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The Roman currency was the Denarius. One silver denarius was a day's wage, as you said. In the Eastern Mediterranean people were also using the grk Drachma. One silver Drachma was equivalent to one silver Denarius. In Israel at that time the Jews were using the grk money instead of Roman money as a "revolutionary" act. They were not accepting denarii but only drachmas. In the Temple there were people who were exchanging Roman and other money for drachmas. They were the ones that Jesus sent away using a whip.
John 12:3 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then Mary took a pound of ointment. It is actually not a pound as we know it. The Greek word means three quarters of a pound of ointment, and of spikenard, very costly. And spikenard is an oil extract from a plant in India. It is very costly, about 300 day's wages, almost a year for us. So, she took this ointment and poured it on the feet of Jesus. This was while they were at the table to eat supper.
John 12:5 - Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
A DENARIUS is one day's wage, so 300 DENARII would be 300 days wages. So, Judas is calculating and saying, "What a waste!" It could have been sold and we could have given the money to the poor.
John 12:6 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Judas was stealing out of the treasury of the disciples. He was stealing out of the money bag. All he could see is 300 days wages that could be in his bag, but instead she wasted it on Jesus.
John 12:34 - The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
There are two terms for Jesus; Son of God, and Son of man. Son of God means spiritually He is all God. Son of Man means that He's the head of the human race.
This is taken from Daniel 7:13-14, where it is first used that the Son of man will come. He inherits everything from the human race, and He is God. He is the Son of God and the Son of man. He is 100% God and 100% man.
John 10:36 - Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
I hope you make the connection? They didn't say to Him "It is because you said you are the Son of God." It says because you said you are God. That's because as I have mentioned to you before, the title "Son of God" is to the Jew a title of God Himself!
The word "son" in Greek does not mean somebody who is a son by birth. It is never used of Jesus in the scripture. He is not the son of God in that there's "father God," and "mother God," and they had a child named Jesus.
John 11:16 - Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Didymus means "The Twin."
John 11:47 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
This would be the Sanhedrin, the highest council of the Jews, both of civil and religious affairs. 70 priests and scholars plus the high priest make up the Sanhedrin.
John 12:2 - There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
The word "sat" is not a correct translation. How they ate in those days, they didn't sit in chairs. They had a table close to the ground and they would lean on the table with their right arm, and they would have their legs and feet spread straight out. They were actually leaning (reclining) on the table.
Some translations of the New Testament actually use the word "reclining" because that's how they used to recline at the table.
So, Jesus' feet were facing the back. And so, she pours (she anoints) the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
John 10:12 - But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Literally in the Greek text, a hireling is a person who is hired to spell the shepherd so that he can have some time off. He's a hireling. Now two things about him: First of all, it's his job to do. And secondly, the sheep don't mean that much to him. It is only a job!
This is the proverb that represents leaders in professional positions, and especially the leaders that Jesus is talking to here. A hireling is a hireling. You hire them and you pay them to do the job. As far as risking their life for the sheep, no way, it is just a job!
John 10:19 - There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
The word division is schism, (SCHISMA) in the Greek.
John 10:20 - And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
The word "mad" is the Greek word for insane.
John 10:30 - I and my Father are one.
Literal translation from the Greek text is "I and the Father are one!"
Please notice that I didn't read it the way we have it in the King James. It's not "I and my Father are one" It is "I and the Father are one." He's saying, "We are the same." It is quite a statement to make!
John 10:34 - Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
The Key Verse is Psalm 82:6. The term "gods" is just a general reference. That is not God's name. It's a general reference.
ELOHAE in the Old Testament singular, or ELOHIM plural. But in the Psalms, the judges who sat in the courts of Israel that represented God's law, they were called gods, with a small 'g".
They were called ELOHIM because they represented God. And so, they had all of this authority. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? Notice He didn't say, the scripture said you are gods. "I said you are gods!"
John 10:6 - This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
And this proverb, and keep in mind that it says parable in the King James, but John is presenting a proverb, not a parable. This is a well-known proverb in the area or in the land. He spoke unto them: but they did not understand what things that he spoke unto them.
There were saying "Okay, we know the proverb, but what does that have to do with anything?" They don't understand what's going on here.
First, John 10:1-6 is known as "The Proverb of the Sheepfold." This is a translation error. Please know that I am not putting down the King James but I wanted to share this just so you know this is not a parable. It is not the parable. Verse 6 tells us "This parable spake Jesus unto them:" except in the Greek text it is a different word which means proverb, not parable. John does not use the word parable here. He uses the word proverb.
In fact, it is the Septuagint name for the book of Proverbs. So, this is a Proverb. These are things that are known around the country and this is a famous Proverb that is used, but Jesus is going to interpret it for them a little differently than they are used to.
John 10:11 - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
First of all, the term "good." There are a few words in the New Testament for the word good. This is the word KALOS. In comparison to the hirelings, and the thieves and robbers, the Lord is the Good Shepherd.
From the human comparison standpoint to the thieves and robbers and hirelings, they are not good at all. They are KAKOSE. Jesus said I am the good shepherd in contrast to the human hirelings.
John 10:3 - To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
The genuine or true shepherd is the only one to whom the porter opens. The Greek word for porter means doorkeeper. The doorkeeper opens only to the shepherd of the sheep, never to the thief or the robber. When the shepherd stands in the doorway, his sheep hear his voice, factual statement in the Greek. It literally says his sheep ARE hearing his voice.
The shepherd calls his own sheep by name. That's how intimate it is. And in John Chapter 11 when Jesus calls Lazarus from out of the tomb, He says, "Lazarus come forth." He called him by name. He knows His sheep!
John 10:4 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
That is a statement of fact, not they should, or they might. It says the sheep ARE following Him. And then next, they ARE knowing his voice. Factual statement!
John 10:5 - And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
A stranger they will not follow. In the Greek, there's a double negative. They will never follow a stranger, factual statement with a double negative. It doesn't say they shouldn't, but they will never follow a stranger. Not only will they not follow him, they will flee from him. They will run! Lastly, they do not know the voice of strangers.
Applying it spiritually to us, Jesus is the true Shepherd and is introduced by the Holy Spirit. Of course, one of the vessels used was John the Baptist, but the Holy Spirit is the one that testifies of Christ and brings people to Christ and points to Him.
All others are thieves and robbers. When He stands there and calls for His sheep, His sheep are hearing His voice. It's impossible for the Lord to stand in front of the sheepfold and call for His sheep, and one not be paying attention and get left behind.
SCHOOL BOOK August 25, 2024 2 Corithians 6:1-13,7:2-4 KJV
My interpetation: COGIC WORSHIP 1 Corinthians 15:3-4- I Worship A God that's saves, A God that is sufficient, A God of justification, A God or morals and meaning, A God that means forward, A God that rewards you, A God of anointing, A God that makes you approved,A God that loves without restrictions, A God of reconciliation, A God that is a healer even in community, church, and homes.
"For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope."(v.20)
God's word is the Law which has subjected His creation as His steward to the man "and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth," came with the caveat.(Ge.1:28) His blessing came in his Son, the Man component so the Fellowship of God with Man and the creation in subjection of man did good only as far as man himself was in subjection to the Man.
Humility of Jesus Christ was holiness of God putting on the mind meant that he acted in subjection of the divine Will. St Paul says of Christ Jesus "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." and his faith came with works, "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."(Ph.2:7-8)This humility is not what Lucifer could have understood let alone consider as a possible course of action. Law of the Spirit is submission of Jesus to obey it so humility is not making a long face while fasting but revelling that one gave glory to God what is his due.Putting on the mind of Christ is the first step in Life in the Spirit."but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."(8:6). "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."(Ph.2:5) According to the covenant we put on the mind of Christ, "after our likeness" so it of life we are here addressing. As with dead in Christ we live after his likeness. "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD."(Pr.16:4-5; Jas 4:6). If you will want an example you only look at what God has made manifest among children of men. "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil."
We are called "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling." That includes creation as well.
"And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; "
Christ having died once has fulfilled his obligation under the covenant. He dies no more but is seated "on the right hand of the Majesty on High". After he had by himself purged our sins, he continues "all things by the word of his power," and it shall be so till the day decreed for him must be accomplished. In the beginning set the covenant to which the fulness of time marked the testament of Christ to come in effect. So what is holding him up? "Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool./The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies." (Ps.110:1-2 He.1:3:Ps.2:7)
Having freed from law of sin we are waiting for the redemption of our bodies, the Law of the Spirit has covered by the spirit of adoption so we cry, Abba, Father." Besides Jesus taught us the prayer as to signify what was his Father. "Our Father which art in heaven is our reality under the life in the Spirit. Blood of the Lamb has cleansed us from our former life, in the flesh. Christ of God has come sanctification to us. "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren."(He.2:11-12) The word of God endures forever which is the gospel preached to us. (1 Pe.1:25). We heard while so many heard but dismissed it outright as unnecessary. What made the difference. We heard the gospel in faith. (Ro.10:17) This connects with the Law, forever settled in the heavens. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren./ Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." Not all who were foreknown simply treated as those in the Parable of the Marriage of the king's Son.
The last line in the para beginning with the Law of Moses, read as follows:
"The Law of Moses was administered to a nation that refused to be taught; neither could they stomach the Man sent from God as fulfilment of law. The covenant is established and blessings under the testament give us the sonship."
"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh."(v.12)
Death in the flesh is not your own cause that separates it from death in its conventional sense. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."(He.9:27) Death implied in v.12 is taken in order to be conformed to the death of the Son.
"For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. (He,9:17) What is the testament or everlasting covenant between God and Man but a testament that is legally binding so death of the Son makes the covenant in force. It was what left unsaid in the covenant under seven days. All things in heaven on earth and lower parts have been considered towards the blessing bequeathed to man who is created 'after our image and after our likeness." It is with the latter part we are addressing so death is not our own cause but rather we place ourselves 'after the likeness of death, in order Christ may live in us. Flesh and its concomitant appetites have been laid aside so we may fall under the Law of the Spirit.
The superscription is what the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross has left as his bequest. The everlasting covenant between God and man stipulated blessing in Christ which is what 'fulness of time' indicates."But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,/To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons./And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father./ Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." (Gal.4:4-7) The Law of Moses was administered to a nation that refused to be taught; neither could the Man sent from God as fulfillment of law. The covenant is established and blessings under the testament give us the sonship.
The entire chapter changes into two section. The first section is built over "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." (v.10) The second half centres about v.32,"If God be for us, who can be against us?"
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." In order to live a life in the spirit we need step back from the clamour of life that demands our time most of which are distraction than helpful. "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." For one in the flesh his social capital is in his friends and it can unless one is wary can be exhausting. As in the case of the Prodigal son in the parable one builds up friends and keep them often drains his wallet. Come a change in fortune because of pandemic or depression one often realises many of them were fair-weather friends whose socialising was to feather their own nests and higher too. For one who died in the flesh in order to have Christ in him the second part of the Proverb quote is very apt. He is 'closer than a friend.' He died for us and "It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."(v.34) We die in order to gain a friend whose fulness covers the earth as well as heaven." For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,/ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Who as a friend can match him who brings along God who shall love you as his very Son?
In vv.1-15 St Paul covered what shall be taken away when you are dead to sin. Carnally minded is enmity to God, "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.' This has no place for us.
Praise GOD, my SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, for HIS love and desire for all to be saved.
Jeremiah 15:
15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Glory to GOD! Thank You, FATHER for Your promises and for the soon coming of Your SON.
Thank You FATHER, for Your word that directs me in my daily walk. Let me praise and worship You according to Scripture. The joy of the LORD is my strength. Nehemiah 8:10
GOD to shine HIS face on all who believe and worship HIM in truth and in spirit.
I praise my LORD JESUS CHRIST for HIS word and my salvation. The LORD to shine HIS face on all the saints, and gloriously bless each and every one who wait and watch for HIS return.
In continuation then .How can I be His mother? For when Jesus was teaching in a certain place his mother and half brothers came desiring to talk with Him. He replied by denying as it were His flesh and said his true mother and brethren were they " who do the will of God" .
How then can a true born child of God be His mother?
We must look at Mary who received the living Word and conceived a child who in due time brought forth Christ .
We too if born again of that incorruptible seed which is the Word of God by the Holy Spirit that seed will in its proper time bring forth fruit after its own kind . Whereby we are crucified with Christ ever the less I live but not I but Christ that liveth in me"
Jesus speaking of Himself said " unless a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abide the alone but if it does it bringers forth much fruit" what sort of fruit ? After its own kind .
Man was CREATED in the image of God but he is BORN in the image of his father Adam ." Shapen in iniquity"
That image of God was lost or so marred by sin it is now unrecognisable. Did not Jesus say He came to seek and to save that which was lost"?
"Who being the express image of the invisible God" restores or rather makes "a new creation in Christ Jesus "
If a man who stands before God then finds himself in hell ,it will not be so much because he has sinned ( for all have sinned." But because of his rejection of Christ and thus does not bare the image of God in him and is thus rejected ." I never knew you".
And let's face it if a person is forever saying " No God" in his heart is he not simply saying I am not a child of God? But rather a " child of disobedience and a " child of wrath ".?
We need to grow up who profess to know Christ for far too long we have been " little children" who know not Him who is from the beginning "
"The seed of the woman .." It would absurd to think that God did not know the biology of His own creation . So we must look deeper for an explanation .
" It ( one) shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel" This one child born of a woman therefore fully man would not be of Adams seed who would come and bruise the head of the serpent ( fatal) but in the process He would be bruised .( suffer).
Mary was not nor ever couid be the ' mother of God' for God has no mother . But she was the mother of his flesh .
His true mother though was as the Lord stated " they who do the will of God" they are my mother and brother." It is easier to understand how I might be His brother ,especially in the light of His teaching on prayer ." Our Father" for a brighter is of the same household and of the same father . A neighbour is of another household and of another father .
So we have the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent .
Each producing fruit after its own kind . And it's by their fruits ( not gifts) that ye shall know them .The salvation of God was not some after thought of God who was caught by surprise by the fall of man . But rather was preordained from before the foundation of the world.
In truth notwithstanding the wonderful salvation of God and how it all came about and the unfolding of Gods program the Holy Bible is primarily and overwhelmingly a revelation of God and who is the only one worthy of that title .
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Glory of God is the expression of Power and Wisdom in their levelling off both facets of holiness so the three entities are not separate but intrinsic quality of God. Wisdom of God renders the Word becoming flesh, for which the slain Lamb is an emblem. The same Lamb when we consider in terms of the Power principle is the Lamb of God, having the power in himself to take away the sin of the world. In his humanity it is what the Power of God has willed. So the Word or the Law of the Spirit remains sacrosanct. Jesus suffered outside the camp, which is his humanity." Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate." (He.13:12) Death could not hold him because the Power of God raised him to life so that the scripture might be fulfilled. That is a sign. What is our glory being adopted in his Son? It is under the umbrella of the throne of the Lamb. This body of the Lamb is expressed in terms of the glory of the light of the Lamb. In short the same suffering such as Jesus suffered in his body is our portion as well. "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."(8:7)
Suffering in the flesh can also occur in the world being unequally yoked with godless people.. Jezebel coveted the neighbour's vineyard. King Ahab was not a slumlord but a genuine buyer who wanted to make his property grander. Neboth would not sell. So he is despondent. His happiness is in some one elses hand. The devil has got his hook on him, Jezebel asks, "But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?" Flesh suffers because of law of sin, the spirit wants it all. So the law of sin makes the damned all the more wretched. (1 Ki.21)
The Roman currency was the Denarius. One silver denarius was a day's wage, as you said. In the Eastern Mediterranean people were also using the grk Drachma. One silver Drachma was equivalent to one silver Denarius. In Israel at that time the Jews were using the grk money instead of Roman money as a "revolutionary" act. They were not accepting denarii but only drachmas. In the Temple there were people who were exchanging Roman and other money for drachmas. They were the ones that Jesus sent away using a whip.
John 12:3 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then Mary took a pound of ointment. It is actually not a pound as we know it. The Greek word means three quarters of a pound of ointment, and of spikenard, very costly. And spikenard is an oil extract from a plant in India. It is very costly, about 300 day's wages, almost a year for us. So, she took this ointment and poured it on the feet of Jesus. This was while they were at the table to eat supper.
John 12:5 - Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
A DENARIUS is one day's wage, so 300 DENARII would be 300 days wages. So, Judas is calculating and saying, "What a waste!" It could have been sold and we could have given the money to the poor.
John 12:6 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Judas was stealing out of the treasury of the disciples. He was stealing out of the money bag. All he could see is 300 days wages that could be in his bag, but instead she wasted it on Jesus.
John 12:34 - The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
There are two terms for Jesus; Son of God, and Son of man. Son of God means spiritually He is all God. Son of Man means that He's the head of the human race.
This is taken from Daniel 7:13-14, where it is first used that the Son of man will come. He inherits everything from the human race, and He is God. He is the Son of God and the Son of man. He is 100% God and 100% man.
John 10:36 - Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
I hope you make the connection? They didn't say to Him "It is because you said you are the Son of God." It says because you said you are God. That's because as I have mentioned to you before, the title "Son of God" is to the Jew a title of God Himself!
The word "son" in Greek does not mean somebody who is a son by birth. It is never used of Jesus in the scripture. He is not the son of God in that there's "father God," and "mother God," and they had a child named Jesus.
John 11:16 - Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Didymus means "The Twin."
John 11:47 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
This would be the Sanhedrin, the highest council of the Jews, both of civil and religious affairs. 70 priests and scholars plus the high priest make up the Sanhedrin.
John 12:2 - There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
The word "sat" is not a correct translation. How they ate in those days, they didn't sit in chairs. They had a table close to the ground and they would lean on the table with their right arm, and they would have their legs and feet spread straight out. They were actually leaning (reclining) on the table.
Some translations of the New Testament actually use the word "reclining" because that's how they used to recline at the table.
So, Jesus' feet were facing the back. And so, she pours (she anoints) the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
John 10:12 - But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Literally in the Greek text, a hireling is a person who is hired to spell the shepherd so that he can have some time off. He's a hireling. Now two things about him: First of all, it's his job to do. And secondly, the sheep don't mean that much to him. It is only a job!
This is the proverb that represents leaders in professional positions, and especially the leaders that Jesus is talking to here. A hireling is a hireling. You hire them and you pay them to do the job. As far as risking their life for the sheep, no way, it is just a job!
John 10:19 - There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
The word division is schism, (SCHISMA) in the Greek.
John 10:20 - And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
The word "mad" is the Greek word for insane.
John 10:30 - I and my Father are one.
Literal translation from the Greek text is "I and the Father are one!"
Please notice that I didn't read it the way we have it in the King James. It's not "I and my Father are one" It is "I and the Father are one." He's saying, "We are the same." It is quite a statement to make!
John 10:34 - Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
The Key Verse is Psalm 82:6. The term "gods" is just a general reference. That is not God's name. It's a general reference.
ELOHAE in the Old Testament singular, or ELOHIM plural. But in the Psalms, the judges who sat in the courts of Israel that represented God's law, they were called gods, with a small 'g".
They were called ELOHIM because they represented God. And so, they had all of this authority. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? Notice He didn't say, the scripture said you are gods. "I said you are gods!"
John 10:6 - This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
And this proverb, and keep in mind that it says parable in the King James, but John is presenting a proverb, not a parable. This is a well-known proverb in the area or in the land. He spoke unto them: but they did not understand what things that he spoke unto them.
There were saying "Okay, we know the proverb, but what does that have to do with anything?" They don't understand what's going on here.
First, John 10:1-6 is known as "The Proverb of the Sheepfold." This is a translation error. Please know that I am not putting down the King James but I wanted to share this just so you know this is not a parable. It is not the parable. Verse 6 tells us "This parable spake Jesus unto them:" except in the Greek text it is a different word which means proverb, not parable. John does not use the word parable here. He uses the word proverb.
In fact, it is the Septuagint name for the book of Proverbs. So, this is a Proverb. These are things that are known around the country and this is a famous Proverb that is used, but Jesus is going to interpret it for them a little differently than they are used to.
John 10:11 - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
First of all, the term "good." There are a few words in the New Testament for the word good. This is the word KALOS. In comparison to the hirelings, and the thieves and robbers, the Lord is the Good Shepherd.
From the human comparison standpoint to the thieves and robbers and hirelings, they are not good at all. They are KAKOSE. Jesus said I am the good shepherd in contrast to the human hirelings.
John 10:3 - To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
The genuine or true shepherd is the only one to whom the porter opens. The Greek word for porter means doorkeeper. The doorkeeper opens only to the shepherd of the sheep, never to the thief or the robber. When the shepherd stands in the doorway, his sheep hear his voice, factual statement in the Greek. It literally says his sheep ARE hearing his voice.
The shepherd calls his own sheep by name. That's how intimate it is. And in John Chapter 11 when Jesus calls Lazarus from out of the tomb, He says, "Lazarus come forth." He called him by name. He knows His sheep!
John 10:4 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
That is a statement of fact, not they should, or they might. It says the sheep ARE following Him. And then next, they ARE knowing his voice. Factual statement!
John 10:5 - And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
A stranger they will not follow. In the Greek, there's a double negative. They will never follow a stranger, factual statement with a double negative. It doesn't say they shouldn't, but they will never follow a stranger. Not only will they not follow him, they will flee from him. They will run! Lastly, they do not know the voice of strangers.
Applying it spiritually to us, Jesus is the true Shepherd and is introduced by the Holy Spirit. Of course, one of the vessels used was John the Baptist, but the Holy Spirit is the one that testifies of Christ and brings people to Christ and points to Him.
All others are thieves and robbers. When He stands there and calls for His sheep, His sheep are hearing His voice. It's impossible for the Lord to stand in front of the sheepfold and call for His sheep, and one not be paying attention and get left behind.
SCHOOL BOOK August 25, 2024 2 Corithians 6:1-13,7:2-4 KJV
My interpetation: COGIC WORSHIP 1 Corinthians 15:3-4- I Worship A God that's saves, A God that is sufficient, A God of justification, A God or morals and meaning, A God that means forward, A God that rewards you, A God of anointing, A God that makes you approved,A God that loves without restrictions, A God of reconciliation, A God that is a healer even in community, church, and homes.
"For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope."(v.20)
God's word is the Law which has subjected His creation as His steward to the man "and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth," came with the caveat.(Ge.1:28) His blessing came in his Son, the Man component so the Fellowship of God with Man and the creation in subjection of man did good only as far as man himself was in subjection to the Man.
Humility of Jesus Christ was holiness of God putting on the mind meant that he acted in subjection of the divine Will. St Paul says of Christ Jesus "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." and his faith came with works, "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."(Ph.2:7-8)This humility is not what Lucifer could have understood let alone consider as a possible course of action. Law of the Spirit is submission of Jesus to obey it so humility is not making a long face while fasting but revelling that one gave glory to God what is his due.Putting on the mind of Christ is the first step in Life in the Spirit."but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."(8:6). "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."(Ph.2:5) According to the covenant we put on the mind of Christ, "after our likeness" so it of life we are here addressing. As with dead in Christ we live after his likeness. "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD."(Pr.16:4-5; Jas 4:6). If you will want an example you only look at what God has made manifest among children of men. "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil."
We are called "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling." That includes creation as well.
"And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; "
Christ having died once has fulfilled his obligation under the covenant. He dies no more but is seated "on the right hand of the Majesty on High". After he had by himself purged our sins, he continues "all things by the word of his power," and it shall be so till the day decreed for him must be accomplished. In the beginning set the covenant to which the fulness of time marked the testament of Christ to come in effect. So what is holding him up? "Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool./The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies." (Ps.110:1-2 He.1:3:Ps.2:7)
Having freed from law of sin we are waiting for the redemption of our bodies, the Law of the Spirit has covered by the spirit of adoption so we cry, Abba, Father." Besides Jesus taught us the prayer as to signify what was his Father. "Our Father which art in heaven is our reality under the life in the Spirit. Blood of the Lamb has cleansed us from our former life, in the flesh. Christ of God has come sanctification to us. "For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren."(He.2:11-12) The word of God endures forever which is the gospel preached to us. (1 Pe.1:25). We heard while so many heard but dismissed it outright as unnecessary. What made the difference. We heard the gospel in faith. (Ro.10:17) This connects with the Law, forever settled in the heavens. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren./ Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." Not all who were foreknown simply treated as those in the Parable of the Marriage of the king's Son.
The last line in the para beginning with the Law of Moses, read as follows:
"The Law of Moses was administered to a nation that refused to be taught; neither could they stomach the Man sent from God as fulfilment of law. The covenant is established and blessings under the testament give us the sonship."
"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh."(v.12)
Death in the flesh is not your own cause that separates it from death in its conventional sense. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."(He.9:27) Death implied in v.12 is taken in order to be conformed to the death of the Son.
"For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. (He,9:17) What is the testament or everlasting covenant between God and Man but a testament that is legally binding so death of the Son makes the covenant in force. It was what left unsaid in the covenant under seven days. All things in heaven on earth and lower parts have been considered towards the blessing bequeathed to man who is created 'after our image and after our likeness." It is with the latter part we are addressing so death is not our own cause but rather we place ourselves 'after the likeness of death, in order Christ may live in us. Flesh and its concomitant appetites have been laid aside so we may fall under the Law of the Spirit.
The superscription is what the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross has left as his bequest. The everlasting covenant between God and man stipulated blessing in Christ which is what 'fulness of time' indicates."But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,/To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons./And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father./ Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ." (Gal.4:4-7) The Law of Moses was administered to a nation that refused to be taught; neither could the Man sent from God as fulfillment of law. The covenant is established and blessings under the testament give us the sonship.
Overview of vv.16-39
The entire chapter changes into two section. The first section is built over "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." (v.10) The second half centres about v.32,"If God be for us, who can be against us?"
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." In order to live a life in the spirit we need step back from the clamour of life that demands our time most of which are distraction than helpful. "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." For one in the flesh his social capital is in his friends and it can unless one is wary can be exhausting. As in the case of the Prodigal son in the parable one builds up friends and keep them often drains his wallet. Come a change in fortune because of pandemic or depression one often realises many of them were fair-weather friends whose socialising was to feather their own nests and higher too. For one who died in the flesh in order to have Christ in him the second part of the Proverb quote is very apt. He is 'closer than a friend.' He died for us and "It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."(v.34) We die in order to gain a friend whose fulness covers the earth as well as heaven." For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,/ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Who as a friend can match him who brings along God who shall love you as his very Son?
In vv.1-15 St Paul covered what shall be taken away when you are dead to sin. Carnally minded is enmity to God, "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.' This has no place for us.
God is so good to us. And He is faithful and trustworthy. He hears us when we pray and is pleased to answer our petitions. Thankfully.
I will lift up these requests during my prayer time tonight and tomorrow.
I will be praying for your Granson and family tonight and tomorrow.
I am keeping Matthew before God in prayer.
Jeremiah 15:
15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Glory to GOD! Thank You, FATHER for Your promises and for the soon coming of Your SON.
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GOD to shine HIS face on all who believe and worship HIM in truth and in spirit.
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How then can a true born child of God be His mother?
We must look at Mary who received the living Word and conceived a child who in due time brought forth Christ .
We too if born again of that incorruptible seed which is the Word of God by the Holy Spirit that seed will in its proper time bring forth fruit after its own kind . Whereby we are crucified with Christ ever the less I live but not I but Christ that liveth in me"
Jesus speaking of Himself said " unless a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abide the alone but if it does it bringers forth much fruit" what sort of fruit ? After its own kind .
Man was CREATED in the image of God but he is BORN in the image of his father Adam ." Shapen in iniquity"
That image of God was lost or so marred by sin it is now unrecognisable. Did not Jesus say He came to seek and to save that which was lost"?
"Who being the express image of the invisible God" restores or rather makes "a new creation in Christ Jesus "
If a man who stands before God then finds himself in hell ,it will not be so much because he has sinned ( for all have sinned." But because of his rejection of Christ and thus does not bare the image of God in him and is thus rejected ." I never knew you".
And let's face it if a person is forever saying " No God" in his heart is he not simply saying I am not a child of God? But rather a " child of disobedience and a " child of wrath ".?
We need to grow up who profess to know Christ for far too long we have been " little children" who know not Him who is from the beginning "
" It ( one) shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel" This one child born of a woman therefore fully man would not be of Adams seed who would come and bruise the head of the serpent ( fatal) but in the process He would be bruised .( suffer).
Mary was not nor ever couid be the ' mother of God' for God has no mother . But she was the mother of his flesh .
His true mother though was as the Lord stated " they who do the will of God" they are my mother and brother." It is easier to understand how I might be His brother ,especially in the light of His teaching on prayer ." Our Father" for a brighter is of the same household and of the same father . A neighbour is of another household and of another father .
So we have the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent .
Each producing fruit after its own kind . And it's by their fruits ( not gifts) that ye shall know them .The salvation of God was not some after thought of God who was caught by surprise by the fall of man . But rather was preordained from before the foundation of the world.
In truth notwithstanding the wonderful salvation of God and how it all came about and the unfolding of Gods program the Holy Bible is primarily and overwhelmingly a revelation of God and who is the only one worthy of that title .
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
Glory of God is the expression of Power and Wisdom in their levelling off both facets of holiness so the three entities are not separate but intrinsic quality of God. Wisdom of God renders the Word becoming flesh, for which the slain Lamb is an emblem. The same Lamb when we consider in terms of the Power principle is the Lamb of God, having the power in himself to take away the sin of the world. In his humanity it is what the Power of God has willed. So the Word or the Law of the Spirit remains sacrosanct. Jesus suffered outside the camp, which is his humanity." Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate." (He.13:12) Death could not hold him because the Power of God raised him to life so that the scripture might be fulfilled. That is a sign. What is our glory being adopted in his Son? It is under the umbrella of the throne of the Lamb. This body of the Lamb is expressed in terms of the glory of the light of the Lamb. In short the same suffering such as Jesus suffered in his body is our portion as well. "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."(8:7)
Suffering in the flesh can also occur in the world being unequally yoked with godless people.. Jezebel coveted the neighbour's vineyard. King Ahab was not a slumlord but a genuine buyer who wanted to make his property grander. Neboth would not sell. So he is despondent. His happiness is in some one elses hand. The devil has got his hook on him, Jezebel asks, "But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?" Flesh suffers because of law of sin, the spirit wants it all. So the law of sin makes the damned all the more wretched. (1 Ki.21)
Sorry for the late responses.
I'm out of town at a wedding this weekend.
God bless.