo_19:10 εἶπεν
δὲ κύριος πρὸς
Μωυσῆν Καταβὰς
διαμάρτυραι τῷ
λαῷ καὶ ἅγνισον
αὐτοὺς σήμερον
καὶ αὔριον, καὶ
πλυνάτωσαν τὰ ἱμάτια·
Exo_19:11
WEB and be ready against the third day;
for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on
Mount Sinai.
Exo_19:11
And let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will
descend upon Mount Sinai before all the people.
Exo_19:11
καὶ ἔστωσαν ἕτοιμοι
εἰς τὴν ἡμέραν
τὴν τρίτην· τῇ
γὰρ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ
τρίτῃ καταβήσεται
κύριος ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος
τὸ Σινα ἐναντίον
παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ.
…
Exo_19:14
WEB Moses went down from the mountain to
the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Exo_19:14
LB And Moses went down from
the mountain to the people and sanctified them, and they washed their clothes.
Exo_19:14 κατέβη
δὲ Μωυσῆς ἐκ τοῦ
ὄρους πρὸς τὸν
λαὸν καὶ ἡγίασεν
αὐτούς, καὶ ἔπλυναν
τὰ ἱμάτια.
Exo_19:15
WEB He said to the people, "Be
ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
Exo_19:15
And he said to the people, “Be ready: for three days do not come near to a
woman.
Exo_19:15
καὶ εἶπεν τῷ
λαῷ Γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι
τρεῖς ἡμέρας, μὴ
προσέλθητε
γυναικί.
This is comparable to Job’s children.
Job Couldn’t Spare His Children
3 men with
4 cycles of unsave-able loved ones
3 cycles of sons and daughters
Eze_14:14 WEB though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their
righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze_14:14 LB And though these three men should be in the
midst of it, Noah, Daniel, and Job,
they alone would be delivered by their
righteousness,” says the Lord.
Eze_14:14 καὶ ἐὰν
ὦσιν οἱ τρεῖς ἄνδρες
οὗτοι ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς,
Νωε καὶ Δανιηλ
καὶ Ιωβ, αὐτοὶ ἐν
τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ
αὐτῶν σωθήσονται,
λέγει κύριος.
Eze_14:15 WEB If I cause evil
animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate,
so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
Eze_14:15 “If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance
upon it, and it is ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the
wild beasts;
Eze_14:15 ἐὰν καὶ
θηρία πονηρὰ ἐπάγω
ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ
τιμωρήσομαι αὐτὴν
καὶ ἔσται εἰς ἀφανισμὸν
καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ
διοδεύων ἀπὸ
προσώπου τῶν
θηρίων,
Eze_14:16 WEB though these three men were in it, as I live,
says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver
neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered,
but the land should be desolate.
Eze_14:16 and if these three men
should be in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved,
but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.
Eze_14:16 καὶ οἱ
τρεῖς ἄνδρες οὗτοι
ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς ὦσι,
ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει κύριος,
εἰ υἱοὶ ἢ θυγατέρες
σωθήσονται, ἀλλ᾿
ἢ αὐτοὶ μόνοι
σωθήσονται, ἡ δὲ
γῆ ἔσται εἰς ὄλεθρον.
Eze_14:17 WEB Or if I bring a
sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from
it man and animal;
Eze_14:17 “Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, ‘Let the
sword go through the land’; and I cut off from them man and beast;
Eze_14:17 ἢ καὶ ῥομφαίαν
ἐὰν ἐπάγω ἐπὶ
τὴν γῆν ἐκείνην
καὶ εἴπω Ῥομφαία
διελθάτω διὰ τῆς
γῆς, καὶ ἐξαρῶ ἐξ
αὐτῆς ἄνθρωπον
καὶ κτῆνος,
Eze_14:18 WEB though these three men were in it, as I live, says
the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver
neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered
themselves.
Eze_14:18 though these three men
were in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters,
but they only shall be saved themselves.
Eze_14:18 καὶ οἱ
τρεῖς ἄνδρες οὗτοι
ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς,
ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει κύριος,
οὐ μὴ ῥύσωνται
υἱοὺς οὐδὲ
θυγατέρας, αὐτοὶ
μόνοι σωθήσονται.
Eze_14:19 WEB Or if I send a
pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off
from it man and animal;
Eze_14:19 “Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out My
wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast; and should Noah,
Daniel, and Job be in the midst of it,
Eze_14:19 ἢ καὶ θάνατον
ἐπαποστείλω ἐπὶ
τὴν γῆν ἐκείνην
καὶ ἐκχεῶ τὸν
θυμόν μου ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν
ἐν αἵματι τοῦ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι
ἐξ αὐτῆς ἄνθρωπον
καὶ κτῆνος,
Eze_14:20 WEB though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter;
they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Eze_14:20 as I live, says the Lord, there
shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by
their righteousness shall deliver their souls.
Eze_14:20 καὶ
Νωε καὶ Δανιηλ
καὶ Ιωβ ἐν μέσῳ
αὐτῆς, ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει
κύριος, ἐὰν υἱοὶ
ἢ θυγατέρες ὑπολειφθῶσιν,
αὐτοὶ ἐν τῇ
δικαιοσύνῃ αὐτῶν
ῥύσονται τὰς
ψυχὰς αὐτῶν.
Eze_14:21 WEB For thus says the
Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the
sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off
from it man and animal!
Eze_14:21 “Thus says the Lord: And if I even send upon Jerusalem My four
severe judgments—the sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from
out of it both man and beast;
Eze_14:21 τάδε λέγει
κύριος Ἐὰν δὲ
καὶ τὰς τέσσαρας
ἐκδικήσεις
μου τὰς πονηράς,
ῥομφαίαν καὶ
λιμὸν καὶ θηρία
πονηρὰ καὶ θάνατον,
ἐξαποστείλω ἐπὶ
Ιερουσαλημ τοῦ
ἐξολεθρεῦσαι ἐξ
αὐτῆς ἄνθρωπον
καὶ κτῆνος
Eze_14:22 WEB Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried
forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to
you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even
concerning all that I have brought on it.
Eze_14:22 yet behold, there shall be
men left in it, those that escaped, who shall lead forth of it sons and
daughters—behold, they shall go forth to you, and you shall see
their ways and their thoughts, and you shall mourn over the evils
which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even all the evils which I have brought
upon it.
Eze_14:22 καὶ ἰδοὺ
ὑπολελειμμένοι
ἐν αὐτῇ οἱ ἀνασεσῳσμένοι
αὐτῆς, οἳ ἐξάγουσιν
ἐξ αὐτῆς υἱοὺς
καὶ θυγατέρας, ἰδοὺ
αὐτοὶ ἐκπορεύονται
πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ ὄψεσθε
τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῶν
καὶ τὰ ἐνθυμήματα
αὐτῶν καὶ
μεταμεληθήσεσθε
ἐπὶ τὰ κακά, ἃ ἐπήγαγον
ἐπὶ
Ιερουσαλημ, πάντα
τὰ κακὰ ἃ ἐπήγαγον
ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν,
Eze_14:23 WEB They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that
I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
Eze_14:23 And they shall comfort
you, because you shall see their ways and
their thoughts; and you shall know that I have not done in vain all that I
have done in it,” says the Lord.
Eze_14:23 καὶ
παρακαλέσουσιν
ὑμᾶς, διότι ὄψεσθε
τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῶν
καὶ τὰ ἐνθυμήματα
αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπιγνώσεσθε
διότι οὐ μάτην
πεποίηκα πάντα,
ὅσα ἐποίησα ἐν
αὐτῇ, λέγει κύριος.
Disciple Notes (from this passage):
The only way to save sons and daughters is
via an exodus
Holy separate counterculture remnant,
Remnant will get to save their sons and
daughters
How can I be the surpassing righteousness
exemplification of Noah, Daniel and
Job?
Fattened for Slaughter
See: EFF → Fattened for Slaughter
Fattened for
Slaughter
potently shows very clearly how and why Job's children were executed during the
indulgence of their feasting.
The example of job's children being
executed for indulgence in this life shows us that...
Consumptive luxury violations includes
food indulgence, carelessness, unworthiness,
Lazy thinking poor consumptiveness creates
a refuge for these violations, crimes, and sends which result in making you
worthy to be executed.
Job 2: Job's Evil Wife
Job_2:7 WEB So Satan went forth
from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of
his foot to his head.
Job_2:7 So the devil went out from the Lord, and struck Job with sore
boils from his feet to his head.
Job_2:7 Ἐξῆλθεν
δὲ ὁ διάβολος ἀπὸ
τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ἔπαισεν
τὸν Ιωβ ἕλκει
πονηρῷ ἀπὸ ποδῶν
ἕως κεφαλῆς.
Job_2:8 WEB He took for himself
a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
Job_2:8 And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat
upon a dung heap outside the city.
Job_2:8 καὶ ἔλαβεν
ὄστρακον, ἵνα τὸν
ἰχῶρα ξύῃ, καὶ ἐκάθητο
ἐπὶ τῆς κοπρίας
ἔξω τῆς πόλεως.
Job_2:9 WEB Then his wife said
to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
Job_2:9 And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, “How long
will you hold out, saying, ‘Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the
hope of my deliverance?’ For behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth,
even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in
vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open
air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place
to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may
rest from my labors, and my pangs which now beset me: but curse the Lord, and die.”
Job_2:9 Χρόνου
δὲ πολλοῦ
προβεβηκότος
εἶπεν αὐτῷ ἡ
γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Μέχρι
τίνος καρτερήσεις
λέγων
Ἰδοὺ
ἀναμένω χρόνον
ἔτι μικρὸν
προσδεχόμενος
τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς
σωτηρίας μου;
ἰδοὺ
γὰρ ἠφάνισταί
σου τὸ μνημόσυνον
ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, υἱοὶ
καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐμῆς
κοιλίας ὠδῖνες
καὶ πόνοι, οὓς εἰς
τὸ κενὸν ἐκοπίασα
μετὰ μόχθων.
σύ
τε αὐτὸς ἐν
σαπρίᾳ σκωλήκων
κάθησαι
διανυκτερεύων
αἴθριος·
κἀγὼ
πλανῆτις καὶ λάτρις
τόπον ἐκ τόπου
περιερχομένη
καὶ οἰκίαν ἐξ οἰκίας
προσδεχομένη
τὸν ἥλιον πότε
δύσεται, ἵνα ἀναπαύσωμαι
τῶν μόχθων καὶ
τῶν ὀδυνῶν, αἵ
με νῦν συνέχουσιν.
ἀλλὰ εἰπόν
τι ῥῆμα εἰς κύριον
καὶ τελεύτα.
Job_2:10 WEB But he said to her,
"You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we
not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his
lips.
Job_2:10 But he looked at her, and said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish women.
If we have received good things of the
hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things?” In all these
things that happened to him, Job did not sin with his lips before God.
Job_2:10 ὁ δὲ ἐμβλέψας
εἶπεν αὐτῇ Ὥσπερ
μία τῶν ἀφρόνων
γυναικῶν ἐλάλησας·
εἰ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐδεξάμεθα
ἐκ χειρὸς κυρίου,
τὰ κακὰ οὐχ ὑποίσομεν;
ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις
τοῖς συμβεβηκόσιν
αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν
Ιωβ τοῖς χείλεσιν
ἐναντίον τοῦ
θεοῦ.
Hand of the Universe
Whose Hand Brings Job’s
Trial/Destruction?
· Job_1:11 / Job_2:5 – The devil calls it God's hand, and
· Job_1:12 / Job_2:6 – God calls it the devil hand
· Note: It’s the same hand of providence, even though it is through the Devil as God’s agent
The devil is not lying to
God when he said it was God’s hand.
The devil is forced to
fear before the actual presence of God because that’s where justice happens.
The devil is cocky to us
(because he can get away with it) but has to be humble before God because God’s
royal presence & Justice is there
Job Calls
the Trials God’s Hand
The Devil's Hand is
called God's Hand -- without sinning!
Job_2:10 WEB But he said to her, "You speak as one of
the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God,
and shall we not receive evil?"
In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
Job_2:10 LB But he looked at her, and said to her, “You
have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the
hand of the Lord [εἰ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐδεξάμεθα
ἐκ χειρὸς κυρίου], shall we not endure evil things [τὰ κακὰ οὐχ ὑποίσομεν]?” In all these things that happened to him, Job did not sin
with his lips [οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν
Ιωβ τοῖς χείλεσιν] before God.
Job_2:10
ὁ δὲ ἐμβλέψας
εἶπεν αὐτῇ Ὥσπερ
μία τῶν ἀφρόνων
γυναικῶν ἐλάλησας·
εἰ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐδεξάμεθα
ἐκ χειρὸς κυρίου,
τὰ κακὰ οὐχ ὑποίσομεν;
ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις
τοῖς συμβεβηκόσιν
αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν
Ιωβ τοῖς χείλεσιν
ἐναντίον τοῦ
θεοῦ.
Job calls the evil of the trials God's
Hand, without sinning, even though the trials were applied by
the devil’s hand.
Oh that church people could get this
orthodox!
When it says “Job didn't sin with his lips” that tells us Job was
continuing to be a “perfect” man in every way:
Jam_3:2 LSV for we all make many stumbles; if anyone does not stumble in word [εἴ τις ἐν λόγῳ οὐ πταίει], this one [is] a perfect man [οὗτος τέλειος ἀνήρ], able to also bridle the whole body;
Jam_3:2
πολλὰ γὰρ
πταίομεν ἅπαντες.
εἴ τις ἐν
λόγῳ οὐ
πταίει, οὗτος
τέλειος ἀνήρ,
δυνατὸς
χαλιναγωγῆσαι
καὶ ὅλον τὸ
σῶμα.
Job
Experienced the Trials as God’s Hand
Job_30:21 WEB You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
Job_30:21 LB They attacked me also without mercy: You have scourged me with a strong hand.
Job_30:21 ἐπέβης
δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως,
χειρὶ κραταιᾷ
με ἐμαστίγωσας·
We need to see that Job is experiencing his trial as God’s hand and we need the book of Job because we need Job to tell us that God taught him that it was the devil’s hand doing all of that to Job all along.
(A principle all throughout the Bible is that the story that we’re reading is everything that they learned when going through that story, whether it’s Job or Jonah or anyone else we need to consider that these books are what they learned and what they are telling us from what God revealed to them.)
Here’s part of the main
point about whose hand is at work, when the devil is carrying out his agenda he
is going to make it appear or seem or be experienced as God’s hand doing this
bad thing to you, and in a sense that’s accurate, but you don’t need any
revelation to experience that God is hurting you, what you need revelation from
God to know that it is the devil who is hurting righteous people.
A church person might
think that they’ve acknowledged that from the book of Job and the rest of the
Bible, however go ask a church person if God is liking to ignore us and throw
us into the wilderness and not let us preach anywhere or if it’s the devil, and
if church people admit that it’s the devil who is persecuting us then why don’t
they let us preach truth in their churches?
Church people might
pretend to have acknowledged this revelation that it is the devil persecuting
righteous people but in the end they still don’t understand this revelation
because they still think that we’re not worthy to preach the truth in their
churches and they’re ignoring the fact that God says it’s the devil in them
that is persecuting us who obey the good message…
Church people have not
learned this revelation!
Job 2: Job's Three Friends
3 Names
(1) Eliphaz, (2) Bildad, & (3) Zophar
(1) Eliphaz the Temanite, (2) Bildad the Shuhite, and
(3) Zophar the Naamathite
LXX:
(1) Eliphaz the king of the Temans, (2) Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites, and (3) Zophar, king of the Minaeans
Job_2:11 WEB Now when Job's three
friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his
own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad
the Shuhite, and Zophar the
Naamathite, and they made an
appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Job_2:11 LB Job’s Three Friends Now his three friends, having heard of all
the evil that had come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Temans, Bildad sovereign of the Shuhites, and Zophar, king of the Minaeans. And they came to him with one accord, to comfort him, and to
visit him.
Job_2:11 Ἀκούσαντες
δὲ οἱ τρεῖς φίλοι
αὐτοῦ τὰ κακὰ πάντα
τὰ ἐπελθόντα αὐτῷ
παρεγένοντο ἕκαστος
ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας χώρας
πρὸς αὐτόν,
Ελιφας ὁ
Θαιμανων
βασιλεύς,
Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχαίων
τύραννος,
Σωφαρ ὁ Μιναίων
βασιλεύς, καὶ
παρεγένοντο
πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁμοθυμαδὸν
τοῦ παρακαλέσαι
καὶ ἐπισκέψασθαι
αὐτόν.
Job_2:12 WEB When they lifted up
their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices,
and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward
the sky.
Job_2:12 And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him;
and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and everyone tore his garment, and
sprinkled dust upon their heads,
Job_2:12 ἰδόντες
δὲ αὐτὸν πόρρωθεν
οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν
καὶ βοήσαντες
φωνῇ μεγάλῃ ἔκλαυσαν
ῥήξαντες ἕκαστος
τὴν ἑαυτοῦ
στολὴν καὶ
καταπασάμενοι
γῆν.
Job_2:13 WEB So they sat down
with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to
him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job_2:13 and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and
not one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful, and very
great.
Job_2:13 παρεκάθισαν
αὐτῷ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας
καὶ ἑπτὰ νύκτας,
καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτῶν
ἐλάλησεν· ἑώρων
γὰρ τὴν πληγὴν
δεινὴν οὖσαν
καὶ μεγάλην σφόδρα.
3 Friends with Errors
3/9/25
(A) Perilous Friendships
Jam_4:4
– Friendship with the world is entity with God
As a side note…
Consider that 'friendship with the world'
(Jam_4:4) doesn't help you when you need Truth the most!
Jam_4:4 CAB Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.
Jam_4:4
μοιχὶ καὶ
μοιχαλίδες,
οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι
ἡ φιλία τοῦ
κόσμου ἔχθρα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν;
ὃς ἃν οὖν
βουληθῇ
φίλος εἶναι
τοῦ κόσμου, ἐχθρὸς
τοῦ Θεοῦ
καθίσταται.
Jam_4:4 TSBμοιχοι TSBκαι
μοιχαλιδες ουκ
οιδατε οτι η
φιλια του
κοσμου εχθρα
του θεου εστιν
ος Aεαν TSBαν ουν
βουληθη φιλος
ειναι του
κοσμου εχθρος
του θεου
καθισταται
Jam_4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in
us yearns jealously"?
Jam_4:5 ἢ
δοκεῖτε ὅτι
κενῶς ἡ
γραφὴ λέγει,
πρὸς φθόνον
ἐπιποθεῖ τὸ
πνεῦμα ὃ κατῴκησεν
ἐν ἡμῖν;
Jam_4:5 η δοκειτε
οτι κενως η
γραφη λεγει
προς φθονον
επιποθει το
πνευμα ο Aκατωκισεν
TSBκατωκησεν
εν ημιν
Jam_4:6
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but
gives grace to the humble."
Jam_4:6
μείζονα δὲ
δίδωσι χάριν·
διὸ λέγει· ὁ
Θεὸς ὑπερηφάνοις
ἀντιτάσσεται,
ταπεινοῖς δὲ
δίδωσι
χάριν.
(B) Mixture of Right
& Wrong
Job's three friends said some things that
were potentially correct, and perhaps even helpful when transplanted into a
more orthodox context, which are ironically quoted (like this) in
the New Testament, but their original statements were in the
midst of making many mistakes, and false accusations against Job, which
resulted in their memorial and legacy being that 'they did not speak right
about God like Job did'...
Job_42:7 – You Have Not Spoken Right About Me Like My Servant Job
Job_42:7 WEB It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job_42:7 LB And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “You have sinned, and your two friends, for you have not said anything true before Me, as My servant Job has.
Job_42:7
Ἐγένετο δὲ
μετὰ τὸ λαλῆσαι
τὸν κύριον πάντα
τὰ ῥήμα τα ταῦτα
τῷ Ιωβ εἶπεν ὁ κύριος
Ελιφας τῷ
Θαιμανίτῃ Ἥμαρτες
σὺ καὶ οἱ δύο φίλοι
σου· οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε
ἐνώπιόν μου ἀληθὲς
οὐδὲν ὥσπερ ὁ
θεράπων μου
Ιωβ.
Job_42:8 WEB Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls
and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt
offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I
not deal with you according to your folly. For
you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Job_42:8 Now then take
seven bulls, and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and he shall offer a
burnt offering for you. And My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only
accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against My servant Job.”
Job_42:8 νῦν δὲ
λάβετε ἑπτὰ μόσχους
καὶ ἑπτὰ κριοὺς
καὶ πορεύθητε
πρὸς τὸν θεράποντά
μου Ιωβ, καὶ ποιήσει
κάρπωσιν περὶ ὑμῶν·
Ιωβ δὲ ὁ θεράπων
μου εὔξεται
περὶ ὑμῶν, ὅτι
εἰ μὴ πρόσωπον
αὐτοῦ λήμψομαι·
εἰ μὴ γὰρ δι᾿ αὐτόν,
ἀπώλεσα ἂν ὑμᾶς·
οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε
ἀληθὲς κατὰ τοῦ
θεράποντός
μου Ιωβ. --
Job_42:9 WEB So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the
Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and
Yahweh accepted Job.
Job_42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite,
and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord
commanded them: and He pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.
Job_42:9
ἐπορεύθη δὲ
Ελιφας ὁ
Θαιμανίτης καὶ
Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχίτης
καὶ Σωφαρ ὁ
Μιναῖος καὶ ἐποίησαν
καθὼς συνέταξεν
αὐτοῖς ὁ κύριος,
καὶ ἔλυσεν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν
αὐτοῖς διὰ Ιωβ.
(D) Quoted in the NT
It is actually quite ironic that Paul (1Co_3:19) quotes Eliphaz (Job_5:13, MT) (even though They Spoke Wrong):
Eliphaz in Job_5:13 (MT) is
quoted by Paul in 1Co_3:19
See: Job Quoted in the New Testament
Job_13:
Slay, But Hope?
Job_13:15 WEB Behold, he will kill
me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Job_13:15 LB Though the Mighty One should lay His hand
upon me, forasmuch as He has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before Him.
Job_13:15 ἐάν με
χειρώσηται ὁ
δυνάστης, ἐπεὶ
καὶ ἦρκται, ἦ μὴν
λαλήσω καὶ ἐλέγξω
ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ·
This looks like a translational
disagreement and textual variation.
Job 14: Fading Human Life
Titled: “Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All”
Job_14:1 WEB "Man, who is
born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job_14:1 LB “For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived,
and full of wrath.
Job_14:1 βροτὸς
γὰρ γεννητὸς
γυναικὸς ὀλιγόβιος
καὶ πλήρης ὀργῆς
Job_14:2 WEB He comes forth like
a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
Job_14:2 Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed, and he departs like
a shadow, and cannot continue.
Job_14:2 ἢ ὥσπερ
ἄνθος ἀνθῆσαν ἐξέπεσεν,
ἀπέδρα δὲ ὥσπερ
σκιὰ καὶ οὐ μὴ
στῇ.
This is similar to the temporary nature of rich people in James:
Jam_1:9 CAB Let the lowly brother rejoice in his
exaltation,
Jam_1:9
Καυχάσθω
δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς
ὁ ταπεινὸς ἐν
τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ,
Jam_1:10 but the rich man in his
humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
Jam_1:10 ὁ δὲ
πλούσιος ἐν
τῇ
ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ,
ὅτι ὡς ἄνθος
χόρτου
παρελεύσεται.
Jam_1:11 For the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and
its flower fell off, and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man
also shall fade away in his pursuits.
Jam_1:11 ἀνέτειλε
γὰρ ὁ ἥλιος
σὺν τῷ
καύσωνι καὶ
ἐξήρανε τὸν
χόρτον, καὶ
τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ
ἐξέπεσε,
καὶ ἡ εὐπρέπεια
τοῦ προσώπου
αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο,
οὕτω καὶ ὁ
πλούσιος ἐν
ταῖς
πορείαις αὐτοῦ
μαρανθήσεται.
Job_19:
I Know My Redeemer
Job_19:25 WEB But as for me, I
know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Job_19:25 LB For I know that He who shall deliver me on
the earth is eternal,
Job_19:25 οἶδα γὰρ
ὅτι ἀέναός ἐστιν
ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων
ἐπὶ γῆς.
Job_19:26 WEB After my skin is
destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
Job_19:26 and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these
sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;
Job_19:26 ἀναστήσαι
τὸ δέρμα μου τὸ ἀνατλῶν
ταῦτα· παρὰ γὰρ
κυρίου ταῦτά
μοι συνετελέσθη,
Job_20: Zophar Blasphemes Job of Sinful Indulgence
Job Falsely Accused
Zophar was offended when he heard Job
say, I Know My Redeemer.
Zophar Blasphemes Job
of…
· Speaking a shameful insult (Job_20:3)
· Being an evil sinner (Job_20:5, Job_20:12, Job_20:27, Job_20:29; Job_21:28 , , , ,)
· Being Sinfully Rich (Job_20:15, Job_20:19, Job_20:20-22, Job_20:28,,)
· Having Sinful Desires (Job_20:12-20)
· Eating sinful abundance (Job_20:12-18)
· Being Full (Job_20:11, Job_20:22-23)
· Getting Divine Punishment for sin (Job_20:5-11 (incl. children in Job_20:10), Job_20:14-18, Job_20:20, Job_20:22-23, Job_20:26 (judgement “Fire”), Job_20:27-28 (heavens shall…rise up [a day of wrath] against him), Job_20:29)
Eating sinful abundance and getting judged
in the midst of it is specifically and particularly what Job’s Children did,
and is the exact opposite of Job himself did in his clean righteousness.
Job abstained from the sins of his
children by being particularly righteous and clean and Zophar is blasphemously
saying the exact opposite of what Job actually did in righteousness.
Job_20:1 WEB
Then Zophar the
Naamathite answered,
Job_20:1 Then Zophar the Minaean answered and said,
…
Job_20:3 WEB I have heard the reproof
which puts me to shame. The spirit of
my understanding answers me.
Job_20:3 I will hear my shameful reproach, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job_20:3 παιδείαν
ἐντροπῆς μου ἀκούσομαι,
καὶ πνεῦμα ἐκ τῆς
συνέσεως ἀποκρίνεταί
μοι.
Job_20:4 WEB Don't you know this
from old time, since man was placed on earth,
Job_20:4 Have you not known these things of old, from the time that man
was set upon the earth?
Job_20:4 μὴ ταῦτα
ἔγνως ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔτι
ἀφ᾿ οὗ ἐτέθη ἄνθρωπος
ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς;
Job_20:5 WEB that the triumphing of the wicked
is short, the joy of the godless
but for a moment?
Job_20:5 But the rejoicing of the ungodly
is death, and the joy of transgressors
is destruction:
Job_20:5 εὐφροσύνη
γὰρ ἀσεβῶν πτῶμα
ἐξαίσιον,
χαρμονὴ δὲ
παρανόμων ἀπώλεια,
…
Job_20:10 WEB His children shall
seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.
Job_20:10 Let his inferiors destroy his children, and
let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
Job_20:10 τοὺς υἱοὺς
αὐτοῦ ὀλέσαισαν
ἥττονες, αἱ δὲ
χεῖρες αὐτοῦ
πυρσεύσαισαν ὀδύνας.
Job_20:11 WEB His bones are full of his youth, but
youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job_20:11 His bones have been filled
with the vigor of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job_20:11 ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ
ἐνεπλήσθησαν
νεότητος αὐτοῦ,
καὶ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ
χώματος
κοιμηθήσεται.
…
Job_20:12 WEB "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue,
Job_20:12 Though evil
be sweet in his mouth, though he will hide it under his tongue;
Job_20:12 ἐὰν
γλυκανθῇ ἐν στόματι
αὐτοῦ κακία, κρύψει
αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τὴν
γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ·
Job_20:13 WEB though he spare it,
and will not let it go, but keep it still within
his mouth;
Job_20:13 though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will
keep it in the midst of his throat:
Job_20:13 οὐ φείσεται
αὐτῆς καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει
αὐτὴν καὶ συνέξει
αὐτὴν ἐν μέσῳ
τοῦ λάρυγγος αὐτοῦ.
Job_20:14 WEB yet his food in his
bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within
him.
Job_20:14 yet he shall by no means be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.
Job_20:14 καὶ οὐ
μὴ δυνηθῇ βοηθῆσαι
ἑαυτῷ· χολὴ ἀσπίδος
ἐν γαστρὶ αὐτοῦ.
Job_20:15 WEB He has swallowed down riches,
and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job_20:15 His wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger of wrath shall drag him
out of his house.
Job_20:15 πλοῦτος
ἀδίκως συναγόμενος
ἐξεμεσθήσεται,
ἐξ οἰκίας αὐτοῦ
ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν
ἄγγελος.
Job_20:16 WEB He shall suck
cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
Job_20:16 And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the
serpent’s tongue slay him.
Job_20:16 θυμὸν
δὲ δρακόντων
θηλάσειεν, ἀνέλοι
δὲ αὐτὸν γλῶσσα
ὄφεως.
Job_20:17 WEB He shall not look
at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
Job_20:17 Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies
of honey and butter.
Job_20:17 μὴ ἴδοι
ἄμελξιν νομάδων
μηδὲ νομὰς μέλιτος
καὶ βουτύρου.
Job_20:18 WEB That for which he
labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow
it down. According to the
substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
Job_20:18 He has labored unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall
not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.
Job_20:18 εἰς
κενὰ καὶ μάταια
ἐκοπίασεν πλοῦτον,
ἐξ οὗ οὐ γεύσεται,
ὥσπερ στρίφνος
ἀμάσητος ἀκατάποτος.
Job_20:19 WEB For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently
taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job_20:19 For he has broken down the houses of
many mighty men, and he has plundered a house, though he did not build it.
Job_20:19 πολλῶν
γὰρ ἀδυνάτων οἴκους
ἔθλασεν, δίαιταν
δὲ ἥρπασεν καὶ
οὐκ ἔστησεν.
Job_20:20 WEB "Because he
knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
Job_20:20 There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved
by his desire.
Job_20:20 οὐκ ἔστιν
αὐτοῦ σωτηρία
τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν,
ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ αὐτοῦ
οὐ σωθήσεται.
Job_20:21 WEB There was nothing
left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity
shall not endure.
Job_20:21 There is nothing remaining of his provisions, therefore his goods
shall not flourish.
Job_20:21 οὐκ ἔστιν
ὑπόλειμμα τοῖς
βρώμασιν αὐτοῦ·
διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀνθήσει
αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀγαθά.
Job_20:22 WEB In the fullness of
his sufficiency, distress
shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
Job_20:22 But when he shall seem to be satisfied, he shall be afflicted; and all distress
shall come upon him.
Job_20:22 ὅταν δὲ
δοκῇ ἤδη
πεπληρῶσθαι,
θλιβήσεται, πᾶσα
δὲ ἀνάγκη ἐπ᾿
αὐτὸν ἐπελεύσεται.
Job_20:23 WEB When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the
fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
Job_20:23 If by any means he would fill
his belly, let God send upon him the fury of wrath; let
Him bring a torrent of pains upon him.
Job_20:23 εἴ πως
πληρώσαι γαστέρα
αὐτοῦ, ἐπαποστείλαι
ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν θυμὸν
ὀργῆς, νίψαι ἐπ᾿
αὐτὸν ὀδύνας·
…
Job_20:26 WEB All darkness is laid
up for his treasures. An unfanned fire
shall devour him. It shall consume
that which is left in his tent.
Job_20:26 And let all darkness wait for him: an unfanned fire shall consume him, and let a stranger plague his house.
Job_20:26 πᾶν δὲ
σκότος αὐτῷ ὑπομείναι·
κατέδεται αὐτὸν
πῦρ ἄκαυστον,
κακώσαι δὲ αὐτοῦ
ἐπήλυτος τὸν οἶκον.
Job_20:27 WEB The heavens shall
reveal his iniquity. The earth
shall rise up against him.
Job_20:27 And let the heavens reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise
up against him.
Job_20:27 ἀνακαλύψαι
δὲ αὐτοῦ ὁ οὐρανὸς
τὰς ἀνομίας, γῆ
δὲ ἐπανασταίη
αὐτῷ.
Job_20:28 WEB The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
Job_20:28 Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.
Job_20:28 ἑλκύσαι
τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ
ἀπώλεια εἰς τέλος,
ἡμέρα ὀργῆς ἐπέλθοι
αὐτῷ.
Job_20:29 WEB This is the
portion of a wicked man from God,
the heritage appointed to him by God."
Job_20:29 This is the portion of an ungodly
man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods appointed him by the all-seeing God.”
Job_20:29 αὕτη ἡ
μερὶς ἀνθρώπου
ἀσεβοῦς παρὰ
κυρίου καὶ κτῆμα
ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ
παρὰ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου.
Job_21: Job Vindicated as NOT Spending Days in Prosperity
Job is NOT the Wicked Who Spend Their
Days in Prosperity
Job Says the Sinful Prosper and are sometimes punished, and sometimes prospered, in this life.
Job Says…
Job_21:7 WEB "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow
mighty in power?
Job_21:7 LB Why do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
Job_21:7 διὰ τί ἀσεβεῖς
ζῶσιν, πεπαλαίωνται
δὲ καὶ ἐν πλούτῳ;
Job_21:8 WEB Their child is
established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
Job_21:8 Their seed is according to their desire, and their
children are in their sight.
Job_21:8 ὁ σπόρος
αὐτῶν κατὰ ψυχήν,
τὰ δὲ τέκνα αὐτῶν
ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς.
Job_21:9 WEB Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job_21:9 Their houses are prosperous, and safe from fear, neither is the rod of the Lord upon
them.
Job_21:9 οἱ οἶκοι
αὐτῶν εὐθηνοῦσιν,
φόβος δὲ οὐδαμοῦ,
μάστιξ δὲ παρὰ
κυρίου οὐκ ἔστιν
ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς.
Job_21:10 WEB Their bulls breed
without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
Job_21:10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is
safe, and does not miscarriage.
Job_21:10 ἡ βοῦς
αὐτῶν οὐκ ὠμοτόκησεν,
διεσώθη δὲ αὐτῶν
ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα
καὶ οὐκ ἔσφαλεν.
Job_21:11 WEB They send forth
their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
Job_21:11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play
before them, taking up the psaltery and harp;
Job_21:11 μένουσιν
δὲ ὡς πρόβατα αἰώνια,
τὰ δὲ παιδία αὐτῶν
προσπαίζουσιν
Job_21:12 WEB They sing to the
tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job_21:12 and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
Job_21:12 ἀναλαβόντες
ψαλτήριον καὶ
κιθάραν καὶ εὐφραίνονται
φωνῇ ψαλμοῦ.
Job_21:13 WEB They spend their days in prosperity. In
an instant they go down to Sheol.
Job_21:13 And they spend their days
in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave
[ᾅδου – hades/hell].
Job_21:13 συνετέλεσαν
δὲ ἐν ἀγαθοῖς τὸν
βίον αὐτῶν, ἐν
δὲ ἀναπαύσει ᾅδου
ἐκοιμήθησαν.
Job_21:14 WEB They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
Job_21:14 Yet such a man says to the Lord, ‘Depart from me; I desire not to know Your ways.’
Job_21:14 λέγει
δὲ κυρίῳ Ἀπόστα
ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, ὁδούς
σου εἰδέναι οὐ
βούλομαι·
Job_21:15 WEB What is the
Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray
to him?'
Job_21:15 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And
what profit is there that we should approach Him?
Job_21:15 τί ἱκανός,
ὅτι δουλεύσομεν
αὐτῷ; καὶ τίς ὠφέλεια,
ὅτι ἀπαντήσομεν
αὐτῷ;
Job_21:16 WEB Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job_21:16 For their good things
were in their hands, but He does not regard
the works of the ungodly.
Job_21:16 ἐν
χερσὶν γὰρ ἦν αὐτῶν
τὰ ἀγαθά, ἔργα
δὲ ἀσεβῶν οὐκ ἐφορᾷ.
Job_21:17 WEB "How often is
it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
Job_21:17 “Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
Job_21:17 οὐ μὴν
δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀσεβῶν
λύχνος σβεσθήσεται,
ἐπελεύσεται δὲ
αὐτοῖς ἡ
καταστροφή, ὠδῖνες
δὲ αὐτοὺς ἕξουσιν
ἀπὸ ὀργῆς.
Job_21:18 WEB How often is it that
they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries
away?
Job_21:18 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust
which the storm has taken up.
Job_21:18 ἔσονται
δὲ ὥσπερ ἄχυρα
πρὸ ἀνέμου ἢ ὥσπερ
κονιορτός, ὃν ὑφείλατο
λαῖλαψ.
Job_21:19 WEB You say, 'God lays
up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself,
that he may know it.
Job_21:19 Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense
him, and he shall know it.
Job_21:19 ἐκλίποι
υἱοὺς τὰ ὑπάρχοντα
αὐτοῦ· ἀνταποδώσει
πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ
γνώσεται.
Job_21:20 WEB Let his own eyes
see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job_21:20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
Job_21:20 ἴδοισαν
οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ
τὴν ἑαυτοῦ
σφαγήν, ἀπὸ δὲ
κυρίου μὴ
διασωθείη·
Job_21:21 WEB For what does he
care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
Job_21:21 For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his
months has been suddenly cut off.
Job_21:21 ὅτι τί
θέλημα αὐτοῦ ἐν
οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ μετ᾿
αὐτόν; καὶ ἀριθμοὶ
μηνῶν αὐτοῦ διῃρέθησαν.
Job_21:22 WEB "Shall any teach God
knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high?
Job_21:22 “Is it not the Lord who
teaches understanding and knowledge? And does He not judge murders?
Job_21:22 πότερον
οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν
ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν
καὶ ἐπιστήμην;
αὐτὸς δὲ φόνους
διακρινεῖ.
Job_21:23 WEB One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job_21:23 One shall die in his perfect
strength, and wholly at
ease and prosperous;
Job_21:23 οὗτος ἀποθανεῖται
ἐν κράτει ἁπλοσύνης
αὐτοῦ, ὅλος δὲ
εὐπαθῶν καὶ εὐθηνῶν·
Job_21:24 WEB His pails are
full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
Job_21:24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused
throughout him.
Job_21:24 τὰ δὲ ἔγκατα
αὐτοῦ πλήρη στέατος,
μυελὸς δὲ αὐτοῦ
διαχεῖται.
Job_21:25 WEB Another dies in
bitterness of soul, and never tastes
of good.
Job_21:25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
Job_21:25 ὁ δὲ
τελευτᾷ ὑπὸ
πικρίας ψυχῆς
οὐ φαγὼν οὐδὲν ἀγαθόν.
Job_21:26 WEB They lie down alike
in the dust. The worm covers them.
Job_21:26 But they lie down in the dust together, and corruption covers
them.
Job_21:26 ὁμοθυμαδὸν
δὲ ἐπὶ γῆς κοιμῶνται,
σαπρία δὲ αὐτοὺς
ἐκάλυψεν.
Job_21:27 WEB "Behold, I know
your thoughts, the devices with which you
would wrong me.
Job_21:27 So I know you, that you
presumptuously attack me,
Job_21:27 ὥστε οἶδα
ὑμᾶς ὅτι τόλμῃ
ἐπίκεισθέ μοι·
Job_21:28 WEB For you say, 'Where
is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
Job_21:28 so that you will say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? And where is the covering of
the tabernacles of the ungodly?’
Job_21:28 ὅτι ἐρεῖτε
Ποῦ ἐστιν οἶκος
ἄρχοντος; καὶ
ποῦ ἐστιν ἡ σκέπη
τῶν σκηνωμάτων
τῶν ἀσεβῶν;
Job_21:29 WEB Haven't you asked
wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,
Job_21:29 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
Job_21:29 ἐρωτήσατε
παραπορευομένους
ὁδόν, καὶ τὰ
σημεῖα αὐτῶν οὐκ
ἀπαλλοτριώσετε·
Job_21:30 WEB that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Job_21:30 For the wicked
hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of His vengeance.
Job_21:30 ὅτι εἰς
ἡμέραν ἀπωλείας
κουφίζεται ὁ
πονηρός, εἰς ἡμέραν
ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπαχθήσονται.
Job_21:31 WEB Who shall declare
his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?
Job_21:31 Who will tell him his way to his face, since he has done it?
Who shall recompense him?
Job_21:31 τίς ἀπαγγελεῖ
ἐπὶ προσώπου αὐτοῦ
τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ;
καὶ αὐτὸς ἐποίησεν,
τίς ἀνταποδώσει
αὐτῷ;
Job_22: Eliphaz Says Job Was Wicked
Eliphaz Blasphemes Job of Great Wickedness
Was Job Generous or did he get money from sinning?
Job_22:1 WEB Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Job_22:1 LB Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job_22:1 Ὑπολαβὼν
δὲ Ελιφας ὁ
Θαιμανίτης λέγει
Job_22:2 WEB "Can a man be
profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Job_22:2 “Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?
Job_22:2 Πότερον
οὐχὶ ὁ κύριός ἐστιν
ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν
καὶ ἐπιστήμην;
Job_22:3 WEB Is it any pleasure
to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make
your ways perfect?
Job_22:3 For what does it matter to the Lord, if you were blameless in
your works? Or is it profitable that you should perfect your way?
Job_22:3 τί γὰρ
μέλει τῷ κυρίῳ,
ἐὰν σὺ ἦσθα τοῖς
ἔργοις ἄμεμπτος;
ἢ ὠφέλεια ὅτι ἁπλώσῃς
τὴν ὁδόν σου;
Job_22:4 WEB Is it for your piety
that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
Job_22:4 Will you maintain and plead your own cause? And will He enter
into judgment with you?
Job_22:4 ἦ λόγον
σου ποιούμενος
ἐλέγξει σε καὶ
συνεισελεύσεταί
σοι εἰς κρίσιν;
Job_22:5 WEB Isn't your
wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Job_22:5 Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?
Job_22:5 πότερον
οὐχ ἡ κακία σού
ἐστιν πολλή, ἀναρίθμητοι
δέ σού εἰσιν αἱ
ἁμαρτίαι;
Job_22:6 WEB For you have taken
pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their
clothing.
Job_22:6 And you have taken the security of your brothers for nothing,
and have taken away the clothing of the naked.
Job_22:6 ἠνεχύραζες
δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς
σου διὰ κενῆς, ἀμφίασιν
δὲ γυμνῶν ἀφείλου·
Job_22:7 WEB You haven't given
water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Job_22:7 Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have
taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Job_22:7 οὐδὲ ὕδωρ
διψῶντας ἐπότισας,
ἀλλὰ πεινώντων
ἐστέρησας ψωμόν·
Job_22:8 WEB But as for the
mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
Job_22:8 And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established
those that were already settled on the earth.
Job_22:8 ἐθαύμασας
δέ τινων πρόσωπον,
ᾤκισας δὲ τοὺς ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς·
Job_22:9 WEB You have sent widows
away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job_22:9 But you have sent widows away empty, and have afflicted
orphans.
Job_22:9 χήρας
δὲ ἐξαπέστειλας
κενάς, ὀρφανοὺς
δὲ ἐκάκωσας.
Job_22:10 WEB Therefore snares are
around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
Job_22:10 Therefore snares have surrounded you, and disastrous war has
troubled you.
Job_22:10
τοιγαροῦν ἐκύκλωσάν
σε παγίδες, καὶ ἐσπούδασέν
σε πόλεμος ἐξαίσιος·
Job_22:11 WEB or darkness, so that
you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
Job_22:11 The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you
on your lying down.
Job_22:11 τὸ φῶς
σοι σκότος ἀπέβη,
κοιμηθέντα δὲ ὕδωρ
σε ἐκάλυψεν.
Job_29: Job Laments Losing Protection, Abundance, & Exaltation
Preview:
God protected Job and his household with divinely shining light, physical abundance, and social exaltation.
Job_29:1 WEB Job again took up
his parable, and said,
Job_29:1 LB And Job continued and
said in his discourse,
Job_29:1 Ἔτι δὲ
προσθεὶς Ιωβ εἶπεν
τῷ προοιμίῳ
Job_29:2 WEB "Oh that I were
as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Job_29:2 “Oh that I were as in months past, in the days when God
preserved me! [i.e. hedge of protection]
Job_29:2 Τίς ἄν
με θείη κατὰ μῆνα
ἔμπροσθεν ἡμερῶν,
ὧν με ὁ θεὸς ἐφύλαξεν;
Job_29:3 WEB when his lamp
shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Job_29:3 As when His lamp shone over my head; when by His
light I walked through darkness.
Job_29:3 ὡς ὅτε
ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος
αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ
κεφαλῆς μου, ὅτε
τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην
ἐν σκότει·
Job_29:4 WEB as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
Job_29:4 As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God
took care of my house.
Job_29:4 ὅτε ἤμην
ἐπιβρίθων ὁδοῖς,
ὅτε ὁ θεὸς ἐπισκοπὴν
ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ οἴκου
μου·
Job_29:5 WEB when the Almighty
was yet with me, and my children were around me,
Job_29:5 When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;
Job_29:5 ὅτε ἤμην
ὑλώδης λίαν, κύκλῳ
δέ μου οἱ παῖδες·
Job_29:6 WEB when my steps
were washed with butter, and
the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
Job_29:6 when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.
Job_29:6 ὅτε ἐχέοντό
μου αἱ ὁδοὶ
βουτύρῳ, τὰ δὲ ὄρη
μου ἐχέοντο γάλακτι·
Job_29:7 WEB when I went forth to
the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job_29:7 When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed
for me in the streets.
Job_29:7 ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην
ὄρθριος ἐν πόλει,
ἐν δὲ πλατείαις
ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφρος.
Job_29:8 WEB The young men saw me
and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Job_29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men
stood up.
Job_29:8 ἰδόντες
με νεανίσκοι ἐκρύβησαν,
πρεσβῦται δὲ πάντες
ἔστησαν·
Job_29:9 WEB The princes
refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job_29:9 And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on
their mouth.
Job_29:9 ἁδροὶ
δὲ ἐπαύσαντο
λαλοῦντες δάκτυλον
ἐπιθέντες ἐπὶ
στόματι.
Job_29:10 WEB The voice of the
nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job_29:10 And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue stuck to
the roof of their mouth.
Job_29:10 οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες
ἐμακάρισάν με,
καὶ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν
τῷ λάρυγγι αὐτῶν
ἐκολλήθη·
Job_29:11 WEB For when the ear
heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
Job_29:11 For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me,
and turned aside.
Job_29:11 ὅτι οὖς
ἤκουσεν καὶ ἐμακάρισέν
με, ὀφθαλμὸς δὲ ἰδών
με ἐξέκλινεν.
Blessings, Trials, & Virtue
Job’s Blessings
God was with him, and then… physical blessing followed
He misses his children even though they weren’t worthy of him
Social recognition was part of the blessed prospering.
But then trials came…
Job’s Trials
God has a prerogative to make you feel evil.
God can make you blessed and you have seasons where you feel His light shining over your head, even when going through valleys, then he can make you go through trying seasons where you don’t feel His light.
God can put you to where your mind doesn’t feel saved.
Wife’s Notes:
Job_29:3 God has the prerogative to make you feel
like you are unrighteous and lost and like He's abandoned you.
God can put you through things to where
your mind doesn't feel saved, even though YOU ARE NOT supposed to actually be
doing sin.
Virtue First
Do Virtue, then Get Blessings
Give Virtue; Get Provision: Do virtue first, and then get whatever God wants to give you.
Unrighteous Profit is Steeling: If you get money without virtue, you are stealing from God, the poor, and the righteous.
Mal_3:8-9 – stealing from God
Pro_22:22 – stealing from Beggars
Whenever you decide when you get prospered, and what you “deserve” and are awarded with, then that is stealing from God, and inevitably, from the righteous/good people who these things were prepared for.
Wife’s Notes: Virtue First
Riches- if you get anything then it had
better be through virtue or else it was by the devil
You are sinning when you get stuff without
righteousness
If you get money without virtue then
you're stealing from God
Cuz God has made good things for good
people
When you decide what you are going to be
prospered with (i.e. without virtue) then that's stealing from God (and
inevitably from poor people)
Do virtue first. Then get whatever God wants to give
you.
This is the way the book of Job describes
him.
In Job 29, we see Virtue First…
Job describes the "good ol'
days" when God provided a head of protection around him
God was with him, and THEN physical
blessings followed.
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All this Prospering happened because…
Job_29: Job Was Generous
Preview:
Job Helped: the Poor, fatherless, widow, blind, lame, helpless / needy, stranger, exploited-prey
Job was well watered with freshness, a good bow, and social exaltation (as a chief & king), while comforting mourners.
Job_29:12 WEB Because I delivered
the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help
him,
Job_29:12 LB For I saved the poor [πτωχὸν] out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.
Job_29:12 διέσωσα
γὰρ πτωχὸν ἐκ
χειρὸς δυνάστου
καὶ ὀρφανῷ, ᾧ οὐκ
ἦν βοηθός, ἐβοήθησα·
Job_29:13 WEB the blessing of him
who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job_29:13 Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me;
indeed, the mouth of the widow
has blessed me.
Job_29:13 εὐλογία
ἀπολλυμένου ἐπ᾿
ἐμὲ ἔλθοι, στόμα
δὲ χήρας με εὐλόγησεν.
Job_29:14 WEB I put on righteousness,
and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job_29:14 Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment
like a mantle.
Job_29:14
δικαιοσύνην
δὲ ἐνεδεδύκειν,
ἠμφιασάμην δὲ
κρίμα ἴσα
διπλοίδι.
Job_29:15 WEB I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job_29:15 I was the eye of the blind,
and the foot of the lame.
Job_29:15 ὀφθαλμὸς
ἤμην τυφλῶν, ποὺς
δὲ χωλῶν.
Job_29:16 WEB I was a father to
the needy. The cause
of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
Job_29:16 I was the father of the helpless, and I searched out the cause
which I did not know.
Job_29:16 ἐγὼ ἤμην
πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων,
δίκην δέ, ἣν οὐκ
ᾔδειν, ἐξιχνίασα·
Job_29:17 WEB I broke the jaws of
the unrighteous, and plucked the prey
out of his teeth.
Job_29:17 And I broke the fangs of the wicked; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
Job_29:17 συνέτριψα
δὲ μύλας ἀδίκων,
ἐκ δὲ μέσου τῶν
ὀδόντων αὐτῶν ἅρπαγμα
ἐξέσπασα.
Job_29:18 WEB Then I said, 'I
shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
Job_29:18 And I said, ‘My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree;
I shall live a long while.’
Job_29:18 εἶπα δέ
Ἡ ἡλικία μου
γηράσει, ὥσπερ
στέλεχος φοίνικος
πολὺν χρόνον
βιώσω·
Job_29:19 WEB My root is
spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
Job_29:19 My root was spread out by the water, and the dew
would lodge on my crop.
Job_29:19 ἡ ῥίζα
μου διήνοικται
ἐπὶ ὕδατος, καὶ
δρόσος αὐλισθήσεται
ἐν τῷ θερισμῷ
μου·
Job_29:20 WEB My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my
hand.'
Job_29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow
prospered in my hand.
Job_29:20 ἡ δόξα
μου καινὴ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ,
καὶ τὸ τόξον
μου ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ
πορεύσεται.
Job_29:21 WEB "Men listened
to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
Job_29:21 Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my
counsel.
Job_29:21 ἐμοῦ ἀκούσαντες
προσέσχον, ἐσιώπησαν
δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ βουλῇ·
Job_29:22 WEB After my words they
didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.
Job_29:22 At my word they did not speak again, and they were very glad
whenever I spoke to them.
Job_29:22 ἐπὶ δὲ
τῷ ἐμῷ ῥήματι
οὐ προσέθεντο,
περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγίνοντο,
ὁπόταν αὐτοῖς ἐλάλουν·
Job_29:23 WEB They waited for me
as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
Job_29:23 As the thirsty earth expecting the rain,
so they waited for my speech.
Job_29:23 ὥσπερ
γῆ διψῶσα
προσδεχομένη
τὸν ὑετόν, οὕτως
οὗτοι τὴν ἐμὴν
λαλιάν.
Job_29:24 WEB I smiled on them when they
had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my
face.
Job_29:24 Were I to laugh at them, they
would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.
Job_29:24 ἐὰν
γελάσω πρὸς αὐτούς,
οὐ μὴ πιστεύσωσιν,
καὶ φῶς τοῦ
προσώπου μου οὐκ
ἀπέπιπτεν·
Job_29:25 WEB I chose out their
way, and sat as chief. I
lived as a king in the
army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Job_29:25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king
in the midst of warriors, as one
comforting mourners.
Job_29:25 ἐξελεξάμην
ὁδὸν αὐτῶν καὶ
ἐκάθισα ἄρχων
καὶ κατεσκήνουν
ὡσεὶ βασιλεὺς ἐν
μονοζώνοις ὃν
τρόπον
παθεινοὺς
παρακαλῶν.
When someone is sinned against, you need
their blessing!
Giving makes prospering righteous.
It can holy-ify your abundance.
Wife’s Notes: Virtue First
(Continued)
All this prospering happened because:
He delivered the poor
He confronted sin and stopped the pervert
from hurting others
He got a blessing from those ready to
perish
And caused the widow's heart to sing for
joy
(Btw, when someone is humbled YOU NEED THEIR
BLESSING. You need the blessing of those who have been sinned against)
Righteousness clothed him and justice was
a robe upon him
He was eyes to the blind and feet to the
lame
He searched out the cause of righteous
strangers (and the cause of that which wasn't intuitive, conventional, or
obviously perceivable to him. To do justice to a stranger you need to think in
a logically ethical way that benefits others)
Job disabled the unrighteous and saved
others from the teeth of cruelty
He smiled on/at the weak when they had no
confidence. Talk about faithfulness
He comforted the mourners
He blessed poor, marginalized, exploited
people
Giving makes prospering righteous.
It can holy-ify your abundance.
Job_31: Helped Victims & Hated Idolatry
Big Question: Did Job like silver?
Does Job’s example tell us we can like silver and don’t have to hate money,
or is it reinforcing hating money and not liking silver justlike the rest of
the Bible?
Does Job’s example pose a challenge to
money-hatred (by his prosperity) or does it encourage money-hatred by not
liking silver?
Preview:
Job Helped Poor/helpless, Widow, Fatherless/Orphan, Naked-Perishing… foreign-traveler (Job_31:32)
Job “curses” against his body’s health,
& prospering with thorns, if he has sinned against Fatherless,
Hoped-in/Rejoiced in increased money, kissed the sun or moon (which opposes
God), rejoiced at his enemy’s destruction, not filled his household people with
meat, not been hospitable to a traveler, hid his sin, was intimidated by
conventional injustice, sinned against land & it’s owners
Job_31:16 WEB "If I have
withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job_31:16 LB But the helpless did not miss whatever need they had, and I did not cause
the eye of the widow to
fail.
Job_31:16 ἀδύνατοι
δὲ χρείαν, ἥν
ποτ᾿ εἶχον, οὐκ ἀπέτυχον,
χήρας δὲ τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν
οὐκ ἐξέτηξα.
Job_31:17 WEB or have eaten my
morsel alone, and the fatherless
has not eaten of it
Job_31:17 And if I also ate my food alone, and did not impart of
it to the orphan;
Job_31:17 εἰ δὲ
καὶ τὸν ψωμόν
μου ἔφαγον μόνος
καὶ οὐχὶ ὀρφανῷ
μετέδωκα·
Job_31:18 WEB (no, from my youth
he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
Job_31:18 (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them
from my mother’s womb).
Job_31:18 ὅτι ἐκ
νεότητός μου ἐξέτρεφον
ὡς πατὴρ καὶ ἐκ
γαστρὸς μητρός
μου ὡδήγησα·
Job_31:19 WEB if I have seen any perish for want
of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Job_31:19 And if I too overlooked the naked as he was perishing,
and did not clothe him;
Job_31:19 εἰ δὲ
καὶ ὑπερεῖδον
γυμνὸν ἀπολλύμενον
καὶ οὐκ ἠμφίασα,
Job_31:20 WEB if his heart hasn't
blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
Job_31:20 and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not
warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
Job_31:20 ἀδύνατοι
δὲ εἰ μὴ εὐλόγησάν
με, ἀπὸ δὲ κουρᾶς
ἀμνῶν μου ἐθερμάνθησαν
οἱ ὦμοι αὐτῶν,
Job_31:21 WEB if I have lifted up
my hand against the fatherless,
because I saw my help in the gate,
Job_31:21 if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:
Job_31:21 εἰ ἐπῆρα
ὀρφανῷ χεῖρα
πεποιθὼς ὅτι
πολλή μοι βοήθεια
περίεστιν,
Job_31:22 WEB then let my shoulder
fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Job_31:22 then let my shoulder start from the blade bone, and my arm be
crushed off from the elbow.
Job_31:22 ἀποσταίη
ἄρα ὁ ὦμός μου ἀπὸ
τῆς κλειδός, ὁ δὲ
βραχίων μου ἀπὸ
τοῦ ἀγκῶνός
μου συντριβείη.
Job_31:23 WEB For calamity from
God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
Job_31:23 For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up
by reason of His burden.
Job_31:23 φόβος
γὰρ κυρίου συνέσχεν
με, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ
λήμματος αὐτοῦ
οὐχ ὑποίσω.
Job_31:24 WEB "If I have made
gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my
confidence;'
Job_31:24 If I made gold my treasure, and if I too trusted the precious stone;
Job_31:24 εἰ ἔταξα
χρυσίον ἰσχύν
μου, εἰ δὲ καὶ λίθῳ
πολυτελεῖ ἐπεποίθησα,
Job_31:25 WEB If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and
because my hand had gotten much;
Job_31:25 and if I also rejoiced
[εὐφράνθην] when my wealth was abundant, and if I laid my
hand on innumerable treasures
Job_31:25 εἰ δὲ
καὶ εὐφράνθην
πολλοῦ πλούτου
μοι γενομένου,
εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἀναριθμήτοις
ἐθέμην χεῖρά
μου,
Job_31:26 WEB if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
Job_31:26 (do we not see the shining sun
eclipsed, and the moon
waning? For they have not power to continue);
Job_31:26 ἦ οὐχ ὁρῶ
μὲν ἥλιον τὸν ἐπιφαύσκοντα
ἐκλείποντα,
σελήνην δὲ φθίνουσαν;
οὐ γὰρ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς
ἐστιν.
Job_31:27 WEB and my heart has
been secretly enticed, and my hand
threw a kiss from my mouth,
Job_31:27 and if my heart was secretly deceived
[ἠπατήθη λάθρᾳ], and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it
[ἐφίλησα]:
Job_31:27 καὶ εἰ ἠπατήθη
λάθρᾳ ἡ καρδία
μου, εἰ δὲ καὶ
χεῖρά μου ἐπιθεὶς
ἐπὶ στόματί
μου ἐφίλησα,
Job_31:28 WEB this also would be
an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
Job_31:28 let this also then be reckoned [λογισθείη] to me as the greatest iniquity [μοι ἄρα ἀνομία
ἡ μεγίστη]: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High [ἐψευσάμην ἐναντίον
κυρίου τοῦ ὑψίστου].
Job_31:28 καὶ τοῦτό
μοι ἄρα ἀνομία ἡ
μεγίστη
λογισθείη, ὅτι ἐψευσάμην
ἐναντίον κυρίου
τοῦ ὑψίστου.
Job_31:29 WEB "If I have rejoiced
at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
Job_31:29 And if I too was glad at the fall of my enemies, and my heart said, ‘Aha!’
Job_31:29 εἰ δὲ
καὶ ἐπιχαρὴς ἐγενόμην
πτώματι ἐχθρῶν
μου καὶ εἶπεν ἡ
καρδία μου Εὖγε,
Job_31:30 WEB (yes, I have not
allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Job_31:30 Then let my ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my
people in my affliction.
Job_31:30 ἀκούσαι
ἄρα τὸ οὖς μου τὴν
κατάραν μου,
θρυληθείην δὲ ἄρα
ὑπὸ λαοῦ μου
κακούμενος.
Job_31:31 WEB if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
Job_31:31 And if my handmaids have often said, ‘Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh’ (whereas I was very kind:
Job_31:31 εἰ δὲ
καὶ πολλάκις εἶπον
αἱ θεράπαιναί
μου Τίς ἂν δῴη ἡμῖν
τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτοῦ
πλησθῆναι; λίαν
μου χρηστοῦ ὄντος·
Job_31:32 WEB (the foreigner has not lodged in the
street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
Job_31:32 for the stranger
did not lodge without, and my door was opened to everyone that came);
Job_31:32 ἔξω δὲ
οὐκ ηὐλίζετο ξένος,
ἡ δὲ θύρα μου
παντὶ ἐλθόντι ἀνέῳκτο.
Job_31:33 WEB if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
Job_31:33 or if also having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin
Job_31:33 εἰ δὲ
καὶ ἁμαρτὼν ἀκουσίως
ἔκρυψα τὴν ἁμαρτίαν
μου,
Job_31:34 WEB because I feared the
great multitude, and the contempt of
families terrified me, so that I kept
silence, and didn't go out of the door--
Job_31:34 (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them); and if I also permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom—
Job_31:34 οὐ γὰρ
διετράπην
πολυοχλίαν πλήθους
τοῦ μὴ ἐξαγορεῦσαι
ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν,
εἰ δὲ καὶ εἴασα
ἀδύνατον ἐξελθεῖν
θύραν μου κόλπῳ
κενῷ,
Disciple Notes:
When you are “of a good mind” with money,
in Greek this means you are “being happy with it” and using it to make you
happy.
Job_31:25 he was not enjoying the wealth his hands
got. He was circumstantially rich and he did not make himself happy because of
it
Putting the hand on the money and being
made happy with it are both grounds to be cursed.
If you secretly are enticed/deceived by
money, you are denying God.
…
Job_31: Let Any “Land-Crying” Curse with Briars
Job_31:38 WEB If my land cries out against me, and its
furrows weep together;
Job_31:38 LB If at any time the land groaned against me, and if
its furrows mourned together;
Job_31:38 εἰ ἐπ᾿
ἐμοί ποτε ἡ γῆ ἐστέναξεν,
εἰ δὲ καὶ οἱ αὔλακες
αὐτῆς ἔκλαυσαν
ὁμοθυμαδόν,
Job_31:39 WEB if I have eaten its
fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Job_31:39 and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking from him,
Job_31:39 εἰ δὲ
καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῆς
ἔφαγον μόνος ἄνευ
τιμῆς, εἰ δὲ καὶ
ψυχὴν κυρίου τῆς
γῆς ἐκβαλὼν ἐλύπησα,
Job_31:40 WEB let briars grow instead of wheat, and
stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Job_31:40 then let the thistles
come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley.” And Job
ceased speaking.
Job_31:40 ἀντὶ
πυροῦ ἄρα ἐξέλθοι
μοι κνίδη, ἀντὶ
δὲ κριθῆς βάτος.
Καὶ ἐπαύσατο
Ιωβ ῥήμασιν.
“Thorns” Means…
i.e. treat him like man/Adam, who fell
into sin, and Cain who was cursed.
God’s Judgment on Fallen Man
Gen_3:17-18 NKJV "Then to Adam He said, 'Because you have heeded
the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you,
saying, "You shall not eat of it": Cursed is the ground for your
sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and
thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the
field.'"
God’s Judgment on Cain
Gen_4:11-12 NKJV "'So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.'"
God’s Judgment on Israel
Isa_5:6 NKJV "I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it."
God’s Judgment on Apostate Church
People
Heb_6:8 NKJV "But if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned."
Job 32 – 37: Elihu’s Speeches
Name: Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram
-- Under Construction --
Job_36: Elihu’s False Accusations?
Elihu is the most mystifying character in the book of Job.
Elihu is never confronted or praised for what he says.
To further complicate the mystery, there are significant textual variations about his words between the MT & LXX.
Job_32:2 – wrath of Elihu aroused against Job
Job_33:8-9 – criticizes Job claiming innocence -- as saying ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.’
Job_34:5-6 NKJV "For Job has said…I am righteous…I am without transgression
This MT accusation is
riddled with LXX variations:
Job_34:36 WEB I wish that Job were
tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Job_34:36 LB How is it that you learn, Job: no longer
giving answers as the foolish:
Job_34:36 οὐ μὴν
δὲ ἀλλὰ μάθε,
Ιωβ, μὴ δῷς ἔτι ἀνταπόκρισιν
ὥσπερ οἱ ἄφρονες,
Job_34:37 WEB For he adds
rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words
against God."
Job_34:37 that we add not to our sins: for iniquity will be reckoned
against us, if we speak many words before the Lord.”
Job_34:37 ἵνα μὴ
προσθῶμεν ἐφ᾿ ἁμαρτίαις
ἡμῶν, ἀνομία δὲ
ἐφ᾿ ἡμῖν
λογισθήσεται
πολλὰ λαλούντων
ῥήματα ἐναντίον
τοῦ κυρίου.
Elihu: Job Has Vain Words
Job_35:16 WEB Therefore Job opens
his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
Job_35:16 LB Yet Job vainly opens
his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.”
Job_35:16 καὶ
Ιωβ ματαίως ἀνοίγει
τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ,
ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ ῥήματα
βαρύνει.
Job_36:17 WEB "But you are
full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
Job_36:17 LB there is a deep gulf and a rushing stream
beneath it, and your table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not
fail from the righteous,
Job_36:17 οὐχ ὑστερήσει
δὲ ἀπὸ δικαίων
κρίμα,
Job_36:18 WEB Don't let riches
entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you
aside.
Job_36:18 but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the
ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.
Job_36:18 θυμὸς
δὲ ἐπ᾿ ἀσεβεῖς
ἔσται δι᾿ ἀσέβειαν
δώρων, ὧν ἐδέχοντο
ἐπ᾿ ἀδικίαις.
Job_36:19 WEB Would your wealth
sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
Job_36:19 Let not your mind willingly turn you aside from the petition
of the feeble that are in distress.
Job_36:19 μή σε ἐκκλινάτω
ἑκὼν ὁ νοῦς δεήσεως
ἐν ἀνάγκῃ ὄντων
ἀδυνάτων, καὶ πάντας
τοὺς κραταιοῦντας
ἰσχύν.
Job_36:20 WEB Don't desire the
night, when people are cut off in their place.
Job_36:20 And draw not forth all the mighty men by night, so that the people
should go up instead of them.
Job_36:20 μὴ ἐξελκύσῃς
τὴν νύκτα τοῦ ἀναβῆναι
λαοὺς ἀντ᾿ αὐτῶν·
Job_36:21 WEB Take heed, don't
regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Job_36:21 But take heed, lest you do that which is wrong: for of this
you have chosen rather than poverty.
Job_36:21 ἀλλὰ φύλαξαι
μὴ πράξῃς ἄτοπα·
ἐπὶ τοῦτον γὰρ ἐξείλω
ἀπὸ πτωχείας.
Despite MT & LXX variations, in both texts it appears that Elihu is suggesting that Job has done wrong, at least somewhat like his other 3 friends.
Neh_6:8 – Nehemiah you made this up from your own heart
Neh_6:8 WEB Then I sent to him,
saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of
your own heart.
Neh_6:8 LB And I sent to him, saying, “It has not
happened according to these words, even as you say, for you frame them falsely
out of your own heart.”
Neh_6:8 καὶ ἀπέστειλα
πρὸς αὐτὸν λέγων
Οὐκ ἐγενήθη ὡς
οἱ λόγοι οὗτοι,
οὓς σὺ λέγεις, ὅτι
ἀπὸ καρδίας
σου σὺ ψεύδῃ αὐτούς.
The book of Job teaches us through Elihu’s
example of false accusation, that
you're not allowed to assume, pretend, and make up bad motives of liking money
just because someone might be circumstantially rich, with abundance associated
under their name, especially when they actually like giving away their money
and don't rejoice when their riches increase.
Job_42: Job’s Repentance & Vindication
Job's Confession and Repentance
Job_42:1 WEB Then Job answered
Yahweh,
Job_42:1 LB Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
Job_42:1 Ὑπολαβὼν
δὲ Ιωβ λέγει τῷ
κυρίῳ
Job_42:2 WEB "I know that you
can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
Job_42:2 “I know that You can do all things, and nothing is impossible
with You.
Job_42:2 Οἶδα ὅτι
πάντα δύνασαι, ἀδυνατεῖ
δέ σοι οὐθέν.
Job_42:3 WEB You asked, 'Who is this
who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did
not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
Job_42:3 For who is he that hides counsel from You? Or who keeps back
his words, and thinks to hide them from You? And who will tell me what I did
not know, great and wonderful things which I did not understand?
Job_42:3 τίς γάρ
ἐστιν ὁ κρύπτων
σε βουλήν; φειδόμενος
δὲ ῥημάτων καὶ
σὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν;
τίς δὲ ἀναγγελεῖ
μοι ἃ οὐκ ᾔδειν,
μεγάλα καὶ
θαυμαστὰ ἃ οὐκ ἠπιστάμην;
Job_42:4 WEB You said, 'Listen,
now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'
Job_42:4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask You,
and You shall teach me.
Job_42:4 ἄκουσον
δέ μου, κύριε, ἵνα
κἀγὼ λαλήσω· ἐρωτήσω
δέ σε, σὺ δέ με δίδαξον.
Job_42:5 WEB I had heard of you
by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Job_42:5 I have heard the report of You by the ear before; but now my
eye has seen You.
Job_42:5 ἀκοὴν
μὲν ὠτὸς ἤκουόν
σου τὸ πρότερον,
νυνὶ δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός
μου ἑόρακέν σε·
Job_42:6 WEB Therefore I abhor
myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
Job_42:6 Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I
esteem myself dust and ashes.”
Job_42:6 διὸ ἐφαύλισα
ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ἐτάκην,
ἥγημαι δὲ ἐμαυτὸν
γῆν καὶ σποδόν.
Job 42: Job's Friends Rebuked
Job_42:7 WEB It was so, that
after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the
Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for
you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job_42:7 And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words
to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “You have sinned, and your
two friends, for you have not said anything true before Me, as My servant Job
has.
Job_42:7 Ἐγένετο
δὲ μετὰ τὸ λαλῆσαι
τὸν κύριον πάντα
τὰ ῥήμα τα ταῦτα
τῷ Ιωβ εἶπεν ὁ κύριος
Ελιφας τῷ
Θαιμανίτῃ Ἥμαρτες
σὺ καὶ οἱ δύο φίλοι
σου· οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε
ἐνώπιόν μου ἀληθὲς
οὐδὲν ὥσπερ ὁ
θεράπων μου
Ιωβ.
Job_42:8 WEB Now therefore, take
to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer
up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for
I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you
have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Job_42:8 Now then take seven bulls, and seven rams, and go to My servant
Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And My servant Job shall pray
for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed
you, for you have not spoken the truth against My servant Job.”
Job_42:8 νῦν δὲ
λάβετε ἑπτὰ μόσχους
καὶ ἑπτὰ κριοὺς
καὶ πορεύθητε
πρὸς τὸν θεράποντά
μου Ιωβ, καὶ ποιήσει
κάρπωσιν περὶ ὑμῶν·
Ιωβ δὲ ὁ θεράπων
μου εὔξεται
περὶ ὑμῶν, ὅτι
εἰ μὴ πρόσωπον
αὐτοῦ λήμψομαι·
εἰ μὴ γὰρ δι᾿ αὐτόν,
ἀπώλεσα ἂν ὑμᾶς·
οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε
ἀληθὲς κατὰ τοῦ
θεράποντός
μου Ιωβ. --
Job_42:9 WEB So Eliphaz the
Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what
Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
Job_42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and He pardoned their sin for
the sake of Job.
Job_42:9 ἐπορεύθη
δὲ Ελιφας ὁ
Θαιμανίτης καὶ
Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχίτης
καὶ Σωφαρ ὁ
Μιναῖος καὶ ἐποίησαν
καθὼς συνέταξεν
αὐτοῖς ὁ κύριος,
καὶ ἔλυσεν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν
αὐτοῖς διὰ Ιωβ.
Job_42: Job
Gets Back Double -- Latter
Prosperity
Preview:
Job was re-prospered with: brothers, sisters, food, comfort, money-gold, 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 oxen, 1,000 donkeys, 7 sons, & 3 most beautiful daughters.
Job_42:11 WEB Then came there to
him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had
been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his
house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that
Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and
everyone a ring of gold.
Job_42:11 LB And all his brothers
and sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him,
and so did all that had known him from the first; and they ate and drank with him, and comforted
him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave
him a lamb, and four drachmas of gold, even of unstamped gold.
Job_42:11 ἤκουσαν
δὲ πάντες οἱ ἀδελφοὶ
αὐτοῦ καὶ αἱ ἀδελφαὶ
αὐτοῦ πάντα τὰ
συμβεβηκότα αὐτῷ
καὶ ἦλθον πρὸς
αὐτὸν καὶ πάντες
ὅσοι ᾔδεισαν αὐτὸν
ἐκ πρώτου· φαγόντες
δὲ καὶ πιόντες
παρ᾿ αὐτῷ
παρεκάλεσαν αὐτόν,
καὶ ἐθαύμασαν ἐπὶ
πᾶσιν, οἷς ἐπήγαγεν
αὐτῷ ὁ κύριος· ἔδωκεν
δὲ αὐτῷ ἕκαστος
ἀμνάδα μίαν καὶ
τετράδραχμον
χρυ σοῦν ἄσημον.
Job_42:12 WEB So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Job_42:12 And the Lord blessed the
latter end of Job more than the beginning: and his livestock
consisted of fourteen thousand sheep,
six thousand camels, one thousand
yoke of oxen, and one thousand
female donkeys of the
pastures.
Job_42:12 ὁ δὲ κύριος
εὐλόγησεν τὰ ἔσχατα
Ιωβ ἢ τὰ ἔμπροσθεν·
ἦν δὲ τὰ κτήνη
αὐτοῦ πρόβατα
μύρια
τετρακισχίλια,
κάμηλοι ἑξακισχίλιαι,
ζεύγη βοῶν χίλια,
ὄνοι θήλειαι
νομάδες χίλιαι.
Job_42:13 WEB He had also seven
sons and three daughters.
Job_42:13 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job_42:13 γεννῶνται
δὲ αὐτῷ υἱοὶ ἑπτὰ
καὶ θυγατέρες
τρεῖς·
Job_42:14 WEB He called the name of
the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the
third, Keren Happuch.
Job_42:14 And he called the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the
third was Keren-Happuch.
Job_42:14 καὶ ἐκάλεσεν
τὴν μὲν πρώτην Ἡμέραν,
τὴν δὲ δευτέραν
Κασίαν, τὴν δὲ
τρίτην Ἀμαλθείας
κέρας·
Job_42:15 WEB In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job.
Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
Job_42:15 And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of
Job, fairer women
[βελτίους αὐτῶν] than they in all the world [ὑπ᾿ οὐρανόν]: and their father gave them an inheritance among their
brothers.
Job_42:15 καὶ οὐχ
εὑρέθησαν κατὰ
τὰς θυγατέρας
Ιωβ βελτίους αὐτῶν
ἐν τῇ ὑπ᾿ οὐρανόν·
ἔδωκεν δὲ αὐταῖς
ὁ πατὴρ
κληρονομίαν ἐν
τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς.
Job was finally restored even more than he
had before, and how do you think he used it for the rest of his life?
Be Rich Like Job?
People Ask: Why can’t I be “rich” like Job then in
the New Covenant? – This question and line of thinking is actually a
fundamental mischaracterization of the way Job was “rich” (in most every case)…
Answer: You could be rich like Job, if indeed
you hated money like him, practiced extreme self-denial, didn’t “make yourself
happy with it”, and gave money away even more now that the New Covenant is
here.
Tragically people want the circumstantial
“riches” of Job but not the virtuous character that got him blessed with them
in the first place.
So get it straight: Virtue First, then Blessing – and hate money, luxury, and indulgence all the way, to save your soul!
Righteousness = Wealth?
Is it a Biblical principle that you can be righteous and get a lot of stuff?
Yes, but not like the prosperity gospel
says.
Bible ≠ the Prosperity Gospel
In the Bible you are not allowed to
indulge in luxury like prosperity preachers heretically teach.
Provision ≠ Personal Wealth
Accumulation
Provision is NOT keeping personal riches
(wealth accumulation) in the New Covenant.
The Point: You should NOT want to be "rich
like Job", when Job was not rich like you want to be.
Job was Generous
Be Generous
· When thinking about Job's riches we need to make sure to not forget his generosity.
·
Job did not
rejoice in his riches but in the pleasure and privilege of clothing the poor
crouching beggars!
·
Situation vs Virtue: Job was circumstantially rich, but what
is more important and foundational, and universally required from us is to be generous much like Job gave his
prosperity away.
·
Remember that people confuse supernatural provision with personal wealth when prosperity preachers
wage war against the Scriptures.
· There are NO promises to enjoy personal riches in the Bible, but there are countless universal Biblical requirements to be generous.
The Point: Be generous like Job, not money-liking
like prosperity preachers, and let God decide how much to prosper your labor
along the way.
Imitate What?
· Imitate Faith: It is required for us to imitate Job’s faith and his deeds, not his fortune.
· Promotion: If God exalts us, then that is God's business.
· Our job is Job's Example: Our job is to focus on imitating Job's example of righteousness not his privileges of exaltation.
Imitation Reminders
Heb_6:12 – Imitate Those who through faith inherit promises
Heb_6:12 NKJV that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Heb_13:7 – Imitate their faith
1Co_4:16 NKJV Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
1Co_11:1 NKJV Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
Php_3:17 NKJV Brethren, join in following my example, and note
those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.
1Th_1:6 NKJV And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having
received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit.
1Th_2:14 NKJV For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches
of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus.
Job Was NOT Indulgent!
Job's Wife was Thinking Wrong!
Job's wife was definitely thinking
terribly wrong!
A Slave of Entitlement
Sin
She was starting at a point of pride and
entitlement, which had already contributed to her children being executed and destroyed,
and even after judgment fell on them she was still thinking wrong and making
the situation worse by not doing work on her end to lead her tragedy into
logical conclusions of repentance and correction and logical virtue, to
exchange her pitiful character flaws to become more like Job was.
She was in a state of desperate need after
such painful loss, and yet because she was enslaved to thinking wrong she was
pushing against the very voice of reason and peace that spoke righteousness to
her ears.
Entitlement Thinking =
Unsaved Sinning
Entitlement
Thinking Hurts the Righteous & Pushes you From Salvation
She spoke folly to wound Job even deeper
in his already unbearable trial, and she was forfeiting her own Deliverance and
salvation by disqualifying herself from being rewarded for endurance like Job.
Thinking wrong means you're going to
wound, and potentially deeply depress, those who are much rather worthy of your
admiration, imitation, and praise.
Heb_6:12 – imitate those who threw Faith inherit promises
Heb_13:7 – imitate Bible teachers
As long as you're failing to engage
someone's true identity, and the reality about the universe, including who God
really is, as well as Who He is expressing Himself to be through righteous people,
you’re not running in such a way as to win. (1Co_9:24)
↑
1Co_9:24 CAB Do you not know that those running in a
stadium all run, but one receives the prize? So run, in order that you may win.
1Co_9:24 Οὐκ οἴδατε
ὅτι οἱ ἐν
σταδίῳ
τρέχοντες
πάντες μὲν
τρέχουσιν, εἷς
δὲ λαμβάνει
τὸ βραβεῖον;
οὕτω τρέχετε, ἵνα
καταλάβητε.
Repenting of Pseudo
Identities
Repent and escape from moral integrity
failures of thinking wrong against the Truth and the righteousness that has
been assigned to you, (which was given to you to embrace and be saved by).
Change Your Thinking!
Stop thinking wrong, being lazy in your
thinking, and forfeiting your own salvation!
Instead do more work on your end to think
right and give over the moral requirements of integrity, virtue, righteousness
to those targets of God's identity, who represent logic and righteous virtue
unto you.
Do more work on your own end to lead your
life into thinking right with a logical submission and arrangement that agrees
with the hand that seeks to save you and feed you with eternal life.
The Catastrophe of Job's Wife And Children
Job's wife was thorny, and even satanic.
Job said:
Job_2:10 – You Are Speaking As One Of The Foolish Women
Job_2:10 WEB But he said to her,
"You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive
good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job
didn't sin with his lips.
Job_2:10 LB But he looked at her, and said to her, “You
have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of
the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things?” In all these things
that happened to him, Job did not sin with his lips before God.
Job_2:10 ὁ δὲ ἐμβλέψας
εἶπεν αὐτῇ Ὥσπερ
μία τῶν ἀφρόνων
γυναικῶν ἐλάλησας·
εἰ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐδεξάμεθα
ἐκ χειρὸς κυρίου,
τὰ κακὰ οὐχ ὑποίσομεν;
ἐν πᾶσιν τούτοις
τοῖς συμβεβηκόσιν
αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν
Ιωβ τοῖς χείλεσιν
ἐναντίον τοῦ
θεοῦ.
and this is comparable to Jesus saying:
Mat_16:23 – Get Behind Me Satan
Mat_16:23 CAB But He turned and said to Peter, "Get
behind Me, Satan! [ὕπαγε ὀπίσω
μου, Σατανᾶ] You are a stumbling block unto Me [σκάνδαλόν TSBμου εἶ |Aεμου|], because
[ὅτι] you are not mindful of the things of God [οὐ φρονεῖς
τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ], but the things of men [ἀλλὰ τὰ τῶν
ἀνθρώπων]."
Mat_16:23 ὁ δὲ
στραφεὶς εἶπε
τῷ Πέτρῳ· ὕπαγε
ὀπίσω μου,
Σατανᾶ·
σκάνδαλόν TSBμου εἶ |Aεμου|· ὅτι οὐ
φρονεῖς τὰ
τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ
τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
Mat_16:23 ο δε
στραφεις ειπεν
τω πετρω υπαγε
οπισω μου
σατανα
σκανδαλον TSBμου ει Aεμου
οτι ου φρονεις
τα του θεου
αλλα τα των
ανθρωπων
The moral failures of Job's wife
correlated with and contributed to the execution of her unworthy children, and
in adding insult to injury, she outsources accountability and responsibility
for her sinfulness against Job, the one who was counteracting her moral
catastrophe.
Notice that thinking wrong avoids justice,
repentance, moral transformation, thankfulness, admiration, faith
Instead of thankfully acknowledging the
counter-cultural, counterintuitive, outstanding virtuous solution to your
problems, wrong thinking often blasphemes the very Justice it owes toward
repentance that brings salvation, resolution, and peace, as if divine
inspiration caused the problems of your own moral failures.
So what's the answer?
how can we escape from being like Job's
wife?
what is the antidote to her sinful
disease?
Rth_1:16 – Naomi is discouraged but Ruth encourages her with loyal
faithful unshakable dedication
Rth_1:15 And Naomi said to Ruth, “Behold, your sister-in-law has
returned to her people and to her gods; turn now also after your
sister-in-law.”
Rth_1:15 καὶ εἶπεν
Νωεμιν πρὸς
Ρουθ Ἰδοὺ ἀνέστρεψεν
ἡ σύννυμφός
σου πρὸς λαὸν αὐτῆς
καὶ πρὸς τοὺς
θεοὺς αὐτῆς· ἐπιστράφητι
δὴ καὶ σὺ ὀπίσω
τῆς συννύμφου
σου.
Rth_1:16 WEB Ruth said,
"Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you,
for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people
shall be my people, and your God my God;
Rth_1:16 And Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to return from
following you; for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will
lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
Rth_1:16 εἶπεν
δὲ Ρουθ Μὴ ἀπαντήσαι
ἐμοὶ τοῦ
καταλιπεῖν σε ἢ
ἀποστρέψαι ὄπισθέν
σου· ὅτι σὺ ὅπου
ἐὰν πορευθῇς,
πορεύσομαι, καὶ
οὗ ἐὰν αὐλισθῇς,
αὐλισθήσομαι·
ὁ λαός σου λαός
μου, καὶ ὁ θεός
σου θεός μου·
Rth_1:17 WEB where you die, will
I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if
anything but death part you and me."
Rth_1:17 And wherever you die, I will die, and there will I be buried:
the Lord do so to me, and more also, if I leave you, for death only shall
divide between me and you.”
Rth_1:17 καὶ οὗ ἐὰν
ἀποθάνῃς, ἀποθανοῦμαι
κἀκεῖ ταφήσομαι·
τάδε ποιήσαι
μοι κύριος καὶ
τάδε προσθείη, ὅτι
θάνατος
διαστελεῖ ἀνὰ
μέσον ἐμοῦ καὶ
σοῦ.
Rth_1:18 WEB When she saw that
she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
Rth_1:18 And Naomi, seeing that she was determined to go with her,
ceased to speak to her anymore.
Rth_1:18 ἰδοῦσα
δὲ Νωεμιν ὅτι
κραταιοῦται αὐτὴ
τοῦ πορεύεσθαι
μετ᾿ αὐτῆς, ἐκόπασεν
τοῦ λαλῆσαι πρὸς
αὐτὴν ἔτι.
The Point: stop being like Job's wife who avoided
virtuous thinking, but be like Ruth who encouraged Naomi with clean Justice
instead.
Relationships Hurt by Thinking Wrong
See: Thinking Wrong -- it hurts relationships!
Job's Children Affected by His Wife?
Parent’s Holiness for Children
One believing parent can make their
children holy (1Co_7:14), but it may not always be so when they grow up.
Mothers Affect Children in Polygamous
Families
With polygamy in the Bible, oftentimes the mom of different sets of children
determines their different variations and qualities of virtue or lack of
virtue.
A Thorny Wife & Executed Children
It looks like Job's children
acquired their lack of righteousness in a way which was perfectly consistent
with their virtue-lacking mom, who was also left alive as a thorn to further hurt Job in
his trials.
GEP: Examples of Motherly Influence
Example illustrations of mothers who
defined their children more than their righteous fathers:
Abraham: Sarah (Isaac) vs. Hagar (Ishmael)
Elkanah: Hannah (Samuel) vs. Peninnah (Forgotten)
GPT Summaries:
Jacob's Wives and Children: Jacob had
children with Leah, Rachel, and their maidservants, Bilhah and Zilpah. The
rivalry between Leah and Rachel led to significant family tensions. Leah's
sons, such as Levi and Simeon, displayed violent tendencies (Genesis_34:25-30), while Rachel's son Joseph was virtuous
and favored by Jacob (Genesis_37:3-4). This favoritism caused jealousy among
the siblings.
...
David’s Wives: David’s multiple wives bore
children with varying virtues. For example, Bathsheba’s son Solomon was known
for wisdom (1 Kings_3:5-12), while other sons like Amnon and Absalom displayed moral
failings (2 Samuel 13; 15).
Careless Consumptiveness Kills
The careless consumptiveness of Job's
children got them executed...
They consumed without concern
They were not zealous and faithful to
maintain a sensitive, perceptive, and insightful monitoring of their
consumption with a fine-tuned, protective, restraining, detailed filter, to
hold back the hazards of indulging in nice and finer things "too
much", beyond what was actually needed for valuable nourishment.
Pro_30:8-9 – Don’t make me Rich lest I deny you
Pro_30:8 WEB Remove far
from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with
the food that is needful for me;
Pro_30:8 LB Remove vanity and
falsehood far from me, and give me neither wealth nor poverty, but appoint to
me what is needful and sufficient:
Pro_30:8 μάταιον
λόγον καὶ ψευδῆ
μακράν μου ποίησον,
πλοῦτον δὲ καὶ
πενίαν μή μοι δῷς,
σύνταξον δέ
μοι τὰ δέοντα
καὶ τὰ αὐτάρκη,
Pro_30:9 WEB lest I be
full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so
dishonor the name of my God.
Pro_30:9 lest I be filled and become false, and say, “Who sees
me?” Or be poor [πενηθεὶς] and steal, and swear vainly by the
name of God.
Pro_30:9 ἵνα μὴ
πλησθεὶς ψευδὴς
γένωμαι καὶ εἴπω
Τίς με ὁρᾷ; ἢ
πενηθεὶς κλέψω
καὶ ὀμόσω τὸ ὄνομα
τοῦ θεοῦ.
They did not regard the need for satisfying
God with atoning sacrifices to make up for the errors.
They did not fear the danger and hazard of
consuming too much without reverence.
The Point: Job was not consumptive like his
children; we need to escape from being indulgent like the world!
>>> Lessons from Job’s Indulgent Children – to Consider
Remember: Righteous Prospering
· Job Was Righteous
· Job had a lot of Stuff
Disciple Notes:
…
Job was worried about his children, and was offering sacrifices for them because he was concerned lest they would sin. They were enjoying Job’s wealth for themselves.
Sir_3:30 – Alms rescue in the day of adversity.
Job’s children were not spared while they were partying
Job was circumstantially rich, but he was rich towards God.
He is helping us to hate money. Not to enjoy it for himself but to give towards other people.
There is no example of Job being rich towards himself in the story of Job
How does a rich person go to heaven? By giving it away
…
Loveless-ness in Job's
Children
· They didn't share Job's heart which Loved God
· They didn't follow Job's example
· They didn't follow in Job's footsteps
· Job was not a part of their parties and celebrations
· They celebrated with sin which prompted Job to intercede for them
· They continued doing sin which bereaved Job of his children - they didn't do anything to stop Job from having his kids killed, and this is not loving at all
The Urgency of Job’s Sacrifices
At any time Job's children could
have said something against God and died before Job could make a satisfying
sacrifice for them the next morning.
The Contrast Between Job and His
Children
Job's children could have said
something against God, and therefore they died; Job did not say a word against
God and die.
Feasting in Their Father’s Abundance
Job’s children were enjoying his abundance by eating, drinking, and celebrating.
A Habitual Celebration of Indulgence
They made a sitting-drinking * event to eat and drink (* Hebrew & Greek).
They gathered on each of their “day”, but these celebrations added up to multiple days (plural).
Job’s Skepticism Toward Their Feasting
Job was not optimistic about the quality of their celebration and proceeded to,
somewhat externally, forcefully make them holy externally after they had
celebrated.
The Danger of Sin in Indulgence
Job anticipated that their participation in making themselves happy with his
abundance was very likely going to result in the danger of sin that could get
them destroyed.
Excluded from Their Worldly
Festivities
Notice that Job, their father himself was not invited explicitly to the
celebrations, and apparently, he would have spoiled the party and not been as
fun with their worldly indulgence in using the things of this life to make
themselves happy without virtue.
Job’s Burden of Providing
Righteousness
Therefore, after the fact, Job had to supply their righteousness which they
lacked in their celebrations and usage of his abundance.
External Holiness for Hard-Hearted
People
Consider the sobriety of Job needing to make his children holy after they had
celebrated and how this correlates with the external holiness of the law of
Moses to hard-hearted people who don't have virtue in themselves to
autonomously take care of their own need for reverence and correcting their own
foolish indulgence.
No Expectation of Repentance
There's no anticipation that Job's children would have figured out how to
repent or get holy on their own.
Job: The “Dancing and Food Police”
He might have been the dancing and food police -- like some righteous people
could be labeled today.
Individual Offerings for Each Guilty
Child
He offered an offering for each one of them, which indicates that not a single
one of them had freedom from risk, and each one of them needed satisfaction to
be made against their own default state of rejoicing, eating, and celebrating.
Job’s Ongoing Concern for Their
Recklessness
Job anticipated that they might have sinned, and he kept doing it continually
because the evidence of their risky indulgence never stopped.
Their Character Never Matured
Job continued to be concerned for the indulgence of his children when they were
making themselves happy with all the abundance of good things and nice things
and food.
Nothing in their character grew up to enough moral maturity to relieve their father of constant maintenance of their unsaved, imperfect-ed lifestyle and heart posture -- it's no wonder that when judgment came, they were not spared!
Job’s Urgent Sacrifices to Prevent
Judgment
Job got up early in the morning to take care of business as early as possible
lest calamity come upon his children and judgment give them what they deserved
before he got a chance to save their lives, because, after all, they weren't
about to get up and pray sufficiently themselves, on their own, and on their
own initiative, even though they were old enough to live in different houses
and invite other people over to eat and drink with them.
Reminder Quotes of Job’s Virtue vs. His
Children’s Indulgence
Kid’s Luxury: Remember the Indulgence
of Job’s Children
Job_1:4 WEB His sons went and
held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called
for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job_1:4 And his sons, visiting one another, prepared a banquet every
day, taking with them also their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Job_1:4
συμπορευόμενοι
δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ
πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐποιοῦσαν
πότον καθ᾿ ἑκάστην
ἡμέραν
συμπαραλαμβάνοντες
ἅμα καὶ τὰς τρεῖς
ἀδελφὰς αὐτῶν ἐσθίειν
καὶ πίνειν μετ᾿
αὐτῶν.
Job_1:5 WEB It was so, when the
days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them,
and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and
renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.
Job_1:5 And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and
purified them, having risen up in the morning, and offered sacrifices for them,
according to their number, and one calf for a sin offering for their souls; for
Job said, “Lest perhaps my sons have thought evil, and cursed God in their
minds.” Thus, then Job did continually.
Job_1:5 καὶ ὡς ἂν
συνετελέσθησαν
αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ πότου,
ἀπέστελλεν
Ιωβ καὶ ἐκαθάριζεν
αὐτοὺς ἀνιστάμενος
τὸ πρωὶ καὶ
προσέφερεν
περὶ αὐτῶν θυσίας
κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν
αὐτῶν καὶ μόσχον
ἕνα περὶ ἁμαρτίας
περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν
αὐτῶν· ἔλεγεν
γὰρ Ιωβ Μήποτε
οἱ υἱοί μου ἐν
τῇ διανοίᾳ αὐτῶν
κα κὰ ἐνενόησαν
πρὸς θεόν. οὕτως
οὖν ἐποίει Ιωβ
πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.
Remember Job’s Virtue
Job_31:25 WEB If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and
because my hand had gotten much;
Job_31:25 and if I also rejoiced
[εὐφράνθην] when my wealth was abundant, and if I laid my
hand on innumerable treasures
Job_31:25 εἰ δὲ
καὶ εὐφράνθην
πολλοῦ πλούτου
μοι γενομένου,
εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἀναριθμήτοις
ἐθέμην χεῖρά
μου,
Job_31:27 WEB and my heart has
been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
Job_31:27 and if my heart was secretly deceived [ἠπατήθη λάθρᾳ], and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it
[ἐφίλησα]:
Job_31:27 καὶ εἰ ἠπατήθη
λάθρᾳ ἡ καρδία
μου, εἰ δὲ καὶ
χεῖρά μου ἐπιθεὶς
ἐπὶ στόματί
μου ἐφίλησα,
Job’s curse upon himself was if he had sinned in these ways.
Job wished a curse upon himself if he had liked money.
We should notice Job’s exact opposite posture toward money and abundance that made him incompatible with their feasting and made him justified when he was being plagued!
Job’s “Kingdom 1st” Strategy
When you're focused on the pragmatics of
this life, like the needs for success and the necessity of increasing money you
should much more rather remember your more pressing need to redeem this life
and convert its success and riches into eternal wealth, riches, and success
where you achieve the very purpose for life by inheriting eternal life and
achieve the very purpose for nice things in this world by converting them into
eternal riches into the next world.
Job vs. Children
Job’s Virtue vs. His Children’s
Desolation
Remember: Zophar Blasphemes Job of Sinful Indulgence.
Zophar Blasphemes Job as if he was Sinful like his children.
But almost nothing could be furthest from the Truth!
They indulged (Job_1:4), but Job Offered Sacrifices (Job_1:5).
They indulged and made themselves happy with Riches (Job_1:4-5), but Job did NOT rejoice when his money was increased (Job_31:25)!
Job noticed, and made up for, the absent-mindedness of foolish selfish and potentially prideful indulgence and reckless sinful defilement of his children.
Job_1:4 – Job’s children celebrated their birthdays
Job_3:1-26, etc. – Job cursed the day he was born
Job_1:4
WEB His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his
birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job_1:4 And
his sons, visiting one another, prepared a banquet
every [each] day, taking with them also their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Job_1:4
συμπορευόμενοι
δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ
πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐποιοῦσαν
πότον καθ᾿ ἑκάστην
ἡμέραν
συμπαραλαμβάνοντες
ἅμα καὶ τὰς τρεῖς
ἀδελφὰς αὐτῶν ἐσθίειν
καὶ πίνειν μετ᾿
αὐτῶν.
…[Job Laments His Birth; Job Deplores His Birth]
Job_3:1
WEB After this Job opened his mouth, and
cursed the day of his birth.
Job_3:1 LB After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the
day of his birth,
Job_3:1 Μετὰ τοῦτο
ἤνοιξεν Ιωβ τὸ
στόμα αὐτοῦ
Job_3:2 καὶ
κατηράσατο τὴν
ἡμέραν
αὐτοῦ λέγων
Job_1:4 – Job’s children invited each other to eat
Job_31:17 – Job invited the poor to eat!
Job_31:17 WEB or have eaten my
morsel alone, and the fatherless
has not eaten of it
Job_31:17 And if I also ate my food alone, and did not impart of
it to the orphan;
Job_31:17 εἰ δὲ καὶ
τὸν ψωμόν μου ἔφαγον
μόνος καὶ οὐχὶ ὀρφανῷ
μετέδωκα·
See: Inviting the Wrong Guests!
Job_2:6 – Job's life was spared
Job_1:12-13,
Job_1:19 – Job’s Kids were not!
Job’s Kids are the exact opposite from Job in this account, and the contrast is intentional – and this is emphasized even more after Job heard that his children were killed for their indulgence!
Notice the need to counter-balance out the social evil with moral good, and give up some dirty money for a direct satisfaction against the indulgence and celebration of the good-nice things of this life mixed with sin and anti-God lusts.
Inviting the Wrong Guests!
Luk_14:11-14 – Don’t Invite Those Who Can Pay You Back
Luk_14:11 CAB For everyone who exalts himself shall be
humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
Luk_14:11 ὅτι πᾶς
ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν
ταπεινωθήσεται
καὶ ὁ
ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν
ὑψωθήσεται.
Luk_14:11 οτι
πας ο υψων
εαυτον
ταπεινωθησεται
και ο ταπεινων
εαυτον
υψωθησεται
Luk_14:12 Then He also said to him
who invited Him, "When you give a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends, nor your
brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich
neighbors, lest they also invite you back,
and you be repaid.
Luk_14:12 ῎Ελεγε
δὲ καὶ τῷ
κεκληκότι αὐτόν·
ὅταν ποιῇς ἄριστον
ἢ δεῖπνον, μὴ
φώνει τοὺς
φίλους σου
μηδὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς
σου μηδὲ
τοὺς συγγενεῖς
σου μηδὲ
γείτονας
πλουσίους,
μήποτε καὶ
αὐτοὶ σε ἀντικαλέσωσι,
σε καὶ
γένηταί σοι
ἀνταπόδομα.
Luk_14:12
ελεγεν δε και
τω κεκληκοτι
αυτον οταν ποιης
αριστον η δειπνον
μη φωνει τους
φιλους σου
μηδε τους
αδελφους σου
μηδε τους
συγγενεις σου
μηδε γειτονας
πλουσιους
μηποτε και
αυτοι TSBσε
αντικαλεσωσιν Aσε και
γενηται TSBσοι
ανταποδομα Aσοι
Luk_14:13 But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame, the blind;
Luk_14:13 ἀλλ᾿ ὅταν
ποιῇς
δοχὴν, κάλει
πτωχούς, ἀναπήρους,
χωλούς,
τυφλούς,
Luk_14:13 αλλ
οταν TSBποιης δοχην
Aποιης
καλει πτωχους Aαναπειρους TSBαναπηρους
χωλους τυφλους
Luk_14:14 and you will be blessed, because they do not have anything to repay you; for it will be repaid to you in the resurrection of the
just."
Luk_14:14 καὶ
μακάριος ἔσῃ,
ὅτι οὐκ ἔχουσιν
ἀνταποδοῦναί
σοι· ἀνταποδοθήσεται
γάρ σοι ἐν τῇ
ἀναστάσει τῶν
δικαίων.
Blasphemy Avoided
Blaspheming God - Avoided by
Job
Speaking Against God is the core temptation that is repeated
multiple times in multiple ways throughout the first 3 chapters of Job…
(i) Destruction: Job
Tested with External Loss
Job_1:4-5 –
(A) Bad Sons: Job's Sons
Legitimately Suspected of Internal Blasphemy, due to their indulgent feasting
careless character
Job_1:11 – (B) Job’s
Wealth-Dependence?: Job Accused of potential blasphemy; of not freely
serving God: Job_1:9-10
(Heb:
"Stretch" contrasted with "Hedge")
Job_1:13, Job_1:18-19 – (A) Sons Indulging on Dreadful Day
Job_1:20-22 – (B) Job
Blesses: Job Sinless-ly Blesses God! (& even justifies
the sorrow and calamity)
Notice the A-B, A-B pattern.
The Point: Job wins & passes the test of external
destruction.
(ii) Sickness: Job Tested
with Bodily Damage
Job_2:4-5 – Job’s
Health-Dependence?: Job Accused of potential blasphemy, if skin &
bones are afflicted (“Skin for skin”)
Job_2:9 – Wife
Temptation: Job’s Wife Says to Curse -- who do you think was
speaking through her?
Job_2:10 – Job receives evil as well as good, justifying God yet
again
The Point: Job wins again & passes the test of health
destruction.
(iii) Birthdays: Job
Curses Himself Rather Than God
Job_1:4 – (A)
Feasting Sons: Celebrated their Birthdays
Job_3:1/Job_3:2, Job_3:8 – (B)
Mourning Job: cursed his Birthday
(i.e. himself/his life) instead of God
(although Job is
not directly commended for this)
The Devil's goal and threat in Job_1:11 and Job_2:4-5 with each of these trials is to get Job
to be like his careless and indulgent children in Job_1:4-5
and his satanic wife in Job_2:9.
Job falls down and worships and blesses God in Job_1:20-22, instead of cursing God to his face in Job_1:11, Job_2:5, and Job_2:9.
The rest of Job is preoccupied with
temptations to complain, while needing to hope and justify God.
Make Job Like His Kids?
Make Job Sinful Like His Sinful
Children?
Job is considering this life temporary (Job_1:21; see: Job 14: Fading Human Life) and he is logically and faithfully accepting the loss of everything in this life (Job_1:20-22), including his sinful children (Job_1:18-19), as a naturally consistent orthodox situation to be in.
(A) Kid’s Expected to Curse God
Kid’s Cursing Danger from Integrity Breaches
Job_1:5 WEB It was so, when the days
of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and
rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
number of them all. For Job said, "It
may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts."
Job did so continually.
Job_1:5 LB And when the days of the banquet were
completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, and
offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, and one calf for a sin
offering for their souls; for Job said, “Lest
perhaps my sons have thought evil, and cursed God in their minds.”
Thus, then Job did continually.
Job_1:5 καὶ ὡς ἂν
συνετελέσθησαν
αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ πότου,
ἀπέστελλεν
Ιωβ καὶ ἐκαθάριζεν
αὐτοὺς ἀνιστάμενος
τὸ πρωὶ καὶ
προσέφερεν
περὶ αὐτῶν θυσίας
κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν
αὐτῶν καὶ μόσχον
ἕνα περὶ ἁμαρτίας
περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν
αὐτῶν· ἔλεγεν
γὰρ Ιωβ Μήποτε
οἱ υἱοί μου ἐν
τῇ διανοίᾳ αὐτῶν
κα κὰ ἐνενόησαν
πρὸς θεόν. οὕτως
οὖν ἐποίει Ιωβ
πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.
(B) Job Afflicted to Curse God
Job_1:11 LSV You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance has spread in the land, and yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike against anything that he has—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
Job_1:11 CAB But put forth thine hand, and touch all that
he has: verily he will bless thee to thy face.
Job_1:11 ἀλλὰ ἀπόστειλον
τὴν χεῖρά σου
καὶ ἅψαι πάντων,
ὧν ἔχει· εἰ μὴν
εἰς πρόσωπόν
σε εὐλογήσει.
“IF” He Will Bless -- Linguistic Technical Note
3/7/25-3/8/25; 3/22/25
Skipping Technicalities
Feel free to skip this sub-point, unless
you are trying to solve and understand the strange-sounding original wording in
Job about cursing and blessing…
“Bless” or “Curse”?
English
Versions Paraphrase Job’s Temptation
(A) English versions say:
‘we’ll see if he won’t curse to your face’
(B) But the Hebrew MT, and sometimes the
LXX, is actually saying:
Job_2:5 – IF
he will bless you to your
face
This “bless
you to your face” is linguistically confusing to modern readers when
represented literally, which is why most versions avoid the challenge by simply
representing it periphrastically as “curse”.
To understand this sinful “IF-bless”
terminology more literally (which is, of course what Bible obeyers want to do),
we’ll need to stretch ourselves a little more.
Preceding Authoritative
Context
Even though the Bible actually says
“bless” where English versions say “curse”, and this is confusing at first to
us, we still have to give the Bible credit that it has left us with a literal
testimony as to what kind of expression this “bless” is in Job:
Job_1:5 LSV …for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet [if] blessed God in their heart.” Thus Job does all the days.
Here LSV represents Job’s words more literally than most versions
by saying “blessed” instead of “cursed”.
But notice that we can see in this context
that it is clearly a sinful
blessing.
This preceding authoritative governing
context shows us that the blessing is something bad, and this establishes the
logical rules that govern the rest of this book whenever this potentially
confusing terminology comes back up.
“IF” Has Special Powers
in the Bible
The strange usage of “if” in Job is
similar to numerous other places in the Bible that also use IF like an oath.
Example: ‘entering rest’…
“IF” They Will
Enter My Rest
In the following passages, “not” is
actually the Hebrew and Greek word “if”…
Psa_95:11 NKJV So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not [MT: “אם”; LXX: Εἰ (IF) εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου] enter My rest.’”
Heb_3:11 NKJV So I swore [ὤμοσα] in My wrath, ‘They shall not [εἰ – IF] enter My rest.’” [ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου]
Heb_4:3 NKJV For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not [εἰ (IF) εἰσελεύσονται] enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb_4:5 NKJV And again in this
place: “They shall not [εἰ
(IF) εἰσελεύσονται]
enter My rest.”
Heb_4:3 CAB For we who have believed enter that rest, as
He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter [εἰ
(IF) εἰσελεύσονται] My rest," although His works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
Heb_4:3 εἰσερχόμεθα
γὰρ εἰς τὴν
κατάπαυσιν οἱ
πιστεύσαντες,
καθὼς εἴρηκεν·
ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν
τῇ ὀργῇ
μου, εἰ εἰσελεύσονται
εἰς τὴν
κατάπαυσίν
μου· καίτοι
τῶν ἔργων ἀπὸ
καταβολῆς
κόσμου
γενηθέντων.
Heb_4:3
εισερχομεθα
γαρ εις Aτην TSBτην
καταπαυσιν οι
πιστευσαντες
καθως ειρηκεν
ως ωμοσα εν τη
οργη μου ει
εισελευσονται
εις την καταπαυσιν
μου καιτοι των
εργων απο
καταβολης
κοσμου
γενηθεντων
…
Heb_4:5 CAB and again in this place: ·"They shall not enter [εἰ
(IF) εἰσελεύσονται
– i.e. IF] My rest."
Heb_4:5 καὶ ἐν
τούτῳ πάλι·
εἰ εἰσελεύσονται
εἰς τὴν
κατάπαυσίν
μου.
Heb_4:6 Therefore since it remains for some to enter into
it, and those formerly having the gospel preached to them ·did not enter [οὐκ
εἰσῆλθον – i.e. this really
is (litterally) NOT] on account of disobedience,
Heb_4:6 ἐπεὶ
οὖν ἀπολείπεται
τινὰς εἰσελθεῖν
εἰς αὐτήν,
καὶ οἱ
πρότερον εὐαγγελισθέντες
οὐκ εἰσῆλθον
δι᾿ ἀπείθειαν,
Heb_4:5 Speaks Hebrew-ish Greek, which is using
more literal “IF” [εἰ] at first, but then also Heb_4:6 explains this Hebrew-ism in more natural
and direct language by literally using the word “not” [οὐκ].
So…
“IF [εἰ] they’ll enter” (Heb_4:5) means… They did NOT
[οὐκ] enter (Heb_4:6) His rest – which could be like what Job
MT and sometimes LXX is saying.
[Theoretically
LXX could be using this expression like an oath, although MT seems to be using
the positivity of the statement like a euphemism in Job_2:9, so it’s complicated…]
Job's Inspired Money-Hatred
Perfect Words &
Works in Job
Obedience is Inspired in Job
· Job is in the Bible: considered the obvious fact that Job is praised as a hero in the Bible, and church people today are not
· Job only has a few brief inspired Words of redemptive virtue at the beginning of the book (which are very simplistic and summarized)
· Job's primary initial inspiration (up-front) is what he DOES that is righteous.
· Job’s deeds of obedient virtue are memorialized before the throne of God as surpassing all others upon the earth.
· When God praises your righteousness in heaven above all other people, you can be sure that your deeds are inspired.
· We need our works to be inspired!
· Obeying the Bible is inspired! - It’s what no one else on Earth is doing right now in history!
· No one is cashing in on this greatness right now at this time in history, but
· We can rush into heaven's gold-mine of obeying all the Bible, and being inspired by righteousness that no one else is doing on the land right now!
· One of the main obedience-s to inspired righteousness that Job gets praised for in heaven is laying the virtuous foundation of money-hatred
· Non-consumptiveness will get you praised in heaven!
· Hating money (like/as virtually no one is doing right now) will make you a pioneer of the faith that is yet to come!
· Just as Job foreshadowed the teaching that Jesus would later proclaim, so also obeying Jesus' Revelation of the good message of money hatred will integrate us into the Exodus of the end times that is yet to come...
· Let's get the inspired righteousness of Job and obey the Bible that no one is obeying right now and sacrifice our entire lives for The Virtue that gets praised in heaven and exalts us into the greatness of the culmination of the ages
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Job_38:2 – Who is this that darkens my council with words without knowledge?
Job_42:6 – Job repented
Job_42:7 – You haven't spoken what is right about me like my
servant Job
Job Helps Money Hatred -- the BIGGEST POINT!
Job Hinders or Helps
Money Hatred?
Comp. 3
Revelations of Job | Job Helps Money Hatred
Preview
· Job's example teaches us to NOT rejoice in getting a lot of money
· Job’s anti-money virtue is a totally appropriate foundation to build a new revelation of money-hatred upon in the New Covenant!
We see that Job was a faithful monotheist
who acknowledged the corruption and defilement of riches and despised them
after the fall of man into sin.
If the gold of Havilah was still as good
as it used to be without being trained by sin (like perverted prosperity
preachers like joseph prince teach) then Job could have rejoiced when it was
multiplied, but Job was faithful to acknowledge its diminished status, and not
rejoice when something externally good and nice was multiplied without moral
virtue and righteousness emanating out of it.
Our own biased and selective memory has
blinded us from actually learning what Job's example actually teaches us.
One of the primary ways Jesus teaches us
to hate money is to give it away, which Job did, and even relished and
cherished the vivid pleasure of his substance warming and providing for poor people.
Money hatred specifically teaches you not
to be rich toward yourself, as seen in Luke 12, and just like this virtue, Job
explicitly avoided pleasing himself and making himself lavish and happy with
his riches, as seen in Job 31.
Job_31:24-25 – Job did not cheer himself up with his money like/as the
rich man did in Luk_16:19, which earned the rich man hell.
Not liking silver is parallel with hating money
in Luke 16, therefore Job's righteous and canonical example proclaims the
proper foundation for money hatred to us unto this day, since he is still an
example of faith and suffering and being rewarded by God.
Job's righteous generous example stands in
direct contrast to the sinful destruction and judgment of his children who he
had to intercede for but in the end, their sins got the best of them and
judgment terminated them.
They enjoyed their pleasures, but Job
enjoyed giving other people provision. They were unrighteous and perished, but
Job was righteous and was saved.
...
Job’s Riches Prepare Us for Abraham’s Riches
If we'd like to say that Abraham was rich
and therefore we can enjoy riches too, we would first have to submit to the
authoritative and canonical example of Job's riches, which were not used for
his own indulgence, since you can't logically imagine that Abraham's example is
outside of the canonical example of Job's righteous standard.
Since the Bible has profound moral
continuity you're not allowed to imagine Abraham as being rich in a way that is
incompatible with Job's selfless riches that were toward others and not toward
his own self-pleasing rejoicing.
Job was in the Old Covenant. Abraham was
in the Old Covenant, and both were even before Moses.
Job was described as being rich, and
Abraham was said to be rich.
Because of the authoritative context of
the Bible and its moral continuity, we're required to conclude that they were
rich in the same way, not in different ways that are morally contradictory and
incompatible.
3 Revelations of Job
Comp. 3
Revelations of Job | Job Helps Money Hatred
Isn't it ironic and somewhat strange that
we don't think of Job as a book of Revelation, even though he is in the Bible,
and he even saw a vision where God opened up hidden information to him?
It turns out that there are in fact
several movements and layers of Revelation throughout the book of Job.
Can you guess and anticipate what they
are?
(1) Exemplification Revelation
Job already despised money to the point
that he did not rejoice when it deceptively increased
Job_31:24-25 – Job said, if I have rejoiced when my riches increased
(comp. Luk_16:19)
Riches make themselves wings and fly away
Job was already fundamentally righteous at
the beginning of the book, unlike virtually all of churchianity, because he
despised, demoted, and did not trust the apparent value of money when it was
presented to him in this life.
Job's surpassing righteousness is already
brilliant, aw striking, and amazing at the beginning of the book, because his
testimony ascends all the way into heaven before God's throne and Job is
essentially God's favorite person at his time in history.
(2) Suffering Thunderstorm Revelation
But the book of Job doesn't stop with the
revelation of his righteous example and character, because God is set on making
him even more glorious and exalted by giving him a righteous testimony and
portion in the Scriptures forever into eternity.
We need to think about Job's suffering as
well as any of our righteous suffering as a mechanism into glories and
exaltations. Job wouldn't be in the Bible without it, and neither will you be!
Job initially and conceptually could have
theoretically been content to maintain a righteous life like God had given him,
since he was already basically God's favorite person on Earth, yet the Divine
will of Providence was set on exalting him more than he'd ever imagined before,
and just like Joseph and Jesus himself went through vitally defining suffering
that directly resulted in their surpassing exaltation, so also the testing of
Job and the refining of his righteousness brought him from the surpassing
righteousness, which he already had, into prophetic revelation of Truth that
made his sizzling essence necessary to include in the Bible itself!
So be careful if you ever complain about providential
trials, because they say, "all is well that ends well", and even much
more so with us, as long as hardships result in greatness we will rejoice in
inexpressible Hope. Because the painful medical procedure that is carried out
on your life, results in saving your life, and relieves you from earthly
baggage by upgrading your existence into eternity...
Job's initial lifestyle revelation teaches
us by canonical example, which is praised in heaven, that you should despise
money and demote it to the point of not rejoicing when it's increased.
But not being simply content with this
greatness, God determined to exalt Job even more, and put him in the front and
center of glories and exaltations, and through the devil afflicting him, God brought
Job into rewarded exaltations and glories beyond comprehension.
so at the end of Job's suffering, when his
praised endurance had completed its course, and he had endured unthinkable
miseries and unending arguments from contradictory accusers without much hope,
the sky opened up in a thunderstorm and revealed to him the awesome praises of
the Mighty One Who Created all things.
But even this climactic overwhelming
revelation is not the end of the story nor is it the final conclusion of God's
revelation to Job.
Remember how God gave a blasting
revelation to Elijah on the mountain, and then at the very end of questioning
his questioning God finally gave Elijah an answer?
1Ki_19:16 – Go anoint
Elisha in your place
1Ki_19:15 WEB Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to
the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be
king over Syria;
1Ki_19:15 LB And the Lord said to
him, “Go, return, and you shall come into the way of the Wilderness of
Damascus; and you shall go and anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1Ki_19:15 καὶ εἶπεν
κύριος πρὸς αὐτόν
Πορεύου ἀνάστρεφε
εἰς τὴν ὁδόν
σου καὶ ἥξεις εἰς
τὴν ὁδὸν ἐρήμου
Δαμασκοῦ καὶ
χρίσεις τὸν
Αζαηλ εἰς
βασιλέα τῆς
Συρίας·
1Ki_19:16 WEB and you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi
to be king over Israel; and you shall anoint
Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
1Ki_19:16 And Jehu the son
of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat shall you anoint to be prophet in your place.
1Ki_19:16 καὶ τὸν
Ιου υἱὸν
Ναμεσσι χρίσεις
εἰς βασιλέα ἐπὶ
Ισραηλ· καὶ τὸν
Ελισαιε υἱὸν
Σαφατ ἀπὸ
Αβελμαουλα χρίσεις
εἰς προφήτην ἀντὶ
σοῦ.
1Ki_19:17 WEB It shall happen, that he who escapes from the
sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu
shall Elisha kill.
1Ki_19:17 And it shall come
to pass that whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall slay; and
whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall slay.
1Ki_19:17 καὶ ἔσται
τὸν σῳζόμενον ἐκ
ῥομφαίας
Αζαηλ θανατώσει
Ιου, καὶ τὸν σῳζόμενον
ἐκ ῥομφαίας
Ιου θανατώσει
Ελισαιε.
1Ki_19:18 WEB Yet will
I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth
which has not kissed him.
1Ki_19:18 And you shall leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which had not
bowed themselves to Baal, and every mouth which had not worshipped him.”
1Ki_19:18
καὶ καταλείψεις
ἐν Ισραηλ ἑπτὰ
χιλιάδας ἀνδρῶν,
πάντα γόνατα, ἃ
οὐκ ὤκλασαν γόνυ
τῷ Βααλ, καὶ πᾶν
στόμα, ὃ οὐ
προσεκύνησεν
αὐτῷ.
Rom_11:2 CAB God has not cast away
His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
Rom_11:2 οὐκ
ἀπώσατο ὁ
Θεὸς τὸν
λαὸν αὐτοῦ ὃν
προέγνω. ἢ οὐκ
οἴδατε ἐν ᾿Ηλίᾳ
τί λέγει ἡ
γραφή; ὡς ἐντυγχάνει
τῷ Θεῷ
κατὰ τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ
λέγων·
Rom_11:2 ουκ
απωσατο ο θεος
τον λαον αυτου
ον προεγνω η
ουκ οιδατε εν
ηλια τι λεγει η
γραφη ως
εντυγχανει τω
θεω κατα του
ισραηλ TSBλεγων
Rom_11:3 "LORD, they
killed Your prophets and they torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and
they are seeking my life"?
Rom_11:3
Κύριε, τοὺς
προφήτας σου
ἀπέκτειναν
καὶ τὰ
θυσιαστήριά
σου κατέσκαψαν,
κἀγὼ ὑπελείφθην
μόνος, καὶ
ζητοῦσι τὴν
ψυχήν μου.
Rom_11:3 κυριε
τους προφητας
σου απεκτειναν
TSBκαι τα
θυσιαστηρια
σου κατεσκαψαν
καγω υπελειφθην
μονος και
ζητουσιν την
ψυχην μου
Rom_11:4 But what does the divine response say to him?
"I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee
to Baal."
Rom_11:4 ἀλλὰ
τί λέγει αὐτῷ
ὁ
χρηματισμός;
κατέλιπον ἐμαυτῷ
ἑπτακισχιλίους
ἄνδρας, οἵτινες
οὐκ ἔκαμψαν
γόνυ τῇ
Βάαλ.
Rom_11:4 αλλα τι
λεγει αυτω ο χρηματισμος
κατελιπον
εμαυτω
επτακισχιλιους
ανδρας οιτινες
ουκ εκαμψαν
γονυ τη βααλ
Rom_11:5 Even so then, at
this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom_11:5 οὕτως
οὖν καὶ ἐν τῷ
νῦν καιρῷ
λεῖμμα κατ᾿ ἐκλογὴν
χάριτος
γέγονεν.
Rom_11:5 ουτως
ουν και εν τω
νυν καιρω
λειμμα κατ εκλογην
χαριτος
γεγονεν
Rom_11:6
And if by grace, it is
no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. TSB|But
if it is of works, it is no longer
grace; otherwise work is no longer work.|
Rom_11:6 εἰ
δὲ χάριτι, οὐκέτι
ἐξ ἔργων· ἐπεὶ
ἡ χάρις οὐκέτι
γίνεται
χάρις· εἰ
δὲ ἐξ ἔργων,
οὐκέτι ἐστὶ
χάρις· ἐπεὶ
τὸ ἔργον οὐκέτι
ἐστὶν ἔργον.
Rom_11:6 ει δε
χαριτι ουκετι
εξ εργων επει η
χαρις ουκετι
γινεται χαρις TSBει TSBδε TSBεξ TSBεργων
TSBουκετι TSBεστιν
TSBχαρις TSBεπει
TSBτο TSBεργον
TSBουκετι TSBεστιν
TSBεργον
Most people keep missing the conclusion
and answer that God gives to these Biblical heroes...!
Just as God opened up revelation to Elijah
and questioned his questioning so also God did with Job in the most fundamental
way...
(3) Heavenly Courtroom Revelation
Most readers miss a very important vital part
of Job's revelation, which in many ways is the most important, and the most
practical reality and the most defining Revelation when an answer is finally
given:
The narrative has an intentionally
designed built-in reverse chronology in the way which Job experienced these
events.
Just like the book of Jonah, we have to
conclude by default unless told otherwise that everything in the book was a
final product of what was finally revealed to these righteous heroes.
And so in the book of Job there is a distinct
element of reverse-chronology, which also happens to be flipped around,
somewhat comparably to how it is in the Law of Moses, as occasionally seen in
accounts like the stories of Balaam.
The special thing with Job is that the
reverse chronology is at first told to us chronologically but this ironically
implies that it was revealed to Job in reverse chronology.
We readers of the book of Job get the
distinct privilege of reading about the discussion in heaven before the
description of the plagues and afflictions that fell upon Job whereas Job had
the sorrowful tragic experience of being afflicted and tortured without that
special revelation and comforting information, and mysteriously, we wouldn't
have a long book of discussions if the heavenly court scene had been revealed
to the humans on Earth in the same way it is presented to us as readers.
So while it is important for us to read
the book of Job as it is presented to us, which definitely gives us insight
into explaining the nature and mechanics of righteous people suffering, or
"bad things happening to good people", yet it is also essential and
vitally important for us to also understand that it was not presented to Job in
that order, but it was in fact distinctively and intentionally revealed to Job
after the fact, in reverse chronology, so that otherwise, the book of Job
wouldn't be written as it is, with questions and enigmas and frustrations and
arguments and debates throughout the majority of the book, and indeed, if they
had only known what we have in the first parts of the book of Job they would
have had very little to argue about, and Job could have endured the rest of his
suffering with assurance and without issues of confusion and unresolvable
conflict, and this is, in fact, what Jesus actually did as the greatest
revelation of suffering, and now that Job's suffering and Revelation has been
opened up to us and written down, we also can follow Job and Jesus in trials
more cheerfully knowing that there is a hope and a purpose for all suffering as
explained and illustrated for us in Job, and even more surpassed and further
revealed by Jesus Himself.
Therefore, Job has given to us two or
three vital Revelations: (1) his canonical example praised in heaven, as well
as, (2) the Revelation from the thunderstorm as a reward of God's pitying Mercy
brought about from Job's perseverance, and even, (3) the heavenly courtroom
scene where God discusses people on Earth with the devil - which is the final
piece of Revelation which is ironically placed at the beginning of the book of
Job, for the sake of us the readers.
The name Job and his essence carry to us
the reputation of God's revelation of his righteous character in this book of
the Bible. And even if people complain about job and what he suffered, Job
himself is the essence that contradicts our fleshly ignorance.
In the case of Job, the heavenly courtroom
scene is chronologically sequential, but for Job it is revealed in reverse
chronology. In cases like this, we need to consider and recount and remember
the difference between the actual chronological sequence of events in direct
contrast to the way that these events are experienced, and this explains a lot
of our confusion and a lot of our misunderstanding of what we go through.
So the mindful conclusion about Job is
that God did give him a Revealed answer to why he suffered, and unfortunately,
most readers don't put the puzzle pieces together to consider this very
important aspect, which is the whole answer to the book of Job about why
righteous people suffer, or "bad things happen to good people".
And in this final most climactic
revelation of Job, where God tells us an extremely simplified scene about what
happens in heaven, we learn a lot of what suffering is morally about, and what
it is accomplishing before God's presence and judicial righteousness of
governing the entire universe.
We would never know so much about God's
judgment of the universe if he hadn't revealed it to us through Job's example.
Now Job is this Revelation for our sakes,
written unto us and teaching us unto this day.
Job's example and his very name represent
to us these Revelations, especially including God's heavenly courtroom scene,
that explains suffering for all humanity.
Job has been so exalted and made so great through
his trials and suffering, that he represents to us what God is like when He
sits enthroned in heaven judging the universe.
So we now have learned from Job's initial
example to despise money and not rejoice when it is increased, and we've
learned countless righteousness-es as his non-indulgent self-sacrificing
lifestyle is discussed, which itself is beyond the price of gold.
But beyond this sizzling canonical praised
blameless perfect example given to us through Job's initial righteousness, we
now also have the Revelation that riches and prosperity need to be tested and
examined and proven through trials, even for righteous people.
Even blameless and righteous people need
to pass the test of suffering to counterbalance all of their exaltations and privileges
from all of the abundant goodness that the Creator has given to us
2Co_12:7 – So that I
wouldn't be exalted above measure, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh
2Co_12:7 CAB And lest I exalt myself
above measure by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was
given to me, an angel of Satan, that it might beat me, lest I exalt myself
above measure.
2Co_12:7 Καὶ
τῇ ὑπερβολῇ
τῶν ἀποκαλύψεων,
ἵνα μὴ ὑπεραίρωμαι,
ἐδόθη μοι
σκόλοψ τῇ
σαρκί, ἄγγελος
Σατᾶν ἵνα με
κολαφίζῃ ἵνα
μὴ ὑπεραίρωμαι.
2Co_12:7 και τη
υπερβολη των
αποκαλυψεων Aδιο ινα μη
υπεραιρωμαι
εδοθη μοι
σκολοψ τη
σαρκι αγγελος Aσατανα TSBσαταν ινα
με κολαφιζη
ινα μη
υπεραιρωμαι
2Co_12:8
Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from
me.
2Co_12:8 ὑπὲρ
τούτου τρὶς
τὸν Κύριον
παρεκάλεσα ἵνα
ἀποστῇ ἀπ᾿
ἐμοῦ·
2Co_12:9
And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is
perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my
weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2Co_12:9 καὶ
εἴρηκέ μοι· ἀρκεῖ
σοι ἡ χάρις
μου· ἡ γὰρ
δύναμις μου ἐν
ἀσθενείᾳ
τελειοῦται. ἥδιστα
οὖν μᾶλλον
καυχήσομαι ἐν
ταῖς ἀσθενείαις
μου, ἵνα ἐπισκηνώσῃ
ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἡ
δύναμις τοῦ
Χριστοῦ.
2Co_12:9 και
ειρηκεν μοι
αρκει σοι η
χαρις μου η γαρ δυναμις
TSBμου εν
ασθενεια Aτελειται
TSBτελειουται
ηδιστα ουν
μαλλον
καυχησομαι εν
ταις
ασθενειαις μου
ινα επισκηνωση
επ εμε η δυναμις
του χριστου
2Co_12:10
Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions,
in distresses, for Christ's sake. For whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
2Co_12:10 διὸ
εὐδοκῶ ἐν ἀσθενείαις,
ἐν ὕβρεσιν, ἐν
ἀνάγκαις, ἐν
διωγμοῖς, ἐν
στενοχωρίαις,
ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ·
ὅταν γὰρ ἀσθενῶ,
τότε δυνατός
εἰμι.
2Co_12:10 διο
ευδοκω εν
ασθενειαις εν
υβρεσιν εν αναγκαις
εν διωγμοις Aκαι TSBεν
στενοχωριαις
υπερ χριστου
οταν γαρ
ασθενω τοτε
δυνατος ειμι
Php_4:11 – I have learned
the mystery of being content, I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound
Php_4:11 CAB Not that I am speaking
with respect to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.
Php_4:11 οὐχ ὅτι
καθ᾿ ὑστέρησιν
λέγω· ἐγὼ
γὰρ ἔμαθον ἐν
οἷς εἰμι αὐτάρκης
εἶναι.
Php_4:11 ουχ οτι
καθ υστερησιν
λεγω εγω γαρ
εμαθον εν οις
ειμι αυταρκης
ειναι
Php_4:12 I know how to be
abased, and I know how to abound. In every place and in all circumstances I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound
and to be in need.
Php_4:12 οἶδα
καὶ ταπεινοῦσθαι,
οἶδα καὶ
περισσεύειν·
ἐν παντὶ
καὶ ἐν πᾶσι
μεμύημαι καὶ
χορτάζεσθαι
καὶ πεινᾶν,
καὶ
περισσεύειν
καὶ ὑστερεῖσθαι·
Php_4:12 οιδα SBAκαι Tδε
ταπεινουσθαι
οιδα και
περισσευειν εν
παντι και εν
πασιν μεμυημαι
και
χορταζεσθαι
και πειναν και
περισσευειν
και
υστερεισθαι
Php_4:13 I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me.
Php_4:13
πάντα ἰσχύω
ἐν τῷ ἐνδυναμοῦντί
με Χριστῷ.
Php_4:13 παντα
ισχυω εν τω
ενδυναμουντι
με TSBχριστω
Job teaches us to be non-indulgent,
non-consumptive, and even distrustful toward riches, despising the niceness and
pleasures and indulgence and conveniences and luxuries of this life, because it
can terminate and execute your own unworthy children, and Job also teaches us
that even righteous people need maintain constant integrity and they even need
to be strained and sifted in the process of being blessed and experiencing
abundant generosity and privileges under God.
To be righteous you need to hate money,
and to stay righteous and ultimately end up exalted and saved you need to
maintain a reverent posture self-examination and self-testing submitting to
heaven's testing of your integrity knowing that good things need to be examined
by virtue in order for you to be exalted forever and written down in God's
eternal Scriptures including the book of Life.
Applications of Job’s 3
Revelations
The three Revelations of Job show us how
to have the righteousness required to endure trials and suffering
Job's 3 Revelations tell us the purpose
for suffering that you can apprehend if you are great like job with his
foundational revelation of particular righteousness
This life is full of many evils, none of
which are accidental, and therefore your response to all of the pain and
suffering and tragedy in this life should also likewise be totally
conscientious, voluntary, educated by the training of divine revelation and
conforming to the morality of divinely inspired Truth.
At the core of Job you have to have faith,
as defined by Hebrews 11, which believes God is the key player in your life and
the definite rewarder of those who intensely seek him out, including in the
midst of their trials when they beg to hear from God.
Abraham & Lot Were Rich?
Abraham & Lot both had servants and abundance
You should NOT want to be "rich like
Abraham", when Abraham was not rich like you want to be.
Big Question: Since Job’s example of
prospering in the OT does NOT challenge our NT hatred of money, because Job did
NOT liking silver, how about Abraham’s example of prospering?
Does Abraham’s riches hinder and challenge
or support our NT requirements to hate money?
Famine: Abraham + children, & even
Joseph
The Abraham Enigma
Just like Job and so many other rich people in the Bible, Abraham’s example can seem like a gigantic enigma at first…
Gen_13:2; Gen_24:35 – Abraham was very rich
Gen_14:14; Gen_24:2 – Abraham had servants
Luk_6:24 – Jesus said woe to the rich
Mat_19:23 – Easier for a camel to go through needle than rich to get
into heaven
Joh_8:56 – Abraham rejoiced to see my day
There is an initial enigma and potential confusion
and a definite need for explanation somewhere as to how these Bible verses
could even be intended for compatibility.
(Remember: the Bible doesn't contradict
itself. obviously it is irrational and intellectually dishonest to pretend like
the Bible is full of discontinuity and inconsistency since everyone in the
world and throughout the ages who has made a serious logical attempt to study
it can discover the surprises of its deep unity and coherence despite so many
authors over so many cultures and so much time...)
Non-Contradiction Needed:
Logic Required When Learning from Abraham
· You not allowed to be a dog for a moose or a pig when you have a human brain.
· You're not allowed to just say Abraham was rich without asking the obvious question:
· How could Abraham be rich and yet look forward to Jesus coming who would proclaim a message that rich people can't get to heaven and you got to hate and despise money?
Gen_25:5 – Abraham gave all he had to Isaac
Abraham Gives Up Promised Land
· Gen_13 (quoted below): Abraham gave up and let Lot chose the better part of the Promised Land even though it was promised to Abraham right after this
· Gen_14: Abraham then again sacrificed his personal goods, while taking no defiled wages, to rescue Lot out of that better land which had become bitter
· Gen_18 – Gen_19:29: And then yet still Abraham interceded for Lot to escape that bitter land of Sodom & Gomorrah when it had become cursed with an overthrow
This blessing of Land inheritance is given
up repeatedly by Abraham, and God keeps giving it back and reinforcing it with
every sacrifice Abraham makes.
Abraham is the Father of faith:
Gen_15:6 Rom_4:11; Rom_4:16;
Gal_3:7; Gal_3:9;
This is how Abraham becomes the Father of
faith:
· Abraham sacrifices the promised land giving preference to Lot, then God promises it to him (Gen_13)
· Abraham gives up rewards of rescuing Sodom, and then God says HE will be Abraham’s reward (Gen_15)
· God said Isaac was the promised child: Gen_17:19, Gen_17:21; Gen_18:10
· Abraham offers up Isaac (Gen_22), and
· God again reaffirms that Isaac was the promised child (Gen_21:12; Rom_9:7; Heb_11:18: …in Isaac your seed shall be called.)
Abraham believed in the promise so much he
courageously kept sacrificing God’s promises knowing the God would multiply
them back even more, and through this wild-hardcore faith, he is the blessed
heroic example for us all.
Abraham’s Sacrifices <<<<<
Gen_12:1 – Left his country, family, and father’s house to go to an
unknown land.
Gen_12:4 – Left Haran at 75 years old, giving up the comfort of a
settled life.
Gen_12:6-8 – Lived as a foreigner in Canaan, dwelling in tents.
Gen_12:10 – Left Canaan during a famine, showing dependence on God
rather than land security.
Gen_12:11-13 – Allowed Sarah to be taken into Pharaoh’s house to
protect his own life.
Gen_13:8-9 – Gave Lot the first choice of land, choosing peace over personal
gain.
Gen_14:14-16 – Risked his life and resources to rescue Lot from
captivity.
Gen_14:21-23 – Refused the spoils of war from the king of Sodom,
choosing integrity over riches.
Gen_15:9-10 – Offered animals in sacrifice to confirm God’s covenant.
Gen_17:10-14 – Submitted himself and his household to circumcision as a
sign of the covenant.
Gen_18:1-8 – Showed extravagant hospitality to strangers, not knowing
they were angels.
Gen_18:23-33 – Interceded persistently for Sodom, showing concern for
others' well-being.
Gen_20:1-14 – Allowed Abimelech to take Sarah, trusting God for her
protection.
Gen_21:8-14 – Sent away Hagar and Ishmael, sacrificing his personal
attachment to them.
Gen_22:1-12 – Offered Isaac on the altar, demonstrating total trust in
God.
Gen_23:3-16 – Paid full price for a burial site for Sarah instead of
accepting it for free.
Gen_25:5-6 – Gave gifts to his other sons and sent them away,
ensuring Isaac’s inheritance.
When remembering how rich Abraham was it's
easy to forget how many sacrifices he and other Patriarchs made.
We should not, cannot, must not forget
that Abraham was exalted by God repeatedly over and over again no matter how
many times Abraham kept sacrificing and pushing prosperity and blessing away
and giving up this life.
Abraham's riches don't mean we can just go
out there and “be rich too”, but rather his exaltations show us that we need to
walk in his steps of Faith and give up this life and follow the willful actions
of his examples of making righteous
self-sacrificing choices
It's not how much you can get but it's how
much you sacrificed that establishes whether or not you've been victorious as a
hero of faith
The Non-Indulgence of
Abraham
We have no example or even a scrap of
evidence that Abraham used any of his riches on pleasing himself with luxury...
If we are careful to imitate Job's example
of virtuous good works as well as Abraham's exciting faith of good works and we
don't set our heart on being rich nor do we allow our daydreams to wish that we
would be rich, yet, where and how much and in what way do we resolve the fact
that these patriarchs were rich and the New testament says rich people don't go
to heaven and condemns the rich in this life?
Blessed to Build
·
Abraham +
Possessions + Land = Bless all nations
·
Lots of funding to build innumerable
people to bring salvation into the world
·
Note: This is not selfish accumulation of
personal wealth
Gen_14:14 – recued Lot by hiring 318 trained men
Denied himself more money
Gave All to Isaac
Gen_26:12-14
Mat_6:19-21 – Don’t lay up for yourselves treasures (comp. Mat_6:19-21; Luk_12:33; 1Ti_6:17-19)
2Co_12:14 – Parents should lay up for their children (2Co_12:14; Pro_13:22; 1Ti_5:8)
Pro_13:22 WEB A good man leaves an
inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored
for the righteous.
Pro_13:22 LB A good man shall inherit
children’s children, and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.
Pro_13:22 ἀγαθὸς
ἀνὴρ κληρονομήσει
υἱοὺς υἱῶν,
θησαυρίζεται
δὲ δικαίοις
πλοῦτος ἀσεβὼν.
Gen_12:
Abram Called
WEB, CAB, & Greek
Abram Leaves His Family
Gen_12:1 WEB Now Yahweh said to
Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives,
and from your father's house, to
the land that I will show you.
Gen_12:1 CAB The Call of Abram And the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth out of your land, and out from your family, and out
of the house of your father, into the
land which I will show you.
Gen_12:1 Καὶ εἶπεν
κύριος τῷ
Αβραμ Ἔξελθε ἐκ
τῆς γῆς σου καὶ ἐκ
τῆς συγγενείας
σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου
τοῦ πατρός σου
εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἄν
σοι δείξω·
Gen_12:2 WEB I will make of you a
great nation. I will bless
you and make your name great. You
will be a blessing.
Gen_12:2 “And I will make you a great
nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.
Gen_12:2 καὶ
ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος
μέγα καὶ εὐλογήσω
σε καὶ μεγαλυνῶ
τὸ ὄνομά σου, καὶ
ἔσῃ εὐλογητός·
Gen_12:3 WEB I will bless those who bless you, and I will
curse him who curses you. In you will all
of the families of the earth be blessed."
Gen_12:3 “And I will bless
those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.”
Gen_12:3 καὶ εὐλογήσω
τοὺς εὐλογοῦντάς
σε, καὶ τοὺς
καταρωμένους
σε καταράσομαι·
καὶ ἐνευλογηθήσονται
ἐν σοὶ πᾶσαι αἱ
φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς.
Gen_12:4 WEB So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to
him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed
out of Haran.
Gen_12:4 So Abram went,
as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five
years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen_12:4 καὶ ἐπορεύθη
Αβραμ, καθάπερ ἐλάλησεν
αὐτῷ κύριος, καὶ
ᾤχετο μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ
Λωτ· Αβραμ δὲ ἦν
ἐτῶν ἑβδομήκοντα
πέντε, ὅτε ἐξῆλθεν
ἐκ Χαρραν.
Gen_12:5 WEB Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his
brother's son, all their substance that
they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in
Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land
of Canaan they came.
Gen_12:5 And Abram took
Sarai his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions that they had gathered,
and every soul which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go
into the land of Canaan.
Gen_12:5 καὶ ἔλαβεν
Αβραμ τὴν
Σαραν γυναῖκα
αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν
Λωτ υἱὸν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα
τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῶν,
ὅσα ἐκτήσαντο,
καὶ πᾶσαν ψυχήν,
ἣν ἐκτήσαντο ἐν
Χαρραν, καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν
πορευθῆναι εἰς
γῆν Χανααν καὶ ἦλθον
εἰς γῆν Χανααν.
--
Gen_12:6 WEB Abram passed through
the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was
then in the land.
Gen_12:6 And Abram traveled the land lengthwise as far as Shechem, to
the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites then inhabited the land.
Gen_12:6 καὶ διώδευσεν
Αβραμ τὴν γῆν εἰς
τὸ μῆκος αὐτῆς ἕως
τοῦ τόπου
Συχεμ ἐπὶ τὴν
δρῦν τὴν ὑψηλήν·
οἱ δὲ Χαναναῖοι
τότε κατῴκουν
τὴν γῆν.
Gen_12:7 WEB Yahweh appeared
to Abram and said, "I will give this
land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who
appeared to him.
Gen_12:7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I
will give this land to your decendants.”
And Abram built an altar there to the Lord who appeared to him.
Gen_12:7 καὶ ὤφθη
κύριος τῷ
Αβραμ καὶ εἶπεν
αὐτῷ Τῷ σπέρματί
σου δώσω τὴν γῆν
ταύτην. καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν
ἐκεῖ Αβραμ
θυσιαστήριον
κυρίῳ τῷ ὀφθέντι
αὐτῷ.
Gen_12:8 WEB He left from there
to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on
the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
Gen_12:8 And he departed from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and
there he pitched his tent in Bethel near the sea, and Ai toward the east, and
there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.
Gen_12:8 καὶ ἀπέστη
ἐκεῖθεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος
κατ᾿ ἀνατολὰς
Βαιθηλ καὶ ἔστησεν
ἐκεῖ τὴν σκηνὴν
αὐτοῦ, Βαιθηλ
κατὰ θάλασσαν
καὶ Αγγαι κατ᾿ ἀνατολάς·
καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν
ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον
τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο
ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι
κυρίου.
Gen_12:9 WEB Abram traveled,
going on still toward the South.
Gen_12:9 And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
Gen_12:9 καὶ ἀπῆρεν
Αβραμ καὶ
πορευθεὶς ἐστρατοπέδευσεν
ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.
Gen_12:10 WEB There was a famine in the land. Abram went down
into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Gen_12:10 Now there was a famine
in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine
prevailed in the land.
Gen_12:10 Καὶ ἐγένετο
λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
καὶ κατέβη
Αβραμ εἰς Αἴγυπτον
παροικῆσαι ἐκεῖ,
ὅτι ἐνίσχυσεν ὁ
λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
Gen_12:10-20 – Abram Gives Sarai Away in Egypt
Gen_12:16 WEB He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He
had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female
servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Gen_12:16 And they treated Abram
well on her account, and he had sheep, calves, donkeys,
male and female servants, mules, and camels.
Gen_12:16 καὶ τῷ
Αβραμ εὖ ἐχρήσαντο
δι᾿ αὐτήν, καὶ ἐγένοντο
αὐτῷ πρόβατα
καὶ μόσχοι καὶ ὄνοι,
παῖδες καὶ
παιδίσκαι, ἡμίονοι
καὶ κάμηλοι.
Gen_12:17-19 – God plagued Pharaoh & Secret is discovered
Gen_12:20 WEB Pharaoh commanded
men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.
Gen_12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning Abram, to join in
sending him forward, and his wife, and all
that he had.
Gen_12:20 καὶ ἐνετείλατο
Φαραω ἀνδράσιν
περὶ Αβραμ
συμπροπέμψαι
αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν
γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ
καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἦν
αὐτῷ, καὶ Λωτ
μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ.
Gen_13:
Abraham Gave up Better Land to Lot
WEB, CAB, & Greek
Gen_13:1 WEB Abram went up out of
Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
Gen_13:1 CAB Abram and Lot Separate And Abram went up out
of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the
wilderness.
Gen_13:1 Ἀνέβη
δὲ Αβραμ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου,
αὐτὸς καὶ ἡ γυνὴ
αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα
τὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ
Λωτ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ,
εἰς τὴν ἔρημον.
Gen_13:2 WEB Abram was very rich in livestock,
in silver, and in gold.
Gen_13:2 And Abram
was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.
Gen_13:2 Αβραμ
δὲ ἦν πλούσιος
σφόδρα κτήνεσιν
καὶ ἀργυρίῳ καὶ
χρυσίῳ.
Gen_13:3 WEB He went on his
journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at
the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Gen_13:3 And he went to the place where he came, into the wilderness as
far as Bethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bethel
and Ai,
Gen_13:3 καὶ ἐπορεύθη
ὅθεν ἦλθεν, εἰς
τὴν ἔρημον ἕως
Βαιθηλ, ἕως τοῦ
τόπου, οὗ ἦν ἡ
σκηνὴ αὐτοῦ τὸ
πρότερον, ἀνὰ μέσον
Βαιθηλ καὶ ἀνὰ
μέσον Αγγαι,
Gen_13:4 WEB to the place of the
altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of
Yahweh.
Gen_13:4 to the place of the altar, which he built there at first, and
Abram there called on the name of the Lord.
Gen_13:4 εἰς τὸν
τόπον τοῦ
θυσιαστηρίου,
οὗ ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖ
τὴν ἀρχήν· καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο
ἐκεῖ Αβραμ τὸ ὄνομα
κυρίου.
Gen_13:5 WEB Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Gen_13:5 And Lot,
who went out with Abram, had sheep,
oxen, and tents.
Gen_13:5 καὶ
Λωτ τῷ
συμπορευομένῳ
μετὰ Αβραμ ἦν
πρόβατα καὶ βόες
καὶ σκηναί.
Gen_13:6 WEB The land was not
able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they
could not live together.
Gen_13:6 And the land was not large enough for them to live together,
because their possessions were great;
and the land was not large enough for them to live together.
Gen_13:6 καὶ οὐκ
ἐχώρει αὐτοὺς ἡ
γῆ κατοικεῖν ἅμα,
ὅτι ἦν τὰ ὑπάρχοντα
αὐτῶν πολλά, καὶ
οὐκ ἐδύναντο
κατοικεῖν ἅμα.
Gen_13:7 WEB There was a strife between
the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
Gen_13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle,
and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle, and the Canaanites and the Perizzites then
inhabited the land.
Gen_13:7 καὶ ἐγένετο
μάχη ἀνὰ μέσον
τῶν ποιμένων τῶν
κτηνῶν τοῦ
Αβραμ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον
τῶν ποιμένων τῶν
κτηνῶν τοῦ Λωτ·
οἱ δὲ Χαναναῖοι
καὶ οἱ Φερεζαῖοι
τότε κατῴκουν
τὴν γῆν.
Gen_13:8 WEB Abram said to Lot,
"Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my
herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Gen_13:8 And Abram said to Lot, “Let there not be strife between me and
you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
Gen_13:8 εἶπεν
δὲ Αβραμ τῷ Λωτ
Μὴ ἔστω μάχη ἀνὰ
μέσον ἐμοῦ καὶ
σοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον
τῶν ποιμένων
μου καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον
τῶν ποιμένων
σου. ὅτι ἄνθρωποι
ἀδελφοὶ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν.
Gen_13:9 WEB Isn't the whole land
before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then
I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the
left."
Gen_13:9 Behold, is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself
from me; if you go to the left, I will go to the right, and if you go to the
right, I will go to the left.”
Gen_13:9 οὐκ ἰδοὺ
πᾶσα ἡ γῆ ἐναντίον
σού ἐστιν;
διαχωρίσθητι ἀπ᾿
ἐμοῦ· εἰ σὺ εἰς
ἀριστερά, ἐγὼ εἰς
δεξιά· εἰ δὲ σὺ
εἰς δεξιά, ἐγὼ
εἰς ἀριστερά.
Gen_13:10
WEB Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all
the plain of the Jordan, that it
was well-watered
everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the
land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
Gen_13:10 And Lot, having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country
round about the Jordan, that it was
well watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, as the garden of the Lord, and as
the land of Egypt, until you come to Zoar.
Gen_13:10 καὶ ἐπάρας
Λωτ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς
αὐτοῦ εἶδεν πᾶσαν
τὴν περίχωρον
τοῦ Ιορδάνου ὅτι
πᾶσα ἦν
ποτιζομένη-- πρὸ
τοῦ καταστρέψαι
τὸν θεὸν
Σοδομα καὶ
Γομορρα--ὡς ὁ
παράδεισος τοῦ
θεοῦ καὶ ὡς ἡ γῆ
Αἰγύπτου ἕως ἐλθεῖν
εἰς Ζογορα.
Gen_13:11 WEB So Lot chose the
Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated
themselves the one from the other.
Gen_13:11 And Lot chose for himself all the country surrounding the
Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated from each other.
And Abram dwelt in the
land of Canaan.
Gen_13:11 καὶ ἐξελέξατο
ἑαυτῷ Λωτ πᾶσαν
τὴν περίχωρον
τοῦ Ιορδάνου,
καὶ ἀπῆρεν Λωτ ἀπὸ
ἀνατολῶν, καὶ
διεχωρίσθησαν
ἕκαστος ἀπὸ τοῦ
ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Gen_13:12 WEB Abram lived in the land of Canaan,
and Lot lived in the
cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Gen_13:12 And Lot
dwelt in a city of the neighboring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.
Gen_13:12 Αβραμ
δὲ κατῴκησεν ἐν
γῇ Χανααν, Λωτ δὲ
κατῴκησεν ἐν πόλει
τῶν περιχώρων
καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν
Σοδομοις·
Gen_13:13 WEB Now the men of Sodom
were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
Gen_13:13 But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before
God.
Gen_13:13 οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι
οἱ ἐν Σοδομοις
πονηροὶ καὶ ἁμαρτωλοὶ
ἐναντίον τοῦ
θεοῦ σφόδρα.
Gen_13:14 WEB Yahweh said to
Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look
from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and
westward,
Gen_13:14 And God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, “Look
up with your eyes, and behold from the place where you now are northward and
southward, and eastward and westward;
Gen_13:14 Ὁ δὲ θεὸς
εἶπεν τῷ Αβραμ
μετὰ τὸ
διαχωρισθῆναι
τὸν Λωτ ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ
Ἀναβλέψας τοῖς
ὀφθαλμοῖς σου ἰδὲ
ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου,
οὗ νῦν σὺ εἶ, πρὸς
βορρᾶν καὶ λίβα
καὶ ἀνατολὰς
καὶ θάλασσαν·
Gen_13:15 WEB for all the land which you see, I will give to
you, and to your offspring forever.
Gen_13:15 for all the land
which you see, I will give to you and to your decendants forever.
Gen_13:15 ὅτι πᾶσαν
τὴν γῆν, ἣν σὺ ὁρᾷς,
σοὶ δώσω αὐτὴν
καὶ τῷ σπέρματί
σου ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.
Gen_13:16 WEB I will make your offspring
as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the
earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
Gen_13:16 And I will make your decendants like the dust of the earth;
if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your decendants
be numbered.
Gen_13:16 καὶ
ποιήσω τὸ σπέρμα
σου ὡς τὴν ἄμμον
τῆς γῆς· εἰ δύναταί
τις ἐξαριθμῆσαι
τὴν ἄμμον τῆς γῆς,
καὶ τὸ σπέρμα
σου ἐξαριθμηθήσεται.
Gen_13:17 WEB Arise, walk through the land in its length and
in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
Gen_13:17 Arise, walk in the land,
both in its length and in its breadth; for to you will I give it, and to your decendants forever.”
Gen_13:17 ἀναστὰς
διόδευσον τὴν
γῆν εἴς τε τὸ μῆκος
αὐτῆς καὶ εἰς τὸ
πλάτος, ὅτι σοὶ
δώσω αὐτήν.
Gen_13:18 WEB Abram moved his
tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built
an altar there to Yahweh.
Gen_13:18 And Abram, having removed his tent, came and dwelt by the oak
of Mamre, which was in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Gen_13:18 καὶ ἀποσκηνώσας
Αβραμ ἐλθὼν
κατῴκησεν παρὰ
τὴν δρῦν τὴν
Μαμβρη, ἣ ἦν ἐν
Χεβρων, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν
ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον
κυρίῳ.
Isaac Was Rich?
-- Under Construction --
Preview of Isaac’s Riches
-- Under Construction --
Gen_26:22 – he moved from there dug another well and they didn't
argue about it... so he called it 'room for us'
Famine!
Isaac’s Rule: Stay in the Promised Land! -- no Egypt!
Gen_12: – Abraham when to Egypt during the famine in the Promised
Land
Abraham said don’t take Isaac back to Haran
Gen_26: Stay in the land; don’t go down to Egypt
Gen_26:6-14
Gen_26:
Gen_26:12 WEB Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the
same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Gen_26:12 CAB And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found
barley in that year, and reaped one hundred fold, and the Lord blessed him.
Gen_26:12 Ἔσπειρεν
δὲ Ισαακ ἐν τῇ γῇ
ἐκείνῃ καὶ εὗρεν
ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἐκείνῳ
ἑκατοστεύουσαν
κριθήν· εὐλόγησεν
δὲ αὐτὸν κύριος.
Gen_26:13 WEB The man grew great,
and grew more and more until he became very great.
Gen_26:13 And the man prospered, and continued prospering, till he became
very great.
Gen_26:13 καὶ ὑψώθη
ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ
προβαίνων μείζων
ἐγίνετο, ἕως οὗ
μέγας ἐγένετο
σφόδρα·
Gen_26:14 WEB He had possessions
of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied
him.
Gen_26:14 And he had herds of sheep, and herds of oxen, and many tilled
lands, and the Philistines envied him.
Gen_26:14 ἐγένετο
δὲ αὐτῷ κτήνη
προβάτων καὶ
κτήνη βοῶν καὶ
γεώργια πολλά. ἐζήλωσαν
δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ
Φυλιστιιμ,
Gen_26:15 WEB Now all the wells
which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the
Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Gen_26:15 And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in
the time of his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with
earth.
Gen_26:15 καὶ πάντα
τὰ φρέατα, ἃ ὤρυξαν
οἱ παῖδες τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν
τῷ χρόνῳ τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἐνέφραξαν
αὐτὰ οἱ Φυλιστιιμ
καὶ ἔπλησαν αὐτὰ
γῆς.
Gen_26:16 WEB Abimelech said to
Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
Gen_26:16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you have
become much greater than us.”
Gen_26:16 εἶπεν
δὲ Αβιμελεχ πρὸς
Ισαακ Ἄπελθε ἀφ᾿
ἡμῶν, ὅτι δυνατώτερος
ἡμῶν ἐγένου σφόδρα.
Gen_26:17 WEB Isaac departed from
there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Gen_26:17 And Isaac departed from there, and rested in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen_26:17 καὶ ἀπῆλθεν
ἐκεῖθεν Ισαακ
καὶ κατέλυσεν ἐν
τῇ φάραγγι
Γεραρων καὶ
κατῴκησεν ἐκεῖ.
Gen_26:18 WEB Isaac dug again the
wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the
Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names
after the names by which his father had called them.
Gen_26:18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of
his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them up, after the
death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by
which his father named them.
Gen_26:18 καὶ πάλιν
Ισαακ ὤρυξεν τὰ
φρέατα τοῦ ὕδατος,
ἃ ὤρυξαν οἱ παῖδες
Αβρααμ τοῦ
πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἐνέφραξαν
αὐτὰ οἱ
Φυλιστιιμ μετὰ
τὸ ἀποθανεῖν
Αβρααμ τὸν πατέρα
αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν
αὐτοῖς ὀνόματα
κατὰ τὰ ὀνόματα,
ἃ ἐπωνόμασεν
Αβρααμ ὁ πατὴρ
αὐτοῦ.
Gen_26:19 WEB Isaac's servants dug
in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Gen_26:19 And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley of Gerar, and they
found there a well of living water.
Gen_26:19 καὶ ὤρυξαν
οἱ παῖδες
Ισαακ ἐν τῇ φάραγγι
Γεραρων καὶ εὗρον
ἐκεῖ φρέαρ ὕδατος
ζῶντος.
Gen_26:20 WEB The herdsmen of
Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He
called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Gen_26:20 And the shepherds of Gerar quarreled with the shepherds of
Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well,
Injury, for they injured him.
Gen_26:20 καὶ ἐμαχέσαντο
οἱ ποιμένες
Γεραρων μετὰ τῶν
ποιμένων
Ισαακ φάσκοντες
αὐτῶν εἶναι τὸ ὕδωρ·
καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ
ὄνομα τοῦ φρέατος
Ἀδικία· ἠδίκησαν
γὰρ αὐτόν.
Gen_26:21 WEB They dug another
well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
Gen_26:21 And having departed from there he dug another well, and they
fought for that one also; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
Gen_26:21 ἀπάρας
δὲ Ισαακ ἐκεῖθεν
ὤρυξεν φρέαρ ἕτερον,
ἐκρίνοντο δὲ
καὶ περὶ ἐκείνου·
καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν
τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐχθρία.
Gen_26:22 WEB He left that place, and
dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He
said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the
land."
Gen_26:22 And he departed from there and dug another well; and they did
not quarrel about that one; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, “Because
now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.”
Gen_26:22 ἀπάρας
δὲ ἐκεῖθεν ὤρυξεν
φρέαρ ἕτερον,
καὶ οὐκ ἐμαχέσαντο
περὶ αὐτοῦ· καὶ
ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα
αὐτοῦ Εὐρυχωρία
λέγων Διότι νῦν
ἐπλάτυνεν κύριος
ἡμῖν καὶ ηὔξησεν
ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
Gen_26:23 WEB He went up from
there to Beersheba.
Gen_26:23 And he went up from there to the Well of the Oath.
Gen_26:23 Ἀνέβη
δὲ ἐκεῖθεν ἐπὶ
τὸ φρέαρ τοῦ ὅρκου.
Gen_26:24 WEB Yahweh appeared to
him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't
be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my
servant Abraham's sake."
Gen_26:24 And the Lord appeared to him in that night and said, “I am the
God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you, and I will bless you,
and multiply your descendants for the sake of Abraham your father.”
Gen_26:24 καὶ ὤφθη
αὐτῷ κύριος ἐν
τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ
καὶ εἶπεν Ἐγώ εἰμι
ὁ θεὸς Αβρααμ
τοῦ πατρός σου·
μὴ φοβοῦ· μετὰ
σοῦ γάρ εἰμι καὶ
ηὐλόγηκά σε καὶ
πληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα
σου διὰ Αβρααμ
τὸν πατέρα σου.
Gen_26:25 WEB He built an altar
there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There
Isaac's servants dug a well.
Gen_26:25 And he built an altar there, and called on the name of the
Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well
in the valley of Gerar.
Gen_26:25 καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν
ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον
καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο
τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου
καὶ ἔπηξεν ἐκεῖ
τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ·
ὤρυξαν δὲ ἐκεῖ
οἱ παῖδες
Ισαακ φρέαρ.
Following Context:
Gen_26:26-32 – Abimelech Makes a swearing oath
and covenant of peace with Isaac
Jacob Was Rich?
Preview
-- Under Construction --
Jacob buried his father Isaac
Jacob had servants
Jacob had lots of kids
(A) Jacob Got Esau's Birthright and Blessing
Gen_25:31-34; Gen_27:27-29; Heb_12:16
Notice the important defining context of
Jacob's blessing!
(B) Jacob Increased Riches
Gen_30:37-42 – Jacob Tends Flocks to Strategically increase his wages from
Laban
(This strategy is not bad
since good things were made for good people from the beginning)
Gen_30:43 WEB The man
[Jacob] increased
exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Gen_30:43 And the man [Jacob] became very rich, and he had many cattle and oxen, and male and female servants,
and camels and donkeys.
Gen_30:43 καὶ ἐπλούτησεν
ὁ ἄνθρωπος σφόδρα
σφόδρα, καὶ ἐγένετο
αὐτῷ κτήνη
πολλὰ καὶ βόες
καὶ παῖδες καὶ
παιδίσκαι καὶ
κάμηλοι καὶ ὄνοι.
(C) Jacob’s Poverty
Jacob and his children ended up in a desperately
needy situation during the famine
Jacob said he was a pilgrim and a stranger
on the land
Jacob described the days of his life as
evil and few
Jacob had control of a lot of resources
but he also went through famines and ended up not living it up and enjoying
personal wealth...
He supported servants, and 12 Patriarchs,
and multiple wives and other women for his children, and he fasted and mourned
for the loss of Joseph for many years and ended up considering himself a
pilgrim and his life to be better and evil in what he personally experienced
with all the assets and resources at his disposal - therefore Jacob was
situationally rich at some point but was in application very poor!
We see that you can DO things with your
abundance to not be counted as personally abundant.
My servant ate at my table
So, when you have been exalted above
others, do you make them equal or even better than yourself?
This is what all righteous people do in
the Bible by shunning personal luxury that humans are unworthy and unfit to
indulge in.
Hebrews they were destitute afflicted
In the end, the riches of the Patriarchs
funded the mission of starting the 12 tribes of Israel which is an eternal mission
that goes on into heaven. they mourned and were considered afflicted and
endured through famine and practiced self-denial with their abundance, and
delayed marriage, and acquired the crown of righteousness as heroes of Faith in
Hebrews 11 having disregarded The riches of this world and this life for the
sake of God's mission to build up God's Kingdom on Earth until it would come
down from Heaven to Earth through its most important seed of Anointed One, who
would eventually justify the self-denial of the Patriarchs and teach us to look back and hate money and
choose to be poor.
Joseph Was Rich?
Joseph: Slavery, Prisoner, Ruler, Savior
Saved OTHERS through advantages
Joseph Stored up… to save life!
(not for himself)
Let another mouth praise
you
Gen_41:41 WEB Pharaoh said to
Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
Gen_41:41 CAB And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I set
you this day over all the land of Egypt.”
Gen_41:41 εἶπεν
δὲ Φαραω τῷ
Ιωσηφ Ἰδοὺ καθίστημί
σε σήμερον ἐπὶ
πάσης γῆς Αἰγύπτου.
Gen_41:42 WEB Pharaoh took off his
signet ring from his hand,
and put it on Joseph's hand,
and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about
his neck,
Gen_41:42 And Pharaoh took his ring
off his hand, and put it on the hand of
Joseph, and put on him a robe of fine linen, and put a necklace
of gold about his neck.
Gen_41:42 καὶ
περιελόμενος
Φαραω τὸν δακτύλιον
ἀπὸ τῆς χειρὸς
αὐτοῦ περιέθηκεν
αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν
χεῖρα Ιωσηφ καὶ
ἐνέδυσεν αὐτὸν
στολὴν βυσσίνην
καὶ περιέθηκεν
κλοιὸν χρυσοῦν
περὶ τὸν τράχηλον
αὐτοῦ·
Gen_41:43 WEB and he made him to
ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the
knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.
Gen_41:43 And he mounted him on the second of his chariots, and a herald
made proclamation before him; and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
Gen_41:43 καὶ ἀνεβίβασεν
αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ ἅρμα
τὸ δεύτερον τῶν
αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκήρυξεν
ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ
κῆρυξ· καὶ κατέστησεν
αὐτὸν ἐφ᾿ ὅλης
γῆς Αἰγύπτου.
Gen_41:44 WEB Pharaoh said to
Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or
his foot in all the land of Egypt."
Gen_41:44 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh; without you no one
shall lift up his hand on all the land of Egypt.”
Gen_41:44 εἶπεν
δὲ Φαραω τῷ
Ιωσηφ Ἐγὼ
Φαραω· ἄνευ σοῦ
οὐκ ἐξαρεῖ οὐθεὶς
τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ
ἐπὶ πάσῃ γῇ Αἰγύπτου.
Gen_41:45 WEB Pharaoh called
Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of
Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
Gen_41:45 And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph Zaphnath-Paaneah; and he
gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of Heliopolis, as a wife.
Gen_41:45 καὶ ἐκάλεσεν
Φαραω τὸ ὄνομα
Ιωσηφ
Ψονθομφανηχ·
καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ
τὴν Ασεννεθ
θυγατέρα
Πετεφρη ἱερέως
Ἡλίου πόλεως αὐτῷ
γυναῖκα.
Gen_41:46 WEB Joseph was thirty
years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Gen_41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh,
king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
through all the land of Egypt.
Gen_41:46 Ιωσηφ
δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν τριάκοντα,
ὅτε ἔστη ἐναντίον
Φαραω βασιλέως
Αἰγύπτου. Ἐξῆλθεν
δὲ Ιωσηφ ἐκ
προσώπου
Φαραω καὶ διῆλθεν
πᾶσαν γῆν Αἰγύπτου.
Moses & Israelites Were Rich?
Moses FORSOOK the treasures of Egypt,
giving up a chance for personal wealth, and then was later divinely inspired to
empower the Israelites to plunder them many years later
Moses & Samuel Were Extra Sacrificial
Num_16:15; 1Sa_12:3-4 – I haven't taken as much as a hoof from them
Moses: we will take all our possessions as
well to sacrifice to the Lord our God
Egyptians Plundered
Golden Calf
Only Daily Bread
Jubalee: the land belongs to the Lord
Tithes reinforced God’s ownership
They gave too much for the tabernacle --
told to stop giving
Be generous with earthly kingdom building,
and then…
Deu_15: there will no poor among you
\/
This was only realized in the fulfilling
New Covenant
Act no one among them had any need because
others were selling their possessions
Deu_4: Deu_11:
I am not blessing you because you are so
righteous, because in fact, you are a stiff-necked people
Boaz Was Rich?
Boaz is Strong with Field & Reapers
Rth_2:1 WEB Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a
mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
Rth_2:1 CAB And Naomi had a friend, an acquaintance of
her husband, and the man was a mighty [δυνατὸς
ἰσχύι] man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
Rth_2:1 Καὶ τῇ
Νωεμιν ἀνὴρ γνώριμος
τῷ ἀνδρὶ αὐτῆς·
ὁ δὲ ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς
ἰσχύι ἐκ τῆς
συγγενείας
Αβιμελεχ, καὶ ὄνομα
αὐτῷ Βοος.
Rth_2:2 WEB Ruth the Moabitess
said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain
after him in whose sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.
Rth_2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me go now to the
field, and I will glean among the ears behind the man with whomsoever I shall
find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, daughter.”
Rth_2:2 καὶ εἶπεν
Ρουθ ἡ Μωαβῖτις
πρὸς Νωεμιν
Πορευθῶ δὴ εἰς ἀγρὸν
καὶ συνάξω ἐν
τοῖς στάχυσιν
κατόπισθεν οὗ ἐὰν
εὕρω χάριν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς
αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν δὲ
αὐτῇ Πορεύου, θύγατερ.
Rth_2:3 WEB She went, and came
and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the
portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Rth_2:3 And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the
reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Boaz,
of the kindred of Elimelech.
Rth_2:3 καὶ ἐπορεύθη
καὶ συνέλεξεν ἐν
τῷ ἀγρῷ κατόπισθεν
τῶν θεριζόντων·
καὶ περιέπεσεν
περιπτώματι τῇ
μερίδι τοῦ ἀγροῦ
Βοος τοῦ ἐκ
συγγενείας
Αβιμελεχ.
Rth_2:4 WEB Behold, Boaz came
from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with you. They answered him,
Yahweh bless you.
Rth_2:4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers,
“The Lord be with you.” And they said to him, “The Lord bless you.”
Rth_2:4 καὶ ἰδοὺ
Βοος ἦλθεν ἐκ
Βαιθλεεμ καὶ εἶπεν
τοῖς θερίζουσιν
Κύριος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν·
καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ
Εὐλογήσαι σε κύριος.
Boaz is Generous
Rth_2:8 WEB Then said Boaz to
Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field, neither
pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
Rth_2:8 CAB And Boaz said to Ruth,
“Have you not heard, my daughter? Do not depart to glean in another field; do not
depart from here, but join yourself here with my young women.
Rth_2:8 καὶ εἶπεν
Βοος πρὸς Ρουθ
Οὐκ ἤκουσας, θύγατερ;
μὴ πορευθῇς ἐν ἀγρῷ
συλλέξαι ἑτέρῳ,
καὶ σὺ οὐ πορεύσῃ
ἐντεῦθεν· ὧδε
κολλήθητι μετὰ
τῶν κορασίων
μου·
Rth_2:9 WEB Let your eyes be on
the field that they reap, and go after them: haven't I commanded the young men
not to touch you? and when you are
thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Rth_2:9 Let your eyes be on the field where my men reap, and you shall
go after them. Behold, I have charged the young men not to touch you, and when
you shall thirst, then you shall go to the
vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.”
Rth_2:9 οἱ ὀφθαλμοί
σου εἰς τὸν ἀγρόν,
οὗ ἐὰν θερίζωσιν,
καὶ πορεύσῃ
κατόπισθεν αὐτῶν·
ἰδοὺ ἐνετειλάμην
τοῖς παιδαρίοις
τοῦ μὴ ἅψασθαί
σου· καὶ ὅ τι
διψήσεις, καὶ
πορευθήσῃ εἰς
τὰ σκεύη καὶ πίεσαι
ὅθεν ἂν ὑδρεύωνται
τὰ παιδάρια.
Rth_2:10-13 – kind and thankful words
exchanged
Rth_2:14 WEB At meal time Boaz
said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the
vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and
she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
Rth_2:14 CAB And Boaz said to her,
“Now it is time to eat; come here, and you shall eat of the bread, and you
shall dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So Ruth sat by the side of the
reapers; and Boaz handed her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and
left.
Rth_2:14 καὶ εἶπεν
αὐτῇ Βοος Ἤδη ὥρᾳ
τοῦ φαγεῖν πρόσελθε
ὧδε καὶ φάγεσαι
τῶν ἄρτων καὶ βάψεις
τὸν ψωμόν σου ἐν
τῷ ὄξει. καὶ ἐκάθισεν
Ρουθ ἐκ πλαγίων
τῶν θεριζόντων,
καὶ ἐβούνισεν
αὐτῇ Βοος ἄλφιτον,
καὶ ἔφαγεν καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη
καὶ κατέλιπεν.
Rth_2:15 WEB When she was risen up
to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the
sheaves, and don't reproach her.
Rth_2:15 And she rose up to glean; and Boaz commanded his young men,
saying, “Let her even glean among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.
Rth_2:15 καὶ ἀνέστη
τοῦ συλλέγειν,
καὶ ἐνετείλατο
Βοος τοῖς
παιδαρίοις αὐτοῦ
λέγων Καί γε ἀνὰ
μέσον τῶν
δραγμάτων
συλλεγέτω, καὶ
μὴ καταισχύνητε
αὐτήν·
Rth_2:16 WEB Also pull out some
for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don't rebuke
her.
Rth_2:16 And by all means carry it for her, and you shall surely let
fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and
do not rebuke her.”
Rth_2:16 καὶ
βαστάζοντες
βαστάξατε αὐτῇ
καί γε παραβάλλοντες
παραβαλεῖτε αὐτῇ
ἐκ τῶν
βεβουνισμένων,
καὶ ἄφετε καὶ
συλλέξει, καὶ οὐκ
ἐπιτιμήσετε αὐτῇ.
Mighty-Woman
Rth_3:11 WEB Now, my daughter,
don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my
people does know that you are a worthy woman.
Rth_3:11 And now fear not, my daughter, whatever you shall say I will do
for you; for all the tribe of my people knows that you are a virtuous
[δυνάμεως] woman.
Rth_3:11 καὶ νῦν,
θύγατερ, μὴ
φοβοῦ· πάντα, ὅσα
ἐὰν εἴπῃς, ποιήσω
σοι· οἶδεν γὰρ
πᾶσα φυλὴ λαοῦ
μου ὅτι γυνὴ δυνάμεως
εἶ σύ,
i.e. Pro_12:4; Pro_31:10, Pro_31:29-31
Rth_3:15 – Boaz is Generous Again
David was Rich?
1Ch_29:28 NKJV So he died in a good old age, full of days and riches and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
David was Rich or Poor?
This poor man cried
33 Psalms about the poor
No New Covenant Kings on Earth
We’re not called to be kings in the New
Covenant!
TOC
Earthly Kingdoms are Doomed
Here we have no continuing city
Solomon Was Rich?
A Prosperity Video Said, “the Bible is
full of examples of wealthy figures who mantained a deep relationship with god.
Consider Abraham, Job, and Solomon himself [who wrote the proverbs they just talked about]. Each of these men was blessed with
wealth but still remained faithful.”
Time: 5:27 in the video
https://youtu.be/HDTfTQJn9bc?si=xVzScP6hfp8ilc10
2Ch_1:12 NKJV Wisdom and knowledge are granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like.
Solomon is both an example to imitate (1Ki_3:5-14) and an example to avoid (1Ki_11; Neh_5:6-10).
The Bible clearly tells us both aspects,
so we have to agree and obey what it says.
1Ki_3:5-14 – Solomon prioritized wisdom and God also gave him
prosperity
1Ki_8: Build temple
1Ki_10:
1Ki_11: Solomon falls away
Idolatry and forbidden marriages
1Ki_21: Ahab’s sins with wealth and idols and
abortions
Neh_5:6-10
This is where the Bible clearly and
explicitly tells us to avoid Solomon’s apostasy.
Notice that the Bible always clearly tells
us when its heroes sin so that imitation can indeed be a healthy and safe
required default for all monotheistic obeyers.
Ecc:
I kept back nothing my eyes desired
It was all vanity
Ecc_5:10-15
Liking silver, not satisfied with silver
Pro
Rich and Poor both partake of wealth and
poverty
Money was getting a 2nd chance,
but again their sinfulness proved that sinful flesh cannot handle abundance of
money and possessions
Rich Kings
-- Under Construction --
Jehoshaphat was Rich?
2Ch_17:5 NKJV Therefore the Lord
established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah gave presents to
Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.
Hezekiah was Rich?
2Ch_32:27 NKJV Hezekiah had very great riches and honor. And he made himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of desirable items.
Jabez: No Sorrow with Prospering
Bless,
Enlarge, Be With Him, & Kept From Evil & Pain
GPT: "Jabez" (יַעְבֵּץ,
Ya‘bêṣ) sounds like the Hebrew word for "pain" (עֹצֶב, ‘oṣeb). His
mother named him this because she bore him in pain
1Ch_4:9 WEB Jabez was more
honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, Because I
bore him with sorrow.
1Ch_4:9 CAB Now Jabez was more famous than his brothers; and
his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “I have born him as a sorrowful one.”
1Ch_4:9 καὶ ἦν
Ιγαβης ἔνδοξος
ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς
αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἡ μήτηρ
ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα
αὐτοῦ Ιγαβης λέγουσα
Ἔτεκον ὡς
γαβης.
1Ch_4:10 WEB Jabez called on the
God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my
border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from
evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
1Ch_4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “O that You
would indeed bless me, and enlarge my coasts, and that Your hand might be with
me, and that You would make me know that You will not grieve me!” And God
granted him all that he asked.
1Ch_4:10 καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο
Ιγαβης τὸν θεὸν
Ισραηλ λέγων Ἐὰν
εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσῃς
με καὶ πληθύνῃς
τὰ ὅριά μου καὶ
ᾖ ἡ χείρ σου μετ᾿
ἐμοῦ, καὶ ποιήσεις
γνῶσιν τοῦ μὴ
ταπεινῶσαί με.
καὶ ἐπήγαγεν ὁ
θεὸς πάντα, ὅσα ᾐτήσατο.
--
Blessing Enriches adds no sorrow
to it
The Righteous Rich Were Not Rich To Themselves
We have no evidence that the rich
righteous rich people in the Bible please themselves with their riches, and we
cannot think that they were Rich unto themselves under these authoritative
biblical constraints.
The main exception to this was Solomon and
when he pleased himself with his riches, he was also apostating in 1 Kings 11.
The Righteous Forsake Money
Luk_5:8-11 – supernatural provision… they forsook all!
Conviction of sin
They were afraid -- reverence = Biblical
miracle
Catchers of men
Righteousness Often Changed Righteous People’s Riches
·
People like
Zacchaeus forsook and gave away significant amounts of his money to inherit
eternal life.
· People like Matthew and others were sinfully rich before Jesus, but “forsook all” to follow Him.
·
Abigail
unwillingly “shared” in the sin-tainted riches of her evil husband Nabal until
she was widowed and forsook all to follow the hope of being David’s wife.
·
It is unknown
how righteousness specifically affected initially richer people like Lidia
after Truth came to them.
It is sometimes pretended that people who
started off rich serve as evidence that rich people can get heaven even though
they actually prove the opposite: that you have to STOP being rich when you
forsake all to become a disciple.
Holy-ifying Needed
...
they had to clean dirty gold like we have
to today, which tells us money is dirty!
...
he who loves oil & wine
don't look at the wine it bites
/\\/
New Covenant Riches
Women Supported Jesus
Marry and Marth still have a home
Zacious
Joseph of Amamethia
Mat_27:57 CAB Now when evening had come, there came a rich man
from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.
Mat_27:57 ᾿Οψίας
δὲ γενομένης
ἦλθεν ἄνθρωπος
πλούσιος ἀπὸ
᾿Αριμαθαίας,
τοὔνομα ᾿Ιωσήφ,
ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς
ἐμαθήτευσε
τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ·
Mat_27:57
οψιας δε
γενομενης ηλθεν
ανθρωπος
πλουσιος απο
αριμαθαιας
τουνομα ιωσηφ
ος και αυτος Aεμαθητευθη TSBεμαθητευσεν
τω ιησου
Mat_27:58 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate
commanded the body to be given to him.
Mat_27:58 οὗτος
προσελθὼν τῷ
Πιλάτῳ ἠτήσατο
τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ.
τότε ὁ Πιλᾶτος
ἐκέλευσεν ἀποδοθῆναι
τὸ σῶμα.
Mat_27:58
ουτος
προσελθων τω
πιλατω ητησατο
το σωμα του
ιησου τοτε ο
πιλατος
εκελευσεν
αποδοθηναι TSBτο TSBσωμα
Mat_27:59 And taking the body, Joseph wrapped it up in a clean linen
cloth,
Mat_27:59 καὶ
λαβὼν τὸ σῶμα
ὁ ᾿Ιωσὴφ ἐνετύλιξεν
αὐτὸ
σινδόνι
καθαρᾷ,
Mat_27:59 και
λαβων το σωμα ο
ιωσηφ
ενετυλιξεν
αυτο Aεν σινδονι
καθαρα
Mat_27:60 and placed it in his new tomb which he had cut in the rock; and
having rolled a large stone against the door of the
tomb, he departed.
Mat_27:60 καὶ ἔθηκεν
αὐτὸ ἐν τῷ
καινῷ αὐτοῦ
μνημείῳ ὃ ἐλατόμησεν
ἐν τῇ
πέτρᾳ, καὶ
προσκυλίσας
λίθον μέγαν
τῇ θύρᾳ
τοῦ μνημείου
ἀπῆλθεν.
A Roman Centurion Who Built a Synagogue
Luk_7:4-5 NKJV "And when they came to Jesus, they begged Him earnestly, saying that the one for whom He should do this was deserving, 'for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue.'"
Luk_7:9 NKJV "When Jesus heard these things, He marveled at him, and turned around and said to the crowd that followed Him, 'I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!'"
Act_10:1-48 – Cornelius
Preview: Fastings, gifts to the poor, fearing
God, Working Righteousness, Begging to Hear Saving Words from Peter!
Philemon House Church
Good & Sacrificial vs. Fake and Rich
Act_4:36-37 – (Good) Joseph Called Barnabas Sacrificed
Act_5:1-11 – Fake/liars didn’t really forsake all
Act_8: – Simon sorcerer: fake convert
Act_8:26-40 – (Good) Ethiopian might have had resources/abundance…
Traveled to worship the right God
Act_16:13-15 – Lidia Dealer in Purple
Welcomes Truth into her home
OT & NT Applications
Deception:
They were rich so you can rich be too --
They were “wealthy” so you can have
personal wealth as well in the New Covenant
There are blessing of making wealth, so
you can be wealthy -- i.e. keep wealth because God blessed you to make it
It’s not sinful to be wealthy
How do you get wealthy
Give = the answer -- yes, but church people
keep repeatedly ignoring the other vital critical part of the answer…
But this also includes “NOT storing up
for yourself treasure on the land/earth”
Church liars all too often like to focus
on the CIRCUMSTANCE of the patriarch’s money instead of their CHOICES of their
poverty.
Rich or Hardcore?
Indeed, the Old Testament does describe
many righteous people as being rich, although they were funding a lot of people
and they were looking away from this life for another city and viewed
themselves as strangers and pilgrims, oftentimes living in tents (Gen_12:8; Gen_23:4;
Psa_39:12; Heb_11:10-13; 2Co_5:1; 1Pe_2:11) despite the abundance of possessions they had.
Heb_11:37 – they were destitute!
Strangers & Foreigners
Psa_39:12 WEB "Hear my
prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a
stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Psa_39:12 LB O Lord, listen to
my prayer and my supplication; attend to my tears; be not silent, for I am a
sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.
Psa_39:12 (38:13) εἰσάκουσον
τῆς προσευχῆς
μου, κύριε, καὶ τῆς
δεήσεώς μου ἐνώτισαι·
τῶν δακρύων
μου μὴ
παρασιωπήσῃς, ὅτι
πάροικος ἐγώ εἰμι
παρὰ σοὶ καὶ
παρεπίδημος
καθὼς πάντες οἱ
πατέρες μου.
Heb_11:13 CAB These all died
according to faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar
off and welcoming them, and confessing that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb_11:13 Κατὰ
πίστιν ἀπέθανον
οὗτοι πάντες,
μὴ λαβόντες
τὰς ἐπαγγελίας,
ἀλλὰ
πόρρωθεν αὐτὰς
ἰδόντες,
καὶ ἀσπασάμενοι,
καὶ ὁμολογήσαντες
ὅτι ξένοι
καὶ
παρεπίδημοί
εἰσι ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς.
The New Covenant demands that you get poor
therefore it condemns you for staying rich.
Luk_6:38 – Press Down, Shaken Together
Luk_6:38 CAB 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_6:38
δίδοτε, καὶ
δοθήσεται ὑμῖν·
μέτρον
καλὸν,
πεπιεσμένον
καὶ
σεσαλευμένον
καὶ ὑπερεκχυνόμενον
δώσουσιν εἰς
τὸν κόλπον ὑμῶν·
τῷ γὰρ αὐτῷ
μέτρῳ ᾧ
μετρεῖτε, ἀντιμετρηθήσεται
ὑμῖν.
Luk_6:38
διδοτε και
δοθησεται υμιν
μετρον καλον πεπιεσμενον
TSBκαι
σεσαλευμενον Aυπερεκχυννομενον
TSBκαι TSBυπερεκχυνομενον
δωσουσιν εις
τον κολπον
υμων TSBτω TSBγαρ TSBαυτω
TSBμετρω ω Aγαρ Aμετρω
μετρειτε
αντιμετρηθησεται
υμιν
It's important to note that while riches
and money have been majorly updated, yet supernatural provision and prospering
have continued and even increased very particular ways and it continues to do
so into the end times.
So, we need to be aware that we are now
required to become poor and hate money, but this is not contradictory and
competing with supernatural provision but is in fact the doorway into God
providing for us big time in exciting ways especially as the end times come
upon us
Prosperity preachers have of course tried
to hijack supernatural provision as though it were a constant flow of financial
prosperity and riches and abundance of resources whereas the Sermon on the
Mount commends poverty and generosity as a means for God to provide in
surprising and big and even gigantic ways.
Prosperity preachers ignore the fact that
you've got to hate money and love being a poor person before God does
supernatural provision, and this money hating obedience is the preceding
authoritative governing context for supernatural provision. therefore you're
not allowed to hijack supernatural provision and use it for a prosperity Gospel
and pretend like people are being rich from supernatural provision when in fact
you've got to be poor and begging and hating money as a prerequisite for that
very supernatural provision. you cannot just hijack supernatural provision and
reverse it to say the opposite of what the preceding authoritative governing
context demands and preaches and commands you to obey.
Imitate Rich OT Holy-ones -- in the NC for
the Poor???
What doctrine and practical moral actions
are we required to learn from the patriarchs who were at times abundantly rich?
Remember: good things were made for good
people
Imitate Patriarchs!
The Patriarchs are indeed our examples, even
when they're rich and even when they're exceedingly rich, because of the rules
of imitation all throughout the Bible.
Universal vs. Individual Requirements
An important root issue with lots of Bible
obedience and application is:
Which Biblical rules, ideas, and examples
apply generically to all people in general, and which standards, rules, and
callings particularly apply to specific people on an individual basis?
One of the most helpful ways you can think
about prospering is:
They had a native core element of being
ambitious to inherit the blessing of material prospering in the promised land,
however if we ever seem to need prospering and blessing we should ask what
elements of the New Covenant put us in a special position where we need particular
physical blessings, knowing that that is not guaranteed to us or commended to
us or permitted for us to take for granted and assume as default like it was
for the Jews under their special Covenant promises and privileges and callings
and missions.
We know that there are rules for All
humans, like don't murder, but we also know there are rules for males and
females, Jews and gentiles, and also rules prioritizing the mission of the old
Covenant and others prioritizing the mission and emphasis and priority of the
New Covenant.
There were standards for those under the
Old Covenant which allowed polygamy, and even blessed it, but now we have more
strict rules in the New Covenant that vigorously forbid it to the point of
condemning divorce and remarriage for both male and female.
The old Covenant required circumcision for
Jews and it was commendable for gentiles in some cases, however in the New
Covenant the rules have become stricter and gentiles are forbidden to
circumcise.
So which rules apply by default to all of
humanity, and which rules literally and specifically apply particularly to
subgroups like the Jews or gentiles, and which rules, examples, ideals, and
even blessings apply to specific elements of the old Covenant mission and
emphasis, and which rules have a new requirement after things were updated and
changed and further revealed and more strictly legislated for the purpose of
extreme self-denial in crucifixion in the New Covenant?
When looking at the Patriarchs, they are
carrying out an updated blessing to multiply and fill the land with special
monotheistic privileges and geographical specification, and future prophetic
hopes.
To what degree could we possibly still
need to inherit any land, even as gentiles, and to what degree are we supposed
to be still involved in filling the Earth, and to what degree can we have
special particular specified callings to carry out certain things in this life
to fill the Earth yet still in the New Covenant?
And if we sometimes could have particular
callings, how has the overall commission for humanity been made different from
the overall commission for New Covenant disciples?
Compare & Contrast
Same Morality, Different
Context
The morality that we are required to walk by
is the same principles as the morality they were required to walk by in the Old
Testament. the main difference is that things in our circumstances and contexts
and requirements of the updates of our new covenant has changed the particulars
dramatically and drastically.
However, just like you can see principles
in the Bible commanded to men, like not visually lasting, and you can
essentially determine and understand ways in which those apply to women, so
also you can look at the Patriarchs in their old Covenant requirements and
context and it is fairly easy to see how to apply it to the New Covenant as
long as you understand the basic differences between the two contexts.
So we probably need to start by
considering...
Similarities with the Patriarchs:
they were pilgrims and strangers looking
for another city
Abraham denied dirty gold
The prophets refused to take money from
the Gentiles
They did not use their riches to please
themselves with self-indulgence just like we are not allowed to use money today
for our own personal lusts and pleasures.
Moses forsook the sinful money of Egypt
just like we need to forsake the evil money of our entire age. - although
admittedly, this is both a similarity and a slight difference with our updates.
Remember that the Bible is telling us that
those who say they are pilgrims and strangers, and obviously they need to live
according to the truth of the statement, are plainly declaring that they are
looking for another city before our New Covenant even came.
Holy Abundance
-- Under Construction --
Remember: good things were made for good
people
(and no, that doesn't contradict that 'no
one is good but the Father' -- because any good we become is from Him -- as
seen in 2Co_2
- 6.)
Psa_1:1-3
Persecution
Psa_44:20-22
Affliction
Psa_119:67-75
Psa_37:7 – prospers in evil devices
Mal_3:15 – wicked prosper
New Revealed Righteousness
Consider these Reminders about the New Covenant
before applying these changes more specifically to money.
Preview: You’re Commanded (Rom_16:26 (14:25)) to do something new that has now been revealed
to be extremely more righteous than ever before (Rom_16:25) as part of the New Covenant sacrifice
of dying with Jesus to please God like never before.
Revealed Covenant
· The New Covenant is also a new revelation.
· It is both a covenant as well as a revelation.
· When God reveals His new plan, or New Covenant, to relate with mankind in a fresh new way, this agreement to be related has terms and conditions that must be met to enter into this agreement, and these terms are righteous requirements and prerequisites in order to be related to God.
· the unveiling (2 Corinthians 3 - 4) of a new plan to be related to God includes a revelation of the terms of that relationship agreement, and therefore, the New Covenant includes a revelation of new righteousness which is required, which in this case, fundamentally involves the righteousifying justifying faith in the real identity of God through Jesus.
· the good message, or Biblical Gospel, proclaims the Truth of what has been revealed about God and His New Covenant requirements in the man Jesus of Nazareth, and demands imitation of His teachings and deeds of righteousness, including self-denial and even obedient crucifixion, to enter into this new agreement, which now has righteous potency out of this world to even deliver Us from the pits of hell when physically dying.
· Because God Is so infinite Jesus keeps getting revealed in the Gospels initially, and then through Paul, and then also yet again in the book of Revelation, which also predicts the Two Witnesses who will yet still prophesy a final revelation of who Jesus actually is, as the Judge Who will bust through the sky at the end of this age.
· This initial, continuous, and final revelation of God's righteousness and real identity is at hart-core of the terms of the New Covenant which demands proclamation, teaching, obedience, imitation, and 100% sacrifice and crucifixion
· The New Covenant is a new revelation of righteousness
· The New Covenant is a new standard of terms, requirements, demands, laws, rules, and righteous Truth to believe and obey, to enter into an agreement to be related (that is, a covenant)
Behold I do a new thing
Rom1 - revealed
Obedience to the faith among the Nations
since the New Covenant demands new terms
of righteousness into and through us, therefore we have to be very careful and perceptive
to learn and implement and obey these new Revelations of righteousness that are
now required of us as terms of this new agreement to be related to God in the
New Covenant.
Even if such rules of particular special
righteousness were not previously enacted, we must still let them do whatever
God was doing at that time and at the same time we must do what He is doing
right now with these new and special rules. They were building God's Kingdom on
Earth as best as they could in a shadowy parable and they died and went down to
the center of the Earth into a righteous refuge that fit their Covenant. We
seek to apprehend and promote the kingdom of heaven to come which is why we
have a hope of even escaping hell after we die through this new and special example
and requirement of a total self-denial and crucifixion of this life.
We already have the requirement upon us to
imitate the righteous Patriarchs of the Scriptures that were previously
established. We've already got the universal requirement to imitate all Bible
heroes.
Besides imitating the righteous examples
who came before us, we now also look forward from now into the future for the
new righteousness which has been and continues to be revealed as the New
Covenant keeps unfolding and keeps being revealed as the season for the real
Jesus to come draws closer and closer.
There is no moral or theological or
theoretical difficulty in embracing the truth once it's revealed: we've got to
imitate all Bible heroes, and now much more we have to embrace the New Covenant
that takes us further into God's revealed righteousness through the Biblical
Jesus.
Newness by New Revelation
All Things Are New Through This New
Covenant Righteousness Revelation
(A) New Way: Heb_10: A New & Living Way
Heb_10:19 CAB Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb_10:19 ῎Εχοντες
οὖν, ἀδελφοί,
παρρησίαν εἰς
τὴν εἴσοδον
τῶν ἁγίων ἐν
τῷ αἵματι ᾿Ιησοῦ,
Heb_10:20 by a new and living way
which He inaugurated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
Heb_10:20 ἣν ἐνεκαίνισεν
ἡμῖν ὁδὸν
πρόσφατον
καὶ ζῶσαν
διὰ τοῦ
καταπετάσματος,
τοῦτ᾿ ἔστι τῆς
σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ,
Heb_10:20 ην
ενεκαινισεν
ημιν οδον
προσφατον και
ζωσαν δια του
καταπετασματος
BAτουτ BAεστιν TSτουτεστιν
της σαρκος
αυτου
Heb_10:21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
Heb_10:21 καὶ ἱερέα
μέγαν ἐπὶ
τὸν οἶκον τοῦ
Θεοῦ,
Heb_10:22 let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies having been washed
with clean water.
Heb_10:22
προσερχώμεθα
μετὰ ἀληθινῆς
καρδίας ἐν
πληροφορίᾳ
πίστεως, ἐρραντισμένοι
τὰς καρδίας
ἀπὸ
συνειδήσεως
πονηρᾶς καὶ
λελουσμένοι
τὸ σῶμα ὕδατι
καθαρῷ·
Heb_10:22
προσερχωμεθα
μετα αληθινης
καρδιας εν πληροφορια
πιστεως Aρεραντισμενοι
TSBερραντισμενοι
τας καρδιας
απο
συνειδησεως
πονηρας και Aλελουσμενοι
TSBλελουμενοι
το σωμα υδατι
καθαρω
Notice that the crucifixion of hating this
life, including evil and dirty money, is accomplished by dying to all the sin
and good things of this life to get the redemption in heaven.
(B) New Spiritual
Things: 2Co_5: All Spiritual
Things Made New
2Co_5:16 CAB Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
2Co_5:16 ῞Ωστε
ἡμεῖς ἀπὸ
τοῦ νῦν οὐδένα
οἴδαμεν κατὰ
σάρκα· εἰ
δὲ καὶ ἐγνώκαμεν
κατὰ σάρκα
Χριστόν, ἀλλὰ
νῦν οὐκέτι
γινώσκομεν.
2Co_5:16
ωστε ημεις
απο του νυν
ουδενα οιδαμεν
κατα σαρκα ει TSBδε και
εγνωκαμεν κατα
σαρκα χριστον
αλλα νυν ουκετι
γινωσκομεν
2Co_5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, all things
have become new.
2Co_5:17 ὥστε εἴ
τις ἐν Χριστῷ,
καινὴ κτίσις·
τὰ ἀρχαῖα
παρῆλθεν, ἰδοὺ
γέγονε καινά
τὰ πάντα·
2Co_5:17
ωστε ει τις εν
χριστω καινη
κτισις τα αρχαια
παρηλθεν ιδου
γεγονεν καινα TSBτα TSBπαντα
2Co_5:18 And all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through
Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of this reconciliation,
2Co_5:18 τὰ
δὲ πάντα ἐκ
τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ
καταλλάξαντος
ἡμᾶς ἑαυτῷ
διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ καὶ
δόντος ἡμῖν
τὴν
διακονίαν τῆς
καταλλαγῆς,
2Co_5:18 τα δε
παντα εκ του
θεου του
καταλλαξαντος ημας
εαυτω δια TSBιησου
χριστου και
δοντος ημιν
την διακονιαν
της καταλλαγης
(C) New Physical
Things: Rev_21: All Physical
Things Made New
Rev_21:4 CAB And He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying out; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things have passed away."
Rev_21:4 καὶ ἐξαλείψει
ὁ Θεὸς πᾶν
δάκρυον ἀπὸ
τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν
αὐτῶν, καὶ ὁ
θάνατος οὐκ ἔσται
ἔτι, οὔτε
πένθος οὔτε
κραυγὴ οὔτε
πόνος οὐκ ἔσται
ἔτι· ὅτι τὰ
πρῶτα ἀπῆλθον.
Rev_21:4 και
εξαλειψει TSο TSθεος
παν δακρυον Aεκ TSBαπο των
οφθαλμων αυτων
και ο θανατος
ουκ εσται ετι
ουτε πενθος
ουτε κραυγη
ουτε πονος ουκ
εσται ετι Aοτι TSBοτι τα
πρωτα Aαπηλθαν
TSBαπηλθον
Rev_21:5 Then He who sat on the
throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said to me,
"Write, for these words are faithful and true."
Rev_21:5 Καὶ εἶπεν
ὁ καθήμενος
ἐπὶ τῷ
θρόνῳ· ἰδοὺ
καινὰ ποιῶ
πάντα. καὶ
λέγει μοι·
γράψον, ὅτι οὗτοι
οἱ λόγοι
πιστοὶ καὶ ἀληθινοί
εἰσι.
Rev_21:5 και
ειπεν ο
καθημενος επι BAτω TSτου BAθρονω
TSθρονου
ιδου TSAκαινα TSBπαντα
Bκαινα
ποιω Aπαντα
και λεγει TSBμοι
γραψον οτι
ουτοι οι λογοι TSBαληθινοι
TSBκαι
πιστοι Aκαι Aαληθινοι
Bεισι TSAεισιν
Everything is made new in all of these
ways for us thanks to Jesus and His sacrifice which we get to participate in
when we hate this sinful evil age and enter into His sacrificial example of
willful martyrdom in self-crucifixion.
This includes sacrificing every human
natural relationship and the evil money and possessions of this world that are
morally dirty by sin.
New righteousness means new requirements
& rules.
Jer_31:
New Covenant
Jer_31:31 WEB Behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer_31:31 LB “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.
Jer_31:31 (38:31) Ἰδοὺ
ἡμέραι ἔρχονται,
φησὶν κύριος,
καὶ διαθήσομαι
τῷ οἴκῳ Ισραηλ
καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ
Ιουδα διαθήκην
καινήν,
Jer_31:32 WEB not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although
I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
Jer_31:32 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers
in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; for they did not abide in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the
Lord.
Jer_31:32 (38:32) οὐ
κατὰ τὴν διαθήκην,
ἣν διεθέμην τοῖς
πατράσιν αὐτῶν
ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπιλαβομένου
μου τῆς χειρὸς
αὐτῶν ἐξαγαγεῖν
αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου,
ὅτι αὐτοὶ οὐκ ἐνέμειναν
ἐν τῇ διαθήκῃ
μου, καὶ ἐγὼ ἠμέλησα
αὐτῶν, φησὶν κύριος·
Jer_31:33 WEB But this is the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says
Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I
write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
Jer_31:33 For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of
Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their
mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they
shall be to Me a people.
Jer_31:33 (38:33) ὅτι αὕτη
ἡ διαθήκη, ἣν
διαθήσομαι τῷ
οἴκῳ Ισραηλ
μετὰ τὰς ἡμέρας
ἐκείνας, φησὶν
κύριος Διδοὺς
δώσω νόμους
μου εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν
αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ
καρδίας αὐτῶν
γράψω αὐτούς·
καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς
εἰς θεόν, καὶ αὐτοὶ
ἔσονταί μοι εἰς
λαόν·
Jer_31:34 WEB and they shall teach
no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh;
for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember
no more.
Jer_31:34 And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ For all shall know Me, from the least of
them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and
their sins I will remember no more.”
Jer_31:34 (38:34) καὶ οὐ
μὴ διδάξωσιν ἕκαστος
τὸν πολίτην αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἕκαστος τὸν
ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ
λέγων Γνῶθι τὸν
κύριον· ὅτι πάντες
εἰδήσουσίν με ἀπὸ
μικροῦ αὐτῶν
καὶ ἕως μεγάλου
αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἵλεως
ἔσομαι ταῖς ἀδικίαις
αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
αὐτῶν οὐ μὴ
μνησθῶ ἔτι. --
So: New (Jer_31:31)...not according to old (Jer_31:32)…inward law (Jer_31:33)…Knowing God’s Real identity (Jer_31:34)
So we see that virtually no one in church
has this New Covenant, because we all know that the church lives in unending
sin and disobedience, and has no idea who the real God is, much less His Son
Jesus.
No One Ever Talked Like This Man
Joh_7:45 CAB Then the attendants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"
Joh_7:45 ῏Ηλθον
οὖν οἱ ὑπηρέται
πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς
καὶ
Φαρισαίους,
καὶ εἶπον αὐτοῖς
ἐκεῖνοι·
διατί οὐκ ἡγάγετε
αὐτόν;
Joh_7:45
ηλθον ουν οι
υπηρεται προς
τους αρχιερεις
και φαρισαιους
και ειπον
αυτοις εκεινοι
BAδια BAτι
TSδιατι
ουκ ηγαγετε
αυτον
Joh_7:46 The attendants answered
them, "No man ever spoke like this
Man!"
Joh_7:46 ἀπεκρίθησαν
οἱ ὑπηρέται·
οὐδέποτε οὕτως
ἐλάλησεν ἄνθρωπος,
ὡς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος.
Joh_7:46
απεκριθησαν
οι υπηρεται
ουδεποτε TSBουτως
ελαλησεν Aουτως
TSBανθρωπος
TSBως TSBουτος TSBο ανθρωπος
Joh_7:47 Then the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been
deceived?
Joh_7:47 ἀπεκρίθησαν
οὖν αὐτοῖς
οἱ Φαρισαῖοι·
μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς
πεπλάνησθε;
Joh_7:48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?
Joh_7:48 μή
τις ἐκ τῶν ἀρχόντων
ἐπίστευσεν
εἰς αὐτὸν ἢ
ἐκ τῶν
Φαρισαίων;
Joh_7:49 But this crowd which does not know the law is accursed."
Joh_7:49 ἀλλ᾿
ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος
ὁ μὴ
γινώσκων τὸν
νόμον ἐπικατάρατοί
εἰσι.
Joh_7:49 Aαλλα
TSBαλλ ο
οχλος ουτος ο
μη γινωσκων
τον νομον Aεπαρατοι
TSBεπικαταρατοι
εισιν
Notice the circular hypocritical argument
they made: no one in the world has approved of Him contradicting the world, so
why believe in Him?
This is the exact same hypocrisy
universally oozing throughout churches today.
Notice the way Jesus talked and taught
Truth was unlike anyone before Him, and what they said and reported about Him
was NOT an exaggeration, but more like an understatement if anything!
This New Covenant was instituted and
established at Passover during The Last Supper and memorialized at what is now
called communion.
New Covenant Cup in My Blood
This Cup is the New
Covenant in my Blood
Luk_22: Cup = New Covenant in My blood
Luk_22:20 CAB Likewise He also took the cup after supper,
saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
Luk_22:20 ὡσαύτως
καὶ τὸ
ποτήριον
μετὰ τὸ
δειπνῆσαι
λέγων· τοῦτο
τὸ ποτήριον
ἡ καινὴ
διαθήκη ἐν
τῷ αἵματί
μου, τὸ ὑπὲρ
ὑμῶν ἐκχυνόμενον.
Luk_22:20 TSBωσαυτως
και το
ποτηριον Aωσαυτως
μετα το
δειπνησαι
λεγων τουτο το
ποτηριον η
καινη διαθηκη
εν τω αιματι
μου το υπερ
υμων Aεκχυννομενον
TSBεκχυνομενον
1Co_11: Cup = New Covenant in My blood
1Co_11:25 CAB Likewise He also took the cup after supper,
saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as
you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
1Co_11:25 ὡσαύτως
καὶ τὸ
ποτήριον
μετὰ τὸ
δειπνῆσαι
λέγων· τοῦτο
τὸ ποτήριον
ἡ καινὴ
διαθήκη ἐστὶν
ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ
αἵματι· τοῦτο
ποιεῖτε, ὁσάκις
ἐὰν πίνητε,
εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν
ἀνάμνησιν.
1Co_11:25
ωσαυτως και
το ποτηριον
μετα το
δειπνησαι
λεγων τουτο το
ποτηριον η
καινη διαθηκη
εστιν εν τω εμω
αιματι τουτο
ποιειτε οσακις
Aεαν TSBαν πινητε
εις την εμην
αναμνησιν
1Co_11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord's death
until He comes.
1Co_11:26 ὁσάκις
γὰρ ἐὰν ἐσθίητε
τὸν ἄρτον τοῦτον
καὶ τὸ
ποτήριον τοῦτο
πίνητε, τὸν
θάνατον τοῦ
Κυρίου
καταγγέλλετε,
ἄχρις οὗ ἂν ἔλθῃ.
1Co_11:26
οσακις γαρ Aεαν TSBαν
εσθιητε τον
αρτον τουτον
και το
ποτηριον TSBτουτο
πινητε τον
θανατον του
κυριου
καταγγελλετε Aαχρι
TSBαχρις ου TSBαν
ελθη
(Notice again how
Paul and Luke particularly parallel each other.)
New Covenant is established and embodied
in crucifixion -- in Jesus’ blood!
When He died, He died to sin (Rom_6:10; Rom_8:34) and He condemned sin (Rom_8:3), including hating this evil sinful and
sin-tainted world.
We are also commanded to die with profound
unity with Jesus’ crucifixion: Rom_6:2, Rom_6:7; 2Co_2 – 6; Php_4:; etc.
Therefore we are required to hate and
condemn sin and die to this sinful and sin-tainted world along with Jesus by
obeying His Words to hate and despise all our possessions and even money
itself, as He clearly commanded us, to gain discipleship and heaven.
We Die With Him
into Newly Revealed Righteousness of the New Covenant
Rom_6:2 CAB Certainly not! We died to sin--How shall we live any longer in it?
Rom_6:2 μὴ
γένοιτο. οἵτινες
ἀπεθάνομεν
τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ,
πῶς ἔτι
ζήσομεν ἐν
αὐτῇ;
Rom_6:7 CAB For he who has died[-away] has been justified[righteous-ified-away] from sin.
Rom_6:7 ὁ
γὰρ ἀποθανὼν
δεδικαίωται ἀπὸ
τῆς ἁμαρτίας·
Rom_6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that also we should live
together with Him,
Rom_6:8 εἰ
δὲ ἀπεθάνομεν
σὺν Χριστῷ,
πιστεύομεν ὅτι
συζήσομεν αὐτῷ,
He Died to &
Condemned Sin
Rom_6:10 CAB For what death He died, He died to sin once for all; but what life He lives, He lives to God.
Rom_6:10 ὃ γὰρ
ἀπέθανε, τῇ
ἁμαρτίᾳ ἀπέθανεν
ἐφάπαξ, ὃ δὲ
ζῇ, ζῇ τῷ
Θεῷ.
Rom_8:3 CAB For what was impossible for the law to do in
that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom_8:3 τὸ
γὰρ ἀδύνατον
τοῦ νόμου, ἐν
ᾧ ἠσθένει
διὰ τῆς
σαρκός, ὁ
Θεὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ
υἱὸν πέμψας
ἐν ὁμοιώματι
σαρκὸς ἁμαρτίας
καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας,
κατέκρινε
τὴν ἁμαρτίαν
ἐν τῇ
σαρκί,
Rom_8:4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled
in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom_8:4 ἵνα
τὸ δικαίωμα
τοῦ νόμου
πληρωθῇ ἐν
ἡμῖν τοῖς
μὴ κατὰ
σάρκα
περιπατοῦσιν,
ἀλλὰ κατὰ
πνεῦμα·
Gal: Revealed Righteousness
Saved
from this Standing
in Age
Gal_1:3 CAB Grace to you and peace from God the Father
and our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal_1:3
χάρις ὑμῖν
καὶ εἰρήνη
ἀπὸ Θεοῦ
πατρὸς καὶ
Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
Gal_1:3
χαρις υμιν
και ειρηνη απο
θεου πατρος TSBκαι TSBκυριου ημων
Aκαι Aκυριου
ιησου χριστου
Gal_1:4 who gave [δόντος] Himself for [ὑπὲρ] our sins, so that He might
deliver us from this present evil age [ὅπως ἐξέληται
ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ
TSBἐνεστῶτος
αἰῶνος |Aτου Aενεστωτος| πονηροῦ], according to the will of our God [κατὰ τὸ
θέλημα τοῦ
Θεοῦ] and Father,
Gal_1:4 τοῦ
δόντος ἑαυτὸν
ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν
ἡμῶν, ὅπως ἐξέληται
ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ
TSBἐνεστῶτος
αἰῶνος |Aτου Aενεστωτος| πονηροῦ κατὰ τὸ
θέλημα τοῦ
Θεοῦ καὶ
πατρὸς ἡμῶν,
Gal_1:4 του
δοντος εαυτον Bπερι TSAυπερ των
αμαρτιων ημων
οπως εξεληται
ημας εκ του TSBενεστωτος
αιωνος Aτου
Aενεστωτος
πονηρου κατα
το θελημα του
θεου και πατρος
ημων
Gal_1:5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Gal_1:5 ᾧ ἡ
δόξα εἰς
τοὺς αἰῶνας
τῶν αἰώνων·
ἀμήν.
Gal_1:
Paul’s Gospel was Revealed Through Jesus, Not Man
Gal_1:11 CAB But I make known to you, brothers, the gospel preached by me is not according to man.
Gal_1:11
Γνωρίζω δὲ
ὑμῖν, ἀδελφοί,
τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
τὸ εὐαγγελισθὲν
ὑπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ὅτι
οὐκ ἔστι
κατὰ ἄνθρωπον·
Gal_1:11
γνωριζω Aγαρ
TSBδε υμιν
αδελφοι το
ευαγγελιον το
ευαγγελισθεν
υπ εμου οτι ουκ
εστιν κατα
ανθρωπον
Gal_1:12 For I neither received
it from man, nor was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Gal_1:12 οὐδὲ
γὰρ ἐγὼ
παρὰ ἀνθρώπου
παρέλαβον αὐτό
οὔτε ἐδιδάχθην,
ἀλλὰ δι᾿ ἀποκαλύψεως
᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ.
Gal_1:12 ουδε
γαρ εγω παρα
ανθρωπου
παρελαβον αυτο
ουτε εδιδαχθην
αλλα δι
αποκαλυψεως
ιησου χριστου
Gal_1:
Paul’s Gospel Revealed in Arabia, Not Jerusalem
Gal_1:15 CAB But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,
Gal_1:15 ῞Οτε
δὲ εὐδόκησεν
ὁ θεὸς ὁ ἀφορίσας
με ἐκ
κοιλίας
μητρός μου
καὶ καλέσας
διὰ τῆς
χάριτος αὐτοῦ
Gal_1:15 οτε
δε ευδοκησεν Aο TSBο Aθεος TSBθεος ο
αφορισας με εκ
κοιλιας μητρος
μου και καλεσας
δια της
χαριτος αυτου
Gal_1:16 to reveal His Son in me,
so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult
with flesh and blood,
Gal_1:16 ἀποκαλύψαι
τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ
ἐν ἐμοὶ, ἵνα
εὐαγγελίζωμαι
αὐτὸν ἐν
τοῖς ἔθνεσι,
εὐθέως οὐ
προσανεθέμην
σαρκὶ καὶ αἵματι,
Gal_1:17 neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles
before me; but I went to Arabia [i.e. dessert], and returned again to Damascus [i.e. City].
Gal_1:17 οὐδὲ
ἀνῆλθον εἰς
῾Ιεροσόλυμα
πρὸς τοὺς
πρὸ ἐμοῦ ἀποστόλους,
ἀλλὰ ἀπῆλθον
εἰς ᾿Αραβίαν,
καὶ πάλιν ὑπέστρεψα
εἰς
Δαμασκόν.
Gal_1:17 ουδε
ανηλθον εις
ιεροσολυμα
προς τους προ
εμου
αποστολους BAαλλα
TSαλλ απηλθον
εις αραβιαν
και παλιν
υπεστρεψα εις
δαμασκον
Abraham
& Gentiles Do Faith into Righteousness
Gal_3:6 CAB Just as Abraham "believed [ἐπίστευσε] God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness."
Gal_3:6
καθὼς ᾿Αβραὰμ
ἐπίστευσε τῷ
Θεῷ, καὶ ἐλογίσθη
αὐτῷ εἰς
δικαιοσύνην.
Gal_3:7 Know therefore that those who are of faith [ἐκ πίστεως], these are sons of Abraham.
Gal_3:7
Γινώσκετε ἄρα
ὅτι οἱ ἐκ
πίστεως, οὗτοί
εἰσιν υἱοί ᾿Αβραάμ.
Gal_3:7
γινωσκετε
αρα οτι οι εκ
πιστεως ουτοι TSBεισιν υιοι Aεισιν
αβρααμ
Gal_3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith [ἐκ πίστεως
δικαιοῖ τὰ ἔθνη], preached the gospel beforehand
to Abraham, saying that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."
Gal_3:8 προϊδοῦσα
δὲ ἡ γραφὴ ὅτι
ἐκ πίστεως
δικαιοῖ τὰ ἔθνη
ὁ Θεὸς,
προευηγγελίσατο
τῷ ᾿Αβραὰμ ὅτι
ἐνευλογηθήσονται
ἐν σοὶ
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη.
Gal_3:8
προιδουσα δε
η γραφη οτι εκ
πιστεως δικαιοι
τα εθνη ο θεος
προευηγγελισατο
τω αβρααμ οτι Sευλογηθησονται
TBAενευλογηθησονται
εν σοι παντα τα
εθνη
Notice that God foresaw this future
event of righteous faith being revealed (Gal_3:23) and given to the nations.
The
Righteous Live Out of Faith
Gal_3:11 CAB But that no one is justified [δικαιοῦται – i.e. righteous-ified] by the law before God is evident, for "The just [ὁ δίκαιος – the righteous] shall live by faith [ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται]."
Gal_3:11 ὅτι
δὲ ἐν νόμῳ
οὐδεὶς
δικαιοῦται
παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ,
δῆλον· ὅτι ὁ
δίκαιος ἐκ
πίστεως
ζήσεται·
But what are the righteous supposed to
believe and do faith into???
Righteous-ifying
Faith Revealed
Gal_3:22 CAB But the Scripture has confined all under sin, so that the promise by faith [ἐκ πίστεως] in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe [τοῖς πιστεύουσι – i.e. do faith].
Gal_3:22 ἀλλὰ
συνέκλεισεν ἡ
γραφὴ τὰ
πάντα ὑπὸ ἁμαρτίαν,
ἵνα ἡ ἐπαγγελία
ἐκ πίστεως ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ δοθῇ
τοῖς
πιστεύουσι.
Gal_3:23 But before faith came,
we were kept in custody under the law, having been hemmed in [Aσυγκλειομενοι
TSBσυγκεκλεισμενοι] for the faith
which was to be revealed
[εἰς τὴν
μέλλουσαν
πίστιν ἀποκαλυφθῆναι].
Gal_3:23 Πρὸ
τοῦ δὲ ἐλθεῖν
τὴν πίστιν ὑπὸ
νόμον ἐφρουρούμεθα
συγκεκλεισμένοι
εἰς τὴν
μέλλουσαν
πίστιν ἀποκαλυφθῆναι.
Gal_3:23 προ
του δε ελθειν
την πιστιν υπο
νομον εφρουρουμεθα
Aσυγκλειομενοι
TSBσυγκεκλεισμενοι
εις την
μελλουσαν
πιστιν αποκαλυφθηναι
Gal_3:24 Therefore the law has become [γέγονεν] our custodian [παιδαγωγὸς], leading us to Christ, so that we
might be justified [righteous-ified] by faith [ἐκ πίστεως
δικαιωθῶμεν].
Gal_3:24 ὥστε ὁ
νόμος
παιδαγωγὸς ἡμῶν
γέγονεν εἰς
Χριστόν, ἵνα ἐκ
πίστεως
δικαιωθῶμεν·
Gal_3:25 But after faith has come,
we are no longer under a custodian.
Gal_3:25 ἐλθούσης
δὲ τῆς
πίστεως οὐκέτι
ὑπὸ
παιδαγωγόν ἐσμεν.
But what righteous revealed thing are they supposed to believe in?
Those who do not obey (Gal_3:19) the new revealed rules to hate money
are under the curse of the law (Gal_3:10) because they are not believing the New
Covenant revealed righteousness, Who is Jesus, and His obedient death to all
the sin and good things of this life, Who tells us to also take up our crosses
and die to, forsake, hate, and despise everything in this sinful life,
including money.
Veil Removed & Glory Shining
2Co_3:1-18 – Veil Now Removed & Glory Shinning
-- i.e. Revealed
· 2Co_3:7-11, 2Co_3:18 – Glory light shining -- i.e. opposite of heart-veiled (2Co_3:15) darkness and blindness (2Co_3:14)
· 2Co_3:6 – It’s ministering the New Covenant
· 2Co_3:8 – ministry of the Spirit
· 2Co_3:9 – ministry of righteousness
Sample Highlight:
2Co_3:15 CAB But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
2Co_3:15 ἀλλ᾿ ἕως
σήμερον, ἡνίκα
ἀναγινώσκηται
Μωϋσῆς,
κάλυμμα ἐπὶ
τὴν καρδίαν
αὐτῶν κεῖται·
2Co_3:15 αλλ
εως σημερον
ηνικα Aαν
TSBαναγινωσκεται
Aαναγινωσκηται
BAμωυσης TSμωσης
καλυμμα επι
την καρδιαν
αυτων κειται
2Co_3:16 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
2Co_3:16 ἡνίκα
δ᾿ ἂν ἐπιστρέψῃ
πρὸς Κύριον,
περιαιρεῖται
τὸ κάλυμμα.
2Co_3:16
ηνικα Aδε
TSBδ Aεαν
TSBαν
επιστρεψη προς
κυριον περιαιρειται
το καλυμμα
2Co_3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom.
2Co_3:17 ὁ δὲ
Κύριος τὸ
Πνεῦμά ἐστιν·
οὗ δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα
Κυρίου, ἐκεῖ
ἐλευθερία.
2Co_3:17 ο δε
κυριος το
πνευμα εστιν
ου δε το πνευμα
κυριου TSBεκει
ελευθερια
2Co_3:18
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
2Co_3:18 ἡμεῖς
δὲ πάντες ἀνακεκαλυμμένῳ
προσώπῳ τὴν
δόξαν Κυρίου
κατοπτριζόμενοι
τὴν αὐτὴν
εἰκόνα
μεταμορφούμεθα
ἀπὸ δόξης
εἰς δόξαν,
καθάπερ ἀπὸ
Κυρίου
Πνεύματος.
1Pe_1: Peter’s
Revealed Mystery
1Pe_1:17 CAB And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear;
1Pe_1:17 Καὶ
εἰ πατέρα ἐπικαλεῖσθε
τὸν ἀπροσωπολήμπτως
κρίνοντα
κατὰ τὸ ἑκάστου
ἔργον, ἐν
φόβῳ τὸν τῆς
παροικίας ὑμῶν
χρόνον ἀναστράφητε,
1Pe_1:17 και ει πατερα επικαλεισθε τον BAαπροσωπολημπτως TSαπροσωποληπτως κρινοντα κατα το εκαστου εργον εν φοβω τον της παροικιας υμων χρονον αναστραφητε
1Pe_1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,
1Pe_1:18 εἰδότες
ὅτι οὐ
φθαρτοῖς, ἀργυρίῳ
ἢ χρυσίῳ, ἐλυτρώθητε
ἐκ τῆς
ματαίας ὑμῶν
ἀναστροφῆς
πατροπαραδότου,
1Pe_1:18 ειδοτες οτι ου φθαρτοις αργυριω η χρυσιω ελυτρωθητε εκ της ματαιας υμων αναστροφης πατροπαραδοτου
1Pe_1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb blameless and spotless,
1Pe_1:19 ἀλλὰ
τιμίῳ αἵματι
ὡς ἀμνοῦ ἀμώμου
καὶ ἀσπίλου
Χριστοῦ,
1Pe_1:19 αλλα τιμιω αιματι ως αμνου αμωμου και ασπιλου χριστου
1Pe_1:20 having been foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, He was made manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe_1:20
προεγνωσμένου
μὲν πρὸ
καταβολῆς
κόσμου,
φανερωθέντος
δὲ ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτου
τῶν χρόνων
δι᾿ ὑμᾶς
1Pe_1:20 προεγνωσμενου μεν προ καταβολης κοσμου φανερωθεντος δε επ Aεσχατου TSBεσχατων των χρονων δι υμας
1Pe_1:21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1Pe_1:21 τοὺς
δι᾿ αὐτοῦ
πιστοὺς εἰς
Θεὸν τὸν ἐγείραντα
αὐτὸν ἐκ
νεκρῶν καὶ
δόξαν αὐτῷ
δόντα, ὥστε
τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν
καὶ ἐλπίδα
εἶναι εἰς
Θεόν.
1Pe_1:21 τους δι αυτου Aπιστους TSBπιστευοντας εις θεον τον εγειραντα αυτον εκ νεκρων και δοξαν αυτω δοντα ωστε την πιστιν υμων και ελπιδα ειναι εις θεον
1Pe_1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,
1Pe_1:22 Τὰς
ψυχὰς ὑμῶν
ἡγνικότες ἐν
τῇ ὑπακοῇ
τῆς ἀληθείας
διὰ
Πνεύματος εἰς
φιλαδελφίαν ἀνυπόκριτον,
ἐκ καθαρᾶς
καρδίας ἀλλήλους
ἀγαπήσατε ἐκτενῶς,
1Pe_1:22 τας ψυχας υμων ηγνικοτες εν τη υπακοη της αληθειας TSBδια TSBπνευματος εις φιλαδελφιαν ανυποκριτον εκ Aκαθαρας TSBκαθαρας καρδιας αλληλους αγαπησατε εκτενως
1Pe_1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.
1Pe_1:23 ἀναγεγεννημένοι
οὐκ ἐκ σπορᾶς
φθαρτῆς, ἀλλὰ
ἀφθάρτου,
διὰ λόγου ζῶντος
Θεοῦ καὶ
μένοντος εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα.
1Pe_1:23
αναγεγεννημενοι
ουκ εκ σπορας
φθαρτης αλλα
αφθαρτου δια
λογου ζωντος
θεου και
μενοντος TSBεις TSBτον TSBαιωνα
1Pe_1:24 For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as
the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
1Pe_1:24
διότι πᾶσα
σὰρξ ὡς
χόρτος, καὶ
πᾶσα δόξα ἀνθρώπου
αὐτῆς ὡς ἄνθος
χόρτου. ἐξηράνθη
ὁ χόρτος, καὶ
τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ
ἐξέπεσε·
1Pe_1:24
διοτι πασα
σαρξ ως χορτος
και πασα δοξα Aαυτης TSBανθρωπου ως
ανθος χορτου
εξηρανθη ο
χορτος και το
ανθος TSBαυτου
εξεπεσεν
1Pe_1:25 but the word of the LORD endures forever." Now this is the
word which was proclaimed to you.
1Pe_1:25 τὸ
δὲ ῥῆμα
Κυρίου μένει
εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
τοῦτο δέ ἐστι
τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ
εὐαγγελισθὲν
εἰς ὑμᾶς.
1Pe_1:25 το δε
ρημα κυριου
μενει εις τον
αιωνα τουτο δε
εστιν το ρημα
το
ευαγγελισθεν
εις υμας
1Co_2: Apostle’s
Revealed Spiritual Wisdom Mystery
1Co_2:6 CAB However, we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.
1Co_2:6
Σοφίαν δὲ
λαλοῦμεν ἐν
τοῖς
τελείοις, σοφίαν
δὲ οὐ τοῦ αἰῶνος
τούτου, οὐδὲ
τῶν ἀρχόντων
τοῦ αἰῶνος
τούτου, τῶν
καταργουμένων·
1Co_2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the wisdom having been hidden, which God
foreordained before the ages for our glory,
1Co_2:7 ἀλλὰ
λαλοῦμεν
σοφίαν Θεοῦ
ἐν μυστηρίῳ,
τὴν ἀποκεκρυμμένην,
ἣν προώρισεν
ὁ Θεὸς πρὸ
τῶν αἰώνων
εἰς δόξαν ἡμῶν·
1Co_2:7
αλλα
λαλουμεν TSBσοφιαν θεου
Aσοφιαν
εν μυστηριω
την
αποκεκρυμμενην
ην προωρισεν ο
θεος προ των
αιωνων εις
δοξαν ημων
1Co_2:8 which none of the rulers of this age knew (for had they known,
they would not have crucified
the Lord of glory).
1Co_2:8 ἣν οὐδεὶς
τῶν ἀρχόντων
τοῦ αἰῶνος
τούτου ἔγνωκεν·
εἰ γὰρ ἔγνωσαν,
οὐκ ἂν τὸν
Κύριον τῆς
δόξης ἐσταύρωσαν·
1Co_2:9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for
those who love Him."
1Co_2:9 ἀλλὰ
καθὼς
γέγραπται, ἃ ὀφθαλμὸς
οὐκ εἶδε καὶ
οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσε
καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίαν
ἀνθρώπου οὐκ
ἀνέβη, ἃ ἡτοίμασεν
ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς
ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν.
1Co_2:10 But God has revealed them
to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things,
even the depths of God.
1Co_2:10 ἡμῖν
δὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἀπεκάλυψε
διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος
αὐτοῦ· τὸ
γὰρ Πνεῦμα
πάντα ἐραυνᾷ,
καὶ τὰ βάθη
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
1Co_2:10 ημιν
δε Aαπεκαλυψεν
ο θεος TSBαπεκαλυψεν
δια του
πνευματος TSBαυτου
το γαρ πνευμα
παντα Aεραυνα TSBερευνα
και τα βαθη του
θεου
Notice that the new revealed righteousness
contradicts this sinful age -- including liking and storing up money for
yourself.
The following context:
1Co_2:11-16 – Obeyers got God’s Spirit (1Co_2:11-12) & mind (1Co_2:16) to know divine spiritual gifts, that
are NOT of soulish (1Co_2:14)
human wisdom (1Co_2:13).
Col_1:
Paul’s Revealed Mystery
Col_1:24 CAB I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and
fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for His body,
which is the church,
Col_1:24 Νῦν
χαίρω ἐν τοῖς
παθήμασί μου
ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν,
καὶ ἀνταναπληρῶ
τὰ ὑστερήματα
τῶν θλίψεων
τοῦ Χριστοῦ
ἐν τῇ
σαρκί μου ὑπὲρ
τοῦ σώματος
αὐτοῦ, ὅ ἐστιν
ἡ ἐκκλησία,
Col_1:24 Sος νυν
χαιρω εν τοις
παθημασιν TSμου υπερ
υμων και ανταναπληρω
τα υστερηματα
των θλιψεων
του χριστου εν
τη σαρκι μου
υπερ του
σωματος αυτου
ο εστιν η εκκλησια
Col_1:25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of
God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,
Col_1:25 ἧς ἐγενόμην
ἐγὼ
διάκονος
κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν
τοῦ Θεοῦ
τὴν δοθεῖσάν
μοι εἰς ὑμᾶς,
πληρῶσαι τὸν
λόγον τοῦ
Θεοῦ,
Col_1:26 the mystery which has
been hidden from the ages
and from generations, but now was
revealed to His saints.
Col_1:26 τὸ
μυστήριον τὸ
ἀποκεκρυμμένον
ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων
καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν
γενεῶν, νυνὶ
δὲ ἐφανερώθη
τοῖς ἁγίοις
αὐτοῦ,
Col_1:26 το
μυστηριον το
αποκεκρυμμενον
απο των αιωνων
και απο των
γενεων Aνυν
TSBνυνι δε
εφανερωθη τοις
αγιοις αυτου
Col_1:27 To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of
the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope
of glory;
Col_1:27 οἷς ἠθέλησεν
ὁ Θεὸς
γνωρίσαι τίς
ὁ πλοῦτος τῆς
δόξης τοῦ
μυστηρίου
τούτου ἐν
τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ὅς
ἐστι Χριστὸς
ἐν ὑμῖν, ἡ ἐλπὶς
τῆς δόξης·
Col_1:27 οις
ηθελησεν ο
θεος γνωρισαι BAτι TSτις
BAτο TSο
πλουτος της
δοξης του
μυστηριου
τουτου εν τοις εθνεσιν
Aο TSBος εστιν
χριστος εν
υμιν η ελπις
της δοξης
Col_1:28 whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in
all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
Col_1:28 ὃν ἡμεῖς
καταγγέλλομεν
νουθετοῦντες
πάντα ἄνθρωπον
καὶ
διδάσκοντες
πάντα ἄνθρωπον
ἐν πάσῃ
σοφίᾳ, ἵνα
παραστήσωμεν
πάντα ἄνθρωπον
τέλειον ἐν
Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ·
Col_1:28 ον
ημεις
καταγγελλομεν
νουθετουντες
παντα ανθρωπον
και
διδασκοντες
παντα ανθρωπον
εν παση σοφια
ινα
παραστησωμεν
παντα ανθρωπον
τελειον εν
χριστω TSBιησου
Col_1:29 for which I also labor, striving according to His working which
is working in me with power.
Col_1:29 εἰς ὃ
καὶ κοπιῶ ἀγωνιζόμενος
κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν
αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐνεργουμένην
ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐν
δυνάμει.
Eph_3:
Paul’s Revealed Mystery
Eph_3:1 CAB For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles--
Eph_3:1
Τούτου
χάριν ἐγὼ
Παῦλος ὁ
δέσμιος τοῦ
Χριστοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ
ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν
τῶν ἐθνῶν,
Eph_3:1
τουτου χαριν
εγω παυλος ο
δεσμιος του
χριστου Aιησου TSBιησου υπερ
υμων των εθνων
Eph_3:2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation
[οἰκονομίαν
– i.e. house-law/stewardship] of the grace [χάριτος] of God which was given to me for you,
Eph_3:2 εἴ γε ἠκούσατε
τὴν οἰκονομίαν
τῆς χάριτος
τοῦ Θεοῦ τῆς
δοθείσης μοι
εἰς ὑμᾶς,
Eph_3:2 Aει Aγε
TSBειγε
ηκουσατε την
οικονομιαν της
χαριτος του
θεου της
δοθεισης μοι
εις υμας
Eph_3:3 how that by revelation
He made known to me the mystery, just as I wrote before briefly,
Eph_3:3 ὅτι
κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν
ἐγνώρισέ
μοι τὸ
μυστήριον,
καθὼς
προέγραψα ἐν
ὀλίγῳ,
Eph_3:3 Aοτι TSBοτι κατα
αποκαλυψιν Aεγνωρισθη TSBεγνωρισεν
μοι το
μυστηριον
καθως
προεγραψα εν
ολιγω
Eph_3:4 with reference to which, when you read, you can understand my
insight in the mystery of Christ,
Eph_3:4 πρὸς ὃ
δύνασθε ἀναγινώσκοντες
νοῆσαι τὴν
σύνεσίν μου
ἐν τῷ
μυστηρίῳ τοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
Eph_3:4
προς ο
δυνασθε
αναγινωσκοντες
νοησαι την
συνεσιν μου εν
τω μυστηριω
του χριστου
Eph_3:5 which in other generations
was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His
holy apostles and prophets:
Eph_3:5 ὃ ἑτέραις
γενεαῖς οὐκ
ἐγνωρίσθη
τοῖς υἱοῖς
τῶν ἀνθρώπων
ὡς νῦν ἀπεκαλύφθη
τοῖς ἁγίοις
ἀποστόλοις
αὐτοῦ καὶ προφήταις
ἐν Πνεύματι,
Eph_3:5 ο TSεν ετεραις
γενεαις ουκ
εγνωρισθη τοις
υιοις των ανθρωπων
ως νυν
απεκαλυφθη
τοις αγιοις
αποστολοις
αυτου και
προφηταις εν
πνευματι
Eph_3:6 that the Gentiles should be joint-heirs [Rom_9:25-26 (Hosea), etc.], and of the same body, and joint-partakers in His promise in
Christ by the gospel,
Eph_3:6 εἶναι
τὰ ἔθνη
συγκληρονόμα
καὶ σύσσωμα
καὶ συμμέτοχα
τῆς ἐπαγγελίας
αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ
Χριστῷ διὰ
τοῦ εὐαγγελίου,
Eph_3:6
ειναι τα εθνη
συγκληρονομα
και συσσωμα
και συμμετοχα
της επαγγελιας
TSBαυτου εν TSBτω χριστω Aιησου δια
του ευαγγελιου
Eph_3:7 of which I became a minister according to the free gift of the
grace of God which was given to me according to the working of His power.
Eph_3:7 οὗ ἐγενόμην
διάκονος
κατὰ τὴν
δωρεὰν τῆς
χάριτος τοῦ
Θεοῦ τὴν
δοθεῖσάν μοι
κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν
τῆς δυνάμεως
αὐτοῦ.
Eph_3:7 ου Aεγενηθην TSBεγενομην
διακονος κατα
την δωρεαν της
χαριτος του
θεου Aτης
TSBτην Aδοθεισης
TSBδοθεισαν
μοι κατα την ενεργειαν
της δυναμεως
αυτου
Eph_3:8 To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given,
to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of Christ,
Eph_3:8 ἐμοὶ
τῷ ἐλαχιστοτέρῳ
πάντων ἁγίων
ἐδόθη ἡ
χάρις αὕτη, ἐν
τοῖς ἔθνεσιν
εὐαγγελίσασθαι
τὸ ἀνεξιχνίαστον
πλοῦτος τοῦ
Χριστοῦ
Eph_3:8
εμοι τω
ελαχιστοτερω
παντων TSτων
αγιων εδοθη η
χαρις αυτη TSBεν τοις
εθνεσιν
ευαγγελισασθαι
Aτο TSBτον
ανεξιχνιαστον Aπλουτος TSBπλουτον του
χριστου
Eph_3:9 and to enlighten all
as to what is the administration of the mystery, which had been hidden from the ages in God,
who created all things through Jesus Christ;
Eph_3:9 καὶ
φωτίσαι
πάντας τίς ἡ
οἰκονομία
τοῦ
μυστηρίου τοῦ
ἀποκεκρυμμένου
ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων
ἐν τῷ Θεῷ,
τῷ τὰ
πάντα
κτίσαντι διὰ
᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
Eph_3:9 και
φωτισαι Aπαντας TSBπαντας
τις η BAοικονομια
TSκοινωνια
του μυστηριου
του
αποκεκρυμμενου
απο των αιωνων
εν τω θεω τω τα
παντα κτισαντι
TSBδια TSBιησου
TSBχριστου
Rom_16:
Mystery Revealed from Beginning of the World -- Climax of Romans
Rom_16:25 CAB (14:24) Now to Him who is
able to establish you according to my
gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began,
Rom_16:25 Τῷ
δὲ δυναμένῳ
ὑμᾶς
στηρίξαι
κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν
μου καὶ τὸ
κήρυγμα ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ,
κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν
μυστηρίου
χρόνοις αἰωνίοις
σεσιγημένου,
Rom_16:25 Aτω B(14:24) TSBτω δε
δυναμενω υμας
στηριξαι κατα
το ευαγγελιον
μου και το
κηρυγμα ιησου
χριστου κατα
αποκαλυψιν
μυστηριου
χρονοις
αιωνιοις
σεσιγημενου
Rom_16:26 (14:25) but now made manifest,
and by the prophetic Scriptures
made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the eternal
God, for obedience to the faith--
Rom_16:26
φανερωθέντος
δὲ νῦν, διά
τε γραφῶν
προφητικῶν
κατ᾿ ἐπιταγὴν
τοῦ αἰωνίου
Θεοῦ εἰς ὑπακοὴν
πίστεως εἰς
πάντα τὰ ἔθνη
γνωρισθέντος,
Rom_16:26 B(14:25)
φανερωθεντος
δε νυν δια τε
γραφων
προφητικων κατ
επιταγην του
αιωνιου θεου
εις υπακοην
πιστεως εις
παντα τα εθνη
γνωρισθεντος
Rom_16:27 (14:26) To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the
glory forever! Amen
Rom_16:27 μόνῳ
σοφῷ Θεῷ
διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ
δόξα εἰς
τοὺς αἰῶνας·
ἀμήν.
Rom_16:27 B(14:26) μονω
σοφω θεω δια
ιησου χριστου TBAω η
δοξα εις τους
αιωνας αμην [Tπρος
Tρωμαιους
Tεγραφη Tαπο Tκορινθου
Tδια Tφοιβης
Tτης Tδιακονου
Tτης Tεν Tκεγχρεαις
Tεκκλησιας]
NC Sacrifice Changes
New Covenant brought about drastic changes
Sacrifices Yourself!
· Take up cross with Jesus
· This NC rule brings obeyers into the glories of the End Times
· Martyrdom is one of the central biggest themes in Revelation
Taking up your cross and embracing Martyrdom was foreshadowed in the Old Covenant, but there is nothing like the example of Jesus Who bluntly commanded all obeyers to willfully embrace the 100% sacrifice of being martyred.
Choosing to obediently take up your cross
and be martyred just like Jesus is a New Covenant revealed
righteousness necessary for getting heaven.
New Changes Between Covenants
Old Heroes Don’t Overrule New Requirements
New Covenant the personal requirements of
righteousness still apply from the Old Covenant with stricter demands after
more reveal Truth, and the rewards and provisions from the Old Covenant have
even more promise in the new, and nothing out of any of this implies that a New
Covenant disciple has any prerogative to store up personal wealth for themselves
now (Mat_6:) that the
New Covenant has forbidden obeyers from working toward this world, and has
required obeyers to go after the Kingdom of Heaven which has now been revealed
and proclaimed, and is now the focus and priority of what God is doing now at
this time in history.
Technical Orthodoxy for Money Hatred <<
-- Under Construction --
Mat_5:3 – Blessed are the poor IN SPIRIT (com. Luk_6:20)
Luk_6:24 – Woe to you rich… IN THIS NOW AGE
Jesus technically did not say woe to those
who WERE rich in the past, but those who are rich in this now age...
Which is NOT just those who are
circumstantially rich, but that are owning those riches in this now age.
Jesus did not bless those who are
circumstantially poor, but those who are poor in spirit and losing (or denying)
this now age
And He blessed them saying their “is
being [εστιν] the kingdom of the Heavens” (Mat_5:3).
Circumstantially Poor Or Rich? <<<
-- Under Construction --
...
It’s not the circumstantially poor who are
blessed nor is it the circumstantially rich who are woe-d.
The poor IN SPIRIT are blessed
Who are poor in THIS NOW AGE
And similarly, the rich are woe-d because
of being filled in this now age.
This is the definitive foundation for saying
well to the rich and blessing the poor, which has nothing to do with so-called
liberal liberation theology, since sociologically poor people are not blessed
by the Bible when they are rich in heart, and similarly, the Bible heroes who
were rich were only possessing abundance circumstantially, and not indulging in
this age,
Those circumstantiality rich Bible heroes
who chose to be poor in spirit anyway also have nothing to do with rich
churchianity that is not ashamed to indulge in this life.
Covenant Blessings are Different!
The Old Testament Law of Moses has a very
particular Covenant blessing of physical inheritance in the Promised Land
embedded into the core of its blessings.
Deu_28:1-14, for example
The terms and benefits of their Covenant
blessings secures land from this age into forever if indeed they keep with the
terms of their old Covenant and it's blessings and promises.
The New Covenant almost does not promise
any long-term acquisition of land or money in this life besides supernatural
provision of daily bread.
even when there are a few possible New
Covenant exceptions such as immediately after the Rich Young Ruler, there is no
indication that you're supposed to keep your supernatural blessings and rewards
that happen in this life for the rest of your life, especially when you have to
obey all the Bible to not store up for yourselves treasures here on the land.
The Old Covenant terms guaranteed the
Jewish people specifically and particularly that if they would keep the terms
of the external righteousness of the old Covenant, even if they didn't have
substantial faith, God would bless them with land perpetually from this age on
into the next age, and they, as a special monotheistic people, would never have
to go into exile or lose their land or blessings (besides short-term temporal
trials) until Messiah came and brought an eternal Kingdom.
The New Covenant blessings are almost
entirely focused on the Kingdom of Heaven and inheriting eternal life and
inheriting the new heavens and the new Earth.
There are no New Testament verses that
encourage, permit, or allow you to set your expectations on getting and keeping
any material blessings in this life for the rest of your life.
It is a fundamental violation and intentional
proactive ignorance of the old and the new covenants to pretend like the
blessings of the terms of the physical rules of the old Covenant to the Jews
should apply to the gentiles or to people in general in the New Covenant with
stricter rules and different primary objects of blessing.
Land & Eternity
They were inheriting the land in this life
and in the next life.
We are mostly inheriting the land in the
next life.
And that makes a gigantic difference in
your concept of blessing and prosperity.
Your goal and your focus and your
priorities extremely different in a New Covenant.
Ignoring Covenant Change Quickly Perverts Blessings
Prosperity preachers act like nothing has
changed, as if their mission is the same as our mission, and particular needs
for blessing and multiplication are equivalent to the luxuries and privileges
we supposedly should enjoy by storing a personal wealth...
Notice that it was appropriate for the Old
Testament Patriarchs to be blessed with abundance and fulfill what God was
calling them to do.
Notice how quickly church people get
perverted when they start trying to hijack Old Testament examples of blessing
as if they apply as privileges of luxury to those who are supposed to be under
the New Covenant of crucifixion, self-denial, and sacrifice to gain heaven...
If they were to directly correlate the
calling and mission of those in the old Covenant with particular callings to
those in the New Covenant then their theology might have a basis, but notice
how problematic and incompatible things get quickly get when prosperity
preachers try to act like nothing has changed principally from the Old Covenant
to the New Covenant and we should keep the same privileges that they were
blessed with and add our luxury to it - we get confused very quickly when we
inappropriately apply Old Testament defaults to New Covenant contexts as if
nothing changed and as if nothing was revealed and as if our mission is the
same and as if our personal requirements are the same...
HEAVEN is a Huge Covenant Difference!
2/9/25; 2/16/25
We are supposed to get heaven with our
covenant
Theirs didn't offer that!
We’re not allowed to be rich!
that without us they should not be made
perfect
Righteous men made perfect
Jesus does NOT say ‘all those who have
ever divorced and remarried commit adultery’ -- which would trouble the
righteous polygamy of the patriarchs.
But rather He says that ‘those divorcing
and remarrying are committing adultery’ Luk_16:18
Jesus is NOT saying… ‘Woe to all those who
have ever been rich’
He says, ‘Woe to those who ARE rich… in
this NOW age’
And ‘blessed are the poor crouching
beggars in spirit in that theirs IS BEING the kingdom of heaven’ (Mat_5:3)
New Covenant Updates on Money
Updates on
Money / Riches from
the New Covenant
Change in Money -- Applying The NC Difference
Real Answer:
OT & NT God blesses the righteous with
wealth.
Righteousness has always tended to bless your
work to prosper.
Good things have always been for good
people.
If good people get giant amount of wealth
and money, this is potentially a good thing in every covenant God has made with
people.
After the fall money is dirty and has to
be made clean.
OT & NT you are required to give to
make money clean.
But here’s the real excitement with the
New Covenant:
NT: you’re explicitly not allowed
to store up for yourself, because you are now commanded to hate money as
part of taking up your cross and dying to this evil sinful life, just like
Jesus.
>>Scrip:
He condemned sin in sinful flesh
New Covenant Updates on Money
Crucifixion
We are required to follow Jesus to
crucifixion in the most particular and distinct and proactive willful explicit
ways possible
Crucifixion involves a much more intense
and potent display of dying to this life.
Crucifixion includes leaving all of your
stuff.
The Kingdom of God was partly on Earth
through Abraham and Israel, and therefore the Patriarchs from Abraham to Israel
were periodically described as being rich and even very rich.
They spent their money on feeding their
households, which were the only legitimate posterity of God's Kingdom on earth.
We are called to go out into the Nations
and compel them to come into God's house, from the highways and the byways,
therefore it makes amassing personal wealth all the much more challenging now
that testimony to the entire nations is prioritized far above and beyond
building up one's own family, tribe, or Nation...
Caring for all poor people is so much a
priority and sending out the truth to the Nations as a testimony so that they
convert, so that now holding on to wealth for a smaller number of people is a
lot harder now that the priorities and focus have been updated on the mission
accomplished through Jesus in order to bring it to a glorious completion to
prepare a way for him to return to scoop up a bride of people from every tribe
tongue and Nation.
They used abundant riches which they had
in their hands to build up the kingdom of God when it was on Earth, and we are
required to use our abundant riches to build up the kingdom of God now that it
is exclusively in heaven.
Now Age vs. New Covenant
· Old Covenant Israel was organized by Divine prescription to be a physical parable of heaven's attitude
· And since heaven's attitude is expressed by Israel's parable it is therefore not limited to this now age.
· Because of this, some of the praise of Israel toward righteous people such as David and Solomon is valid and finds its praiseworthy place in the commendations of scripture.
· Nothing like that is left intact in the New Covenant when God has dismantled the authorizations of their old Covenant
· Jesus has confronted the world more than ever before and condemned all of the sin in it and therefore the world is now utterly condemned and hated for the sake of New Covenant salvation
· That's one of the big reasons why Jesus says NOW the ruler of this world is judged - that is, more than ever before
We are now called to...
· Begging poverty
· Complete victory over sin
· Persecution
· Martyrdom
· Give up this life in preference to the life to come
· Completely condemn sin as a testimony to All Nations
Increasing Money Hatred
From Moses, to Jesus, and even into the
end times, the Bible keeps getting more and more violent against money and
riches, all the way to the point of complete rejection at the end.
At the very foundation of the Gospel
announcement of The Sermon on the Mount Jesus explicitly updated the
conversation about riches and money. even though there was a lot of talk about
God blessing people financially in the Old Testament Jesus came along
announcing the gospel of the New Covenant and said basic things like: only poor
people go to heaven, rich people are condemned, you've got to hate
and despise money.
You are not allowed to ignore the
statements and pretend like they are not updating the conversation and you're
not allowed to ignore how revolutionary and upheaving they are to the whole
entire world's system of living.
The fact that the New Covenant updates the
conversation about riches and money is explicit and undeniable and repeated throughout
the entire New Covenant but it is so conveniently ignored by prosperity
preachers and most Pentecostals in general
We've got to stop ignoring and playing
games like the New Testament has not spoken and update about money and riches.
The track record of human sin with
contaminated money has been so long and bad and pervasive that by our day God
has venemetely rebuked all levity and lightness and navity of simply enjoying
the luxuries of this sinful evil God hating age.
We've given God every reason just about
possible to take every beautiful and nice thing away from humanity, and then we
act surprised and shocked and Disturbed when He says to hate money?
God Loves us and has commanded us through
the mouth of Jesus to hate money for our own salvation.
God has every reason to legislate laws to
curve the long madness of continued prideful luxury indulgence
Tainted Money (its NOT the Only Evil)
I get all I can, and can
all I get, and I get on the can
Money which is especially tainted exists:
Pro_10:2 LSV Treasures of wickedness do not
profit, || And righteousness delivers from death.
Pro_10:16 LSV The wage of the righteous is for
life, || The increase of the wicked for sin.
Gen_14:21-23 – Abraham refused dirty money
Tit_1:11 NKJV whose mouths
must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought
not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
Tit_1:11 οὓς δεῖ ἐπιστομίζειν,
οἵτινες ὅλους
οἴκους ἀνατρέπουσιν
διδάσκοντες ἃ
μὴ δεῖ, αἰσχροῦ
κέρδους χάριν.
1Pe_5:2 NKJV Shepherd the
flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but
willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly.
1Pe_5:2 ποιμάνατε τὸ ἐν
ὑμῖν ποίμνιον
τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐπισκοποῦντες
μὴ ἀναγκαστῶς, ἀλλὰ
ἑκουσίως, μηδὲ
αἰσχροκερδῶς, ἀλλὰ
προθύμως.
Blinding Bribes that Bypass Truth
We ought to fear and obey God rather than man (Mat_10:28; Act_5:29) and pay no regards to “bribes” (see
below) to preach anything other than the
truth, so that we are not found as “hired” (false) shepherds who do not truly
care for the sheep or share the heart of God in governing his flock: Joh_10:12-13.
Exo_23:8; Deu_16:19; 1Sa_12:3; Sir_20:29
Flesh Likes Especially tainted Money
Jdg_9:4 WEB They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
Jdg_9:4 LB And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith; and Abimelech hired for himself worthless and cowardly men, and they went after him.
Jdg_9:4 καὶ ἔδωκαν
αὐτῷ ἑβδομήκοντα
ἀργυρίου ἐξ οἴκου
Βααλβεριθ, καὶ ἐμισθώσατο
ἑαυτῷ
Αβιμελεχ ἄνδρας
κενοὺς καὶ
δειλούς, καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν
ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ.
1Co_15:33 – Bad company corrupts good practices
Balaam vs. Peter on Money
Refusing to accept
the Bribes of Baalam
(A) Balaam’s Condemned Legacy
Balaam contrasts eternally with the integrity of Peter when it comes to
money. Rather than despising money (Mat_6:24) as Peter, Moses, and
the other men of God in the Bible, Balaam loved it:
Rev_2:14; Num_24:14, Num_25:1-3, Num_31:8, Num_31:16; Jos_13:22; Jos_24:9; 2Pe_2:15; Jud_1:11
2Pe_2:15 WEB forsaking the
right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor,
who loved the wages of wrong-doing;
Jud_1:11 WEB Woe to them!
For they…ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire…
This ought to put the fear of God in every pastor and leader lest we also fall to such a sickening and shameful lust!
(B) Peter’s Example Surpasses Balaam
Peter was especially a hero in this regard, because he answered the prospect of money with such courage and faith by saying, “Your money perish with you,” (Act_8:20).
Peter has the heart that says, “You can keep your money! I despise the
filth of your bribe!” And we ought to have these values as well when it comes
to ministry. Salary? Honorarium? – these can be good, but God
says, that Moses won the race of true faith by…
Heb_11:26-27 WEB accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. 27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Because of this I would rather lose all of the positions and influence
in the world, including contemptible pastoral titles, than to ever come close
to losing “the reproach of Christ” from my life:
2Co_12:10 WEB …For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Hate Tainted Money (& Normal Money As Well)
We need to at least start by hating dirty
money out of dirty hands.
Is all money dirty, then, or is it just
money that is from evil people that is evil?
Keep reading, because we can clearly see
that all money is morally dirty.
The Evil of Money
Compare: (A) Good to Bad -- Money’s Fall from Goodness (B) The Evil of Money (C) Holy-ifying Money -- Shows that it is DIRTY!
Church hypocrites like to pretend that money itself isn’t evil.
But remember: The doctrines of sin & anathema teach the exact opposite.
Luk_6:33-36; Mat_5:40-42 – the
Sermon on the Mount and in the plain start out opposing liking
money/riches/luxury
The Rich go to hell (they don’t get heaven).
Jesus is very anti-money!
Money = Enemy
Riches Choke -- Cares Of This
Life
Mat_13:22; Luk_8:14 – riches, and pleasures chokes the word
See: Choking Cares
Mat_19: Luk_18: – how hard it is for rich to enter
kingdom
Luk_14:25-35 – forsake all things
Choking Cares = Riches & Pleasures
Mat_13:22
CAB But the seed sown in [NKJV: Now he who received seed among] the
thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety [NKJV: cares] of this age [NKJV: world], and the deceitfulness
of riches chokes out the word, and it [NKJV: he] becomes fruitless.
Mat_13:22 ὁ δὲ
εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας
σπαρείς, οὗτός
ἐστιν ὁ τὸν
λόγον ἀκούων,
καὶ ἡ
μέριμνα τοῦ
αἰῶνος
τούτου καὶ ἡ
ἀπάτη τοῦ
πλούτου
συμπνίγει
τὸν λόγον,
καὶ ἄκαρπος
γίνεται.
Mat_13:22 ο δε εις
τας ακανθας
σπαρεις ουτος
εστιν ο τον
λογον ακουων
και η μεριμνα
του αιωνος TSBτουτου
και η απατη του
πλουτου
συμπνιγει τον
λογον και
ακαρπος
γινεται
Luk_8:14 CAB And
that which [NKJV: Now the ones that]
fell among thorns, these are those, who when they heard, go out and are choked with anxieties
[NKJV: cares], riches,
and pleasures of life, and bring no
fruit to maturity.
Luk_8:14 τὸ
δὲ εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας
πεσόν, οὗτοί
εἰσιν οἱ ἀκούσαντες,
καὶ ὑπὸ
μεριμνῶν καὶ
πλούτου καὶ
ἡδονῶν τοῦ
βίου
πορευόμενοι
συμπνίγονται
καὶ οὐ
τελεσφοροῦσι.
You are not “OK” and safe when you have an enemy close to you who is ready to choke you!
Dirty Money
Luk_16:9 CAB And I say to you,
make friends for yourselves by the mammon of unrighteousness,
so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
Luk_16:9 κἀγὼ ὑμῖν
λέγω·
ποιήσατε ἑαυτοῖς
φίλους ἐκ
τοῦ μαμωνᾶ
τῆς ἀδικίας,
ἵνα, ὅταν ἐκλίπητε,
δέξωνται ὑμᾶς
εἰς τὰς αἰωνίους
σκηνάς.
Luk_16:9 Aκαι Aεγω TSBκαγω
υμιν λεγω TSBποιησατε
εαυτοις Aποιησατε
φιλους εκ του
μαμωνα της
αδικιας ινα
οταν Aεκλιπη TSBεκλιπητε
δεξωνται υμας
εις τας
αιωνιους
σκηνας
Luk_16:10 He that is faithful in what
is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in what is least is
also unjust in much.
Luk_16:10 ὁ
πιστὸς ἐν ἐλαχίστῳ
καὶ ἐν πολλῷ
πιστός ἐστι,
καὶ ὁ ἐν ἐλαχίστῳ
ἄδικος καὶ ἐν
πολλῷ ἄδικός
ἐστιν.
Luk_16:11 Therefore if you were not faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will
entrust to you what is genuine?
Luk_16:11 εἰ οὖν ἐν
τῷ ἀδίκῳ
μαμωνᾷ
πιστοὶ οὐκ ἐγένεσθε,
τὸ ἀληθινὸν
τίς ὑμῖν
πιστεύσει;
_
Most people think that Dirty Money is some kind of especially
tainted variety of money.
However, while especially
tainted money does exist, most people don’t realize that that the “normal” money
they like in their pocket is still very Dirty Money!
Money is inherently unclean, and we need to
stop pretending like it’s not!
Denialism about Dirty Money = Disobedience
= Hell
You’re not allowed to be naive and
ignorant
when Mary anoints Jesus with costly
expensive oil this is an example of something that is precious and valuable
hand extravagant in this life being made holy and converted from its perverted
dirty essence into something that's actually quite sweet and precious toward
heaven and praised by God
this is quite remarkable and is a striking
example of taking something valuable in this life, which is inherently demonic
and dirty, and holy-ifying it into a sweet sacrifice
We see that extravagance toward Truth, be it toward socially poor and/or Truth proclamation, contradicts and reverses liking money
Repenting of Dirty Money
How do you Repent of Dirty Money?
-- Under Construction --
ALL Things Cleaned
Compare: (A) RiFi → God Mad All to be Good (B) RiFi → ALL Things Cleaned (C) EFF → Every Creature of God is Good
-- Under Construction --
To the pure all things are pure
The Point: When “ALL Things [are] Cleaned” then the original creation is fulfilled where “God Mad All to be Good”
Money is NOT The Goal
Pro_23:1 WEB
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before
you;
Pro_23:1 LB
If you sit to eat at the table of a prince, consider attentively the
things set before you;
Pro_23:1 ἐὰν
καθίσῃς
δειπνεῖν ἐπὶ
τραπέζης
δυναστῶν, νοητῶς
νόει τὰ
παρατιθέμενά
σοι
Pro_23:2 WEB put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
Pro_23:2 and apply your hand, knowing
that it behooves you to prepare such meats; but if you are very insatiable,
Pro_23:2 καὶ ἐπίβαλλε
τὴν χεῖρά σου εἰδὼς
ὅτι τοιαῦτά σε
δεῖ παρασκευάσαι·
Pro_23:3 WEB Don't be desirous of his dainties, seeing they are deceitful food.
Pro_23:3 do not desire his provisions;
for these belong to a false life.
Pro_23:3 εἰ δὲ ἀπληστότερος
εἶ, μὴ ἐπιθύμει
τῶν ἐδεσμάτων
αὐτοῦ, ταῦτα γὰρ
ἔχεται ζωῆς
ψευδοῦς.
Pro_23:4 WEB Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Pro_23:4 If you are poor, do not measure
yourself with a rich man, but refrain yourself in your wisdom.
Pro_23:4 μὴ
παρεκτείνου πένης
ὢν πλουσίῳ, τῇ
δὲ σῇ ἐννοίᾳ ἀπόσχου·
Pro_23:5 WEB Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Pro_23:5 If you should fix your eye upon
him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle’s are prepared for him, and he
returns to the house of his master.
Pro_23:5 ἐὰν ἐπιστήσῃς
τὸ σὸν ὄμμα πρὸς
αὐτόν, οὐδαμοῦ
φανεῖται,
κατεσκεύασται
γὰρ αὐτῷ πτέρυγες
ὥσπερ ἀετοῦ, καὶ
ὑποστρέφει εἰς
τὸν οἶκον τοῦ
προεστηκότος
αὐτοῦ.
Pro_23:6 WEB Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
Pro_23:6 LB Do
not eat with an envious man, neither desire his meats;
Pro_23:6 μὴ
συνδείπνει ἀνδρὶ
βασκάνῳ μηδὲ ἐπιθύμει
τῶν βρωμάτων αὐτοῦ·
Pro_23:7 WEB for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Pro_23:7 so he eats and drinks as if anyone
should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel
with him;
Pro_23:7 ὃν τρόπον
γὰρ εἴ τις
καταπίοι τρίχα,
οὕτως ἐσθίει
καὶ πίνει.
Pro_23:8 WEB The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
Pro_23:8 for he will vomit it up, and
spoil your fair words.
Pro_23:8 μηδὲ
πρὸς σὲ εἰσαγάγῃς
αὐτὸν καὶ φάγῃς
τὸν ψωμόν σου
μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ· ἐξεμέσει
γὰρ αὐτὸν καὶ
λυμανεῖται τοὺς
λόγους σου τοὺς
καλούς.
Despising money means you don’t idealize it!
When you idealize money, you idolize it.
Work For Virtue, Not Money
“Poor in Spirit” = Goal of Hating Money
Hating Money is so You Can Be Poor in Spirit
Mat_5:3
Being a spiritual beggar in Mat_5:3 is the preceding authoritative governing context to hating money in Mat_6:
Rev_3:16-17
Holy-ifying Money
Compare: (A) Good to Bad -- Money’s Fall from Goodness (B) The Evil of Money (C) Holy-ifying Money -- Shows that it is DIRTY!
The Biblical righteousness of “Holy-ifying Money” Shows that it is DIRTY, and tells us how to redeem it!
-- Under Construction --
Giving to Righteous = Holy-ifying
Giving gold to baby Jesus
Notice that the gold can even be cleaned
in the new covenant by giving it to righteous people.
Did His parents keep it and store it up as
treasures for themselves and continue to enjoy the luxury of finer things?
Do his parents even use it to become rich
and successful so that they can retire from the carpentry business?
Jesus was known as a carpenter, and a Son
of a carpenter, into his adulthood
So No storing up personal wealth here!
Golden Marriage
Marriage: can
a bride forget her jewels?
This is the one of the only ways to
imagine what clean gold in heaven could be like
·
Disassociation!
Holy-ifying Money is about disassociating
the material with the metaphysical consciousness behind it, and leveraging the particles
which were previously profane and dirty through sin, using God's sacrificial
holy hatred as a redemptive mechanism to seize our monetary enemy and baptize
it in morality of forsaking this life and helping the Truth of righteous Bible
obeyers
The worldly system is, of course,
controlled by the devil, and we all know that.
It’s observable and it's thoroughly
documented all throughout the Bible.
Money's metaphysical component enters in
when mankind rebels and sins and violates holiness in his independence, giving
way to the persuasion of the devil himself.
Gen_3:1 – The snake question God's words in the garden
Jam_3:15 – Upon Earth, soulish, demonic
Eph_2:2 – The prince in the power of the air
All sin is a partnership in crime with the
devil against God.
When humans fall in the sin and make
themselves sinful they also make everything under their control and dominion
sinful, including animals and possessions and riches.
When humans consider money to be valuable
they are ascribing a metaphysical concept to the material by faith, and if
they're not giving the value of that material toward exactly what God wants,
then their metaphysical act of faith is demonic superstition which is which is
morally dirty and atrocious against virtue.
The metaphysical partnership that humans
have forged with the devil in their ideology of money is intimately tied in
with liking dirty sinful particles and celebrating the social recognition of
value, which is a cesspool of demonic garbage that needs to be destroyed with
burning heat and fire of anger and wrath.
We humans need to repent of our
partnership with the devil and with the sinful society of the world in valuing
sin-tainted particles as if they are worthy of praise. We need to turn from our
idolatry in repentance onto the obedience of money hatred.
In the meantime while waiting for the
redemption of all things, Jesus' disciples are commanded to be preoccupied with
hating money, waging warfare against its spiritual metaphysical social demonic
concept, and tearing down the value that the world has placed on money, by
sacrificing this life and all of its goods for the purpose of the Creator, Who
has now commanded us, in the mouth of Jesus, to hate and despise money, and to
give alms of our substance so that all things are clean to us, and so that we
can inherit eternal homes.
↑
Luk_11:41 – If you give alms of your substance, all things are pure
to you
Luk_12:33 – Give alms and make for yourselves moneybags that don't
wear out
So, redeeming money requires
disassociating the material and the particles from the supernatural
metaphysical rebellious defiling demonic consciousness behind it, and redeeming
the particles from the taint of sin and cleaning them from their previous immoral
usage by baptizing and bathing them in the morality of money hatred and
virtuous obedience and self-sacrifice of giving these riches up as a sacrifice
toward the good of others especially in leveraging the world's goods toward
blessing the righteous who want to obey the Bible the most, and helping those
poor crouching beggars who are longing for Truth to finally be saved.
Don’t Trust Money
Comp: LOW > Don’t Trust Yourself
| RiFi > Don’t Trust Money
Church people have many excuses to disobey “Rich People” Rules Simply because of the word “Trust”.
They act like the prohibitions against “Trusting” money overul the condemnation of being a rich person…
See: Heretic Video: [Un]Biblical
Principles Of Provision
So let’s set the record straight!
Philosophy is NOT the Solution to the Dangers of Wealth
Most church people think that the solution
to the dangers of wealth is philosophical. They ignore the actions the Bible
commands us to take to resolve the doom of being rich.
Rich church people love to assure
themselves of salvation by simply stating a theoretical philosophy that allows
them to keep being rich as long as they espouse some sort of theoretical idea
and beloved fantasy and keep doing what they wanted to do anyway with being
rich.
The Bible specifies ACTION and TRUTH as
the solutions to the dangers of money, NOT philosophy!
We need to get more specific when it comes
to actually, obediently hating and despising money.
To get more specific we need to describe
the specific solution for the major problematic levels of monetary financial
disobedience within Churchianity: prosperity gospel, and the rest of church
people
(Everyone else is really prosperity light,
even though they likely don't ever admit it).
Personal Wealth and liking money is the
real problem…
Don’t Even Trust Holy Money on Earth
11/2/24
Just as sinful people can be made holy, so similarly also with money -- but your trust should not be directly in the object which is holified, but in the one who make each object Holy.
Which is greater the gift or the alter that makes it holy?
When Righteous people are holified, they have a new creation spirit that is worthy of faith, but their earthly flesh remains in untrusted probation, even though it is so often one of the primary objects of their labors to be holy.
“Trusting Money” -- Defined
· Trusting Money = taking it seriously as though it really is as valuable as it seems to present itself to be.
· Trusting Money = being persuaded by it to take its claims of value at face value.
· Church people like to say that they don’t trust money while simultaneously still liking it and enjoying its power -- and we can all see that these religious, Bible-disobedient claims are hypocritical lies which no one should take seriously.
When the Bible talks against “Trusting Money”, it condemns the sins that virtually all church people on a continual basis while hypocritically claiming that they don’t trust money.
The Point: Church people like to hypocritically focus on the word “trust” and ignore the actionable commands and conclusions to hate and forsake it as the only solution to “not trust” in it.
Psa_62: DON’T Set Heart on Increasing Riches
Psa_62:10 WEB
Don't trust in oppression. ·Don't
become vain [NKJV: nor vainly hope] in
robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
Psa_62:10 MT
אַל־תִּבְטְחוּ
בַּשָּׁקֶר
וּבַגְזֵל אַל־תִּתְהַלֵּלוּ
אִם־יַעֲשֶׂר
וְאַל־תָּשִׂימוּ
לִבְכםָ.
Psa_62:10 LB Do not trust in unrighteousness, and do not lust after robberies. If wealth should flow in, do not set your heart upon it.
Psa_62:10 (61:11) μὴ ἐλπίζετε
ἐπὶ ἀδικίαν καὶ
ἐπὶ ἅρπαγμα μὴ ἐπιποθεῖτε·
πλοῦτος ἐὰν ῥέῃ,
μὴ προστίθεσθε
καρδίαν.
Pro_11:
Money-Trust-er = Fool
Pro_11:28 WEB He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the
righteous shall flourish as the green leaf [NKJV: like foliage].
Pro_11:28 MT בּוֹטֵ֣חַ
בְּעָשְׁר֣וֹ
ה֖וּא יִפֹּ֑ל
וְכֶ֖עָלֶה
צַדִּיקִ֣ים
יִפְרָֽחוּ׃
Pro_11:28 LB He that trusts [πεποιθὼς] in [ἐπὶ] wealth [πλούτῳ] shall fall, but ·he that helps righteous men shall rise.
Pro_11:28 ὁ
πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ
πλούτῳ, οὗτος
πεσεῖται· ὁ δὲ ἀντιλαμβανόμενος
δικαίων, οὗτος ἀνατελεῖ.
See: Don’t Trust Money > Money-Trust-er = Fool | Feminine Luxury
Repentance > Golden Pig Nose
Greek: ~ i.e. one who is
persuaded
Mar_10: Hard for Money-Trust-er to Get Kingdom
Mar_10:24 CAB …Jesus,
answering again, says to them, "Children, how difficult [δύσκολόν]
[NKJV: hard] it is for those who trust [πεποιθότας] in [ἐπὶ] riches [χρήμασιν] to
enter into the kingdom of God!
See full quote under CamelNeedle
1Ti_6:
No Hoping
1Ti_6:17
CAB Command those who are rich in this present
age not to be haughty [ὑψηλοφρονεῖν], ·nor
to ·put their hope on [NKJV: trust in (fig.)] the uncertainty of riches
[μηδὲ ἠλπικέναι
ἐπὶ πλούτου
ἀδηλότητι],
but in the living God, ·who
provides [τῷ
παρέχοντι] all
things richly for us to enjoy [πάντα
πλουσίως εἰς
ἀπόλαυσιν]
[NKJV: who gives us richly all things to enjoy],
1Ti_6:17 Τοῖς
πλουσίοις ἐν
τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι
παράγγελλε
μὴ ὑψηλοφρονεῖν,
μηδὲ ἠλπικέναι
ἐπὶ πλούτου
ἀδηλότητι, ἀλλ᾿
ἐν τῷ Θεῷ
ζῶντι, τῷ
παρέχοντι ἡμῖν
πάντα
πλουσίως εἰς
ἀπόλαυσιν,
1Ti_6:17 τοις πλουσιοις εν τω νυν αιωνι παραγγελλε μη υψηλοφρονειν μηδε ηλπικεναι επι πλουτου αδηλοτητι αλλ Aεπι TSBεν TSBτω θεω TSBτω TSBζωντι τω παρεχοντι ημιν TSπλουσιως παντα BAπλουσιως εις απολαυσιν
1Ti_6:18 to do good, to be rich in good works,
to be generous, sharing,
1Ti_6:18 ἀγαθοεργεῖν,
πλουτεῖν ἐν ἔργοις
καλοῖς, εὐμεταδότους
εἶναι,
κοινωνικούς,
1Ti_6:19 storing up for yourselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
1Ti_6:19 ἀποθησαυρίζοντας
ἑαυτοῖς
θεμέλιον
καλὸν εἰς
τὸ μέλλον, ἵνα
ἐπιλάβωνται
τῆς αἰωνίου
ζωῆς.
1Ti_6:19
αποθησαυριζοντας
εαυτοις
θεμελιον καλον
εις το μελλον
ινα
επιλαβωνται
της Aοντως
TSBαιωνιου
ζωης
Hoping (1Ti_6:17) ≈ Wishing/Strategizing to be Rich (1Ti_6:9-10)
Mat_6:
Treasure for Yourselves
Mat_6:19 CAB
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth
and rust corrupt [NKJV: destroy],
and where thieves dig through [NKJV: break in] and
steal;
Mat_6:19 Μὴ
θησαυρίζετε ὑμῖν
θησαυροὺς ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς, ὅπου
σὴς καὶ βρῶσις
ἀφανίζει,
καὶ ὅπου
κλέπται
διορύσσουσι
καὶ
κλέπτουσι·
Mat_6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts [NKJV: destroys], and where thieves do not dig through [NKJV: break in] and steal.
Mat_6:20
θησαυρίζετε
δὲ ὑμῖν
θησαυρούς ἐν
οὐρανῷ, ὅπου
οὔτε σὴς οὔτε
βρῶσις ἀφανίζει,
καὶ ὅπου
κλέπται οὐ
διορύσσουσιν
οὐδὲ
κλέπτουσιν·
Mat_6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mat_6:21 ὅπου
γάρ ἐστιν ὁ
θησαυρός ὑμῶν,
ἐκεῖ ἔσται
καὶ ἡ
καρδία ὑμῶν.
Mat_6:21 οπου γαρ
εστιν ο
θησαυρος Aσου
TSBυμων
εκει εσται και
η καρδια Aσου
TSBυμων
Proof of Trusting vs. Distrusting Money
-- Under Construction --
Not "trusting" in riches, in
English speaking churchianity, is typically oversimplified, reduced, and watered
down into a mirror avoidance of formally being philosophically inclined toward
money.
In Greek we can see that trusting is about
being persuaded that money really is as valuable as it presents itself to be.
You cannot say that you don't trust in
money if indeed you really do take its claims of value at face value and treat
it like it really is as important as the world says it is.
To not trust in money you actually have to
not be persuaded that it is valuable and you have to kill off the tendency to
admire it and aspire and idealize having as much of it as possible.
Besides these fundamentally important
linguistic Greek insights, there is also a much bigger picture that testifies
against virtually all church people...
Trusting riches is being paralleled and
combined with being rich
Being rich and trusting in riches are
being paralleled as the same thing.
It is not tolerated to imagine that
someone can "be rich" and simultaneously at the same time "not
trust in riches", unless indeed they courageously embrace the solution of
giving away riches that Jesus demanded from the Rich Young Ruler for his
salvation
“Rich People” Defined
The Bible clearly says Rich People Go to Hell, so we absolutely must define what that
is and avoid it to escape condemnation and be saved.
-- Under Construction --
Treasure up to THEMSELF
Luk_12:21 – they store treasures up for themselves and are not rich
into God by giving to the poor
Money Cheer
And make themselves cheerful and happy
with the abundance of their money
Job
Luk_16 he enjoyed himself some seriously
everyday
She who is living in pleasure is dead
while she's living
In English 1 Timothy 6 at first seems to
talk about using riches for enjoyment,
but the actual Greek doesn't imply "pleasure" but rather enjoying the
benefit and privilege of abundance.
Indulgence
Luxurious harlot of Revelation
Lived deliciously
Fat Heart
And the problem with this luxury is that
it makes you blind and unsavable:
You have fat in your heart as in a day of
slaughter
Make the heart of this people fat
Circumstantial Riches
Circumstantially Rich but Virtuously
Poor
Rich, But Un-condemned?
The only kind of rich ness that the Bible
doesn't condemn is being circumstantially rich with abundance but redirecting
that abundance toward others and not using it for yourself.
The vital key to obtaining salvation from
a rich context is having an attitude of begging poverty...
Matthew_5:3 - blessed are the poor crouching beggars
in spirit
Psalm 34 - this poor man cried
And that poor man was the rich King David,
at least circumstantially, but his attitude and behavior was poor and merciful,
so much so, that he even redeemed his adulterously remarried wife, and didn't
have her executed or imprisoned!
That takes some serious humility and
selfless self-sacrifice, especially for a socially exalted King...
Church people continually pretend like the
circumstantial abundance of righteous people in the Old Testament that was used
selflessly to advance God's mission has anything at all to do with endorsing
our selfish consumptive so pleasing indulgence and participation and
self-pleasing indulgence of luxury in our Rich modern societies today in all
defiance and rebellion and apostasy from the New Covenant which has given a
stricter rules for God's mission on Earth which is going on right now.
Don't Treasure up to YOURSELF
-- Under Construction --
Matthew 6 don't store up for yourself
treasures on Earth
Not storing up for YOURSELF is actually
one of the key words here.
Luke_12:21 - so is he who stores up for himself and
is not abundant rich in to God
If you had any doubt that the word
YOURSELVES was one of the main keywords in Matthew 5, once you get to Luke 12
there should be no question left.
It is extremely important to get Jesus Is
foundation straight in your own heart.
Once we get to the Epistles we can see
that they're in total Harmony and agreement as long as we have our foundation
straight and clear:
Paul tells them to take up a collection in
store up treasure for the poor saints in Jerusalem
The key to remember is that Jesus didn't
actually forbid storing up treasures; he forbade storing of treasures for YOUR
SELF!
Children not to store up not to store up
for the parents, but the parents for the children
The righteous leaves an inheritance to
children's children
Storing up abundance FOR OTHERS does NOT make you personally rich, evil, and condemned.
Ritch People Go to Hell!
4/25/24; 6/22/24
see: LUX
-- Under Construction --
…
“Rich Are Saved” -- Lie!
Church Liars Say Condemned Rich Are Saved
-- Under Construction --
Rich = Evil = Hell -- Truth!
-- Under Construction --
Mat_5:
Jam_5:
Luk_6:
Camel & Needle ≈ Rich & Man Kingdom
Mat_19:24
CAB And again I say to you, it is easier for a
camel to pass [NKJV: go]
through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to
enter the kingdom of God."
Mat_19:24
πάλιν δὲ
λέγω ὑμῖν,
εὐκοπώτερόν
ἐστι κάμηλον
διὰ
τρυπήματος ῥαφίδος
διελθεῖν ἢ
πλούσιον εἰς
τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν.
Mat_19:24 παλιν δε λεγω υμιν ευκοπωτερον εστιν καμηλον δια τρυπηματος ραφιδος διελθειν η πλουσιον Aεισελθειν εις την βασιλειαν του θεου TSBεισελθειν
Mat_19:25 And when His disciples heard,
they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then is able to be saved?"
Mat_19:25 ἀκούσαντες
δὲ οἱ
μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ
ἐξεπλήσσοντο
σφόδρα
λέγοντες·
τίς ἄρα
δύναται σωθῆναι;
Mat_19:25 ακουσαντες δε οι μαθηται TSBαυτου εξεπλησσοντο σφοδρα λεγοντες τις αρα δυναται σωθηναι
Mat_19:26 And looking on them, Jesus said to
them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are
possible."
Mat_19:26 ἐμβλέψας
δὲ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς·
παρὰ ἀνθρώποις
τοῦτο ἀδύνατόν
ἐστι, παρὰ
δὲ Θεῷ
πάντα δυνατά
ἐστι.
Mat_19:26
εμβλεψας δε ο
ιησους ειπεν
αυτοις παρα ανθρωποις
τουτο αδυνατον
εστιν παρα δε
θεω παντα δυνατα
Bεστιν TSεστιν
Mar_10:23 CAB And
[NKJV: Then] looking around, Jesus says to
His disciples, "How difficult [NKJV: hard] it
is for those having riches to enter the kingdom of God!"
Mar_10:23 καὶ
περιβλεψάμενος
ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
λέγει τοῖς
μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ·
πῶς δυσκόλως
οἱ τὰ
χρήματα ἔχοντες
εἰς τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ εἰσελεύσονται.
Mar_10:24 And the disciples were astonished [ἐθαμβοῦντο] at [ἐπὶ] His words. But Jesus, answering again, says to them, "Children, how difficult [δύσκολόν] [NKJV: hard] it is for those who trust [πεποιθότας] in [ἐπὶ] riches [χρήμασιν] to enter into the kingdom of God!
Mar_10:24 οἱ
δὲ μαθηταὶ ἐθαμβοῦντο
ἐπὶ τοῖς
λόγοις αὐτοῦ.
ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς
πάλιν ἀποκριθεὶς
λέγει αὐτοῖς·
τέκνα, πῶς
δύσκολόν ἐστι
τοὺς
πεποιθότας ἐπὶ
χρήμασιν εἰς
τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν.
Mar_10:24 οι δε μαθηται εθαμβουντο επι τοις λογοις αυτου ο δε ιησους παλιν αποκριθεις λεγει αυτοις τεκνα πως δυσκολον εστιν TSBτους TSBπεποιθοτας TSBεπι TSτοις TSBχρημασιν εις την βασιλειαν του θεου εισελθειν
Mar_10:25 CAB It is easier for a camel to pass [NKJV: go] through the eye of a needle than for a rich person [NKJV: man] to enter into the kingdom of God."
Mar_10:25 εὐκοπώτερόν
ἐστι κάμηλον
διὰ τρυμαλιᾶς
ῥαφίδος
διελθεῖν ἢ
πλούσιον εἰς
τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν.
Mar_10:25 ευκοπωτερον εστιν καμηλον δια Aτης TSBτης τρυμαλιας Aτης TSBτης ραφιδος SAδιελθειν TBεισελθειν η πλουσιον εις την βασιλειαν του θεου εισελθειν
Mar_10:26 And they were exceedingly
astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then is able to be saved?"
Mar_10:26 οἱ
δὲ περισσῶς
ἐξεπλήσσοντο
λέγοντες
πρὸς ἑαυτούς·
καὶ τίς
δύναται σωθῆναι;
Mar_10:27 But looking at them Jesus said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God."
Mar_10:27 ἐμβλέψας
αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
λέγει· παρὰ
ἀνθρώποις ἀδύνατον,
ἀλλ᾿ οὐ
παρὰ Θεῷ·
πάντα γὰρ
δυνατὰ ἐστι
παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ.
Mar_10:27 εμβλεψας TSBδε αυτοις ο ιησους λεγει παρα ανθρωποις αδυνατον αλλ ου παρα TSτω θεω παντα γαρ δυνατα TSBεστιν παρα τω θεω
Mar_10:28 Then Peter began to say to Him,
"See, we have left all things and have followed You."
Mar_10:28 ῎Ηρξατο
ὁ Πέτρος
λέγειν αὐτῷ·
ἰδοὺ ἡμεῖς
ἀφήκαμεν
πάντα καὶ ἠκολουθήσαμέν
σοι.
Mar_10:28 TSκαι
ηρξατο Aλεγειν
ο πετρος TSBλεγειν
αυτω ιδου
ημεις αφηκαμεν
παντα και Aηκολουθηκαμεν
TSBηκολουθησαμεν
σοι
Multiple Statements Require Obedience
· Having riches = hard to enter heaven (Mar_10:23)
· Trusting in riches = hard to enter heaven (Mar_10:24)
· Being a rich man = hard to enter heaven (Mar_10:25)
· Not Leaving Money/Everything = Not Entering Heaven! (…….)
These statements overlap like the 7 requests of the Lord’s prayer, but they do not make it unnecessary to list each of these elements.
You do not pray half of the Lord’s prayer (in Matthew 6) because the other requests are not needed, nor are you allowed to cancel out and blaspheme and ignore any of these warnings (in Matthew 10).
None of these statements erases, overrules, makes void, makes redundant and unnecessarily repetitive, supersedes, cancels out, or nullifies, or un-Lord-ifies the other statements.
Luk_18:24
CAB And when Jesus saw that he became very sad
[sorrowful], He said, "How hard it is
for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!
Luk_18:24 ἰδὼν
δὲ αὐτὸν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς
περίλυπον
γενόμενον εἶπε·
πῶς δυσκόλως
οἱ τὰ
χρήματα ἔχοντες
εἰσελεύσονται
εἰς τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ.
Luk_18:24 ιδων δε αυτον ο ιησους Aπεριλυπον TSBπεριλυπον Aγενομενον TSBγενομενον ειπεν πως δυσκολως οι τα χρηματα εχοντες TSBεισελευσονται εις την βασιλειαν του θεου Aεισπορευονται
Luk_18:25 For it is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of
God."
Luk_18:25 εὐκοπώτερον
γάρ ἐστι
κάμηλον διὰ
τρυμαλιᾶς
ραφίδος εἰσελθεῖν
ἢ πλούσιον εἰς
τὴν
βασιλείαν τοῦ
Θεοῦ εἰσελθεῖν.
Luk_18:25 ευκοπωτερον γαρ εστιν καμηλον δια Aτρηματος TSBτρυμαλιας Aβελονης TSBραφιδος εισελθειν η πλουσιον εις την βασιλειαν του θεου εισελθειν
Luk_18:26 And those who heard it said,
"Who then is able to be saved?"
Luk_18:26 εἶπον
δὲ οἱ ἀκούσαντες·
καὶ τίς
δύναται σωθῆναι;
Luk_18:26 Aειπαν TSBειπον δε οι ακουσαντες και τις δυναται σωθηναι
Luk_18:27 But He said, "These things
which are impossible with men are possible with God."
Luk_18:27 ὁ δὲ
εἶπε· τὰ ἀδύνατα
παρὰ ἀνθρώποις
δυνατὰ παρὰ
τῷ Θεῷ ἐστιν.
Luk_18:27 ο δε ειπεν τα αδυνατα παρα ανθρωποις δυνατα TSBεστιν παρα τω θεω Aεστιν
Luk_18:28 Then Peter said, "See, we
have left all and followed You."
Luk_18:28 Εἶπε
δὲ ὁ Πέτρος·
ἰδοὺ ἡμεῖς
ἀφήκαμεν τὰ
πάντα καὶ ἠκολουθήσαμέν
σοι.
Luk_18:28 ειπεν δε TSAο
πετρος ιδου
ημεις Aαφεντες
TSBαφηκαμεν
Aτα TSBπαντα
Aιδια TSBκαι
ηκολουθησαμεν
σοι
Rich Fade Away: The Rich Person Will Fade Away IN HIS WAYS
-- Under Construction --
Jam_1:9 CAB Let the lowly brother rejoice in his
exaltation,
Jam_1:9
Καυχάσθω
δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς
ὁ ταπεινὸς ἐν
τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ,
Jam_1:10 but the rich man in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
Jam_1:10 ὁ δὲ
πλούσιος ἐν
τῇ
ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ,
ὅτι ὡς ἄνθος
χόρτου
παρελεύσεται.
Jam_1:11 For [NKJV: no sooner has] the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and its flower ·fell off [NKJV: falls], and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man also shall fade away in his pursuits.
Jam_1:11 ἀνέτειλε
γὰρ ὁ ἥλιος
σὺν τῷ
καύσωνι καὶ
ἐξήρανε τὸν
χόρτον, καὶ
τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ
ἐξέπεσε,
καὶ ἡ εὐπρέπεια
τοῦ προσώπου
αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο,
οὕτω καὶ ὁ
πλούσιος ἐν
ταῖς
πορείαις αὐτοῦ
μαρανθήσεται.
Spending vs Investing
-- Under Construction --
Liking Money = Hell!
Don’t Even Like Silver, or
= Hell
Church people say you can like money as long as you don’t love it
Religious Love Money Sins
Let’s look at this problem with money…
We can all see that the religious hypocrites like money and boast in it.
From The OT on into the NT, the Bible has a long history of confronting the crimes of secular and religious people who sin because of liking money…
TSK on 1Ti_6:10 (with corrections
insertion(s))
the love: Gen_34:23-24, Gen_38:16 (incorrect example), Exo_23:7-8, Deu_16:19, Deu_23:4-5, Deu_23:18 (money profaned), Jdg_17:10-11, Jdg_18:19-20, Jdg_18:29-31, 2Sa_4:10-11, Pro_1:19, Isa_1:23,
Isa_56:11, Jer_5:27-28 (they got rich), Eze_13:19 (wrong people prioritized), Eze_16:33, Eze_22:12, Mic_3:11 (taking bribes; claiming g-d among them –
that is the essence of hypocritical apostate churchianity without sacrifice to
take hold of the virtues that lead to those benefits), Mic_7:3-4, Mal_1:10, Mat_23:14
(excluded from kingdom), Act_1:16-19 (Judas’ wages of
unrighteousness), Tit_1:11 (shameful gain of false
teachers), Rev_18:13 (indulgence &
slavery)
coveted: 1Ti_6:21, 2Ti_4:10 (Demas forsakes Paul for “Now Age”), Jud_1:11, Rev_2:14, Rev_2:15
Gold on the Temple
Mat_23:16 CAB Woe
to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing;
but whoever swears by the gold of the temple,
is obligated.'
Mat_23:16 Οὐαὶ
ὑμῖν, ὁδηγοὶ
τυφλοὶ, οἱ
λέγοντες· ὅς ἂν
ὀμόσῃ ἐν
τῷ ναῷ, οὐδέν
ἐστιν, ὃς δ᾿ ἂν
ὀμόσῃ ἐν
τῷ χρυσῷ
τοῦ ναοῦ, ὀφείλει.
Mat_23:17 "Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Mat_23:17
μωροὶ καὶ
τυφλοί. τίς
γὰρ μείζων ἐστίν,
ὁ χρυσὸς ἢ ὁ
ναὸς ὁ ἁγιάζων
τὸν χρυσόν;
Mat_23:17 μωροι και τυφλοι τις γαρ μειζων εστιν ο χρυσος η ο ναος ο Aαγιασας TSBαγιαζων τον χρυσον
Mat_23:18 And, 'Whoever swears by the
altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, is obligated.'
Mat_23:18 καί· ὅς
ἄν ὀμόσῃ ἐν
τῷ
θυσιαστηρίῳ,
οὐδέν ἐστιν,
ὃς δ᾿ ἂν ὀμόσῃ
ἐν τῷ δώρῳ
τῷ ἐπάνω
αὐτοῦ, ὀφείλει.
Mat_23:18 και ος Aαν TSBεαν ομοση εν τω θυσιαστηριω ουδεν εστιν ος δ αν ομοση εν τω δωρω τω επανω αυτου οφειλει
Mat_23:19 "Fools and blind! For which
is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Mat_23:19 μωροὶ
καὶ τυφλοί.
τί γὰρ μεῖζον,
τὸ δῶρον ἢ
τὸ
θυσιαστήριον
τὸ ἁγιάζον
τὸ δῶρον;
Mat_23:19 TSBμωροι
TSBκαι
τυφλοι τι γαρ
μειζον το
δωρον η το
θυσιαστηριον
το αγιαζον το
δωρον
This is a basic monotheistic orthodoxy that they blundering because of their admiration of gold.
Outside Greed vs. Inside GIving
Luk_11:39
CAB But [NKJV: Then] the
Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees
clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside of you
[NKJV: your inward part] is full of ·greed
and evil [ἁρπαγῆς
καὶ
πονηρίας] [NKJV: wickedness].
Luk_11:39 εἶπε
δὲ ὁ Κύριος
πρὸς αὐτόν·
νῦν ὑμεῖς
οἱ Φαρισαῖοι
τὸ ἔξωθεν τοῦ
ποτηρίου καὶ
τοῦ πίνακος
καθαρίζετε,
τὸ δὲ ἔσωθεν
ὑμῶν γέμει
ἁρπαγῆς καὶ
πονηρίας.
Luk_11:40 Fools
[NKJV: Foolish ones][ἄφρονες –
mindless-ones]! Did not He who made the outside
also make the inside?
Luk_11:40 ἄφρονες,
οὐχ ὁ
ποιήσας τὸ ἔξωθεν
καὶ τὸ ἔσωθεν
ἐποίησε;
Luk_11:41
Nevertheless [But rather] give
what is inside [NKJV: of such things as you have] as
alms; and see [NKJV: then indeed],
all things are clean to you.
Luk_11:41 πλὴν
τὰ ἐνόντα
δότε ἐλεημοσύνην,
καὶ ἰδοὺ
πάντα καθαρὰ
ὑμῖν ἐστιν.
Luk_11:42 But woe to you Pharisees! Because you pay a tithe of mint and rue and every vegetable, and you pass over justice and the love of God. These things you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Luk_11:42 ἀλλὰ
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν
τοῖς
Φαρισαίοις, ὅτι
ἀποδεκατοῦτε
τὸ ἡδύοσμον
καὶ τὸ
πήγανον καὶ
πᾶν λάχανον
καὶ
παρέρχεσθε
τὴν κρίσιν
καὶ τὴν ἀγάπην
τοῦ Θεοῦ·
ταῦτα δὲ ἔδει
ποιῆσαι, κἀκεῖνα
μὴ ἀφιέναι.
Luk_11:42 Aαλλα TSBαλλ ουαι υμιν τοις φαρισαιοις οτι αποδεκατουτε το ηδυοσμον και το πηγανον και παν λαχανον και παρερχεσθε την κρισιν και την αγαπην του θεου ταυτα Aδε εδει ποιησαι κακεινα μη Aπαρειναι TSBαφιεναι
Church person justify themselves and say Iat least I’m not like the Pharisees, so what do we do with this?
Notice that the church person doesn’t do any justice.
Flattered House-Steelers
Luk_20:46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk
about in long robes, and love greetings [φιλούντων
ἀσπασμοὺς] in
the marketplaces, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the places of
honor at dinners,
Luk_20:46
προσέχετε ἀπὸ
τῶν
γραμματέων τῶν
θελόντων
περιπατεῖν ἐν
στολαῖς καὶ
φιλούντων ἀσπασμοὺς
ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς
καὶ
πρωτοκαθεδρίας
ἐν ταῖς
συναγωγαῖς
καὶ
πρωτοκλισίας
ἐν τοῖς
δείπνοις,
Luk_20:47 who
devour widows' houses [κατεσθίουσι
τὰς οἰκίας
τῶν χηρῶν],
and for a show make long prayers. These will receive greater
condemnation."
Luk_20:47 οἳ
κατεσθίουσι
τὰς οἰκίας
τῶν χηρῶν
καὶ προφάσει
μακρὰ
προσεύχονται·
οὗτοι
λήψονται
περισσότερον
κρίμα.
Luk_20:47 οι κατεσθιουσιν τας οικιας των χηρων και προφασει μακρα προσευχονται ουτοι Aλημψονται TSBληψονται περισσοτερον κριμα
He is bemourning the Pharisees because they warmly like worldly praise and flattery – flattery which is the social version of bribes
So we see there is a problematic association with being religious and loving money
Two Masters: Hate & Despise Money
Preview: Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13-14
Luk_16:13 CAB 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 mammon."
Luk_16:13 Οὐδεὶς
οἰκέτης
δύναται δυσὶ
κυρίοις
δουλεύειν· ἢ
γὰρ τὸν ἕνα
μισήσει καὶ
τὸν ἕτερον ἀγαπήσει,
ἢ ἑνὸς ἀνθέξεται
καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου
καταφρονήσει.
οὐ δύνασθε
Θεῷ
δουλεύειν
καὶ μαμωνᾷ.
Luk_16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking [ἐξεμυκτήριζον] Him.
Luk_16:14 ῎Ηκουον
δὲ ταῦτα
πάντα καὶ οἱ
Φαρισαῖοι
φιλάργυροι ὑπάρχοντες,
καὶ ἐξεμυκτήριζον
αὐτόν.
Luk_16:14 ηκουον δε ταυτα παντα TSBκαι οι φαρισαιοι φιλαργυροι υπαρχοντες και εξεμυκτηριζον αυτον
Church people are, as logical conclusion, mocking, despising and hating Jesus because they are liking silver and you will do the exact same thing if you don’t hate it
“Not Liking Silver” ≈ “Not Liking
Money”
10/28/24-10/29/24
-- Under Construction --
Why does the Bible repeatedly confront the
liking of silver in particular? because it is the default standard commodity
that coins are pressed into.
Because the Bible frequently focuses on
'not liking silver', we know that the virtuous dislike that it is promoting is
toward a monetary system, and is a manner of speaking in Biblical times to
address money in general in its original context.
This linguistic historical fact is double
confirmed by the synonyms that are used with liking silver:
"Liking silver" is paralleled
with these synonyms
· Mammon (mat6; luk16)
· Acquired-furnishings/"gains"/ buying stuff
· Doing abundant riches
So we see very clearly that liking silver
is a crime that extends beyond silver into other types of money and riches in
general.
When “Not Liking” Is “Not Wearing”
10/28/24
-- Under Construction --
Loving Silver
Ecc_5:10 NKJV He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Ecc_5:10 MT אֹהֵ֤ב כֶּ֙סֶף֙
לֹ֣א
יִשְׂבַּ֣ע
כֶּ֔סֶף
וּמִֽי־אֹהֵ֥ב
בֶּהָמ֖וֹן
לֹ֣א תְבוּאָ֑ה
גַּם־זֶ֖ה
הָֽבֶל׃
Ecc_5:9 CAB He that loves silver [Ἀγαπῶν ἀργύριον] shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.
Ecc_5:10 (5:9) Ἀγαπῶν
ἀργύριον οὐ
πλησθήσεται ἀργυρίου·
καὶ τίς ἠγάπησεν
ἐν πλήθει αὐτῶν
γένημα; καί γε τοῦτο
ματαιότης.
This is one of the only examples where the Greek Bible really does talk about “Loving” Silver, but since church people are so fond to justify their sin, God has pre-condemned even the liking of money.
…
When Don't
“Love” Money = No Confrontation & Conviction
There's No
Accountability Against "Loving” Money in church today
10/20/24; 10/27/24
"Loving Money" is a term which
is inherently opinionated and subject to interpretation In churches today, and it's
molested with all kinds of useless vagueness and avoidance toward any moral
standard or social accountability.
it doesn't have any 'moral to the story'
or social horizontal accountability against the unbridled pervert lust monger
indulgence in sin done all throughout churches...
the point: Not "Loving Money" is
Preferred by Church People, because it lacks social horizontal accountability,
or confrontation and conviction or accomplishment of any moral light to testify
against flesh indulgence and demand actual concrete righteousness
Wicked church people want there to be no
accountability for their disgusting fondness with money so that they can
continue to hide and sin without ever being confronted and convicted as dirty
and guilty, therefore they gravitate toward focusing on a vague application of
"not loving money" in a way that there is no social accountability
possible to incriminate them for their sick perversion of not hating money
they have a word of wisdom but it's of no
value against indulging in the flesh
There's no moral to the story when you
simply focus on "not Loving Money", which is exactly why filthy
perverted immoral church people absolutely love. they are so happy to simply
say they don't love money because they love any make believe pseudo standard
that only requires them to say whatever they want to imagine so that everyone
can play along with their lie and delusion and deception
Liking Money -- Justified by Church People
“We All Like Money”
Video:
Money...The Root Of All Evil ｜ 1 Timothy 6_3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVGOuA7ocs
This video helps exemplify
the ignorance and perversion of apostate churchianity.
Even though this guy appears
to be a non-prosperity person, he still falls to typical church heresy…
Lies in the Video
(we are focusing on about 21 min into this viudeo)
· Vivid misleading is being used by the speaker (i.e. a logical fallacy)
· ‘we like to think that rich people are bad’ (he pretends) -- no we don’t, esp. not in churches. Rich American church people too often try to say ‘rich isn’t bad’, which is what this guy is saying, contrary to the New Testament.
· “Liking” money is ok, but it is “loving” money is what is wrong
· ‘Loving money is indicated by what you sacrifice’ -- but Paul says the sin is just about liking it and not hating it.
You could like silver and
not sacrifice for it and it still kills you.
“We All Want to be Rich”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3D7jVHHWw
Wanting to Be Rich & Liking Money
1Ti_6:9 CAB But
those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless
and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.
1Ti_6:9 οἱ δὲ
βουλόμενοι
πλουτεῖν ἐμπίπτουσιν
εἰς
πειρασμὸν
καὶ παγίδα
καὶ ἐπιθυμίας
πολλὰς ἀνοήτους
καὶ
βλαβεράς, αἵτινες
βυθίζουσι
τοὺς ἀνθρώπους
εἰς ὄλεθρον
καὶ ἀπώλειαν.
1Ti_6:10 For the ·love of money [φιλαργυρία – warm-liking-findness of silver] is a root [KJV: the root]
of all evils, of which some ·by aspiring have strayed away from the faith in
their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1Ti_6:10 ῥίζα
γὰρ πάντων
τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν
ἡ
φιλαργυρία, ἧς
τινες ὀρεγόμενοι
ἀπεπλανήθησαν
ἀπὸ τῆς
πίστεως καὶ
ἑαυτοὺς
περιέπειραν ὀδύναις
πολλαῖς.
See: 1st Tim 6 below
Phileo Defined (Reminder)
Phileo = Warm Liking Fond-ness / friendliness
This is the Root Greek Word for “liking money”
Examples of Phileo As Friend
Obedient Friends Are Saved
Joh_15:13 CAB Greater love has no one
than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends
[τῶν φίλων
αὐτοῦ].
Joh_15:13
μείζονα
ταύτης ἀγάπην
οὐδεὶς ἔχει, ἵνα
τις τὴν
ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
θῇ ὑπὲρ τῶν
φίλων αὐτοῦ.
Joh_15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
Joh_15:14 ὑμεῖς
φίλοι μού ἐστε,
ἐὰν ποιῆτε ὅσα
ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι
ὑμῖν.
Joh_15:14
υμεις φιλοι
μου εστε εαν
ποιητε Aα
TSBοσα εγω
εντελλομαι
υμιν
Joh_15:15 No longer do I
call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing;
but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father
I have made known to you.
Joh_15:15 οὐκέτι
ὑμᾶς λέγω
δούλους, ὅτι ὁ
δοῦλος οὐκ οἶδε
τί ποιεῖ αὐτοῦ
ὁ κύριος· ὑμᾶς
δὲ εἴρηκα
φίλους, ὅτι
πάντα ἃ ἤκουσα
παρὰ τοῦ
πατρός μου ἐγνώρισα
ὑμῖν.
Joh_15:15 ουκετι TSBυμας λεγω Aυμας δουλους οτι ο δουλος ουκ οιδεν τι ποιει αυτου ο κυριος υμας δε ειρηκα φιλους οτι παντα α ηκουσα παρα του πατρος μου εγνωρισα υμιν
NT: ABP+ Luk_7:6; Luk_12:4; Luk_14:12; Luk_15:6; Luk_15:9; Luk_15:29; Luk_16:9; Luk_21:16; Luk_23:12; Joh_15:13; Joh_15:14; Joh_15:15; Act_10:24; Act_19:31; Act_27:3; 2Ti_3:4; 3Jn_1:14.
Now that we see that warm liking is about friendship, we should ask ourselves if silver is part of the world or part of the kingdom of heaven
Do You Love Me…Like Me?
Joh_21:15 CAB So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said
to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you
love [ἀγαπᾷς
με] Me more than
these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I care for You
[φιλῶ σε]." He said to him, "Feed My lambs."
Joh_21:15 ῞Οτε οὖν
ἡρίστησαν,
λέγει τῷ
Σίμωνι Πέτρῳ
ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς·
Σίμων ᾿Ιωνᾶ,
ἀγαπᾷς με
πλέον τούτων;
λέγει αὐτῷ·
ναί, Κύριε,
σὺ οἶδας ὅτι
φιλῶ σε.
λέγει αὐτῷ·
βόσκε τὰ ἀρνία
μου.
Joh_21:15 οτε
ουν ηριστησαν
λεγει τω
σιμωνι πετρω ο ιησους
σιμων Aιωαννου TSBιωνα
αγαπας με Aπλεον
TSBπλειον
τουτων λεγει
αυτω ναι κυριε
συ οιδας οτι
φιλω σε λεγει
αυτω βοσκε τα
αρνια μου
Notice that this warm Liking is a friendship is how Phileo is being Used.
Phileo is being used as a lighter word than agape in the passage yet church people are saying that the stronger word is the sin while Paul is saying that it is the weaker word that is the sin.
Joh_21:15 really illustrates this.
If you had at least obey what you had in English you won’t have made these mistakes
So, can you be on friendly terms with money or did Jesus command you to hate it?
Don’t Love the World
1Jn_2:15 CAB Do not love [ἀγαπᾶτε] the world nor the things in the
world [that includes silver /money in Ecc_5:]. If anyone loves
the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn_2:15 Μὴ ἀγαπᾶτε
τὸν κόσμον
μηδὲ τὰ ἐν
τῷ κόσμῳ. ἐάν
τις ἀγαπᾷ
τὸν κόσμον,
οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ ἀγάπη
τοῦ πατρὸς ἐν
αὐτῷ·
1Jn_2:16 Because everything that is in the
world--the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
life--is not from the Father but is from the world.
1Jn_2:16 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.
So does that mean we can like the world as long as we don’t love it?
That is exactly what the church person is doing with silver in 1Ti_6:10, and he doesn’t even have his words match correctly
Friendship With The World
Jam_4:4 CAB Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know ·that friendship [ἡ
φιλία] ·with the world [τοῦ
κόσμου] ·is enmity with God [ἔχθρα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν]? Whoever therefore ·wants to be a friend [βουληθῇ
φίλος (same 2 words in 1Ti_6)] of the world is
constituted an enemy of God.
Jam_4:4
μοιχὶ καὶ
μοιχαλίδες,
οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι
ἡ φιλία τοῦ
κόσμου ἔχθρα
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν;
ὃς ἃν οὖν
βουληθῇ
φίλος εἶναι
τοῦ κόσμου, ἐχθρὸς
τοῦ Θεοῦ
καθίσταται.
Jam_4:4 TSBμοιχοι TSBκαι
μοιχαλιδες ουκ
οιδατε οτι η
φιλια του
κοσμου εχθρα
του θεου εστιν
ος Aεαν TSBαν ουν
βουληθη φιλος
ειναι του
κοσμου εχθρος
του θεου
καθισταται
Jam_4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The
Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?
Jam_4:5 ἢ
δοκεῖτε ὅτι
κενῶς ἡ
γραφὴ λέγει,
πρὸς φθόνον
ἐπιποθεῖ τὸ
πνεῦμα ὃ κατῴκησεν
ἐν ἡμῖν;
Jam_4:5 η
δοκειτε οτι
κενως η γραφη
λεγει προς φθονον
επιποθει το
πνευμα ο Aκατωκισεν
TSBκατωκησεν
εν ημιν
Jam_4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists
the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
Jam_4:6
μείζονα δὲ
δίδωσι χάριν·
διὸ λέγει· ὁ
Θεὸς ὑπερηφάνοις
ἀντιτάσσεται,
ταπεινοῖς δὲ
δίδωσι
χάριν.
Jam_4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from
you.
Jam_4:7 ῾Υποτάγητε
οὖν τῷ Θεῷ.
ἀντίστητε τῷ
διαβόλῳ,
καὶ φεύξεται
ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν·
Jam_4:7 υποταγητε ουν τω θεω αντιστητε Aδε Bδε τω διαβολω και φευξεται αφ υμων
Do you remember an important example where you can only choose one of two masters???
Do you see that this is the same thing James is teaching, since he is a SOM-type of teacher?
Let’s compare a few different yet similar expressions and applications of phileo with liking silver to get a better feel for how phileo (warm-liking) is used in the Greek Bible…
Liking Man-kind = Good
G5363 φιλανθρωπία, -ας, ἡ
AMGL: in LXX: Ezr_8:13, 2Ma_6:22; 2Ma_14:9, 3Ma_3:15; 3Ma_3:18 *;]
humanity, kindness (v. Field, Notes, 147 f.): Act_28:2
We’ve already seen that Phileo can describe a “friend”
Here we can see that Phileo is good to extend toward the human race at large.
Liking Women Can Be Bad
Being fond-of ‘Too Many’ Women (for One’s
Self) = Bad (a Character Flaw)
1Ki_11:1 – Solomon was a liker of women
Ie we would say womanizer
1Ki_11:1 WEB Now king Solomon loved many foreign women,
together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites,
Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
1Ki_11:1 LB And King Solomon was ·a lover of women [φιλογύναιος]. And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh,
Moabite and Ammonite women, Syrians and Edomites, Hittites and Amorites;
1Ki_11:1 Καὶ ὁ
βασιλεὺς
Σαλωμων ἦν
φιλογύναιος.
καὶ ἦσαν αὐτῷ ἄρχουσαι
ἑπτακόσιαι καὶ
παλλακαὶ
τριακόσιαι. καὶ
ἔλαβεν γυναῖκας
ἀλλοτρίας καὶ
τὴν θυγατέρα
Φαραω, Μωαβίτιδας,
Αμμανίτιδας, Σύρας
καὶ Ιδουμαίας,
Χετταίας καὶ
Αμορραίας,
1Ki_11:2
WEB of the nations concerning which
Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither
shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after
their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.
1Ki_11:2
of the nations concerning whom the Lord forbade the children of Israel, saying,
“You shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you, lest they turn
away your hearts after their idols”; Solomon clung to these in love.
1Ki_11:2 ἐκ τῶν ἐθνῶν,
ὧν ἀπεῖπεν κύριος
τοῖς υἱοῖς
Ισραηλ Οὐκ εἰσελεύσεσθε
εἰς αὐτούς, καὶ
αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσελεύσονται
εἰς ὑμᾶς, μὴ ἐκκλίνωσιν
τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν
ὀπίσω εἰδώλων
αὐτῶν, εἰς αὐτοὺς
ἐκολλήθη
Σαλωμων τοῦ ἀγαπῆσαι.
1Ki_11:3
WEB He had seven hundred wives,
princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
1Ki_11:3
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And
the strange women turned away his heart after their gods.
1Ki_11:3 (SEE_11:1)
1Ki_11:4
WEB For it happened, when Solomon was
old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not
perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1Ki_11:4
And it came to pass in the time of Solomon’s old age, that his heart was not
perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1Ki_11:4 καὶ ἐγενήθη
ἐν καιρῷ γήρους
Σαλωμων καὶ οὐκ
ἦν ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ
τελεία μετὰ
κυρίου θεοῦ αὐτοῦ
καθὼς ἡ καρδία
Δαυιδ τοῦ πατρὸς
αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξέκλιναν
αἱ γυναῖκες αἱ ἀλλότριαι
τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ
ὀπίσω θεῶν αὐτῶν.
He piled up the fondness of worldliness by piling up the horses from Egyptm he was fond of women that broke up Moses’ rules and piling up money
Liking Fighting = Bad
(A) Liking Enmity
Pro_3:30 WEB Don't strive with a
man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
Pro_3:30 LB ·Do not quarrel [φιλεχθρήσῃς] with [πρὸς] a man ·without a cause [μάτην], lest he do you some harm.
Pro_3:30 μὴ
φιλεχθρήσῃς
πρὸς ἄνθρωπον
μάτην, μή τι εἰς
σὲ ἐργάσηται
κακόν.
(B) Liking Conquering
Eze_3:7 WEB But the house of Israel will not listen to
you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard
forehead and of a stiff heart.
Eze_3:7 LB But the house of Israel will not be willing
to listen to you; for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel
are stubborn [φιλόνεικοί] and hard-hearted [σκληροκάρδιοι].
Eze_3:7
ὁ δὲ οἶκος τοῦ
Ισραηλ οὐ μὴ
θελήσωσιν εἰσακοῦσαί
σου, διότι οὐ βούλονται
εἰσακούειν
μου· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ οἶκος
Ισραηλ φιλόνεικοί
εἰσιν καὶ
σκληροκάρδιοι.
1Co_11:16 But if anyone seems to be contentious [φιλόνεικος], we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.
1Co_11:16 Εἰ
δέ τις δοκεῖ
φιλόνεικος εἶναι,
ἡμεῖς
τοιαύτην
συνήθειαν οὐκ
ἔχομεν, οὐδὲ
αἱ ἐκκλησίαι
τοῦ Θεοῦ.
The Point: Both Liking Enmity and Liking Conquering are bad sinful fond-ness-es with fighting/arguing in the Greek Bible.
That means church people are warmly liking conquering worldly hard hearted stubborn.
Liking Self = Bad
Being fond-of your Self = Bad
G5367 φίλ-αυτος, -ον
2Ti_3:2 – see: Liking Self + Silver (below)
Liking Money = Bad
(A) Noun: G5365 φιλαργυρία, -ας, ἡ
(ABP+) Jer_8:10; 1Ti_6:10.
4Ma_1:26; |4Ma_2:15|?
Not an endorsement just a linguistic reference
from 4th Mac,
4Ma_1:25 Br And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is
the most multiform of all the affections.
4Ma_1:25 ἐν τῇ ἡδονῇ
δὲ ἔνεστιν καὶ ἡ
κακοήθης διάθεσις,
πολυτροπωτάτη
πάντων οὖσα τῶν
παθῶν,
4Ma_1:26 In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money [φιλαργυρία], and vaingloriousness [φιλοδοξία], and contention [φιλονεικία], and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
4Ma_1:26 καὶ τὰ
μὲν ψυχῆς ἀλαζονεία
καὶ φιλαργυρία
καὶ φιλοδοξία
καὶ φιλονεικία
καὶ βασκανία,
Βασκανία
(βασκανία) = evil eye / ≈ “fascination
or enchantment” (Google AI)
(B) Adjective: G5366 φιλ-άργυρος,
-ον
This is an Adjective implying action
(ABP+) Luk_16:14; 2Ti_3:2.
4Ma_2:8
(C) Dictionaries Confirm Friendly Liking
Strong’s: “fond of
silver (money)”
LJS: “fond of money”
WS: “from phílos (G5384), a friend or loving, and árguros (G696), silver, money”
NO Liking Money = Salvation
Without Liking Silver
G866 ἀ-φιλ-άργυρος,
-ον
Preview: 1Ti_3:3, Heb_13:5
(A) Overseer/Pastor Can’t Like Money!
1Ti_3:3 CAB not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy
for money [αίσχροκερδῆ], but gentle, not quarrelsome [ἄμαχον], not loving money [ἀφιλάργυρον];
1Ti_3:3 μὴ
πάροινον, μὴ
πλήκτην, μὴ
αίσχροκερδῆ,
ἀλλ᾿ ἐπιεικῆ,
ἄμαχον, ἀφιλάργυρον,
1Ti_3:3 μη παροινον μη πληκτην Aαλλα TSBμη TSBαισχροκερδη TSBαλλ επιεικη αμαχον αφιλαργυρον
(B) Like Money Forbidden to All Obeyers! – by
Hebrews
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 ἐγκαταλίπω·
|Bεγκαταλειπω
TSAεγκαταλιπω|
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, καὶ |Aκαι
TSBκαι| οὐ
φοβηθήσομαι·
τί ποιήσει
μοι ἄνθρωπος;
Church person says liking is ok but Hebrews says you r turning or your way of life be without it.
He is saying every single degree of your life has to be without liking silver. Which means you can’t have the slightest bit at all
How much can you like silver? NONE
Liking Self + Silver = End-times Apostasy
2Ti_3:1 CAB But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti_3:1 Τοῦτο
δὲ γίνωσκε, ὅτι
ἐν ἐσχάταις
ἡμέραις ἐνστήσονται
καιροὶ
χαλεποί·
2Ti_3:2 For men will be lovers of themselves
[φίλαυτοι], lovers of money [φιλάργυροι], boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,
2Ti_3:2 ἔσονται
γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι
φίλαυτοι, φιλάργυροι,
ἀλαζόνες, ὑπερήφανοι,
βλάσφημοι,
γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς,
ἀχάριστοι, ἀνόσιοι,
2Ti_3:3 unloving,
unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving what is good,
2Ti_3:3 ἄστοργοι,
ἄσπονδοι,
διάβολοι, ἀκρατεῖς,
ἀνήμεροι, ἀφιλάγαθοι,
2Ti_3:4 traitors,
headstrong, having been puffed up, lovers of pleasure [φιλήδονοι] rather than lovers of God [φιλόθεοι],
2Ti_3:4
προδόται,
προπετεῖς,
τετυφωμένοι, φιλήδονοι
μᾶλλον ἢ φιλόθεοι,
2Ti_3:5 having a form of
godliness but denying its power. And from these people turn away!
2Ti_3:5 ἔχοντες
μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας,
τὴν δὲ
δύναμιν αὐτῆς
ἠρνημένοι.
καὶ τούτους
ἀποτρέπου.
Disciple Notes: Love, Community, Helping, & Patience
The Didache on Money / Silver
The Didache Confirms Obedience to The Scriptures
Reminders: the Didache = The
Teaching (of the 12) -- which is a very early church document
Avoid the Path of Sin, Incl. Liking
Money
Did_3:5
ANF My child, be not a liar, since a lie
leadeth the way to theft; neither money-loving [ϕιλάργυρος], nor [μηδὲ] vainglorious [κενόδοξος]
[conceited (Lightfoot)], for out of all these thefts are engendered.
Did_3:5 τέκνον μου, μὴ
γίνου ψεύστης·
ἐπειδὴ ὁδηγεῖ
τὸ ψεῦσμα εἰς τὴν
κλοπήν· μηδὲ ϕιλάργυρος
μηδὲ
κενόδοξος· ἐκ
γὰρ τούτων ἁπάντων
κλοπαὶ γεννῶνται.
False Prophets/Spirits Ask for
Money
Did_6:12 Lightfoot But if anyone should say in the spirit, "Give me money," or anything else, do not listen to him.
11.12 ὃς δ' ἂν
εἴπῃ ἐν
πνεύματι· Δός
μοι ἀργύρια ἢ ἕτερά
τινα, οὐκ ἀκούσεσϑε
αὐτοῦ· ἐὰν δὲ
περὶ ἄλλων ὑστερούντων
εἴπῃ δοῦναι,
μηδεὶς αὐτὸν
κρινέτω.
First Fruits Offered to the Prophets
Did_8:6-7
Lightfoot (6) Similarly, when you open a jar of wine or
oil, take the firstfruit and give it to the prophets.
13.6
ὡσαύτως κεράμιον οἴνου ἢ ἐλαίου ἀνοίξας τὴν ἀπαρχὴν λαβὼν δὸς τοῖς προϕήταις·
(7) As for money [ἀργυρίου – silver] and clothes and any other possessions, take the
"firstfruit" that seems right to you and give in accordance with the
commandment.
13.7
ἀργυρίου δὲ καὶ ἱματισμοῦ καὶ παντὸς κτήματος λαβὼν τὴν ἀπαρχήν, ὡς ἄν σοι δόξῃ δὸς κατὰ τὴν ἐντολήν.
Not Liking Money = Required for Early
Church Leaders
Did_15:1
ANF Appoint [Χειροτονήσατε], therefore, for yourselves, bishops
[ἐπισκόπους –
overseers] and
deacons [διακόνους
– servants that chase errands] worthy of the Lord, men meek, and not lovers of money [ἀϕιλαργύρους], (Comp. 1Ti_3:4) and truthful and proved [ἀληϑεῖς καὶ
δεδοκιμασμένους]; ·for they also render to [λειτουργοῦσι]
[Lightfoot: for they too carry out for you] you the service [λειτουργίαν]107 of prophets and teachers [διδασκάλων].
15.1
Χειροτονήσατε
οὖν ἑαυτοῖς ἐπισκόπους
καὶ διακόνους ἀξίους
τοῦ Κυρίου, ἄνδρας
πραεῖς καὶ ἀϕιλαργύρους
καὶ ἀληϑεῖς καὶ
δεδοκιμασμένους·
ὑμῖν γὰρ
λειτουργοῦσι
καὶ αὐτοὶ τὴν
λειτουργίαν τῶν
προϕητῶν καὶ
διδασκάλων.
Power of Money -- Despise it!
Pro_18:11 – Rich Man’s Wealth Is His
Refuge
Pro_18:11
NKJV The rich man's wealth is his strong city,
And
like a high wall in his own esteem."
"הוֹן
עָשִׁיר
קִרְיַת
עֻזּוֹ
וּכְחוֹמָה נִשְׂגָּבָה
בְּמַשְׂכִּיתוֹ"
Pro_18:11 Brenton The
substance of a rich man is a strong city; and its glory casts a broad shadow.
You
can say that you don’t trust money,
but if you like using its power then it is your refuge to that same degree.
Having a posture of debt is liking the Power of Money = Hell
Liking the Power of Money
Overseer’s Wife’s Notes: Woes of Money Trust & Fondness
--
Under Construction
--
The Apostasy of Liking Silver
10/17/24; 10/19/24-10/20/24
Liking silver makes you an apostate end
times Moses oppose-r
1 Timothy 3 - apostasy we already saw that
the Pharisees were very evil with their stealing and acquiring money and
boasting in the gold rather than the altar
church people can excuse themselves and
act like that doesn't apply to them because they just like money, but claim not
to love it
1 Timothy 3 apostasy description tells us
very clearly that liking silver makes you full of all kinds of evil just like
we already saw about the gold loving Pharisees
Just as the Pharisees stole widow's houses
(luk...) so also the silver liking in times apostates take captive women and
creep into their houses (1 Timothy_3:6)
1Ti3:1-9
Seriously consider the incriminating list
of character flaws and sinful apostasy associated with liking silver
The Point: Hating = Not Liking = Not Loving
Never
mind the inconsistencies of hypocritical church pretense…
Here
is the logical consistent proof of scriptural integrity…!
Hating Money (m6; L16) = Not Liking Silver
(...... ) = Not Loving Silver/Money (Ecc)
Don’t Store up For YOURSELVES
-- Under Construction --
My saying: Wealth for Yourself Endangers Your Health
Store Up For Others
-- Under Construction --
Store up for others = Biblical
Store up for YOURSELF = un-Biblical
2Co_9:5 NKJV Therefore I thought it necessary to
exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift
beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter
of generosity and not as a grudging obligation.
2Co_9:5 SBL ἀναγκαῖον οὖν
ἡγησάμην
παρακαλέσαι τοὺς
ἀδελφοὺς ἵνα
προέλθωσιν εἰς
ὑμᾶς καὶ
προκαταρτίσωσιν
τὴν
προεπηγγελμένην
εὐλογίαν ὑμῶν,
ταύτην ἑτοίμην
εἶναι οὕτως ὡς
εὐλογίαν καὶ μὴ
ὡς πλεονεξίαν.
1Co_16:1-2
NKJV Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to
the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let
each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there
be no collections when I come.
1Co_16:1-2 SBL Περὶ δὲ τῆς
λογίας τῆς εἰς
τοὺς ἁγίους, ὥσπερ
διέταξα ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις
τῆς Γαλατίας, οὕτως
καὶ ὑμεῖς
ποιήσατε. Κατὰ
μίαν σαββάτου ἕκαστος
ὑμῶν παρ’ ἑαυτῷ
τιθέτω,
θησαυρίζων ὅ
τι ἂν εὐοδῶται, ἵνα
μὴ ὅταν ἔλθω
τότε λογεῖαι
γίνωνται.
2Co_12:14 CAB Now for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to store up [θησαυρίζειν (=Mat_6; Pro_13:22)] for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2Co_12:14 ᾿Ιδοὺ
τρίτον ἑτοίμως
ἔχω ἐλθεῖν
πρὸς ὑμᾶς,
καὶ οὐ
καταναρκήσω ὑμῶν·
οὐ γὰρ ζητῶ
τὰ ὑμῶν, ἀλλ᾿
ὑμᾶς. οὐ
γὰρ ὀφείλει
τὰ τέκνα τοῖς
γονεῦσι
θησαυρίζειν,
ἀλλὰ᾿ οἱ
γονεῖς τοῖς
τέκνοις.
Wicked Store Up for the Righteous
Forced Storing for the Righteous
-- Under Construction --
Preview: Ecc_2:26; Pro_13:22; Job_27:16-17
Ecc_2:26 NKJV For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Pro_13:22 NKJV A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Pro_13:22 Berry A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up [θησαυρίζεται] for the righteous.
Pro_13:22 LXX ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς
κληρονομήσει υἱοὺς
υἱῶν,
θησαυρίζεται δὲ
τῷ δικαίῳ πλοῦτος
ἀσεβῶν.
Giving = Salvation (Reminder-Preview)
Under Giving, See:
Part of Hating
Money is being very eager to give it away in order to be
saved.
Treasuring Shows Heart -- NOT the Other Way Around!
Jesus does not say that your heart shows
where your treasure is but that your treasure shows where your heart is no
hypocritical excuses allowed! this is why the Bible later teaches that you can
test and know if someone is greedy or not (as a requirement of integrity before
being an overseer)...
Testing Your Treasures -- Disciple Question
Disciple Question:
6/6/24
How do you lay up treasures in
heaven and how do you know what you have already and what more to add
1Ti_6 – Want to be Rich = Trap
Those Who Want to be Rich Fall into a Trap
Anti-Money-liking: 1Ti_6:9, 1Ti_6:17-19
See: Liking Money above (for other related verses)
Church people
think the rich could continue to be just as rich as long as they don’t “hope in
riches” -- as though they seriously Don’t Trust Money, but we all
know that this is a lie…
Church people
say that Paul is not calling the rich to downgrade their luxurious living…
Talk Like Jesus About Money -- Disciple Notes
9/29/24; 10/1/24
-- Under Construction --
Disciple Notes: Supernatural Provision vs.
Luxury
Supernatural Provision = Hating Luxury & Worry
Rejecting Luxury to Embrace True Righteousness
You need to vomit out the garbage so you can hunger and thirst for real righteousness of food
If you stop
liking luxury you will likely stop having fleshly temptation
A lot of pastor
(prosperity preachers) have mistaken supernatural provision with God wants me
to be rich. Supernatural includes times of scarcity built into it and times of
abundance. Being rich means you never have to have a low point which is
dangerous. Jesus intentionally chose times of scarcity while the children of
Israel refuse it and complained against it
The root is a
hidden source which could eventually cause a certain type of fruit, it could be
subterranean and you might not know it and that is why it is a trap.
Disciple Notes: 1Ti_6: Liking Silver vs Hating Money
The Biblical Call to Reject Wealth and Love of
Money
OT vs. NT on being rich –
[Paul & John: it’s passing away]
The Hebrew include gathering and working and being happy with that
It can include the idea of gathering / working being happy from gathering
The Greek it comes from being full. It has a very strong aspect of abundance i.e. having more than you need (fill to over flowing)
Again reminder the OT did have rich people including rich righteous people and the NT came along and updated it.
When Jesus says woe to the rich he is not drawing off of the Hebrew part that you work really hard he is against the Greek part where you are stuff full from all the money you have
The point now is we are commanded to hate money more than ever
1Ti_6
Church people will never stop saying you don’t need to hate money it is about the heart. The church person says you can be rich as long as your heart doesn’t love money. Jesus says you can’t be rich.
This is one of the most anti-money chapters in the Bible but church use it to say it is ok to like money as long as you don’t love it.
He is teaching Jesus’ doctrine of hating money
There is a moral tangible way to hate money
The point is to hate money.
Minding /thinking to gain useful things, to gain furnishings
1Ti_6:9 – those wanting to be rich = those strategically/counseling/planning/wanting to go about being full/abundant
Full/rich (1Ti_6:9) ≈ woe to the rich/full (Luk_6:20-26)
It does not say those who are careful when they are rich won’t fall or those who are reckless will fall. It says if you are counseling to do fullness you are falling. There are things happening simultaneously. Fullness and falling happen side by side you can’t escape it? It is a trap that means you do not know what is happening to you!
Why is it a problem to be brainless?
Because God has ordain for you to hear the word of God through your brain and conform your life likewise
Destruction is the abyss that leads into hell, which is why in Revelation it says there is an angel over the abyss that leads down to Apollyon.
The Love of money is a root of all evils
Temptation (1Ti_6:9) = Lord’s prayer
Doing strategic-fullness = falling
However those counseling to be doing fullness are falling into going through a trial of temptation = a trap
Church people say you can like money as long as you don’t love it. They are guilty even if they don’t know Greek they are guilty because Jesus explicitly say to hate it!
Philao is warm happy fondness
That is why when Jesus said to Peter do you love (agape, seriously love you) me? and Peter says Lord you know Philao (I like happy warm feeling) you
Warming liking of (Philao) silver
If you get happy when you see money you are falling into a trap
Money is offering an appearance of value to you. When you see something at face value and you take it you are liking it
When Paul is telling you that warm liking of money sends you to hell he is directly telling you to hate money.
Paul makes a link with the lust of money with the lust of a woman..
If a man looks at a woman and does not abominate the beauty prostitution murder, he will be defiled by her because he is presented with something that looks like something of value to him. He needs to viciously push back and abominate it, so he doesn’t heat up in lust from her
Lust includes admiring and be modify by it.
If you are more happy looking at money than not looking at it then you are in a trap.
Hating money is the direct opposite to liking silver. If you like money you go to hell.
Luk_16 you need to make for yourself friends with people who have the authority to welcome you into paradise (these friends include angels)
You want to get faithful with little not hoard a bunch of money
Unrighteous money is a lie and you need to be faithful with the little money so you can be trusted with the real treasure in heaven
The steward was managing money than did not belong to him and he used that to gain friends
So you have money that does not belong to you and so it will be taken away from you so you need to use it to make friends that can take you in.
If you believe the money you have is your own, you are already in a trap.
The Pharisee were mocking him because they were warm liking silver. Therefore they despise God and are serving mammon and hating God
He is contrasting hating money with the Pharisees that liked silver
When we still are tempted to be rich when:
We rush around and paying to not slow down
Having trouble forgiving someone
Puffed up with pride
Assuming non inspiration
Healthy safe, non-sick words of Jesus are not going to make you have dark circles around your eyes.
You need to get deep satisfaction with hating money.
Blind (1Ti_6:4) ≈ a trap (1Ti_6:9) ≈ deceived/strayed (1Ti_6:10)
Saying enough (1Ti_6:6, 1Ti_6:8) ≈ enough nasty evil (Mat_6:)
Puffed with blinding smoke pride, and doing other
Teachings (1Ti_6:4)
Words of Jesus (1Ti_6:3)
v.4 seeking questions includes Greek philosophers skeptics like in 1Co_2
Epistemology is talking about knowledge in the Bible what you know
Other teaching generates bad behavior
Just like loving money /liking silver generates destruction
Other teaching including prosperity gospel of nice furnishing produces bad behavior
1Ti_6:5-10
1Ti_6:5 CAB constant ·wranglings of men [WEB: friction of
people] of corrupt minds
and having been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of
profit. Withdraw from such people.
1Ti_6:5
διαπαρατριβαὶ
διεφθαρμένων
ἀνθρώπων
τὸν νοῦν
καὶ ἀπεστερημένων
τῆς ἀληθείας,
νομιζόντων
πορισμὸν εἶναι
τὴν εὐσέβειαν.
ἀφίστασο ἀπὸ
τῶν
τοιούτων.
1Ti_6:5 BAδιαπαρατριβαι
TSπαραδιατριβαι
διεφθαρμενων
ανθρωπων τον
νουν και
απεστερημενων
της αληθειας
νομιζοντων
πορισμον ειναι
την ευσεβειαν TSBαφιστασο TSBαπο TSBτων TSBτοιουτων
Throughly
tribulating next to = erroneous useless unprofitable banging throught the hours
disputing
Root
issue: not holding to the words of Jesus
Thoroughly rotted brain
(v.5) ≈ brainless lust (……)
1Ti_6:6 But godliness with
contentment is great gain.
1Ti_6:6 ἔστι δὲ
πορισμὸς
μέγας ἡ εὐσέβεια
μετὰ αὐταρκείας.
1Ti_6:7 For we brought nothing
into this world, and it is certain that neither can we carry anything out!
1Ti_6:7 οὐδὲν
γὰρ εἰσηνέγκαμεν
εἰς τὸν
κόσμον, δῆλον
ὅτι οὐδὲ ἐξενεγκεῖν
τι δυνάμεθα·
1Ti_6:7
ουδεν γαρ
εισηνεγκαμεν
εις τον κοσμον TSBδηλον οτι
ουδε εξενεγκειν
τι δυναμεθα
1Ti_6:8 But having food
and clothing, with these things we shall be content.
1Ti_6:8 ἔχοντες
δὲ διατροφὰς
καὶ
σκεπάσματα,
τούτοις ἀρκεσθησόμεθα.
1Ti_6:9 But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless
[NKJV:
foolish] and harmful lusts
which sink [NKJV: drown] men in destruction and perdition.
1Ti_6:9 οἱ δὲ
βουλόμενοι
πλουτεῖν ἐμπίπτουσιν
εἰς
πειρασμὸν
καὶ παγίδα
καὶ ἐπιθυμίας
πολλὰς ἀνοήτους
καὶ
βλαβεράς, αἵτινες
βυθίζουσι
τοὺς ἀνθρώπους
εἰς ὄλεθρον
καὶ ἀπώλειαν.
1Ti_6:10 For the love of
money is a root of all evils, of which some by aspiring have
strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows.
1Ti_6:10 ῥίζα
γὰρ πάντων
τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν
ἡ
φιλαργυρία, ἧς
τινες ὀρεγόμενοι
ἀπεπλανήθησαν
ἀπὸ τῆς
πίστεως καὶ
ἑαυτοὺς
περιέπειραν ὀδύναις
πολλαῖς.
v.9 Strategizing to be rich
Didache:
Did_2:6 b ANF …Thou shalt not take evil counsel against thy neighbor.
Did_2:6
b Lightfoot …You shall not hatch evil plots against your neighbor.
Did_2:6 b Greek οὐ λήψῃ βουλὴν πονηρὰν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον σου
v.5 you are out of your mind
like someone is out of their democracy
a
church person is trying to say, that you can like money as long as you don’t
love it. But in 1Ti_3:3 it says that an Overseer is not supposed to have warm
feeling towards silver
see:
Hebrews
good
reverence is the prize. Not prosperity gospel
1Ti_6:17-19
1Ti_6:17 CAB Command those who are rich in this present age [νῦν αἰῶνι (=Luk_6:25 vs. 1Ti_6:19)] not to be haughty,
nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides
all things richly for us to enjoy,
1Ti_6:17 Τοῖς
πλουσίοις ἐν
τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι
παράγγελλε
μὴ ὑψηλοφρονεῖν,
μηδὲ ἠλπικέναι
ἐπὶ πλούτου
ἀδηλότητι, ἀλλ᾿
ἐν τῷ Θεῷ
ζῶντι, τῷ
παρέχοντι ἡμῖν
πάντα
πλουσίως εἰς
ἀπόλαυσιν,
1Ti_6:17
τοις
πλουσιοις εν
τω νυν αιωνι
παραγγελλε μη
υψηλοφρονειν
μηδε ηλπικεναι
επι πλουτου
αδηλοτητι αλλ Aεπι TSBεν TSBτω θεω TSBτω TSBζωντι τω
παρεχοντι ημιν
TSπλουσιως
παντα BAπλουσιως
εις απολαυσιν
1Ti_6:18 to do good, to be rich
in good works, to be generous, sharing,
1Ti_6:18 ἀγαθοεργεῖν,
πλουτεῖν ἐν ἔργοις
καλοῖς, εὐμεταδότους
εἶναι,
κοινωνικούς,
1Ti_6:19 storing up for
yourselves a good foundation for the future,
that they may lay hold of eternal life.
1Ti_6:19 ἀποθησαυρίζοντας
ἑαυτοῖς
θεμέλιον
καλὸν εἰς
τὸ μέλλον, ἵνα
ἐπιλάβωνται
τῆς αἰωνίου
ζωῆς.
1Ti_6:19
αποθησαυριζοντας
εαυτοις
θεμελιον καλον
εις το μελλον
ινα
επιλαβωνται
της Aοντως TSBαιωνιου
ζωης
v.17 v= now age verses v.19 that which is about to be ….indeed being life or life ongoing perpetual life
v.17 uncertain riches indirect contrast to the certainty in TSB that we can’t take anything with us
‘gives us all richness to enjoy a benefit from it’
this does not imply that he gives us all riches that could be given to us, since the preceding authoritative governing context is that he's talking to specific people who are rich in this now age – you have to submit to and obey the preceding authoritative governing context which limits the various ways that you could read this
if fragmented, this phrase could be read two different ways, but if submitted under the preceding authoritative governing context, you would have to read this as ‘all the things which he richly gives are for us to benefit from’
what kind of enjoyment?
This is not including the type of ‘partying enjoyment’ that rich people like to boast in, but rather ‘enjoying the benefit’ more particularly
the beneficial enjoyment as a privilege which
he has given to some people
Giving Threatens Personal Riches
blind church person thinks they can freely ‘enjoy the finer things of life’ as long as they ‘don't hope in riches’ but this attitude is hypocritical because, for example, this verse specifically tells them to live in a way that hazards rich people having a store of lots of nice things for themselves to enjoy
Fight the good fight =
hating money
Agony = enter into the
agony of Anointed One
Mat_5:17-20; Mat_7:13-29; Mat_12:33-37; Luk_6:43-49 ≈ Luk_13:23-30 [ἀγωνίζεσθε];
Luk_22:44 [ἀγωνίᾳ]
Preach submissive servants
and hating money until Jesus appears, someone’s got to take up Timothy legacy
until Jesus appear
v.18 one who promotes equilibrium sharingish equilibriumizingish
v.20 vulgate ≈ science
Someone has got to take up the banner because it seems like Timothy is not alive anymore and Paul says to continue until the appearing of the Anointed One
The first movement through verse10 is dealing with those who lose, they are failing. In direct contrast with a man of God who doesn’t fail because he is running.
Country songs keep singing about losing their wives, girls, dogs etc. they are almost patting themselves on the back with being pierce through with many sorrows. If you rejoice in it you are not taking it serious enough to change.
They are alive right now but they are going towards a destination of hell and destruction. And they are living money to get there. This is a trap so turn around and run.
He (Paul) is putting lust and money in the same category. The strongest man could not handle lust, the wisest man could not handle lust so don’t you go thinking you can handle lust. Flee like Joseph. The same is applied to silver.
You don’t trust yourself; he who trusts in himself is a fool. When it comes to lust the Bible does not say stand firm when it comes to lust it says flee!
It doesn’t matter how much, it matter what direction you are going in. A person who steals a penny a day will still go the hell as a thief. All continued sin leads to hell so
Fleeing the fondness of silver is a crux point of whether or not you connect to and glorify the right God and pass judgement
All the gods of church that allow you to like silver has nothing to do with the God of the Bible. Be thankful for things? Yes. Like it and want abundance of it? No
---------------
10/27/24
@H2:
Is it ok to be grateful to God for money in your bank account, or receiving a paycheck? Like your happy you were given it and thank God?
How can you negotiate higher pay? Is that liking money?
Enjoyment of Abundance
10/6/24
(A) References to Compare
1Ti_6:17 CAB Command those who are rich in this present age [νῦν αἰῶνι (=Luk_6:25 vs. 1Ti_6:19)] not to be haughty,
nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who
provides all things richly for us to enjoy,
1Ti_6:17 Τοῖς
πλουσίοις ἐν
τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι
παράγγελλε
μὴ ὑψηλοφρονεῖν,
μηδὲ ἠλπικέναι
ἐπὶ πλούτου
ἀδηλότητι, ἀλλ᾿
ἐν τῷ Θεῷ
ζῶντι, τῷ
παρέχοντι ἡμῖν
πάντα
πλουσίως εἰς
ἀπόλαυσιν,
1Ti_6:17
τοις
πλουσιοις εν
τω νυν αιωνι
παραγγελλε μη
υψηλοφρονειν
μηδε ηλπικεναι
επι πλουτου
αδηλοτητι αλλ Aεπι TSBεν TSBτω θεω TSBτω TSBζωντι τω
παρεχοντι ημιν
TSπλουσιως
παντα BAπλουσιως
εις απολαυσιν
Heb_11:25-26 – enjoyment (same Greek) + sin = unlawful
(B) Greek to Consider
Greek: ἀπόλαυσιν
Greek ≠ raw pleasure i.e. Greek Hedonism
Greek ≈ partake of/from the enjoyed benefit from something
The Point: 1Ti_6:17 does NOT support pure enjoyment for pleasure’s sake (that’s a different Greek word), but beneficial enjoyment whenever God gives full-abundance [Τοῖς πλουσίοις].
Prospering Without Dying
-- Under Construction ---
Act_20:35 – It is more blessed to give than to receive
According to this verse…
Receiving is a blessing indeed, but idealizing it is a curse, because that is disobeying the verse that tells you to idealize giving!
Disobedience is a curse, therefore liking money is cursed.
Success is not bad at all, especially when you are inheriting a blessing and getting ready to be a blessing to others.
Let money flow through your hands, but don’t let it stay there too long.
1Ti_6:17 – Enjoyment is lawful
REAL Prosperity
-- Under Construction ---
Salvation = Goal of Money Hating
Review / follow-up: <<<<<<<<
Havilah, vs. NOW, Salvation (Review &
Moving Forward)
·
Beginning: Why is Havilah no longer good?
see: Good Gold of Havilah
· Reminder: That was then this is NOW
· The now age stands in direct contrast to the goodness which was in the beginning
· Now Age “Wisdom” -- remember: Paul defined it
· NOW: Luk_6:20-23 – Blessed Mourners NOW
· Salvation: See: DTA > Hate Family
· Fear of Judgement: If you’re scared of failing under judgement, then salvation from strongholds is the goal/point
…
The goodness of gold in Genesis tells us
about God's abundant generosity
The evil of gold thereafter tells us about
the deepness of human sinfulness, and how disgustingly he has defiled
everything he under his authority (like the Earth and all of its riches)
The potential for future good gold tells
us about the hope of salvation that we're supposed to stretch forward to
obtain, to redeem both ourselves and the entire physical universe
Gold was originally designed to be enjoyed
as beautiful and pleasurable.
That’s what God clearly designed it for!
Liking Silver was only Sinful after Sin,
and the only reason it is sinful is because something changed with gold and
silver after sin!
>>Scrip: or link:
Old Testament passages about liking luxury
and silver
Heretic Video: [Un]Biblical Principles Of Provision
This is a clear example of skillfully
ignoring the Bible and to “pretty up” Bible Disobedience while making it appear
that you actually care anything about the Bible.
Vid (Heretic): Not Hard For Rich Man -- Havilah -- JC Made Poor On Our Behalf
Biblical
Principles Of Provision ｜
Joseph Prince Ministries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncYtCpvQpA
This poisonous snake acts like we need help from the Bible to believe that gold is good, when our wicked evil sinful human race already rebelliously sinfully wants to believe gold is good!
Where did anyone ever even get the idea that gold was bad?
It wasn’t from the flesh that suspicion arose against money, but directly from the Words of Jesus!
Poor By Hating = Real Salvation
12/22/24
The Salvation of Poor-Begging is the Goal of Money-Hating.
Poor-Begging = Salvation (Mat_5:3; Luk_6:20, etc.)
Disciple Notes: Conscious Begs You to Get Poor
Crucify Flesh, Free
the Conscience
Your nagging conscience pleads for you to
become poor and dismantle the strongholds of sin in your flesh. Your body must
become a holy temple for God’s spirit—redeemed, dismantled, and resurrected for
eternity.
Your conscious nagging you is a plea to
get poor
If your flesh has un-crucified
strongholds in you then it bothers you
Your body is in the shape of sin and it
should be dismantled to the point of not even working
Your body is the temple of Anointed One
God cares about the redemption of the body
therefore [you need to make it holy], so that your body can be an acceptable
temple for the one spirit who is holy [and so that it will be resurrected to
live forever]
If your body still have the shape of sin
and hasn’t been dismantled in this way then it can be awaked to lust in this
way whether sexual or luxury sin
Therefore your conscious with the divine
awareness from Anointed One will nag you until you change
Numbing
Entertainment vs. Sharpened Conscience
Entertainment drowns out the divine awareness
God awakens in you. Keep entertainment downstream in your life, and wake up
asking, “How can I be less consumptive?”
Don’t stop your conscious from nagging
you by drowning it out by entertainment.
Entertainment numbs and drowns what God
and monotheism awaken and sharpen
You never put entertainment upstream in
your life instead entertainment needs to be downstream
That’s why you need to think right when
you wake up in the morning, and ask yourself “how can I be less consumptive?”
When you consume more than you should
you will have a troubled conscious
If anything is wasted in your life… [a
working conscience will testify against you]
Your flesh has a stronghold; you might
not be sinning but you need to pull it down
Victory through
Flesh-Crucifying Scriptures
The Scriptures call you to extremist
flesh-crucifixion. Press forward, embrace them fully, and beg God to help you
honor the righteous, for they hold the answers your stubborn flesh resists.
If you press into intensively embracing
extremist flesh crucifying Scriptures sufficiently/completely it is
encouraging, if you neglect it then it is discouraging
The flesh cannot be extreme like the
monotheist Scriptures call us to be
Mat_5:27-30 – quoting it every day is encouraging
Monotheism is not there to coward back
unto destruction but to press forward unto a more complete victory
If you will beg God enough then you will
start honoring the righteous more because you know they have the answer, and
your flesh is stubbornly against that
Salvation Still Needed -- from Luxury
Pending
Salvation from Luxury – it’s still need
Still Needing To Be Saved from
Sinful Money
Compare: (A) Salvation Still Needed -- from Luxury (B) Salvation from Luxury
-- Under Construction --
Are you hating
and despising the sight of money, especially whenever you're not giving it
away?
Preview List of Problematic Vulnerabilities
-- Under Construction --
repeated moments of anger frustration can
~ temptations of Unforgiveness Luxury
Don’t Think Wrong!
· Don’t follow your dreams!
· Don’t believe in yourself!
· Don't believe in yourself, Trust yourself, follow your dreams, trust your heart, or set your heart on your uneducated intuitions.
· You do not know what makes you most valuable
· Don’t set your heart on morally uneducated emotions/preferences/ideas/values/goals
Be
Full-Grown!
1Co_14:20 CAB Brothers, do not be children in your
understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
1Co_14:20 ᾿Αδελφοί,
μὴ παιδία
γίνεσθε ταῖς
φρεσίν, ἀλλὰ
τῇ κακίᾳ
νηπιάζετε,
ταῖς δὲ
φρεσὶ τέλειοι
γίνεσθε.
Faster Than Virtue
Going Too Fast & Hating Righteous Speedbumps
When Going Fast = Rich
· Don't go faster than virtue
· Don't be fooled by the successful results of rush
· Don't learn the praise of success from rush
· Don't learn an evil lesson I'm delighted foolishness by congratulating praising rejoicing in prioritizing celebrating the antivirtues of doing things faster than doing things right
· Don't confuse the countercultural virtue of patience to do things right with lacking prudence or virtue or diligence or understanding or strategy or skill or mindfulness, perceptiveness, awareness, comprehension
The success of mass production and the
industrial revolution does not change the rules of morality for how humans
should care about their lives
Creating systems is better than creating
results
Unworthy
of Speeding
Have you passed
the probation yet of thinking wrong and wanting to do things fast?
If not, you are
not worthy to have more benefits, privileges, features and income.
Don't want,
wish for, crave, idealize what you're not worthy of.
Don't learn an evil lesson from successful
America
You don't know anything that you think you
know when you're moving faster than virtue.
Success doesn't know anything unless it
can achieve benefit without compromise.
because you say I see therefore your sin remains
Skipping Logical Requirements Restrictions
(Rule-Breaking)
the perverse, rebellious, liberal flesh says...
Psa_2:3 – Break Their Bonds:
let us break their bonds in pieces
1Co_5:6 – you're boasting is not good don't you know a little leaven leavens the whole lump
1Co_5:6 CAB Your boasting is not
good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch?
1Co_5:6 Οὐ
καλὸν τὸ
καύχημα ὑμῶν.
οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι
μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον
τὸ φύραμα
ζυμοῖ;
Excitement is Forfeited By “Speeding”!
You want to go with Elijah to see the
exciting fire on the mountain, but in the meantime you still feel tempted to
(default to) get ahead of our prerequisites and move faster than the process of
establishing something valuable.
If you don’t default to the prerequisite
order of arrangement, you will not go up into the fire, but you risk getting
burned by the fire like Aron’s sons in Lev_10:
Keith Green vs. Paul Washer -- NOT an
endorsement:
Kid: I want to give my life away (said repeatedly, echoing KG’s emphasis)
PW: People don’t need you/your
life, they need Truth! -- this has a certain reality-check to it
The way I have said this is:
Don’t just go out and do
something -- do what is RIGHT!
Missing these prerequisites were some of
the fatal errors of Patrick and Jason.
Don’t be like Mr. S as he kept messing up:
I thought I was further along
than that…
Have foresight!
You still need to establish what real Love
is.
Stop starting in the wrong place.
Stop jumping ahead of virtue to idealize
what is wrong.
Know that you need to back up and fix your
virtue first so that you can later go out and save people with real Love!
Logical Notes -- on still Needing to be
Saved
Whatever you understand you can communicate
if you have a positive feeling intuition but you can't communicate it, remember
that you don't really understand it after all so you can't put too much weight
on it unless you have additional corroborating correlating reasons to trust
such an intuition such as an established track record of previously
accomplished virtue and moral priority.
So generally, if you can't communicate it
then don't trust your intuition because you don't really understand what you
think you might know but
Rather, if you can explain a better way
than it is properly fitting that you would empower and improve The logical
mission
Your ability to communicate something
logically by very nature will help empower and encourage and strengthen and
improve the mission which is already founded upon logic.
Anti-Scarcity
You have not
overcome the deception of money when you're still traumatized by scarcity and
emotionally persuaded to not let it ever happen again
With money,
like many other things, it doesn't so much matter if you have good intentions,
or well intentions, but what really matters is if you have good motives!
It doesn’t
matter say what you say or think you want it matters if you are motivated by it
Almost everyone
intends to do good, but very few people are motivated by what's right.
10/11/24
The Unforgiveness of Luxury
10/22/24
>>Scrip:
Mat6 - forgive... hate money
Don't the Rich Drag you to Court
False accusations are unmerciful
If you had known what this meant I desire mercy
and not sacrifice you would not have condemned the blameless
Rich King stole vineyard
this is just like James who says that the
Rich has murdered the just
Consumptiveness
Repent of Consumptiveness; Grab ahold of Non-consumptive-ness!
4/20/24;
1Ti_5:6 CAB But she who is living for pleasure is dead
while she lives.
1Ti_5:6 ἡ δὲ
σπαταλῶσα ζῶσα
τέθνηκε.
Jam_5:5 CAB You lived luxuriously [ἐτρυφήσατε] upon the earth and you lived riotously [ἐσπαταλήσατε], you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Jam_5:5 ἐτρυφήσατε
ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
καὶ ἐσπαταλήσατε,
ἐθρέψατε
τὰς καρδίας
ὑμῶν TSBὥς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ
σφαγῆς.
-- Under Construction --
Think: VALUE!
The Creator really wants us, as humans, to
think about value a lot.
The Providence of the Creator has laid
upon the human experience to be greatly preoccupied about calculating and
thinking about value assessments of the resources at hand and those which are
potentially acquired, and have already been given to you.
We should not be most happy, and most
content, when expenditure is happening the most.
We must learn to sufficiently appreciate
the effort and resources required to give us the valuable things that we have
and or need to get.
This can make us less indulgent, less
impulsive to buy, and less negligent with what we've been blessed with, and
less quick to dismiss and dispose of valuable things before having made
appropriate use of their value.
Obvious Things First
Of course, there are the most obvious indulgences
of worldly vanity and Rich pride and sinful luxurious wastefulness:
Avoid vanity and superficiality
1st Peter_3:3-4
Materialism
& Idolizing
Possessions
Luk_12:15 beware of covetousness one's life does
not consist of abundant possessions
There is a serious risk of deriving value
and worth from consuming materials and possessions and resources and even
congratulating your own value by wasting other value and congratulating
yourself at its expense... or rather, at its expenditure...
One of the big problems with modern
hypocrisy is that we sort of know and have a concept that consumerism is a bad
thing, but we need to look deeper into the root heart of perverted lawlessness,
which sanctifies a refuge for CONSUMPTIVENESS even when pretending to avoid
consumerism.
Novelty and Trendiness
short-sighted, short-term, impulsive
purchasing reinforces the folly and sinfulness of buying things and later
regretting them, and no longer caring about the expense you paid to get it, and
the good that you took away from others in order to give yourself a useless
vain trendy temporarily wanted item, and then you later add insult to injury
(after the waste and expenditure that you took away from someone more worthy
than yourself) when you get rid of it and don't even use it for something
valuable
...
Gluttony
See EFF: Eating
Fasting And Feasting
Points of Luxury
Consider these ways
which you could fall to the luxury of liking money & the indulgence of this
life:
· Money
· Food
· Possessions
· Priorities
· Time
· Relationships
· Attitude
· Activity: entitlement, indulgence, pampering
Example Realms in Endangered by Consumptiveness
· Food
· Over the top
· Spending
>>Scrip:
Wis2
Rev 17 or 18?
Foraging
is Blessed
Foraging is
what poor people do
Lack of
foraging can make you rich
God likes
foraging & coins in fish mouths
Don't force
things to happen with abundance of money & expanding our means with risks
and debt
Stop liking the
power of money instead of foraging
Thrifty vs
being cheap(edited)
Most happy with
reference and blessed provision rather than the power of money
Pray we can
believe and receive
Think, and be
logical
Don't be ok
with underutilizing our brains and just buying it
Lustful Purchases
· Instant gratification
· Impulsive buying
· Immediate pleasure
· Satisfaction from quick relief
· Quick purchasing promotes wastefulness and pushes you away from being a poor person who waits for god's provision
· Being unwilling to wait for the best price risks taking matters into your own indulgent hands instead of letting god have a chance to grant you a blessing of favored provision
· It is very dangerous and luxurious when you are content to buy your own pleasure at the unneeded expenditure of resources that have been given to you and
· It is extremely morbid and dangerous and foolish and reckless and unsaved minded to be okay with trading out a favorable provision with a luxurious purchase
Living Beyond Your Means
· Risky inflation of your resources beyond your means and even debt
Proverbs_22:7 (MT)
This rash expenditure and impulsive buying
is not the fruit of the Spirit, which includes self-control...
Not Valuing Gifts & Provisions from
God
Not making good use of the value of your possessions
is extremely dangerous, reckless, anti-humble, anti-reverent, and anti-value
driven...
Proverbs_12:27 the lazy man does not roast what he is
taken and hunting...
Lazy Mans field is full of nettles
Poisonous rust testifies against rich in
the Day of Judgment
Warning: don't throw away valuable
resources before they have been sufficiently used and or reassigned, and their
value has been appropriately applied toward success and progress.
Your reckless stewardship of God's
valuable resources is a point of judgment against your soul when your life is
broken and your time on Earth is done.
Materialistic indulgent entitlement
Nothing should congratulate us with
entitlement in the Kingdom of Heaven
Remember that the point of hating money
and refusing the luxury of this life is in order to apprehend the attitude of
being poor in spirit, with clean Truth, self-denial, and serious humility,
which promotes, enables, and produces Biblical salvation through faith in the
captain of our humble righteous virtuous Truth salvation.
The Solution
to Consumptiveness
Self-control, moderation, contentment,
stewardship, self-denial, poverty, humility, hating and despising money!
1Co_7:
Those using as not using down
Trees Protected from Lust-mongers -- in Deuteronomy & Ezekiel
Isa_14: Eze_28:
Deu_20:19 – don't cut down a tree that bears fruit
Deu_20:19 CAB And if thou
shouldest besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it,
thou shalt not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but thou
shalt eat of it, and shalt not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a
man, to enter before thee into the work of the siege?
Deu_20:19 Ἐὰν δὲ
περικαθίσῃς
περὶ πόλιν ἡμέρας
πλείους ἐκπολεμῆσαι
αὐτὴν εἰς κατάλημψιν
αὐτῆς, οὐχὶ ἐξολεθρεύσεις
τὰ δένδρα αὐτῆς
ἐπιβαλεῖν ἐπ᾿
αὐτὰ σίδηρον, ἀλλ᾿
ἢ ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ φάγῃ,
αὐτὸ δὲ οὐκ ἐκκόψεις.
μὴ ἄνθρωπος τὸ
ξύλον τὸ ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ
εἰσελθεῖν ἀπὸ
προσώπου σου εἰς
τὸν χάρακα;
Deu_20:20 But the tree
which thou knowest to be not fruit-bearing, this thou shalt destroy and cut
down; and thou shalt construct a mound against the city, which makes war
against thee, until it be delivered up.
Deu_20:20 ἀλλὰ ξύλον,
ὃ ἐπίστασαι ὅτι
οὐ καρπόβρωτόν
ἐστιν, τοῦτο ἐξολεθρεύσεις
καὶ ἐκκόψεις
καὶ οἰκοδομήσεις
χαράκωσιν ἐπὶ
τὴν πόλιν, ἥτις
ποιεῖ πρὸς σὲ τὸν
πόλεμον, ἕως ἂν
παραδοθῇ.
Tree Cutting in the NT
Tree Cutting
Rules Spiritually Reinforced in the NT:
Mat_3:10; Mat_7:17-19; Luk_13:6-9;
Wisdom 2
Wis_2:6-9 – let us leave the signs of our
enjoyment everywhere
Wis_2:5 For our time is a very shadow that
passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed,
so that no man cometh again.
Wis_2:5 σκιᾶς
γὰρ πάροδος ὁ
καιρὸς ἡμῶν, καὶ
οὐκ ἔστιν ἀναποδισμὸς
τῆς τελευτῆς ἡμῶν,
ὅτι κατεσφραγίσθη
καὶ οὐδεὶς ἀναστρέφει.
Wis_2:6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the
good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in
youth.
Wis_2:6 δεῦτε
οὖν καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν
τῶν ὄντων ἀγαθῶν
καὶ χρησώμεθα
τῇ κτίσει ὡς ἐν
νεότητι
σπουδαίως·
Wis_2:7 Let us fill ourselves with costly
wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:
Wis_2:7 οἴνου
πολυτελοῦς καὶ
μύρων πλησθῶμεν,
καὶ μὴ
παροδευσάτω ἡμᾶς
ἄνθος ἔαρος·
Wis_2:8 Let us crown ourselves with
rosebuds, before they be withered:
Wis_2:8 στεψώμεθα
ῥόδων κάλυξιν
πρὶν ἢ μαρανθῆναι·
Wis_2:9 Let none of us go without his part
of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place:
for this is our portion, and our lot is this.
Wis_2:9 μηδεὶς
ἡμῶν ἄμοιρος ἔστω
τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀγερωχίας,
πανταχῇ καταλίπωμεν
σύμβολα τῆς εὐφροσύνης,
ὅτι αὕτη ἡ μερὶς
ἡμῶν καὶ ὁ κλῆρος
οὗτος.
Wis_2:10 Let us oppress the poor righteous
man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the
aged.
Wis_2:10
καταδυναστεύσωμεν
πένητα δίκαιον,
μὴ φεισώμεθα χήρας
μηδὲ πρεσβύτου
ἐντραπῶμεν
πολιὰς
πολυχρονίους·
Thinking Wrong
Thinking Wrong Includes...
· Looking for love outside of value
· Hasty purchases
· Consumptiveness
· Spending more than is necessary
· Wastefulness
· Inefficiency
· Pushing against righteous relationship collaboration and reciprocation
· Heresies (like believing pseudo identities about each other, flat earth, etc.)
· Experiential work ethic that focuses on and prioritizes personal fulfillment (immediate sensual experiential sensations and gratification) rather than long-term global impact
· Deriving encouragement, purpose, and personal meaning from doing what you like (what you might be naturally skilled at) rather than doing what accomplishes the most truth and virtue
· Starting over from scratch; finding your own way in life; assuming personal fulfillment should be prioritized for the greatest impact
· Scattering effort in different directions to serve personal fulfillment instead of focusing effort to make a difference that lasts beyond a thousand years
· This foolishness has been going on for so many generations it's utterly observed and sickening that humans keep choosing to repeat the exact same folly and never learn from history or reverent considerations that they should do something different at last on the earth...
· When are we humans ever going to finally take it seriously and learn: divided, we're conquered; unified and synchronized we change the whole world permanently
Thinking Wrong Messes Up Relationships
Thinking right is about doing more work on
your own end to come to the right, logical, righteous, moral conclusions on
your own before crashing into each other, and creating friction against each
other with flustering vain dramas of empty and needless contradiction.
When you don't think right, you create
vein drama and are biting the hands that feed you, and hurt and push back and
contradict those trying to help you.
It is not lawful, righteous, logical, or
monotheistic for you to go about pushing in the opposite direction from your
helper.
You should not be supposedly asking and
begging others to help you while you cross your arms and push back against
their efforts.
Luxury of Thinking Wrong
Lacking Humility from Thinking Wrong
· Thinking wrong implies luxury because it lacks humility to change.
Thinking wrong is a similar route to
luxury because just as money presents itself as valuable and luxury is
believing in that sinful value, so also wrong thinking is when sinful
subdivenities and immoralities present themselves to your mind as valuable and
take them at face value. It is our Job to violently throw down all sinful
claims of value in our face and by morality and excellent surpassing virtue to
conquer all perversions and lies.
luxury
Thinking wrong is a sign of luxury because
you're not being humble eager righteous faithful perceptive enough to change
and imitate better ways of thinking when you come across them, but instead
thinking wrong often stems from assuming non-inspiration, which is a prideful
luxurious mindset in its fullest form.
Take it to the Extreme
So take this problem to its extreme of
luxury and then back off from there and know that the same principles apply in more
moderate situations and that you should be struck with the fear of God to not
ever go in that direction so that you never arrive at that extreme.
Any continued tolerance of sin is
committing to walking in a direction toward it.
If you keep taking small steps toward sin
you will inevitably arrive at it, and it won't be so small once you get there.
Assuming Non-inspiration ≈ Thinking Wrong
Preferring less mature ways of thinking even after better ways have been demonstrated
What is it going to take to force your flesh to let go of its inferior delusions?
Deception of Wrong Thinking
Isa_5:20 – exchanging bidder for sweet and Sweet for better
Wheat to the Chaff
The Peace of Thinking Right
A logical person will heal their tribe.
An arranged person has peace in themselves
to give to others.
Salvation from Luxury
Salvation Answers Against Luxury
Compare: (A) Salvation Still Needed -- from Luxury (B) Salvation from Luxury
Gal_5:24 RTA those who are
of anointed one have executed the flesh on a stake, together with that of its
passionate hurts, and that of its heating up of lusts upon-s
Hebrews: No Liking Money in Daily Life
Let your life style / going about be
without the liking of silver
Saying that your life practices are
commanded to be completely without 'liking without fondness of silver' it is a
way of saying that you're not allowed to have any happiness and delight at all
in money itself
Therefore Hebrews is even more explicit
than pretty much any other verse that you're not allowed to have any liking
toward money at all, particularly as you go about in your day practices of
life.
If there are any exceptions to this rule of
absolutely excluding pleasure from shiny things from your daily life, Any
exceptions are definitely not happening as you go about in your daily life,
under normal circumstances.
Rich Saved Only Through Forsaking
In the New Covenant the only hope of rich
people being saved is always tied to giving their money away.
Rich Young ruler: Mat_19:16-30; Mar_10:17-31; Luk_18:18-30
see: ForsakAll
1Ti_6:17-18 – Command the Rich To Be Rich In Giving
Command The Rich In This Age To
Be Rich In Giving
1Ti_6:17 CAB Command those who
are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the
uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly
for us to enjoy,
1Ti_6:17 Τοῖς
πλουσίοις ἐν
τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι
παράγγελλε
μὴ ὑψηλοφρονεῖν,
μηδὲ ἠλπικέναι
ἐπὶ πλούτου
ἀδηλότητι, ἀλλ᾿
ἐν τῷ Θεῷ
ζῶντι, τῷ
παρέχοντι ἡμῖν
πάντα
πλουσίως εἰς
ἀπόλαυσιν,
1Ti_6:17 τοις
πλουσιοις εν
τω νυν αιωνι
παραγγελλε μη
υψηλοφρονειν
μηδε ηλπικεναι
επι πλουτου
αδηλοτητι αλλ Aεπι TSBεν TSBτω θεω
TSBτω TSBζωντι
τω παρεχοντι
ημιν TSπλουσιως
παντα BAπλουσιως
εις απολαυσιν
1Ti_6:18 to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous,
sharing,
1Ti_6:18 ἀγαθοεργεῖν,
πλουτεῖν ἐν ἔργοις
καλοῖς, εὐμεταδότους
εἶναι,
κοινωνικούς,
Community Corrects Luxury
Rich People In This Life Tend To
· Rely heavily upon themselves
· Be self-directed in their learning thinking preferences ideas goals ambitions values ways of thinking
Independence, anti-community mindsets,
values, defaults, goals, ideals = wrong thinking
Independence = Luxury & particular
lovelessness
Having less is enabled by community
Biblical Poverty enabled by community
Don’t need your own copy of everything!
Sharing is the Answer to Poverty
10/22/24
>> Recompile / cross-reference to:
Salvation Give money away
>>Scrip:
he who gathered much did not have too
much, and he who gathered little did not have too little
open your hand to the poor and then there
will be no poor among you
>> TSK
you're commanded to be poor in Matthew_5:3 and you commanded to support the poor in
Matthew 5 & 6:1 and onward
our posture to share with the poor shows
that we consider them blessed like God does
sharing with each other enabled us to be
poor and not have personal wealth
1Ti_6: Saves from Luxury
1-4 teach the right Truth teaching of good reverence!
· Open your eyes!
· Don’t be an evil pervert
· Don’t keep on sinning
1-2 slave-like humility (as brothers to believers/obeyers)
5 no prosperity gospel
· Don’t think that the reverent are entitled to nice things
6, 8 – say enough!/be content
9 change your strategy to NOT include personal wealth/abundence
9-11 – flee the destruction/hell of money-liking!
12-16 praise the right & most glorious God of Money-Hatred (comp. 1Ti_6:10; Mat_6:; Luk_16:)
Give money away
20-21 stop prideful pseudo-knowledge
· Incl. pseudo-conservative assurance/confidence, conspiracy theories, and all such liberal free-thinking confidence/boasting, etc.
The Solutions to Pay Attention To
The Solution to All of these Luxury
Character Breaches is …
· To humble yourself under God's mighty hand
· Give money away
· Not be proud and puffed up with self-defending these errors and problems
· Hope in God - which includes zealously starring yourself up, out of discouraged and or lazy slumber, and believing that the virtues of better thinking and righteous arrangement are better profit than speedy indulgence wrong thinking and self-directed learning, preferences, ideals, ideas, ways of thinking,
· Not like any silver at all
· Hate money
· Don't worry, but pray to and connect to your Father in Heaven through these wonderful sizzling righteous virtues!
· Let the favor of the truth of the real God flow through your life and cause you to get up and do the righteousness that pleases him through Jesus Anointed One
Loving and liking money is part of the
absolute nastiness of loving and liking the world
There is a particular enmity and hatred
required toward both defiled systems
>>Scrip:
come out from among them and I will be a
father to you
Philippians 3 – 4
-- Under Construction --
Feminine Luxury
Comp. BDC > The Purpose of Beauty & RiFi > Feminine Luxury
If you are a woman who wants to escape luxury, and or, if you want to avoid destroying the women in your life in this way, then this chapter is for you!
Previews of Feminine Luxury
A Preview-Summary of Biblical Concepts
Un-crucified feminine luxury is going to
sabotage and undermine your faith if you’re seeking to obey the Bible --
because holding on to the enemy of your profession and Hope is going to undermine
and discourage your expectation for good victory and salvation by the hope fo
crucifixion and death to this world.
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These previews are a helpful explanation
for those who want help understanding and summarizing the Scriptures that are
about to follow after these previous sections...
Intro Questions About Women & Money/Riches
· Particularity: What are ways which luxury affects women more than men?
· (not asking particularly does luxry affects women more than men, we are asking what arew the ways money affects women more than men)
· A Women’s Effect: What are some particular ways women are affected and end up promoting riches more than the other possible members of society?
· The Victory of Forsaking Riches: How can a saved virtuous women always boast in God as their gospel of bullet-proof faith that ‘always leads in triumph’ (2Co_2:14) no matter what their human circumstances are as women?
There is a particular specific sense in which riches affect women and we need to think about how to be saved from it
Bullet-proof Victory Over Luxury
2Co_2:14 CAB Now thanks be to God, who always leads us
in triumph [πάντοτε
θριαμβεύοντι
ἡμᾶς ἐν] in Christ, and making known through us the fragrance of His
knowledge in every place.
2Co_2:14 Τῷ
δὲ Θεῷ
χάρις τῷ πάντοτε
θριαμβεύοντι ἡμᾶς
ἐν τῷ
Χριστῷ καὶ
τῆν ὀσμὴν
τῆς γνώσεως
αὐτοῦ
φανεροῦντι δι᾿
ἡμῶν ἐν
παντὶ τόπῳ·
2Co_2:15 For we are the fragrance of Christ to God among those being
saved, and among those perishing.
2Co_2:15 ὅτι
Χριστοῦ εὐωδία
ἐσμὲν τῷ Θεῷ
ἐν τοῖς σῳζομένοις
καὶ ἐν τοῖς
ἀπολλυμένοις·
Bible obeyers are the only group of people this is approximately describing
What’s at stake is a victory or a failure. The victory is secured at every time, circumstances and every geographical place/location – with the logic of morality, you can always grow where you are planted because you have a serious empowerment of bullet proof faith because God is in control and what atheist or rich woman can say that.
In order to get a hold of bulletproof faith you have to die to luxury
Compare and contrast this with the enemy of feminine luxury? Why is feminine luxury not bullet proof
Example an atheist world view only works when everything is going good.
You were living for the experience but what happens when the experience is not worth living for?
Atheist has a nonfunctioning model of the universe but the universe needs to start so that pops that bubble real quick
An atheist has a nonfunctioning model of the universe just like how he has a non function9ng philosophy on how to live, which brings us back to feminine luxury which is a form of atheism. Because if luxury has a chopping block of destruction and doom, then why would you do in
Applying Victory for the Poor
· Always: This bullet-proof victory of clean faith is the opposite of boasting in the externally exalted temporary worldliness of feminine luxury.
·
Poor Conquerors: Although the righteous are
persecuted by luxury, they also have a hope to conquer it!
>> 1Jn: conquering the world
· Victory of the Righteous: Defeating luxury is when & where you can apprehend real Love for others, and when you're giving out quality Love you can also reciprocate share and receive it. – Giving and receiving love is a remarkable
· No Hint: The righteous do not need even a hint of any aspect of any piece of feminine luxury among their righteous assembly.
The Point: We need to take a special warning against Feminine Luxury, and we need to apprehend a special hope of defeating it!
We are talking about hating money and we are talking about the feminine particulars of it so we need to define it…
Feminine Luxury Defined
The Sin-Crimes of Feminine Luxury
Against the Poor
· General Luxury: All luxury attacks God and hurts His poor begging people.
· Special Ugliness: All perversion and pride is wrong, however when it infests women through abundance of luxury and hateful pampering sins, it takes on a particular ugliness and demonic evil.
· Shallow, Loveless, & Worldly: Feminine Luxury tends to be cheap, shallow, superficial, materialistic, cold-hearted, perverted arrogant pride that hurts poor beggars. – think Jezebel: remember that she was thrown from the window by Jahu by God’s divine appointment, so the victory of a perverted women is temporary then comes harsh luxury
· Chain/Series of Crimes: Feminine Luxury is (1) a crime of men who pamper their women by focusing on their happiness and pleasure (instead of training, holiness, and virtue – i.e. they spoil them), and it is (2) a crime of women who proudly boast in their unauthorized entitlement to such pleasure and happiness, and it is (3) a crime of society which tolerates, celebrates, and even boasts 'in those who practice such things' (Rom 1).
· (for America and perhaps the rest of the world started accelerating in the 1800s (think salvation army which is feminist), and the immediate results of feminism and the luxury afforded by new and emerging technology was the era of goofiness in the 1900s
· Sin Against Social Virtue: Feminine Luxury is a particular, special, social, cultural, sinful leaven that attacks Bible obeyers.
· Women in Society: Feminine Luxury is the particularly ugly feminine form of luxury which targets, exploits, distorts, profanes, hijacks, and even possesses women specifically, and society corporately.
· Cultural Attitude: Feminine Luxury is a set of character flaws that are characteristic of sinful female flesh (in form) and end up socially corrupting women, their daughters, and the corporate attitude of society in which they are tolerated.
· Persecuting the Humble: The poor push themselves down in humility, but the entitlement of self-exalted luxury, and worldly sin-boasting, always despises and attacks them without cause, for undermining the deceptions of their sin -- like Jezebel & Herodias did against Elijah and John the Baptist.
The Point: The crimes of Feminine Luxury are always
(1) aggressive attacks against The Creator, by (2) hurting His favorite poor
begging people, and by (3) obtaining proud selfish boastful pleasure at their
expense, and by (4) entitling oneself to more softer pleasures than have been
prescribed.
So… Watch out for 'the woman with
horns'!
Loose Quote: It is
hard to enjoy a rose without thorns just as it is to enjoy a beautiful woman without
horns
You find it so delightful when God fins
you as His prize possession but you get offended when a man wants to do that
with his wife, which is called hypocrisy
There is nothing more hypocritical than
inconsistency
The hypocrisy of feminine luxury pretends
like a man is not going to really love his woman when he objectifies her as his
prized possession of beauty, when in fact this exact attitude is the cause of a
devilish woman who does not love her husband
Social Dynamics of Feminine Luxury
(A) Women Define Society: For Better
or Worse
Women as individuals affect society
corporately, and therefore the attitudes that women adopt, and are assimilated into,
illustrate and define/defile the (immediate/direct) culture and society in
which they correlate with (to varying degrees), and because they defile society
therefore rebelling against The Creator's boundaries of feminine indulgence in
finer things always creates a social corporate atmosphere of persecution
against poor humbled beggars who are submitting under the righteous self-denial
and authority of His rules, in direct opposition and contrast to their hateful
perversion. – notice that you’re going to have to have the integrity to
honestly admit the cause and effect of this moral reality in order to interact
with its implications
This is a great problem because most
people live conventional rebellious denial of the scientifically observable
reality of moral cause and effect which leads us back to atheism that denies
the fundamental axiom of morality as though it doesn’t exist, but we all know
that it does.
The Point: Consider how you might accidentally
oppose righteous people by falling into luxury...
We are not immune!
We are not invincible and immune to being
tempted to have an annoyed attitude or a despising perspective of righteous
hairy monotheists who are living in self-denial and disregarding themselves for
the sake of the superior priority of truth
Remember how even Miriam and Aaron were
tempted to blasphemy Moses in the wilderness (Num_12: -- which was followed up by Korah
rebellion in Num_16:) – so also even those striving for righteousness now
can fall to the error of the flesh’s deception, even in this arena.
You might fall into luxury yourself as an
entitled self-congratulated female, and/or you might fall by promoting other
women to destroy society.
So we need salvation
(B) Exaltations of Men vs. Women
· It's bad enough for men to be entitled to various pleasures, even with their authoritative defaults which might be more tempted and prone to receive attitudes of entitlement to Glory and Honor, and yet because…
· Men might be more native to being socially exalted (whereas women are foreigners to social exaltation) into important positions of dominance and authority, where people ought to celebrate a recognition of their value and prestige with extravagant gifts, just as…for example
· Jesus Himself even received gold and royal gifts at His birth (Mat_2:11) and an extravagant anointing with oil before His death (Mat_26)…
· Yet if a woman receives extra social glory and honor and exalted pleasures and especially if she receives unrestricted entitlements, the Monotheistic God has many stern and sobering warnings against the pride and indulgence and entitlement that can result.
The Point: Women need to be extra careful to avoid falling into luxury.
They are not naïve to social exaltation
and dominance nor the exaltations that can come with it
(C) Patience with
Violations
God’s Patience Has Limits with
Society’s Violations
God has patiently born, beyond our
comprehension, with innumerable foolish men in their indulgence, glory, and
exaltation, yet when a woman leaves and abandons her royal status, position, and calling of
humility, quietness, and submission, in order to selfishly destroy people
instead of selflessly saving them with her gentle nature, then the fury and
wrath of God is prepared to break out against all who break His Holiness
in the earth, against all who destroy His parables, pictures, and message, and
cause His spouse (and potential spouse) to go prostituting away from His Love.
There is something extra royal about women
in the kingdom of morality/heaven.
Men need no special treatment.
It’s Very important to realize that you
are abandoning a very special gift from God when you pervert your feminine
calling in order to act like a man.
Notice when God is swift to punish Israel
it is because she has sinned against His special holiness which He gave to her,
which she was responsible for maintaining in clean holiness, just like women in
general are this same type of category, as feminine-social parables, who are
socially responsible for maintaining society’s pictures of special cleanness
for all people. – That is a very special royal calling indeed, that is worthy
of reverence and requires all people to guard and protect.
God’s people have a “special spanking” in
the form of Israel, and as the assembly, which are both swiftly and severally
punished, as seen after headcoverings in 1Co_11.
In a similar way, Women also have “special
spanking” for sinning against their special calling to holiness.
The Point: Women need to be extra-swift in quickly
repenting away from luxury, because the Wrath of God will not spare against any
tolerated violations against His holiness, in society or in the women who
represent it.
The Responsibility & Potential of Women
· The Responsibility of Submission: Women have a profound responsibility to model for society how “gatherings of people” (assemblies) ought to submit under the authority of their masters, with all cleanness and humility. Just as women must submit to the lordship of the men over their lives, so also society is obligated to turn away from the devil and submit under the dominance and lordship of the Anointed One and God ruling over them from heaven.
· Saving Potential: A woman has a tremendous responsibility to display virtue in a way that saves society, and she also has a tremendous opportunity that she might use it to save individuals as well.
· Saved Woman’s Opportunity: Every person has an explosive potential position in life in general (after all you are not a cat or dog), and every woman's particular application can be revolutionary, especially when you combine your inherent human worth as a female and explosive human potential in this life with your calling to be righteous once Truth has now gone into your ears.
The Dirty Pampering of Feminine Luxury
Materialistic
Self-Flattery Through Financially Wasteful / Extravagant / Indulgent Pampering
Women tend to like and prefer finer softer
rich things, and our shameful worthless modern cultures love to spoil them.
Women tend to be targeted and exemplify
the prostitution of money-idolatry, and yet, their exemplification also
illustrates a general attitude of entitlement and luxurious indulgence which
perverts lusts with congratulated selfish haughtiness and all ugly nasty sleazy
sin, which all humans in general need to soberly be warned against and flee to
escape.
When women are spoiled wrong thinking is
rampant.
The complete vanity and nastiness of nice
things outside of marriage include things like...
· Nice accommodations
· Princess bedrooms and
· Pillows frills
· Robes
· Covers
· Exaggerated Wardrobes & Lots of Clothes
Pampering = Extra-marital
Indulgence
Women / spouses should not enjoy luxury
outside of marriage.
1Co_7:29 – those who have wives as though they had none
1Ti_5:6 – she who lives in pleasures is dead while she lives
See: Women Sewing Pillows On Every Elbow
Using Marriage to Destroy
Dirty Pampering
· Actually love your spouse after getting marriage (the sacrifice about being more excited about romance after marriage than before is a picture of Jesus and His bride)
· Using your beauty to seduce your spouse in marriage can seriously save your spouse (physically by making them live longer and cheering them by making them happy about the good announcement)
· You are sacrificing your concept of value for a better (example romance properly breeds effective communication, while women naturally think talk first then romance)
Sacrificing Dirty
Pampering
· Virginity/celibacy sacrifices the marriage in this life for the marriage to come
· Be clean but don’t bathe too frequently (more than once or so a week) women should care more about cleanness than men
· Marriage calls for more maintenance of freshness
· It would be a sin for a single woman to bathe too much if she is not washing away a real threat to her health
· If you are like Ruth and out in the sun gathering grain then you might need to bathe more frequently
· If you are married and you don’t bathe enough then that could be a sin because you are not honoring the parable of marriage and preventing disease
· Dying to your beauty means dying to the necessities and niceness
· 1Ti_2 – adorning yourself for outside of marriage (presenting yourself in public)
· Celebrating your beauty outside of marriage is satanic and evil. Monotheism does not adorn beauty away from marriage in the new covenant
· Hair, clothes, pampering of yourself is evil, if you like this away from marriage. When your beauty is for yourself it is evil, so don’t do it!
· Hair - Should you take care of it? Yes
· Hair – Should you pamper it? No. Do you need it long? No
· Clothes – look to be a handmaid not a queen
· Clothes – enough to be modest and not extra nice
· Shoes – you need to fear having more shoes than men
· Pillows – do I need pillows or beds, is a mat enough
· Law written on your heart – run in the opposite direction
· Bathe- avoid gender smells especially around people outside your immediate family. You would ask yourself how much I have to do instead of how much I can do
· Bathe - in as much as you need to stand before kings/noble men
· Liking nice things as a single woman is like playing Russian roulette with your life. You are dangling over hell fire.
· Decorate – in a sense it can be vain. Neat and strategic and well-built is good versus just wanting to look at nice pretty colors. How much do I have to? Is it functional?
· The question here is how much do I have to do? And
How Much Should Single Women Sacrifice?
5/9/25
5/9/25
11:48 AM
Conference question: with women
sacrificing beauty and let their hair get split ins and not worry if it's
short, and don't worry too much about skin etc it seems like this posture
eliminates quick marriages like Isaac and Rebekah. Like it seems like Rebekah
was already beautiful and was ready to be married away immediately. The posture
we are speaking of seems to require 1 year of beatification.
12:04
PM
For the hair part, I didn't get the
impression Sir was saying it's ok for women to have "short" hair as
that would contradict 1 Cor 11 which is not just for married women. I thought
he said to not worry about it being "long" which I thought meant
particularly pampering one self in order to go above and beyond the minimum
requirement for whatever "long" hair would be. I don't remember
exactly but long enough to cover neck/look like a headcovering that comes down
hide. (edited)
12:04
PM
To be clear- I didn't get the impression
that Sir was saying to let your hair and skin fall apart. But rather not to go
out of your way to do more than is required for you to maintain the garden you
have. You wouldn't want to be a single person beautifying/pampering yourself
like Ester did, for example. She is a more "extreme" example, but
take it to the extreme and find the guiding principle (edited)
But there is SoS 1:6...
Where does this fit in, and to what
degree?
"But my own vineyard I have not
kept"
…
1:08 PM
1 year beautification (while the man
"goes away and prepares a place") does seem to be the default
norm(edited)
Spontaneous marriage might be more
unusual, and not something you necessarily plan/prepare for "just in
case"
Decorating
5/6/25
Question about decorating......I have
heard several men mention online that they really appreciate how their wives
turn a house into a home. Decorating in general is a major industry geared
towards women in America. I personally need to buy some bathroom rugs and I got
reminded that oh yeah there are several stores literally dedicated towards
decorations. Everyone knows that women typically love to decorate. Based on
last conference is a woman's desire to beautify their home bad? I don't think
women by default think in a functional way like men do. They tend to want to
bring beauty into the home. Are we saying this is bad?(edited)
If it is bad, why do women kinda
inherently have a desire to beautify things. Like what outlet do they have for
this?
Female Devils Following Satan
Tattler’s accusers devils
1st Timothy_5:15 - some have already turned aside to
Satan
Prostitution form Genesis to Revelation
Genesis 6 & Enoch Reminders
Remember how toward the beginning of sin, people and fallen angels were using beautiful-nice things for evil, and women were at the forefront of destroying the whole world.
See: Gen_6 – Good Beauty,
Going Bad
Revelation
-- Under Construction --
The Point: Female sins have been consistently associated with Prostitution, pleasures, luxury, and the sin of turning nice things into selfish sin, from the beginning days of Genesis to the predictive Judgements of Revelation.
Proverbs: Piggish vs. Virtuous Woman
Pro_11:
Golden Pig Nose, Trusting in Money
Pro_11:22 WEB Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a
beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Pro_11:22 LB As an ornament
in a swine’s snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded woman.
Pro_11:22 ὥσπερ ἐνώτιον
ἐν ῥινὶ ὑός, οὕτως
γυναικὶ κακόφρονι
κάλλος.
Pro_11:23 WEB The desire of the righteous
is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Pro_11:23 All the desire of the righteous is good, but the hope of the
ungodly shall perish.
Pro_11:23 ἐπιθυμία
δικαίων πᾶσα ἀγαθή,
ἐλπὶς δὲ ἀσεβῶν
ἀπολεῖται.
Pro_11:24 WEB There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds
more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Pro_11:24 There are some who scatter
their own, and make it more, and there are some also who gather,
yet have less.
Pro_11:24 εἰσὶν
οἳ τὰ ἴδια σπείροντες
πλείονα ποιοῦσιν,
εἰσὶν καὶ οἳ
συνάγοντες ἐλαττονοῦνται.
Pro_11:25 WEB The liberal soul
shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Pro_11:25 Every sincere soul is blessed, but a passionate
man is not graceful.
Pro_11:25 ψυχὴ εὐλογουμένη
πᾶσα ἁπλῆ, ἀνὴρ
δὲ θυμώδης οὐκ
εὐσχήμων.
Pro_11:26 WEB People curse someone
who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
Pro_11:26 May he that hoards grain leave it to the nation: but blessing
be on the head of him that gives it.
Pro_11:26 ὁ συνέχων
σῖτον ὑπολίποιτο
αὐτὸν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν,
εὐλογία δὲ εἰς
κεφαλὴν τοῦ
μεταδιδόντος.
Pro_11:27 WEB He who diligently
seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
Pro_11:27 He that devises good counsels seeks good favor, but as for him
that seeks after evil, evil shall overtake him.
Pro_11:27
τεκταινόμενος
ἀγαθὰ ζητεῖ χάριν
ἀγαθήν· ἐκζητοῦντα
δὲ κακά, καταλήμψεται
αὐτόν.
Pro_11:28 WEB He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the
righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
Pro_11:28 He that trusts in wealth
shall fall, but he that helps righteous men shall rise.
Pro_11:28 ὁ
πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ
πλούτῳ, οὗτος
πεσεῖται· ὁ δὲ ἀντιλαμβανόμενος
δικαίων, οὗτος ἀνατελεῖ.
See: Don’t Trust Money > Money-Trust-er = Fool | Feminine Luxury
Repentance > Golden Pig Nose
Pro_31: Superiority of a Virtuous Woman
Pro_31:20 – She Gives (She’s
Generous)
Pro_31:20 WEB She opens her arms
to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
Pro_31:20 LB And she opens her hands to the needy, and
reaches out fruit to the poor.
Pro_31:20 χεῖρας
δὲ αὐτῆς διήνοιξεν
πένητι, καρπὸν
δὲ ἐξέτεινεν
πτωχῷ.
Pro_31:
Surpassing Works of God-Fear
Pro_31:29 WEB "Many women do noble things, but you excel them all."
Pro_31:29 Many daughters have possessed wealth, many have acted valiantly, but you have exceeded them all, you have surpassed all.
Pro_31:29 Πολλαὶ
θυγατέρες ἐκτήσαντο
πλοῦτον, πολλαὶ
ἐποίησαν
δυνατά, σὺ δὲ ὑπέρκεισαι
καὶ ὑπερῆρας πάσας.
Pro_31:30 WEB Charm is deceitful,
and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Pro_31:30 Charms are false, and woman’s beauty is vain: for
it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord.
Pro_31:30 ψευδεῖς
ἀρέσκειαι καὶ
μάταιον κάλλος
γυναικός· γυνὴ
γὰρ συνετὴ εὐλογεῖται,
φόβον δὲ κυρίου
αὕτη αἰνείτω.
Pro_31:31 WEB Give her of the
fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the
gates!
Pro_31:31 Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.
Pro_31:31 δότε αὐτῇ
ἀπὸ καρπῶν
χειρῶν αὐτῆς,
καὶ αἰνείσθω ἐν
πύλαις ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς.
If a human face has goodness and it can be called false and empty-vain because of sin, much more can possessions be made totally evil through our sin.
We’ve seen that prostitution and riches are opposed to virtue and excellent morality.
Isaiah 3 & 32: Rich Women Prostituting Against God’s Poor
In Isaiah 3 & 32 there is a particular and repeated pattern:
· (A) Rich hurt Poor
· (B) Women are Included in these sins & are Judged harshly
This repeated pattern in Isaiah can help teach us how to guard against Feminine Luxury.
(A) Isa_3: God’s Poor People -- Oppressed by Leaders in Israel
Isa_3:13 WEB Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge
the peoples.
Isa_3:13 LB But now the Lord will
stand up for judgment, and will enter into judgment with His people.
Isa_3:13 ἀλλὰ νῦν
καταστήσεται
εἰς κρίσιν κύριος
καὶ στήσει εἰς
κρίσιν τὸν λαὸν
αὐτοῦ,
Isa_3:14 WEB Yahweh will enter into judgment with the
elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa_3:14 The Lord Himself
shall enter into judgment with the elders [πρεσβυτέρων] of the people, and with their rulers [ἀρχόντων]; “but why have you set My vineyard on fire, and why is the spoil of the poor in your houses?
Isa_3:14 αὐτὸς
κύριος εἰς κρίσιν
ἥξει μετὰ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων
τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ
μετὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων
αὐτοῦ Ὑμεῖς δὲ
τί ἐνεπυρίσατε
τὸν ἀμπελῶνά
μου καὶ ἡ ἁρπαγὴ
τοῦ πτωχοῦ ἐν
τοῖς οἴκοις ὑμῶν;
Isa_3:15 WEB What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?"
says the Lord,
Yahweh of Armies.
Isa_3:15 Why do you wrong My people, and shame
[καταισχύνετε] the face of the poor?”
Isa_3:15 τί ὑμεῖς
ἀδικεῖτε τὸν
λαόν μου καὶ τὸ
πρόσωπον τῶν
πτωχῶν
καταισχύνετε;
God owns the Poor -- as HIS people! (NOT the rich who are sinning against them!)
Church Leadership: Elders [πρεσβυτέρων] ≈ Rulers [ἀρχόντων] (Isa_3:14)
Remember: Leaders are sinning, and this particularly includes women… (as seen in the immediately following verses…)
(B) Isa_3: Religious Girls, Balded for Immodesty, Luxury, & Pride!
Isa_3:16 WEB Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling
ornaments on their feet;
Isa_3:16 LB Thus says the Lord, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and winking with their eyes, and jingling with their feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet;
Isa_3:16 Τάδε λέγει
κύριος Ἀνθ᾿ ὧν ὑψώθησαν
αἱ θυγατέρες
Σιων καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν
ὑψηλῷ τραχήλῳ
καὶ ἐν νεύμασιν
ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ τῇ
πορείᾳ τῶν ποδῶν
ἅμα σύρουσαι
τοὺς χιτῶνας
καὶ τοῖς ποσὶν ἅμα
παίζουσαι,
Isa_3:17 WEB therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."
Isa_3:17 therefore the Lord
will humble the chief daughters of Zion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day.”
Isa_3:17 καὶ
ταπεινώσει ὁ
θεὸς ἀρχούσας
θυγατέρας
Σιων, καὶ κύριος
ἀποκαλύψει τὸ
σχῆμα αὐτῶν
Isa_3:18 WEB In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands,
the crescent necklaces,
Isa_3:18 And the Lord will
take away the glory of their garments, the curls and the fringes, and the
crescents,
Isa_3:18 ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ
ἐκείνῃ καὶ ἀφελεῖ
κύριος τὴν δόξαν
τοῦ ἱματισμοῦ
αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺς
κόσμους αὐτῶν
καὶ τὰ ἐμπλόκια
καὶ τοὺς κοσύμβους
καὶ τοὺς μηνίσκους
Isa_3:19 WEB the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
Isa_3:19 and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,
Isa_3:19 καὶ τὸ
κάθεμα καὶ τὸν
κόσμον τοῦ
προσώπου αὐτῶν
Isa_3:20 WEB the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,
Isa_3:20 and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,
Isa_3:20 καὶ τὴν
σύνθεσιν τοῦ κόσμου
τῆς δόξης καὶ
τοὺς χλιδῶνας
καὶ τὰ ψέλια καὶ
τὸ ἐμπλόκιον
καὶ τὰ περιδέξια
καὶ τοὺς
δακτυλίους καὶ
τὰ ἐνώτια
Isa_3:21 WEB the signet rings, the nose rings,
Isa_3:21 and the earrings, and the garments with scarlet borders,
Isa_3:21 καὶ τὰ
περιπόρφυρα
καὶ τὰ μεσοπόρφυρα
Isa_3:22 WEB the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,
Isa_3:22 and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses,
Isa_3:22 καὶ τὰ ἐπιβλήματα
τὰ κατὰ τὴν οἰκίαν
καὶ τὰ διαφανῆ
Λακωνικὰ
Isa_3:23 WEB the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls. [?]
Isa_3:23 and those made of fine linen, and the purple ones, and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings [?] for couches.
Isa_3:23 καὶ τὰ
βύσσινα καὶ τὰ ὑακίνθινα
καὶ τὰ κόκκινα
καὶ τὴν βύσσον,
σὺν χρυσίῳ καὶ ὑακίνθῳ
συγκαθυφασμένα
καὶ θέριστρα
κατάκλιτα.
Isa_3:24 WEB It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
Isa_3:24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be dust; and instead of a sash, you shall gird yourself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for your head, you shall have baldness on account of your works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, you shall gird yourself with sackcloth.
Isa_3:24 καὶ ἔσται
ἀντὶ ὀσμῆς ἡδείας
κονιορτός, καὶ ἀντὶ
ζώνης σχοινίῳ
ζώσῃ καὶ ἀντὶ
τοῦ κόσμου τῆς
κεφαλῆς τοῦ
χρυσίου φαλάκρωμα
ἕξεις διὰ τὰ ἔργα
σου καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ
χιτῶνος τοῦ
μεσοπορφύρου
περιζώσῃ σάκκον.
Isa_3:25 WEB Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
Isa_3:25 And your most beautiful son whom you love shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.
Isa_3:25 καὶ ὁ υἱός
σου ὁ κάλλιστος,
ὃν ἀγαπᾷς, μαχαίρᾳ
πεσεῖται, καὶ οἱ
ἰσχύοντες ὑμῶν
μαχαίρᾳ πεσοῦνται.
Isa_3:26 WEB Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
Isa_3:26 And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and you shall be left alone, and shall be leveled to the ground.
Isa_3:26 καὶ
ταπεινωθήσονται
καὶ πενθήσουσιν
αἱ θῆκαι τοῦ κόσμου
ὑμῶν, καὶ
καταλειφθήσῃ
μόνη καὶ εἰς τὴν
γῆν ἐδαφισθήσῃ.
(C) Isa_32:
Fools Corrected for Hurting the Poor
Isa_32:5 WEB The fool will no
longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
Isa_32:5 LB And they shall no longer
tell a fool to rule, and your servants shall no longer say, “Be silent.”
Isa_32:5 καὶ οὐκέτι
μὴ εἴπωσιν τῷ
μωρῷ ἄρχειν, καὶ
οὐκέτι μὴ εἴπωσιν
οἱ ὑπηρέται
σου Σίγα.
Isa_32:6 WEB For the fool will speak
folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter
error against Yahweh, To make empty the
soul of the hungry, and to
cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isa_32:6 For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall
meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the
Lord, to scatter hungry souls,
and He will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.
Isa_32:6 ὁ γὰρ
μωρὸς μωρὰ λαλήσει,
καὶ ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ
μάταια νοήσει
τοῦ συντελεῖν ἄνομα
καὶ λαλεῖν πρὸς
κύριον πλάνησιν
τοῦ διασπεῖραι
ψυχὰς πεινώσας
καὶ τὰς ψυχὰς τὰς
διψώσας κενὰς
ποιῆσαι.
Isa_32:7 WEB The ways of the
scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when
the needy speaks right.
Isa_32:7 For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust
words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.
Isa_32:7 ἡ γὰρ
βουλὴ τῶν
πονηρῶν ἄνομα
βουλεύσεται
καταφθεῖραι
ταπεινοὺς ἐν λόγοις
ἀδίκοις καὶ
διασκεδάσαι λόγους
ταπεινῶν ἐν κρίσει.
Isa_32:8 WEB But the noble
devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
Isa_32:8 But the godly have devised wise measures, and this counsel
shall stand.
Isa_32:8 οἱ δὲ εὐσεβεῖς
συνετὰ ἐβουλεύσαντο,
καὶ αὕτη ἡ βουλὴ
μενεῖ.
Comp. Mal_4: & Luke 1: they will finally listen to the right people
Remember: Leaders are sinning, and this particularly includes women… (as seen in the immediately following verses…)
(D) Isa_32:
Women At Ease: Judged Until Saved
Isa_32:9 WEB Rise up, you women who are at ease! [comp. Isa_32:9 & Amo_6:1] Hear my voice! You
careless daughters, give
ear to my speech!
Isa_32:9 LB Rise up, you rich women, and hear my voice; you confident daughters, listen to my words.
Isa_32:9 Γυναῖκες
πλούσιαι, ἀνάστητε
καὶ ἀκούσατε τῆς
φωνῆς μου·
θυγατέρες ἐν ἐλπίδι,
ἀκούσατε τοὺς
λόγους μου.
Isa_32:10 WEB For days beyond a
year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage
shall fail. The harvest won't come.
Isa_32:10 Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope; the vintage
has been cut off; it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.
Isa_32:10 ἡμέρας
ἐνιαυτοῦ μνείαν
ποιήσασθε ἐν ὀδύνῃ
μετ᾿ ἐλπίδος· ἀνήλωται
ὁ τρύγητος, πέπαυται
ὁ σπόρος καὶ οὐκέτι
μὴ ἔλθῃ.
Isa_32:11 WEB Tremble, you
women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves,
make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Isa_32:11 Be amazed, be pained, you confident ones; strip, bare
yourselves, gird your loins
Isa_32:11 ἔκστητε,
λυπήθητε, αἱ
πεποιθυῖαι, ἐκδύσασθε,
γυμναὶ γένεσθε,
περιζώσασθε σάκκους
τὰς ὀσφύας
Isa_32:12 WEB Beat your breasts
for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isa_32:12 and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the
fruit of the vine.
Isa_32:12 καὶ ἐπὶ
τῶν μαστῶν κόπτεσθε
ἀπὸ ἀγροῦ ἐπιθυμήματος
καὶ ἀμπέλου
γενήματος.
Isa_32:13 WEB Thorns and briars
will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous
city.
Isa_32:13 As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come
upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.
Isa_32:13 ἡ γῆ τοῦ
λαοῦ μου ἄκανθα
καὶ χόρτος ἀναβήσεται,
καὶ ἐκ πάσης οἰκίας
εὐφροσύνη ἀρθήσεται·
πόλις πλουσία,
Isa_32:14 WEB For the palace will be
forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will
be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Isa_32:14 As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall
abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses; and the villages shall
be caves forever, the joy of wild donkeys, shepherds' pastures;
Isa_32:14 οἶκοι ἐγκαταλελειμμένοι
πλοῦτον πόλεως
καὶ οἴκους ἐπιθυμητοὺς
ἀφήσουσιν· καὶ
ἔσονται αἱ κῶμαι
σπήλαια ἕως τοῦ
αἰῶνος, εὐφροσύνη
ὄνων ἀγρίων,
βοσκήματα
ποιμένων,
Isa_32:15 WEB Until the Spirit is poured on us from
on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field is considered a forest.
Isa_32:15 until the Spirit
shall come upon you from on high, and Carmel shall be desert, and Carmel shall
be counted for a forest.
Isa_32:15 ἕως ἂν ἐπέλθῃ
ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς πνεῦμα
ἀφ᾿ ὑψηλοῦ. καὶ
ἔσται ἔρημος ὁ
Χερμελ, καὶ ὁ
Χερμελ εἰς
δρυμὸν λογισθήσεται.
Isa_32:16 WEB Then justice
will dwell in the
wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isa_32:16 Then judgment shall abide
in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.
Isa_32:16 καὶ ἀναπαύσεται
ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ κρίμα,
καὶ δικαιοσύνη
ἐν τῷ Καρμήλῳ
κατοικήσει·
Isa_32:17 WEB The work of
righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and
confidence forever.
Isa_32:17 And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and
righteousness shall ensure rest, and the righteous shall be confident forever.
Isa_32:17 καὶ ἔσται
τὰ ἔργα τῆς
δικαιοσύνης εἰρήνη,
καὶ κρατήσει ἡ
δικαιοσύνη ἀνάπαυσιν,
καὶ πεποιθότες
ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος·
Isa_32:18 WEB My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe
dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Isa_32:18 And His people shall inhabit
a city of peace, and dwell in it in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.
Isa_32:18 καὶ
κατοικήσει ὁ
λαὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν πόλει
εἰρήνης καὶ ἐνοικήσει
πεποιθώς, καὶ ἀναπαύσονται
μετὰ πλούτου.
Isa_32:19 WEB Though hail flattens
the forest, and the city is leveled completely.
Isa_32:19 And if the hail should come down, it shall not come upon you; and they that dwell in the forests shall be in confidence, as those in the plain country.
Isa_32:19 ἡ δὲ χάλαζα
ἐὰν καταβῇ, οὐκ
ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς ἥξει.
καὶ ἔσονται οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες
ἐν τοῖς δρυμοῖς
πεποιθότες ὡς
οἱ ἐν τῇ πεδινῇ.
Isa_32:20 WEB Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
Isa_32:20 Blessed are they that sow by every water, where the ox and the donkey tread.
Isa_32:20 μακάριοι
οἱ σπείροντες ἐπὶ
πᾶν ὕδωρ, οὗ βοῦς
καὶ ὄνος πατεῖ.
Notice the furious judgement of God is to take away their nice things.
i.e. Change confidence into lowliness from rebuke.
Rough wilderness = Solution to achieving repentance & Supernatural provision.
Amos: God Hates Religious Luxury!
Amos introduces the women first, and then the luxurious sins.
Amo_4: Female Cows Oppressing the Poor
Amo_4:1 WEB Listen to this word,
you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor,
who crush the needy, who
tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
Amo_4:1 Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in
the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters
[τοῖς κυρίοις
αὐτῶν], Give us, that we may drink.
Amo_4:1 Ἀκούσατε
τὸν λόγον τοῦτον,
δαμάλεις τῆς
Βασανίτιδος αἱ
ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῆς
Σαμαρείας αἱ
καταδυναστεύουσαι
πτωχοὺς καὶ
καταπατοῦσαι
πένητας αἱ λέγουσαι
τοῖς κυρίοις αὐτῶν
Ἐπίδοτε ἡμῖν ὅπως
πίωμεν·
Notice women oppressing the poor and
indulging in drink.
Amo_6: Woe to Those at Ease in Zion
Amo_6:1 WEB Woe to those who are at ease in Zion [comp. Isa_32:9 & Amo_6:1], and to those who
are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the
nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Amo_6:1 LB Woe to them
that are at ease in Zion, and that trust in the mountain of
Samaria; they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they
have gone in themselves.
Amo_6:1 Οὐαὶ
τοῖς ἐξουθενοῦσιν
Σιων καὶ τοῖς
πεποιθόσιν ἐπὶ
τὸ ὄρος Σαμαρείας· ἀπετρύγησαν
ἀρχὰς ἐθνῶν, καὶ
εἰσῆλθον αὐτοί. οἶκος τοῦ
Ισραηλ,
Amo_6:2 WEB Go to Calneh, and
see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your
border?
Amo_6:2 O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by
from there to Hamath; and from there descend to Gath of the Philistines, the
chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.
Amo_6:2 διάβητε
πάντες καὶ ἴδετε
καὶ διέλθατε ἐκεῖθεν
εἰς Εμαθ Ραββα
καὶ κατάβητε ἐκεῖθεν
εἰς Γεθ ἀλλοφύλων,
τὰς κρατίστας ἐκ
πασῶν τῶν
βασιλειῶν τούτων,
εἰ πλέονα τὰ ὅρια
αὐτῶν ἐστιν τῶν
ὑμετέρων ὁρίων.
Amo_6:3 WEB Those who put far
away the evil day, and cause
the seat of violence to come near;
Amo_6:3 You who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false
sabbaths;
Amo_6:3 οἱ ἐρχόμενοι
εἰς ἡμέραν κακήν,
οἱ ἐγγίζοντες
καὶ ἐφαπτόμενοι
σαββάτων ψευδῶν,
Amo_6:4 WEB Who lie on beds
of ivory, and stretch
themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock,
and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
Amo_6:4 who sleep upon beds of ivory,
and live delicately on their couches,
and eat kids out of the flocks, and calves out of the midst of the
stalls;
Amo_6:4 οἱ
καθεύδοντες ἐπὶ
κλινῶν ἐλεφαντίνων
καὶ
κατασπαταλῶντες
ἐπὶ ταῖς
στρωμναῖς αὐτῶν
καὶ ἔσθοντες ἐρίφους
ἐκ ποιμνίων καὶ
μοσχάρια ἐκ μέσου
βουκολίων
γαλαθηνά,
Amo_6:5 WEB who strum on the strings of a
harp; who invent for
themselves instruments of music,
like David;
Amo_6:5 who excel in the sound of musical
instruments; they
have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;
Amo_6:5 οἱ ἐπικροτοῦντες
πρὸς τὴν φωνὴν
τῶν ὀργάνων ὡς ἑστῶτα
ἐλογίσαντο καὶ
οὐχ ὡς φεύγοντα·
Amo_6:6 WEB who drink
wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they
are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amo_6:6 who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves
with the best ointment, and have suffered nothing on occasion of
the calamity of Joseph.
Amo_6:6 οἱ πίνοντες
τὸν διυλισμένον
οἶνον καὶ τὰ πρῶτα
μύρα χριόμενοι
καὶ οὐκ ἔπασχον
οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῇ
συντριβῇ
Ιωσηφ.
Amo_6:7 WEB Therefore they will
now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
Amo_6:7 Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the
dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.
Amo_6:7 διὰ τοῦτο
νῦν αἰχμάλωτοι
ἔσονται ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς
δυναστῶν, καὶ ἐξαρθήσεται
χρεμετισμὸς ἵππων
ἐξ Εφραιμ.
Amo_6:8 WEB "The Lord
Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest
his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all
that is in it.
Amo_6:8 For the Lord has sworn by Himself, saying, “Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do
also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all
who inhabit it.
Amo_6:8 ὅτι ὤμοσεν
κύριος καθ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ
Διότι βδελύσσομαι
ἐγὼ πᾶσαν τὴν ὕβριν
Ιακωβ καὶ τὰς χώρας
αὐτοῦ μεμίσηκα,
καὶ ἐξαρῶ πόλιν
σὺν πᾶσιν τοῖς
κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν·
Ezekiel 13 & 16:
Eze_13:
Women Sewing Pillows On Every Elbow
Eze_13:18 WEB and say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows
[NIV: magic charms on all their wrists], and make kerchiefs [NIV: veils of
various lengths] for the head of persons of every stature to hunt [NIV: ensnare] souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls
alive for yourselves?
Eze_13:18 LB And you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Woe
to the women that [Οὐαὶ ταῖς
συρραπτούσαις] sew pillows under every elbow [προσκεφάλαια
ἐπὶ πάντα ἀγκῶνα
χειρὸς], and make handkerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert
souls! The souls of My people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.
Eze_13:18 καὶ ἐρεῖς
Τάδε λέγει κύριος
Οὐαὶ ταῖς
συρραπτούσαις
προσκεφάλαια ἐπὶ
πάντα ἀγκῶνα
χειρὸς καὶ
ποιούσαις ἐπιβόλαια
ἐπὶ πᾶσαν
κεφαλὴν πάσης ἡλικίας
τοῦ διαστρέφειν
ψυχάς· αἱ ψυχαὶ
διεστράφησαν
τοῦ λαοῦ μου, καὶ
ψυχὰς
περιεποιοῦντο.
Eze_16: Sodom’s Sin – Embodied By Luxurious Prostitutes
Read: Ezekiel 16 -- All of it
‘Outrageous Prostitution’ = Preceding Ezekiel 16 Context
Eze_16:48 WEB As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
Eze_16:48 LB As I live, says the Lord, this Sodom and
her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Eze_16:48 ζῶ ἐγώ,
λέγει κύριος, εἰ
πεποίηκεν
Σοδομα ἡ ἀδελφή
σου, αὐτὴ καὶ αἱ
θυγατέρες αὐτῆς,
ὃν τρόπον ἐποίησας
σὺ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες
σου.
Eze_16:49 WEB Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze_16:49 Moreover this was the sin of your sister Sodom—pride. She and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance; this belonged to her and her daughters, and they did not help the hand of the poor and needy.
Eze_16:49 πλὴν
τοῦτο τὸ ἀνόμημα
Σοδομων τῆς ἀδελφῆς
σου, ὑπερηφανία·
ἐν πλησμονῇ ἄρτων
καὶ ἐν εὐθηνίᾳ
οἴνου ἐσπατάλων
αὐτὴ καὶ αἱ
θυγατέρες αὐτῆς·
τοῦτο ὑπῆρχεν
αὐτῇ καὶ ταῖς
θυγατράσιν αὐτῆς,
καὶ χεῖρα
πτωχοῦ καὶ πένητος
οὐκ ἀντελαμβάνοντο.
Eze_16:50 WEB They were haughty, and committed abomination
before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Eze_16:50 And they boasted, and worked iniquities before Me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.
Eze_16:50 καὶ ἐμεγαλαύχουν
καὶ ἐποίησαν ἀνομήματα
ἐνώπιόν μου, καὶ
ἐξῆρα αὐτάς,
καθὼς εἶδον.
The nation of Israel is personified as Feminine Luxury in Ezekiel.
Pride, Pleasures, and Riches are associated with Feminine Luxury.
Notice how Feminine Luxury is a social sin lived out in women and corrupting all of society.
Notice how Feminine Luxury is constantly hurting the poor -- and we see this in the Bible and very clearly today as well (as long as we stop ignoring cause and effect).
Jezebel and Herodias
The awful legacy of two horribly evil
murderous perverted women
-- Under Construction --
Paul & Peter
1Ti_2
& All Saved…with Modesty, NOT Luxury Clothes
Comp. All Saved…with Modesty | Fear & Subjection | How Much Clothing?
All Saved (Reminder)
1Ti_2:3 CAB For this is good and acceptable before God
our Savior,
1Ti_2:3 τοῦτο
καλὸν καὶ ἀπόδεκτον
ἐνώπιον τοῦ
σωτῆρος ἡμῶν
Θεοῦ,
1Ti_2:3
τουτο TSBγαρ καλον
και αποδεκτον
ενωπιον του
σωτηρος ημων
θεου
1Ti_2:4 who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
1Ti_2:4 ὃς
πάντας ἀνθρώπους
θέλει σωθῆναι
καὶ εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν
ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν.
Flashy Clothes vs. Modest, Saving,
God-Reverence
1Ti_2:9 CAB Likewise also that the women adorn themselves
in modest apparel, with propriety and discretion [σωφροσύνης – savedmindedness], not with braids or gold or pearls
or expensive clothing,
1Ti_2:9 ὡσαύτως
καὶ τὰς
γυναῖκας ἐν
καταστολῇ
κοσμίῳ,
μετὰ αἰδοῦς
καὶ
σωφροσύνης
κοσμεῖν ἑαυτάς,
μὴ ἐν
πλέγμασιν ἢ
χρυσῷ ἢ
μαργαρίταις ἢ
ἱματισμῷ
πολυτελεῖ,
1Ti_2:9
ωσαυτως Aκαι TSBκαι TSBτας
γυναικας εν
καταστολη
κοσμιω μετα
αιδους και
σωφροσυνης
κοσμειν εαυτας
μη εν
πλεγμασιν Aκαι TSBη Aχρυσιω
TSBχρυσω η
μαργαριταις η
ιματισμω
πολυτελει
1Ti_2:10 but which is fitting for women professing godliness
[θεοσέβειαν], by means of good works.
1Ti_2:10 ἀλλ᾿ ὃ
πρέπει
γυναιξὶν ἐπαγγελλομέναις
θεοσέβειαν,
δι᾿ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν.
1Ti_2:10 αλλ ο
πρεπει
γυναιξιν
επαγγελλομεναις
θεοσεβειαν δι
εργων αγαθων
Following context: women learn in quietness & Saved by modesty & saved-mindedness
So, after a lot of context…
1Ti_2:15 CAB Nevertheless she shall be saved through childbirth, if they
remain in faith and love, and sanctification, with self-control.
1Ti_2:15
σωθήσεται
δὲ διὰ τῆς
τεκνογονίας,
ἐὰν
μείνωσιν ἐν
πίστει καὶ ἀγάπῃ
καὶ ἁγιασμῷ
μετὰ
σωφροσύνης.
1Pe_3: Fear & Subjection, NOT Luxury Clothes
No Gold or Expensive Clothes
Comp. All Saved…with Modesty | Fear & Subjection | How Much Clothing?
1Pe_3:1 CAB Wives, likewise, subject yourselves to your
own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, that by the conduct of
their wives, without a word, they shall be gained for Christ,
1Pe_3:1 ῾Ομοίως
αἱ γυναῖκες
ὑποτασσόμεναι
τοῖς ἰδίοις
ἀνδράσιν, ἵνα
καὶ εἴ τινες ἀπειθοῦσι
τῷ λόγῳ,
διὰ τῆς τῶν
γυναικῶν ἀναστροφῆς
ἄνευ λόγου
κερδηθήσονται,
1Pe_3:1
ομοιως Aαι TSBαι γυναικες
υποτασσομεναι
τοις ιδιοις
ανδρασιν ινα
και ει τινες
απειθουσιν τω
λογω δια της
των γυναικων
αναστροφης
ανευ λογου BAκερδηθησονται
TSκερδηθησωνται
1Pe_3:2 when they observe your chaste conduct with fear.
1Pe_3:2 ἐποπτεύσαντες
τὴν ἐν φόβῳ
ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν
ὑμῶν.
1Pe_3:3 Of whom let it not be
the outward adorning of braiding of hair, and wearing of gold, or of putting on of fine clothes,
1Pe_3:3 ὧν ἔστω
οὐχ ὁ ἔξωθεν
ἐμπλοκῆς
τριχῶν καὶ περιθέσεως
χρυσίων ἢ ἐνδύσεως
ἱματίων
κόσμος,
1Pe_3:4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible attitude of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious before
God.
1Pe_3:4 ἀλλ᾿
ὁ κρυπτὸς τῆς
καρδίας ἄνθρωπος
ἐν τῷ ἀφθάρτῳ
τοῦ πραέος
καὶ ἡσυχίου
πνεύματος, ὅ ἐστιν
ἐνώπιον τοῦ
Θεοῦ
πολυτελές.
1Pe_3:4 αλλ
ο κρυπτος της
καρδιας
ανθρωπος εν τω
αφθαρτω του Aπραεως TSBπραεος και
ησυχιου
πνευματος ο
εστιν ενωπιον
του θεου
πολυτελες
1Pe_3:5 For thus formerly, the holy women who hoped on God also adorned
themselves, subjecting themselves to their own husbands,
1Pe_3:5 οὕτω
γάρ ποτε καὶ
αἱ ἅγιαι
γυναῖκες αἱ
ἐλπίζουσαι ἐπὶ
τὸν Θεὸν ἐκόσμουν
ἑαυτάς, ὑποτασσόμεναι
τοῖς ἰδίοις
ἀνδράσιν,
1Pe_3:5
ουτως γαρ
ποτε και αι
αγιαι γυναικες
αι ελπιζουσαι Aεις TSBεπι TSτον
θεον εκοσμουν
εαυτας
υποτασσομεναι
τοις ιδιοις
ανδρασιν
1Pe_3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of
whom you became children, when you do good and are not afraid of any
terror.
1Pe_3:6 ὡς
Σάρρα ὑπήκουσε
τῷ ᾿Αβραάμ,
κύριον αὐτὸν
καλοῦσα· ἧς ἐγενήθητε
τέκνα, ἀγαθοποιοῦσαι
καὶ μὴ
φοβούμεναι
μηδεμίαν
πτόησιν.
Comp. All Saved…with Modesty | Fear & Subjection | How Much Clothing?
This mighty virtue of Sarah empowered her to overthrow feminism and through down seed, unlike way to many unspiritual fleshly wives today.
1Ti_3:
1Ti_3:11-12
1Ti_5: REAL Widows vs. Pleasure Indulgers
Preview
1Ti_5:7 Shows us the “blameless” requirements that link widows
(1Ti_5:7)
with church leadership like overseers (1Ti_3:2; Tit_1:6-7)
Honor REAL Widows
1Ti_5:3 CAB Honor widows who are really widows.
1Ti_5:3 Χήρας
τίμα τὰς ὄντως
χήρας.
Alone Trusting vs. Dead Pleasure
1Ti_5:5 CAB Now she who is really a widow and
having been left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications
and prayers night and day.
1Ti_5:5 ἡ δὲ ὄντως
χήρα καὶ
μεμονωμένη ἤλπικεν
ἐπὶ τὸν
Θεὸν καὶ
προσμένει ταῖς
δεήσεσι καὶ
ταῖς
προσευχαῖς
νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας·
1Ti_5:5 η δε
οντως χηρα και
μεμονωμενη
ηλπικεν επι TSBτον θεον
και προσμενει
ταις δεησεσιν
και ταις προσευχαις
νυκτος και
ημερας
1Ti_5:6 But she who is living for pleasure is dead while she lives.
1Ti_5:6 ἡ δὲ
σπαταλῶσα ζῶσα
τέθνηκε.
1Ti_5:7 And these things command, so that they may be blameless.
1Ti_5:7 καὶ
ταῦτα
παράγγελλε, ἵνα
ἀνεπίληπτοι ὦσιν.
1Ti_5:7 και ταυτα παραγγελλε ινα Aανεπιλημπτοι TSBανεπιληπτοι ωσιν
60 Years
of Virtue -- Required
1Ti_5:9 CAB Let a widow be enrolled having become not
less than sixty years, the wife of one man,
1Ti_5:9 Χήρα
καταλεγέσθω
μὴ ἔλαττον ἐτῶν
ἑξήκοντα
γεγονυῖα, ἑνὸς
ἀνδρὸς
γυνή,
1Ti_5:10 having a reputation for good works, if she has brought up
children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if
she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
1Ti_5:10 ἐν ἔργοις
καλοῖς
μαρτυρουμένη,
εἰ ἐτεκνοτρόφησεν,
εἰ ἐξενοδόχησεν,
εἰ ἁγίων
πόδας ἔνιψεν,
εἰ
θλιβομένοις ἐπήρκεσεν,
εἰ παντὶ ἔργῳ
ἀγαθῷ ἐπηκολούθησε.
1Ti_5:11 But refuse to enroll the younger widows; for whenever they grow lustful against
Christ, they desire to marry,
1Ti_5:11
νεωτέρας
δὲ χήρας
παραιτοῦ· ὅταν
γὰρ
καταστρηνιάσωσι
τοῦ Χριστοῦ,
γαμεῖν
θέλουσιν,
1Ti_5:12 having condemnation because they have set aside their first
faith.
1Ti_5:12 ἔχουσαι
κρῖμα ὅτι
τὴν πρώτην
πίστιν ἠθέτησαν·
1Ti_5:13 And besides they learn to be idle, going around from house to
house, and not only idle but also gossipy and busybodies, speaking things which are not proper.
1Ti_5:13 ἅμα
δὲ καὶ ἀργαὶ
μανθάνουσι
περιερχόμεναι
τὰς οἰκίας,
οὐ μόνον δὲ
ἀργαὶ, ἀλλὰ
καὶ φλύαροι
καὶ
περίεργοι,
λαλοῦσαι τὰ
μὴ δέοντα.
1Ti_5:14 Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear
children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because
of reproach.
1Ti_5:14
βούλομαι οὖν
νεωτέρας
γαμεῖν,
τεκνογονεῖν,
οἰκοδεσποτεῖν,
μηδεμίαν ἀφορμὴν
διδόναι τῷ
ἀντικειμένῳ
λοιδορίας
χάριν.
1Ti_5:15 For already some have turned aside after Satan.
1Ti_5:15 ἤδη
γάρ τινες ἐξετράπησαν
ὀπίσω τοῦ
Σατανᾶ.
1Ti_6:
<<<<<<
Women can Escape by Obeying Self-denial!
Notice the virtue that saves women from Feminine Luxury.
Notice that women are being particularly warned to avoid these characteristic pitfalls of their nature and track record.
Clothing Examples & Applications
No Flashy Clothing
-- Under Construction --
How Much Clothing?
Comp. All Saved…with Modesty | Fear & Subjection | How Much Clothing?
Industrial Revolution Makes More
Clothes
· Mass-production has given us an artificial ideal that is dangerous
· Watch out for bad effect of human progress
· Don’t become desensitized
Functionality vs. Fashion
· Functionality can be appropriate
· Beware of fashion and luxurious mentalities
· Let there be virtually zero fashion motives for buying any more clothes than you already have and need
Even if we don’t think we’re targeting fashion, what other insanities can it have on our subconscious
Luk_3:11 – Whoever has Two Cloaks,
Luk_3:11 CAB He answered and said to them, "He who
has two shirts, let him give to him who has none; and
he who has food, let him do likewise."
Luk_3:11 ἀποκριθεὶς
δὲ λέγει αὐτοῖς·
ὁ ἔχων δύο
χιτῶνας
μεταδότω τῷ
μὴ ἔχοντι,
καὶ ὁ ἔχων
βρώματα ὁμοίως
ποιείτω.
Luk_3:11 αποκριθεις δε Aελεγεν TSBλεγει αυτοις ο εχων δυο χιτωνας μεταδοτω τω μη εχοντι και ο εχων βρωματα ομοιως ποιειτω
Biblical times: Nobles had many pairs of clothes -- so what are we living like today??
Gen_45:22 – 5 Pairs Of Cloths
which Joseph Gave to Benjamin
Gen_45:22 WEB He gave each one of
them changes of clothing,
but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
Gen_45:22 LB And he gave to them all two sets of clothing apiece; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of gold, and five changes of clothing.
Gen_45:22 καὶ πᾶσιν
ἔδωκεν δισσὰς
στολάς, τῷ δὲ
Βενιαμιν ἔδωκεν
τριακοσίους
χρυσοῦς καὶ πέντε
ἐξαλλασσούσας
στολάς, ---------------
This was because Joseph was a king and gave an EXTRAVEGANT abundance of gifting, which is surpassed by nearly everyone in modern societies today
·
·
1Ti_2:9 – Expensive Clothing
Avoided
rich clothing
1Ti_2:9 CAB Likewise also that
the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and discretion, not
with braids or gold or pearls or expensive clothing,
1Ti_2:9 ὡσαύτως
καὶ τὰς
γυναῖκας ἐν
καταστολῇ
κοσμίῳ,
μετὰ αἰδοῦς
καὶ
σωφροσύνης
κοσμεῖν ἑαυτάς,
μὴ ἐν
πλέγμασιν ἢ
χρυσῷ ἢ
μαργαρίταις ἢ
ἱματισμῷ
πολυτελεῖ,
1Ti_2:9 ωσαυτως
Aκαι TSBκαι TSBτας
γυναικας εν
καταστολη
κοσμιω μετα
αιδους και σωφροσυνης
κοσμειν εαυτας
μη εν
πλεγμασιν Aκαι TSBη Aχρυσιω
TSBχρυσω η
μαργαριταις η
ιματισμω
πολυτελει
1Ti_2:10 but which is fitting for women professing godliness, by means of
good works.
1Ti_2:10 ἀλλ᾿ ὃ
πρέπει
γυναιξὶν ἐπαγγελλομέναις
θεοσέβειαν,
δι᾿ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν.
We can take it for granted that we can handle excess and abundance
Getting used to having many pairs of clothes = Normalizing luxury
Washing Clothes
· Can more clothes DEcrease clothes washing, because you can cycle through different pairs of clothes?
· Can more clothes INcrease clothes washing, because you just keep using more pair of clothes?
· Can more clothes mean less frequent washes (maybe-possibly) but more to wash?
· Can clothes washing increase by having too many clothes?
· Clothes washing didn’t happen as much when it took more work
See: Consumptiveness
Hate Debt
Other dates (~2008-2012);
10/11/16; 6/17/17; 9/22/24
Having a posture of debt is liking the Power of Money = Hell
Avoiding Debt
Pro_22:27, If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Owe No One Nothing
Rom_13:8 CAB Owe [ὀφείλετε] nothing [μηδεν] to no one [μηδενι], except [ειμη] to love one another…
Rom_13:8 Μηδενὶ
μηδὲν ὀφείλετε
εἰ μὴ τὸ TSBἀγαπᾶν
ἀλλήλους |Aαγαπαν|·
ὁ γὰρ ἀγαπῶν
τὸν ἕτερον
νόμον
πεπλήρωκε.
>> Sync: Lov | DRRR | RiFi
How long can you “owe” something before you are starting to be owing people things?
Lev_19:13 – Don’t hold back the wages of a poor worker beyond when the sun goes down.
These rules are especially true for the poor, and we might wonder if the standard is any different for the ritch.
In any case, this is a really good place to start.
As always, if you can’t pay back, then don’t allow yourself to enter into debt (as much as possible).
Pro_22:26-27 – If you do not have to pay… Why should he take your bed from under you?
Debt as Slavery
Neh_5:3-7; Isa_24:2; Mat_18:25
[in Hebrew: Pro_22:7]
Don't Slave Of Men
1Co_7:23
Sinful Societies
noah vs. tower of Bable
Isa_5:8-9
15,000 loan
- some still paying for college
- The ends don't justify the means
Why To Hate
- Avoiding debt is more important than achieving 'success'
- patience is better than achievement
- don't ever reason based on paying things off later
- were am I going to spend the money I will have?
- I am going to pay it off
- don't say 'tomorrow we will make money...'
Jam_4:13-17
- old enough to take care of herself
- leave it to them to provide
- Don't get stressed out, but be responsible
- Don't ever be legislated into getting into debt
Refusing to Live month to month
Do not live from month to month
This is one of the ways you know something is messed up and wrrong
Examin situation: you do not have a right to spend/ cost a lot of money
Live stringently
Don't be content/ esensitised with spending a lot of money
Without Thriftyness you will never have the virtue of financial "reliability" so that the heart of a husband can "safely" trust in you
The last thing we want to be is: you can no longer be steward because you have waisted the master's goods
The concern is not "Woe to me I have to pay for the car to be fixed" the concern is: "Woe as mewhen I am content living expensivly when I could live less consumptiously" - a consumer is a king in this life and we are to despise this and look for the next life.
It is a domestic person's responcibility to seek out the well order and efficiency of the home, not to spend the big dollars on expenses (then they can be trusted with investments like land) - even I work on saving my mom money though the situation is shamefully reversed.
Like Jackie said: when you are out making money, your time becomes so little that you often cannot completly afford to use the rest of it on streamlining financial efficiently. But women were made to seek such things.
Some trailor park moms say they cannot pay for food for thier kids but never look at the TV bill and repent. We do not want to be even comparable to this. We should look at the large costs in oujr life and always look foroptions to increse efficiency in not spending.
We often cannot give because we are living month to month on our own life expendatures, and we need to be those who change this.
Surety
Pro_6:1-5 CAB My son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy. 2 For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth. 3 My son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you have come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you have become surety. 4 Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids; 5 that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.
Sir_8:12-13 Brenton Lend not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou lendest him, count it but lost. 13 Be not surety above thy power: for if thou be surety, take care to pay it.
Pro_17:18 CAB
A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that
becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.
Pro_22:26-27 CAB
Become not surety from respect of a man's person. 27 For if those have not anything to give
compensation, they will take the bed that is under you.
Pro_27:13 CAB
Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays
waste another's goods.
Pro_27:13 WEB
Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for
a wayward woman!
only
in MT:
Pro_20:16 WEB
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him
in pledge for a wayward woman.
When Could it Be Good?
Pro_25:13 CAB
As a fall of snow in the time of harvest is good against heat, so a
faithful messenger refreshes
those that send him; for he helps the
souls of his employers.
Gen_43:9, Gen_44:32, Gen_44:33, Job_17:3, Phm_1:18, Phm_1:19, Heb_7:22
Debt – Repent of Slave-Luxury
Don’t Choose Debt
Don’t convert rape into fornication by willingly participating
Flee
1Co_7: Chose freedom if you can
God Hates Debt
Deu_15:1 WEB At the end of every seven years you shall
make a release.
Deu_15:1 LB
Laws Concerning the Sabbatical Year “Every seven years you shall make a
release.
Deu_15:1 Δι᾿ ἑπτὰ
ἐτῶν ποιήσεις ἄφεσιν.
Deu_15:2 WEB This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
Deu_15:2 And this is the ordinance of the
release: you shall release every private debt which your neighbor owes you, and
you shall not ask payment of it from your brother; for it has been called a
release to the Lord your God.
Deu_15:2 καὶ οὕτως
τὸ πρόσταγμα τῆς
ἀφέσεως· ἀφήσεις
πᾶν χρέος ἴδιον,
ὃ ὀφείλει σοι ὁ
πλησίον, καὶ τὸν
ἀδελφόν σου οὐκ
ἀπαιτήσεις, ὅτι
ἐπικέκληται ἄφεσις
κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ
σου.
Deu_15:3 WEB Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.
Deu_15:3 Of a stranger you shall ask
again whatsoever he has of yours, but to your brother you shall release his
debt to you.
Deu_15:3 τὸν ἀλλότριον
ἀπαιτήσεις ὅσα
ἐὰν ᾖ σοι παρ᾿
αὐτῷ, τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
σου ἄφεσιν ποιήσεις
τοῦ χρέους σου·
Deu_15:4 WEB However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
Deu_15:4 For thus there shall not be a
poor person in the midst of you, for the Lord your God will surely bless you in
the land which the Lord your God gives you by inheritance, that you should
inherit it.
Deu_15:4 ὅτι οὐκ ἔσται
ἐν σοὶ ἐνδεής, ὅτι
εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσει
σε κύριος ὁ θεός
σου ἐν τῇ γῇ, ᾗ κύριος
ὁ θεός σου δίδωσίν
σοι ἐν κλήρῳ
κατακληρονομῆσαι
αὐτήν,
Deu_15:5 WEB if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
Deu_15:5 And if you shall indeed hearken
to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as
many as I charge you this day,
Deu_15:5 ἐὰν δὲ ἀκοῇ
εἰσακούσητε τῆς
φωνῆς κυρίου
τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν
φυλάσσειν καὶ
ποιεῖν πάσας τὰς
ἐντολὰς ταύτας,
ὅσας ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί
σοι σήμερον.
Deu_15:7 WEB If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with
you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you
shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Deu_15:7 LB
“And if there shall be in the midst of you a poor man from among your brothers,
in one of your cities in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, you shall
not harden your heart, neither shall you by any means close up your hand from
your brother who is in need.
Deu_15:7 Ἐὰν δὲ γένηται
ἐν σοὶ ἐνδεὴς τῶν
ἀδελφῶν σου ἐν
μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων
σου ἐν τῇ γῇ, ᾗ κύριος
ὁ θεός σου δίδωσίν
σοι, οὐκ ἀποστέρξεις
τὴν καρδίαν
σου οὐδ᾿ οὐ μὴ
συσφίγξῃς τὴν
χεῖρά σου ἀπὸ
τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
σου τοῦ ἐπιδεομένου·
Deu_15:8 WEB but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wants.
Deu_15:8 You shall surely open your hands
to him, and shall lend to him as much as he wants according to his need.
Deu_15:8 ἀνοίγων ἀνοίξεις
τὰς χεῖράς σου
αὐτῷ, δάνειον
δανιεῖς αὐτῷ ὅσον
ἐπιδέεται, καθ᾿
ὅσον ἐνδεεῖται.
Deu_15:9 WEB Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deu_15:9 CAB Take heed to yourself that there be not a
secret thing in your heart—an iniquity, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of
release, is approaching.’ And your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in
need, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord,
and there shall be great sin in you.
Deu_15:9 πρόσεχε
σεαυτῷ μὴ γένηται
ῥῆμα κρυπτὸν ἐν
τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, ἀνόμημα,
λέγων Ἐγγίζει
τὸ ἔτος τὸ ἕβδομον,
ἔτος τῆς ἀφέσεως,
καὶ πονηρεύσηται
ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου
τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου τῷ
ἐπιδεομένῳ, καὶ
οὐ δώσεις αὐτῷ,
καὶ βοήσεται
κατὰ σοῦ πρὸς κύριον,
καὶ ἔσται ἐν σοὶ
ἁμαρτία μεγάλη
Deu_15:10 WEB You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
Deu_15:10 You shall surely give to him,
and you shall lend to him as much as he wants, according as he is in need. And
you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account
the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which
you shall lay your hand.
Deu_15:10 διδοὺς δώσεις
αὐτῷ καὶ δάνειον
δανιεῖς αὐτῷ ὅσον
ἐπιδέεται, καὶ
οὐ λυπηθήσῃ τῇ
καρδίᾳ σου διδόντος
σου αὐτῷ· ὅτι
διὰ τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο
εὐλογήσει σε κύριος
ὁ θεός σου ἐν πᾶσιν
τοῖς ἔργοις καὶ
ἐν πᾶσιν, οὗ ἂν ἐπιβάλῃς
τὴν χεῖρά σου.
Deu_15:11 WEB For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
Deu_15:11 For the poor shall not fail off
your land, therefore I charge you to do this thing, saying, ‘You shall surely
open your hands to your poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon your
land.’
Deu_15:11 οὐ γὰρ μὴ
ἐκλίπῃ ἐνδεὴς ἀπὸ
τῆς γῆς· διὰ τοῦτο
ἐγώ σοι ἐντέλλομαι
ποιεῖν τὸ ῥῆμα
τοῦτο λέγων Ἀνοίγων
ἀνοίξεις τὰς
χεῖράς σου τῷ ἀδελφῷ
σου τῷ πένητι
καὶ τῷ ἐπιδεομένῳ
τῷ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
σου.
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Deu_24:10 KJV+ WhenH3588 thou dost lendH5383 thy brotherH7453 anyH3972 thing,H4859 thou shalt notH3808 goH935 intoH413 his houseH1004 to fetchH5670 his pledge.H5667
Deu_24:10 LB “If your neighbor owes you a debt, any debt whatsoever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge:
Deu_24:10 Ἐὰν ὀφείλημα
ᾖ ἐν τῷ πλησίον
σου, ὀφείλημα ὁτιοῦν,
οὐκ εἰσελεύσῃ
εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν
αὐτοῦ ἐνεχυράσαι
τὸ ἐνέχυρον·
Deu_24:11 KJV+ Thou shalt standH5975 abroad,H2351 and the manH376 to whomH834 thouH859 dost lendH5383 shall bring outH3318 (H853) the pledgeH5667 abroadH2351 untoH413 thee.
Deu_24:11 you shall stand outside, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.
Deu_24:11 ἔξω στήσῃ,
καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος,
οὗ τὸ δάνειόν
σού ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ,
ἐξοίσει σοι τὸ ἐνέχυρον
ἔξω.
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Psalm_37:21
ESV
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives
Proverbs_11:15
ESV
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure
Proverbs_22:7
ESV
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs_22:26-27
New English Translation
26 Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge
or who puts up security for debts.
27 If you do not have enough to pay,
your bed[a] will be taken[b] right out from under you!
Galatians_5:1
English Standard Version
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery
Ephesians_6:5
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.
Romans_13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
1 Peter_2:18
NKJV 18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
1 Corinthians_7:21
English Standard Version
21 Were you a bondservant[a] when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)
Oh and this one. I'm reapplying the concept of "profit" to the hope of getting a loan, keeping a job that can afford a loan, and ultimately saving money (from not renting).
James_4:13-15
English Standard Version
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, (A)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (B)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, (C)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
The Borrower is Servant to The Lender
Deu_15:6 WEB For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he
promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and
you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deu_15:6 LB
(for the Lord your God has blessed you in the way of which He spoke to
you) then you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you
shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deu_15:6 ὅτι κύριος
ὁ θεός σου εὐλόγησέν
σε, ὃν τρόπον ἐλάλησέν
σοι, καὶ δανιεῖς
ἔθνεσιν πολλοῖς,
σὺ δὲ οὐ δανιῇ,
καὶ ἄρξεις σὺ ἐθνῶν
πολλῶν, σοῦ δὲ οὐκ
ἄρξουσιν.
Mortgage
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-- Under Construction --
Supernatural Provision
Asking And Receiving
Inspired Requests of Truth!
Requests Must be Inspired
Part of having God's clean righteous exciting favor is being able to know what is true and rejoice in it and ask and receive the right things in prayer by clean inspired righteous faith.
Asking and receiving successfully from the monotheistic God in the Bible is not a question of His ability, but rather it's a question of His inspired will.
(since He is omnipotent)
So how do you know if you're asking a miss according to your own pleasures?
any asking and receiving that avoids virtue such as self denial, crucifixion, dying to this life, repenting and doing restitution, and or any other element of obeying all the Bible with no sin, is asking wrongly for your own lusts...
Don't just ask for what you want, ask for what God wants
What does the Bible already say that God wants for your life, for example?
Asking and believing God to answer is a process of inspiration from hearing what God is saying.
(not a process of non-inspiration!)
The Bible is explicitly NOT blab-it and grab it, mount it and own it, name it and claim it.
Asking and receiving without lawlessness means hearing what God is inspiring you and telling you to want and ask for.
Examples of how to ask and receive:
Hey money, then ask for supernatural provision
Become a disciple of God's will, then ask for whatever you wish.
remain in my Word then you will be my disciples and you'll ask for what you wish and it will be given to you
We get where we ask for because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing to him
End Times
Prep
Disciple
Notes: Mat_6 = End Times
Prep
-- Under Construction --
The shield of
faith is putting 2 and 2 together. The Bible is not vague. Vagueness leads to
confusion. God is not the author of confusion. Wolves will come in and try to
rape the Scriptures by saying the Bible is vague and needs to be interpreted by
them. The wolves will usually be successful in raping those who do not know how
to obey the Scriptures.
If you say a
passage of Scripture is subject to interpretation then you are saying that the
Scriptures are not Lord. You can’t go to heaven while saying or implying that
the Scriptures are Not Lord. Whenever you hear a preacher saying something
about the Bible and it sounds vague, then that is not what the monotheistic
Lord is saying.
The Bible is
structured in such a way that you have to be spiritual and thinking about it
for a long time for you to truly understand it. Sir is teaching from a morality
way.
You have to cooperate
with His generosity to receive His benefits. You cannot oppose his character
and receive his benefits
You have to
give redemptive mercy in order to get redemptive mercy
Mat_5 give mercy get mercy
Mat_6 give mercy get rewarded and
Give forgiveness get forgiveness
if you see
continuity you get it, if you don’t see continuity you don’t get it
This is not
about nuclear disarmament. This is not a political gospel that makes you feel
good about your world or society. God does not love your world; He hates your
world and is going to destroy it. DO not love the world. The new covenant is
saving people not society.
He keeps
telling you to hate money, don’t love it. This is getting you ready to be ready
for the end times. After reading Mat_6 then go read
Rev_12
Tent of booth –
He keep saying
don’t worry, hate money because he is getting you ready to
The SOM is a
condense blast of Jesus’ most condense sayings which he repeats over and over
again
Example: if you
go to Luke you will hear him say no lights a lamp and puts it under a basket
then later he says no one lights a lamp and puts it into a hidden place. If you
are keeping up with him and
If you start
counting by 2s from Luke chapter 4 onward then every single 2s have a statement
about hating money and each of them expand on how to hate money and it explains
Mat_6. When you ready Mat_6 you
The word of God
is righteousness, and if you hunger and thirst for righteousness you will be
stuffed filled
For He is
getting you ready to be the people who will jump in the wilderness and get
supernatural provision so you can be those people in Revelation 12
This is the
vain that connects you to the Jewish feast tent of booths
We are not
Jewish so we are not required to do the physical
I need God to
give it to me not me fight for it for myself.
In exodus he
said let my people go so they may worship me in the Wilderness. He didn’t say
let them go so they can go to the promise land. He was memorializing making a
covenant with them and then taking them home “the promise land” afterwards.
Wilderness wondering is what prepares you to get married to God!!!!
What does it
mean to forsake all?
I gave up stuff
then God gives. If you don’t keep forsaking things then you can’t be his
disciple. You better have a good reason for why you have anything on the day of
judgement. The ultimate goal of everything in your house is to give it away.
Dying well is
better than being born well; you need to be thinking about how to get out of
here without being destroyed in the process.
The Lord’s
Prayer has seven commands. Why does God like the number 7? Because it has a
point to it, you have an even numbers on both sides and a 1 in the middle.
You should do
everything you can to start your prayers positively.
In the Lord’s
Prayer he does not teach you to start off prayer asking for forgiveness like
the Baptist do by default because they are always sinning. God does not intend
for you to always be sinning.
The Lord’s
Prayer starts off with 3 positive.
You name be holy-ified – this starts being
holy-ified when the 2 witness start plaguing the earth.
You
Kingdom come your will be done in the
Heaven so also upon the earth- The kingdom
starts coming when the devil gets thrown down. It is not in vain that he
mentioned the prophets of old because there is a sense you are like them and
you are supposed to be living a persecuted like.
He is
predicting
When you pray
your will be done that is at your expense like Jesus praying that in the garden
in agony
Revelation 11
is very focus on martyrdom
It is
connecting you with Israel’s past and its future
The 3 negatives
Forgive send
away our sin/ temptation
Don’t lead us
into temptation
Deliver us from
the devil himself
Right in the
middle – is asking for daily bread, like in the wilderness when they only
collected what was needed for that day and not extra for the next day. Don’t
worry about what you will eat or drink or what you will wear.
This is taught
more and expanded upon in Luke
In Acts people
were selling all they have and doing mercy.
How to live out
Acts 4 and 5 – which is obeying Luke 12 to sell your possession and give mercy
alms
And Luk_14:25-35 -
You have to get
discipleship (if available) to live it out
This is tying
in with you being a poor crouching beggar
When you are
rich you take care of yourself too much to prevent the oscillation of life, so
you don’t go through famine fasting and hunger. If you are trying to stop
yourself from the oscillation of life you are violating the SOM. In the
wilderness they had bread but they didn’t have meat. And when they demanded
meat they ate and died as lust mongers
SOM is teaching
us to trust Him like grass and to trust Him like birds, which means to you have
to be willing to hunger and fast. A person can make God happier than a bird and
grass of the field. Therefore He wants to do more provision to us than the
birds and the grass. He gives and He takes away, but blessed be the name of the
Lord. Like Job did
The creator
designed our body to fast. I trust God to bring me through abundance and
famine. I have learnt to be abase and abound
Most fleshly
people want to get over their traumatic seasons and times of scarcity but God memorialized
it and cherished it. He loves them trusting Him for their daily bread
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HATING MONEY
Sirach says 'alms dissolves your sins'
[Sirach 3; Sirach 4; Sirach 12; Sirach 29]
Jesus gives a parable about a man being forgiven like a million dollars but then he can't be merciful and give away like $1K to his fellow man. This in turn results in that man not ending up forgiven
Jesus says blessed are the merciful because they will receive mercy in Mat 5, and then in Mat 6 he gives illustrations (and fulfillments) of what giving mercies looks like (i.e. giving alms to the poor)
Therefore, forgiving people and giving away alms (money, riches, gifts that are not tithes) will cause you to be forgiven and mercied by Heaven
Mat 5 give mercy and get mercy
Mat 6 give mercy and get rewarded
Mat 6 give forgiveness and get forgiveness (forgive people and you get forgiven)
You can't earn your salvation. It's too expensive. But you do have to cooperate with his generosity. You cannot oppose his character AND receive his benefits.
Btw, whenever Bible verses seem very vague then that's because you're not treating those verses like a Lord
The Bible is very logical
It's just doesn't think like natural man thinks
And if you can read correlations then you might be having some sort of real understanding
But if you can't see how things relate then you don't understand
Forgiving people is not about nuclear disarmament
This is the New Covenant
This is not a political maneuver to save society
This is about saving individuals
Stop looking at society and trying to save it with a monotheistic gospel. The New Covenant has moved on. We are not doing that anymore right now. Instead God is "going to teach every man his neighbor"
Jesus spends half of Mat 6 (mercies, the Lord's prayer, and fastings) gearing you up to be the people of the end times wandering in the wilderness (who hate money and are not worried)
The children of Israel want to move on and get over that "traumatic time" of past scarcity in the wilderness. God held on to it, and cherished it, and memorialized it, and plans to do it yet again.
Revelation 12 is about the Feast of Booths
This is what’s being memorialized in the Sermon on the Mount
Jesus is seeking to get you ready to jump out of this worldly, frantic, money loving, anxiety ridden mess, and run to God in the wilderness to be provided for, awaiting your salvation which is near at hand.
Matt 6 is the road to the 2 witnesses, it is to connect you to Revelation 12
Even though we are not Jewish, but thank God he is connecting us, through Mat 6, to observe this spiritual phenomenon of the Feast of Booths
Btw, see how Moses focused on saying 'let my people go so that we can go worship God on the mountain'. He didn't focus on going to conquer the land of Canon but on that holy mountain. Why?? When you observe the feast of booths you are memorializing, not the conquest of canon, but the wilderness wanderings and that mountain where God makes a marriage covenant with them and prepares to bring them home into the promised land.
If you read Mat 6 and you understand what it's saying and why He keeps harping on don't worry, then you will have spiritual ears and eyes to see that he is getting you ready to learn to be provided for in the wilderness, and to pass the test unlike those who wandered in the wilderness the first time under the old covenant
Mat_4:4 and Luk_4:4 man will not live off of bread alone but in every word of God
Mat 6 he teaches to pray for your daily bread
From Luke 4-18, every 2 chapters says something significant about money. When you string these statements together then all of them help explain what Matthew is saying in Matthew 6
(Btw, the Sermon on the Mount is a condensed blast of Jesus' most famous sayings, which he replies on multiple occasions)
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Think like this- God will provide, God is the one who exalts, give and God will give
You need to connect to the right God because he's going to give you everything you need (a real, moral, useful need)
To be a disciple you need to be in a posture of continually giving and being given to by God
Don't try to hold on to anything, unless God gave it to you to temporarily steward
Once something becomes a treasure FOR YOURSELF then your soul is in danger
You better have a good reason before heaven of why you have what you have (do you have a real, moral, useful need of it?)
It's not the beginning of a better that is most glorious but the end of a matter. You need to be tailoring your life to get ready to jump into the wilderness.
You don't say I'm ready to start life now and be successful; you say I need to get a good exit strategy of this life. You need to be thinking about how to get out of this life and not get destroyed by luxury.
The Lord's prayer is referring to patterns that prepares us for the end times.
You're praying to live a spiritual representation of what's coming in the future.
The New Covenant people are supposed to be like the old covenant prophets.
One of the ways to be like the prophets is you're supposed to be living a gentile version (i.e. spiritual representation) of the Feast of Booths that predict the future. Predict the future by the spiritual hope that your living out.
Remember how God told certain prophets to lay on their sides and bear the sins of the people?
Jesus tells us to do some things that sound kind of weird, like hate money for example. You're participating in prophecy!
The Lord's prayer has 7 parts. It's an odd number, which is exactly what you need for a chiastic structure (a point in the middle and an even number of things on one side and an even number of things on another side). Why does God like the number 7? Because it has a point to it
Our Father the One in the heavens...
By default you should be starting off your day and your prayers positively (NOT negatively)! As positively as you can (unless of course here is a snarling dragon in your face (i.e. spiritual warfare).
Praying for God's name to be holified is praying for the power of the end times to come upon us.
Power starts coming before the arrival of the kingdom.
Your will be done- when you're praying "your will be done" this is at your expense. Remember Jesus in the garden, whether by life or death he insisted, through sweating drops of blood, that God's will be done. It's a sacrificial prayer, yielding the outcome to a faithful Creator.
Ask for your daily needs
And then afterwards you ask God to help you deal with the 3 negatives (our sins, our temptation, and the devil himself)
Again, the Lord's prayer prepares us for the end times:
Let your name be holified - this is indeed climatically fulfilled with the 2 witnesses
Your kingdom come- with power from people like the 2 witnesses
Your will be done- even at the expense of martyrdom. The book of Revelation is very focused on martyrdom
Give us this day our daily bread - he is connecting you in with the end times (the wilderness wanderings with manna). Conquer now the lust for here-n-now luxuries.
Deliver us from the perverted One; the devil himself - the end times is heavy with pressure from evil to deny the truth, sin, apostate, etc.
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For reciprocating riches:
Living out Acts 4 and 5
The New Covenant ideal dynamic is that the community has all things in common and no one said anything was their own. At the same time Peter does not helicopter people over this but rather he gives lawful room for the things that are yours/in your jurisdiction to be in your discretion. This shows that there is a strong emphasis on WILLINGNESS in this Covenant (willing cheerful "hilarious" giving -2 Cor_9:7)
It is our ambition to have the same conscience and to determine what luxury is.
You have to get discipleship where it's available, which includes obeying Luke 14 to forsake all, and Luke 12 to sell all and give alms. You do need to get discipleship to live all that out.
When you're rich you're taking care of yourself too much so that you can prevent the oscillations of life, so that you don't go through famine, fasting, and hunger. You just have this mentality of God up and stay up. You do not know who God is. And you're going to die a lust monger and be buried in the spiritual graves of lusts when you violate the Sermon on the Mount to not worry.
Trust him like grass. Trust him like birds. That includes a willingness to trust him in fasting and famine. The Psalms say he opens his hand and the animals are glad, and he closes it and they are troubled.
He gives and he takes away, but what are you supposed to do? Bless the name of the Lord.
The Creator designed our bodies to fast. Consider how the body knows how to convert fat to energy...
The Creator did not design us to eat and be full all the time. Doesn't nature itself teach you? You do not require a streak of "enoughness".
When you're learning to rejoice in what's good for you, that means you learn for your stomach to be hungry. The fleshball is grumpy and complains when their stomach is hungry.
The way that you get supernatural provision is by saying, "I’m ok to be without". If you live a life of luxury and always in abundance and taking care of yourself then why would God want to give you anything? Why would angels fight to bring anything to you?
He is really eager to reward us but we need to cooperate with his hand of provision.
The point is to put you in a posture of a poor crouching beggar.
Whatever He has not given me, I want to max out on whatever poverty I can.
Grow where you're planted and embrace wherever your poverty is.
You keep giving so that God keeps rescuing you.
You work hard. And you work for abundance to take care of other people, NOT to please yourself and live in comfort. You need to give heaven a reason to keep blessing you and proving for you.
No one would despise someone for spending money to buy a specialized vehicle to bring food and water to starving people in Africa. Well, your body is the most specialized equipment that exists. If you're going to use your body to help people, then know that your body is the most specialized equipment you can use. So spending money to make it functional for others is good. By default it is lawful to spend all you have to fix your body. It is also commendable to pluck out your own eyes to give to another (Galatians 3?). But in general, the Bible does support the principle of making yourself enabled to help other people.
Do take care of your body by default. Unless you are told otherwise.
He ate, he drank, and he got up to do righteousness (Jeremiah_22:15)
It's lawful and good and ordained by God to take care of yourself, and to eat and drink what you need, and then to get up and do righteousness.
…
9/2/24
Monday,
September 2nd 2024
Mon_8:27am
Been thinking
about End Times...
Thank you lord Sir
for special, privileged words into our ears yesterday!
Mon_8:35am
aww Thanks :+)
Mon_8:37am(edited)
Been thinking
about how to live as the prophets, who did prophetic things that spoke of the
future (like lying on their sides, or tying girdles around them, or eating
locusts & honey, etc.). And how we ourselves can now have a mentality that
prepares for & testifies of the wilderness, so that even if we ourselves
don't get to flee into the wilderness, we can be serving those who are up and
coming after us. And that's like the prophets too! Whose writings and actions
weren't serving themselves but for us now (1Pet_1:12). We also, either we're going to be
those who actually get to literally physically flee into the wilderness to the
mountain of God, or, even if we don't see all the fulfillments come upon us in
our lifetime, we can live to serve those after us; and our obedient prophetic
lives, with and without words, will still speak even after we're gone, and
testify and encourage those who will be, just like Abel whose life & blood
still speaks. And all of us, both the prophets before us, and us now, and those
to come, are not made perfect without each other.
Mon 11:00am
Yes that's
exciting : )
AlMon_1:39pm
= -)
Lord’s
“End-times” Prayer!
9/15/24
Disciple-Notes.htm#LordsEndtimesPrayer
If you don’t
hate money then you’re going to be like Lot’s wife.
Being fully
invested in what God is doing right now is what it means to bring fully loaded
faith.
Find out what
God is doing right now and be fully invested not like church people who sit
back and let the pastor do all the work. Church people are lazy and do not
involve themselves because their conscience know that is not what God is doing
right now, therefore it is empty and not worth investing in.
The Bible
commands you to be involve and bring something 1Co_12 and14
People who are
lazy in churchianity have a conscience that doesn’t believe what they are
doing, that is why they leave it to the pastor.
People who are
lazy in the context of being around the truth have a seared conscience.
You are
supposed to be living an inspired life, and this will take you into the end
times.
Live a
prophetic life to where you’re testifying of end times/
Live a
meaningful life by knowing what God is currently doing, and be fully persuaded
(like Hebrews says – carrying fully loaded faith), and be fully invested in the
monotheism that God is doing upon the earth.
Your life is
meaningful when you’re doing what God is doing.
When God makes
a woman pregnant out of wedlock then you want to be Mariam or Elizabeth, etc
When he is
about to bring a flood then you want to be Noah chopping away on the ark.
When God is
upgrading his covenant terms then you want to be the apostles announcing and
writing down His new and revealed oracles.
If He is
multiplying food then you want his to take your fish.
If you propose
something and we find that it is accurately describing the universe or the
world or the bible, etc, then because it is a theory of everything we put it to
the test and see if it can predict what we don’t see.
If you keep
putting something up against a test, and that test keeps working, then you are
scientifically required to believe its “true”
If you describe
it accurately, then you will be able to predict accurately, and thus you will
be able to prescribe accurately.
End times
references
Mat_6:9 asking for Gods name and reputation to
be redeemed
We are in an apostasy,
and Gods name does need to be holy-ified. Therefore you are requesting that
something happens in the future. And for us, it only climactically happens in
the end times.
God’s name was
holy-ified in the early church. But especially since Catholic type influences
Gods name has been blasphemed. And we don’t get any indication that Gods name
will be redeemed until Revelation 11
2Pe_2:2 – the way of Truth will be blasphemed
Therefore Gods
reputation needs to be redeemed, and that’s what the Lord’s prayer is
requesting.
V10
Your kingdom
come – that only happens one time. Think, Revelation. Directly after the 2
witnesses are demanding repentance and such, Gods kingdom comes.
V11
Daily bread ≈
manna, which happened in the wilderness
V13
Being rescued
from the Devil climatically happens in the end times
V16
Fasting which
no doubt climatically happens in the wilderness
And don’t
forget that 2 chapters previous to Matt 6 Jesus was in the wilderness and
fasting and there was a discussion about bread. Jesus was praying that the
Father would provide bread.
In the
wilderness the devil tempts Jesus to turn the stones into bread. “If you are
the son of God…” – the devil was tempting Jesus based on his own independent
divinity. He didn’t say, “if you trust God…”. He said “if you are the son of
God…”. He’s tempting Jesus to step out and take matters into your own hands and
act independent of what God wants to do at that time. The devil points things
to Jesus, but Jesus points things to God. Jesus dies to bread and then he
teaches us to point to God and puts things back in God’s hand by saying ‘You
Father gives us our daily bread’. And then angels came and ministered to him.
You fast, God
provides. And that’s how you get supernatural provision.
When you don’t fast
then you are relying on the power of money and wealth to get by.
The preceding
authoritarian governing context…
If you do the
true fast, mentioned in Isa_58, it includes
giving your bread to the poor, doing justice, breaking yoke, etc. All of which
Matt 4 and such highlights. And THEN the Lord will shine on you and provide.
If you do
enough secret fasting then you will participate in the corporate fast of
jumping out of the harlot and being in the wilderness in the end times.
V19
Don’t arrange away
and store up treasures for yourself on the dirt. Don’t take valuables and put
it on dirt. If you don’t pile up stuff on dirt then it does not get dirty.
If you build
anything in Egypt then you’re going to lose it. Because Egypt is paralleled
with Sodom
The fact that
the children of Israel were detached from Egypt then their very sandals didn’t
wear out. They were not attached to the land. They were wandering on the desert
land. And because they were detached from Egypt, their sandals didn’t wear out.
The moth and the rust didn’t destroy. This is a supernatural provision context.
Over and over
in Revelation it is teaching that there is homelessness for the righteous. They
dismount and are not allowed to attach to the land.
If you leave
Egypt then your very sandals are going to experience supernatural provision.
The land is
defiled by innumerable, immeasurable injustices that have soaked into the
earth. And it cries out against men. The defilement of the land oozes out and
envelopes all the possessions and such of men, and corrodes it. Don’t be
lustful and foolish and cleave to this stuff! But if you detach yourself then
you set yourself up for supernatural provision, and for eating from God’s
garden when he causes “the desert to blossom”
Individually
fast and forsake all now so that you can corporately forsake all later and be
provided for as the people of God. Do your part now so that you can be counted
worthy to participate & inherit with his people later.
…
The pessimism
against the land in Mat_6: ≈ The
pessimism against the land when the righteous are detached from it in the end
times in Rev_11 – 12
Supernatural Provision And Not Worrying Has A Governing
Context...
· Good Father: good gifts that a father gives to his children, not bad gifts that a pervert lusts to give themselves
· Vulnerable grass and animals: you are provided for based on a seemingly random schedule that ends up working out to exactly what you need, and submissively allows seasons of drought and fasting so that you are cooperating with testing and the proof that you're going to believe god to provide for you
· Making sure you're guaranteed to always be stable, based on the power of money and this life, with a steady constant amount of abundance disqualifies you from looking like the animals and the grass which god gives whenever and whatever he wants
· When you do so much to guarantee your uninterrupted abundance, you are worrying, and you do love money, and you are disqualifying yourself from supernatural provision
· Being diligent to take care of needs, especially those of others, is very biblical. But sinning in overworked effort and worry, neglecting things like prayer and virtue, in order to do make everything work for you, disqualifies you from god helping you complete that mission
· Continuously guaranteeing your own success at the expense of any virtue threatens your moral success, and puts you on a path to not get supernatural provision
· Establishing a system that keeps providing for needs is very honorable, like a self-sustaining community with a garden that grows food to feed everyone but still depends upon god to give rain and provision and harvest and bountiful success and to deliver them through drought and trials
· Doing things to make sure that you expect to have what you and others need is biblical, but doing things to make sure you have more than you need is not biblical
· Doing things so that you can work and produce the things you need is biblical, but doing things so that you have more than you need and don't have to keep working is not biblical
· The closest things to retirement are: being supported by the assembly, which means that you are working hard in the word and teaching, or else you are a widow who is above 60 and has proven a track record of good works and can be supported because of her continued value and contributions toward the assembly (1 timothy 3; 1st timothy 5)
· Hating money means you do not like the finer things of this life, much less would you ask for the things of luxury and indulgence!
· The point of hating money is to be poor in spirit, to have an attitude of begging, so make sure you start there just like The Sermon on the Mount does
Homelessness Required for Salvation in the end times!
Homelessness Required! -- In the end times
for all disciples
12/15/24; 12/28/24 (Isa_32)
-- Under Construction --
Parable of the Minas
Luke_19:13 - occupy
until I come
Greek: pragmatize (imperative command,
done to yourself - at least formally, in a middle deponent)
see: G1281 > MLJS
AMGL: [in LXX: 1Ki_10:22 B, 1Ki_9:19 A (H2836), Da LXX Dan_8:27 (H4399־H853
H6213) *;]
Even though this could be misconstrued to
suggest that Jesus wanted you to occupy houses until he came that's not what
the actual Greek says and besides the technicalities of Greek the preceding
authoritative governing context in passages like Luke 9 and Luke 14 explicitly
teach leaving all of your possessions when embracing the ultimate crucifixion
and self-denial...
…
See: Isa_32 herein!
Isa_32:14 WEB For the palace will be
forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will
be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
Isa_32:14 As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall
abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses; and the villages shall
be caves forever, the joy of wild donkeys, shepherds' pastures;
Isa_32:14 οἶκοι ἐγκαταλελειμμένοι
πλοῦτον πόλεως
καὶ οἴκους ἐπιθυμητοὺς
ἀφήσουσιν· καὶ
ἔσονται αἱ κῶμαι
σπήλαια ἕως τοῦ
αἰῶνος, εὐφροσύνη
ὄνων ἀγρίων,
βοσκήματα
ποιμένων,
Isa_32:15 WEB Until the Spirit is poured on us from
on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field is considered a forest.
Isa_32:15 until the
Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Carmel shall be desert, and Carmel
shall be counted for a forest.
Isa_32:15 ἕως ἂν ἐπέλθῃ
ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς πνεῦμα
ἀφ᾿ ὑψηλοῦ. καὶ
ἔσται ἔρημος ὁ
Χερμελ, καὶ ὁ
Χερμελ εἰς
δρυμὸν λογισθήσεται.
Isa_32:16 WEB Then justice
will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the
fruitful field.
Isa_32:16 Then judgment shall abide in the wilderness, and
righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.
Isa_32:16 καὶ ἀναπαύσεται
ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ κρίμα,
καὶ δικαιοσύνη
ἐν τῷ Καρμήλῳ
κατοικήσει·
Amo_6:8 WEB "The Lord
Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I
abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I
will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
Amo_6:8 For the Lord has sworn by Himself, saying, “Because I abhor
all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will
cut off his city with all who inhabit it.
Amo_6:8 ὅτι ὤμοσεν
κύριος καθ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ
Διότι βδελύσσομαι
ἐγὼ πᾶσαν τὴν ὕβριν
Ιακωβ καὶ τὰς χώρας
αὐτοῦ μεμίσηκα,
καὶ ἐξαρῶ πόλιν
σὺν πᾶσιν τοῖς
κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν·
Giving -- in General
Personal Property Exists
The Biblical Reality of Private Property, and why it should be
given voluntarily!
God love a cheerful giver
And it turns out that this special Love (and
particular) from God particularly ties into the fact that He has legitimately
given certain things to certain people in this life for them to own and be
ultimately judged by their stewardship of them.
I have given mount Seir to Edom
-- Under Construction --
It should go without saying that the Bible
is of course not supportive of social communism or just about anything like
that. For example, communism is traditionally atheistic for a reason. - It is
pagan and liberal and there's nothing like that in the entire bible.
Nevertheless, people that don't read the
Bible often try to confuse living in community with Communism, which are
actually quite contradictory and opposed to each other.
But for the sake of opposing the Stark
ignorance and illiteracy and moral foolishness of our outrageous age sometimes
we have to go back to the basics and just establish simple realities...
There is a basic sentiment of working and
gaining progress and there is a basic lamentation of when someone else is a stranger
to your hope and takes the goods that you work for...
stranger's feast on your labors
Notice that it's a curse and a sorrowful
tragedy when someone is strange and takes the goods that you worked for. This
is what some liberal societies want to institutionalize and have destroyed
human dignity and basic human morality of working and making progress.
Gideon was hiding in the threshing floor
And even when there is righteous community
it is blessed beyond anything some nasty liberal could ever dream of...
Voluntary Giving is the Rule of Private Property
No one said that his possessions were his
own
But we can see very easily that this is
anti-communistic…
When it was yours couldn't you do whatever
you wanted with it?
Therefore (as we already said)…
God love a cheerful giver
This is voluntary community and in its
core essence has nothing to do with socially enforced communism by perverted
liberal human hating monstrous empires.
These are the real principles of real
community with serious blessings that the flesh is never daydreamed of and this
is the real solution that eliminates poverty among the societies who
voluntarily submit themselves to the truth and live in clean intentional
community.
Giving Money Can Save
· Act 10 – Cornelius
· Zacchaeus (i.e. today salvation has come to this house)
· 2Co 8 – 9 – (as documented in the Favor Of God Bible study)
Giving is a blessed way* to express you hateful unblelief against money!
(Act_20:35 – more blessed to give than receive)
Other Examples Include
· Tobit
· And many others…
We look forward to continually adding examples here
The Point: If you hate money as Jesus commanded, then it is easy to give whenever it is right to give.
Give Until You’re Not Rich
You Can’t Be Too Rich When Continuously Giving and Opposing Luxury
Psa_112:9/2Co_9:9 – He has scattered abroad is righteousness endures forever
Luk_3:11 – He who has two coats Give to him who has none
If Poor People Remain, Wealth for Yourself is
Endangered (If you’re Generous/Saved)
Deu_15:11 – Moses said the poor will always be in your midst
Mat_26:11 – You will always have the poor among you
Deu_15:11 NKJV For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.'
οὐ γὰρ μὴ
ἐκλίπῃ ἐνδεὴς ἀπὸ
τῆς γῆς διὰ τοῦτο
ἐγώ σοι ἐντέλλομαι
ποιεῖν τὸ ῥῆμα
τοῦτο λέγων ἀνοίγων
ἀνοίξεις τὰς
χεῖράς σου τῷ ἀδελφῷ
σου τῷ πένητι
καὶ τῷ ἐπιδεομένῳ
τῷ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
σου
Mat_26:11 NKJV For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always.
πάντοτε
γὰρ τοὺς πτωχοὺς
ἔχετε μεθ' ἑαυτῶν,
ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ
πάντοτε ἔχετε.
There is an expectation of consistent poor people, and since there will always be those who lack, the continual need to equalize funds, by default, can easily preoccupy a rich person until he is depleted
Luk_14:25-35
Rich Young Ruler
Php_3:8 – Count All as Lost
Php_3:8 NKJV Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish [NIV: garbage], that I may gain Christ
ἀλλὰ
μενοῦνγε καὶ ἡγοῦμαι
πάντα ζημίαν εἶναι
διὰ τὸ ὑπερέχον
τῆς γνώσεως
Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ
τοῦ κυρίου μου,
δι' ὃν τὰ πάντα ἐζημιώθην,
καὶ ἡγοῦμαι
σκύβαλα, ἵνα
Χριστὸν
κερδήσω
Rom_12:13 -- give to needs of the Holy Ones
Rom_12:13 NKJV Distributing to the needs of
the saints, given to hospitality.
ταῖς
χρείαις τῶν ἁγίων
κοινωνοῦντες,
τὴν
φιλοξενίαν
διώκοντες."
1Ti_6:17-19 – ready to share
Rich church people testify that other church people throughout the world are not their serious brothers and sisters
1Jn_3:17-18
1Jn_3:17-18 NKJV But whoever has this world's
goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does
the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in
tongue, but in deed and in truth.
ὃς δ' ἂν ἔχῃ
τὸν βίον τοῦ
κόσμου καὶ
θεωρῇ τὸν ἀδελφὸν
αὐτοῦ χρείαν ἔχοντα
καὶ κλείσῃ τὰ
σπλάγχνα αὐτοῦ
ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, πῶς ἡ ἀγάπη
τοῦ θεοῦ μένει ἐν
αὐτῷ; Τεκνία, μὴ
ἀγαπῶμεν λόγῳ
μηδὲ τῇ γλώσσῃ ἀλλ'
ἐν ἔργῳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ
There are many…
Phm_1:9 – Philemon I rather exhort you for love’s sake [i.e. ...to forgive any debt]
Phm_1:8-10 NKJV Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting, yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ— I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains," Greek:
Διὸ πολλὴν
ἐν Χριστῷ
παρρησίαν ἔχων
ἐπιτάσσειν
σοι τὸ ἀνῆκον
διὰ τὴν ἀγάπην
μᾶλλον
παρακαλῶ, τοιοῦτος
ὢν ὡς Παῦλος
πρεσβύτης νυνὶ
δὲ καὶ δέσμιος
Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ,
παρακαλῶ σε
περὶ τοῦ ἐμοῦ
τέκνου, ὃν ἐγέννησα
ἐν τοῖς δεσμοῖς,
Ὀνήσιμον
Phm_1:18-19 – if he owes you anything out it on my account
Phm_1:18-19 NKJV But if he has wronged you or owes anything, put that on my account. I, Paul, am writing with my own hand. I will repay—not to mention to you that you owe me even your own self besides.
Give to Family
We all know you’re supposed to give to your family
1Ti_5:8 – neglector of family = worse than an unbeliever
Unbeliever (1Ti_5:8) ≈ ‘you being evil have seen how to give good things to your children’ (Mat_7:11)
Mat_7:11 NKJV If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who
ask Him!
Mat_7:11 SBL ἐὰν οὖν ὑμεῖς,
πονηροί ὄντες,
οἴδατε δὲ ὅτι ἀγαθὰ
δῶρα δίδοτε τοῖς
τέκνοις ὑμῶν,
πόσος μᾶλλον ὁ
Πατὴρ ὁ ἐν τοῖς
οὐρανοῖς
δώσει ἀγαθὰ τῶν
αἰτουμένων αὐτόν.
Therefore, Paul can easily say that neglecting your family makes you “worse” than an unbeliever,
since even evil people know how to give to their family, therefore, neglecting them is even more evil than an evil person.
Generous Pagans
Giving Can Save, but it Might Not
(Remembers)
· Pagans know how to Give to Family, but they are still evil, lost, and on their way to hell.
· So even though Giving Money Can Save, it can also fail to save you, whenever you remain principally sinful and do not allow virtue and Truth to save you through it.
· Giving in Truth Saves, but Accidentally Giving without choosing Truth and Virtue only helps you in this life, and not unto the salvation of the next life.
Benefits & Limitations of Generous Pagans
· Generosity is one of the few things that delays America being destroyed (in addition to accidentally helping some Jews feel blessed by supporting the nation of Israel)
· Obeying part of the Judeo-Christian ethic allows you to enter into some of the favor that makes god patient toward humans
· God's patient favor can be accessed through generosity, however if you're still committing other sins like sexual crimes and indulging in personal wealth you can be sure that your sins are stacking up against you even in the midst of god's patience toward you and your abundance and prospering
· Pagans can be circumstantially blessed for accidentally doing good to poor people in the midst of their pursuits
· Be sure that pagans do not have the right people in mind when they are attempting to be generous and failing to be moral and clean
· All of the virtues of pagans are accidental in the end, even if they extend favor and patience from heaven because of the objective good results for other people that might accidentally happen
· If you access God's favor and are benefited with God's patience yet you are still committing sexual crimes then you can be sure your sins are stacking up in the midst of god's extended long suffering and patience that you've accessed accidentally by partial participation in the blessings of monotheism that is powerfully been made famous throughout the whole world
The Real Saving Answer for Generous Pagans
Pure reverence is to visit the widows in
their affliction and to keep oneself unspotted by the world
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice
Don’t Give to the Rich
-- Under Construction --
Sirach
See: Sirach 3; Sirach 4; Sirach 12; Sirach 29
The Righteousness of “Scattering”
--
Under Construction
--
How are the Rich Saved?
--
Under Construction --
Where to Give All Your Money?
Righteous Savings?
3. “Giving Restrictions” in the Epistles
-- Under Construction --
4. Should I Give or Not?
-- Under Construction --
5. Always Avoid Going to Court
-- Under Construction --
Matthew 5 & Luke 6 Context
Matthew five can be understood more specifically in light of Sirach*, which Jesus seems to have
in mind** when enacting
these commandments:
Sirach 3; Sirach 4; Sirach 12; Sirach 29
Don’t Turn
Away…
and compare:
Sir_29:9 [Greek: "μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς"]
with:
Mat_5:42 [Greek: "μὴ ἀποστραφῇς"]
See: Sirach 3; Sirach 4; Sirach 12;
Sirach 29
Because the command is the exact same wording in Sirach and Matthew (“don't
turn away”), and the context is the same context of giving, Jesus can be
understood to be referencing and or quoting Sir_4:1-6, 8 and Sir_29:9, when commanding “not to turn away,” and it is
clear that this command is addressed toward the truly “poor.”
We can further show a link between Sir_29 and Jesus’ Words because,
in a number of other places in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus seems to
consistently and directly follow this same chapter from Sirach with the moral
themes and repeated patterns that He brings up. Compare these passages:
Sirach 3;
Sirach 4;
Sirach 12;
Sirach 29
Give to Everyone Who Asks
Mat 5 does say...
· Let the government or police abuse you, and still give them more
· Let malicious people steal from you
Mat 5 does not say...
· Give to everyone WHEN they ask
· Give them WHAT they ask for
· That you must give fake beggars what they don't deserve (that would be the opposite of "don't turn away" / defraud) or
· that you should Participate in their deception when a rich person is trying to lie to you to get money
Give to the Right People
Why to Give & What to Give to
12/11/21; 12/14/21; 12/20/21
-- Under Construction --
2Co_8:1-3 – Paul told the Corinthians about the generosity of other churches
“Lay Up
Treasure”
Sir_29:10-13 – Mat_6:19-21
Critical Cross References
1Ti_5:8
Pro_6:8
Compare Joseph Saving Egypt from Famine, with,
Act_11:28
1Co_16:1-2 [θησαυριζων]
And Previously,
“Alms”
Sir_29:12-13 – Mat_6:1-4
3:27-28 in CAB>>
This, “do not turn away”/ “do not defraud” command is found nowhere in
the protestant Bible. But not only is it quoted in the SOM, but it also pops up
again in Mark’s account of the rich young ruler
Mat_5:42 CAB Give [δίδου (same as Sir_4:3, Sir_4:5)] to the one asking [αἰτοῦντί] you, and to *the one desiring to borrow from you [* τὸν θέλοντα ἀπὸ σοῦ δανείσασθαι], do not turn away [μὴ ἀποστραφῇς].
Mat_5:42 Greek τῷ αἰτοῦντί σε δίδου καὶ τὸν θέλοντα ἀπὸ σοῦ δανείσασθαι μὴ ἀποστραφῇς.
Mar_10:19 CAB You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not commit murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' [μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς] 'Honor your father and your mother.' "
Sirach 3
30 Water quenches [ἀποσβέσει] ·a flaming fire
[πῦρ
φλογιζόμενον –
fig. a blazing fire (NETS)], and alms [ἐλεημοσύνη – lit.
mercies; fig. alms (as in Mat_6); NETS: charity] ·atone for [ἐξιλάσεται] sins [v 3, 14-15,
30-31].
31 ·He who does a kindness
is remembered afterward
[ὁ ἀνταποδιδοὺς
χάριτας μέμνηται
εἰς τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα
– NETS: He who repays favors gives thought to what comes after; Br: And
he that requiteth good turns is mindful of that which may come hereafter];11 [[ Sir_3:31] LXX / Heb(A)
“The kindness a person does crossed his path as he goes”]
when [καὶ ἐν καιρῷ] he falls, he finds [εὑρήσει] a support [στήριγμα].
Sirach 4
Sir_4:1-8 Brenton My son, defraud not [μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς] the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long [μὴ παρελκύσῃς]. 2 Make not an hungry soul sorrowful [μὴ λυπήσῃς]; neither provoke [μὴ παροργίσῃς] a man in his distress. 3 Add not more trouble [μὴ προσταράξῃς] to an heart that is vexed; and defer not [μὴ παρελκύσῃς] to give [δόσιν (same as Mat_5:42)] to him that is in need. 4 Reject not [μὴ ἀπαναίνου] the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away [μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς] thy face from a poor man. 5 Turn not away [μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς] thine eye from [ἀπὸ] the needy, and give him none [μὴ δῷς (same as Mat_5:42)] occasion to curse thee: 6 For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul, his prayer shall be heard of him that made him… 8 Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly [εἰρηνικὰ – peaceable – i.e. the same “peacemaker” wording Jesus used] answer with meekness.
Sir_4:1-8 Greek Τέκνον,
τὴν ζωὴν τοῦ
πτωχοῦ μὴ ἀποστερήσῃς καὶ μὴ
παρελκύσῃς ὀφθαλμοὺς
ἐπιδεεῖς. 2 ψυχὴν
πεινῶσαν μὴ
λυπήσῃς καὶ μὴ
παροργίσῃς ἄνδρα
ἐν ἀπορίᾳ αὐτοῦ. 3 καρδίαν
παρωργισμένην
μὴ προσταράξῃς
καὶ μὴ παρελκύσῃς
δόσιν προσδεομένου. 4 ἱκέτην
θλιβόμενον μὴ ἀπαναίνου
καὶ μὴ
ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ
πρόσωπόν σου ἀπὸ
πτωχοῦ. 5 ἀπὸ δεομένου
μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς ὀφθαλμὸν
καὶ μὴ δῷς τόπον
ἀνθρώπῳ καταράσασθαί
σε· 6 καταρωμένου
γάρ σε ἐν πικρίᾳ
ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ τῆς
δεήσεως αὐτοῦ ἐπακούσεται
ὁ ποιήσας αὐτόν…
8 κλῖνον
πτωχῷ τὸ οὖς
σου καὶ ἀποκρίθητι
αὐτῷ εἰρηνικὰ ἐν
πραύ>τητι.
Sirach 12
Sir_12:1 If you do good, know for whom you are doing it,
and your kindness will have its effect.
2 Do good to the righteous man and
reward will be yours, if not from him, from Yahweh.6 [6 [Sir12:2] most
LXX “from the Most High” / LXX(O), Lat “from the Lord” / Syr “from his Lord”]
3 No good comes to him who gives comfort to the wicked, nor is it an act of mercy that he does.
4 Give to the good man, refuse the sinner.
5 Refresh the downtrodden, give nothing to the proud.
Do not give him arms for combat,
lest he use them against yourself;
for you
will receive twice as much
evil in time of need7 [7 [Sir12:5] LXX /
Heb(A), Syr add]
for every good deed you do for him.
6 The Most High8 [8 [Sir12:6] LXX / Heb(A) “. God”] himself hates sinners,
and
he inflicts punishment upon the wicked. and he
keeps them for the day of vengeance.9 [9 [Sir12:6] LXX(II) adds]
Give to the pious man,
but refuse the
sinner.10 [10 [Sir12:7] LXX adds]
>> comp. Jesus: a righteous man’s reward
Sirach 29
Sir_29:1-28 KJVA He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour;
and he that strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments. 2 Lend
to thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due
season. 3 Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with
him, and thou shalt always find the thing that is necessary for thee. 4 Many,
when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble
that helped them. 5 Till
he hath received, he will kiss a man's hand; and for his neighbour's money he
will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and
return words of grief, and complain of the time. 6 If
he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will count as if he had
found it: if not, he hath deprived him of his money, and he hath gotten him an
enemy without cause: he payeth him with cursings and railings; and for honour
he will pay him disgrace. 7 Many
therefore have refused to lend for other men's ill
dealing, fearing to be defrauded.
8 Yet
have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and
delay not to shew him mercy.
9 Help
the poor for the commandment's sake, and turn him not
away because of his poverty.
10 Lose
thy money for thy brother and thy friend, and let it
not rust under a stone to be lost. 11 Lay
up thy treasure according to the commandments of the
most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold. 12 Shut
up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee
from all affliction. 13 It
shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a mighty shield and
strong spear. 14 An
honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent will forsake
him. 15 Forget not the friendship of thy surety,
for he hath given his life for thee. 16 A
sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety: 17 And
he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him in danger that delivered him. 18 Suretiship
hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them as a wave of the sea: mighty
men hath it driven from their houses, so that they wandered among strange
nations. 19 A wicked man transgressing the commandments
of the Lord shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth
other men's business for gain shall fall into suits. 20 Help
thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that thou thyself fall not
into the same. 21 The
chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing, and an house to cover
shame. 22 Better is the life of a poor man in a mean
cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house. 23 Be
it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy
house. 24 For it is a miserable life to go from house
to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth. 25 Thou
shalt entertain, and feast, and have no thanks: moreover thou shalt hear bitter
words: 26 Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table,
and feed me of that thou hast ready. 27 Give
place, thou stranger, to an honourable man; my brother cometh to be lodged, and
I have need of mine house.
28 These
things are grievous to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of houseroom, and
reproaching of the lender.
Sirach
Side Notes
* Sirach is one of
the Wisdom books (much like Proverbs) in the so-called “Apocryphal
Books”. Remember: the question
is not “IF” Jesus read the
Apocrypha (being a Jew), but what attitude He had toward it when reading it. We
should already know that all Jews had the Apocrypha as part of their official
Old Testament, the Greek Septuagint (LXX).
** If you need help understanding
some of the things in Sirach chapter 29, you can contact me. (Some things are not stated or translated clearly).
Pro_10:4 WEB He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
Pro_10:4 LB Poverty brings a man low, but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant.
Pro_10:4 πενία ἄνδρα
ταπεινοῖ, χεῖρες
δὲ ἀνδρείων
πλουτίζουσιν.
υἱὸς πεπαιδευμένος σοφὸς ἔσται, τῷ δὲ ἄφρονι διακόνῳ χρήσεται.
So, if someone becomes poor because they are lazy, are they really poor in spirit?
Don’t Store up for Yourselves…
2Co_6:10 CAB as sorrowful [λυπούμενοι], yet [δὲ] always [ἀεὶ] rejoicing [χαίροντες]; as poor [ὡς πτωχοὶ], ·yet making many rich [πολλοὺς δὲ πλουτίζοντες]; as having nothing [ὡς μηδὲν ἔχοντες], ·and yet [καὶ] possessing all things [πάντα κατέχοντες].
2Co_6:10 ὡς
λυπούμενοι ἀεὶ
δὲ
χαίροντες, ὡς
πτωχοὶ
πολλοὺς δὲ
πλουτίζοντες,
ὡς μηδὲν ἔχοντες
καὶ πάντα κατέχοντες.
Preparation
Jos_1:11 WEB "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.' "
Jos_1:11 “Go into the midst of the camp of the people, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions; for yet three days and you shall go over this Jordan, entering in to take possession of the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives to you.’”
Jos_1:11 Εἰσέλθατε
κατὰ μέσον τῆς
παρεμβολῆς τοῦ
λαοῦ καὶ ἐντείλασθε
τῷ λαῷ λέγοντες
Ἑτοιμάζεσθε ἐπισιτισμόν,
ὅτι ἔτι τρεῖς ἡμέραι
καὶ ὑμεῖς
διαβαίνετε τὸν
Ιορδάνην τοῦτον
εἰσελθόντες
κατασχεῖν τὴν
γῆν, ἣν κύριος ὁ
θεὸς τῶν πατέρων
ὑμῶν δίδωσιν ὑμῖν.
Give To Everyone?
How To
Give To The One Who Begs &
Steals
3/7/18; 3/19/18; 10/5/24
>> compare: TOC
Disclaimer:
I have wrestled
with how much to give away for my entire spiritual life...
by the way, this is
the faith that we are following... (I would like to introduce you to our faith)
consider the actual
preceding authoritative context: Sirach 4; Sirach 29
Jesus is
specifically giving an update...
to what degree is
Jesus quoting from and encouraging Sirach, and to what degree is he updating it
and the law?
how does this
affect eBay returns?
don't demand it
back....
you got to be
willing to suffer if you take this standard!
the funds of the
assembly are different
1tim
if early disciples
kept giving things away to everyone who asked them, how did none among them
have any needs?
maybe this is what
Jesus wanted after all that we should live in community where funds belong to
everyone...
Paul sarcastically
mocks the Corinthians for allowing bully religious false apostles to strike
them on the cheek....
how do the rich
make it into the Kingdom? what is the gospel to the rich?
Moses forsook the
treasures of Egypt to suffer nasty evil with the children of God...
if anyone complains
about Jesus' standards there is always the answer that rich people were not
provided a direct way or gospel to begin with anyway for this new Covenant...
so how do we
actually sustain this mentality and heart posture, and how do we make any
progress or succeed at all in life?
we could think that
we have to insist on everything being provided for and done right, even for the
sake of Safety...
but living like
Jesus commanded requires us to be willing to be exposed to hardship
continually, and danger, and hard work, and contradiction, and to do it all
with favorable Thanksgiving and rejoicing joy...
notice how the success
of the father was not restricted by giving his money to the prodigal son...
without
contradicting the open posture of giving, here are some things to take
advantage of to navigate and survive our culture:
·
there
are at least two types of giving: showing Mercy to one who is in need, and,
letting people steal from you
·
you
are commanded to do both types of giving in The Sermon on the Mount
·
you
are not commanded, however, to let someone deceive you or to play along with
lies and games
·
if
someone steals, then you let them steal
·
if
someone is in need, you cheerfully give
·
if
someone lies and deceives in the name of sympathy, you don't play along with
deception (i.e. most Beggars and homeless people)
·
if
someone is being deceptive, look for ways to expose their deception like Jesus
did
·
if
indeed they are begging and in need, then they will happily sit there and wait
for you to think of the best way you might be able to help them
·
ploy
of deceiving con artist is always to find some confusing complicated reason why
you absolutely have to give them money right now really quickly
·
whenever
it's in a rush, don't help
·
whenever
people can't wait, don't help
·
whenever
people are in a rush and the only way to help them is to give the money right
now, just about never help
·
if
you offer them food, and they are so proud and audacious to specify the means
by which you are supposed to help them, then they are not begging, they are
lying
·
Jesus
never commanded to let perverts dictate to you how you should help them, he
said to give
·
if
you think of a better way to help them then the perversion they are trying to
deceive you with, then it is your prerogative to be wiser than their foolish
perversion and wicked deception
·
inconvenience
a rich person who is pretending to be poor and he will almost always go away
·
make
a liar wait, and he will usually run away from you
·
see
if he will listen, and if he talks, he is not begging you, nor stealing from
you, he is trying to deceive you
·
do
giving, not deception
be willing to give,
and be willing to let people steal, but at the same time, I do not know that
you should automatically go around advertising what you are and are not willing
to do... although, if you have an answer then preach it from the rooftops!
...
because of these values,
I seek to not carry too much cash in my wallet, remembering that I may need to
Simply Give It Away freely...
does this mean that
you should go "2 miles" with someone to the bank if someone asks you
to give what is in their Bank?
should you give away
your house if someone asks you?
...
on the other hand,
maybe this is a potential limit for rich people trying to overexploit you:
inconvenience them with the biblical requirement (at least from the implied
cultural context) that they must walk two miles to the bank with you before you
give them anything? (could this be appropriate in certain cases or is that just
stretching it?)
Evil Eye – Giving/ SOM Summary
From Deu_15:9-10 through Proverbs to Matthew -- the Bible has a consistent theology about Evil and good eyes.
Deu_15:9 WEB Beware that
there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of
release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against
your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to
Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deu_15:9 CAB Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart—an iniquity, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is approaching.’ And your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in need [καὶ πονηρεύσηται ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου], and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you.
Deu_15:9 πρόσεχε
σεαυτῷ μὴ γένηται
ῥῆμα κρυπτὸν ἐν
τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, ἀνόμημα,
λέγων Ἐγγίζει
τὸ ἔτος τὸ ἕβδομον,
ἔτος τῆς ἀφέσεως,
καὶ πονηρεύσηται
ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου
τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου τῷ
ἐπιδεομένῳ, καὶ
οὐ δώσεις αὐτῷ,
καὶ βοήσεται
κατὰ σοῦ πρὸς κύριον,
καὶ ἔσται ἐν σοὶ
ἁμαρτία μεγάλη
Deu_15:10 WEB You shall surely give
him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for
this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you
put your hand to.
Deu_15:10 You shall surely give to him, and you shall lend to him as much as he wants, according as he is in need. And you shall not grudge in your heart as you give to him, because on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your works, and in all things on which you shall lay your hand.
Deu_15:10 διδοὺς δώσεις
αὐτῷ καὶ δάνειον
δανιεῖς αὐτῷ ὅσον
ἐπιδέεται, καὶ
οὐ λυπηθήσῃ τῇ
καρδίᾳ σου διδόντος
σου αὐτῷ· ὅτι
διὰ τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο
εὐλογήσει σε κύριος
ὁ θεός σου ἐν πᾶσιν
τοῖς ἔργοις καὶ
ἐν πᾶσιν, οὗ ἂν ἐπιβάλῃς
τὴν χεῖρά σου.
Evil Eye (MT) Hastens After
Riches/Wealth
Pro_28:22 NKJV A man with an evil eye [WEB: stingy man] hastens [WEB: hurries] after riches, and does not consider that poverty will come upon him [WEB: doesn't know that poverty waits for him].
Pro_28:22 אִ֭ישׁ
רַ֣ע עַ֭יִן
יְבַהֵ֣ל הוֹ֑ן
וְלֹֽא־יֵדַ֥ע
כִּי־חֶֽסֶר
יְבֹאֶֽנּוּ׃
Pro_28:22 / Pro_30:22 CAB/LB An envious man makes haste to be rich, and does not know that
the merciful man shall have mastery over him.
Pro_28:22 σπεύδει
πλουτεῖν ἀνὴρ
βάσκανος καὶ οὐκ
οἶδεν ὅτι ἐλεήμων
κρατήσει αὐτοῦ.
Pro_30:22
CAB An envious man makes
haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery
over him.
Pro_30:22 ἐὰν οἰκέτης
βασιλεύσῃ, καὶ ἄφρων
πλησθῇ σιτίων,
Pro_28:27 WEB One who gives to the poor has no lack; but
one who closes his eyes will have many
curses.
Pro_28:27 / [Pro_30:27] CAB He that gives to the poor shall not be in need, but he that turns away his eye [ἀποστρέφει τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν αὐτοῦ] from him shall be in great distress.
Pro_28:27 ὃς δίδωσιν
πτωχοῖς, οὐκ ἐνδεηθήσεται·
ὃς δὲ ἀποστρέφει
τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν αὐτοῦ,
ἐν πολλῇ ἀπο ρίᾳ
ἔσται.
[Pro_30:27]
CAB He that gives to the
poor shall not be in want: but he that turns away his eye from him shall be in
great distress.
~~Pro_30:27 ἀβασίλευτόν
ἐστιν ἡ ἀκρὶς
καὶ ἐκστρατεύει
ἀφ᾿ ἑνὸς κελεύσματος
εὐτάκτως·
Bad & Good Eye
Mat_6:22-23 – Eye
Health
Is Your Eye Evil Because I Am Good/Generous
Mat_20:15 NKJV Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil [ἢ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου πονηρός ἐστιν] because I am good?
Mat_20:15 ἢ οὐκ
ἔξεστί μοι ὃ
θέλω ποιῆσαι ἐν
τοῖς ἐμοῖς; ἢ ὁ ὀφθαλμός
σου πονηρός ἐστιν,
ὅτι ἐγὼ ἀγαθός
εἰμι;
Mat_20:15 Aη TSBη ουκ
εξεστιν μοι TSBποιησαι
ο θελω Aποιησαι
εν τοις εμοις Aη TSBει ο
οφθαλμος σου
πονηρος εστιν
οτι εγω αγαθος
ειμι
Gladness & “non-Stone-ness” of Heart
Act_2:46 NKJV So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
Act_2:46 καθ᾽ ἡμέραν
τε προσκαρτεροῦντες
ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐν
τῷ ἱερῷ, κλῶντές
τε κατ᾽ οἶκον ἄρτον,
μετελάμβανον
τροφῆς ἐν ἀγαλλιάσει
καὶ ἀφελότητι
καρδίας,
Don't Run Away From Slavery
2/4/18; 2/9/18-2/10/18
Hagar was told to
go back to Sarah, even though Sarah treated her roughly
In the same way,
Peter tells slaves to serve their masters well even if they are harsh
Neiman's Jewish
slave was used by God to bring about a monotheistic miracle
Paul sent a Onisimus
back to Philemon
Paul tells Onisimus
to go back…
The law says he is
his money
In cases like Naman
and in cases like the ones mentioned in Peter, it does not mention or
distinguish whether or not they were lawfully acquired slaves or if they were
unlawfully acquired as slaves.
During the
Babylonian and Persian Empires, the Jews were told to be subject to those who
conquered them and carried them away as slaves...
Joseph was stolen
and unlawfully sold into slavery, but he Faithfully served his master potiphar
Paul says that if
you can gain your freedom, then use that instead. This is by finding a way to
pay for yourself to buy yourself out of slavery.
We have sufficient
records of this type of dynamic in the early church.
Jacob Flees Laban
-- only allowed when you have not actually been captured in a socially
recognized way…
Giving to God
Other dates (~2009); 7/24/16;
other dates; 9/3/17…12/11/22
Don’t Give to Modern
Preachers
[] …11/16/24
When Not to Pay Preachers
-- Under Construction --
Joh_10:12-13 – A Hired Hand Flees
Joh_10:11 CAB I am the good shepherd. The
good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
Joh_10:11
ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ
ποιμὴν ὁ
καλός. ὁ
ποιμὴν ὁ
καλὸς τὴν
ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ
τίθησιν ὑπὲρ
τῶν προβάτων·
Joh_10:11 εγω ειμι
ο ποιμην ο
καλος ο ποιμην
ο καλος την
ψυχην αυτου
τιθησιν υπερ
των προβατων
Joh_10:12 But a hired hand,
he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf
coming and leaves the sheep and flees;
and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
Joh_10:12
ὁ μισθωτὸς
δὲ καὶ οὐκ ὢν
ποιμήν, οὗ οὐκ
εἰσὶ τὰ
πρόβατα ἴδια,
θεωρεῖ τὸν
λύκον ἐρχόμενον
καὶ ἀφίησι
τὰ πρόβατα
καὶ φεύγει·
καὶ ὁ λύκος
ἁρπάζει αὐτὰ
καὶ
σκορπίζει τὰ
πρόβατα.
Joh_10:12 ο
μισθωτος TSBδε
και ουκ ων
ποιμην ου ουκ Aεστιν
TSBεισιν
τα προβατα
ιδια θεωρει
τον λυκον
ερχομενον και
αφιησιν τα
προβατα και
φευγει και ο
λυκος αρπαζει
αυτα και
σκορπιζει TSBτα
TSBπροβατα
Joh_10:13 ·But the hired hand
flees [TSBο TSBδε
TSBμισθωτος
TSBφευγει
] because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the
sheep.
Joh_10:13
ὁ δὲ
μισθρωτὸς
φεύγει, ὅτι
μισθωτὸς ἐστι
καὶ οὐ
μέλει αὐτῷ
περὶ τῶν
προβάτων.
Joh_10:13 TSBο TSBδε TSBμισθωτος TSBφευγει οτι μισθωτος εστιν και ου μελει αυτω περι των προβατων
Mic_3:11 WEB Her
leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets
of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't
Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
Mic_3:11 CAB Their
heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her
prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying,
Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.
Mic_3:11
οἱ ἡγούμενοι
αὐτῆς μετὰ δώρων
ἔκρινον, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς
αὐτῆς μετὰ
μισθοῦ ἀπεκρίνοντο,
καὶ οἱ προφῆται
αὐτῆς μετὰ ἀργυρίου
ἐμαντεύοντο,
καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον
ἐπανεπαύοντο
λέγοντες Οὐχὶ
κύριος ἐν ἡμῖν ἐστιν; οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ
ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς
κακά.
Mic_3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like
a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the
temple like the high places of a forest.
Mic_3:12 Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as
a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the
house as a grove of the forest.
Mic_3:12
διὰ τοῦτο δι᾿ ὑμᾶς
Σιων ὡς ἀγρὸς ἀροτριαθήσεται,
καὶ
Ιερουσαλημ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον
ἔσται καὶ τὸ ὄρος
τοῦ οἴκου ὡς ἄλσος
δρυμοῦ.
Luk_16:11-12 – If you will not be faithful with your own things who will entrust you with other people’s things? / Heavenly/True riches
Luk_16:11 CAB Therefore if you were
not faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is
genuine?
Luk_16:11
εἰ οὖν ἐν τῷ
ἀδίκῳ
μαμωνᾷ
πιστοὶ οὐκ ἐγένεσθε,
τὸ ἀληθινὸν
τίς ὑμῖν
πιστεύσει;
Luk_16:11 ει ουν εν
τω αδικω
μαμωνα πιστοι
ουκ εγενεσθε
το αληθινον
τις υμιν
πιστευσει
Luk_16:12 And if you were not faithful in what belongs to another, who
will give to you what is yours?
Luk_16:12
καὶ εἰ ἐν
τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ
πιστοὶ οὐκ ἐγένεσθε,
τὸ ὑμέτερον
τίς ὑμῖν
δώσει;
10/25/16
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Who is The REAL TV Preacher Begging for
Money?
3/17/19
-- Under
Construction --
Supporting the Assembly
Giving to The Assembly
-- Under
Construction --
In what format is money given to the righteous
assembly?
Supported by Assembly
Who is Supported by The Assembly?
Who and in what ways are various people supported by
the Assembly?
We need to document and clarify what gifts to the
assembly are used to support, and how.
Provision for Poor People
Individuals give to random poor people as a general
rule.
The assembly spends its money in a more orderly way,
based on worthiness.
Provision for Community Needs
Lands sold
Money laid at the apostle’s feet
Distribution made by deacons
Result:
None of them had need
This speaks of…
Food and burrow-ing-s things
This community provision is firstly based on trust for
cleanly baptized obeyers.
Thereafter, a filter is applied…
If anyone doesn’t work neither let him eat
So we see that all disciples can be provided for, but
all must work to eat, and they might work
and just get fed food.
Because it is totally vain to want to own your own
stuff
And
No one claimed that what they had was their own
Wages for Leaders
Overseers, Elders, and Women Elders are supported
This is good, because the most spiritual people and the
hardest most worthy workers get to decide the most how money is spent.
They say what to do with the “money laid at their feet”
And
They get a wage to decide how to spend it
Act_6:
Male deacons are addressed
Leadership
Progressively Revealed Leadership
It should be noted and embraced that from Acts to the
“Pastoral Epistles” (like 1st Timothy to Titus) there is a
development of leadership and qualifications over time.
Several things in the early church are recorded as
progressively revealed and applied and authenticated with Divine approval and
moral success such as various aspects of leadership in the Assembly as well as
the canonical inclusion of gentiles (Acts 10, 15, etc.).
When Timothy becomes a young leader this is an
exception to the standard role of elders leading society, but it is clearly
approved because of a favor gift given to him.
Similarly, men usually lead society, and yet the
appointment of women as leaders also fits somewhat when women are leading
women, but now there is more of an officially recognized structure and newly
established rules for guiding women leadership in the righteous assembly
Act_1:21-26 – Judas
Replaced: Matthias is chosen by
casting lots (Apostolic Succession Begins?)
·
Leadership put in order
before being filled and the big proclamation time comes
Act_2:4 – Filled:
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
·
This changes a lot for
the Apostles as Leaders, Witnesses, & Proclaimers
Act_2:14-47 – Proclamation:
Peter leads & apostles perform signs & teach
·
Now that the Clean
Spirit has come, they can do what they’ve been waiting and preparing for
·
Adding to Assembly
·
More leadership required
Act_4 – 5 -- Donations
Act_6:1-7 – Deacons
Formally Established
·
This deacon-service had
been unofficially maintained, but was less morally organized and successful
·
Simple Criteria: ‘men of good
reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom.’
·
This paves the way for
the much more detailed deacon requirements in 1Ti_3
Act_13:1-3 – New
Apostles: Antioch sends out Paul and Barnabas
·
Linguistically: This is
a new appointment of Apostles beyond the original
·
Now the major gentile
assembly is determining Apostles? (well, at least with some Jewish leadership)
Act_14:23 – Elders:
Paul & Barnabas appoint elders in every city-Assembly
·
Reinforces:
local assembly governance under recognized elders
Act_15 – Gentiles:
James presides over Jerusalem Council
·
At some point James was
eventually geographically placed-appointed over the Jerusalem Assembly
·
This allows the original
12 Apostles to “Go out” like their apostolic gifting requires them to
·
Church-wide Decision Making?
(partially)
·
Apostles + elders
deliberate -- & make final decisions
·
Settles the Gentile
circumcision issue
Act_20:17, Act_20:28 –
Paul addresses Ephesian elders
(Greek: presbyteroi), calling
them overseers (episkopoi).
·
Elders ≈
overseers; tasked with shepherding the flock.
1Ti_4:14; 2Ti_1:6 – Young Timothy made a Leader
·
Spiritually
Gifted Leader: Young Timothy Receives
favor-gift through laying on of hands by elders
·
Update:
This is a new situation where young people have high leadership
·
Precedent:
It can happen in monotheism, but it is rare, special, and particular
·
Overseers
and Elders: Because of this, a
potential distinction can be made between Overseers and Elders
1Ti_3:1-13; Tit_1:5-9 – Qualifications for Elders and
Deacons
·
Detailed qualifications
of cleanness and Truth
·
1Ti_3:11 – women
included!
·
Although including women
has always been a historical need, it is particular and new to see it
formalized as female leadership in Jesus’ Assembly (NOT leading men, as we all
know)
1Ti_5:17 – Main Elders focus on teaching and
proclamation
·
Suggests division of
labor among elders (ruling vs teaching elders)
·
1Ti_5:19-22 –
…above reproach and appointed carefully
·
Early checks and
balances on leadership [to avoid] abuse or unfit candidates
Wife’s Notes
Church
Leadership
Virtue Requirements
Resource Management
It's mindless to defer a high standard to only apply to leaders
You need to aim high for leadership!
You should be aiming for greatness!
The book of Hebrews says that
By now you should be teachers
You should imitate Bible heros (Heb 6)
You should consider the result of your leader's life and imitate
them (Heb 13)
You're supposed to be spiritual
You're supposed to bring and contribute something
Acts 6:1
Deacons- chasing after tasks & errands for the purpose of
serving others
This is a ministry
And it was a progressive revelation
Original qualifications of deacons up till this point- men, wise,
filled with the holy Spirit, and if it is a gentile man then he's a proselyte that's
circumcised
These original deacons distributed according to the day. This
is not talking about money. They are not distributing money.
Acts 6:1 uses the same verbage as the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11-
kat hemeron- down according to each day)
Acts and Luke are talking about meeting DAILY needs such as food
and clothing/covering burrowing things
Again, this is not talking about being able to have a stash of
money on the side, or being able to put a little something into your own bank
account, or being able to save up money for something a person might need at
some point
How to increase the word of God on the earth?
Acts 6:7
We need leadership to get established and straightened out. And
we need deacons who will chase after errands and serve tables. This will free
up the word of God to run
Acts 20:17, Acts 20:28
Elders = overseers, tasked with shepherding the flock
So the apostles lay hands on people and can appoint deacons and
elders/overseers
Remember that as the church forms we also get more and more progressive
revelation about it's leadership
So then comes Timothy
When hands are laid on him he gets appointed something great out
of this world
Now we have someone who is a super overseer who is not old!
So then young Timothy (who is now a spiritually gifted leader)
goes back to Ephesus (ex Acts 20 people) and as an apostle he is over the
elders, and can even appoint now elders/overseers
1Tim 3:11
Timothy appoints leaders
And now women are included! (Without usurping her will over men)
Titus says let the women teach the women. This is a very practical
way to accomplish a woman not usurping her will over men
So what is a woman leader supposed to look like?
Remember to aim high! And to imitate leaders!
Supported widows (who are at the top of the leadership ladder)
showcase self denial!
1Tim 5- the widows are getting exalted
Honor = pay them money (same as what Jesus taught in Mat 15:1-6
about honoring one's parents)
Real widows are an example to all women, and in particular ways
to those who are not married
Virgins and widows are in the same class and group of people in
the Bible (i.e. the unmarried)
A young woman needs to say, 'she (that widow) got there by being
in my shoes, so I need to imitate what she did so that I can arrive at the same
place of praise & approval that she has by the Truth'
You don't want to be disqualified from a track record that eventually
makes you a candidate for being a church leader
1Tim 5:10 these are some general virtues
Hopefully we can talk now about specific virtues
Spoiler:
Real widows live a lifestyle of self denial.
Fake widows live in pleasures and are not minded as a one-man-woman
(i.e. exclusive and pure before God).
If you live as a fake virgin/widow/unmarried woman, and you partake
of things and pamper yourself as though you are married then you are on your
way to hell.
If you live in self denial, as an example to all those who don't
have men, then you are about to be made a leader in the church!
"Elder" Redefined:
An elder is not one person older than another.
It is about being the older ones among a group of people in each
city. By default it is an established position.
An elder in the Bible is not relative to a particular person,
or is not an elder of an individual
An elder in the Bible is relative to a group of people.
In the old testament, the people of Israel were told to not spare
young or old. They struck, even until death some "elders". BUT...they
were striking and killing someone else's elder! Not their own, sub culture,
appointed elder.
Jesus tore at the scribes and Pharisees, at 30 ish years old!
The rule for not striking an elder is a rule for not striking
the elders of your group or THE ASSEMBLY.
Clarification on the qualification for a leader to me a one-man
woman, or a one-woman man:
This is an adjective, not a verb
It describes the virtue that they have now
And it's the result of a track record she/he has had since coming
to the Truth.
A woman who is a one man type of woman describes the quality of
what type of person you are
If you don't stretch your brain to think like this (which is the
literal way of reading it) then you will end up thinking hypothetically and saying
mindless things such as unmarried Timothy, Paul, or even Jesus can't be elders
or overseers! When the Bible explicitly says otherwise.
Don’t Muzzle Worthy Workers
]; [9/3/17; 3/17/19]; …11/16/24
Don't Muzzle The Ox
Deu_25:4
1Ti_5:18
1Co_9:9 – Worker is worthy
Law: no muzzling for a working Ox
The Laborer Is Worthy
Worker is Worthy of Wage
Luk_10:7 (Mat_10:10)
Supporting Leaders – In General
9/3/17; 3/17/19; 11/16/24
Perverted Pharaohs
·
A ‘Perverted Pharaoh’ =
One who thinks spiritual work is lazy / not worthy of support / as much honor
& recognition and respect as pragmatic labor
·
this applies so, so much
today!
·
Unbelieving / irreverent
Flesh balls have always despised valuing righteous and perfect people for their
saving/righteous-ifying work.
On the contrary, God says to the
clean/righteous/humbled:
Heb_6:10 CAB For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Heb_6:10
οὐ γὰρ ἄδικος
ὁ Θεὸς ἐπιλαθέσθαι
τοῦ ἔργου ὑμῶν
καὶ τοῦ
κόπου τῆς ἀγάπης
ἧς ἐνεδείξασθε
εἰς τὸ ὄνομα
αὐτοῦ,
διακονήσαντες
τοῖς ἁγίοις
καὶ διακονοῦντες.
Heb_6:10 ου γαρ αδικος ο θεος επιλαθεσθαι του εργου υμων και TSBτου TSBκοπου της αγαπης ης Sενδειξασθε TBAενεδειξασθε εις το ονομα αυτου διακονησαντες τοις αγιοις και διακονουντες
6:10)
1Pe_2:5
– Spiritual Sacrifices of the New Covenant
Rom_15:16
– Acceptable Sacrifice of the Gentiles
Honor Father and Mother = Supporting with
Money
[9/3/17; 3/17/19; 11/16/24]
Mat_15:1-9 – Honor Father & Mother With
“Gifts” (esp. Mat_15:4-6)
Mat_15:1 CAB Then the scribes
and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem approached Jesus, saying,
Mat_15:1
Τότε
προσέρχονται
τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ
οἱ ἀπὸ ῾Ιεροσολύμων
γραμματεῖς
καὶ Φαρισαῖοι
λέγοντες·
Mat_15:1 τοτε
προσερχονται
τω ιησου TSBοι
απο
ιεροσολυμων TSBγραμματεις
TSBκαι
φαρισαιοι Aκαι
Aγραμματεις
λεγοντες
Mat_15:2 "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the
elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."
Mat_15:2
διὰ τί οἱ
μαθηταί σου
παραβαίνουσι
τὴν
παράδοσιν τῶν
πρεσβυτέρων;
οὐ γὰρ
νίπτονται
τὰς χεῖρας
αὐτῶν ὅταν ἄρτον
ἐσθίωσιν.
Mat_15:2 BAδια BAτι
TSδιατι
οι μαθηται σου
παραβαινουσιν
την παραδοσιν
των
πρεσβυτερων ου
γαρ νιπτονται
τας χειρας Aαυτων TSBαυτων
οταν αρτον
εσθιωσιν
Mat_15:3 He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress
the commandment of God on account of your tradition?
Mat_15:3
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς·
διὰ τί καὶ ὑμεῖς
παραβαίνετε
τὴν ἐντολὴν
τοῦ Θεοῦ
διὰ τὴν
παράδοσιν ὑμῶν;
Mat_15:3 ο δε
αποκριθεις
ειπεν αυτοις BAδια
BAτι
TSδιατι
και υμεις
παραβαινετε
την εντολην
του θεου δια
την παραδοσιν
υμων
Mat_15:4 For God commanded,
saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or
mother, with death let him die.'
Mat_15:4
ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς
ἐνετείλατο
λέγων· τίμα
τὸν πατέρα
καὶ τὴν
μητέρα· καί·
ὁ κακολογῶν
πατέρα ἢ
μητέρα
θανάτῳ
τελευτάτω.
Mat_15:4 ο γαρ
θεος Aειπεν
TSBενετειλατο
TSBλεγων
τιμα τον πατερα
TSσου
και την μητερα
και ο
κακολογων
πατερα η μητερα
θανατω
τελευτατω
Mat_15:5 But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "It is a gift to God, whatever profit
you might have received from me"--
Mat_15:5
ὑμεῖς δὲ
λέγετε· ὅς ἂν
εἴπῃ τῷ
πατρὶ ἢ τῇ
μητρί, δῶρον ὃ
ἐὰν ἐξ ἐμοῦ
ὠφεληθῇς,
Mat_15:5 υμεις δε
λεγετε ος αν
ειπη τω πατρι η
τη μητρι δωρον
ο εαν εξ εμου
ωφεληθης TSBκαι
ου μη Aτιμησει
TSBτιμηση
τον πατερα TSBαυτου
TSBη TSBτην
TSBμητερα
αυτου
Mat_15:6 then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus
you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.
Mat_15:6
καὶ οὐ μὴ
τιμήσει τὸν
πατέρα αὐτοῦ
ἢ τὴν μητέρα
αὐτοῦ· καὶ
ἠκυρώσατε
τὴν ἐντολὴν
τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ
τὴν
παράδοσιν ὑμῶν.
Mat_15:6 και
ηκυρωσατε Aτον
TSBτην
Aλογον
TSBεντολην
του θεου δια
την παραδοσιν
υμων
Mat_15:7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,
Mat_15:7
ὑποκριταί.
καλῶς
προεφήτευσε
περὶ ὑμῶν ῾Ησαΐας
λέγων·
Mat_15:7
υποκριται
καλως Aεπροφητευσεν
TSBπροεφητευσεν
περι υμων
ησαιας λεγων
Mat_15:8 'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor
Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.
Mat_15:8
ἐγγίζει
μοι ὁ λαὸς οὗτος
τῷ στόματι
αὐτῶν καὶ
τοῖς
χείλεσίν με
τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ
καρδία αὐτῶν
πόρρω ἀπέχει
ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ·
Mat_15:8 TSBεγγιζει TSBμοι
ο λαος ουτος TSBτω
TSBστοματι
TSBαυτων
TSBκαι
τοις χειλεσιν
με τιμα η δε
καρδια αυτων
πορρω απεχει
απ εμου
Mat_15:9 And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men.' "
Mat_15:9
μάτην δὲ
σέβονταί με,
διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας
ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων.
1Ti_5:4 CAB But if a certain widow
has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own
household and to make repayment to their parents; for this is acceptable before
God.
1Ti_5:4
εἰ δέ τις
χήρα τέκνα ἢ ἔκγονα
ἔχει,
μανθανέτωσαν
πρῶτον τὸν ἴδιον
οἶκον εὐσεβεῖν
καὶ ἀμοιβὰς
ἀποδιδόναι
τοῖς
προγόνοις·
τοῦτο γάρ ἐστι
καλὸν καὶ ἀπόδεκτον
ἐνώπιον τοῦ
Θεοῦ.
1Ti_5:4 ει δε
τις χηρα τεκνα
η εκγονα εχει
μανθανετωσαν
πρωτον τον
ιδιον οικον
ευσεβειν και
αμοιβας
αποδιδοναι τοις
προγονοις
τουτο γαρ
εστιν TSκαλον TSκαι αποδεκτον
ενωπιον του
θεου
1Ti_5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for
those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1Ti_5:8
εἰ δέ τις τῶν
ἰδίων καὶ
μάλιστα τῶν
οἰκείων οὐ
προνοεῖ, τὴν
πίστιν ἤρνηται
καὶ ἔστιν ἀπίστου
χείρων.
1Ti_5:8 ει δε τις των ιδιων και μαλιστα TSBτων οικειων ου προνοει την πιστιν ηρνηται και εστιν απιστου χειρων
TSK on 1Ti_5:4
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Turning Away Money
[] [] 8/9/19-8/10/19; Oct 2024; …11/16/24
-- Under
Construction --
Taking Nothing from the Gentiles
3Jo_1:7 – they went out from us taking nothing from the gentiles
Paul Not
Taking From Churches
1Co_9:15; 2Co_11:9; 2Th_3:6-8 – Paul: Did not take anything from Corinthians, Thessalonians and other Churches
Jesus
Gave to Not Offend
Mat_17:27 – Jesus: so we will not offend them…
-- Under Construction --
Act_8:20 – your money perish with you
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The Righteous Don't Want Your Dirty Money
-- Under
Construction --
Gen_14:23 – ‘Lest you say, ‘I made Abraham rich’’ (Abraham to the king of Sodom)
Gen_14:23 WEB that I will not take a
thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have
made Abram rich.'
Gen_14:23 CAB that I will not take
from all your goods, from a string to a sandal strap, lest you should say, I
have made Abram rich.
Gen_14:23
εἰ ἀπὸ σπαρτίου
ἕως σφαιρωτῆρος
ὑποδήματος λήμψομαι
ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν
σῶν, ἵνα μὴ εἴπῃς
ὅτι Ἐγὼ ἐπλούτισα
τὸν Αβραμ·
Act_8:20 – your money perish with you
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Help Truth Proclaimers
Est_4:14 WEB For if you remain silent now, then relief and
deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's
house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time
as this?"
Est_4:14 LB
For if you shall refuse to heed on this occasion, help and protection
will be to the Jews from another quarter; but you and your father's house will perish.
And who knows if you have been made queen for this very occasion.’”
Est_4:14 ὡς
ὅτι ἐὰν παρακούσῃς
ἐν τούτῳ τῷ
καιρῷ, ἄλλοθεν
βοήθεια καὶ σκέπη
ἔσται τοῖς
Ιουδαίοις, σὺ δὲ
καὶ ὁ οἶκος τοῦ
πατρός σου ἀπολεῖσθε·
καὶ τίς οἶδεν εἰ
εἰς τὸν καιρὸν
τοῦτον ἐβασίλευσας;
When To Receive Financial Help
2/28/18; 3/19/18
the big question over paying preachers
should spiritual people receive money for
their service?
I abhorred this thought at first...
but what do you do when you realize that
this is an all-consuming full-time occupation? Especially when it includes
scribal work!
we definitely don't want to be marketing
Christians that are out for financial gain, or that even try to pressure people
at all to give anything to us...
Don't Muzzle An Ox
the laborer is worthy of his reward
1co9
lots of people, Protestants, don't like the
comparison Paul made with the Levites and Priests, lest there possibly be
priest in the New Covenant...
>> Scrip:
Luk6
go and earn your bread somewhere else
>Tsk
this especially applies if you are just a
normal person and you don't claim to have the answers or to be right, you just
want to give money toward something that is doing more good than you're able to
do with your life...
certain women helped him out of their own
substance
>> Scrip:
Jesus told the disciples to not go among
the Gentiles
they went out from Among Us taking nothing
from the Gentiles
Paul didn't take anything from the
unbelieving churches
Paul did receive help from the faithful
churches, especially when he was in prison
this is the case in point of the best
people that you want as supporters...
talk about a cheerful Giver!
there is no bitterness with the blessing of
a fateful believer who fully believes in you and fatefully supports you to do a
spiritual Revolution on the Earth...
Finances to Dedicated to God, His temple, and His Service
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Integrity with Distributing Money
-- Under Construction --
2Ki_12:15 WEB Moreover they didn't demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
2Ki_12:15 CAB Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they acted faithfully.
2Ki_12:15
(12:16) καὶ οὐκ ἐξελογίζοντο
τοὺς ἄνδρας, οἷς
ἐδίδουν τὸ ἀργύριον
ἐπὶ χεῖρας αὐτῶν
δοῦναι τοῖς
ποιοῦσιν τὰ ἔργα,
ὅτι ἐν πίστει αὐτῶν
ποιοῦσιν.
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Community Questions
Tithes
-- State of the Union
7/3/16; 7/10/16
Can you give the “State of the Union” on Tithes?
Jacob gave a tithes of everything, which included non-monetary things like his sheep after he started “increasing”…
What is the definition of “increasing” again?
Is tithe based off of the raw income or the amount of 'increase' after paying for forced obligations? - (Ay)
If you’re poor, and not increasing, then you don’t tithe anything, not even your sheep right?
But the poor can give of their “coming behind”, and give “offerings”…
If Ruth gleans in the field, then she doesn’t have to tithe what she gleans because she is not “increasing” right?
New Testament lays the increase/overflow at the apostles feet which is more than 10% so that means it’s fulfilling and surpassing the law right?
The priests/overseers/apostles don’t have to tithe right?
What if the priests/overseers/apostles get more than 10% (like a certain disciple giving our community more than 10%)? Although I guess this “more than 10%” is not solely going to the priests household…
When would our community “tithe”?
When would Ay be considered as “increasing”?
Tithing – What
is Increasing
1/8/17
What is increasing?
How do you know when you are increasing?
Tithes for Living, Offerings For Special
Projects
12/11/22
Sun_10:26 a
,
11:20am
I have a general
question about tithes and offerings. From my understanding tithes are a set
amount given out of your "paycheck" to support the levites to do
their daily service. Seems like the levites even got to eat from this. And
offerings are given at the end of a harvest or maybe end of the year or
whatever you use to gauge that hey I have an over abundance that I can give towards
the house of God. I also see offerings were also requested at different times
for special projects like building the tabernacle and everyone gave what they
were moved to gice towards that project. Is this correct? I havent looked up
the greek of these things, just looked at things in English.
In general, I have sougt
to have a posture like this. Where I give a set amount for basic needs to keep
levites fed etc (which ends up being more than a 10% tithe). And after a
certain time I measure my abundance and determine hey I have an overabundance
from the Lord I want to give more as an offering and do so then, moreso as a
lump sum. And I have also given more for special projects at certain times. The
amount being what I felt moved and excited and eager to do as a special
sacrifice (like last year for buying a house, again as a lump sum - although my
bank forced me to gice my lump sum in increments). Thats just my general
posture and understanding. Does this align with how the bible feels about
tithes and offerings?
Tithing Answers
Why Tithe In The
New Testament At All?
the New Testament says very, very little about tithing, and
the Bible as a whole never even explicitly commands tithing for gentiles, so why do it or even refer
to it at all as an idea or reference for how we should behave?
The New Testament is so
heavily preoccupied actually with forsaking all and giving up everything and
dynamically meeting whatever needs the Brothers have, and it is so insistent on
cheerful giving, that the word tithe is almost retired in the New Covenant, so
why consider “tithing” or even use that term at all for gentiles in the New
Covenant?
Mat_23:23
suggests that the practice should generically continue, although it is not
prescribed for gentiles
Tithing is at least a
minimum checkpoint for our behavior which we should have long surpassed by the
favor of cheerfully giving all to God and the service of Truth.
Tithing also helps us
understand the core concept of what finances are supposed to be given toward
and used for in the service of Truth
We've got to surpass the
laws righteousness to inherit.
1Co_9:13-14
– don't those who serve at the alter share/eat from the alter/temple
1st Corinthians 9 is
perhaps the only passage in the New Testament that somewhat directly implies
tithing is relevant to New Testament believers that are not Jewish
Furthermore:
Abraham and Jacob did it
before the Jewish Nation or law was formulated, and it is with their faith we
are hoping to inherit as adopted children.
Having a High Priest
means that there is a priesthood of regular priests, and you don’t get to
pretend that Jesus’s Priesthood of sub-priests is all on equal footing.
Abraham paid tithes to
Jesus's priesthood, and so should we, as those governed under One High Priest,
with potentially numerous sub-priests, all of which are working together as
priests on God's house, the rest of God’s people, to offer up the gentiles as a
pleasing sacrifice.
Abraham paid tithes
The Bible says to
imitate them (Heb_6:12; Heb_13:7;
Heb_10:28, etc.).
Tithing Question =
solved (for Bible-obeyers).
Time to surpass the OT
along with the faithful patriarchs.
Tithe vs. Offering
Also see below: Priests Don’t give Tithe
We know they are
distinct.
“Deuteronomy 24–26
actually outlines 3 tithes of 10%. With the 3rd occurring every 3 years. This
totals 23.3% per year on average”
Tithe = 10%
Offering = Tithe or
anything else “given”
2Co_9:6-7
1Co_16:1
– ‘give out of his own means’?
Tithe Your Increase
Net Increase = take-home pay = gross Earnings - Cost of
Production
Cost of Production =
Direct expense in generating more raw/gross increase
“gains less expenses
and/or losses”
https://www.quora.com/In-the-Bible-God-says-to-tithe-on-the-increase-So-what-is-the-increase
“They began a planting season with a volume of seed, which they put in
the ground and prayed. After harvest, they separated out a volume of seed equal
to the volume planted, and gave 10% of the amount remaining. This is the
increase. It included the losses due to pestilence, drought, frost, pilferage,
and workers being fed along the way.”
(same)
See: Gen_28:20-22 below
Lev_27:30-33
Deu_12:5-7
– ‘all that God has blessed you’
Deu_14:22-29
– ‘tithe all the increase of
your seed…grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn’, etc. (compare multiple
references below)
Deu_26:11-15
– ‘tithing all the tithes of your increase’
Neh_10:36-39,
esp. Neh_10:37 – dough, fruit, wine,
oil, etc.
Mat_23:23
1Co_16:1-2
– ESV: ‘put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper’
“if I invest $100 in something and get $600 in return, my increase is $500.
Pretty basic”
https://www.quora.com/In-the-Bible-God-says-to-tithe-on-the-increase-So-what-is-the-increase
12/11/22
Patriarchs Tithing
Other dates (~2009); 7/24/16
Gen_14:1-20, etc. esp. Gen_14:20 – Abraham gave tithe
Gen_28:20-22 – Jacob embraces his father's "tithe"
Notice Jacob’s Idea is different than the common complaint:
“If a family with 5 children earn $20,000 per year - they would have to survive on $18,000/yr for 7 mouths to feed. A couple with no children who make $100,000/yr. would have $90,000 for 2 people to enjoy. Where is God's fairness?”
https://ssnet.org/blog/tithing-on-your-increase/
12/11/22
Mal_2:1 (etc) – sinning Jews dishonored God in keeping tithe back
New Covenant Tithing Preview
Mat_23:23-24 – Jesus supports tithe (no update)
1Co_9:1, etc. – Old Testament Tithe / Levitical Support applied to New Testament proclaimers
TSK on Tithe
Gen_28:22; Lev_27:30-32; Num_28:26; Deu_12:17, Deu_14:22-23, Deu_14:28; 2Ch_31:5, 2Ch_31:6, 2Ch_31:12; Neh_10:37, Neh_13:12; Amo_4:4; Mal_3:8, Mal_3:10; Luk_18:12; Rom_15:16; Heb_7:4-9
Purpose -- What was this tenth to be used for?
also: Malachi_3:10
income for the Levite Priests. (Lev_27:30-33; Num_18:21, Num_18:24, Num_18:29)
Deu_26:12-15 – ‘the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow’
“And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, [even] the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. Numbers_18:21
What is it used for today?
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 1 Corinthians_9:13, 14”
https://inlightofthecross.com/2009/06/01/stewardship-in-light-of-the-cross/
Eat Your Tithe?
Deu_12:5-7, esp. Deu_12:17-19
Deu_14:22-29 –
Deu_26:14 – ‘I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning’
2Co_9:7 ‘God loves a cheerful giver’
Priests Don’t Give Tithe
6/20/17; 12/11/22
Num_18:25 WEB Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying,
Num_18:25 LB And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Num_18:25 Καὶ ἐλάλησεν
κύριος πρὸς
Μωυσῆν λέγων
Num_18:26 WEB
Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, When you take of
the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your
inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe
of the tithe.
Num_18:26 “You shall also speak to the Levites, and shall
say to them, ‘If you take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have
given you from them for an inheritance, then shall you separate from it a heave
offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.
Num_18:26 Καὶ τοῖς
Λευίταις λαλήσεις
καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς
αὐτούς Ἐὰν λάβητε
παρὰ τῶν υἱῶν
Ισραηλ τὸ ἐπιδέκατον,
ὃ δέδωκα ὑμῖν
παρ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐν
κλήρῳ, καὶ ἀφελεῖτε
ὑμεῖς ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ
ἀφαίρεμα κυρίῳ
ἐπιδέκατον ἀπὸ
τοῦ ἐπιδεκάτου.
Num_18:27 WEB Your wave
offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing
floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
Num_18:27 And your heave offerings shall be reckoned to you
as grain from the threshing floor, and an offering from the winepress.
Num_18:27 καὶ
λογισθήσεται ὑμῖν
τὰ ἀφαιρέματα ὑμῶν
ὡς σῖτος ἀπὸ ἅλω
καὶ ἀφαίρεμα ἀπὸ
ληνοῦ.
Num_18:28 WEB Thus
you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you
receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave
offering to Aaron the priest.
Num_18:28 So shall you also separate them from all the
offerings of the Lord out of all your tithes, whatsoever you shall receive from
the children of Israel; and you shall give to them of the Lord’s offering, to
Aaron the priest.
Num_18:28 οὕτως ἀφελεῖτε
καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀπὸ
τῶν ἀφαιρεμάτων
κυρίου ἀπὸ πάντων
ἐπιδεκάτων ὑμῶν,
ὅσα ἐὰν λάβητε
παρὰ τῶν υἱῶν
Ισραηλ, καὶ δώσετε
ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἀφαίρεμα
κυρίῳ Ααρων τῷ ἱερεῖ.
Num_18:29 WEB Out of
all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best,
even the holy part of it out of it.
Num_18:29 Of all your gifts you shall offer an offering to
the Lord, and of every firstfruit the consecrated part from it.
Num_18:29 ἀπὸ πάντων
τῶν δομάτων ὑμῶν
ἀφελεῖτε ἀφαίρεμα
κυρίῳ ἢ ἀπὸ πάντων
τῶν ἀπαρχῶν τὸ ἡγιασμένον
ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.
Num_18:30 WEB
Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave its best from it, then it
shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as
the increase of the winepress.
Num_18:30 And you shall say to them, ‘When you shall offer
the firstfruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce
from the threshing floor, and as produce from the winepress.
Num_18:30 καὶ ἐρεῖς
πρὸς αὐτούς Ὅταν
ἀφαιρῆτε τὴν ἀπαρχὴν
ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ, καὶ
λογισθήσεται
τοῖς Λευίταις ὡς
γένημα ἀπὸ ἅλω
καὶ ὡς γένημα ἀπὸ
ληνοῦ.
Tithe vs. First Fruits
Deu_12:17
Neh_10:37
Neh_13:5
Neh_10:32 CAB And we will impose ordinances upon
ourselves, to levy on ourselves a third of a shekel yearly for the service of
the house of our God;
Neh_10:37-39 CAB And
the firstfruits of our grain, and the fruit of every tree, of wine, and of oil,
will we bring to the priests to the treasury of the house of God; and a tithe
of our land to the Levites; for the Levites themselves shall receive tithes in
all the cities of the land we cultivate.
38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be
with the Levites in the tithe of the Levite: and the Levites shall bring up their tithe to the house of our God, into
the treasuries of the house of God. 39 For the children of Israel and the children
of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the firstfruits of the grain, and wine,
and oil; to where the holy vessels are,
and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we
will not forsake the house of our God.
See: The Righteousness of “Scattering”
Various Givings
Tithe is only one aspect of giving by faith. There are many other distinct “givings” in Scripture. Consider the difference between Tithe, First Fruits, Alms, offerings, whole burnt offerings, freewill offerings, etc.
"Let your charitable gift sweat in
your hands until you know to whom you are giving it."
Didache_1:6
Bitterly Cursed or Faithfully Accepted?
Mal_1:10-14 WEB …I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies. 12 "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.' 13 You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh. 14 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
Multiple Offerings
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Where Can Jews Offer Sacrifices?
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Deu_33:18 Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.
Deu_33:18 CAB And to Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar in his tents.
Deu_33:19 They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.
Deu_33:19 They shall utterly destroy the nations, and you shall call men there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle you, and so shall the emporiums of them that dwell by the sea coast.
Deu_33:20 Of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
Jos_22:10 WEB When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.
Jos_22:10 An Altar by the Jordan And they came to Gilead of the Jordan, which is in the land of Canaan. And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an alter by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.
Jos_22:10 καὶ ἦλθον
εἰς Γαλγαλα τοῦ
Ιορδάνου, ἥ ἐστιν
ἐν γῇ Χανααν, καὶ
ᾠκοδόμησαν οἱ
υἱοὶ Γαδ καὶ οἱ
υἱοὶ Ρουβην καὶ
τὸ ἥμισυ φυλῆς
Μανασση ἐκεῖ
βωμὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ
Ιορδάνου, βωμὸν
μέγαν τοῦ ἰδεῖν.
The point of the context of this story is that it was an incredible controversy to have another altar somewhere else besides in front of the tabernacle.
Stewardship
Household Law-ship, Trusted Supervision, Delegated Oversight, Faithful
Administration, Accountable Authority -- including Financial Accountability
Stewardship Basics
Stewardship Definitions
· A Steward is “Someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else” (WordWeb)
· “Steward” = An English word that covers numerous Bible synonyms in Hebrew & Greek
· Household-Law-ers = primary Greek NT word used for stewardship – notice the “house” which such a one is entrusted with
· Stewardship enables delegation -- and is the essence of it (in a sense)
Faithful Stewards should be exalted and trusted/faith-ed, and non-virtuous ones should be demoted, de-commissioned, punished, and micro-managed.
Big Stewardship Concepts
· Responsibility
· Resource Management -- incl. time, money, & other things, & even people
· Faithfulness, integrity
· Accountability
· Diligence, patience, perseverance
· Swiftness, zeal, ambition, vs. laziness complacency dragging drudgery
Levels of Stewardship -- in this World
· Lord - owner (King “as supreme” and/or man of the house)
· Rulers / Arch-Ruling Stewards (who set the law for certain realms of society)
· Household-law-ers / managing Stewards (micro rulers who set the law for a house)
· Under rowing officers, “nannies”, etc.
· Deacons, servants, etc.
Some of these stewardships can happen simultaneously
and overlap (especially some of the ones seen next to each other in the list
above)
Despot is Lord
There are 2 verses in Matthew and 2 in Luke that directly show that the Despot is Lord in Greek:
Mat_10:25 LSV sufficient to the disciple that he
may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house
they called Beelzebul, how much more those of his household?
Mat_10:25 ἀρκετὸν
τῷ μαθητῇ ἵνα
γένηται ὡς ὁ
διδάσκαλος αὐτοῦ,
καὶ τῷ
δούλῳ ὡς ὁ
κύριος αὐτοῦ.
εἰ τὸν οἰκοδεσπότην
Βεελζεβοὺβ ἐκάλεσαν,
πόσῳ μᾶλλον
τοὺς οἰκιακοὺς
αὐτοῦ;
Mat_10:25 αρκετον τω μαθητη ινα γενηται ως ο διδασκαλος αυτου και ο δουλος ως ο κυριος αυτου ει τον οικοδεσποτην Sβεελζεβουβ TBAβεελζεβουλ Aεπεκαλεσαν TSBεκαλεσαν ποσω μαλλον τους Bοικειακους TSAοικιακους αυτου
Mat_13:27 LSV
And the servants [δοῦλοι] of the householder [οἰκοδεσπότου], having come near, said to
him, Lord [κύριε], did you not sow good seed in
your field? From where then does it have the darnel?
Mat_13:27
προσελθόντες
δὲ οἱ δοῦλοι
τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου
εἶπον αὐτῷ·
κύριε, οὐχὶ
καλὸν σπέρμα
ἔσπειρας ἐν
τῷ σῷ ἀγρῷ;
πόθεν οὖν ἔχει
ζιζάνια;
Mat_13:27 προσελθοντεςG4334V-2AAP-NPM προσέρχομαι to
approach δεG1161CONJ δέ but οιG3588T-NPM ὁ the δουλοιG1401N-NPM δοῦλος a
slave τουG3588T-GSM ὁ the οικοδεσποτουG3617N-GSM οἰκοδεσπότης the
head of a family ειπονG2036V-2AAI-3P ἔπω to
speak αυτωG846P-DSM αὐτός he,
she, it κυριεG2962N-VSM κύριος lord ουχιG3780PRT-I οὐχί not
indeed καλονG2570A-ASN καλός X
better σπερμαG4690N-ASN σπέρμα something
sown εσπειραςG4687V-AAI-2S σπείρω to
scatter ενG1722PREP ἔν in τωG3588T-DSM ὁ the σωG4674S-2DSM σός thine αγρωG68N-DSM ἀγρός a
field ποθενG4159ADV-I πόθεν from
which ουνG3767CONJ οὖν certainly εχειG2192V-PAI-3S ἔχω to
hold [ταG3588T-APN ὁ the] τσ ζιζανιαG2215N-APN ζιζάνιον darnel
Luk_13:25 LSV from the
time the Master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and
you may begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord,
open to us, and He answering will say to you, I have not known you from where
you are,
Luk_13:25 ἀφ᾿ οὗ
ἂν ἐγερθῇ ὁ
οἰκοδεσπότης
καὶ ἀποκλείσῃ
τὴν θύραν,
καὶ ἄρξησθε ἔξω
ἑστάναι καὶ
κρούειν τὴν
θύραν
λέγοντες·
Κύριε, Κύριε |κυριε TSBκυριε|, ἄνοιξον ἡμῖν·
καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς
ἐρεῖ ὑμῖν,
οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς
πόθεν ἐστέ·
Luk_14:21 LSV And that servant
having come, told these things to his lord, then the master of the house,
having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly into the broad places
and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in
here.
Luk_14:21 καὶ
παραγενόμενος
ὁ δοῦλος ἐκεῖνος
ἀπήγγειλε τῷ
κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ
ταῦτα. τότε ὀργισθεὶς
ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης
εἶπε τῷ
δούλῳ αὐτοῦ·
ἔξελθε
ταχέως εἰς
τὰς πλατείας
καὶ ῥύμας
τῆς πόλεως,
καὶ τοὺς
πτωχοὺς καὶ
ἀναπήρους
καὶ χωλοὺς
καὶ τυφλοὺς
εἰσάγαγε ὧδε.
Luk_14:21 και
παραγενομενος
ο δουλος TSBεκεινος
απηγγειλεν τω
κυριω αυτου
ταυτα τοτε οργισθεις
ο οικοδεσποτης
ειπεν τω δουλω
αυτου εξελθε
ταχεως εις τας
πλατειας και
ρυμας της
πολεως και
τους πτωχους
και Aαναπειρους TSBαναπηρους
TSBκαι TSBχωλους
και τυφλους Aκαι Aχωλους
εισαγαγε ωδε
Lordship Through Ownership
The
“Lord” / Household
Despot delegates authority, based on his ownership (Luke 16, etc.), to the
household-law-giver
(steward) to carry out the tedious detail of setting and enforcing rules for
the success of the household (think: be fruitful and multiply,
like Joseph, etc.), so that the Lord-despot may be focused on, and preoccupied
with, bigger things / larger scale progress.
Example: the household despot leaves the farmers
to go on larger scale business adventure elsewhere (Matthew 25, etc.).
Mat_13:52 – despot can bring out (owned) treasures from his house
Mat_20:1, Mat_20:11 – hired laborers and paid them at the end of the day’s
work
Mat_21:33 – vineyard, winepress, tower, hired farmers
Mat_24:43; Luk_12:39 – keeping house from thief breaking in
Mar_14:14; Luk_22:11 – where is a room where teacher eat Passover with
disciples?
Also comapre:
Luk_16:1-12 – Demoting Unfaithful Stewards
· This illustrates the house-hold-despot’s ownership & his relationship with the house-hold-law-er
Pause to reference ownership, and do justice
to it, because the flesh despises Lord ship...
Delegated Authority & Responsibility
The household-law-giver / Steward has great authority, just like faithful
Moses in God's house (he was a law giver -- proper), but it is always the
despot who has the ultimate power and carries and causes the weighted potency
of his ownership to pass through to the delegate in whom he pleases to choose.
Being established to give a law for an
entire household comes with its resulting authority and sobering
responsibilities and accountability.
Examples
· Act_4: they didn’t say anything was their own -- stop selfishly over-valuing things
· Multiplication of Bread and fish -- stop wasting things
· Goal and solver corroded = a testimony against you
· Law of Moses: you’re not allowed to cut down a fruit tree
Physical Biblical Managements Include…
· Events
· Things
· People (incl. children, assemblies, etc.)
· Households (incl. possessions, servants, etc.)
· Cities
·
Etc.
We can see these Biblical examples
referenced below (under Stewards of
People & Things)
Cosmic Stewardships
>>>>>>>>>>
· God = Lord (owner) of all
· Angels = Stewards of Humanity & the Universe (incl. stars, as well as “guardian angels”, etc.)
· Humanity = Stewards of Earth (incl. animals, etc. …and what about beyond?)
· Assembly = Stewards of Spiritual Favors ("gifts")
· Overseers* = Stewards of Assembly
· Prophets = Stewards of God's Mysteries
· Apostles = Stewards of Assembly & God's Mysteries
[*incl. Overseers/Elders/Apostles/Leaders/etc.]
Our Spiritual Fulfilment
Of course in the New Covenant, our spiritual Stewardships are not limited
to a mediator or priest or apostle or even an overseer - but to all who take
hold of any favor at all from under the gigantic Despot in heaven.
We should always be asking what
stewardships we are responsible for and how we can soberly conduct our lives
with careful reverence to pass the test when we are called to give an
accounting for our managements.
Stewarts, Not Lords
1 Timothy_3:4-5
good stewards don't waste fragments of
bread, just like it's not right to be in the habit of wastefully leaving lights
on or extending resources without good reason...
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Whenever we are before God, we are
stewards, not Lords…
An overseer is a Stewart of the Assembly,
but not a Lord.
1Pe_5:3 – not as lords over the heritage
TSK-simplified: as: Eze_34:4, Mat_20:25-26, Mat_23:8-10, Mar_10:42-45, Luk_22:24-27, 1Co_3:5, 1Co_3:9, 2Co_1:24, 2Co_4:5, 3Jo_1:9-10
Just as a ruler of a synagogue is
appointed by the elders, so also the elders and overseers are appointed by God as
stewards of His heritage and are to act like stewards, not like lords.
Stewards that oversee the Assembly
inherently have responsibilities of creating order based on delegated authority
including consequences for disobedience (i.e. “punishment” as an “overseeing”
throughout the Bible), but even when correcting, overseers do not carry a
prerogative to enforce their feelings and/or desires outside of the benefit of
others.
Examples
· Jesus driving out the money changers -- he acting out a stewardship & He’s punishing
· JCH…
Interestingly, importantly, the same man
could be a non-lord over the Assembly, and simultaneously a required “lord”
over his wife...
Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6 – Sarah called Abraham Lord
Comp.
Eph_5:33 – wife fear husband
TSK on Fear: reverence:
Eph_5:22, 1Ki_1:31, Est_1:20, Heb_12:9, 1Pe_3:2-6
Stewardship Often Affects Us in the NT Through…
· The sacrifices of the physical things in this life which we give back to God
· The Favor-ings things in ourselves which we are required to use to refresh each other & build each other up.
· The Favor-ings in each other / other disciples which we are required to respect and obey within their appointed jurisdiction, authority, & Lordship over our lives.
By being faithful in these different
realms, we set ourselves up for the biggest promotion of all time…
From Stewards to Lords
· Good stewards inherit everything when promoted to lordship status.
· Faithful Sons who inherit their Father's estate are owners (lord’s) of their father's possessions in the exact same way that God's exalted stewards will become Lord-owners over everything.
Stewards of People & Things
General
Stewardship References
Stewards of Events, Things, People,
Households, & Cities:
Event Manager
Joh_2:8 – Arch-3-Recliner-Ruler
/ 3 Couching Banquet
Ruler (of the marriage
feast) [“ruler” / “steward” margin]
Joh_2:8 καὶ
λέγει αὐτοῖς·
ἀντλήσατε νῦν
καὶ φέρετε
τῷ ἀρχιτρικλίνῳ.
καὶ ἤνεγκαν.
People Managers
incl. children, assemblies, etc.
Dan_1:11
– the Meltzar/steward ...over Daniel & friends
·
המּלצר, ha-melcar
ISBE,
(KJV/LSV: proper noun)
· ISBE: …He was thus rather a steward of persons than of property (see MELZAR)
Gal_4:2 – Guardians & Stewards Over Children [Turner-Upon-s & Household-law-ers]
Gal_4:2 ἀλλὰ
ὑπὸ ἐπιτρόπους
ἐστὶ καὶ οἰκονόμους
ἄχρι τῆς
προθεσμίας
τοῦ πατρός.
· ISBE: ἐπίτροπος, epı́tropos, οἰκονόμος, oikonómos. These two terms denote similar positions. The exact difference cannot be clearly defined, as they are sometimes almost synonymous. The two are found together in Gal_4:2
· ISBE: Lightfoot and Ellicott think that the former refers rather to the guardianship of persons, the child's legal representative, while the latter word refers to the head servant appointed to manage the household or property (compare 2Ma_11:1; 2Ma_13:2). ISBE
2Ma_11:1
Not long after the,
Lysias the king's protector [ἐπίτροπος] and cousin [συγγενὴς], who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the
things that were done.
2Ma_11:1 Μετ᾿ ὀλίγον
δὲ παντελῶς
χρονίσκον Λυσίας
ἐπίτροπος τοῦ
βασιλέως καὶ
συγγενὴς καὶ ἐπὶ
τῶν πραγμάτων
λίαν βαρέως φέρων
ἐπὶ τοῖς γεγονόσι
2Ma_13:2
And with him Lysias
his protector [ἐπίτροπον], and ·ruler of his affairs [ἐπὶ
τῶν πραγμάτων], having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred
and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants
two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
2Ma_13:2 καὶ σὺν
αὐτῷ Λυσίαν τὸν
ἐπίτροπον καὶ ἐπὶ
τῶν πραγμάτων, ἕκαστον
ἔχοντα δύναμιν
Ἑλληνικὴν πεζῶν
μυριάδας ἕνδεκα
καὶ ἱππέων
πεντακισχιλίους
τριακοσίους
καὶ ἐλέφαντας
εἴκοσι δύο, ἅρματα
δὲ δρεπανηφόρα
τριακόσια.
Managers of People & Things
1Ch_28:1
– “rulers” ASV of people & things
1Ch_29:6 – managers of people; LXX/ABP: “managers of the king”
1Ch_29:8 – ABP: under/through WEB the hand of Jehiel the
Gershonite
Luk_4:20 – ·Under-rowing-Officer/Attendant [ὑπηρέτῃ] [of] the scroll/book/Bible [τὸ
βιβλίον]
Luk_13:14 – the Outraged
[ἀγανακτῶν*] ·Arch-synagogue-ruler/leader [ὁ ἀρχισυνάγωγος] at healing on Sabbath
[* (A) Strong:
From ἄγαν agan (much)
and ἄχθος achhos̄ (grief; akin to the base of G43 {ἀγκάλη})…
(B) WS: from ágan (n.f.), very much, and
áchthos (n.f.), pain, grief… (C) AMGL: ἄγαν,
much, ἄχομαι, to grieve]
Luk_8:41 – Jairus – ·Arch-ruler of the synagogue / 'leader of
the synagogue' [ἄρχων
τῆς συναγωγῆς]
The 'leader of the synagogue' (NRSV, Luke 8: 41) was an official
appointed by the elders to look after the building, its contents, and its
arrangements for worship.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100433489;jsessionid=29CBC5978C682058101E155B67F4FA1C
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Luk_8:49 – τοῦ
ἀρχισυναγώγου (compounded)
Household Managers
incl.
possessions, servants, etc.
Managing the Household includes managing
servants, possessions, and finances.
See: Joseph’s
Stewardship – Joseph was a Steward Over Potiphar’s House, Then He Got a Steward Over
His Own House
1Ki_16:9
– Arza...over the house in Tirzah
· stū´ẽrd (בּית על אישׁ, 'ı̄sh ‛al bayith ISBE (comp. Gen_43:16, Gen_43:19 Gen_44:1; 1Ki_16:9)
· ISBE: King Elah in his brief reign of two years had a steward in charge of his household
Isa_22:15 – Shebna the "Treasurer"
·
(A) the
‘steward’
MT: Shebna… “treasurer”; margin: “steward” ISBE (הסּכן, ha-ṣōkhēn
ISBE)
LXX: [τὸν ταμίαν]
-- ABStrong: “dispenser, steward… controller of receipts and expenditure,
treasurer, paymaster”
· (B) WEB: …"over the house" / CAB: "Go into the chamber" / ABP: cubicle [παστοφόριον]
·
LXX: εἰς τὸ παστοφόριον
πρὸς Σομναν τὸν
ταμίαν
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ABStrong: 1Ch_9:26, 1Ch_9:33, 1Ch_23:28, 1Ch_26:16, 1Ch_28:12, 2Ch_31:11, Ezr_8:29, Isa_22:15, Jer_35:4, Eze_40:17, Eze_40:38
Gen_15:2
– Eliezer... [“son of acquisition”] who will inherit my estate
·
“son of
acquisition” [ben-mesheḳ] / “heir.” ISBE /
“possessor” ASV
·
LXX: ὁ
δὲ ·υἱὸς
Μασεκ [see Hebrew above]
τῆς οἰκογενοῦς
μου, οὗτος
Δαμασκὸς
Ελιεζερ
Abraham's Elder Servant: Over House, Possessions, Camels, & More
· Gen_24:2 – Abraham's elder servant of his house, who had rule over all his possessions
· Gen_24:5 – the servant asks about the terms of the commitment
·
Gen_24:10
– Servant takes lots of camels
& goods
‘servant took ten camels... (with) a variety of good
things of his master's ...to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor’
1Ch_28:1 – “rulers” ASV of people & things
Luk_8:3 – Chuzas, ·Herod's Steward [ἐπιτρόπου ῾Ηρῴδου]
· Chuzas was Herod's steward, and his wife Joanna followed and helped Jesus ~ ISBE
Mat_20:8 – the turner-upon/steward [λέγει ὁ κύριος τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος (says to…) τῷ ἐπιτρόπῳ* αὐτοῦ (≈ Gal_4:2)] who pays the laborers at the close of the day
* VGNT: very common in connexion with
the guardianship of minors (cf. Gal_4:2)
LSJ: one to whom the charge of anything
is entrusted, steward, trustee, administrator…=
Lat. procurator…governor, viceroy…executor…trustee, guardian…guardian,
protector
WS: …to permit. Steward, manager, agent.
A person entrusted to act in another's name or to whose care anything is
committed by another (Mat_20:8); a steward or treasurer to a prince, or a deputy
governor, or a Roman procurator; a guardian to whom the care
of orphans is committed, the same as paidagōgós (G3807), a guardian
(Gal_4:2). In Luk_8:3, a manager of private affairs. [is WS correct?]
City Manager
1Ch_28:1
– “rulers” ASV of people & things
Rom_16:23 – ·Erastus the household-law-er* of the city [῎Εραστος ὁ οἰκονόμος τῆς πόλεως]
* the oikonomos / “treasurer” ISBE of the city.
God Owns Everything
Psa_24:1 – The earth is the Lord’s and the
fullness of it (quoted in 1Co 10 x2)
[Psa_89:1 – God made them?]
Psa_115:15-16 – God made heavens "...the earth
has he given to the children of men" (WEB/~CAB)
1Co_10:26, 1Co_10:28 – earth is the Lord’s (quoting Psa_24:1)
[Rev_4:11, Rev_10:6 – God mad all]
Take care of the garden.
Be fruitful and multiply it’s resources
with babies.
>>Read
You’re supposed to “increase” His
resources (Mat_25: etc.)
And now management is also spiritual.
What Do You Have That You Did Not
Receive?
1Co_4:7 CAB For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive what you have, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?
1Co_4:7 τίς
γάρ σε
διακρίνει;
τί δὲ ἔχεις ὃ
οὐκ ἔλαβες;
εἰ δὲ καὶ ἔλαβες,
τί καυχᾶσαι
ὡς μὴ λαβών;
You Are Not Your Own
1Co_6:19 CAB Or do you not know that your body
is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
1Co_6:19 ἢ οὐκ
οἴδατε ὅτι τὸ
σῶμα ὑμῶν
ναὸς τοῦ ἐν
ὑμῖν ῾Αγίου
Πνεύματός ἐστιν,
οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ
Θεοῦ, καὶ οὐκ
ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν;
Mat_21:33-39 – the Parable of the vineyard where they persecuted those
sent to them
In the Parable of the vineyard, the
farmer’s got a mortally wrong idea about how they should treat the owner-Lord’s
property when He was gone…
Cheerful Giving
Why is Being Willing So Important in Giving?
See: Refusing Payment
Stewardship Realization – in Light of Monotheistic
Revelation
Deu_8:17-18 – it is God who gives you strength to gain wealth
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 ABP And [were glad the people] over the voluntary
offering, for from [heart a full] they were volunteering to the LORD. And David
the king was glad [gladness with great].
…
1Ch_29:14 WEB But who am I, and what is my people, that we should
be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of
your own have we given you.
1Ch_29:14 ABP And who am I, and what is my people, that we were strong to
volunteer to you thus? For [are
yours all things], and of your things we give to you.
1Ch_29:15 WEB For we are strangers before you, and
foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and
there is no abiding.
1Ch_29:15 For we
are sojourners before you, and sojourners as all our fathers, and [are as
shadows our days] upon the earth, and there is no waiting.
1Ch_29:16 WEB Yahweh our God, all this store that we have
prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes of your hand, and is all
your own.
1Ch_29:16 O LORD our God, to all
this abundance which we prepared for you to build a house to your name -- to the holy name, [from your hand for it is], and
[yours are all things].
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 And I know, O LORD, that
you are the one examining hearts, and loving righteousness. And I in singleness
of heart volunteered all these things.
And now, your people, being found here, see with gladness, volunteering to you.
1Ch_29:18 WEB 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, and Isaac, and Israel, of the one of our fathers, keep of them
the thing shaped of the thoughts
of the heart of your people into the
eon! and straighten out their hearts to you!
1Ch_29:19 WEB and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart,
to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all
these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.
1Ch_29:19 And [Solomon to my son give heart a good]! to observe your commandments, and your testimonies, and your orders, and [unto completion to lead all], and to build the furnishing of your house which I prepared.
TSK: if: 2Co_9:7, Exo_25:2, Exo_35:5, Exo_35:21, Exo_35:22, Exo_35:29, 1Ch_29:3-18, 2Ch_6:8, Pro_19:22, Mar_12:42-44, Mar_14:7, Mar_14:8, Luk_7:44-46, Luk_12:47, Luk_12:48, Luk_16:10, Luk_21:1-4, 1Pe_4:10 (Giving/Steward)
1Co_9, 2Co 8 – 9 – The Giving Chapters
1Co_16:1-2;
2Co_8:1-4; 2Co_9:5-7;
Act_4:32-37; Gal_6:8-10
Unlike the Old Covenant, The New Testament demands that ALL giving be done in freedom from a clean heart.
Also consider: The favor of giving discussed in the letters to Corinth (as partly included documented in the Favor Of God Bible study)
A Steward of Tithe
· Lev_27:30 – tithe of produce belongs to Lord
· stewards recognize that money is not their own, just because they seemed to hold it in their hand.
· Num_18:24-28 – Tithe of the Tithe
· even gifts given to Levites are tithed to the priest.
· Mal_3:8-10 – stop robbing resources from the tithe (talk about a bad steward that does not recognize that “his possessions” actually belong to someone else...)
·
1Co_9:13-14
– Temple Workers
are Alter Eaters – those who preach should live from Good message, just
like the Jewish temple workers
Faithfulness Required
of Stewards
Stewards – they can be Faithful or Unfaithful…
Don't Waste
-- Under Construction --
Don’t Gamble
-- Under Construction --
Jacob’s
Stewardship
Jacob was ≈ Laban's steward
· Jacob was faithful and put in charge of all flocks
· ISBE: Jacob seems to have been Laban's steward for a time, as he apparently had full charge of the flocks and herds of his master.
Jesus’ Stewardship Parables – Targeted at the Disciples & Apostles
Luk_12:35-38, Luk_12:42 – Faithful Steward [ὁ πιστὸς οἰκονόμος]
· disciples to act as stewards (in His absence) ~ ISBE
Mat_21:33-46 – the Wicked Land-workers/farmers/Husbandmen [ἐξέδοτο αὐτὸν γεωργοῖς vs. οἰκοδεσπότης…ἀπεδήμησεν]
Mat_24:45 – Faithful & mindful vs. Nasty servants [δοῦλος]
Mat_25:14-30 – the Talents Parable / The parable of the talents [τάλαντα] -- seen below (in next point)
Luk_19:12-27 – Parable of the Pounds/Minae [μνᾶς] Parable -- seen below (in next point)
Overseer’s
Stewardship
Tit_1:7 – Overseer [ἐπίσκοπον] = God's steward [Θεοῦ οἰκονόμον]
Apostle’s
Stewardship of Mysteries
1Co_4:1-2 – Stewards of
God’s mysteries [οἰκονόμους
μυστηρίων
Θεοῦ]
·
‘Moreover it is required
in stewards, that a man be found faithful.’ 1Co_4:2
1Co_4:1 Οὕτως
ἡμᾶς
λογιζέσθω ἄνθρωπος,
ὡς ὑπηρέτας
Χριστοῦ καὶ οἰκονόμους
μυστηρίων
Θεοῦ.
1Co_4:2 TSBὃ TSBδὲ |Aωδε| λοιπὸν
ζητεῖται ἐν
τοῖς οἰκονόμοις,
ἵνα πιστός
τις εὑρεθῇ.
Stewardship Includes
Eating, etc.
1Co_9:13-14
– Temple Workers are Alter Eaters – those who preach
should live from Good message, just like the Jewish temple workers
The Stewardship of Favor – For All Disciples
1Pe_4:10 – Household-Law-ers of the varied/diverse/multi-faceted/many/manifold favor of God [οἰκονόμοι ποικίλης χάριτος Θεοῦ]
· A requirement from each of us to deacon-serve [διακονοῦντες], even if we are not established over (or even by) an Assembly
1Pe_4:10 ἕκαστος
καθὼς ἔλαβε
χάρισμα, εἰς
ἑαυτοὺς αὐτὸ
διακονοῦντες
ὡς καλοὶ οἰκονόμοι
ποικίλης
χάριτος Θεοῦ·
Stewardship Accountability
Accountability to whom?
External Versus Internal Accountability
· Properly choosing external versus internal accountability depends on who's who in each accountability scenario
· External accountability is fitting upon those who do not know better than those who govern them
· External accountability risks ignorance and injustice when superimposed over those with higher values
· External accountability can userp ignorance over knowledge, which is an intolerable crime that should never be done.
· External accountability ignores the real virtues of those in the trenches when userped inappropriately
Multi-Level Accountability
Mat_8:9-11; Luk_7:8 – I myself am a man under authority and I have servants
under me
Faithful in Little & Much
The Reward of Faithfulness
Luk_16:9-12 (comp. v Luk_16:1-8) – Unrighteous Money* vs. True
[τοῦ
μαμωνᾶ* τῆς ἀδικίας…τῷ
ἀδίκῳ
μαμωνᾷ* vs. τὸ ἀληθινὸν]
unfaithful/unbelieving
with unrighteous money/wealth/riches*
vs. Being Believed with True
Unfaithful/unrighteous actions make you dirty
in the same sense as the unrighteous money you sin with.
Stewardship: unfaithful in another’s
unrighteous money vs. Having your own True
Luk_19:17, etc. – Faithful & well done with least/last minas [μνᾶς (v16)…ἐλαχίστῳ (v17)], now have cities [ἴσθι ἐξουσίαν ἔχων ἐπάνω δέκα πόλεων]
Mat_25:21 – Faithful & well done with meager/few talents [τάλαντα (v20)…ἐπὶ ὀλίγα (v21)], now have many things [ἐπὶ πολλῶν σε καταστήσω]
Heb_3:2 – faithful…Moses…in all His house
* “Mammon
in Hebrew (ממון) means
"money". The word was adopted to modern Hebrew to mean wealth.”
The spelling
μαμμωνᾷ refers to "a Syrian deity, god
of riches; Hence riches, wealth"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
Pro_17:2 WEB A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
Pro_17:2 LB A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brothers.
Pro_17:2 οἰκέτης
νοήμων κρατήσει
δεσποτῶν ἀφρόνων,
ἐν δὲ ἀδελφοῖς
διελεῖται μέρη.
Testing Spiritual & Physical
Stewardships
(A) Testing Spiritual Stewardship
1 Corinthians 4 teaches us that a person's faithfulness as a spiritual
steward [οἰκονόμους
μυστηρίων
Θεοῦ (1Co_4:1)] is
exclusively determined by God's judgment, both now and at the revelation of His
righteous judgment...
The morality of Spiritual Stewardship is
inherently hidden from the eyes of social accountability.
And as is always the case with judging:
If humans participate in God's judgment of
a steward's faithfulness, it will not be as the beginning of Matthew 7 but as
the middle and end of it:
God's Judgment about a person (Rom_2) is revealed by their...
· state of pig-ish-ness
· words out of the overflow of their heart (words are deeds, as seen below)
· level of obedience (especially since this is the proper canonical climactic standard)
And again, as is always the case with
judging:
Repeating God's judgment calls is not
making judgment calls all by yourself as a human.
Acknowledging God's communications about who
is a pig, wolf, false prophet, and an apostate who is rejected at judgment, is
not judging.
Acknowledging is not judging.
Knowing is not judging.
Having caution and Knowing that someone is
judged is OBEDIENCE, whereas making the judgment calls yourself is
DISOBEDIENCE.
(B) Testing Physical Stewardship
Physical Stewardship can be tested very easily (especially compared to the
mysteries of Spiritual Stewardship) as long as you have a moral compass that
has been acquainted with Truth.
If you have been estranged from Truth,
then you risk being like most leaders, owners, landlords, managers,
stakeholders, organizations, institutions, businesses and companies that are
morally bankrupt and totally incompetent of establishing accountability for
themselves, much
less are they able to do so for
others.
Conventionalism does little more than
institutionalizing Injustice.
Conventionalism predictably maximizes
short-term profits by always prioritizing the wrong people who live the wrong
way instead of rewarding and prioritizing those who live poor, right, work the
hardest, and deserve the greatest rewards. -- That’s why we always hurt waiting
for the Judgement and the coming of Justice in the meantime.
And in that sense: remember, conventionalism
is essentially a synonym for worldliness -- so it's no wonder why it's loaded
with sin.
(C) Summary of Spiritual & Physical Stewardship-Morality
· Testing Spiritual Stewardship is inherently difficult, and requires the fruit of deeds -- of obedience or disobedience.
· Testing Physical Stewardship is relatively easy & accessible, but requires the blameless logic of embracing an unconventionally excellent, higher level of serious morality and acquaintance with the Truth.
Demoting Unfaithful Stewards
; 3/11/23; 3/24/23-3/25/23 4/6/23-4/7/23;
4/9/23
Why Stewards Fail on Earth
Most people care much more about experiencing life than producing something valuable with it
(they are experimentalists), and for this they will
deserve every bit of hellfire they get.
Judged to Demotion
Because ‘stewards got to
be found faithful’ therefore if they are not then they must be demoted or even
fired.
Micromanaging, for example, is a form
of Demotion (as discussed later).
Stewards are required to be faithful (1Co_4:2), therefore when they are found otherwise
they are ‘assigned a portion among the unfaithful/unbelieving’ (Mat_24:51; Luk_12:35-48, OR Luk_12:42-48, esp. Luk_12:45-46, Luk_12:56).
We’ve Got to increase what has been
entrusted… we’ve got to be good stewards
The owner gets really mad and judgmental
with experientialists who sit around and enjoy life by spending His substance
selfishly without regard to increasing His interests.
Remember that Lazy wicked servant who put
his Lord’s value in dirt…
Luk_16:1-12 – Unrighteous Steward [τὸν οἰκονόμον
τῆς ἀδικίας
(Luk_16:8)]
· Key verses: Luk_16:1-8 & Luk_16:10-12 (esp. Luk_16:1-2, etc.)
· Remember to Consider the sociological characters in this parable…
·
(1) Rich man [ἄνθρωπός
τις ἦν
πλούσιος, ὃς εἶχεν
…(Luk_16:1 – 8-13th words)] / the lord (x4) [ὁ κύριός
μου (Luk_16:3) / τοῦ κυρίου
ἑαυτοῦ…τῷ κυρίῳ
μου (Luk_16:5) / ὁ κύριος
τὸν οἰκονόμον
τῆς ἀδικίας
(Luk_16:8) ]…
…who owned possessions [τὰ ὑπάρχοντα
αὐτοῦ – (Luk_16:3 (final) 21st-23rd
words)] [incl. TSBαυτου]
· (2) Household-law-er [οἰκονόμον (Luk_16:1 – 14th word) / τὸν οἰκονόμον τῆς ἀδικίας (Luk_16:8)] / (Household-servant [Οὐδεὶς οἰκέτης (Luk_16:13)])
· (3) Debtors [A/TSB χρεο|ωφειλετῶν…ὀφείλεις (Luk_16:5, etc.)] with “bills” [δέξαι σου τὸ γράμμα (Luk_16:6-7)] (who were supposed to give “the lord” more possessions: Luk_16:4-7)
see: Despot is
Lord
We can learn a lot of practical and moral
lessons from examples of stewards being demoted.
Not only do we learn (more specifically) about
demoting a steward from this parable, but we also learn a lot about the overall
principles of stewardship in general as well, and what type of people it
involves.
Remember Ownership, Demotion, & Death, & Then Escape While You Can!
· Notice, remember, and consider the sociological relationship between these characters in the Unrighteous Steward parable, especially in the moral reality of “ownership”.
· This parable correlates with the moral reality of us all being stewards of various resources under the One Lord of heaven who has appointed the bodies of mankind to be demoted by death.
·
Video: “you have to imagine a future, but without you
in it” (TEDxUCO)
This guy had a heart attack at 34.
Source: Stewardship： How Leaders Live For Tomorrow_ Today ｜
Jarrett Jobe ｜ TEDxUCO
· Generous mindfulness is the only solution given to us for escape in this Unrighteous Steward parable, as a conscientious steward who is on his way out (and this is part of the Good Message [εὐαγγελίζεται] in Luk_16:16).
· There is no receiving forgiveness and mercy without also participating in it by (also) giving it out to others, by faith.
· You got to let go to be let go (as is always the case with real faith).
· We’ve got to let go of our meager “little” substance to redemptively mercy others so that we can fully engage and receive infinitely bigger redemptive mercy from heaven for ourselves.
Sin Guarantees Demotion by Death
>>>>>>>>
· Just as the devil was demoted from his lofty position by sin so also Humanity has been scheduled to be demoted by death.
· The more we sin the faster we bring about our demotion prematurely.
· Always keep demotion in the forefront of your mind so that it won't be permanent.
· We are scheduled to be demoted from stewardship over the Earth and lose all of the temporary benefits of this physical creation...
· We got to do something to assure ourselves of being reinstated and even promoted as part of the newer ruling team of God's Heavenly Kingdom.
· We got to apprehend some seriously special virtue of meekness to be a part of the team who inherits the Earth.
· You better do something quick to “quit” ahead of time from the flesh's earthly kingdom so that you won't get permanently fired with it when it all perishes in permanent demotion.
Ugly Money -- Considerations from Luke 16
Remember How Evil It Is
· It is unrighteous
· Pagan Syrian Deity
· Untrue
· Not your own
· Even when used in a good way, it is still dirty (as summarized above)
·
And it is still deceitful (Mat_13:7,
Mat_13:22 & 1Ti_6:9-10
[παγίδα –
trap/snare], etc.)
Someone Else Owns Everything (Reminder)
· The people of this life have dubbed themselves “Lord” over the ownership of the possessions they have acquired.
· Are you going to keep “your” possessions after death when your body “fails”? -- this is a key question throughout Luke 16…
· Death is always eminent for humans.
· Permanent demotion is eminent for those who own without restriction (1Co_7 & like the rich young ruler).
· Failure is guaranteed for those who are not gripped by the reverence of the accountability of stewardship.
· All of the assets which we hold in our hands are borrowed, both physical and spiritual, and the righteous live in the reverence of this reality by remembering and acknowledging the eminence of death and the coming Judgement.
· When you're focusing on stewardship you're carrying the realization that the things in your hands don't belong to you, and you won’t get to keep them forever.
· So: Avoid permanent demotion.
· Prepare yourself to give a morally successful answer whenever you have to give back all the things you borrowed from the King of Justice.
The Point: Demotion is an
important element in stewardship accountability to righteous consequences.
Our primary responsibility is to take these
consequences to heart for ourselves and fear the owner-Lord to perfect our holy
behavior in the fear of God (2Co_7:1).
However, how do we also interface with the
consequences of demotion when it comes to holding each other horizontally
accountable to be faithful?
Empowerment vs. Criticism
Accountability to Empower Ability
Empower a stewardship before judging or criticizing it.
Empowerment & Criticism Basics
·
Jesus
empowered 12 Disciples -- He is our perfect example!
Did Jesus criticize? Yes, but He empowered first…
· Criticism, anxiety, & negativity -- dis-empowers others.
· “Not Judging” is part of the Good Message… (Mat_7:, etc.)
· Good message: die to sin & live to righteousness with Jesus -- die to untrue criticism and live by scientific Truth to empower others by faithfulness (the real righteousness/justice of God)
The World’s vs. The Assembly’s Empowerment
· Among the Lordships of the world, Empowerment is typically considered a top-down process.
·
In the
brotherhood of the righteous, mutual corporate Empowerment is everyone’s
responsibility, from the least to the greatest, and everywhere in-between.
(as seen with (A) Ruth to Naomi, (B) Jews to Ezra in Ezr_10:2-4, etc.; (C) using our favor-gifts as
faithful household-law-ers/stewards toward each other, as seen in The
Stewardship of Favor)
· Empowerment generally helps collaboration in the World and the Assembly, but they glorify different goals.
· The World’s Empowerment aims at independence and autonomy, but the Empowerment of the righteous glorifies increasing codependence and interdependence.
· The World’s Empowerment can draw off of a great variety of powers within the profane inclusiveness of their paganism to achieve goals unlawfully.
· The Assemblies Empowerment is always the Divine power of virtue and can never cheat to gain results, and always outlives this life.
Reverencing Lack of Ability
Reverencing
Lack of Ability & Having
Integrity to Make Up For It
· Initially lacking ability is a fundamental providence directly from the Creator who ultimately designed and ordained all things and all people.
· Our abilities were delivered to us in a state of uncultivated lack by the Creator, and some of us were dealt with more ability and others with less, by default.
· It is our mysterious/“strange” responsibility to carefully, diligently, and faithfully increase ability, that initially came lacking and uncultivated, in order to generate value in and through ourselves and others.
· Lacking ability (physically and spiritually) and the responsibility to increase it is a foundational enigma of this life and this entire age…
· A person can be underdeveloped and even disabled because of (A) their own faults, and/or because of (B) pure circumstantial providence -- therefore…
· Using shear results as a measurement of “a steward’s faithfulness to cultivate their own value” is morally illegal, hazardous, reckless, foolish, illogical guesswork. -- That’s why Jesus condemned the sins of the flesh judging others!
· You first have to empower other people’s lack of ability before you can logically criticize them for being unfaithful to cultivate it.
· You have a moral and logical prerequisite responsibility to make sure someone’s potential has been helped before you can say that they neglected reaching it.
· When a person lacks ability and/or has disabilities through no fault of their own, you had better arrest your heart with fear and drop to your knees before ever criticizing them, because you are really, in fact, criticizing the One Who created them and subjected them to this weakness.
· You cannot keep despising “the weakness of God” and inherit heaven (1Co_1:25 – below).
·
Despising weakness
in others is the exact opposite of increasing value in them: edifying them,
building them up, and empowering them.
(That’s disobeying the fundamental human virtue that the Creator has commanded
all of us to increase in.)
· You cannot despise God-ordained weakness and fulfill your duty to increase value in others!
·
The virtue and integrity requirements of
empowerment incriminate the unscientific criminal guesswork of the judgments
and criticisms of the flesh.
·
Empowerment requirements expose and
incriminate the wrong metrics of shear results.
· When we don’t reverence the Truth sufficiently, we criticize people for the unfortunate circumstances that the Creator subjected them to.
· Despising God who subjected people to unfortunate disabilities will condemn you as a breaker of the Law (Lev_19:14 – below).
· Despising God’s weakness inside a person means we even risk (and essentially guarantee) criticizing stewards who are better than ourselves (as discussed a little later…).
Lev_19:14 – No Cursing Deaf Or
…Blind
Lev_19:14 WEB " 'You shall not curse the deaf,
nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your
God. I am Yahweh.
Lev_19:14 CAB You shall not revile [κακῶς ἐρεῖς – speak
nasty of] the
deaf, neither shall you put a stumbling block in the
way of the blind; and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the
Lord your God.
Lev_19:14 οὐ κακῶς
ἐρεῖς κωφὸν καὶ
ἀπέναντι
τυφλοῦ οὐ
προσθήσεις σκάνδαλον
καὶ φοβηθήσῃ κύριον
τὸν θεόν σου· ἐγώ
εἰμι κύριος ὁ
θεὸς ὑμῶν.
Despising “the weakness of God” (1Co_1:25) includes despising those with disabilities (Lev_19:14) and pushing them further down after the Creator afflicted them, and this is a dreadful guilt.
1Co_1:25 LSV
because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God
is stronger than men;
1Co_1:25 ὅτι
τὸ μωρὸν τοῦ
Θεοῦ
σοφώτερον τῶν
ἀνθρώπων ἐστί,
καὶ τὸ ἀσθενὲς
τοῦ Θεοῦ ἰσχυρότερον
τῶν ἀνθρώπων
TSBἐστί.
God will despise, disarrange, and dismantle you for attacking His Glorious
weakness in other people (as seen throughout 1st Corinthians 1 – 2
and onward).
Indeed, such critics are cursed so bad
that their cursedness is remembered from Psa_69 on into the New Testament for this
very crime:
Psa_69:26 WEB
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of
those whom you have hurt.
Psa_69:26 CAB
because they persecuted him whom You have smitten; and they have added
to the grief of my wounds.
Psa_69:26 (68:27) ὅτι ὃν
σὺ ἐπάταξας, αὐτοὶ
κατεδίωξαν, καὶ
ἐπὶ τὸ ἄλγος τῶν
τραυματιῶν
σου προσέθηκαν.
Read all of Psalms 69 (incl. Psa_69:9 – zeal for Your house, and the crucifixion that follows) and compare how it is
quoted in Rom_11:8-10, etc.
TSK+:
For: Psa_109:16, 2Ch_28:9 [etc.], Job_19:21, Job_19:22, Zec_1:15, 1Th_2:15
whom: Isa_53:4, Isa_53:10, Zec_13:7
Exo_16:2-21 (esp. Exo_16:7-8); Num_16:11, etc. – Who are we (Who is Moses and Aaron)? You have complained against the Lord
A Bad Steward & A Bad Critic
…We have the potential to be both
Knowing better but doing worse & criticizing without empowering -- these are both guilty in the same ways
An informed steward is without excuse if he does not produce the best,
Just as…
A critical onlooker is without excuse if they won’t empower.
We need to empower to not earn judgement,
Just as…
We need to embrace / receive / take hold of empowerment to not earn criticism.
We need to oppose laziness, complacency, & unfaithfulness,
Just as…
We need to oppose false metrics, hypocrisy, & the judgements of the flesh.
Romans 1-2 is a Good Example of “righteous judgement”:
· They knew better
· They were without excuse
· They would not escape judgement
· Paul criticized their decisions because they had been empowered to do better
Learning From Bad Examples of Criticism
We Can
Learn Some Lessons from Other
People’s Bad Criticism Failures
Have we been empowering before criticizing, and have we been receiving empowerment to avoid earning criticism?
Many times throughout my life, especially when working with secular people, I've been criticized about a problem and the accusations themselves were the first time I heard or knew about the problem which they had been unhappy/disgruntled about for some time beforehand... -- that's illegal criticism!
You’re not allowed to hold your tongue and harbor things/despising in your heart (~ Lev_19:17), and then add insult to injury by criticizing when you finally do open your mouth as though you actually know anything better when you have been sinning much worse…
Furthermore: a truly helpless person is not allowed to be criticized, because you risk blaspheming the Creator in your sinning hypocrisy... -- the critic is the criminal and they are creating the negativity that they are blaspheming the other person of doing.
What are our vulnerabilities? Have we ever: (A) been assuming our own advantage and misunderstanding the scope of another person's stewardship, and/or, (B) has the criticized steward just not begged enough, and failed at humility and loving the person with an advantage enough to take hold of their empowerment?
Have Knowledge Before Giving Criticism
Accountability to Fake Knowledge?
· Rather than holding others to unrighteous ideals outside of their ability (i.e. Fake Knowledge), we need to hold ourselves accountable to empower others (Real Knowledge).
·
Don't exalt fake knowledge over those who
are begging for knowledge to improve (those stewardships that are better than
you).
·
You don't know or understand anything
that you're unable to empower learners to do (others who are ready to learn).
You are required to express your knowledge,
in speech and or writing, in a morally and logically correct way, without
unneeded/unnecessary negativity.
(note that this is not a "timed
test", and only cheaters and perverts try to constrain a time restraint in
order to deceive the gullible and foolish... ~ Jer27)
The inability and or avoidance of
expressing yourself in a morally and logically correct way proves that you
don't have real knowledge and have no business being critical of others with
your fake knowledge.
This is why carefully writing out your
thoughts in a structured way is such a morally excellent requirement and
exercise, since it requires you to think in a particular mode that is more
inherently structured and logical, and face your potential lack of
understanding and any disarrangements, and cross-examine your words with a
certain level of thoughtful accountability before superimposing them against
another.
You don't necessarily have to have a
well-polished writing, but you do need to reframe your thoughts against the
integrity structure of logic and learn to think with more reality.
writing thoughtfully and comprehensively
means we're being logical and prioritizing real value production, and we're
submitting ourselves to be conformed to an excellent standard of communicating real
knowledge to empower others.
Reminder: stop wishing for mind reading
from others, and start wishing, in prayer, for the logical integrity and
virtuous strength of real knowledge.
and of course remember, if you don't judge
you will not be judged (in regard to logic and expression, for example), and
yet at the same time, we need to grow up and not only remove the beams from our
own eyes but also we need to help remove specs from our brother's eyes...
Who’s Accountable to Sewing & Reaping?
Gal_6:7-8 – what a man sews that he will also reap [ὃ γὰρ ἐὰν
σπείρῃ ἄνθρωπος,
τοῦτο καὶ
θερίσει]
TSK on Gal_6:7-8 -- Enhanced With Summaries
Job_4:8 – Planting & reaping in bad
Pro_1:30-31 – Eat fruit of not listening to Wisdom
Pro_6:14-19, etc. – scheming
Pro_11:17-19 – Moral Reward for Good & Bad
Hos_8:7 – Planting bad, reaping worse, and strangers eat the scraps
Hos_10:12 – Planting Righteousness & Seeking
Lord
(MT: Break up fallow ground)
Luk_16:25 – Good or bad things in this life - reversed in the next
Rom_2:6-10 – Rewarded according to works
2Co_9:6-7
– Sparingly or abundantly planting & reaping (by giving to others)
Plants & People – Judging
Output Based on Input
· Galatians 6 uses planting and reaping as a parable for moral things, and we can apply it in similar ways as well.
· You cannot demand that God should give you more out of the ground then what you planted.
· And even if an unlikely harvest happens anyway, despite your lack of investment, it is to God's credit not yours.
· So also with those you work with: you are not allowed to violate the economy of sewing and reaping and pretend like they should give over more than what is given/sewed/allowed unto them.
· If they perform anyway, it is to God’s credit and possibly their credit, not yours, and you better not criticize them in the meantime for your own failure to empower (or know any better).
Judgement Warnings for Critics of Stewards
You Will Be Judged Like You Judge
When evaluating various stewardships on
Earth, we've got to remember that this is all about being careful to evaluate
scientifically so as to not determine the judgement from yourself, and by it,
bring judgment upon yourself...
Mat_7 – don’t judge
1Co_4:5 – judge
nothing before the time
Rom_14:4 – who
are you to judge another man's servant
Criticizing is Dangerous
· Criticizing is inherently dangerous, even if it is against a guilty person, because you need to display mercy, etc.
· Criticizing is even more dangerous when it is against a virtuous stewardship.
Righteous Judgment for
Stewardships
the real Jesus practices righteous
judgment, not according to impulsive feelings or the sight of his own eyes
Isa_42:3; Mat_12:20 – he will not break a bruised ring nor quench a smoldering
flax
the real Jesus is so engaged in being all
Truth that there's no room to criticize poor crouching beggars
Beware of Critical Hypocrisy Against Good Stewardship
What’s Wrong with Most Critical
Managers Today?
· It used to be that leaders were more prone to admire hard workers like Joseph because of their integrity and the beautiful exaltations of their virtue.
· As time has gone on and the modern age has come upon humanity, the world has learned (or re-learned) a new level to an evil lesson: that prostitution pays.
· Business leaders today are notorious for prioritizing the wrong things and the wrong people to get shear results in the wrong ways.
· Bad leaders prioritize: Pride, Flesh, “luck”, personality, soulish-ness, subjective impulsive impressions/criticisms, Shear Results, & Short-term exaltations (appearance of success)
· Bad leaders despise/criticize: Faith, virtue, scientific integrity, ethics, patience, empowering the best, prioritizing what’s right, investing in long-term/real success, circumstantial inconvenience, random providential inability, & good stewards.
· The perverted managers of this life will even foolishly criticize a righteous steward who is better than themselves when the steward doesn’t move fast enough to gain the short-term exaltations of shear results at any cost.
·
The leaders of this age/life are
anti-cross and pro-flesh.
·
Flesh balls will by no means deny and die
to the short-sighted selfish pride of maintaining confidence even when being
wrong, and much less are they powerful to resurrect to meekness, virtue, and
scientific integrity to patiently search out and praise the Truth in good
stewardships at the expense of their impulsive selfish pride.
· The Strong critics of this age violate Sewing & Reaping and inevitably blaspheme Good Stewards, even when they are being diligent and careful to prioritize doing things in right/virtuous/better ways.
· Virtue is a power and requires power to be done virtuously.
· People of virtue often need more empowerment than others to give over morally superior results of real excellence that no one else can produce.
· You’re not allowed to be lazy, proud, and perverted to criticize someone for working harder to make up for your lack of virtue and do the good you were not willing to do.
· Wicked critics of this life violate all personal integrity to measure shallow output results while ignoring the scientific requirement and prerequisite of giving over empowering input…
· Instead of prioritizing the metrics of Truth and virtue, they will prioritize appearance and immediate gratification without thinking.
· Whenever bad falls upon a good steward, critics will despise and exploit the vulnerability and criticize a good steward for providential inability based on circumstantial results and lack of convenience and lack of lust, and kick a good worker when they are down instead of praising and empowering them.
· A good manager who deserves to be a leader and is worthy of their role will make the most of a steward who is even weaker than themselves, and much more, they can make exponential success of one who is better than themselves, since worthy leaders are good at giving empowering input, whereas…
· A wicked leader trusts in, and depends on, hiring “lucky” people who are better at gambling then others, and are skilled at short-term wins without long-term virtue.
· Preferring lucky gambling rather than virtuous excellence is sinfully cheating your way to a false success.
· Real success is winning through virtue.
· “Luck” can be when good things seem to come to you, like success, even when you don’t have virtue to be worthy of it, and even when you are willing to sin to get it.
· A sinning person might achieve short-term success, or they might be swiftly judged and punished -- in both cases they fail, and whatever good they may seem to enjoy in the meantime is not to their credit.
· Consider how “luck” can be a profane power of this evil age that makes a leader and a steward seem successful in this life (for the short-term) without Divine virtue to be worthy of it (in the long-term).
· Only virtue-power (integrity) lasts so much for the long-term that it even outlives this life.
· Cheating with the pride of luck can only achieve a short-term appearance of success that always ends in a trap of foolish and destructive lusts (1Ti_6:9).
· A manager who is dependent on the powers of luck is not a good manager and does not have any business judging another person’s stewardship.
· Wicked managers criticize superior stewardships, when in fact instead, it is these critical leaders who are actually the ones worthy of being fired themselves because they are cheating and failing at their job of prioritizing and empowering good stewardships and making them better.
· If you enjoy, like, and are fond of succeeding by luck, don’t be surprised when the Big Ruler of the universe might take all of your success away and make you face the bitter reality of Truth in a day of justice and visitation. (…and consider and remember how the righteous and the unrighteous are always glorifying different powers [i.e. g/Gods] and rejoicing on different days of exaltation.)
Help A Good Stewardship, Don’t
Criticize it!
You can easily correct, redirect, upgrade,
and improve a steward and or a Stewardship which is already based on the right
principles, as long as you really do legitimately know an answer...
There’s no need or moral permission to
criticize those who already repent more than you do.
If you criticize instead, you risk
hypocrisy by being irreverently puffed up by worldliness and exalting folly
(and even perversion) above wisdom... and your advantage is feeble and
fleeting, partnering with the managers of this world, and disappearing with the
rotting of this life, since you thought to correct another who is based on the
right principles without being based on the right principles yourself.
Criticizing Can Be Deceptive
· Beware and don't be so naive so as to be so easily persuaded by the world.
· We must avoid becoming failures like most owners, managers, and leaders of this life...
Anointed One's Compassion Versus
the Flesh's Cruel Criticism
4/16/23
the pitiful compassionate sympathy of
anointed one that always feels sorry for poor beggars.
besides the grand responsibility of being
deeply moved with reverence and fear toward God and His righteous favorite holy
poor begging ones, we furthermore need to simultaneously increase in feeling
sorry for those whom God has compassion on...
we have a hypocritical Insanity that
denies sympathy for those who are supposed to respect, as though being strong
means you don't need to have sympathy...
but this is blasphemous hard hearted
Insanity which knows nothing of the strong Love of God, toward the humble-week
victim and toward the strong-virtuous hero
>> Scrip:
save your turtle dove
spare my precious soul before your eyes
>> TSK
the strongest and most mightiest valor of
excellence and supernatural power is only achieved by submitting to the
original ordinance of God to become weak and humble before the infinite powers
that created the universe so as to be charged up and energized by his same
infinite ability to rise up strong after having stooped so low before the king
of the universe...
every strong and mighty warrior comes home
to a compassionate mother, and or a compassionate wife, or at least he's
supposed to, just as God himself consoles his passionately burning hurt heart
with the therapy of faithful Moses...
if we have the basics of serious Love
established in us, then we will never kick a poor beggar or hard worker when
they are hurt and down...
sometimes we have acted like we don't know
the basics of biblical love since compassion has been far away in certain
seasons of stumblings and fumblings
what do we think? should a poor beggar
drive energy and absorb nourishing food out of being slapped?
should the week plant suck and absorb
nourishment out of the flinty rock?
if our conscience is awakened we will be
too preoccupied and absorbed with giving over what we owe and paying the Love
debt so that we don't have the time or wherewithal to keep walking narrowly
toward each other with constraint.
Freedom to Be Positive Helps Good
Stewardships
There is no risk in being totally positive
toward a good stewardship: You are not going to make a righteous person proud,
or shame yourself (except the sinful/foolish flesh), or lose any benefit.
You are totally free in righteousness to be 100% positive toward a
stewardship that is better than you (unlike the complaining fools of this
life), no matter how much pain and potential strain you might experience
underneath it, because even through this easy non-judgmental righteousness you
can make an otherwise righteous stewardship even stronger, by being a support
underneath it, rather than insanely thinking that you have enough advantage to
correct it from above.
So: Should we be Correcting
from Above or Supporting From Underneath? -- It is a very sensitive thing to successfully correct one another
from above... you take your soul into your own hands if you do so... but
supporting each other from underneath is a daily operation that can easily and
safely be done in Truth without hazarding sin.
Various Logical Empowerment
Responsibilities
varieties of logical power that we all
need from each other
we are all in this together and we all
have certain access to logical powers with which we are required to empower
each other with every opportunity and advantage we can possibly take hold of.
some logical powers are very practical and
at hand, which even sinners share and common with the righteous, and others are
of a higher caliber, with greater importance and value, yet nonetheless, 'every
good and perfect gift comes down from above from the Father of heavenly
lights', and we need as much of His light as we can possibly get on every side
in order to successfully produce value with our lives.
Examples of Helping or
Criticizing Good Stewardships
Good Example – Helping Good Stewardship:
Num_10:29-32 – Obab [the
Kenite-Midianite] helps Moses in the wilderness ("be eyes" MT /
Elder LXX).
Bad example – Criticizing Good
Stewardship:
complainers in the wilderness
[Luk_7:39
– ‘if this man were a prophet he would know what kind of woman were touching
him’]
Avoid Gullible-ness. Establish
Enduring Stewardships.
The managers of this life know how to
exalt folly and sin by successfully prioritizing short-term profits and
foolishly chiding those out of step with their gullible naivety.
But we can and we must first back up and
get our head on straight to create an atmosphere of pure heartedness inside
ourselves to carry real and enduring advantages through this life on into
building up God-loving stewardships that last beyond it.
Assuming Ability & Advantages
Assuming
Ability in Others &
Advantages in Ourselves
Foolish Assumptions
We can easily misunderstand and even
overestimate each other's available ability, and criticize lack of results, and
flatter our own perspectives as being more successful than they are, and
thinking that we could correct another when in fact we need to be corrected by another, and all of these assumptions create great moral
risk of committing crimes against each other and violating the Creator's
providential rules of stewardship over all Humanity in general.
We can so easily overestimate what ability
and options are available for each other, and criticize for apparent
underperformance, and we can overestimate our very own perspectives and
advantages over them when we think we know how they should perform better, and
we can easily underestimate the actual total real cost for someone to perform
in the way we're idealizing, and we can so easily assume that our ideal is even
better in the first place.
By default, we don't know how someone
else's stewardship should perform better, and our perspectives and advantages
are not as superior as the flesh would like to think, and we don't actually
have a better answer than others, because we don't even understand the real
cost and need to perform in our fictional and non-canonical ideals.
In the age of Truth it is high time for
some serious humility to walk patiently and hold our perspectives in
subjection, pressing our ego down, and applying faithful righteous humility to
implement scientific tests to determine what the real moral realities and
options actually are, and to see where people are actually at, before assuming
that we're more right and they're more wrong...
We also need to first make sure we
actually understand the problem accurately from a real moral awareness/eyesight
lest we be overconfident by assuming an advantage when in fact those we
criticize might actually know more than we do and we need to be learning from
them instead of despising and criticizing them, and thinking they need to learn
from us.
Empowerment First Corrects Hasty
Criticism
One of the best logical scientific
safeguards to avoid accidentally despising other people is to make sure that they
have been empowered (by us or at least someone else) before assuming they have
been irresponsible. This forces you to put scientific integrity before
feelings, so that you are more constrained to give over justice rather than
premature and assumptive critique.
It is easy to despise others, but when you
pay over your indebtedness to empower others it makes you reexamine your
naivety and reconsider how much you really know in light of the accountability
to enable others first.
If you don’t understand the real issues
enough to help others be stronger, then neither can you logically criticize
them as though you even know what is needed in the first place, or even much
less how they can do better.
If you really understand the problems and
needs at hand enough to communicate them in a way that enables others then you
might be a candidate to also help correct them if they’ve gone wrong.
If we can’t help then no one needs our
critique, but if we can help then other people will need both our encouragement
and our corrections.
Virtue Always Wins
As is always the case, you can measure
who's right and who's wrong based on virtue...
If you're struggling with unforgiveness,
bitterness and darkness, then you can be sure you don't know everything you
think you know against another person.
It's probably time to back up and make
sure you first empower them, instead of holding on to overconfidence thinking
that you know something more than them that you don't really know.
It's probably time to deny yourself and
say no to your vivid feelings and submit rather to the hearing of Truth, and
reject the feelings of your soul and the sight of your eyes.
Tell your soul that they don't owe you
anything, and get on your knees and apologize to God for being prideful and
thinking you have something better than them.
After fixing and repairing and
establishing or re-establishing integrity inside of yourself then you might be
able to see clearly to help them remove a speck from their eye.
Hurting Ourselves
We don't need to create our own drama nor
do we need to be part of the problem in holding back the progress of the human
race by inventing our own negativity and being overcome by the darkness and
pollutions of our distorted ignorant foolish deceptive sinning flesh...
Stronger Together
Furthermore there are so many important
real practical skills and even rudimentary virtues that we need to be able to
cross train each other with, and whenever we have been hindered by despising
each other and prematurely critiquing each other we have kept ourselves back
from strengthening each other to grow up in shared exponential excellent
skills, abilities, and virtues. -- that is, we have failed at empowerment when
we have been deceived by criticism, and there is so much corporate advantage
that’s at stake!
We don’t want to sacrifice our progress
and corporate growth to the gods of illogical criticism.
We are so much stronger together when we
Love each other enough to get our virtues straight, and make our priorities and
excellent procedures morally sequential, to make our potencies available to
help build each other up in free unrestricted positivity, instead of completely
useless and unnecessary casualties and self-inflicted wounds.
A Better Way
We need to endure and increase in
patience, meditate, write, and prepare more to value each other's time and
emotional and mental focus together, giving over the best thoughts and
communications as we have available, comprehending much in few words, loving each other enough to give
over answers, being spiritual enough to grow in being orderly and logical,
making use of such morally excellent priorities and procedures to frame or
reframe more orthodox orientations toward each other... and this more excellent
communication results in alleviating deception and establishing cross-trained
empowerment.
A Better Tomorrow
If we ever momentarily accidentally
overstep our boundaries, we can get back up, and bounce back to a consistent
and persistent excellent walk in righteousness, reinforcing these virtues and
moral priorities and Orthodox perceptions of real justice toward each other, to
strengthen ourselves corporately with all of our strengths and advantages and
excellencies, to grow up into something better than the world has ever seen.
If we persevere in violent self-denial
against the twisted untruth troubling our souls, we will look better in each
other's eyes when we pass through the cloudiness of our momentary feelings of
insanity.
On the other side of drunken Insanity, we will
be happier with each other and ourselves, because we have not sinned against
the Creator and each other, but have preferred the Truth above our own souls
and have done real Love and righteous justice.
The Real Metric
Skills vs. Virtue
· Should skills be used as a metric when testing and possibly demoting stewards?
· How are Spiritual & Physical Stewardships different when considering skills?
· Ultimately: Practical skills/performance/results are all very nice and desirable to be hotly sought after, but they are not canonical standards for determining anything within the realm of moral stewardship, esp. since all things are in the hand of God --
· The best we can do is entreat God’s favor with virtue to give us success with and without practical skills/performance/results.
· The real question is not if you (already) have lots of helpful skills/performance/results, but rather, whether or not you are practicing the diligent virtue of life-long learning and constantly being teachable and zealous to give over the very best serious value to serve others!
The Point: Long-term success is always best measured by virtue, not skills.
Skills & Results are NOT The Metric of Faithfulness/Virtue.
Improve Stewardship
How To
Improve Your Stewardship
· How to you fight complacency, depression, discouragement so you can be more diligent into all needed success?
· How does integrity solve depression to make you a better worker?
Mat_25: wicked lazy unprofitable servant
Doing What You Can
Diligent-Willingness is The Metric of Faithfulness
Are we more willing to measure others by their outstanding skills or their faithfulness to do the best they can with what they have been actually given?
Mar_12:42-44 – Poor widow threw in all
Luk_21:1-4
– destitute/poor widow threw in all
Mar_12:44
πάντες γὰρ
ἐκ τοῦ
περισσεύοντος
αὐτοῖς ἔβαλον·
αὕτη δὲ ἐκ τῆς
ὑστερήσεως
αὐτῆς πάντα
ὅσα εἶχεν ἔβαλεν,
ὅλον τὸν
βίον αὐτῆς.
Luk_21:4 Aπάντες |TSBαπαντες| γὰρ οὗτοι ἐκ τοῦ περισσεύοντος αὐτοῖς ἔβαλον εἰς τὰ δῶρα TSBτοῦ TSBΘεοῦ, αὕτη δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ὑστερήματος αὐτῆς TSBἅπαντα |Aπαντα| τὸν βίον ὃν εἶχεν ἔβαλε.
Mar_14:8 – "What she has, she did" (ABP); (cop. Joh_12:7, etc.)
Mar_14:8 ὃ ἔσχεν
αὕτη ἐποίησε·
προέλαβε
μυρίσαι μου
τὸ σῶμά εἰς
τὸν ἐνταφιασμόν.
Mar_14:8 ο BAεσχεν TSειχεν TSBαυτη εποιησεν προελαβεν μυρισαι TSBμου το σωμα Aμου εις τον ενταφιασμον
TSK --
Enhanced
1Ch_28:2-3 – Temple Building in David's Heart, & Preparations Made
1Ch_29:1-17 – David set his affection/favor & prepared for God's house with all his power/strength
2Ch_31:20-21 – Hezekiah worked with everything for God
2Ch_34:19-33 – King Josiah did all for Truth
[Psa_110:3 – MT: people offer themselves willingly (LXX: God
is sovereign)]
2Co_8:1-3 – Macedonian favor
\/\/
2Co_8:12 – ‘a man is judged by what he has and not by what he
doesn't have’
Comp: Cheerful Giving Above
Mat_25:15 – ‘he gave to each according to his ability’ [ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν δύναμιν]
· He gives and He reaps based on ability
1Sa_16:7 LB …man
looks at the outward appearance, but God [WEB: Yahweh]
looks at the heart
Not How Much But How Faithful
· True Accountability is not about how much you have, but about how faithful you are with whatever you have.
· True Accountability is about Faithfulness to Ability, not the amount of ability you have.
· True Accountability is Relative According to Ability, Not a Standardization of Skills that measure up to and exceed other people.
The Point: We should measure ourselves and consider each other according to the metric of faithfulness to what we have.
Begging for What You Don’t Have
Part of faithfulness to what we already have is begging for more knowledge, ability, and virtue that we don’t yet have.
Are We Begging Stewards?
· Do you have the skills or at least faith needed for the mission you were assigned?
· Are you always eager to give over the best to others?
· Are you an excellent reliable steward so that people can leave you to your jurisdiction without constant supervision and correction?
· Can people trust the quality of your work?
· Do you do as good as others would do in your place, if not even better?
· Are you growing, improving, and increasing in excellence with the managements that are under your hand?
·
Even if you
already have some virtue and excellence, are you zealous to increase ‘from
faith to faith’ (Rom_1:17) and ‘Glory to Glory’ (2Co_3:18)?
· Are you easy to teach and persuade by virtue, even if it whispers (in “a still small voice”)?
· Are you a lifelong learner and are you always seeking more help from God and man, especially disciples?
· If you’re feeling insufficient to measure up to the valuable call of the Stewardships the Creator has placed on you, are you begging heaven and others to change and upgrade?
We are truly being faithful with our
stewardships, and no lack will be held against us, if indeed we are maintaining
eager diligent zeal to be beg God and His disciples, to improve/upgrade our
excellencies to increase value production, to give back to God and man.
We will condemn all of our critics if we
maintain faithfulness as life long learners who are absolutely ambitious and
dedicated and earnestly beg with clean zeal to give over the best to others.
An eager, faithful, diligent steward will
be approved and loved by heaven.
If we beg for excellence to give over the
best, then we are truly being faithful, and all criticism against us will be
harshly condemned.
The Point: We should also measure ourselves and consider each other according to the metric of begging.
Our Stewardships
Ways In Which We Are Stewards
· Money, Possessions (Physically)
· Opportunities
· Having heard the Truth!
· Having any access to favor and gifts
Closing Stewardship Questions
· How should we beware so that we might be tested and approved as faithful stewards?
· How should we be faithful, mindful, and wise in evaluating the physical and spiritual stewardships of ourselves and others in this life?
· Are we denying the flesh and looking in prayer to a better kingdom?
· Are we tearing down the foolish standards of illogical and non-excellent judgements and Stewardship-evaluations of this life?
· Are we being faithful with what we already have and begging for what we don’t have to always give over the best?
· What do we need to learn about stewardship and faithfulness to save ourselves and others?
Budgeting is Biblical
…2/26/23
Why Budget?
Importance of Budgeting
· Why is budgeting needed?
· Why is budgeting significant, valuable, important, and required?
· Stewardship responsibilities especially include being faithful and striving/laboring/chopping to make value increase through virtue.
· Faithful Stewardship also includes budgeting as a righteous and virtuous response to resource limitation.
· “Living within your means” is a core principle in hating debt, and this usually requires budgets.
· Resource limitations are inherently communicated to us by lap communication, by default.
· Resource limitations are ordained by God and must be reverenced as clean Truth and the expressed will of God from heaven, until told otherwise.
· Managing limitations reverently and increasing strategically is a matter of virtue.
How or to Budget or WHAT is Budgeting?
· Discussing budgeting can raise a lot of questions about how to apply it and in what ways, but…
· Before we get into HOW we first need to spend more time considering WHAT…
· We might can possibly talk about some related application ideas of HOW to budget as we go, and yet even more so, we can also come back to budgeting after more fully introducing some of the foundation concepts of WHAT it means
Watch Your Flocks
Pro_27:23-27 – Keep diligent watch over your flocks
Count the Cost
Luk_14:25-35 – Forsake All…COUNT the cost *
*
ψηφίζει τὴν
δαπάνην – Lit.
flick-an-enumeration-with-pebbles the expense/cost/consumption?
(as in dinner / G1172, etc.)
Budgeting ≠ Finishing Fast
· Joh_2:20 – This Temple took 46 years to build
· Spending as you can for each micro project?
Forecasting Is Also Biblical <<<<<<<<<
4/28/23
>> Scrip:
you know how to discern the times of
weather
perceiving the immediate and or consistent
predictable effects of weather are more within the responsibilities of humans,
however forecasting the longer term occurrences and random factors gets further
and further away from human responsibility...
even though budgeting and forecasting are
both very biblical, they are not at all the same moral phenomena.
you are often logically required to budget
for integrity sake and excellencies sake, but you are more often not required
to forecast.
budgeting exists on a more concrete level:
building a tower probably has generally set needs - a generally foreseeable and
quantifiable number of bricks and boards and other materials
forecasting estimates outside of the
realms of foreseeable quantity, and it is a fuzzy continuum that gets more
fuzzy the further it away it gets from human determination
it is not godly to lack the integrity to
count the cost of a tower, but it is godly to be strayed tricked and deceived
and wander under the providential hand of God, obediently going out not knowing
where you're going, because God has specifically commanded you to trust Him
without your knowledge.
Delegating Responsibilities
Funds Given to Apostles & Deacons
Donations
Entrusted to Apostles &
Delegated to Deacons
Act_4:32-37 – Disciples Laid Money at Apostle’s Feet (esp. Act_4:35)
· Act_4:32 – Unity…all things were in common
· Act_4:33 – Power testimony
· Act_4:34 – No lack, possessions sold
· Act_4:35 – Money at feet & Distribution made (to meet everyone’s needs)
· Act_4:36 – Barnabas’ example
Disciples transferred their jurisdiction
of money to the apostles.
(These were offerings far beyond the
tithe.)
A faithful step/proof of stewardship is
sometimes shown when you transfer your management of value to others.
Act_6:1-7 – Servant/Deacons Appointed & Delegated To Distribute
Resources
· Act_6:1 – trouble with daily service
· Act_6:2 – Apostles can’t neglect Word of God to wait at tables
· Act_6:3 – Find virtuous people to delegate responsibility
· Act_6:4 – Apostles to devote to prayer & Word
· Act_6:5 – Servants chosen
· Act_6:6 – Prayed & Hands laid
·
Act_6:7 – Word of God increased
Apostles transferred/delegated
the Assembly’s assets and management needs to virtuous sub-officers/servants
when needed for the sake of Truth.
Accounting for Transported Gift
Witnesses
Confirmed Financial Integrity
for Transported Gift
2Co_6:3 – that the ministry not be blamed
Paul had people come with him to confirm
the generous gift.
see:
2Co_4:2 – commending ourselves to every Man's conscience
& doing what's right in the eyes of
everyone
When is Accountability Needed?
· Accounting accountability is sometimes needed when there are holes in the sociological process of transferring valuables/help/alms/donations.
· Do approved people always need accountability?
· When do stewards and officers need accountability and when might they not need it?
· Did the Apostles have sociological accountability in place in Acts 4 & 6?
· Why did Paul require it in 2nd Corinthians 6?
Micromanaging = Demoting (1st Stage)
· Delegate or don’t delegate -- if possible
· Micromanaging is when delegated needs are managed by those who were supposed to have delegated them instead of the intended stewards and sub-officers/servants.
· Micromanaging is sometimes required, but it is a painful sign of failure/non-virtue.
· Micromanaging is only required (by default) when there is lack of faithfulness / virtue / righteous stewardship.
· Micromanaging is not an element of diligent success (as some leaders/managers seem to think it is), but it is actually a sign of failure -- either on the side of the leader/“manager” and/or on the side of the sub-manager / officer / “steward”.
· Micromanaging means a sub-officer does not have “law” and is therefore not a real/Biblical “steward” (possibly a crippled, demoted, and/or fired (former) “steward”).
The Point of Micromanaging
· Micromanaging = Failure
· Delegation = Success
· Even if Accountability is sometimes needed, Micromanaging should not be a part of that, whenever there is reasonable virtue.
Delegation-Possibilities
· Events, Entire households, cities, etc. can be delegated to Stewards.
· Budgets can also be delegated to Stewards.
Joseph’s Stewardship – Successful Delegations
Joseph
was a Steward, Then He Got a
Steward
Joseph was a Steward Over Potiphar’s, Then He Got a Steward Over His Own House
Joseph was a Faithful Delegated Steward who was Rewarded With His own Steward.
Joseph’s faithfulness got him Trusted & Exalted Over and Over again until he rose to the top of Egypt!
Now we’re about to see lordship, stewardship, sub-officers, faithfulness, budgeting, accountability, and non-accounting all come together very dynamically in the Glorious Account…!
Joseph’s Exaltation Under Potiphar
·
Gen_39:3-23 * – Potiphar &
the Jailer didn't think about anything delegated to Joseph
* Esp. Gen_39:4, Gen_39:6,
Gen_39:8-9, Gen_39:23
·
Gen_37:36; Gen_39:1 – Potiphar was an officer*: (A) “Eunuch”
(B) Chief Guard?/Butcher?/Executioner?/Cook?* (a “Steward” over Pharaoh’s
delegations)
Gen_39:2-4, Gen_39:7-8, Gen_39:16,
Gen_39:19-20 – Potiphar was “lord”
(x8/9LXX) of his house & Joseph
[2: ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ
παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ
τῷ Αἰγυπτίῳ; 3 ὁ κύριος
αὐτοῦ; 4LXX (MT = his) & 7-8:
τοῦ κυρίου αὐτοῦ
(x2/3LXX); 8: …ὁ κύριός
μου; 16: ὁ κύριος
εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ;
19: ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ;
20: ὁ κύριος
Ιωσηφ]
· Gen_41:12 – Joseph was “servant to/of the captain of the guard” (WEB/CAB) [νεανίσκος παῖς Εβραῖος τοῦ ἀρχιμαγείρου]
· Gen_39:3 – Joseph prospered (in Potiphar's house)
· Gen_39:4 – made overseer of everything [LXX: κατέστησεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἦν αὐτῷ, ἔδωκεν διὰ χειρὸς Ιωσηφ.]
· Gen_39:5 – everything blessed for Joseph's sake
· Gen_39:6 – everything in Joseph's hand, except Potiphar's food
· Gen_39:6, Gen_39:8-9 (Gen_39:23) – master doesn't know of the details
· Gen_39:9 – top manager of house
Joseph’s Exaltation In Prison
Joseph’s Exaltation Over All the Prison Under the
Jailer
· Gen_39:21-23 – exalted in prison
·
Gen_39:21; Gen_40:7 – Jailer / “the chief keeper of the
prison” was “lord”* of the prison house &
Joseph [* ἐν τῇ
φυλακῇ παρὰ τῷ
κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ]
· Gen_39:23 – jail keeper doesn't know of the details
Cup Bearer & Baker -- Food Officers of Pharaoh
· Gen_41:10 – CAB: “Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard”
· Gen_40:1-2, etc. –
· Gen_40:13, Gen_40:21 – Demoted officer restored/reversed, on Pharaoh’s “Happy Birthday”
Joseph’s Exaltation Under Pharaoh Over All Egypt
·
Gen_41:33-37,
etc. – Joseph Proposes Divinely Inspired Budgeting
·
Gen_41:40-46
– “You shall be over my house, and
according to your word will all my people be ruled.”
·
Gen_41:49 – Stopped counting the grain (exact accounting/budgeting
was no longer appropriate)
·
Joseph went on to be promoted as steward
over all Egypt!
ISBE: “Joseph
was practically Potiphar's steward, and when he became Pharaoh's chief
minister, he himself had a steward over his own house (Gen_39:4, Gen_39:5;
Gen_44:1, Gen_44:4)”
[* Potiphar was an Officer
KJV 1611: officer -- Hebr. Eunuch. But
the word doeth signifie not only Eunuches, but also Chamberlaines, Cortiers, and
Officers. …captaine of the guard -- Heb. chiefe of the slaughter men, or
executioners || Or, chiefe Marshall
NIV/WEB: the captain of the guard; LSV:
head of the executioners; ABP: the chief guard; “LSJ gives chief cook as its
primary meaning, referring to this verse” (jeidsath*)]
Hylander: “Hebrew words mean literally
"chief of slaughterers", but the Hebrew word for
"slaughterers" is used elsewhere to mean "bodyguards" (2
Kings 25, Jeremiah 39, and the Aramaic equivalent in Daniel 2). Apparently the
word is used to mean "cook" in 1 Samuel 9” (Hylander to jeidsath*)
LXX: 37:36: εἰς Αἴγυπτον
τῷ Πετεφρη τῷ σπάδοντι
{σπάω = "pluck off" – jeidsath*}
Φαραω, ἀρχιμαγείρῳ;
39:1: Πετεφρης ὁ εὐνοῦχος
Φαραω, ἀρχιμάγειρος*,
ἀνὴρ Αἰγύπτιος]
“From ἀρχῐ- (arkhi-, “chief”) + μᾰ́γειρος
(mágeiros, “cook”)” “1. chief cook… 2. title of a great officer in Oriental
courts” ~ABP &
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82]
* jeidsath / jeidsath@gmail.com: https://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?t=67087]
Joseph Got His Own Steward
·
Gen_43:16,
Gen_43:19 – Man over Joseph's House
-- stū´ẽrd (בּית על אישׁ,
'ı̄sh ‛al bayith ISBE
· Gen_44:1 – the steward of his house (told to) "Fill the men's sacks..."
· stū´ẽrd (בּית על אישׁ, 'ı̄sh ‛al bayith ISBE (comp. Gen_43:16, Gen_43:19 Gen_44:1; 1Ki_16:9)
·
TSK: the steward: Heb. him that was
over his house,
Joseph’s example shows us at least four potent
and repeated ways/illustrations of how delegated stewardship over an entire
household/jail can be a rewarding success.
When Joseph was Successfully Delegated as
Steward over all of Potiphar's house, and the jail, there was no
resource and/or financial accounting accountability needed.
Consider how this is different than Luke
16’s demoted Steward & micromanaging in general…
No Accounting Required from Faithful Workmen
2Ki_12:14-15 – ‘No accounting was required from workmen’ -- Joash
Repairs the Temple
2Ki_22:7 – ‘No accounting was required from workmen’ -- Josiah Repairs the Temple
The Point: Let’s Examine Ourselves
To what degree could we have any of the ideal elements if faithful virtuous
stewardships, and to what degree do we need to change and seriously upgrade
before being trusted with more?
Merchandizing Success
Providential Deals
Submitting to Providence
Wife’s Providential Question About Deals
AlSun 12:00pm(edited)
QnA: 1Ti_6:17
1Ti_6:17 KJV Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy
It might pose a challenge to the "poor" (who are in the posture of foraging for the best deals), to miss out on a "good deal" that they had the opportunity to seize. Unlike those who have more more money to where they can just buy whatever they want, as soon as they want, even at retail price.
Is it considered "high minded" or arrogant to look back on a missed opportunity and think 'should have, could have, would have', especially with "riches" where it is not clear (or it's "uncertain") what the real deal was with it or what would have actually become of it?
Is it considered "high minded" to dwell on these things instead of hoping in God who provides, and will provide, everything you need to enjoy?
When reasoning with your soul and also doing spiritual warfare then should you be striking at things like high mindedness, warmness towards riches, hoping in fleeting things to be a solution for you, idolotry, not hoping in God, not believing that God will provide the right thing in due season... etc?
I know we've talked about this some before, but this is still an embarrassingly weak point of mine. And it seems that it's only become an issue since starting to follow the truth.
I suppose women are more susceptible to this than men right?
I was thinking, for example, of the other week when Sir jumped on an expensive deal with his 2T harddrive, and he bought the last two of them (and lo and behold, thankfully at least one of them worked). I was imagining a theoretical scene of him temporarily passing by the deal and then coming back to it only to find that it had sold out. I can't really imagine him kicking himself for not taking advantage of that small window when he first got exposed to it. And actually, I can't even remember a time yet where he's ever "kicked himself" for missing out on things...
(I think over time I've become more skilled at acquiring the pragmatic knowledge needed, and applying life learned / maybe even prudent principles, for overall strategic and systematic purchase decisions. And I think this has helped minimize the 'groan & regret' occurances with missed opportunities. But of coarse this doesn't address any deep weakness or even strongholds with being able to process certain "losses".)
Virtuous Answers to Contentment in Deal Hunting (Summary)
Becoming content with the outcomes of your deal hunting involves many virtues…
· The prudence (and hopefully wisdom) to know what something is really worth
· The diligence and discipline to prepare your heart aright
· Loving others enough to let them take a good deal from you
· Learning to trust that Heaven Knows Best, and,
· Longing for Favorable Providence to exalt you rather than the strength of riches
Value Assessment
Knowing what something is really worth is one of the first practicalities to prudent deal hunting.
“Lap Communication” typically speaks very well when it comes to judging “good deals”, but we’re usually just not listening well enough!
My mom thought she could sell bird houses for income…
Something can be missing in the basic value assessment of merchandise the same way that it is missing in the character evaluation of souls…
Beware of Misevaluation!
· Merchandise
· People
· Social interactions
What’s typically missing in all of these evaluations is the shortest path to zeal and the shortest path to edification/progress/usefulness/accomplishment.
What if needless disappointments plague you simply because you were tricked into thinking that an opportunity was a good deal when it really was not?
But if you see that a deal is really just marketing spam, then you can easily discard it without distraction and regret.
Note: This is the Orthodox alternative to saying, “one of god’s greatest gifts is unanswered prayers” (Garth Brooks song -- of course he’s a divorced and remarried supporter of LGBT paganism).
Weighing out the relative “goodness” of a deal in your current economy takes some experience, skill, and maybe even (ideally/hopefully) some wisdom.
If you can get a truly accurate picture of how good this deal really is or is not, then this can help communicate to you (at least in the form of “Lap Communication”) whether or not this is a favorable deal from heaven.
Accuracy Measures Favor
· An accurate value assessment of a purchase is needed to have a realistic perspective on how much a product is actually worth.
· Consider the real nature of the potential transaction so you can know whether or not you are being favored.
· You must want favor to grant you a solution and not simply money, so be wise and consider the path of Truth.
· Are you being favored or you are instead rather buying your way to your own solution because of your riches?
· You need to know the real value of something and if it is really a good deal.
Example: Hidden Costs
· Acquiring things takes expense in addition to the price tag.
· both the price tag and the hidden costs need to be favorable in order to avoid creating one's own solution.
· Don’t mistake a low price tag for a favorable deal when the hidden costs are still in the process of making the prudent sober.
·
We’re still not getting the reality of hidden
costs as long as we are tempted to regret missed deals…
Do you want the answer to this potential virtue so you can truly be ‘a merchant seeking beautiful pearls’ (Mat_13:45) for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake?
Here is a Huge Part of Prudent Value Assessment: Be a Diligent, Prudent, Persevering True Problem Solver At Heart
· Never be content to pass on the same problem to others that you inherited from someone else
· Become reliable, orderly, etc.
· Be zealous toward (& obsessed over) serious edification!
· Become a utilitarian-ist and crucify the vanity of common merchandizing
· Stop being hypnotized by the packaging and the conceptual illusion marketed to your eyes
· Look past all vanity and strip the purchase down to its bare utility for qualitatively solving problems
When you are preoccupied in loving humanity - as a true problem solver - you have practiced all of the right hart postures to know the realistic usefulness of the things you need to buy. And furthermore, you are not so vulnerable to being marketed (and deceived) by lust.
And although there can be some wisdom to all of this prudence, yet determining real value is only a first basic step, and there are many more virtues to come…
Loss Management vs. Better Profits
(This was somewhat of a tangent we discussed)
No one would despise a humanitarian
“entrepreneur” for buying big vehicles to deliver water to impoverished
communities.
Furthermore, even more so besides, it
would be hypocritical to look down on the righteous who seek to spend enough to
gain the tools to save the poorest and most worthy out of the whole world.
If the righteous eventually focus on
progress more than Loss Management, then ultimately they cannot be blamed.
Dying to Deals
Hate nice things, judging them with
pessimism.
Only except a kind gift with good
intentions attached to it.
If it is a distraction I want to die to it
and even if it is a promise or a blessing I want to offer it up as a sacrifice
(just as faithful Abraham did).
(Prayed ~7/15/21 concerning the then current
housing considerations)
Love = Non-Competition
Love is an easy gage to tell if your deal hunting is upright and lawful.
Most missed deals are opportunities for someone else to gain, so why complain?
Whenever you miss out, someone else might benefit, so why be sad?
Otherwise, why be non-objective and seriously risk hypocrisy?
Black Friday Rush = the exact opposite of what we want.
Love neighbor as self = always happily letting others be blessed more than yourself.
Lev_19:18; Mar_12:30-31
Never complain when another is unfairly exalted above you, and then heaven will inevitably demand that you get exalted above all men (together with the righteous who always inevitably win over all men and all the spirits who hate us).
If you were Loving your neighbor as yourself, who are you to prefer that you “get the deal” rather than someone else?
What if the Creator has determined that it is time for someone else to succeed, increase, and make money this time?
Who are you to insist that anything good be given to you rather than your neighbor, especially when you’re already not loving your neighbor as yourself, and you’re in danger of luxury (and should rather be praying to be saved from it)?
Love does not compete against those whom it loves.
And even if we seem to (in some cases) “compete” against Heresy, Lust, Pride, and Luxury, yet still, ‘we don't wrestle against flesh and blood’ (Eph_6:12), while we rather ‘turn the other cheek’ in love toward evil men, seeking their salvation.
How Can we Rejoice at the Exaltation of Luxurious People?
· Wife Said: It can feel like everyone is better off than us, and no one needs good deals as much as we do, so how can we rejoice (or even just feel satisfied/happy/content/resolved) when they get more than they deserve at our expense? (7/18/21)
· But are we worthy?
· Do angels rejoice (without reservation) when we are exalted?
· Are we being faithful enough to please heaven to graduate us from probation?
· If we still rejoice when heaven grants us good things, even when we are still in probations in those very same areas, why should we not share heaven’s generous and kind heart toward other unworthy people when they are prospered above us far beyond what they deserve?
·
If heaven has
so often been patiently generous toward our happiness,
even at the expense of God’s immediate honor, and,
if the universe has suffered oppressions, and,
has groaned under the burden of our unfaithfulness in the midst of our
undeserved blessings, and,
if we have been slow to learn, and,
our hearts have been too heavy to glorify God sufficiently to relieve the universe,
should God then also agree with our lack of justice and imitate our respect of
persons by not also blessing the unworthy above us at their proper season?
· If it really was for the sake of God that we groaned, and we really were in distress purely due to the unfair advantages of the wicked at the hurt of the poor, then we could have easily passed our own probations much sooner, and we might could have already been helped long ago in many ways.
· In many ways, objective non-hypocrisy is one of the biggest solutions to not envying the wicked when they are exalted above us -- because we remember to give away the same generosity and redemptive mercy that is continually being shown toward us.
· If we might lovingly let sinners steel from us (as Mat_5 and Luk_6 both say) then how much more should we let God freely give them things instead of us?
· If you become faithful and graduate probation, even if the rich are temporarily blessed above you, the All-Wise Creator has prepared them for a day of judgement and destruction and has prepared you for a day of redemption and salvation because of your repentance.
· Remember the distressed Psalmist because of the exaltation of the wicked in Psa_37 and the exaltation of wicked Nabal in 1Sa_25…
· Do Justice, Trust, & Be Free from all Complaints: As long as you are doing justice and non-hypocrisy in these other areas, in the end this is really just about trusting God to give you enough, and then you will never be compelled to envy the wicked when he is loaded up with riches as a fattened animal which is prepared for a day of slaughter (Jam_5:5).
· If we will relieve the universe by glorifying God in doing faithfulness and justice, then we will also inevitably find unending answers to relieve our souls while the wicked seem to flourish and prosper over us at our expense.
· His ‘kindness leads you to repentance’ (Rom_2:4*) and it is generous to all men, each at their proper time, sending sun and rain on the righteous and the unrighteous** -- according to the Wisdom and the strategic will of Him Who knows all things, and predestines all for His purpose: for the repentant it is unto salvation, and for the sinner it is unto destruction.
[* Rom_2:4 ἢ τοῦ
πλούτου τῆς
χρηστότητος
αὐτοῦ καὶ
τῆς ἀνοχῆς
καὶ τῆς
μακροθυμίας
καταφρονεῖς,
ἀγνοῶν ὅτι
τὸ χρηστὸν
τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς
μετάνοιάν σε
ἄγει;]
[** Mat_5:45-47,
etc.; Mat_7:24-27;
Luk_6:47-49;
Jam_1:11
-- TSK (on Mat_5): Job_25:3,
Psa_145:9,
Act_14:17]
Trusting the Creator and Loving others above yourself is a sure way to be at peace when someone else gains a deal rather than you.
Trusting the Creator and Loving others above yourself is a sure way to have no bitterness when heaven blesses you -- lest it finally come around to being your turn to be increased and you are found awkward and unworthy of the kind gifts bestowed upon you, which may need to be relinquished when they are recalled for the embarrassing inappropriateness of your unrighteous, unthankful, and unfruitful happiness.
Pro_10:22 Yahweh's blessing brings wealth,
and he adds no trouble to it.
Pro_10:22 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.
Pro_10:22 εὐλογία
κυρίου ἐπὶ
κεφαλὴν δικαίου·
αὕτη πλουτίζει,
καὶ οὐ μὴ
προστεθῇ αὐτῇ
λύπη ἐν καρδίᾳ.
If you are wise and perceptive: 100% of blessings gained without virtue have unbearable bitterness with them.
Loving others first, and being non-selfish when they are blessed more than you, is the surest way to acquire the maximum allowable blessing from heaven to exalt you when your turn for exaltation comes.
Love is not only “selfless” while preferring others in deal hunting, but it is also the wisest way to enrich yourself to the maximum extent allowable by eternal favor.
No Rush -- Rush is NOT the Answer
· If you are in a rush to increase, you do not have time to love the others you are passing by
· Rushing will always set you up for moral failure.
· Rushing will always set you up for human solutions.
· Rushing means you think you got to get the deal yourself on your own terms.
· Rush puts you in the “captain’s seat” and makes you the center of your own felt success.
· Rush can cause you to succeed more in this life (like many other selfish sins), but what are you giving up in the meantime in order to get ahead?
·
Rush does not
glorify God as…
The only source of life,
The Omnipotent/All-Powerful One,
The Owner, Controller, and Giver of all good things in the universe, and,
as the only One righteous enough to cleanly exalt you.
· Rush does not Love and Trust The Ultimate Universal Predestinator, Who, with the slightest divine aid, with less than the mere flick of His pinky finger, can instantly surpass all your efforts, striving, strategy, and diligence on into infinite glorifications forever.
· Do you want to eat your own fruit or wait and only eat what is directed by God?
· Every time it comes down to virtue or success always prioritize virtue even to the point of despising of success where necessary.
· Rush draws off of your flesh, and Satan by extension, as a means of getting ahead and gaining an advantage.
· Rush does not trust God, nor is it ever wise for what is truly valuable.
· Warning: Rushing = cutting corners -- bypassing favor in order to more quickly seize opportunities, exaltations, and success on your own against virtue.
· Rush is vulnerable and prone toward deception.
· Rush is an obnoxious absurdity which is not fitting for wise Truth lovers.
All marketing tactics based on rush and time pressure are trying to make you buy without thinking.
They are always lying!
Mat_16:23 – Get behind me Satan
Mat_16:23 But He
turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block
unto Me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of
men."
When are we going to tell marketing and marketers the Truth so as to expose their deception and sanitize our understanding before them?
Rush vs. Swiftness
· Rush is about maintaining independent control over your own destiny/outcomes.
· Rush thinks that the outcomes should be dependent on your own effort.
· Righteous swiftness is based on fearing God.
· Rush is based on fearing lose/evil/lack.
· Swiftness believes God, but rush believes in someone’s own speed.
· Righteous swiftness is a faithful energetic acknowledgment of God.
· Swiftness is motivated by real knowledge, but rush is deceived by the values of this world.
· Rush is unbelief toward God by resorting to one’s own self.
· Rush is willing to sin, virtuous swiftness is eager to obey righteousness.
· Diligent swiftness to do good is Biblical: Gen_18:, etc.
· Rush is condemned and doomed to sin.
· Obedient swiftness is zealous for another (Rom_15:3).
· Rush is selfish.
· Faith is always the most efficient path to loving others in Truth but the best rush can do is to do its best without first acknowledging what is best (and that hazard-ness is never Truly loving toward others).
· Are we being motivated by rush or the knowledge of God when we move quickly?
· If we are ever “in a rush”, we must not ever be motivated by it lest we fall to sin!
· Are we willing to sin or are we listening to instructions?
· Are we willing to lay Isaac on the altar or are we willing to take matters into our own hands?
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AySun_8:19pm
Notes:
If you're in a rush you don't have time to love
those you are passing.
Rushing gets you the deal on your own terms.
Rushing puts you in the captains seat and the
center of your own success
Love does not compete. (Love neighbor as self)
Rush doesn't trust.
Rush isnt exclusive
What are you giving up in exchange for rushing?
Humans were designed to acquire.
But just because you can doesnt mean you should.
Tree of good and evil:
Humans were never to acquire things on your own
terms.
When you trust God you subject yourself to fasting
before feasting. Or Abraham being willing to offer up his promise, Issac.
False Scarcity
Beware of false time pressures to prevent you from
thinking.
Rush is there to acquire on your own terms.
Draws off your flesh and Satan by extension.
Get behind me satan, you are not mindful of the
things of God, but that of men.
Rush trusts in someone's speed
Righteous swiftness is obedient zeal for another.
Allow God to love others and give them a deal too.
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No Rush = Required for Accurate (& Favorable) Value Assessment
Now for a bit of prudence to halt our rush
toward deceptive deals…
When someone tries to rush you to jump on
a “sale” or “deal” then what you can really know is that the sale price (or
maybe even less) is actually what you should be paying in the first place, and
you can let their rush pass you buy and simply wait with the dignity of virtue
and non-deception (and without human, fleshly-independence) for the right deal
to come along at that price, or maybe even better.
The people who offer a sale at one time
can usually offer it again another time.
Don’t let people fool you and control you
by creating “false scarcity” as a marketing deception tactic.
“Retail” always marks things up so you're
not getting the best deal in many cases (unless indeed, you are buying from a
source that has bought in bulk and can turn a profit by small markups on
individual resales)
But in most cases, when you see a product
on sale, that sale shows you how inflated the regular retail price is, and that
temporary price drop shows you something closer to the real price that stores
can afford to sell it at with a minimum markup and profit.
Hint: Stores typically still make profits
from sale items… therefore premium retail is often more geared toward those in
a rush (and/or those rich enough to be willing to miss out on the best deal).
Notice this principle when a fashionable new
item appears on the shelfs for premium price only to show up in Goodwill a
little while later for $3 (consider/remember our water bottle examples…).
Sales people are very keen that all
products are “worth” what people are willing to pay for them (in the marketing
world), and indeed, almost all rich people are very gullible (or at least very
willing to lose in deal hunting)! -- Big hint: we are not supposed to be of
this world or even think like it at all (Romans 12, etc.)!
(The times when sale prices do not even
include any markup profits would be:
(1) extremely low liquidation sales, which
can only be afforded when stores need to get rid of unsold merchandise to make
room for better things, and also
(2) when people do an extremely low and
rare sale to get you addicted to a product on a longer-term subscription
purchasing habit -- in which case you should only buy temporarily by default)
Deceptive Behavioral Manipulation
·
Don’t fall to
the gullible deceptions of Behavioral Design
(notorious example: Facebook -- and others…)
· Neh_6:8-16 – MT: ‘Should a person such as I fall to fearful manipulation’ (Neh_6:11 ~MT; Neh_6:3)?
Nehemiah_6:8-16 – READ
Psalm 11 – No Mountain Fleeing
Psa_11:1
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you
say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
Psa_11:1
For the end, A Psalm of David. In the Lord I have put my trust: how will
you say to my soul, Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?
Psa_11:2
For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the
strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psa_11:2 For behold the sinners have bent their bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot secretly at the upright in heart.
Psalm 112 – Unshakeable
Read all of
it (if possible)
Psa_112:6 WEB For he will never be shaken. The righteous
will be remembered forever.
Psa_112:6 CAB For he shall not be moved forever; the
righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Psa_112:7
He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in
Yahweh.
Psa_112:7
He shall not be afraid of any
evil report; his heart is ready to trust in the Lord.
Psa_112:8
His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees
his adversaries.
Psa_112:8 His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see his desire upon his enemies.
Luk_13:30-33 CAB And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last." 31 On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, "Get out and go from here, for Herod wants to kill You." 32 And He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.' 33 Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
Luk_13:30-33 GRVii+ καιG2532CONJ καί and ιδουG2400V-2AAM-2S ἰδού lo! εισινG1526V-PXI-3P εἰσί they
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TSK: Act_20:24, Act_21:13, Heb_11:27
The Point(s):
· What does martyrdom have to do with shopping?
· Are you practicing being manipulated and influenced by those who would through you off course from what the Creator has told you to do?
· Be solid and decided upon wisdom and divinely prescribed shopping values before shopping
Patience for Providence to Come
-- Under Construction --
Money is NOT the Answer -- for the Righteous
-- Under Construction --
Not Gaining ≠ Loosing
-- Under Construction --
Premature Knowledge = Sinful Deals
-- Under Construction --
Trust During Temporary Ignorance
-- Under Construction --
Don’t Assume the Grass is Greener
-- Under Construction --
The Humility of Not Assuming The End of a Matter
-- Under Construction --
Preparation & Providence
-- Under Construction --
Recognizing Providential Dependence
-- Under Construction --
Contentment with Providence -- Knowing Heaven Knows Best
-- Under Construction --
Providence Overrules Preparation
-- Under Construction --
The Real Source of Success
-- Under Construction --
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