Saturday, March 31, 2012

Psalm 18:3


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Psalm 18:3

3 I will call [qara'] upon the LORD, [Yahovah] who is worthy to be praised: [halal] so shall I be saved [yasha`] from mine enemies. ['oyeb] KJV-Interlinear

3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.  NASB

Call, ‘qara,’ refers to a continuing call, a never ending repetition of requests.

Saved, ‘yasha,’ refers to deliverance or rescue from difficult situations.  These situations can be from any number of circumstances and are not limited to bad people but include social, financial, or just ones own dumb decisions that go badly.

The Lord is God, and refers here to the self-existent one, or the eternal one, and typically is used as the personal name of the second person of the Trinity, who is Jesus Christ.

Worthy of praise, is a phrase that separates God from all other living things or all things in general.

There is only one person who is worthy of praise and that is God.  Not family, not ancestors, not celebrities, not made up deities, not people whoever they might be, not angels, not things, not anything or anyone or any place. 

God alone is worthy.  There is nothing and no one who possesses the necessary attributes or character that would qualify as worthy.

Worthy means deserving, respectable, good, moral.  God alone is deserving.  Man deserves nothing.  Mans inventions deserve nothing.  Man can neither earn or deserve anything.  To do so would require arrogance as a justification for mans worthiness, and arrogance in itself cancels all worth.

Therefore, if you are to call upon anything or anyone, God is the only legitimate target for your call, prayer, request.

Calling upon anything else, the weather, the wind, your ancestors, animals, the moon, etc., is a total waste of time and is a fools pursuit.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Ephesians 2:20


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Ephesians 2:20

20 And are built [epoikodomeo] upon [epi] the foundation [themelios] of the apostles [apostolos] and [kai] prophets, [prophetes] Jesus [Iesous] Christ [Christos] himself [autos] being [on] the chief corner [akrogoniaios] stone;KJV-Interlinear

20 having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,  NASB

The word for built, ‘epoikodomeo,’ begins the development of the concept of a construction process within the soul of the believer.

This is a process with which most believers are not familiar, and thus leading to confusion and stagnation of their advancement in their spiritual lives.

This construction process is based on the scriptures.  The New Testament was recorded by and through the apostles.  This is the message of Christ, in which the principles of the Old Testament have been fulfilled and completed through Christ.

And the prophets, brings the Old Testament scriptures into view, because they lay the foundation of the savior, teaching the promise and prophecy of same, in addition to the basics of the spiritual life. 

Jesus Christ Himself, ties all of the scriptures together.  Jesus Christ is the principle subject of the entire Bible. The whole point of the Bible is to introduce Christ and His work and what it all stands for.

There is far more to the Bible than just the promise of salvation, however, and here we are introduced to the concept which in theology is called the edification complex of the soul.

Edification stands for improvement, enlightenment, instruction, construction and so forth.

This concept will be developed through chapter four, such that the believer can learn of the phenomenal additional spiritual opportunities that have been made available to them.

Just as when a child is born into this world, it comes in as a blank slate.  It learns as it grows up and continues to grow throughout its life.  From the very basics of language, to the more complex aspects of adult life, the child does not remain a blank slate, but fills up the brain and mental capacity from experience, from academics, from life itself.

By the same token, the spiritual life begins at the point of salvation.  No matter how old you are, when you first believed in Christ, you began your spiritual life at square one and then grow up spiritually from there.

But unlike your physical growth, your spiritual growth is contingent on your being in fellowship (acquired through confession of your sins to God the Father), from your study and receipt of instruction of the scriptures (from your daily study as doctrine is your daily spiritual food for growth), from your learning and understanding and application of doctrine in your daily growth.

This cycle of spiritual learning, builds a complex, a spiritual complex within your soul.

Doctrine learned is the foundation and framework of your spiritual structure.  Your spiritual application or production is your finish work of that structure.

This is often times called the construction of the temple, the palace, the fortress, the mansion within your soul.

This growth or construction builds up spiritual muscle, which builds up faith, which builds up wisdom and maturity.  And these things are the basis for your eternal reward which you will receive when you stand before Christ at the Judgment Seat of Christ, which will occur immediately following your resurrection.

Those who have advanced in their spiritual life will have phenomenally constructed souls. Those who have not advanced in their spiritual life will have pathetically empty souls.  Which would you prefer?

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Ephesians 2:19


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Ephesians 2:19

19 Now [oun] therefore [ara] ye are [este] no more [ouketi] strangers [xenos] and [kai] foreigners, [paroikos] but [alla] fellowcitizens [sumpolites] with the saints, [hagios] and [kai] of the household [oikeios] of God; [theos] KJV-Interlinear

19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, NASB

Now, being a member of the family of God, by means of faith in Christ, through which you were born spiritually, born again into His family, then you are no longer strangers or foreigners.

Strangers are not family members.  Foreigners are not citizens of Gods nation of people.

Gods family is a nation.  Gods family is huge.  Perhaps since the creation of Adam, the family of God will number into the trillions.  The cumulative numbers of people who have been born into this world certainly numbers in the many trillions.  Don’t forget the innumerable numbers of infants and young children who have died in child birth or soon thereafter throughout the history of humanity and have never made it into the usual population counts.

And if even a third or two-thirds are numbered as saved, that total will still be vast.  Gods eternal nation will be huge, outnumbering all other nations from history by a long way.

And so, fellow citizens, means members of Gods nation.  Saints, means believers in Christ.  Gods household means Gods family.  All are one and the same.

You, as a believer in Christ, are numbered among the greatest family and nation ever to be assembled, and are still being assembled.  To meet every individual in eternity, if you were so inclined, will take you a very, very, very long time.  And don’t forget the angels which most likely will be a hundred or even a thousand times greater in number.  So, Heaven will be vast and certainly populated extensively.

How could anyone miss out on such a historic happening, one that will last forever.

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Ephesians 2:18


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Ephesians 2:18

18 For [hoti] through [dia] him [autos] we [echo] both [amphoteros] have [echo] access [prosagoge] by [en] one [heis] Spirit [pneuma] unto [pros] the Father. [pater] KJV-Interlinear

18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. NASB

Through Christ, who is the only means of access to God, then all people have access to the Father, or better stated the potential access, so long as they approach the Father, through Christ, but in one spirit.

The spirit is the one and single spirit, which is a reference to the Holy Spirit.

Access, means to have an introduction, to approach, to receive an audience with.

The Father is the ultimate contact within the deity of God.

God is the highest of living beings.  He is the ultimate sovereign and authority in all of existence.  He possesses all power, and ability, but at the same time, is perfect in righteousness and perfect in justice.  He is incapable of sinning, and able to not sin.  God has perfect self-control, without error.  He sees all, knows all, and nothing gets past him.

To be in association with God, is the ultimate opportunity that exists.

All religion seeks to be as God, or to be equal with God, such that man and God can meet on equal terms.

However, man is not equal and never will be. Man, only in his arrogance presumes that he has that capability, and so man invents his own tower or stairway, to heaven, to meet God and to prove God wrong.  Man invents his own rules for life, despite his lack of information about life.

The greatest part of life, exists in the spiritual world and one cannot know about that region unless one enters into it.  And there is but one way to enter into the spiritual world and that is through Christ, by means of the Holy Spirit.

This verse clarifies this very important principle.  You cannot approach God on your own terms.  You cannot approach God based on emotion or sincerity or loud or long prayers.  You cannot approach God by any other means other than through Christ and by the Holy Spirit.

By Christ, requires salvation by means of faith in Christ.  Christ is the single door, through which you may enter and approach God. The Holy Spirit is the power or the mechanism through which your spiritual life functions.

You must be under the power of the Holy Spirit in order for your spiritual life to function.  That power cannot be detected, nor measured, nor felt, nor experienced in any way.   The spiritual world is not accessible by means of the physical world.  The only method of gaining the power and control of the Holy Spirit, is through confession of your sins to the Father.  This is called being in fellowship, 1 Jn. 1.

Committing a sin causes you to lose your fellowship status.  Confession returns you into your fellowship status.

Therefore, all religions, all other approaches, all inventions of man for approaching God, are false and lies.

There is only one means of access to God and that is through Christ, by means of the Holy Spirit.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Isaiah 4:6


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Isaiah 4:6

6 And there shall be a tabernacle [cukkah] for a shadow [tsel] in the daytime [yowmam] from the heat, [choreb] and for a place of refuge, [machaceh] and for a covert [mictowr] from storm [zerem] and from rain. [matar] KJV-Interlinear

6 And there will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain. NASB

Tabernacle, ‘cukkah,’ refers to a tent, shelter, booth.

Covert, ‘mictowr,’ refers to a refuge, shelter, place to conceal oneself, a place of safety.

The imagery here continues to express the safety and comfort that God will provide.  We know that the Millennium will have perfect weather, so storms as have been known in the past, will no longer occur.  But this is not protection from the heat of the day or from storms, because they will not exist.  This verse adds to the picture of the perfect peace and comfort that will exist in the Millennium.

The meaning here is that on any given sunny day, when the heat is high and a person seeks shelter in the shade, then there is a certain level of comfort afforded by that shade, and that is what is being portrayed here.  The comfort level that God provides will be such that people will be at ease and comfortable.

With the things of the old days now past, and this is looking at the future as though it were the present, then life will be at ease, and very comfortable.  That is the environment that will exist for people who survive the Tribulation and enter into the Millennium.  They will have a life of stress free ease and comfort.

The high heat of life, the storms of life, all of the things that served to burden people into various tensions and stresses, will no longer exist.  Life is going to be perfect, as it were, now that God (Jesus Christ) is at the helm of the world, and Satan has been locked up for the duration of the millennium, and all evil that had existed is now gone.

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Isaiah 4:5


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Isaiah 4:5

5 And the LORD [Yahovah] will create [bara'] upon every dwelling place [makown] of mount [har] Zion, [Tsiyown] and upon her assemblies, [miqra'] a cloud [`anan] and smoke [`ashan] by day, [yowmam] and the shining [nogahh] of a flaming [lehabah] fire ['esh] by night: [layil] for upon all the glory [kabowd] shall be a defence. [chuppah] KJV-Interlinear

5 then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. NASB

The key to this verse is found in the word, create, ‘bara,’ which means to create out of nothing.

In other passages, God created, ‘bara,’ the universe out of nothing.  God created, ‘bara,’ human life out of nothing.  And here, God creates, ‘bara,’ a dwelling place out of nothing.

This does not mean that God is going to build a bunch of homes or put up a bunch of tents, but it simply means that God is going to make the dwellings, not man.  The source of homes and safety and comfort is God, not man.

Man cannot create anything, out of nothing.

There is nothing that man can make, or invent, or imagine, that will provide any of these things.

The dwelling place is of Mt Zion.  Zion is the representation of the vast expanse of Gods truth or doctrine.  Doctrine in the soul to the maximum, since it must be learned and used and applied by the believer, means spiritually mature believers.

Remember that the term, Israel, represents the nation of believers.  The term, Jerusalem, represents the residence of mature believers, the city of peace.  The city is inside of the nation, obviously.  Only believers can advance to spiritual maturity.  The term, Mt Zion, represents the vast source of truth, or doctrine.  Zion is the mountain that is inside of the city of Jerusalem, and this represents that mature believers are mature, not because they enter into a city, but because they have learned and retained doctrine.

So, the dwelling place of safety, comes from doctrine, which comes from God, who creates this new spiritual species, namely the believer, and especially the believer who advances to spiritual maturity through learning doctrine.

Her assemblies, is a reference to all of the interactions that the believer has with God, through doctrine resident in the soul.  The mature believer who is in fellowship is in constant contact, spiritually speaking, with God.  That is the ultimate perpetual assembly.

Your Bible study, when you are in fellowship, is an assembly.  Your prayer is an assembly.  All that you do on a daily basis is an assembly, when you are in fellowship.  Any and all spiritual assemblies whether between you and God or when with others, is a spiritual assembly only when you are in fellowship.  Your location, your building, your posture, your health, etc., are irrelevant.

The symbolism of the cloud of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night, comes from the time when the Israelites were wandering in the desert.  These symbols made it very clear to all that saw them, that this people, Gods people, all believers, belong to God and He alone protects them and there is nothing and no one who can interfere with that which belongs to God.  God watches over His people, around the clock, everyday.

In that day, in the end times, after God has returned and destroyed all evil, the entire world will be totally devastated.  It will take Gods help and provision to keep all survivors alive and moving forward into the Millennium.

In past history, when peoples migrated from one region to another totally new region, many did not survive.  They did not have the resources or the wherewithal to make it on their own.  And when the Millennium begins, people on their own could not survive.  But with Gods help, they will all survive and thrive and return the world to a phenomenally huge population, far greater than anything that the world will have prior to the Millennium.

For by this glory, ‘kabowd,’ weight, glory, honor, which all comes from God alone.  By means of Gods essence and power and so forth, everyone who enters into the Millennium will survive and thrive.

By the same token, all people who enter into spiritual maturity, regardless of their position or time in history, will survive and thrive and succeed in Gods care.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

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