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vv.1-12
Herod beheaded John the Baptist on a whim. His personal honor was at stake lest he did not commit the crime and give his head to the damsel who has had not an iota of understanding. One who lives for pleasure is dead since truth with which one may stake claim, rightly so, for life everlasting is let go. What else is he good for if he had lost his saltines, truth?
It was for this reason Jesus said,'Let the dead bury their dead'. ("But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.1 Ti.5:6)They are drunk with power as Herod was and mindless pleasure as we get to see nowadays in news media are like wise dead. "They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."(Pr.23:35). Such are the dead men walking of which Herod is a good example. What was his honor worth when 'he feared the multitude'? In such a pusillanimous spirit what made him equate John whom he had beheaded with Jesus? For that matter what has resurrection to do with one who was given to pleasure. It is what we call truth in his inward parts, the inner man nudging his callous conscience to itself. The Preacher says, "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."(Ec.3:11).We have the key in this verse, "Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."( John 6:28-29) 'The work that God maketh' is believing in the Son whom he sent. So Jesus is the only Way for 'the dead', "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."(Ep.5:14)
OMNISCENT-ALL KNOWING
OMINPOTENT-ALL POWERFUL
OMINIPRESENT- PRESENT EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES.
This post will take up the omniscience of God. He knows everything that is, everything, that happens in past history and everything that will happen in future history. He knows everything from everlasting to everlasting.
He knows every thought that has ever been made by heavenly beings or humans and He knows every thought that will occur in the future. He knows every word ever spoken or what will be spoken. Nothing is hidden from Him: in heaven, on earth, and in hell.
Therefore, God cannot be fooled, deceived, taken by surprise, and fail to have a plan for every aspect of every person's existence. He knows all of the animals, when they die, they are born. When they need food, and when they are preyed upon.
He knows all that is in all of the universe. He is the Creator. He makes alive and brings death to man and living things. He knows the smallest aspect of atoms and all that makes up a planet, solar system, galaxy, everything in outer space, all of the powers that He put in place to order the universe, light, gravity, magnetism, force, energy, matter, and that which is immaterial in the spiritual realm.
For some such knowledge may cause them to fear God and want to hide from Him, but believers can be comforted that He knows what we need before we ask and is a good Father and gives His children good gifts when they ask of Him. He knows who we will interact with each moment and desires to helps us to do what is loving and good to others.
He knows all of our health matters from the time of conception to the time of our death. We may not know why we may become ill or be injured or be afflicted with a disease. But God know why He allows all things in our life. We can trust that His will is always good and best for us.
He knows who our children are before they are conceived, same with us.
Jesus says to honor your father and your mother. He is quoting Exodus 20:12 and is speaking of honoring our biological father and mother.
And then we look over at Luke 14:26 which reads, "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."
So it seems that we have a dilemma. We're told to honor our father and mother, but then we're told that we can't be His disciple if we come to Him and we don't hate our father and mother.
In the English language, we see the word hate and we know what it means to hate someone or hate something. Hate is such a very strong word.
But here's the beauty of the Greek language. In Luke 14:26, the word hate in the Greek text is the word MISEO. It does not mean to hate someone according to our definition of the word hate in our English language.
This word is MISEO. It is not the word for hostile. It is a word of comparison. When MISEO is used with any of the words that have to do with love, it is showing comparison.
In other words, Jesus is saying you must love me so much that the comparison between me and anybody else, or anything else, it makes it look like you hate them. You really don't, but that's what it looks like to them.
Jesus is saying that our love for Him can't even be close in comparison to how we love others.
Hope this makes things a little clearer on these sections of scripture.
Blessings!!!
Who would you say is then referred to, towards whom we should be honoring in the commandment of "honor your father and your mother?
If we are to hate our father and mother and even yourself to be a disciple, whom is here referred to?
I am in fair understanding of all, just that I have no scriptural proof or enough insight to be able to avail such to others. Hoping you could maybe help?
Thank-you
I would want for you to see the struggle as an opportunity to gain faith. You will need rocksolid faith for everything ahead and thus building faith is precious.
Believing that God forgave you is great, now you need to understand the idea of faith as the substance of things hoped for. You hope to prosper and be responsible and be financially independent and and...
Having faith is also pointless if not supported by works. So you need to choose what you ask from Father God in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, then believe that it will be, keep on motivating yourself to this by faith and then apply an action that confirms your choice and whole frame of belief. Much much easier said than done, but every step is golden. You tend to stop looking at problems but rather opportunities and you tend to see the answers God gave you before you even considered the hassle. You will not be tested above your ability - so if things get really tough- it is because you are and requires more than what most people can give to resolve.
Choosing God and truthfully following Him is the toughest thing any person can do- no wonder the reward is everlasting life with God.
Seek God with all that you are in everything and ignore society programming of Who they impose God is. Find God every day for Who He truly is and be set free by the Truth of Him in you.
Remember- Father God allows His true followers to ask of Him as His children. He wants to help - so let Him...
"Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord."(v.51)
Jesus having explained the parables to the disciples treats each of them as a scribe 'a man that is an householder.' They had understood what the power of the Spirit could do in their missionary circuit so the understanding came from their association with Jesus as the Word become flesh. These disciples were called before the foundation of the world. ( John 17:8)
Principle of Similitude sets Jesus Christ as the bread from heaven. The body of man is nourished by food. How it is set in terms of his body spirit and soul we can apply in terms of the Word sent forth. (Is.55:11) The preacher gives us an instance."Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." The twelve disciples are a proof to it. Their association gives them an understanding of the kingdom of heaven as never before. Jesus as the Word become flesh.
When God created man it was 'in our image after our likeness' Consequently Trinity must be compared the like compared with the like. God breathed into the nostrils and made him a living soul. So truth is knowable. Heart can be most deceitful in man of which the despair of the prophet we read here. Despair of the conflict between law of sin against the Law of Spirit he speaks as an ongoing war, "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war."(Je.4:19) Soul, sovereignty of which rests upon God and it is the reality of man. The nacre around which the word of God builds up compares to a pearl."Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:/Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."(vv.45-46) Man sells all as the disciples who left all behind in order to win Christ.
The to me the key for understanding Matt 12:49 is found in the next verse.
Matthew 12:50
"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
The key: "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven."
So those "who do the will of God" should be considered our: brothers, sisters, Mothers, and Fathers, Grandmothers, and Grandfathers.
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In Matthew 12:49 Jesus refers to His brothers and sisters and even His mother as His followers whom He is surrounded by. This He replies when asked by His biological family. Should it then be considered possible that the commandment of "Honor you father and your mother" refers to your elderly persons within the Body of Christ as your "mothers and fathers", and not your biological parents?
If we are to be willing to hate our father and mother and ... ( Luke 14:26) to be a disciple, does these again refer to our biological parents?
Could someone with Hebrew understandings assist me by explaining if there is differences in the term mother and father in the different verses, and what is actual intended?
Thank you
Prophet Isaiah foretold the coming of the Savior. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:"(Is.9:6) He was delivering the Messianic prophecies as was directed by the Spirit of Christ to a generation whose pride was given, and we see it further down,"The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."(v.10) In the shadow of great calamity coming over them from Syria were they unduly worried. Oh no! They knew their Scripture and were awaiting the coming of Messiah-King. Only they did not connect the Promise with the Law given to them and their heart remained in neglect while their observances according to the traditions of their fathers went on as before. Isaiah also had said of the Messiah as a tender plant growing up before them. (Is.53:2)
Here we see Isaiah was misunderstood since by principle of Similitude he referred to the tree of life planted by God in the Garden. The like begets like. Parables of the kingdom of heaven must be comparing the like with like. Isaiah was correct while the nation of Israel read his message wrongly. As with Jesus in their eyes Prophet Isaiah was without honour. "A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house./ And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief."
Literally one may take the narrative mode of the Spirit and make the woods disappear while counting all those leaves as we are familiar. How many times the word perfection comes up in KJV is one example. Spiritually comparing the perfection of the Father in Jesus Christ by abiding in him and seeing the light with his yet another. His grace is what makes our perfection sit well in the sight of his Father. The Spirit has set this down for instruction in righteousness.
Here's my understanding of this section of scripture. Matthew 12:46-50 gives us the true understanding of family.
It says in Verse 50, "whoever will do the will of my Father."
The Lord puts a new dimension on family. And we all have our blood relatives and blood family, but Jesus said spirit is thicker than blood. Jesus says that true family are those whoever will be doing the will of my Father.
People will often ask, "What is the will that the Father says we are supposed to be doing? But that's not what it says!
It is giving an evidence and a characteristic of somebody that is saved, because somebody that is saved will be doing the will of the Father.
That is their motive. That's what they are seeking. That's what they want to do. They want to please God.
It is not something we have to do. It is something that we do because of the persuasion of God's Spirit leading us to do it. That is the characteristic of a person that is saved. And that is the person who is doing the will of the Father.
Sometimes people lose family for various reasons. What do we tell them? I guess we could tell them that if they lose family, to go it all alone.
If your family has been split up, and they are Christians, we can tell them to get into a fellowship with the other believers because you have got more moms and dads, and brothers and sisters, than you can count. Join God's family.
So Jesus put a new light on family. Your mother and brothers are out here. Who are my mother and my brothers? My disciples!
Hope this helps!
Jesus answered to His family that wanted to see Him, by saying I am with my Mother and Sisters and brethren, ( Matt 12:49) when I am with my followers. Does this then justify that the commandment (Honor your father and your mother) could refer to to elderly "brothers and sisters" within the Body of Christ, be seen as your "father and Mother" and not your biological parents?
Principle of Similitude serves the kingdom of heaven to be set on the same scale for comparison with natural world to which the key to understand the truth is in the Son of Man. We shall briefly consider spiritual meaning of the three parables where Jesus Christ is the Way, the truth and the Life. The like begets the life as "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit."(7:17-18). These are pure words (Ps.12:6)
The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field(v.44)
Man is formed of the dust of the ground. What was the treasure hid in a field: Isaiah refers to the pit from which we are dug up. "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."(Is.51:1) Possessing this treasure would entail being conformed to death of Jesus and resurrection, "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death," and it means stripping oneself of everything else of worldly advantages which is what the man does,"the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.. (Ph.3:10)
2) is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls.
A merchant trades, if he gives up an advantage it is to gain another in its place. It is thus man who in search of goodly pearls goes about it. "For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.(1 Pe.2:25). Soul is the truth about which a meaningful trade off can take place."but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." (Ph.3:12)
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind" The net serves as Word wide web bringing every thing in its dragnet.
Soul is neither in our material body which shall dissolve with death. Spirit is immaterial leaving no testimony of the individual. Soul in short is betwixt and between. It is the mystery which only by faith can be revealed. It is like the signature in a legal document and it shall speak in a court of law for the person. Jesus was the Man the message. Gospel of God became Gospel of Christ in the manner he made manifest. In our bodies we bear the message so dying to the world and sin by baptism we declare where are lives are henceforth found. In heavenly places and groaning to put on a body not made with hands. Body,spirit and soul are alike involved in our transformation which is as mysterious as a caterpillar morph into a butterfly.
In the parable of the leaven"The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened (v.33)" the doctrine of Jesus made body spirit and soul subject to it.
The Sign of the Fleece in the life of Gideon explains how physical bodies change into spiritual bodies about the soul. Ju.6:36-40
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:/Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it".
Parables of Jesus are mysteries, the centre of gravity of which falls in his example. His divinity and humanity in the manner he solved the two-in-one problem made the Word doable. It is of significance that in eternity we read the holy city of God is adorned with pearls, "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl(Re.21:21) We are considering formation of soul as one pearl of great price. Having escaped condemnation we are many members of the body of Christ, collectively soul has become merged into one. So prayer of Jesus 'that they may be one, as we are,' is our reality. ( John 17:11)
It was not simply a question of ethics or moral that directed our lives but the Spirit. Our in-house tutor held a candle so our inner man may grow from glory to glory. It learned to trust, man child of our redemption.
So when Jesus says, 'Learn of me' we are exercising faith. If Jesus could forgive his enemies so can I. He shed his blood for us and he would having fulfilled the will of his Father say'It is finished'. This is the doctrine of Jesus where his life is on the line. In perfecting the will of his Father he testified faith. There is only one faith. It is the soul representing a child of God where faith is the DNA of our Father.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?/Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?(Mk.36-37)"
To recap: Body of Christian is to live as Christ did in his body; with the indwelling Spirit we give faith its best possible demonstration so we glorify our Savior Lord . This is Christian Living.
Remember me in prayer. I've just been going through so much and trying to fight it, and I just need help getting things out of my life and putting new things back in.
Hallelujah!
The following verse " Psalms 1:1-6 speaks volumes!
There's a lot of doctrine built around this.
Vs 3 "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, THAT BRINGETH FORTH HIS FRUIT IN HIS SEASON; HIS LEAF ALSO SHALL NOT WITHER; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
(HIS LEAF SHALL NOT WITHER!
Forever being fruitful!)
Jeremiah 17:7-8 is another one that picks up on this.
"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, NEITHER SHALL CEASE FROM YIELDING FRUIT.
Jesus uses this idiom in John 7:37-39 "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Also see John 4:10.
THANK GOD FOR HIS HOLYSPIRIT THAT SEALS AND GUIDES US!
Psalms 1:1-6.
THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO: but are like the CHAFF which the wind driveth away.
THEREFORE THE UNGODLY SHALL NOT STAND IN THE JUDGMENT,
(They will have their own Judgment)
NOR SINNERS IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
(THE CHAFF IS NOT BINDING TO THE TREE AND HAS NO ROOTS AND NO FRUIT.)
More on the chaff. Matthew 3:11-12
Praise the Lord!
This is why Psalms 1:1 says "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
God bless.
1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
What a wonder example for us. God Bless :)
Word of God through Paul: "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." 1 Corinthians 9:24 KJV
Man's doctrine: "Don't run, because you already have the prize. It's bad to put effort into following God, because my pastor says that's legalism and obeying God's law is bad and pleasing God is bad."
James 2:14-26 "...faith, if it hath not works, is dead..."
Man's doctrine: "nah, ignore that verse, cause I'm told all good works are 'bad'. Bad works are ok though since you're already forgiven."
Hebrews 10:26 "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"
Man's doctrine: "just ignore this verse, but lets cherry pick something else and focus on that instead."
Matthew 24:13 "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
Man's doctrine: "Nope, you're already saved right now, not later. So you don't have to endure anything or do anything whatsoever. Just do whatever feels good then rationalize it by saying that's the spirit doing it, not your sinful flesh."
Hebrews 10:36 "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."
Man's doctrine: "Nah, ignore that verse too. You already have the promise and prize. You don't need to do anything."
"But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:" Romans 2:10 KJV
Man's doctrine: "No, just ignore. Good is bad, but bad is fine, because salvation."
Jude 1:4 "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."
Man's doctrine: "Nope"
Are both genuinely following Jesus?
"The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:/ But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way./ But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also."
The good seed must be what is in accordance with the divine Will, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth."(Ge.1:11) "And it was so". The Abstract is set in terms of the Father Son relationship where God willed and the Son says, "Amen" to it.
"Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." God has no need for sleep so under the watch of his servant the enemy has slipped in tares. How the decadent Imperial Rome became the seat of the Church of Rome reads like the story of Rip Van Winkle and the tares are everywhere. Never mind, the redoubtable Elijah also thought God had none as faithful as he. "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him."(1 Ki.19:18) The Lord God is in control. " Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."(v.30) The wicked shall go one with their false gods and culture wars. Fire shall try their works. "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."(2 Co.6:17)
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
The twelve disciples by the Power of the Spirit were equipped so their tongue was as that of learned. Jesus had assured them, "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." (10:20). Isaiah says, "The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season tohim that isweary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."(Is.50:4) They were his associates brought into the household of God.
Their names were written in heaven before the worlds began; so are the names of all those who were adopted as co-heirs to which the writer to the Hebrews address thus "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,/To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect"(He.12:22-23)
"which bringeth out of his treasure"
Heart of every scribe is the treasure awaiting him and connects his physical life to the very presence of God. It is hidden, and the route map is the Scripture. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path (Ps.119:105). It is for this reason the Spirit has in many places compared the word of God to a lamp without which he cannot get his bearings or know what he is getting at. On the way he shall find many who make claim to know all the answers and do great wonders. It is impressive because the spirit that helps them is from some other source. How shall you know? "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.( 1 John 4:4)".