Over the years I’ve reworked all sorts of things from God’s Word. Some I see a little more clearly than before; others I’m still working. If you want to talk the word, I think you can post a comment to this blog. If that doesn't work go ahead and post a comment to my page or e-mail me at logos.live@verizon.net.
One of the cool things I saw this year was the difference between the Good Seed of the gospels and the incorruptible seed by way of which we are born again. The good seed of the gospels (Luke 8:5, 6) can perish. It was corruptible. The seed by which we are born-again, the spirit within, is like our Messiah incorruptible. Applying the truths of the sower and the seed must be in light of to whom it is written. It is always a brand new day for each and every believer and his Heavenly Father.
I’ve done a little work lately on:
- baptism with the holy spirit (and with fire – the hendiadys)
- LORD and Lord
- S.I.T. + INT = Prophecy in the church
(one of the things that arose from this last study was the importance of seeing from God’s word the Father’s view on the power of these manifestation of the spirit, and then acting)
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And I should have checked for typos above. Should be "THESE are the generations."
I've spent the last 10 years or so just working through the first few sentences of Genesis in Hebrew. What a fascinating language...one you have to think about for a very long time. So, I've enjoyed finding out that the first use of the word "God" is elohim, a plural masculine noun. That puts a different spin on "let us create man in our own image."
Another note of interest is that elohim is used until chapter 3's "There are the generations..." when the term Lord God first appears. Of course "God" is elohim. Lord is "yahweh" a distinctly singular feminine noun. But, it makes a great deal of sense when considering the new topic "generations." Without the singular feminine principle, all the plural masculine elohim could not bring anything into animated being.
Cheers!
Sandy Sanders
God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
I was surprised to learn over the years that our freedom from the Old Testament law under Christ was freedom from the debt of the law. The Old Testament law was what we owed God, what we ought to do. From this we were freed in Christ.
Today, however, we are debtors to live after the spirit. This surely includes, first and foremost, loving God by way of speaking in tongues (Romans 6:13b: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.). We owe it to the Father to live after the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:12). Being transformed by the renewing of our minds is our reasonable service (Romans 12:1) before our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us. As Moses ministered the Old Testament law to Israel, the man of God for the church age, Jesus Christ, has ministered the law of the spirit of life. Romans 8 holds forth the way of life and the way of death, even as did Deuteronomy 30:15. Of course we get to live what we owe because of love of Christ rather than fear of death (II Corinthians 5:14)..
All His best,
Ren
There have been some recent in-depth studies done that I have seen within the last 5 years which are awesome pieces of work. One that comes to mind was a study of exactly what the Word says about debt. It is quite eye opening and not at all what some propose. I have that in electronic format if you would like it.