Well Hi, been busy with life!
Everyones healthy and Gods Word grows in my heart and mind.
Resting in the arms of God.
For it is written,"it is a fearsome thing to fall into the arms of the Lord."
Everyday I see his presence in my life.
Seeing how he touches the little things here and there.
Moving things and people around me.
Keeping those around me safe, and leading them to good things.
Learning to let God work in my life and the lives of those around me.
Understanding his Word more each day.
James 1:2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
James 1:3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
James 1:4 And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
JCN
Monday, November 26, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
1John 4:16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Here we see, God is love. This a very dramatic statement. It is like saying "a ball is rubber." We know from this simple statement the ball is made up of a substance called rubber. You can look up where rubber comes from and discover even how it's made. It is clear in this simple phrase the "God is love." We learn something important of the Unseen one, the Great I am and many other such names through out the Bible. The fact that you can not see love, but can not touch it, smell it, taste it or hear it. Explains this easily and in way that is precious and wonderful.
God is Love
JCN
Here we see, God is love. This a very dramatic statement. It is like saying "a ball is rubber." We know from this simple statement the ball is made up of a substance called rubber. You can look up where rubber comes from and discover even how it's made. It is clear in this simple phrase the "God is love." We learn something important of the Unseen one, the Great I am and many other such names through out the Bible. The fact that you can not see love, but can not touch it, smell it, taste it or hear it. Explains this easily and in way that is precious and wonderful.
God is Love
JCN
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
John 13:5
After that1534 he poureth906 water5204 into1519 a basin,3537 and2532 began756 to wash3538 the3588 disciples'3101 feet,4228 and2532 to wipe1591 them with the3588 towel3012 wherewith3739 he was2258 girded.1241
Let us look at "wash" first:
G3538
νίπτω
niptō
nip'-to
To cleanse (especially the hands or the feet or the face); ceremonially to perform ablution: - wash. Compare G3068.
Easton Bible Dictionary
Washing
(Mark_7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions prescribed by tradition, according to which “the disciples ought to have gone down to the side of the lake, washed their hands thoroughly, 'rubbing the fist of one hand in the hollow of the other, then placed the ten finger-tips together, holding the hands up, so that any surplus water might flow down to the elbow, and thence to the ground.'” To neglect to do this had come to be regarded as a great sin, a sin equal to the breach of any of the ten commandments. Moses had commanded washings oft, but always for some definite cause; but the Jews multiplied the legal observance till they formed a large body of precepts. To such precepts about ceremonial washing Mark here refers. (See ABLUTION.)
Ablution
Or washing, was practiced
(1.) When a person was initiated into a higher state: e.g., when Aaron and his sons were set apart to the priest's office, they were washed with water previous to their investiture with the priestly robes (Leviticus_8:6).
(2.) Before the priests approached the altar of God, they were required, on pain of death, to wash their hands and their feet to cleanse them from the soil of common life (Exodus_30:17-21). To this practice the Psalmist alludes, Psalm_26:6.
(3.) There were washings prescribed for the purpose of cleansing from positive defilement contracted by particular acts. Of such washings eleven different species are prescribed in the Levitical law (Leviticus. 12-15).
(4.) A fourth class of ablutions is mentioned, by which a person purified or absolved himself from the guilt of some particular act. For example, the elders of the nearest village where some murder was committed were required, when the murderer was unknown, to wash their hands over the expiatory heifer which was beheaded, and in doing so to say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it” (Deuteronomy_21:1-9). So also Pilate declared himself innocent of the blood of Jesus by washing his hands (Mathew_27:24). This act of Pilate may not, however, have been borrowed from the custom of the Jews. The same practice was common among the Greeks and Romans.
The Pharisees carried the practice of ablution to great excess, thereby claiming extraordinary purity (Mathew_23:25). Mark (Mark_7:1-5) refers to the ceremonial ablutions. The Pharisees washed their hands “oft,” more correctly, “with the fist” (R.V., “diligently”), or as an old father, Theophylact, explains it, “up to the elbow.” (Compare also Mark_7:4; Leviticus_6:28; Leviticus_11:32-36; Leviticus_15:22) (See WASHING.)
What is so special about his "towel" or is it better defined "a linen apron?"
G3012
λέντιον
lention
len'-tee-on
Of Latin origin; a “linen” cloth, that is, apron: - towel.
Thayer Definition:
1) a linen cloth, towel
1a) of the towel or apron with which servants put on when about to work
The reason this matters is quite simple as a servant he dressed. He then performed
a task mentioned in the Bible 22 times 13 in the Old Testament and 9 in the New Testament.
Of which, exactly 6 are in John alone and all are in one chapter (13).
Abraham was the first mentioned and he washed the feet of "My Lord" and the two who came with him.
Jesus said "if you were the seed of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham"John 8:39. Jesus expressed this to the Pharisees. The Pharisees were real big on ritual washing in order to perform the Temple service among other reasons. One of whom he had dinner with did not wash his feet. A woman who was(past tense*) a sinner washed his feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. And she anointed his feet with ointment(myrrh-smells nice to it would have filled the room). The thrower of the party did not like this but did not speak it (important because only God knows the thoughts and hearts of men). Jesus told him the answer to his unspoken, unuttered question. Needless to say the pharisees did not invite him to many more parties. They did not like the true questions of their heart being expressed in public.
Especially, in front of their friends and family.
*she was Forgiven and Blessed for her offering
You are commanded to "love thy fellow man as thy self" .
Be as a servant willing to go that extra mile to Love those around you.
It is written that God is Love and an all consuming fire.
JCN
Let us look at "wash" first:
G3538
νίπτω
niptō
nip'-to
To cleanse (especially the hands or the feet or the face); ceremonially to perform ablution: - wash. Compare G3068.
Easton Bible Dictionary
Washing
(Mark_7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions prescribed by tradition, according to which “the disciples ought to have gone down to the side of the lake, washed their hands thoroughly, 'rubbing the fist of one hand in the hollow of the other, then placed the ten finger-tips together, holding the hands up, so that any surplus water might flow down to the elbow, and thence to the ground.'” To neglect to do this had come to be regarded as a great sin, a sin equal to the breach of any of the ten commandments. Moses had commanded washings oft, but always for some definite cause; but the Jews multiplied the legal observance till they formed a large body of precepts. To such precepts about ceremonial washing Mark here refers. (See ABLUTION.)
Ablution
Or washing, was practiced
(1.) When a person was initiated into a higher state: e.g., when Aaron and his sons were set apart to the priest's office, they were washed with water previous to their investiture with the priestly robes (Leviticus_8:6).
(2.) Before the priests approached the altar of God, they were required, on pain of death, to wash their hands and their feet to cleanse them from the soil of common life (Exodus_30:17-21). To this practice the Psalmist alludes, Psalm_26:6.
(3.) There were washings prescribed for the purpose of cleansing from positive defilement contracted by particular acts. Of such washings eleven different species are prescribed in the Levitical law (Leviticus. 12-15).
(4.) A fourth class of ablutions is mentioned, by which a person purified or absolved himself from the guilt of some particular act. For example, the elders of the nearest village where some murder was committed were required, when the murderer was unknown, to wash their hands over the expiatory heifer which was beheaded, and in doing so to say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it” (Deuteronomy_21:1-9). So also Pilate declared himself innocent of the blood of Jesus by washing his hands (Mathew_27:24). This act of Pilate may not, however, have been borrowed from the custom of the Jews. The same practice was common among the Greeks and Romans.
The Pharisees carried the practice of ablution to great excess, thereby claiming extraordinary purity (Mathew_23:25). Mark (Mark_7:1-5) refers to the ceremonial ablutions. The Pharisees washed their hands “oft,” more correctly, “with the fist” (R.V., “diligently”), or as an old father, Theophylact, explains it, “up to the elbow.” (Compare also Mark_7:4; Leviticus_6:28; Leviticus_11:32-36; Leviticus_15:22) (See WASHING.)
What is so special about his "towel" or is it better defined "a linen apron?"
G3012
λέντιον
lention
len'-tee-on
Of Latin origin; a “linen” cloth, that is, apron: - towel.
Thayer Definition:
1) a linen cloth, towel
1a) of the towel or apron with which servants put on when about to work
The reason this matters is quite simple as a servant he dressed. He then performed
a task mentioned in the Bible 22 times 13 in the Old Testament and 9 in the New Testament.
Of which, exactly 6 are in John alone and all are in one chapter (13).
Abraham was the first mentioned and he washed the feet of "My Lord" and the two who came with him.
Jesus said "if you were the seed of Abraham you would do the works of Abraham"John 8:39. Jesus expressed this to the Pharisees. The Pharisees were real big on ritual washing in order to perform the Temple service among other reasons. One of whom he had dinner with did not wash his feet. A woman who was(past tense*) a sinner washed his feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. And she anointed his feet with ointment(myrrh-smells nice to it would have filled the room). The thrower of the party did not like this but did not speak it (important because only God knows the thoughts and hearts of men). Jesus told him the answer to his unspoken, unuttered question. Needless to say the pharisees did not invite him to many more parties. They did not like the true questions of their heart being expressed in public.
Especially, in front of their friends and family.
*she was Forgiven and Blessed for her offering
You are commanded to "love thy fellow man as thy self" .
Be as a servant willing to go that extra mile to Love those around you.
It is written that God is Love and an all consuming fire.
JCN
Monday, October 1, 2007
Four
Ephesians 1:22 and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 1:23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
in red: There is no word for things in Greek the language that almost all of the New Testament is written. It should be italicized if there at all. Also, I believe "All" includes everything spiritual and physical. Another words the whole pie, not just a slice here or there.
in Green: Church: Which your are taught is a building. To bad the Greek word doesn't agree with this.
G1577
ἐκκλησία
ekklēsia
ek-klay-see'-ah
From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): - assembly, church.
G1537
ἐκ, ἐξ
ek ex
ek, ex
A primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence motion or action proceeds), from, out (of place, time or cause; literally or figuratively; direct or remote): - after, among, X are, at betwixt (-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above), for (-th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, . . . ly, (because, by reason) of, off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth, through, X unto, X vehemently, with (-out). Often used in composition, with the same general import; often of completion.
G2564
καλέω
kaleō
kal-eh'-o
Akin to the base of G2753; to “call” (properly aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise): - bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-) name (was [called]).
Not a building but a group of people strange, is it not.
Now let's look at body:
G4983
σῶμα
sōma
so'-mah
From G4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively: - bodily, body, slave.
Doesn't seem divided at all; kind of a real Wholeness kinda ring to it.
Maybe this helps:
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
Galatians 5:21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
This is in a chapter that defines the way you are to walk in Jesus' foot steps and very specifically. For a different look, All Israel were to do things together as a whole, not a piece or a few, but all. When they were divided, they were attacked from all sides. When they kept Gods commandments as a whole they were Blessed Greatly beyond all Nations.
Mathew 12:25 And knowing their thoughts he said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
JCN
Sunday, September 30, 2007
III
I will not form your opinion for you seek and find your own salvation with fear and trembling. Just let me point at some interesting facts. I stress the word facts because the Bible is the only book that I and many others know, that has been proven correct time and again. Oddly enough by the very ones trying so hard to disprove it.
2Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Peter 3:11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,
2Peter 3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
This is not the only reference in the Word but one of many. I think very deliberate and well placed directions to be Holy.2Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Peter 3:11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,
2Peter 3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
Interesting fact: The High-priest had this inscribed on his head gear 'Holiness unto Jehovah'. This being required of his position among other requirements.
This is important in our lives because we are priests being graphed in the olive tree called "Israel". Do not take my word for it, I 'm just a clumsy servant on any given day.
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:6 and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Romans 11:16 And if the firstfruit is holy, so is the lump: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:18 glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:19 Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
Romans 11:20 Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Rom 11:21 for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
God Bless Your Day
JCN
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Rest
Today was a day of rest. The Lake was nice lots of new drift wood.
Here is something for your day: ASV Mathew 12:1-8
Mat 12:1 At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.
Mat 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;
Mat 12:4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.
jcn
Here is something for your day: ASV Mathew 12:1-8
Mat 12:1 At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.
Mat 12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;
Mat 12:4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.
jcn
Friday, September 28, 2007
Just a few addons gotta be seen
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Well lets go Global just maybe.
Let God's hand be on it!!!Powered by ScribeFire.
Two
Doing Good Today
Applied for a couple a jobs
Now we wait and see what God
Will do next
Peace and Joy being a few
of the many Blessings
He has given daily
Question:
Having discovered Hyssop's interesting history and chemical properties.
Is Sanctification (which is Holiness*) important.
*Strongs concordance
G38
ἁγιασμός
hagiasmos
hag-ee-as-mos'
From G37; properly purification, that is, (the state) purity; concretely (by Hebraism) a purifier: - holiness, sanctification.
Applied for a couple a jobs
Now we wait and see what God
Will do next
Peace and Joy being a few
of the many Blessings
He has given daily
Question:
Having discovered Hyssop's interesting history and chemical properties.
Is Sanctification (which is Holiness*) important.
*Strongs concordance
G38
ἁγιασμός
hagiasmos
hag-ee-as-mos'
From G37; properly purification, that is, (the state) purity; concretely (by Hebraism) a purifier: - holiness, sanctification.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Day one
Here is a beginning
Let good news be here
Define: Hyssop, what was its purpose?
Let good news be here
Define: Hyssop, what was its purpose?
Wikipedia contributors. Hyssop. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. September 26, 2007, 06:32 UTC. Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyssop
&oldid=160417893. Accessed September 29, 2007.
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