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with all of my heart
the God of angels armies is always by my side
JESUS JESUS JESUS and all JESUS
I’m just two cool, it’s all the years of bible study that makes me like some flowing out the WORD of God person, all the years of frustration has yielding good fruit here, I persevered, endured, to be honest, this Logos bible has made such a significant turn in my life as far as bible study goes, hahahahaha, , hahahahaha, I’m like a sponge, I love to soak it all in like there’s eternity before me, so, better make the best out of getting in as much as I can …. cos …. it’s the eternity mentality that gives me such a burst of life ……. hahahahahaha ……. I just got to laugh about this …… two funny …….. victory is in the WORD of God … final …. JESUS is the WORD ……
does your heart pound when you read God’s WORD, Christ JESUS, mine does, it’s like such an exciting feeling that flows into and out of me, like a gust of wind, gentle, yet strong, like solid ground, like a gentle breeze, it’s inexplicable, it’s grace, it’s God’s Divine Presence, flowing in and out of me, as I read, as I study, as I get drawn into the events of the Old Testament and the New Testament, it’s like I’m there, just the bible is like open before me in vivid picture, and I sink into it, like I’m a part of the story of God’s redeeming grace, Christ JESUS being the centre piece, and me, the bystander, hahahahahahaha, eat your heart out, Global University, I love it galore, hahahahahahaha, 🙂 🙂 🙂
dunno about y’all
but
really really woolly seems to be the apple of JESUS’ eye
I’m a no jealous
cos
i’m a twooooooooo
hahahahahahahaha
8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings,
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (Ps 17:8). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
2 keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (Pr 7:2–3). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
2 I am a rose of Sharon,
a lily of the valleys.
HE
2 As a lily among brambles,
so is my love among the young women.
SHE
3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat in his shadow,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house,2
and his banner over me was love.
5 Sustain me with raisins;
refresh me with apples,
for I am sick with love.
6 His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!
7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (So 2). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
the KING is watching
The Bride Adores Her Beloved
8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. 10 My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, 11 for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. 13 The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. 14 O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. 15 Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. 17 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (So 2:8–17). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagoM0WSSu4
3 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;
he grazes among the lilies.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (So 6:3). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
to be honest, I’ve grown so much this last year and a half or so, give or take a couple of months, there is such a surge of confidence in me, like, I just know it, I’m always standing in this mountain top, though sometimes I may stumble and …fall, so what, no big deal, just get up and continue to stand and sink deeper into the SOLID ROCK of my Salvation, Christ JESUS our LORD, the confidence with which I have today is profoundly unthinkable, I cannot see how I got here, I’m just here, by chance the LORD decided to bless me in this place, you go figure this out, even when I’m all depressed cos my son has left, I’m still standing on SOLID ground, not even shaky, I personally think my God, HE is amazing, HE never ceases to amaze me, WOW moments, every single breathing moment, this is me, hahahahahahaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2UydzUOQU
THY kingdom come O LORD
THY kingdom come
I believe LORD JESUS
I believe in YOU O LORD JESUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAM2-hg7xJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6hGqOIbE7Y
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (Jn 15:12–13). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
HE is a faithful God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsiZoiqC_HQ
guard my heart and my mind
O LORD
in the fire of the Spirit of THY WORD
O LORD
secure me, ground me,
set me in THY heart
O LORD
in the fire of the Spirit of THY WORD
O LORD.
never leave me
O LORD
be THEE with me forevermore
O LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
Last night we called upon the LORD for the baptism of the Holy Spirit by Fire for the fullness of the Holy Spirit and we were led by Reverend Lee from Full Gospel Church and we called out in tongues as one in Christ JESUS and I saw FIRE coming down but we stopped praying. This morning when I woke up my entire body is shaking shaking shaking. I got filled filled filled as well with the fullness of the Holy Spirit by fire. I thought I had missed it but ….. I got blessed too. Awesome Pastor Lee. The power of the church of our LORD JESUS Christ as one in HIM and HIM alone. For the fullness of the Holy Spirit to come upon us we must do four things but I can only remember three – repent – pray without ceasing and study God’s WORD day and night and night and day and revival will come. Thank you Rev Lee. I want to change the world too but it ‘s JESUS that is going to change the world. I just need to do one thing. Seek HIM with all of my heart and love HIM with all of my heart. I think the fourth one is humility.
I stood on the ROCK of my Salvation. HE is an awesome God. He said that a repentant heart produces a person that is a nobody and declares only God is all in all. I was so moved by his sermon that I have only one position to remain and rest in HIM … as HIS bond-servant ….
HIS WORD endures forever
I have been left a legacy in my life long walk with the LORD. HIS WORD which endures forever. All things will end but the WORD of God will endure forever and ever. Only HIS WORD will remain. For in me is God’s WORD, Christ JESUS, the Christ, Messiah. It truly is a circumsision of the heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu4WzF8CDI8
The LORD gave me a picture this morning. You all know the Corinthians chapter on the body. Us the church. HE showed me HIS body. Am I saved only the hands and feet by which HE was nailed the cross or am I saved by the entire Body of Christ JESUS on the cross. All of JESUS. HIS eyes, HIS nose, HIS fingers and toes, HIS knees and so on and so forth. So is it with God’s WORD.
My friend taught me that the Song of Songs is vital in Scripture as it is God’s bride and HIS love story. Though our leader at that time was horrified as Solomon had so many wives and was not a good example for us. I learnt how much JESUS LOVES me in the Song of Songs.
Easter is coming and as we observe JESUS and remember HIM on the cross may we take and eat and sup all of HIM. HE prepared HIMSELF, the entirety of HIMSELF for us to be saved and not the choicest bits. Am I supposed to disrespect my neighbours fence and not take account of it as it’s legalistic? No, indeed not. For if I do not respect my neighbour as it teaches me in Deuteronomy my relationship with my neighbour will be broken and non-existent. Such is the core and depth by which Scripture teaches us. JESUS teaches us through HIS WORD. HE, HIMSELF. I’ve been told to teach Scripture as I am equipped to teach it. With the same patience and understanding that I was taught it by those who passed me the baton. Do you think the planks in my eyes are great. Surprise to each and everyone of us, all of us have planks in our eyes. This is why we read but we do not understand and do not know HIM. We do not know HIM deeply. We all need to stand on the SOLID ROCK of our Salvation. Christ JESUS. The TRUTH will set us all free. We are all in some form of bondage or the other. All in different stages. The quicker we study and learn deeply who Christ is and what HE stood for, the faster we will grow each and every single day. Did I really need to study the desolation in Isaiah. Indeed I felt not but in it I learnt to pull down the idols in the high places and put God first and only God. Do we have idols in the high places. Yes, our pride. Each and every single one of us, fails and falls short with pride. We all fall short We all have planks in our eyes. Not one is worthy. Only JESUS is. Only JESUS is perfect. We all need our Saviour. JESUS, the Christ. HE is coming. Very soon. Like a thief in the night. All of HIM and not just the choicest parts that tickle our fancy. For in the end only ONE PERSON matters, it is the Son of God, JESUS and HIS cause. Let’s fight the good fight of faith. HIS WORD endures forever and ever. What a walk. I say to this mountain, be gone. Study from out hearts. Learn with our hearts. Love JESUS, all of HIM, with out hearts. May we all be circumcised deeper in JESUS’ Name I pray, amen amen and amen.
It truly is a tough journey. Only JESUS matters from the beginning to the end. Christ and Christ alone. HIS WORD, HE, endures forever and ever. All of HIM as HE fills the all in all. TRUTH. The Christ. Messiah. How do you teach. I have no idea. I follow the lead of the Holy Spirit. He will lead me to all righteousness.
JESUS is speaking
aaaaaaa
I did it
I went to bed at 6 pm last night with much help from my maid, I had a three hour body massage, I was so tired I went over my ankle at the airport, boy did it hurt, I had to do my breathing exercises to help overcome the pain, jet-lagged, went to sleep every afternoon in Singapore, for three to four hours, so, I could not sleep at night, hahahahaha, my sweet pea hated it, I would wake up at talk to him, you know me and my talk talk talk, I think I was born to talk, if I’m not talking I’m sick, too sick to talk, was like that for 10 days on my holiday, so, what did I see after thirteen hours in bed, a waterfall, boy do I need to drink, the Water of Life, Christ JESUS our LORD, let’s find a waterfall, eh, just for fun, walking with the LORD is fun fun fun, it’s not boring, life is not boring at all, it’s like this movie that goes on forever and ever and ever, JESUS plays HIS story, on and on and on and on, so the LORD is calling me unto HIMSELF, come away with ME, says HE,
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagoM0WSSu4
I think for me the cross will ever be for me the most important part of my journey, JESUS has showed HIMSELF much, to me, also in HIS cross, HE told me this year, there’s going to be some open window, some kairos moment, I know y’all are preparing for this, HE says to disciple the church, the believers, I think that HE is going to reveal HIMSELF, in HIS suffering to HIS church and share HIS deepest most painful moments, sin, the world’s sin for all time, all the ages, which HE took upon HIMSELF, I’m really glad I’m getting over this hump of being so torn up about seeing HIM on the cross, it used to tear me up so badly, now, I can face it, it gets easier, to be a believer, hey, holy ground, here, in my study, , my place of refuge with the LORD, where’s that waterfall I saw when I woke up,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8fCTlER3sE
deep cries out, deep cries to YOU JESUS
reminding y’all that this twelve year season for me is to sink in deep deep deep into the ROCK of my Salvation, the unshakable ROCK of my Salvation, Christ JESUS, if you pay attention, you can hear clearly, the world is so noisy and attention seeking, but, we have ONE who wishes to share with us HIS very own feelings about the matter of Salvation and Eternity with us, HIS eternity with us all, so, as you draw nearer and nearer to our LORD this Easter season, HE will speak and share of HIMSELF, HE is not selfish, HE is a most compassionate God, HE really is, trust me, I know, I know HIM, I know my Father, my Savior, HIS Son, and my great best Friend, the Holy Spirit, who nearly knocked me over last Sunday,
I’m on SOLID ground, JESUS, the ROCK, the Cornerstone whom the builders rejected,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRY28AkgLmg
thank YOU LORD JESUS
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagoM0WSSu4
bless the LORD O my soul, worship HIS Holy Holy Holy Name, worship YOUR Holy Name LORD JESUS,
we have to be true to ourselves, this is a live rhema, I encourage you to join in the live rhema of the LORD in your own walk with the LORD, you can see yourself and know for yourself if you are off course or on, it’s not about perfection, it’s about, JESUS, only JESUS, only HE is perfect,
go with HIM and HIM alone, HE has all the answers you could ever ask, HE is always available, HE is always present, HE is with you and in you, HE is God, HIS Name is JESUS, HE is so compassionate, so loving and kind, HE is great, HE is the greatest Friend you could ever imagine, HE is LOVE,
my heart belongs to JESUS, is it obvious, hahahahaha,
Great Is THY Faithfulness
This morning I woke up very early in the morning before 6 am when it was still very dark and the song was given to me by the LORD.
Great is Thy faithfulness O LORD God Almighty.
A picture has just been given to me by the LORD. A lighted path leading right into the heart of JESUS. I can’t find it. Perhaps I’ll draw it and take a picture and post it. A simple one. I’m on vacation.
A Matter Of Our Hearts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig8dO3VVayw
There is a very strong bonding through the WORD of God. It’s unbreakable. It’s LOVE. Christ’s LOVE. It never ends. Unless you love like JESUS you will not be able to understand it. It’s love. From the depths of the heart. It is ever a matter of the heart. It is only in the heart that the LOVE that is found … given by Christ JESUS …. love is found. The WORD binds and the bond is forevermore.ooooooooooo
aaaaaaa …… the morning has broken …….. and the LORD … HE speaks ……. about LOVE …….
The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,1 but have not love, I gain nothing.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (1 Co 13:1–3). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
CHAPTER 13
Vers. 1–13.—The supremely excellent way of Christian love. This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had received in all ages the loftier and more valuable admiration which would have been expressed by an acceptance of its lessons! Tertullian says that it is uttered “with all the force of the Spirit” (totis Spiritus viribus). It is a glorious hymn or pæan in honour of Christian love, in which St. Paul rises on the wings of inspiration to the most sunlit heights of Christian eloquence. Like the forty-fifth psalm, it may be entitled “A Psalm of Love.” Valcknaer says that the “oratorical figures which illuminate the chapter have been born spontaneously in an heroic soul, burning with the love of Christ, and placing all things lower than this Divine love.” In vers. 1–3 he shows the absolute necessity for love; in vers. 4–7 its characteristics; in vers. 8–12 its eternal permanence; in ver. 13 its absolute supremacy.
Ver. 1.—Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. The case is merely supposed. The tongues of men are human languages, including, perhaps, the peculiar utterance of ecstatic inspiration with which he is now dealing. It is, perhaps, with reference to this latter result of spiritual exultation, at any rate in its purest and loftiest developments, that he adds the words, “and of angels.” It is unlikely that he is referring to the rabbinic notion that the angels only understood Hebrew, and not Aramaic or other languages. The words are meant to express the greatest possible climax. The most supreme powers of utterance, even of angelic utterance—if any of the Corinthians had or imagined that they had attained to such utterance—are nothing in comparison with the universally possible attainment of Christian love. It is remarkable that here again he places “tongues,” even in their grandest conceivable development, on the lowest step in his climax. And have not charity. It is deeply to be regretted that the translators of the Authorized Version here introduced from the Vulgate a new translation for the sacred word “love,” which dominates the whole New Testament as its Divine key-note. Greek possesses two words for “love.” One of these, erôs, implying as it did the love which springs from sensual passion, was dyed too deeply in pagan associations to be capable of redemption into holier usage. It is characteristic of the difference between paganism and Christianity, that Plato’s eulogy in the ‘Symposium’ is in honour of erôs, not of anything resembling agapē. The apostles, therefore, were compelled to describe the ideal of the gospel life by another word, which expressed the love of esteem and reverence and sacred tenderness—the word agape. This word was not indeed classical. No heathen writer had used it. But the verb agapaō, corresponding to the Latin diligo, and being reserved for this loftier kind of love, suggested at once the substantive agape, which, together with the similar substantive agapesis (Jer. 31:3, etc.), had already been adopted by the LXX. and by Philo and in Wisd. 3:9. The word is thus, as Archbishop Trench says, “born in the bosom of revealed religion” (‘New Testament Synonyms,’ p. 41). The Vulgate chose caritas (whence our “charity”) to express this love of reason and affection, the dearness which reigns between human beings, and between man and God. This word, like agape, is absolutely unstained with any evil association. If “charity” had been exclusively used for agape, no objection need have arisen, although “love” is English while “charity” is Latin. But it was an unmixed evil that, by the use of two different words for the same Greek word, English readers should have been prevented from recognizing the unity of thought on this subject which prevails among all the books of the New Testament (Matt. 22:37–40; 1 Pet. 1:22; 1 John 3:14; 4:7, 8, etc.). To argue that the word “love” in English is not unmingled with unhallowed uses is absurd, because those uses of the word have never been supposed for a single moment to intrude into multitudes of other passages where “love” is used to render agape. Who has ever dreamed of objecting on such grounds to the favourite hymn?—
“Faith and Hope and Love we see
Joining hand-in-hand agree;
But the greatest of the three
And the best is Love.”
It is true that Lord Bacon admired “the discretion and tenderness of the Rhenish Version” in using the word “charitie,” “because of the indifferencies and æquivocation of the word [love] with impure love.” But that objection, if it ever existed, has now been done away with by the use of “love” in such a multitude of other pure and lofty passages of Holy Writ. It is, therefore, a great gain that the Revised Version restored to this passage the word “love,” which had been used by Tyndale, Cranmer, and the Geneva Bible. For in modern English usage the word “charity” is almost confined to “almsgiving,” and that of a kind which is often made an excuse for shirking all real self-denial, and for not acting up to the true spirit of love. Christian love is always and infinitely blessed, but the almsgiving which has usurped the name of “charity” often does more harm than good. I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal; more literally, I have become booming brass, or clanging cymbal. My “tongues” without “love” become a mere discordant, obtrusive, unintelligible dissonance. The Greek word for “clanging” (alalazon) is an onomatopæia, like the Hebrew name for cymbals, tseltselîm (Ps. 150:5).
Ver. 2.—Prophecy. The power of lofty utterance belonged to Balaam and Caiaphas yet it availed them nothing without love “Lord, Lord,” exclaim the troubled souls at the left hand, “have we not prophesied in thy Name?” Yet he answers them, “I never knew you.” All mysteries. Though I can speak of the secrets of God once hidden but now revealed (Matt. 13:11; Rom. 16:27; ch. 2:7; Eph 3:3, etc.). And all knowledge. Insight into the deeper meanings of Scripture, etc. All faith. Not her meaning “justifying faith,” or “saving faith,” which can no more exist without showing itself in works than light can exist without heat; but fides miraculosa, reliance on the power to work wonders. Judas, for instance, must have possessed this kind of faith, and it was exercised by “many” who will yet be rejected because they also work iniquity (Matt. 7:21–23). So that I could remove mountains. It has been supposed that this must be a reference to Matt. 17:20; 21:21. It is, however, much more probable that, if St. Paul derived the words from our Lord, they came to him by oral tradition. And the inference must in any case be precarious, for the phrase was so common among the rabbis that “remover of mountains” was one of their admiring titles for a great teacher. I am nothing. No expression could involve a more forcible rebuke to intellectual and spiritual pride.
Ver. 3.—And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. The five words, “bestow to feed the poor,” represent the one Greek word psōmisō, and after all do not give its force. It is derived from psōmion, a mouthful, and so means “give away by mouthfuls,” i.e. “dole away.” It occurs in Rom. 12:20 for “feed.” Attention to this verse might have served as a warning against the often useless and some times even pernicious doles of mediæval monasteries. Much of the “charity” of these days is even more uncharitable than this, and shows the most complete absence of true charity; as for instance the dropping of pennies to professional beggars, and so putting a premium on vice and imposture To be burned. The reading is extremely uncertain. The change of a letter gives the reading, that I may glory (καυχήσωμαι for καυθήσωμαι). Perhaps the scribes thought that “death by burning” was as yet (A.D. 57) an unheard-of form of martyrdom, though it became but too familiar ten or twelve years later in the Neronian persecution. St. Paul was, however, probably referring, not, as some have supposed, to branding, which would have been expressed differently, but to the case of the “three children,” in Dan. 3:23, where the LXX. has, “They gave their bodies into the fire;” or to the various tortures and deaths by fire in 2 Macc. 7. At the burning of Ridley and Latimer, Dr. Smith chose this verse for his text. Its applicability is on a par with millions of other instances in which Scripture has been grossly abused by employing its letter to murder its spirit, and by taking it from the God of love to give it to the devil of religious hatred. The burning of a saint was a singular specimen of the Church’s “love.” It profiteth me nothing; literally, I am nothing benefited. A consideration of this verse might have shown the Christians of the early centuries that there was nothing intrinsically redemptive in the martyrdom into which they often thrust themselves.
1 Corinthians. 1909 (H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Ed.). The Pulpit Commentary (422–424). London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For nwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but owhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For pnow we see in a mirror dimly, but qthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as rI have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (1 Co 13:8–13). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
Vers. 8–13.—The eternal permanence of love.
Ver. 8.—Never faileth. The word “faileth” (ἐκπίπτει) has two technical meanings between which it is not easy to decide. 1. It means, technically, “is never hissed off the stage like a bad actor,” i.e. it has its part to play even on the stage of eternity. This is its meaning in classic Greek. 2. It means “falls away” like the petals of a withered flower (as in Jas. 1:11; comp. Isa. 28:4). Here, perhaps, the meaning is not technical, but general, as in Rom. 9:6 and in the LXX. (Job 21:34). But the reading may be simply πίπτει (falleth), as in א, A, B, C. They shall fail. This is not the same word as the one on which we have been commenting; it means “shall be annulled” or “done away;” and is the same verb as that rendered in the next clauses by “vanish away,” “be done away” (ver. 10), and “put away” (ver. 11). Thus in two verses we have the same word rendered by four different phrases. No doubt the effect of the change sounds beautifully to ears accustomed to the “old familiar strain;” but it is the obvious duty of translators to represent, not to improve upon, the language of their author. In the Revised Version the same word is rightly kept for the four recurrences of the verb. Tongues. Special charisms are enumerated to show the transcendence of love. Knowledge. This shall be only annulled in the sense of earthly knowledge, which shall be a star disappearing in the light of that heavenly knowledge which shall gradually broaden into the perfect day.
Ver. 9.—We know in part. The expression applies directly to religious knowledge, and should be a rebuke to the pretence to infallibility and completeness which is sometimes usurped by religious men.
Ver. 10.—That which is in part shall be done away. It will be lost in perfectness when we have at last attained to “the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Eph. 3:14).
Ver. 11.—I understood as a child, I thought as a child; I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things; now that I am become a man, I have done away with childish things. No specific time at which he put away childish things is alluded to, but he means that “manhood” is a state in which childishness should have become impossible.
Ver. 12.—Through a glass; rather, through (or, by means of) a mirror. Our “glasses” were unknown in that age. The mirrors were of silver or some polished metal, giving, of course, a far dimmer image than “glasses” do. The rabbis said that “all the prophets saw through a dark mirror, but Moses through a bright one.” St. Paul says that no human eye can see God at all except as an image seen as it were behind the mirror. Darkly; rather, in a riddle. God is said to have spoken to Moses “by means of riddles” (Numb. 12:8; Authorized Version, “in dark speeches”). Human language, dealing with Divine facts, can only represent them indirectly, metaphorically, enigmatically, under human images, and as illustrated by visible phenomena. God can only be represented under the phrases of anthropomorphism and anthropopathy; and such phrases can only have a relative, not an absolute, truth. Then; i.e. “when the perfect is come.” Face to face. Like the “mouth to mouth” of the Hebrew and the LXX. in Numb. 12:8. This is the beatific vision. “We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2). “Now we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). Then shall I know even as also I am known; rather, then shall I fully know even as also I was fully known, viz. when Christ took knowledge of me at my conversion. Now, we do not so much “know” God, but “rather are known of God” (comp. ch. 8:3).
Ver. 13.—And now. The “now” is not temporal (as opposed to the “then” of the previous verse), but logical. It sums up the paragraph. Abideth. These three graces are fundamental and permanent; not transient, like the charisms, on which the Corinthians were priding themselves, but which should all be “annulled.” Faith, hope, charity. It might be difficult to see how “hope” should be permanent. But if the future state be progressive throughout eternity and infinitude, hope will never quite be lost in fruition. Even “within the veil,” it will still remain as “an anchor of the soul, both sure and stead-fast” (Heb. 6:19). The greatest of these is charity; more literally, greater than these is love. St. Paul does not explain why love is the greatest and best of the three. Various reasons may be given. 1. Love is the greatest, because it is the root of the other two; “we believe only in that which we love; we hope only for that which we love. 2. And love is the greatest because love is for our neighbours; faith and hope mainly for ourselves. 3. And love is the greatest because faith and hope are human. But God is love. 4. And love is the greatest because faith and hope can only work by love, and only show themselves by love. Thus love is as the undivided perfection of sevenfold light. Faith and hope are precious stones of one colour, as a ruby and a sapphire; but love, as he has been showing us throughout the chapter, is a diamond of many facets.
1 Corinthians. 1909 (H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Ed.). The Pulpit Commentary (424–425). London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
We all fall short. All. Only JESUS is PERFECT. All have failed. Not one. Not even one. Look to the cross. In Christ, in the cross, you will find the length, the breath, the depth, the height and the width of the LOVE of Christ JESUS. No one compares. Not even one. Therefore it’s important to keep it Scriptural and abide in Christ, HIS WORD.
34 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (1 Ch 16:34). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
Walking in the Light
5 lThis is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that mGod is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 nIf we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and odo not practice the truth. 7 But pif we walk in the light, qas he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and rthe blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 sIf we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and tthe truth is not in us. 9 uIf we confess our sins, he is vfaithful and just to forgive us our sins and rto cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, wwe make him a liar, and xhis word is not in us.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (1 Jn 1:5–10). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
23 for fall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 gand are justified hby his grace as a gift, ithrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God jput forward as ka propitiation lby his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in mhis divine forbearance he had passed over nformer sins.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (Ro 3:22–25). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
How do we display these Godly principles. All we have to do is to try our best. It’s good enough for the LORD. For in the end it’s a heart job. A matter of the heart. Heart to heart.
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16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (2 Ti 3:16–17). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
Whenever in doubt, run to JESUS.
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14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (2 Pe 3:14). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
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