Truth Obsession!

Recognizing and Loving the Hard Truth that Virtually No one Else is Obeying & Being Saved By

Beating the Odds and not Being Deceived in the End Times

Go against every false and wicked deception being preached, and finally honor God by Obsessing over the TRUTH!

Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org

Mon, 1/20/03 (1st MNBS; original title: TRUTH); 3/24/03 (Mon); 3/25/04 (Th; Word: Created: TRUTH-4; Printed); 8/18/08; 3/4/10; 9/27/12 (Formatted Titles); 6/12/13; 6/19/16 (Let God be True -- recompiled); 7/22/16; 10/18/16 (Word: Modified); 2/16/17 (Re-compiled, and retitled: TRUTH Obsession!); 2/18/17 (added/recompiled: Ignorance Compels Us) other date(s); 2/2/19 (recompiled Absolute Truth)… ~Dec-Feb 2024: Epistemology; 2/25/24 (Sc -- throughout)…3/1/24

Companion Bible Studies

· The Bible is True

· TRUTH Obsession!

· Letteral Obedience

Recent

Epistemology

Wisdom of Clean Truth

· Rotten Knowledge

>> Additions/ TODO!

>> Additions -- Wisdom

These are unpublished personal notes for our community.

Like usual, in cases like this, you should contact us so that we can teach you all of these exciting and helpful things.

This is the only way you are going to make it!

Loving the truth is the only way you can find any favor of the four of the throne of God!

Contents

Let God be True, and Every man a Liar 4

Liars Go to Hell 5

Real Prophecy & Hope Means Believing Hard Facts. 6

Rhyming With Truth. 7

Obsession! 7

Part 1. 8

1. Truth -- It’s Important! 8

2. The Problem We Don’t Think That It’s Important 9

A. George Barna. 9

B. Foundation. 10

C. The Bible. 10

Does Being Zealous for Theology Matter?. 10

Purified Doctrine. 11

A. People Don’t Take It Seriously. 11

B. How False Doctrine Defiles. 11

3. What do I do?. 11

A. Guard your heart 11

B. Entrusting. 11

C. Romans 3:4. 12

D. Die to Your Philosophy. 12

E. Solid Food. 13

Truth vs Goof 13

Problem Noticer vs Problem Solver 13

Who’s Working for Who?. 14

Fiction, Fantasy, & Truth! 14

Fantasy is Wrong. 14

Part 2 – How To Remain True. 15

1. Relating to Others – Warnings for the end times. 15

2. Relating to Yourself 15

Part 3 – How to REALLY Love the Truth. 15

1. Dethroning Self-Generated Morality. 15

Extra Scriptures/ thoughts. 15

Bible Relationship. 16

Getting Love-Truth. 16

Defining Fleshly Arguments. 16

You Do Not Need “Love vs. Truth”! 16

Truth is Needed…... 16

Psalm 51 – God Wants Truth. 16

2Thesalinians 2 – The Love of the Truth – You Need it! 16

Real Love is Dependent on Truth…... 16

1Corinthians 13: Love Rejoices In Truth. 16

1John 3: Love in Truth – You Must Do it! 17

2John: THE ELDER Loves in Truth – The Right Example. 17

1Peter 1: Truth Prepares You for Love – It is NOT a Balancing Act! 17

Romans 12: Let Love Be Without Hypocrisy. 17

Zechariah 8: Love Truth And Peace. 18

Real Truth is Dependent on Real Love…... 18

Ephesians 4: Doing Truth in Love. 19

1Corinthians 8: Intellectual Pride = Loving False Knowledge. 19

1Corinthians 4: You Are No Different 19

Luke 9, Mark 9: Disciple’s Debate – Who Would be the Greatest?. 20

Community Values that Oppose Such Competition. 20

Righteous Justice Bible study. 20

When God is Potently Present in Person, Justice just has to Happen. 22

Justice is NOT equality, it is what is Right! 22

Being Attracted to Hardcore Truth is Actually a Fundamental Belief in Justice. 23

Wisdom Of Clean Truth. 23

Rotten Knowledge. 24

Son_6:9 – My Perfect One. 24

Knowledge – for Better or Worse?. 24

Quickly Recognizing Rotten Knowledge. 25

1Co_8:1-3 – Puffing Knowledge -- Without Love. 25

1Ti_6:1-6 – Men of Corrupt Mind. 27

Childlike Humility = Heaven. 30

Preview.. 30

Psa_131:3 –. 30

Born Again. 30

Mat_11:25-26 – Revealed to Babies. 30

Mat_18:3 – No Conversion, No Heaven. 31

Mat_19:14 – Child Permit 31

Childlike Kingdom Reception -- Required for Heaven. 31

Childlike to Nasties, Grown to Deeper Mind. 31

Childlike Milk Lust -- For Logos! 32

Salvation from Rotten Knowledge – Summary. 32

Knowledge that Cannot be Transferred is not Real Knowledge. 32

Confident Criticism that Condemns Your Hypocrisy. 32

Don’t Let Your Ignorance and Unhappy Incompetence Be Another Person’s Guilt and or Disapproval 33

Knowledge, Riches, & Foolishness. 33

Wisdom vs. Knowledge. 34

Smart Fool! 34

Ignorance Compels Us. 34

Absolute Truth. 35

Explanation. 35

1. The Exhortation and Charge to Repent of Opinions and Believe Truth. 35

Introduction. 35

What I Got From Prayer 35

2. Miscellaneous. 38

A "Meditation Verse" Assignment 39

Bad Examples. 40

"Stand Up For What You Believe". 40

Edited Excerpts. 41

How Harshly To Treat People about their Opinions. 41

Tolerance vs. Patience. 42

3. A Biblical Teaching About Opinions. 43

The Following Sections. 43

The Bible on Opinions. 43

The Examples. 47

End. 50

Truth is One-sided. 51

Monotheists are One-sided. 52

Shocking Wrath. 52

Harsh Prophesies. 52

Doctrine -- Intern Presentation. 53

Doctrine -- General Exhortation. 53

Doctrine Part 2. 53

Epistemology. 54

Basics of Epistemology. 54

Preview of Knowledge & Epistemology. 54

Epistemology is a BIG Subject 54

Fake Knowledge -- Preview Warnings <<<<<<<< \/\/\/\/ 54

Disciple Notes ↑. 55

Right Thinking, Before Thinking What’s Right 56

Right Thinking, Proving what’s Right, Right Response of Faith. 57

When God Makes a Fool Out Of You! 57

First Knowledge. 57

Skepticism.. 59

Wrestling with the Basics. 60

Is Doubting Safer or More Reckless?. 61

Philosophy of Skepticism.. 61

Holding Off Judgement 61

Nature of Skepticism.. 62

Global Skepticism is a Big Problem! 62

World-View Skepticism is Desperately Needed! 62

Global Skepticism vs. Worldview Skepticism.. 62

Axioms. 63

Axiom vs. Postulate -- Very Technical Distinction. 63

Axioms = Answers. 63

God is Axiomatic <<<<<<. 65

“Who Made God”?. 66

Mater is Caused. 71

Goodness is Observably Opposed to Chaos. 71

Optionless Necessity Of Believing God and Morality. 71

The Creator, Morality, & Purpose Are All Axiomatic. 72

Morally Behaved, Before Spiritually Accomplished. 74

Reestablishing Basic Theism.. 75

Disciple Notes ↑. 76

Handmaid Notes ↑. 78

Only Obedience/Virtue is Important for Proof 79

Virtue Is How You Know Who's Right 80

Morality = Righteousness. 81

Disciple Notes ↑. 81

Morality is Axiomatic -- Disciple Notes ↑↓. 83

Conquering Unethics -- < Follow-ups \/ 85

Disciple Notes ↑. 86

Perception About Right & Wrong Comes from Morality. 87

Confirmed Predictions do NOT Validate Your Thinking. 87

Axioms in the Bible. 89

Take Reality to its Logical Consequences. 89

Virtue, Morality, & Obedience = Real Knowledge. 90

Knowledge is Associated with Morality. 90

Established Bible References -- Established Knowledge Upon. 90

Knowledge or Proof?. 91

Evidence Establishes Knowledge, Not Just Proof 92

Judgement Calls on “Knowledge”. 93

SRP | LOB?: Seared Conscience. 93

Unity, Conscience, & Intuition (Wife Question) 94

Bible Issues of Conscious. 95

Conscience Factors. 96

What I Like Is Right -- Over Everyone Else. 96

Different Actions For Different Alerts. 97

Wife Notes / Disciple Notes. 97

Unlawful Intuition. 99

Thinking Together By Educated Submission. 99

A Lawful Place For Intuition?. 99

You Don't Know Anything. 101

Thinking Right = Thinking Unity. 102

Biblical Epistemology Rules of Testimony. 103

Let God be True, and Every man a Liar

6/19/16 (Recompiled from FAQs); 2/22/17

Main verse: Rom_3:3-4

People in General:

Deu_18:18-20

Act_3:22-23

But false Prophet:

Deu_13:3-5

Peter:

Mar_8:32-33

Gal_2:14

Who are we but servants?

Baptism - 1Co_1:12-15

Servants - 1Co_3:4-5

Not as we had expected:

2Co_8:5

Bereans:

Act_17:11

Zec_8:16-19 CAB These are the things which you shall do: speak truth everyone with his neighbor; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates: 17 and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbor, and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, says the Lord Almighty. 18 And the word of the Lord Almighty came to me, saying, 19 Thus says the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and you shall rejoice; therefore love the truth, and peace.

Sir_4:25-31 Brenton In no wise speak against the truth; but be abashed of the error of thine ignorance. 26 Be not ashamed to confess thy sins; and force not the course of the river. 27 Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty. 28 Strive for the truth unto death, and the Lord shall fight for thee. 29 Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss. 30 Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy servants. 31 Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay.

7/7/16

Exo_23:2 WEB You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

Exo_23:2 CAB You shall not associate with the multitude for evil. You shall not join yourself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

Exo_23:2 Greek οὐκ ἔσῃ μετὰ πλειόνων ἐπὶ κακίᾳ. οὐ προστεθήσῃ μετὰ πλήθους ἐκκλῖναι μετὰ πλειόνων ὥστε ἐκκλῖναι κρίσιν.

Liars Go to Hell

3/25/17

Devil’s native language

OT > NT Changes

Paul’s Sin Lists

Rev: lie -- ES search

It is hopeless, we will each keep going in the error of his way

Real Prophecy & Hope Means Believing Hard Facts

Real Prophecy Means Real Faithfulness To Hard Facts And This Gives You A Real Answers And Real Hope

7/22/16; 2/22/17

Real prophecy gives you the straight truth even when it is to a righteous person seeking out mercy.

Real prophecy gives you truth after being faithful to the truth and not flattering for compromising - and in that context it gives you a real answer and hope, then you know that it is reliable and true.

2Ki 22:14 WEB So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.

2Ki 22:14 CAB So Hilkiah the priest went, and Ahikam, Achobor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, to Huldah the prophetess, the mother of Shallum, son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; and she dwelt in Jerusalem in Masena; and they spoke to her.

2Ki 22:14 καὶ ἐπορεύθη Χελκιας ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ Αχικαμ καὶ Αχοβωρ καὶ Σαφφαν καὶ Ασαιας πρὸς Ολδαν τὴν προφῆτιν γυναῖκα Σελλημ υἱοῦ Θεκουε υἱοῦ Αραας τοῦ ἱματιοφύλακος, καὶ αὐτὴ κατῴκει ἐν Ιερουσαλημ ἐν τῇ μασενα, καὶ ἐλάλησαν πρὸς αὐτήν.

2Ki 22:15 She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell the man who sent you to me,

2Ki 22:15 And she said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Say to the man that sent you to Me,

2Ki 22:15 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ Εἴπατε τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ ἀποστείλαντι ὑμᾶς πρός με

2Ki 22:16 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

2Ki 22:16 Thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evil upon this place, and upon them that dwell in it, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read:

2Ki 22:16 Τάδε λέγει κύριος Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω κακὰ ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας αὐτόν, πάντας τοὺς λόγους τοῦ βιβλίου, οὓς ἀνέγνω βασιλεὺς Ιουδα,

2Ki 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.

2Ki 22:17 because they have forsaken Me, and burnt incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me with the works of their hands; therefore My wrath shall burn forth against this place, and shall not be quenched.

2Ki 22:17 ἀνθ᾿ ὧν ἐγκατέλιπόν με καὶ ἐθυμίων θεοῖς ἑτέροις, ὅπως παροργίσωσίν με ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκκαυθήσεται ὁ θυμός μου ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ καὶ οὐ σβεσθήσεται.

2Ki 22:18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,

2Ki 22:18 And to the king of Judah that sent you to inquire of the Lord-thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: As for the words which you have heard;

2Ki 22:18 καὶ πρὸς βασιλέα Ιουδα τὸν ἀποστείλαντα ὑμᾶς ἐπιζητῆσαι τὸν κύριον τάδε ἐρεῖτε πρὸς αὐτόν Τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ Οἱ λόγοι, οὓς ἤκουσας,

2Ki 22:19 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.

2Ki 22:19 because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before Me, when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you tore your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

2Ki 22:19 ἀνθ᾿ ὧν ὅτι ἡπαλύνθη ἡ καρδία σου καὶ ἐνετράπης ἀπὸ προσώπου κυρίου, ὡς ἤκουσας ὅσα ἐλάλησα ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας αὐτὸν τοῦ εἶναι εἰς ἀφανισμὸν καὶ εἰς κατάραν, καὶ διέρρηξας τὰ ἱμάτιά σου καὶ ἔκλαυσας ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ, καί γε ἐγὼ ἤκουσα, λέγει κύριος.

2Ki 22:20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.

2Ki 22:20 It shall not be so. Therefore, behold, I will add you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your tomb in peace, and your eyes shall not see any among all the evils which I bring upon this place.

2Ki 22:20 οὐχ οὕτως· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ προστίθημί σε πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας σου, καὶ συναχθήσῃ εἰς τὸν τάφον σου ἐν εἰρήνῃ, καὶ οὐκ ὀφθήσεται ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς σου ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς κακοῖς, οἷς ἐγώ εἰμι ἐπάγω ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον. καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸ ῥῆμα.

Rhyming With Truth

(Other partial dates); 12/24/15 (officially written down); 3/25/16; 5/10/16; 3/14/17; 4/9/17

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7/6/18

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What church people are referring to

4/21/16

church

You boast in what you pretend is 'the holy ghost', and it is a ghost alright, but there ant a thing holy about it.

Yes, it's a ghost, and almost always it is dirty as all the other ghosts in the honted house where it came from.

Grace = sinning and still going to heaven

'Faith' = superstition

'christ' = antichrist

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That’s not Truth, that’s Goof!

Love or Shove?

dove, glove, gov, of, shove

shove/flattery/lust

Grace or Lace/Mace/ ace/Taiste/Waist

full of frills and soft and fine luxury

Not j.c.

Ronald McDonald

Not blood, just ketchup.

Not blood, crud.

Not died, just Fried

He says he died for you

Not j.c.

But grease-puss [grease-us]

Believe = make believe

Faith = superstition

The Vanity of Ketchup At Death

10/18/16

>> comp: OUC | Truth

The desire of my uncle died with him

Obsession!

Always Obsessing Over Truth ALL THE TIME

3/14/17; 3/20/17; 3/26/17; 5/4/17; 2/25/24 (Sc)

>> compare / combine????

>> LO:

Psa_10:4 WEB The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Psa_10:4 LB?? The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after Him; God is not before him.

Psa_10:4 (9:25) παρώξυνεν τὸν κύριον ὁ ἁμαρτωλός Κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐκζητήσει· οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ θεὸς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ.

>>Scrip:

Psa_1:2 – In his law he meditates day and night

>> TSK

Thoughts on God

>>Scrip:

>> God is not in all their thoughts

>> TSK

>> as you rise up and sit down

set your mind on things above

> tsk

Pro 23:17

Pro 23:17 LB

Psa 10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Psa 10:4 The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after Him; God is not before him.

Psa 10:4 (9:25) παρώξυνεν τὸν κύριον ὁ ἁμαρτωλός Κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐκζητήσει· οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ θεὸς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ.

>>Scrip:

Deu_6: – Sitting down and rising up

Part 1

1. Truth -- It’s Important!

A. Over 200 references in BIBLE (214 NIV, 224 KJV)

B. JESUS said, ‘I tell you the truth,’ 80 times out of all the Gospels

C. The Bible:

Joh 1:14 KJVA …the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

JN 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Joh 18:37 (KJV-Based) … for this purpose I came into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

1Jo 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

1Jo 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Rev 3:7 KJV These things says he that is holy, he that is true…

14 “…faithful and True witness…” ● 19:11 “…faithful and True witness…”

No Lie

Do you think the very manifestation of God almighty in the flesh bringing grace and truth in “fullness” is going to leave this area of truth the same?

It would be foolish of us to proceed with the previous model of things in this area as though Jesus never came and did a profound work on the earth in this.

We have available to us the infinite fullness of truth unlike any other age past.

Things Change:

Physical Kingdom – what is the solution of witches? Burn and stone them!

- was David (and other righteous kings) wrong for this? Absolutely not! They were defending an earth-based kingdom which God was truly doing at this point in history, by carrying out the instructions of the covenant that they were given for just such a kingdom.

Spiritual Kingdom – what is the solution for those who are demon-possessed?

Cast them out! Spiritual warfare! It happens upon finding our kingdom in the heavenlies, that we must come and defend this kingdom solely by the spiritual warfare due to its essence.

They were made perfect (Heb 11: rahab, then last verse, then ch 12 on perfection)

Now what about lying?

If something did not change then please name just ONE example in the NT where someone rightly lied to save their life.

Actually the one example we do have, is when Peter lied to save his life in denying Jesus, and was this right? Was he not called to such extreme repentance and brokenness for his restoration? So shall we think for a moment it is appropriate to lie to save our life and or our family? No, on the contrary! In the Bible, it was better to die for the truth than to stand for a lie!

But you say “If they ask me about Jesus then I would not lie, but otherwise, if they don’t know we are christians and they intend to do us harm then it ok to lie to save your life.” Really? Is it so that there is a part of your life that does not preach Jesus? In this case there is none of your life that has Jesus. Either your whole life preaches Him, or you are flatly denying Him.

-look up all truth references:

I am way…truth (Jn 14:6)

No lie is of the truth

We can do nothing against the truth

Thinking m lie will bring God more glory means your condemnation is just (Rom 3)

2. The Problem We Don’t Think That It’s Important

A. George Barna

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 4 “Living differently”

· WORSHIP:

· ● Less than 25% consciously strive to make worship part of their lifestyle.

· ● 42% were unable to provide a substantive or reasonable reply to what worship means.

· EVANGELISM:

· ● Less than half of all believers (46%) felt strongly that they have a responsibility to communicate their faith to nonbelievers. ● In the past year 55% shared their faith with a non-Christian ● Only 1% believe they have the spiritual gift of evangelism.

· ● Only 8% feel adequately prepared to effectively share their faith.

· DOCTRINE:

· 80% believe God helps those who help themselves

· 47% disagree with the fact that people who do not consciously accept Jesus as their Savior will be condemned to hell.

· 51% believe if a person is generally good, he will earn a place in heaven.

· 1/3 doubt the truth about the Bible

· 40% claim Jesus committed sins.

· More than 25% reject Jesus’ physical resurrection.

· Majority believe that the Holy Spirit and Satan are not living entities but are symbolic.

· Slightly less that half (44%) believe there is an absolute moral truth.

· Only 1% had both a firm and biblically based opinion on the thirteen tested statements.

· STEWARDSHIP:

· Very few believe that we have been blessed in order to be a blessing to others.

· 8% tithed during the year.

· 16% (twice as much) gave nothing to their church as gave 10% or more of their income.

· SERVICE:

· 50% do nothing to serve their church or other people throughout the year.

· 50% either do not know what their spiritual gift is or claim God did not give them a gift.

· 1/3 gave time and money to helping the poor.

Duenas summary:

Barna concludes this chapter with scores of statistics revealing that believers look and act identical to nonbelievers in their behaviors, attitudes, opinions, and values. I believe it is a mockery to Jesus Himself for those to claim His name to look exactly like those who don’t. It is just not right for the church to have missed the mark by so much.

Þ 91 % of ‘christians’ lie regularly (And all liars go to Hell: Rev 21:8)

B. Foundation

You should start with a foundation that realizes with sobriety, that the whole church system is a loss from the get go. Who ever is saved is a special blessing from the Lord.

C. The Bible

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22 Many will tell me in that day… 23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

Mat 7:13-23 WEB "Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. 14 How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' 23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

>> SOM | Testimony | Dis | GCA / API

Does Being Zealous for Theology Matter?

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Act_10: -- as soon as they knew…

Purified Doctrine

How Doctrine affects your Life

2/23/02 (Sat); 8/25/09 (Win: Modified); 2/21/17 (recompiled)

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A. People Don’t Take It Seriously

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Story:

Testimony:

B. How False Doctrine Defiles

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Point

Þ (Brings unconscious Disconnection)

-Ch Life course:

Dan 1:8

More: Carelessness

Less

At its worst:

Hosea 4:6:My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge

Þ But with us, it’s like

censes

So…

1 Pet 5:8:

Confession

2 Corinthians 2:11:Lestignorant of his devices.

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Conclusion: Don’t be a Pharisee, but

3. What do I do?

Other (much older) dates (); 2/21/17

A. Guard your heart

Pro_4:23 WEB Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.

Deu_4:9 LITV Only, be on guard for yourself and keep your soul carefully, that you do not forget …

Deu_11:16 MKJV Take heed to yourselves that your heart may not be deceived…

1Ki_2:4 WEB [Kings remaining on the throne] …If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul…

Mat_13:18 WEB "Hear, then, the parable of the farmer. [13:3] 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

B. Entrusting

Joh_2:23 (KJV-based) Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed⁴¹⁰⁰in [and entrusted themselves to] his name, when they saw the miracles which He did. 24 But Jesus did not believed⁴¹⁰⁰/[entrust] himself unto them, because He knew all men, 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

“believed” (from 1Jn 2:23-24).

Verse 23 Greek: “επιστευσαν⁴¹⁰⁰”, Verse 24 “επιστευεν⁴¹⁰⁰.”

But same Greek word with this definition:

G4100 πιστεύω pisteuō pist-yoo'-o

From G4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one’s spiritual well being to Christ): - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.

C. Romans 3:4

…Yes, let God be true, but every man a liar. As it is written, ‘That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you are judged.’ (WEB/KJV)

1Co 3:4-5 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly? 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? (WEB)

1Sa 2:22-29 And Eli was very old and had heard all that his sons did to Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

…27 And a man of God came to Eli… [The Lord asked Eli ‘didn’t I appoint you priests?’] …29 Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I commanded in My habitation?

And honor your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of My people? (LITV-Based)

D. Die to Your Philosophy

Letting every man be a liar includes you and your philosophy

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? >>>>>>Pro 23:4 Don’t work to be rich: cease from your own wisdom. (KJV-Based) <<<<<<<<<<<<

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Pro_26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. (WEB)

Pro_26:16 WEB The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.

Pro_12:15 WEB The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who is wise listens to counsel.

Isa_5:21 WEB Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

(Rom 11:25 ‘I don’t want you to be wise in own eyes’)

Pro_28:26 He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered. (KJV-Based)

Rom_1:22 KJV Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Pro_3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding… (NIV)

Pro_3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. (KJV-Based)

[Read 1Co_1:17-30] 1Co_1:17-20 …not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect… 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?…

22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness… 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men… 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise… (KJV-Based)

1Co 3:18-20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. (KJV-Based)

1Co 8:1-2 …We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know. (WEB)

Isa 47:10 KJV …your wisdom and your knowledge, have perverted you…

[and you have said in your heart, I , and none else beside me.]

Þ He has made them foolish, and if you join them then you to join their foolishness!!

Þ If you don’t consistently replace your wisdom with the Truth in the Bible, then you are going to be made a fool by God! Your previous philosophies about God must be counted as dung! Don’t let it hurt to exchange and sacrifice them, for the Truth.

Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

E. Solid Food

Heb_5:14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Truth vs Goof

2/28/21

Problem Noticer vs Problem Solver

It’s not good enough to notice the problem; The real hero loves enough to have the right answer!

2/28/21

>> See: PCD

Ultimately, it does no good to simply notice the problem.

I mean: an alarm is potentially better than shear silence, but ultimately, it’s really a rescuer we need.

We need problem solvers more than problem noticers (as I say in a parable in the business world, but now much deeper and more serious when it comes to Truth).

Problem Noticers Are Usually Hypocritical Complainers

· Problem noticers can verge on simply complaining without making anything better.

· and the reason is: that they are actually part of the same problem they are complaining about -- otherwise they would have an answer for fixing the problems which they themselves have so wisely abstained from!

· Complainers are always hypocritical because they themselves are part of the problem and participating in the very things that cause the very problems which inconvenience them.

· Everybody causes the very same problems for all the rest of the world and each man complains against his neighbor for the negative consequences that trouble them.

· If you are tired of getting burnt, then stop lighting the fire!

· Get cured of your hypocritical, and very foolish “Matrix-complex”, and be more True than liars and their fake hollywood miracles!

Noticing problems is not good enough.

What we really need is someone who has the right ANSWER -- and that’s really what makes you True!

That’s how we can differentiate between Detection vs (real) Discernment

Who’s Working for Who?

2/11/20; 2/19/20

>> see: WkEth: Attitude of capability

Problem Noticer – You end up working for them

Problem Solver – they are truly working for you

Problem Noticers bring up problems and occupy you by having you run around and solve their problems so that they will keep (theoretically) working for you…

Problem Solvers notice what you need and free up your time by taking things off of your plate that you otherwise could not trust anyone else with, and before the Problem Solver came to the rescue you usually could not succeed in delegating such tasks…

Problem Noticers create the notion that if you want something done right you got to do it yourself, but problem solvers force this proverb to be obsolete and overtaken by their innovation and love for providing answers!

Fiction, Fantasy, & Truth!

Fiction, Fantasy, TV, Imagination, & Truth!

10/7/18

Parables are not fantasy

Fantasy is Wrong

10/7/18

Fantasy is bad because it competes with the realm of truth you need in order to reach into the unseen spiritual realm and have perception to weed out lies.

Because fantasy is a contradiction of reality, therefore, when you participate in fantasy you destroy the integrity you need in order to contradict the delusions of evil.

Fantasy happens in your imagination and burs the lens through which you peer into the spiritual realm.

You cannot overcome the unsound insanity of an evil spirit in others if you yourself are not true and clean and sound in this very same area they are particularly defeated.

The difference between one who fantasizes and one who is demonized is a matter of time and temporary strengh and health. As soon as you break, there is no longer much of a difference, if any at all.

Part 2 – How To Remain True

1. Relating to Others – Warnings for the end times

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Acts 20:25-31 (Wolves) Holy Spiritremember

2 Peter 2:1-3 (Heresies, Shame way of Truth, Covetousness⁶⁸⁴

2TI 4:3sound doctrine 5 But you be sober in all things,

1TI 6:3 If anyone teaches false doctrines

Jn 8:44

2Thes 2:1-12 1

3 Let

Mtt 24:23-27 Then

2. Relating to Yourself

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1Pe_4:18 And

Þ Have you used 1 Pe_1:2,5, & 17-18? (Reassurance)

2 Cor 13:5 Examine your

PHP 2:12

2PE_1:10

Jud 1:24 Now

Part 3 – How to REALLY Love the Truth

1. Dethroning Self-Generated Morality

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Isa 18

And we have this problem

There is none good no not one…

Psa_19:7-14 KJV The

Extra Scriptures/ thoughts

>> (NIV Problem)

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Isa 28:15-16 WEB

Integrity

Isa 5:20 WEB

Zealous for a good thing

The church:

Jer_8:8-9 WEB How; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

Bible Relationship

Your “Relationship” With The Bible

3/4/06-3/5/06 (Word: Modified); 2/20/17 (recompiled)

Is it important? Why?

Relationship

You will say…

-Have we missed something here?

How much do you value the Bible?

Think of Answering These Questions

Suicides: heaven or hell?

Predestination

Divorce and remarriage

It says it and that is it

Verses

I believe it no matter what

Luk 24:21 WEB But

[Ruling and reigning] Christ when they temporarily perceived that the word of God had failed, then what about you? Have you stumbled in being devoted to reading the Bible because you perceive the Word of God to fail to excite you?

Apologetics

Extra:

Extra-Biblical Truth authenticated:

Getting Love-Truth

& Refusing to Win A Fleshly Argument

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Defining Fleshly Arguments

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1Co_

You Do Not Need “Love vs. Truth”!

see: cheap shots

Truth is Needed…

Scrip

Psalm 51 – God Wants Truth

Psa_51:6 WEB Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Psa_51:6 CAB For behold, You love truth; You have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of Your wisdom.

Psa_51:6 Greek (50:8) ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἀλήθειαν ἠγάπησας, τὰ ἄδηλα καὶ τὰ κρύφια τῆς σοφίας σου ἐδήλωσάς μοι.

2Thesalinians 2 – The Love of the Truth – You Need it!

2Th_2:10 CAB and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th_2:10 Greek καὶ ἐν πάσῃ ἀπάτῃ ἀδικίας ἐν οῖς ἀπολλυμένοις, ἀνθ᾿ ὧν τὴν ἀγάπην τῆς ἀληθείας οὐκ ἐδέξαντο εἰς τὸ σωθῆναι αὐτούς·

If you love truth then you will be saved from fleshly arguments. This is your answer!

Real Love is Dependent on Truth…

1Corinthians 13: Love Rejoices In Truth

1Co_13:4-6 CAB Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

1Co_13:4-6 Greek ῾Η ἀγάπη μακροθυμεῖ, χρηστεύεται, ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ ζηλοῖ, ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται, οὐ φυσιοῦται, 5 οὐκ ἀσχημονεῖ, οὐ ζητεῖ τὰ ἑαυτῆς, οὐ παροξύνεται, οὐ λογίζεται τὸ κακόν, 6 οὐ χαίρει ἐπὶ τῇ ἀδικίᾳ, συγχαίρει δὲ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ·

1John 3: Love in Truth – You Must Do it!

1Jn_3:18 CAB My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

1Jn_3:18 Greek Τεκνία μου, μὴ ἀγαπῶμεν λόγῳ μηδὲ τῇ γλώσσῃ, ἀλλὰ ἐν ἔργῳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.

2John: THE ELDER Loves in Truth – The Right Example

>> See Whole Chapter!

2Jn_1:1-6 CAB THE ELDER, To the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have come to know the truth, 2 on account of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father. 5 And now I ask you, lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but one which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. 6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

2Jn_

3Jn_1:1 CAB THE ELDER, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth:

3Jn_1:1 Greek ῾Ο πρεσβύτερος Γαΐῳ τῷ ἀγαπητῷ, ὃν ἐγὼ ἀγαπῶ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ.

3Jn_1:3-4 CAB For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and witnessed to the truth which is in you, just as you walk in truth. 4 I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear that my children are walking in truth.

3Jn_1:3-4 Greek ἐχάρην γὰρ λίαν ἐρχομένων ἀδελφῶν καὶ μαρτυρούντων σου τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, καθὼς σὺ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ περιπατεῖς. 4 μειζοτέραν τούτων οὐκ ἔχω χαράν, ἵνα ἀκούω τὰ ἐμὰ τέκνα ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ περιπατοῦντα.

1Peter 1: Truth Prepares You for Love – It is NOT a Balancing Act!

1Pe_1:22 CAB Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in ~~sincere~~ [ἀνυπόκριτον] love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

1Pe_1:22 Greek Τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν ἡγνικότες ἐν τῇ ὑπακοῇ τῆς ἀληθείας διὰ Πνεύματος εἰς φιλαδελφίαν ἀνυπόκριτον, ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας ἀλλήλους ἀγαπήσατε ἐκτενῶς,

Romans 12: Let Love Be Without Hypocrisy

Rom_12:9-21 CAB Let love be without hypocrisy [῾Η ἀγάπη ἀνυπόκριτος]. [How?] Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. 10 Be warmly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, enduring in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13 sharing in the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality. 14 Bless those that persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Not minding the high things, but associating with the humble. Do not become wise in your own ~~opinion~~. 17 Repay no one evil for evil; providing that which is good before all men. 18 If possible, as much as depends on you, ~~keeping~~ [do] peace with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. 20 Therefore "If your enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for by doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head." 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Rom_12:9-21 Greek ῾Η ἀγάπη ἀνυπόκριτος. ἀποστυγοῦντες τὸ πονηρόν, κολλώμενοι τῷ ἀγαθῷ, 10 τῇ φιλαδελφίᾳ εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλόστοργοι, τῇ τιμῇ ἀλλήλους προηγούμενοι, 11 τῇ σπουδῇ μὴ ὀκνηροί, τῷ πνεύματι ζέοντες, τῷ Κυρίῳ δουλεύοντες, 12 τῇ ἐλπίδι χαίροντες, τῇ θλίψει ὑπομένοντες, τῇ προσευχῇ προσκαρτεροῦντες, 13 ταῖς χρείαις τῶν ἁγίων κοινωνοῦντες, τὴν φιλοξενίαν διώκοντες. 14 εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς διώκοντας ὑμᾶς, εὐλογεῖτε καὶ μὴ καταρᾶσθε. 15 χαίρειν μετὰ χαιρόντων κλαίειν μετὰ κλαιόντων. 16 τὸ αὐτὸ εἰς ἀλλήλους φρονοῦντες. μὴ τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονοῦντες, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ταπεινοῖς συναπαγόμενοι. μὴ γίνεσθε φρόνιμοι παρ᾿ ἑαυτοῖς. 17 μηδενὶ κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ ἀποδιδόντες. προνοούμενοι καλὰ ἐνώπιον πάντων ἀνθρώπων· 18 εἰ δυνατόν, τὸ ἐξ ὑμῶν μετὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων εἰρηνεύοντες· 19 μὴ ἑαυτοὺς ἐκδικοῦντες, ἀγαπητοί, ἀλλὰ δότε τόπον τῇ ὀργῇ· γέγραπται γάρ· ἐμοὶ ἐκδίκησις, ἐγὼ ἀνταποδώσω, λέγει Κύριος. 20 ἐὰν οὖν πεινᾷ ὁ ἐχθρός σου, ψώμιζε αὐτόν, ἐὰν διψᾷ, πότιζε αὐτόν· τοῦτο γὰρ ποιῶν ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύσεις ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ. 21 μὴ νικῶ ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ, ἀλλὰ νίκα ἐν τῷ ἀγαθῷ τὸ κακόν.

Zechariah 8: Love Truth And Peace

(A) MT

Zec_8:14-21 WEB For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I didn't repent; 15 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid. 16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates, 17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh. 18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me. 19 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace." 20 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; 21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.'

(B) LXX

Zec_8:14-21 CAB For thus says the Lord Almighty; As I took counsel to afflict you when your fathers provoked Me, says the Lord Almighty, and I did not relent, 15 so have I prepared and taken counsel in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: be of good courage. 16 These are the things which you shall do: speak truth everyone with his neighbor; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates: 17 and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbor, and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, says the Lord Almighty. 18 And the word of the Lord Almighty came to me, saying, 19 Thus says the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and you shall rejoice; therefore love the truth, and peace. 20 Thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet shall many peoples come, and the inhabitants of many cities; 21 and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.

(C) Greek of LXX

Zec_8:14-21 Greek διότι τάδε λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ Ὃν τρόπον διενοήθην τοῦ κακῶσαι ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ παροργίσαι με τοὺς πατέρας ὑμῶν, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ, καὶ οὐ μετενόησα, 15 οὕτως παρατέταγμαι καὶ διανενόημαι ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις τοῦ καλῶς ποιῆσαι τὴν Ιερουσαλημ καὶ τὸν οἶκον Ιουδα· θαρσεῖτε. 16 οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι, οὓς ποιήσετε· λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ κρίμα εἰρηνικὸν κρίνατε ἐν ταῖς πύλαις ὑμῶν 17 καὶ ἕκαστος τὴν κακίαν τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ μὴ λογίζεσθε ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν καὶ ὅρκον ψευδῆ μὴ ἀγαπᾶτε, διότι ταῦτα πάντα ἐμίσησα, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ. 18 Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος κύριου παντοκράτορος πρός με λέγων 19 Τάδε λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ Νηστεία ἡ τετρὰς καὶ νηστεία ἡ πέμπτη καὶ νηστεία ἡ ἑβδόμη καὶ νηστεία ἡ δεκάτη ἔσονται τῷ οἴκῳ Ιουδα εἰς χαρὰν καὶ εἰς εὐφροσύνην καὶ εἰς ἑορτὰς ἀγαθὰς καὶ εὐφρανθήσεσθε, καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην ἀγαπήσατε. 20 τάδε λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ Ἔτι ἥξουσιν λαοὶ πολλοὶ καὶ κατοικοῦντες πόλεις πολλάς· 21 καὶ συνελεύσονται κατοικοῦντες πέντε πόλεις εἰς μίαν πόλιν λέγοντες Πορευθῶμεν δεηθῆναι τοῦ προσώπου κυρίου καὶ ἐκζητῆσαι τὸ πρόσωπον κυρίου παντοκράτορος· πορεύσομαι κἀγώ.

Real Truth is Dependent on Real Love…

Other dates; 2/22/17

Ephesians 4: Doing Truth in Love

Eph_4:14-15 CAB that we may no longer be infants, being tossed as by waves, and being carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in regard to deceitful scheming, 15 ·but ~~speaking the~~ [doing] truth in love [ἀληθεύοντες δὲ ἐν ἀγάπῃ (ABP: But being truthful in love)], we may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ;

Eph_4:14-15 Greek ἵνα μηκέτι ὦμεν νήπιοι, κλυδωνιζόμενοι καὶ περιφερόμενοι παντὶ ἀνέμῳ τῆς διδασκαλίας, ἐν τῇ κυβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐν πανουργίᾳ πρὸς τὴν μεθοδείαν τῆς πλάνης, 15 ἀληθεύοντες δὲ ἐν ἀγάπῃ αὐξήσωμεν εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ πάντα, ὅς ἐστιν ἡ κεφαλή, ὁ Χριστός,

1Corinthians 8: Intellectual Pride = Loving False Knowledge

(above); …11/6/22

1Co_8:1-3 CAB Now concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2 And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

1Co_8:1-3 Greek Περὶ δὲ τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι πάντες γνῶσιν ἔχομεν. ἡ γνῶσις φυσιοῖ, ἡ δὲ ἀγάπη οἰκοδομεῖ. 2 εἴ δὲ τις δοκεῖ εἰδέναι τι, οὐδέπω οὐδὲν ἔγνωκε καθὼς δεῖ γνῶναι· 3 εἰ δέ τις ἀγαπᾷ τὸν Θεόν, οὗτος ἔγνωσται ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

· Your knowledge is inferior and worthless when compared to the boast of the real Love of God

· We should question our own knowledge… (esp. since it is not real anyway & whatever is real is loaned to us)

· What are fleshly arguments, except that both people are thinking they know something that they don’t really know?

· Stop knowing stuff, because the more you know then the more you can argue.

1Corinthians 7: Using But Not Abusing – Side Note About how to Use Knowledge

1Co_7:31 CAB and those using this world as not using it up. For the form of this world is passing away.

1Co_7:31 Greek καὶ οἱ χρώμενοι τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ ὡς μὴ καταχρώμενοι· παράγει γὰρ τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.

1Corinthians 4: You Are No Different

1Co_4:6-8 CAB Now these things, brothers, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, in order that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other. 7 For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive what you have, why do you boast as though you did not receive it? 8 You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us; and I wish that indeed you did reign, in order that we also might reign with you!

1Co_4:6-8 Greek Ταῦτα δέ, ἀδελφοί, μετεσχημάτισα εἰς ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ᾿Απολλὼ δι᾿ ὑμᾶς, ἵνα ἐν ἡμῖν μάθητε τὸ μὴ ὑπὲρ ἃ γέγραπται φρονεῖν, ἵνα μὴ εἷς ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἑνὸς φυσιοῦσθε κατὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου. 7 τίς γάρ σε διακρίνει; τί δὲ ἔχεις ὃ οὐκ ἔλαβες; εἰ δὲ καὶ ἔλαβες, τί καυχᾶσαι ὡς μὴ λαβών; 8 ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ. ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

!! Read all of 1Co_4:6-21

- Remember: repent for being worse than them! (You are not Different)

If you stay within the confines and jurisdiction of what God has assigned to you/what He has said about you then you will not become puffed about against another person.

Luke 9, Mark 9: Disciple’s Debate – Who Would be the Greatest?

Luke 9, 14, 22 / Mark 9

Luk_9:42-50;

Luk_14:7-11 (sit in the lowest seat);

Luk_22:24-27/ Mar_9:30-37 (etc.)

Matthew 17 – 20

Mat_17:27 – Preceding context: free, but still pressed down

Mat_18:1-5,

Mat_19 - 20 - Competition condemned

Mat_20:17-28,

Mat_23:6-7,

Community Values that Oppose Such Competition

Rom_12:3, Rom_12:10,

Phi_2:3 – Vain (selfish) glory [κενοδοξιαν]

Phi_2:14, 3Jo_1:9

SinL

Gal_5:20, Gal_5:21, Gal_5:25, Gal_5:26

11/11/15; 11/16/15

>> isa: publishing news of peace

comprehend much in few words

Righteous Justice Bible study

Righteousness Bible study

Righteousness / Real Justice

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The Right People

1/25/24

everyone wants to believe either that there is no proven and inspired right and wrong, or if there is, they want to claim that what they like is the right and virtuous way to live life.

but that is the filthy dirty and perverted riches of the proud against the hope of the poor.

the right people

· Get to say that what they like is right and others must/should change and like it too

· Their thinking is right and others are wrong in their defaults

· Their particular portions are right and others wrong

· Their happiness and the likes and preferences and adorations and tendencies are right and others are wrong

· Get to do think and say preferential treatment to their own happiness in ways that would definitely be selfish, egocentric, self-conceited, biased, and sinful for others (who are uninspired and unrighteous)

· Their God is the actual, truly good, righteous, virtuous god who made the whole universe and everyone else is wrong and is worshiping evil spirits with everything being the right in and are happy with in their unconformed flesh

the right people get to believe that their mistakes are divinely inspired:

>> Scrip:

the slips of the tongue of the righteous are not from the heart

whereas everyone else's problems in their mouth comes from an overflow of their heart

even their darkness ends in being right against everyone else:

Job you have not spoken what is right of me as my servant Job

Elijah gets to see the fire in the mountain, and everyone else is corrected by his correction that they thought they knew better than

the perverted flesh and the hypocrisy of hypocrites groans and blasphemously complains, saying, why don't they have to deny themselves like we are commanded to?

and that's just exactly the point! the proud wicked flesh balls have not denied themselves and therefore they are commanded to deny themselves, and the righteous are righteous because they have in fact already denied themselves, and what's left is divinely influenced and authored, and the only selfishness you can accuse them of is God's valid monotheistic self-centered Glory for the benefit of the entire universe which is shining through their love of virtue...

so in this way the wicked are drug away cursed and condemned, groaning in their darkness, while the righteous step forward being justified, approved, and blessed without even having to defend themselves.

the root issue of all of this moral failure comes from the principles of blaspheming BOND...

pretending like you're not as desolate as you really are makes you deceived by naive and hateful self-flattery, and therefore you're not begging and admiring the right people, cuz you're so proud and insensitive to your own nastiness

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An Orthodox Sense of Equality

Other date?; 11/3/17; 11/4/17

all

give justice equally to all

Deu_17:20

Deu_17:20 LB that

Deu_17:20

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Deu_16:18

Deu_16:18 LB Municipal

Deu_16:18

Deu_16:19

Deu_16:20

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10/25/17

>> get the real context of this quote

this

tragically

when

When God is Potently Present in Person, Justice just has to Happen

10/11/17

Deu 7:14 WEB You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

Deu 7:14 LB You shall be blessed beyond all other nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among your livestock.

Deu 7:14 εὐλογητὸς ἔσῃ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· οὐκ ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν ἄγονος οὐδὲ στεῖρα καὶ ἐν τοῖς κτήνεσίν σου.

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Deu 7:20 WEB Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

Deu 7:20 LB And the Lord your God shall send against them the hornets, until those that are left and those that are hidden from you are utterly destroyed.

Deu 7:20 καὶ τὰς σφηκίας ἀποστελεῖ κύριος ὁ θεός σου εἰς αὐτούς, ἕως ἂν ἐκτριβῶσιν οἱ καταλελειμμένοι καὶ οἱ κεκρυμμένοι ἀπὸ σοῦ.

Deu 7:21 WEB You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.

Deu 7:21 You shall not be wounded before them, because the Lord your God in the midst of you is a great and powerful God.

Deu 7:21 οὐ τρωθήσῃ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν, ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐν σοί, θεὸς μέγας καὶ κραταιός,

Justice is NOT equality, it is what is Right!

5/30/17

Num 7:6 WEB Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

Num 7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

Num 7:6 καὶ λαβὼν Μωυσῆς τὰς ἁμάξας καὶ τοὺς βόας ἔδωκεν αὐτὰ τοῖς Λευίταις·

Num 7:7 WEB He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

Num 7:7 And he gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their ministrations.

Num 7:7 τὰς δύο ἁμάξας καὶ τοὺς τέσσαρας βόας ἔδωκεν τοῖς υἱοῖς Γεδσων κατὰ τὰς λειτουργίας αὐτῶν

Num 7:8 WEB and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Num 7:8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari according to their ministrations, by Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Num 7:8 καὶ τὰς τέσσαρας ἁμάξας καὶ τοὺς ὀκτὼ βόας ἔδωκεν τοῖς υἱοῖς Μεραρι κατὰ τὰς λειτουργίας αὐτῶν διὰ Ιθαμαρ υἱοῦ Ααρων τοῦ ἱερέως.

Num 7:9 WEB But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.

Num 7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave them not, because they have the ministrations of the sacred things: they shall bear them on their shoulders.

Num 7:9 καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς Κααθ οὐκ ἔδωκεν, ὅτι τὰ λειτουργήματα τοῦ ἁγίου ἔχουσιν· ἐπ᾿ ὤμων ἀροῦσιν.

3/6/17

Being Attracted to Hardcore Truth is Actually a Fundamental Belief in Justice

4/29/16

-- under construction --

Outside observers accuse hardcore people of being morbid and liking an Angry God.

But really, the beliefs in hell and that most all church people (who are not hardcore) are going there, is actually a motivation that comes from the foundational fundamental belief in Justice.

When liberals do not believe in Hell Fire preaching and absolute and extreme demands, what they do not believe in is Justice .

The righteous, or the just, are attracted to talking about hell and not being saved because

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Other dates; 2/21/17 (recompiled)

Understanding Divine Justice

Understanding Heaven's Justice

Divine Retribution

8/11/16

Job -- the whole book...

Chronicales

>> Josiah did right, evil postponed

Pop: Fire?

Wisdom Of Clean Truth

The Wisdom & Knowledge Of Clean Truth

The Wisdom of Cleanness and Truth

The truer, deeper, realer, hard-core, totally Bible-submissive, revolutionary, flesh crucifying, soul hating, truth-worshiping wisdom from heaven proclaimed by the Real Jesus and His Real Ambassadors

Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org

~2001-2002 (original cell group/ life-group Bible study); 7/27/12 (recompiled); 1/29/16 (renamed: The Wisdom of Cleanness and Truth); 2/16/17 (Re-compiled and retitled: Wisdom of Clean Truth)

Note

Names

wisdom

wisdom-of-monotheism.htm

wisdom-of-cleanness-and-truth

real-wisdom

>> Additions -- Wisdom

Pro_13:20 WEB One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Pro_13:20 LB If you walk with wise men you shall be wise, but he that walks with fools shall be known.

Pro_13:20 ὁ συμπορευόμενος σοφοῖς σοφὸς ἔσται, ὁ δὲ συμπορευόμενος ἄφροσι γνωσθήσεται.

-- under construction --

Rotten Knowledge

10/28/22-10/30/22…11/4/22

Son_6:9 – My Perfect One

Son_6:9 WEB My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Son_6:9 CAB My dove, my perfect one [τελεία μου] is one [μία ἐστὶν]; ·she is the only one of her mother [μία ἐστὶν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς]; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yes, and the concubines, and they will praise her.

Son_6:9 μία ἐστὶν περιστερά μου, τελεία μου, μία ἐστὶν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς, ἐκλεκτή ἐστιν τῇ τεκούσῃ αὐτῆς. εἴδοσαν αὐτὴν θυγατέρες καὶ μακαριοῦσιν αὐτήν, βασίλισσαι καὶ παλλακαὶ καὶ αἰνέσουσιν αὐτήν.

How does this save us from rotten knowledge?

Knowledge – for Better or Worse?

Wife’s Key, Originating Question

9/19/22 -- Overseer’s Wife Asked:

AlMon_10:35am

Knowledge

On one hand people perish from lack of knowledge.

On the other hand many books are wearisome for the flesh, and people can even seem to perish from over much knowledge.

One one hand there exisexists some sort of key of knowledge that can save people (ex Luk_11:52).

On the other hand there exist the dynamic that ignoranace can be bliss.

On one hand the unparalleled advancements in our age have seemed to save people.

On the other hand the advancements of our age have seemed to do things like take indigenous groups of people and place them in reservations and done research and studies on them, and it ends up being to the people's detriment and degredation.

How to know when knowledge is good or bad? When it is more profitable than not? When it is more helpful than it is detrimental?

What do you do when knowledge seems to increase pride, strife, strain, or stress between people, and even the righteous?

How do you know if knowledge is corrupting faith and resulting in complacency and a hope in mankind & its tools? How do you know if crying out to God is being suffocated and the aroma of a precious, sweet smelling ointment erased and rewritten from history's existence and the pages of the Bible?

How do you know if you are becoming more healthy with knowledge, or if it would have been better off if you didn't know much of anything?

Quickly Recognizing Rotten Knowledge

10/29/22…11/4/22

Overseer-Husband’s Initial Response -- Summary Preview

· How Do You Know When Your Knowledge is Rotten?

· When familiarity breeds contempt, your knowledge is rotten.

· Has the filthiness of money defiled your conscience and polluted your eyes against another?

· Has self-confidence overpowered real Love?

· Has clunky persuasions of the power and desires of this life twisted you away from being favorable toward those more poor than you?

· What intelligence has been used as selfish beauty and rotten money to corrupt your perception or understanding of another disciple?

· When your view of someone decreases in splendor after you supposedly “get to know them” -- then you are actually knowing more of the "depths of Satan" (not that disciple).

· If a disciple qualitatively changes, backslides, or even drifts and does you wrong, then you might be hurt and hindered in your relationship with them, but if instead you simply grow more negative over time through your experience of supposedly “getting to know them”, then you can be sure you learned your “knowledge” from the devil.

· 100% of everything that has diminished our faith into each other to any degree over the years, and has tolerated subtle assumptions of non-inspiration among us, is rotten...

· What then is your current status, customary posture, and repeated values that you return unto?

Knowledge is like money.

“Knowledge is power”.

Make sure your powerful money doesn't send you to hell

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10/30/22

When you were younger as a child or has a newer disciple was it easier to accept people and like them?

What is your current status, customary posture, and repeated values that you return unto?

What intelligence has been used as selfish beauty and rotten money to corrupt your perception or understanding of another disciple?

Has the filthiness of money defiled your conscience and polluted your eyes against another?

Has self-confidence overpowered real Love, has clunky persuasions of the power and desires of this life twisted you away from being favorable toward those more poor than you?

1Co_8:1-3 – Puffing Knowledge -- Without Love

>>> Combine!!!

1Co_8:1 LSV And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love builds up;

1Co_8:1 Περὶ δὲ τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι πάντες γνῶσιν ἔχομεν. ἡ γνῶσις φυσιοῖ, ἡ δὲ ἀγάπη οἰκοδομεῖ.

1Co_8:2 and if anyone thinks to know anything, he has not yet known anything according as it is required to know;

1Co_8:2 εἴ δὲ τις δοκεῖ εἰδέναι τι, οὐδέπω οὐδὲν ἔγνωκε καθὼς δεῖ γνῶναι·

1Co_8:2 ει TSBδε τις δοκει Aεγνωκεναι TSBειδεναι τι Aουπω Aεγνω TSBουδεπω TSBουδεν TSBεγνωκεν καθως δει γνωναι

1Co_8:3 and if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

1Co_8:3 εἰ δέ τις ἀγαπᾷ τὸν Θεόν, οὗτος ἔγνωσται ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

1Co_8:1-3 GRVii+23

When we are talking about puffing knowledge we are talking about the knowledge which is in contrast to Love.

Consider the hardness and consider the lovelessness and consider the sin that can result from being inflated by corruptible rotten human fleshly sin-tainted knowledge.

Consider how the loveless wealth of knowledge can strange you from those you are supposed to love.

Consider how the madness of riches can blind you and make you do absurd irrational outrageous things against those who you're supposed to be underneath, on the ground and begging for food.

Our independent modern societies gear everyone up to be independent and self-sufficient, and there is no lack of puffing knowledge to embolden independence and diluted self-sufficiency that poisons your eye against those who have cherished you, whom you should also be cherishing.

>> Scrip:

1co2-3

didn't God choose the poor of this world to be rich in face and heirs of the eternal kingdom

4:8 independence

>> Scrip:

The purpose of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and unhippocritical faith

Real knowledge tells you about the worth and potential value of the human creature and empowers you with the same Faith as He who died for him, and especially rejoices over the remarkable preciousness that has been accomplished in such a creature whenever they have come to be a disciple.

Puffing Knowledge is contrary to the accomplishment and realization of real Love, whereas real knowledge catapults you right into the cherishing value of real Love.

Stop flirting with the adultery of Independent apostasy and powers of the flesh that free you from giving over justice and don't have the integrity to produce any virtue.

Conquer and dominate your knowledge in this life and make it your slave. Beat it severely if it raises up it's ugly head in pride.

1Ti_6:1-6 – Men of Corrupt Mind

1Ti_6:1 LSV As many as are servants under a yoke, let them reckon their own masters worthy of all honor, that evil may not be spoken of the Name of God and the teaching;

1Ti_6:1 ῞Οσοι εἰσὶν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν δοῦλοι, τοὺς ἰδίους δεσπότας πάσης τιμῆς ἀξίους ἡγείσθωσαν, ἵνα μὴ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἡ διδασκαλία βλασφημῆται.

1Ti_6:2 and those having believing masters, do not let them slight [them], because they are brothers, but rather let them serve, because they are steadfast and beloved, who are partaking of the benefit. Be teaching and exhorting these things;

1Ti_6:2 οἱ δὲ πιστοὺς ἔχοντες δεσπότας μὴ καταφρονείτωσαν, ὅτι ἀδελφοί εἰσιν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον δουλευέτωσαν, ὅτι πιστοί εἰσι καὶ ἀγαπητοὶ οἱ τῆς εὐεργεσίας ἀντιλαμβανόμενοι. Ταῦτα δίδασκε καὶ παρακάλει.

1Ti_6:3 if anyone ·be teaching otherwise [ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖ], and does not consent [προσέρχεται] to sound words [ὑγιαίνουσι λόγοις]—those of [τοῖς τοῦ] our Lord Jesus Christ—and to the teaching ·according to [κατ᾿] piety [εὐσέβειαν],

1Ti_6:3 Εἴ τις ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖ καὶ μὴ προσέρχεται ὑγιαίνουσι λόγοις τοῖς τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τῇ κατ᾿ εὐσέβειαν διδασκαλίᾳ,

1Ti_6:4 ·he is proud [τετύφωται], knowing nothing [μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος], but unhealthy [ἀλλὰ νοσῶν] about [περὶ] questions [ζητήσεις] and word-striving [λογομαχίας], out of which come [γίνεται] envy [φθόνος], strife [ἔρις], slanders [βλασφημίαι], evil-surmisings [ὑπόνοιαι πονηραί],

1Ti_6:4 τετύφωται, μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος, ἀλλὰ νοσῶν περὶ ζητήσεις καὶ λογομαχίας, ἐξ ὧν γίνεται φθόνος, ἔρις, βλασφημίαι, ὑπόνοιαι πονηραί,

1Ti_6:5 wranglings [BAδιαπαρατριβαὶ |TSπαραδιατριβαι] of men wholly corrupted in mind [διεφθαρμένων ἀνθρώπων τὸν νοῦν ], and destitute of the truth [ἀπεστερημένων ^V-RPP-GPM τῆς ^T-GSF ἀληθείας ^N-GSF], ·supposing the piety to be gain [νομιζόντων πορισμὸν εἶναι τὴν εὐσέβειαν]; TSBdepart TSBfrom TSBsuch;

1Ti_6:5 BAδιαπαρατριβαὶ |TSπαραδιατριβαι| διεφθαρμένων ἀνθρώπων τὸν νοῦν καὶ ἀπεστερημένων τῆς ἀληθείας, νομιζόντων πορισμὸν εἶναι τὴν εὐσέβειαν. ἀφίστασο ἀπὸ τῶν τοιούτων |TSBαφιστασο TSBαπο TSBτων TSBτοιουτων|.

1Ti_6:6 but it is great gain [πορισμὸς μέγας]—the piety [εὐσέβεια] with [μετὰ] contentment [αὐταρκείας];

1Ti_6:6 ἔστι δὲ πορισμὸς μέγας ἡ εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐταρκείας.

1Ti 6:7 for we brought nothing into the world—because neither are we able to carry out anything;

1Ti 6:7 οὐδὲν γὰρ εἰσηνέγκαμεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον, TSBδῆλον ὅτι οὐδὲ ἐξενεγκεῖν τι δυνάμεθα·

1Ti 6:8 but having food and raiment—with these we will suffice ourselves;

1Ti 6:8 ἔχοντες δὲ διατροφὰς καὶ σκεπάσματα, τούτοις ἀρκεσθησόμεθα.

1Ti 6:9 and those intending [βουλόμενοι] to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

1Ti 6:9 οἱ δὲ βουλόμενοι πλουτεῖν ἐμπίπτουσιν εἰς πειρασμὸν καὶ παγίδα καὶ ἐπιθυμίας πολλὰς ἀνοήτους καὶ βλαβεράς, αἵτινες βυθίζουσι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εἰς ὄλεθρον καὶ ἀπώλειαν.

1Ti 6:10 for the love of money is a root of all the evils, which certain [ones] longing for went astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows;

1Ti 6:10 ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία, ἧς τινες ὀρεγόμενοι ἀπεπλανήθησαν ἀπὸ τῆς πίστεως καὶ ἑαυτοὺς περιέπειραν ὀδύναις πολλαῖς.

1Ti 6:11 and you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

1Ti 6:11 Σὺ δέ, ὦ ἄνθρωπε |TSBτου| Θεοῦ, ταῦτα φεῦγε· δίωκε δὲ δικαιοσύνην, εὐσέβειαν, πίστιν, ἀγάπην, ὑπομονήν, TSBπρᾳότητα |Aπραυπαθιαν|.

1Ti_6:1-6 GRVii+23456

1Ti 6:9 GRVii+ οιG3588T-NPM ὁ the δεG1161CONJ δέ but βουλομενοιG1014V-PNP-NPM βούλομαι to will πλουτεινG4147V-PAN πλουτέω to be wealthy εμπιπτουσινG1706V-PAI-3P ἐμπίπτω to fall on ειςG1519PREP εἰς to πειρασμονG3986N-ASM πειρασμός a putting to proof καιG2532CONJ καί and παγιδαG3803N-ASF παγίς a trap καιG2532CONJ καί and επιθυμιαςG1939N-APF ἐπιθυμία a longing πολλαςG4183A-APF πολύς much ανοητουςG453A-APF ἀνόητος unintelligent καιG2532CONJ καί and βλαβεραςG983A-APF βλαβερός injurious αιτινεςG3748R-NPF ὅστις which some βυθιζουσινG1036V-PAI-3P βυθίζω to sink τουςG3588T-APM ὁ the ανθρωπουςG444N-APM ἄνθρωπος from ειςG1519PREP εἰς to ολεθρονG3639N-ASM ὄλεθρος ruin καιG2532CONJ καί and απωλειανG684N-ASF ἀπώλεια ruin

TSK-Enhanced: men: Mat_7:17-20, Mat_12:33, Joh_3:19-21, Eph_4:17-19, 2Th_2:8-11, 2Ti_3:8, Tit_1:15-16, Heb_3:12-13 (deceitfulness of sin), 2Jo_1:8-10

2Ti_3:7-9 –

2Ti_3:7 LSV always learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of truth,

2Ti_3:7 πάντοτε μανθάνοντα καὶ μηδέποτε εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν δυνάμενα.

2Ti_3:8 and even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so these also stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;

2Ti_3:8 ὃν τρόπον δὲ ᾿Ιαννῆς καὶ ᾿Ιαμβρῆς ἀντέστησαν Μωϋσεῖ, οὕτως καὶ οὗτοι ἀνθίστανται τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, ἄνθρωποι κατεφθαρμένοι τὸν νοῦν, ἀδόκιμοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν.

2Ti_3:9 but they will not advance any further, for their folly will be evident to all, as theirs also became.

2Ti_3:9 ἀλλ᾿ οὐ προκόψουσιν ἐπὶ πλεῖον· ἡ γὰρ ἄνοια αὐτῶν ἔκδηλος ἔσται πᾶσιν, ὡς καὶ ἡ ἐκείνων ἐγένετο.

√ -- GNT-V

2Ti_3:7-9 GRVii+89

Tit_1:12-16 –

Tit_1:12 LSV A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans! Always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!”

Tit_1:12 εἶπέ τις ἐξ αὐτῶν ἴδιος αὐτῶν προφήτης· Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται, κακὰ θηρία, γαστέρες ἀργαί.

Tit_1:13 This testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Tit_1:13 ἡ μαρτυρία αὕτη ἐστὶν ἀληθής. δι᾿ ἣν αἰτίαν ἔλεγχε αὐτοὺς ἀποτόμως, ἵνα ὑγιαίνωσιν ἐν τῇ πίστει,

Tit_1:14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth.

Tit_1:14 μὴ προσέχοντες ᾿Ιουδαϊκοῖς μύθοις καὶ ἐντολαῖς ἀνθρώπων ἀποστρεφομένων τὴν ἀλήθειαν.

Tit_1:15 All things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and nothing [is] pure to the defiled and unsteadfast, but even the mind and the conscience of them [is] defiled.

Tit_1:15 πάντα μὲν καθαρὰ τοῖς καθαροῖς· τοῖς δὲ μεμιαμμένοις καὶ ἀπίστοις οὐδὲν καθαρόν, ἀλλὰ μεμίανται αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ νοῦς καὶ ἡ συνείδησις.

Tit_1:15 παντα TSBμεν καθαρα τοις καθαροις τοις δε Aμεμιαμμενοις TSBμεμιασμενοις και απιστοις ουδεν καθαρον αλλα μεμιανται αυτων και ο νους και η συνειδησις

Tit_1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny [Him] by their works, being abominable, and disobedient, and disapproved to every good work.

Tit_1:16 Θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι, τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται, βδελυκτοὶ ὄντες καὶ ἀπειθεῖς καὶ πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀδόκιμοι.

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Eph_4:15-27 –

Eph_4:15 LSV and [speaking] truth in love, we may increase to Him [in] all things, who is the head—the Christ;

Eph_4:15 ἀληθεύοντες δὲ ἐν ἀγάπῃ αὐξήσωμεν εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ πάντα, ὅς ἐστιν ἡ κεφαλή, ὁ Χριστός,

Eph_4:15 αληθευοντες δε εν αγαπη αυξησωμεν εις αυτον τα παντα ος εστιν η κεφαλη TSBο χριστος

Eph_4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.

Eph_4:16 ἐξ οὗ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα συναρμολογούμενον καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον διὰ πάσης ἁφῆς τῆς ἐπιχορηγίας κατ᾿ ἐνέργειαν ἐν μέτρῳ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου μέρους τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ σώματος ποιεῖται εἰς οἰκοδομὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἐν ἀγάπῃ.

Eph_4:17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the LORD; you are no longer to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Eph_4:17 Τοῦτο οὖν λέγω καὶ μαρτύρομαι ἐν Κυρίῳ, μηκέτι ὑμᾶς περιπατεῖν, καθὼς καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἔθνη περιπατεῖ ἐν ματαιότητι τοῦ νοὸς αὐτῶν,

Eph_4:17 τουτο ουν λεγω και μαρτυρομαι εν κυριω μηκετι υμας περιπατειν καθως και τα TSBλοιπα εθνη περιπατει εν ματαιοτητι του νοος αυτων

Eph_4:18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

Eph_4:18 ἐσκοτωμένοι τῇ διανοίᾳ, ὄντες ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τὴν οὖσαν ἐν αὐτοῖς διὰ τὴν πώρωσιν τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν,

Eph_4:18 Aεσκοτωμενοι TSBεσκοτισμενοι τη διανοια οντες απηλλοτριωμενοι της ζωης του θεου δια την αγνοιαν την ουσαν εν αυτοις δια την πωρωσιν της καρδιας αυτων

Eph_4:19 who, having ceased to feel, gave themselves up to the licentiousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

Eph_4:19 οἵτινες, ἀπηλγηκότες, ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.

Eph_4:20 and you did not so learn the Christ,

Eph_4:20 ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐχ οὕτως ἐμάθετε τὸν Χριστόν,

Eph_4:21 if [it] so be [that] you heard Him, and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus;

Eph_4:21 εἴγε αὐτὸν ἠκούσατε καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ἐδιδάχθητε, καθώς ἐστιν ἀλήθεια ἐν τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ,

Eph_4:21 Aει Aγε TSBειγε αυτον ηκουσατε και εν αυτω εδιδαχθητε καθως εστιν αληθεια εν τω ιησου

Eph_4:22 concerning the former behavior you are to put off the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

Eph_4:22 ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφὴν τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης,

Eph_4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Eph_4:23 ἀνανεοῦσθαι δὲ τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ νοὸς ὑμῶν

Eph_4:24 and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

Eph_4:24 καὶ ἐνδύσασθαι τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν κατὰ Θεὸν κτισθέντα ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ὁσιότητι τῆς ἀληθείας.

Eph_4:25 For this reason, putting away the lying, each speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another;

Eph_4:25 Διὸ ἀποθέμενοι τὸ ψεῦδος λαλεῖτε ἀλήθειαν ἕκαστος μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων μέλη.

Eph_4:26 be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

Eph_4:26 ὀργίζεσθε καὶ μὴ ἁμαρτάνετε· ὁ ἥλιος μὴ ἐπιδυέτω ἐπὶ τῷ παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν,

Eph_4:26 οργιζεσθε και μη αμαρτανετε ο ηλιος μη επιδυετω επι Aτω TSBτω παροργισμω υμων

Eph_4:27 neither give place to the Devil;

Eph_4:27 μηδὲ δίδοτε τόπον τῷ διαβόλῳ.

Eph_4:27 BAμηδε TSμητε διδοτε τοπον τω διαβολω

Eph_4:15-27 GRVii+ αληθευοντεςG226V-PAP-NPM ἀληθεύω to be true δεG1161CONJ δέ but ενG1722PREP ἔν in αγαπηG26N-DSF ἀγάπη love αυξησωμενG837V-AAS-1P αὐξάνω to grow ειςG1519PREP εἰς to αυτονG846P-ASM αὐτός he, she, it ταG3588T-APN ὁ the πανταG3956A-APN πᾶς all οςG3739R-NSM ὅς who, which εστινG2076V-PXI-3S εἰμί he is ηG3588T-NSF ὁ the κεφαληG2776N-NSF κεφαλή the head [οG3588T-NSM ὁ the] τσβ χριστοςG5547N-NSM Χριστός anointed 161718192021222324252627

Heb_3:12-15 –

Heb_3:12 LSV Watch out, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

Heb_3:12 Βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μή ποτε ἔσται ἔν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ζῶντος,

Heb_3:13 but exhort one another every day, while [it] is called “Today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,

Heb_3:13 ἀλλὰ παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς καθ᾿ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἄχρις οὗ τὸ σήμερον καλεῖται, ἵνα μὴ σκληρυνθῇ τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ἀπάτῃ τῆς ἁμαρτίας·

Heb_3:13 αλλα παρακαλειτε εαυτους καθ εκαστην ημεραν αχρις ου το σημερον καλειται ινα μη σκληρυνθη TSAτις εξ υμων Bτις απατη της αμαρτιας

Heb_3:14 for we have become partakers of the Christ, if we may hold fast the confidence [we had] at the beginning to the end,

Heb_3:14 μέτοχοι γὰρ γεγόναμεν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐάνπερ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς ὑποστάσεως μέχρι τέλους βεβαίαν κατάσχωμεν,

Heb_3:14 μετοχοι γαρ TSBγεγοναμεν του χριστου Aγεγοναμεν εανπερ την αρχην της υποστασεως μεχρι τελους βεβαιαν κατασχωμεν

Heb_3:15 as it is said, “Today, if you may hear His voice, you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation.”

Heb_3:15 ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαι· σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ.

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Childlike Humility = Heaven

>>> See: Greatness / Value of youth

Other date(s); 10/30/22

Innocent knowledge is required for heaven.

puffing knowledge sabotages childlike humility and disqualifies you from realizing you need help from those who know more than you

Preview

Joh_1:11-13; Joh_3:3-6; Mat_11:25-26; Mat_18:3; Mat_19:14; Mar_10:15; Luk_18:16-17; 1Co_14:20; 1Pe_2:1-3

Psa_131:3 –

Psa_131:1 WEB Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Psa_131:1 CAB ·A Song of Degrees [Ὠιδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν τῷ Δαυιδ]. O Lord, my heart is not exalted [ὑψώθη], neither [οὐδὲ] have my eyes been haughtily raised [ἐμετεωρίσθησαν]: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me.

Psa_131:1 (130:1) Ὠιδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν· τῷ Δαυιδ. Κύριε, οὐχ ὑψώθη μου ἡ καρδία, οὐδὲ ἐμετεωρίσθησαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, οὐδὲ ἐπορεύθην ἐν μεγάλοις οὐδὲ ἐν θαυμασίοις ὑπὲρ ἐμέ.

Psa_131:2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psa_131:2 I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exalted my soul; according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so will You recompense my soul.

Psa_131:2 (130:2) εἰ μὴ ἐταπεινοφρόνουν, ἀλλὰ ὕψωσα τὴν ψυχήν μου ὡς τὸ ἀπογεγαλακτισμένον ἐπὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἀνταπόδοσις ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου.

Psa_131:3 Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore.

Psa_131:3 Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forth and forever.

Psa_131:3 (130:3) ἐλπισάτω Ισραηλ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.

Notice the virtuous, flesh-denying moral activity which the Psalmist has done to become as a child, save his soul, trust in God, and ‘not leaning on his own understanding’ (Pro_3:5).

Born Again

Joh_1:11-13 LSV He came to [His] own, and [His] own did not receive Him; 12 but as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become sons of God—to those believing in His Name, 13 who were begotten, not of blood, nor of will of flesh, nor of will of man, but of God.

Joh_1:11-13 Greek εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἦλθε, καὶ οἱ ἴδιοι αὐτὸν οὐ παρέλαβον. 12 ὅσοι δὲ ἔλαβον αὐτόν, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα Θεοῦ γενέσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, 13 οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων, οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς, οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος ἀνδρὸς, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐγεννήθησαν.

√ -- GNT-V

Joh_3:3-6 – Born Again

Mat_11:25-26 – Revealed to Babies

Mat_11:25-26 LSV At that time Jesus answering said, “I confess to You, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that you hid these things from wise and understanding ones, and revealed them to babies. 26 Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before You.

Mat_11:25 ᾿Εν ἐκείνῳ τῷ καιρῷ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν· ἐξομολογοῦμαί σοι, πάτερ, κύριε τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἀπέκρυψας ταῦτα ἀπὸ σοφῶν καὶ συνετῶν, καὶ ἀπεκάλυψας αὐτὰ νηπίοις·

Mat_11:25 εν εκεινω τω καιρω αποκριθεις ο ιησους ειπεν εξομολογουμαι σοι πατερ κυριε του ουρανου και της γης οτι Aεκρυψας TSBαπεκρυψας ταυτα απο σοφων και συνετων και απεκαλυψας αυτα νηπιοις

Mat_11:26 ναί, ὁ πατήρ, ὅτι οὕτως ἐγένετο εὐδοκία ἔμπροσθέν σου.

Mat_11:26 ναι ο πατηρ οτι ουτως TSBεγενετο ευδοκια Aεγενετο εμπροσθεν σου

Mat_18:3 – No Conversion, No Heaven

Unless You Are Converted You Won't Enter

Mat_18:3 LSV and said, “Truly I say to you, if you may not be turned and become as the children, you may not enter into the kingdom of the heavens;

Mat_18:3 καὶ εἶπεν· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν μὴ στραφῆτε καὶ γένησθε ὡς τὰ παιδία, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν.

√ -- GNT-V

Mat_18:3 GRVii+

Mat_19:14 – Child Permit

Mat_19:14 LSV But Jesus said, “Permit the children, and do not forbid them to come to Me, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens”;

Mat_19:14 ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν· ἄφετε τὰ παιδία καὶ μὴ κωλύετε αὐτὰ ἐλθεῖν πρός με· τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

√ -- GNT-V

Mat_19:14 GRVii+

Luk_18:16-17 LSV and Jesus having called them near, said, “Permit the little children to come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the Kingdom of God; 17 truly I say to you, whoever may not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, may not enter into it.”

Luk_18:16 ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς προσεκαλεσάμενος αὐτὰ εἶπεν· ἄφετε τὰ παιδία ἔρχεσθαι πρός με καὶ μὴ κωλύετε αὐτά· τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Luk_18:16 ο δε ιησους Aπροσεκαλεσατο TSBπροσκαλεσαμενος αυτα Aλεγων TSBειπεν αφετε τα παιδια ερχεσθαι προς με και μη κωλυετε αυτα των γαρ τοιουτων εστιν η βασιλεια του θεου

Luk_18:17 ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὃς ἐὰν μὴ δέξηται τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ὡς παιδίον, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθῃ εἰς αὐτήν.

Luk_18:17 αμην λεγω υμιν ος Aαν TSBεαν μη δεξηται την βασιλειαν του θεου ως παιδιον ου μη εισελθη εις αυτην

Luk_18:16-17 GRVii+

Childlike Kingdom Reception -- Required for Heaven

Mar_10:15 LSV truly I say to you, whoever may not receive the Kingdom of God, as a child—he may not enter into it”;

Mar_10:15 ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὃς ἐὰν μὴ δέξηται τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ὡς παιδίον, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθῃ πρὸς αὐτήν.

Mar_10:15 αμην λεγω υμιν ος Aαν TSBεαν μη δεξηται την βασιλειαν του θεου ως παιδιον ου μη εισελθη εις αυτην

Childlike to Nasties, Grown to Deeper Mind

1Co_14:20 LSV Brothers, do not become children in the understanding, but in the evil be children, and in the understanding become perfect [KJV: men];

1Co_14:20 ᾿Αδελφοί, μὴ παιδία γίνεσθε ταῖς φρεσίν, ἀλλὰ τῇ κακίᾳ νηπιάζετε, ταῖς δὲ φρεσὶ τέλειοι γίνεσθε.

1Co_14:20 GRVii+

√ -- GNT-V

TSK: men: Gr. perfect, or, of a ripe age, 1Co_2:6, Phi_3:15

Childlike Milk Lust -- For Logos!

1Pe_2:1-3 LSV Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, 2 as newborn babies, desire the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that you may grow up to salvation, 3 if [it] so be [that] you tasted that the LORD [is] good,

1Pe_2:1 ᾿Αποθέμενοι οὖν πᾶσαν κακίαν καὶ πάντα δόλον καὶ ὑποκρίσεις καὶ φθόνους καὶ πάσας καταλαλιάς,

1Pe_2:1 αποθεμενοι ουν πασαν κακιαν και παντα δολον και υποκρισεις και φθονους και πασας καταλαλιας

1Pe_2:2 ὡς ἀρτιγέννητα βρέφη τὸ λογικὸν ἄδολον γάλα ἐπιποθήσατε, ἵνα ἐν αὐτῷ αὐξηθῆτε εἰς σωτηρίαν,

1Pe_2:2 ως αρτιγεννητα βρεφη το λογικον αδολον γαλα επιποθησατε ινα εν αυτω αυξηθητε Aεις Aσωτηριαν

1Pe_2:3 εἴπερ ἐγεύσασθε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ Κύριος.

1Pe_2:3 Aει TSBειπερ εγευσασθε οτι χρηστος ο κυριος

1Pe_2:1-3 GRVii+

Salvation from Rotten Knowledge – Summary

Answers

10/29/22…11/4/22

See/Remember: above

· Son_6:9 – see the righteous as perfect

· Mat_18:3 – become as children and forget your apostate knowledge

· “Repent” – change your knowledge

Knowledge that Cannot be Transferred is not Real Knowledge

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Confident Criticism that Condemns Your Hypocrisy

“knowledge” that can’t teach others is not really owned in the first place.

The confidence that comes through borrowed knowledge is always Hypocrisy

other dates; 10/29/22;

When we talk about borrowed knowledge, remember that 'knowledge is power.' borrowed knowledge is all of the strength that starts and stops with you, which you are unable to truly transfer to another person. Borrowed knowledge which is hypocritically used in this life will testify against you as a witness of truth against your soul at judgement,

that you were evil.

Much like a hand or a foot that causes you to stumble and fall into sin, borrowed knowledge would be better cut out of your entire awareness then for it to be used in a criminal manner.

If you must take extreme steps to cut a hand or foot from your body, you must do whatever it takes to rebuke and chasten and humble your soul lest you be destroyed by the foolishness of your own elation.

In a good case: knowing something and not being able to do anything about it could be an opportunity to build up godly passions.

But in a bad case: knowing something and not being able to communicate it, does not mean a lack of opportunity to do better, but a lack of real knowledge in the first place. In the second case, you have to harshly rebuke your soul of perversion and teach yourself that you are just as liable, and even more liable, as those you cannot help. If it is a lack of opportunity, then you have virtue to be praised when it is built up in faith. When there is a lack of ability to reproduce it in others, then you are just is liable as those you cannot help. It is only a circumstantial Providence that you yourself are not doing the exact same things, yes, and you would even do much worse. Don't deceive yourself! If you cannot help someone and give them an answer, yet you are tempted to criticize them, you would do much worse than them if you were in their place.

A person who stumbles at seeking to start a business and never really succeeds is much more praiseworthy than one who is foolish and fraudulent in their knowledge and makes much success in starting the business when they take over. An honest person who does not succeed in this life is better than a foolish deceived person who seems to win, but never actually knows who they really are.

Do you have alarms going off within your soul that things could be done better? So does the devil! Don't be a devil and step forward with criticism until you have been converted into an angel who actually brings messages of peace from God and help from heaven to do good.

Do you have alarms going off within your soul? Then pray for actual understanding, and real knowledge, and real mercy, and real truth to reproduce that in other people too.

anyone who cannot reproduce is not qualified to lead and cannot do a better job without sinning worse than the one that they criticize.

You can always recognize when your knowledge is borrowed, because when you don't really have it, you cannot explain it, teach it, or reproduce it in others.

When you are confident and critical through borrowed knowledge, with which you are not able to help others, your confidence is evil and hypocritical, and you have no better answer than anyone else who seems to be weaker or suffering more than you. -- if you criticize others through your borrowed knowledge with which will be taken away at judgment, you are far worse than they are. You are more of an actual willful sinner, and they might be only experiencing accidental challenges.

Don’t Let Your Ignorance and Unhappy Incompetence Be Another Person’s Guilt and or Disapproval

When you don't have an answer for others, and are not trying to claim anything for yourself, then all the more you have got to not let any room at all be indicated of guilt and or unfulfilled obligations and or disappointments and or unhappiness with people who you are no better off than them!

Don’t end up expressing un-called-for/inappropriate phantom guilt/disapproval.

If you don’t really understand how to do things better than others, then back off of your own personal feelings of discomfort over others!

Knowledge, Riches, & Foolishness

11/9/16; 10/29/22

Knowledge can Make You Rich & Riches Can Make You Foolish

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Eze_28:4 WEB by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

Eze_28:4 CAB Have you gained power for yourself by your own knowledge or your own prudence, and gathered gold and silver in your treasures?

Eze_28:4 μὴ ἐν τῇ ἐπιστήμῃ σου ἢ ἐν τῇ φρονήσει σου ἐποίησας σεαυτῷ δύναμιν καὶ χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον ἐν τοῖς θησαυροῖς σου;

Eze_28:5 by your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--

Eze_28:5 By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power.

Eze_28:5 ἐν τῇ πολλῇ ἐπιστήμῃ σου καὶ ἐμπορίᾳ σου ἐπλήθυνας δύναμίν σου, ὑψώθη ἡ καρδία σου ἐν τῇ δυνάμει σου.

Wisdom vs. Knowledge

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Smart Fool!

6/23/04; 3/4/17 (recompiled)

Hebrew: Nebal does not denote a lack of intelligence at all, but more so of moral depravity

Rom 1 same idea. “they invent ways of doing evil” – Inventions involve intellect, but it says, “professing themselves to be wise they became fools”

Ignorance Compels Us

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Church people say:

“My mind’s made up, don’t confuse me with facts.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

― Isaac Asimov

?? “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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- how will they believe? (Rom 10)

- many/ few stripes

- ignorant sins

1. 1Corinthians 1:17-30

Think of some scriptures:

2. 1Corinthians 2:6-8

Didn’t want to impress...

-Why fear and trembling? >(Brokenness)

3. 1Corinthians 3:18-21

C. No boast of men? ‘who is so in so?

PS 49:13 This

C. 1CO 3:4

5. Love Rebuke

Pop: llo

6. Humility

PR 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace,

but with humility comes wisdom.

ZEP 2:3 ... seek humility

Phil 2:3

JAS 3:13 Who

1PE 5:5

"God opposes the proud

but gives grace to the humble."

Absolute Truth

Absolute Truth

Absolute Morality and Truth Vs. Human-Generated Morality and Opinions

Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org

Compiled: 9/26/04 - 1/9/05; Revised: 2/12, 3/2, 10/11/05; 8/11/09; 9/7/09; 3/5/10; 4/9-4/17/10; 9/7/10; 5/6/12; 2/2/19 (recompiled into TrOb);

Companion Bible Studies

· Letteral Obedience

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Explanation

This letter was written and compiled specifically to confront liberal philosophies that endangered an otherwise considerably dedicated church internship in Gainesville Florida that I was a part of in 2004. After being somewhat publicly opposed by a false brother¹ carrying spiritual cancer to pollute this group of believers, I wrote this to defend Jesus’ Truth.

[1. Compare: Gal_2:4-5, and the rest of the book of Galatians as well]

1. The Exhortation and Charge to Repent of Opinions and Believe Truth

Introduction

To all those who name the name of Christ and dare to Love the Truth and so be saved from this wicked and perverse generation that we live in. Most of its perversion and cancer being found in those groups of people once called the Church, which are now scarcely more than religious social organizations (its only hope being those dispersed grains of salt that have retained, and still retain, their saltiness). To those who would aspire to make the world (including most of what we call the church) unworthy of them. To those who will be vexed and anguished by its perversion and to those who will be blessed by salvation from it, I write:

What I Got From Prayer

[I was somehow helped to write this in one sitting in the month of September 2004, and it now contains minimal insertions]

The spiritual realm is a tricky thing, because in the physical there are practically no absolutes, but in the spiritual, there is nothing but absolutes. Sadly, we observe our need for a balanced diet and balanced activity in the physical and wrongly desire to impress it upon our spiritual lives.

We who follow Jesus hold that there are moral absolutes. This we must insist upon all the more because of the pervading religion of humanism that our culture blindly embraces. We seem to understand this far, but we fail to apply the reality of such implications.

If there are moral absolutes, then there are also those things that are absolutely not moral. And if we say that there are some things that we do that are not absolute then we are saying that morality, which is supposed to be absolute, is not absolutely applicable. In this we say two things out of the same mouth.

Morality is absolutely applicable because there is no morality apart from God, and God is absolutely over all.

God is absolutely good; therefore whatever specific things there are that He does not approve of are shown to be absolutely bad, for there is no goodness apart from God.

[Not that all sin is equal in its severity. Not all sin is absolute in its severity nor in its punishment, but that all sin is absolutely sinful is established in Scripture. If I have a chair and a table that are entirely made of wood, the chair is as much made of wood as the table, but they are not equal in weight: Deu_21:22 (esp. MT); Deu_22:25, Deu_22:28-29; Deu_25:2; Eze_16:52; Mat_7:3-5; Mat_10:14-15; Mat_11:21-24; Mat_12:31-32, Mat_12:41; Mat_23:23-24; Mar_6:11; Luk_7:41; Luk_10:10-16; Luk_11:32; Luk_12:10, Luk_12:47-48; Joh_19:11; Heb_10:26; Jas_3:1; 2Pe_2:20-22; 1Jo_5:16-18. Also compare 1Co_7:38].

God is absolute and has an opinion on everything, even in the areas that we think are gray. What He says causes one to stand and another to fall. "God is no respecter of persons" [Act_10:34]

[Though He is a respecter of righteousness that is manifested in humility]

God is not indecisive about what He likes and what He dislikes, but is in every way fully persuaded about everything. If then we will derive our morals from Him, then we will obtain no amount of "gray morals." It is only at the limit of our sight that we are unable to distinguish clear lines, and it is only by means of poor vision that we mix black and white in our vision to behold gray. God never desires this, nor is He ever at fault for this. But our perception of gray-ness is always due to our human imperfections and our inclined estrangement from the perfect vision of God’s eyes that He sees and defines morality with. This is why no amount of bad can produce good, but that only good working at the expense of bad produces good for God’s elect.

When we seek a spiritual "balance," we fail to realize that nothing that is bad for us can by any means be beneficial for us in smaller amounts.

We will say, "God is all I need." If He is, then we need nothing else to balance against His weight. And if we seek to balance something with Him, then it is sin that we seek.

The Bible says, “...man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that goes out of the mouth of God.” [Mat_4:4 Jos.Trans.; from Deu_8:3, and also found in Luk_4:4]

If this then is how we live, shall we then attempt to only take in limited quantities of God’s life? Or shall we also attempt to make it partially into Heaven? Will we hope to find "a balance" of having part of our soul in the lake of fire and the other half in Heaven? If then we would not be so ridiculous in these, then let us no longer be so in our cravings for a balanced spiritual walk.

You know as well as I that we need as much of God as possible. Let us take Him head-on and not seek a balance with the devil, for we know that this is not possible. But we theorize it to be so when we propose that there are gray areas that are not black and white. We affirm it to be so when we label people as "going to the extreme" on an issue, and not being "balanced."

Haven’t we learned from the Scriptures that, light has no fellowship with darkness? As it says, "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what fellowship does light have with darkness" [2Co_6:14 LITV and also see 1Jo_1:5-7]?

How foolish of us to say otherwise by thinking that light has somehow mixed with darkness to make gray light! Indeed, how foolish! We must realize that the spiritual kingdoms are not about variations of pigments that can artistically be mixed but about light and darkness, which cannot be mixed. For they truly ‘have no communion or fellowship with one another’.

Oh foolish and blind man! When will you ever see that God never goes halfway on any call that He makes? And if indeed you will admit this, then why do you try the patience of God by saying that His council cannot be known? If then God makes calls on all things (especially concerning morality) according to His absolute morals, then we must also believe that He is gracious to reveal these things to us as we ask Him. So if all things will be judged in the council of His light, then we should fear and tremble to know His councils that we may be found in his morality, as it says, "…that you may approve the things that are excellent…" [Phi_1:10 EMTV; Also see Eph_5:10], which includes a disdaining of those things that are not excellent. And as it says again, "Hate what is evil and cling to what is good." [Rom_12:9; Also see Amo_5:13-15]

Let us no longer endure men’s opinions, for it is impossible to hate and yet respect that opinion which is deviant from that perfect nature of God. For if we do not hate it, then we derive our morals from an imperfect god. As it says, "The power of death and life are in the tongue."

[Pro_18:21 MT; (LXX is almost exactly the same)]

The effect of the tongue is not as morally neutral as we thought. Ultimately, either we will speak of God or of Satan. Our opinions are never morally neutral. Either they speak life or death to the souls of the hearers. And if we give respect to that which is of the prince of demons, then we allow his morals to have a place in our lives. In such, we certainly do not "hate that which is evil" by giving credence to it.

We see that the law was given "…that every mouth may be stopped…" [Rom_3:19]. If this then is the power of an old covenant, how much more will the Truth of a new and better covenant subvert every lie? Who has an opinion, and who has something to say? God will stop up his mouth with judgment who gives opinions that are not from Him. This is also confirmed in this scripture, "… that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty¹ before God." [Rom_3:19 CAB]

[1. “guilty” – Greek: “ὑπόδικος” (hupodikos): “under” (hupo) + “justice” or “righteousness” (dikos), or “under sentence, that is, (by implication) condemned” (Strong’s)]

And the fact that the new covenant, which brought Grace and Truth [Joh_1:17], also stops mouths is also confirmed by Scripture:

Tit_1:7, Tit_1:9-11 WEB For the overseer must be… 9 able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. 10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

And as it says again, "… every idle word men may speak, they will give account [λόγον (logon): that is, a verbal answer] of it in the day of judgment."

[Mat_12:36 EMTV; These two verses were written because of the Truth of Pro_18:21 (quoted above)]

We ought not to promote but oppose those whose mouth brings about the judgment of God. And please don’t be so ridiculous as to think that I mean that we should make a habit of being wroth with those in the world. There is a time for this, but it is in the vast minority. Indeed, judgment begins in the house of God! As it says, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God…" [1Pe_4:17 KJV]

We should be more harsh with those inside the church than those outside, when it comes to subverting idle words, such as men’s opinions that bring about God’s judgment. We church people must ‘first remove the beam from our own eye’ that is spreading cancer in the church before we can properly instruct the world against such opinions. Ultimately, we may do this in the church or in the world, but either way, whether it be "showing compassion on some" (being gentle) or "snatching them out of the fire with fear," (being harsh) we are to ‘make that distinction.’ Hopefully, you may remember this verse, "…having mercy on some, making a distinction [between persons], but others be saving with fear, snatching [them] out of a fire, hating even the tunic [or, garment] having been polluted [or, defiled] by the flesh" [Jud_1:22-23 ALT].

We must not deal with all cases of opposing false opinions the same, though they are all ungodly beliefs. If you believe the Bible, then you will also believe that the person in whom the opinion is housed determines (by their actions) whether to oppose with gentleness or with harshness. We must "make a distinction" and that we must do in general between Truth and lies, not giving respect to opinions, as well as situationally whether to treat the opinioned person harshly or gently, (the default being gentleness). Whether with harshness or gentleness toward people, let us not give respect to opinions, but rather let us, "...hate and abhor unrighteousness..." [Psa_119:163 CAB; Also see Psa_119:29, Psa_119:128; Psa_119:113, Psa_101:7; Amo_5:15]

[Let us also cry, "Remove vanity and falsehood far from me..." Pro_30:8 CAB; Also see: Eph_4:25; Rev_22:15]

And if we truly do this, then that which is left over from our hatred is the good that we are to "cling to."

[Rom_12:9 CAB Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.]

So let us keep a right and accurate view of God, not allowing space in our minds for the so-called "gray areas," which are a devilish pretense to appeal to our carnal nature and understanding instead of trusting in the immutable, immortal, absolutely wise and moral God.

"A little leaven leavens the whole lump" [1Co_5:6-8/ Gal_5:9. Also see Mat_16:6-12; Mar_8:14-21; Luk_12:1; 2Ti_2:16-17].

And so does a little falsehood, even if it be disguised as though it were "only an opinion." Do not be deceived; it has the intent and purpose of corruption. Foolish philosophers will try to blur these distinctions, which I exhort that we withdraw ourselves from, (from them and their philosophies).

Those who seek a god of relative truth will be condemned. But may those who embrace the fullness of His perfect Truth be blessed.

2. Miscellaneous

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This short section mostly highlights and clarifies some of the things already discussed. The parts together do not completely carry a consistent theme, as the title indicates, except that they all concern Absolute Truth. Notwithstanding, I think that they expound God’s Truth in this condition on this subject.

A "Meditation Verse" Assignment

Remember this verse?

Jud_1:22-23 ALT …having mercy on some, making a distinction [between persons], but others be saving with fear, snatching [them] out of a fire, hating even the tunic [or, garment] having been polluted [or, defiled] by the flesh.

At a time when I was grading Bible projects, Sarah Lastinger [now “Sarah Evans”] wrote about Jude 1:22-23 in a "Meditation Verse" assignment:

It is hard… I usually stress one side or the other way too much, and that is not good. But with God’s guidance sometimes I am able to feel strongly about and walk in both.

The second part of the verse is neat too. "Hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh." I take that as saying that though you love the people who don’t know God and are very deceived by Satan. You should Hate (extreme dislike) Satan’s lies, and how he has stained peoples lives. Hate sin, hate falsehood, hate evil, hate injustice, hate oppression, etc… It is ok to be extreme when it comes to hating sin. (Sarah Lastinger 9-6-03, used with permission)

I wrote back:

-Good thoughts.

-I agree. I would say that you can never be too extreme on any good thing. The answer to feelings of condemnation is not to stop seeing GOD as your judge, (that would be a perversion of who GOD is). You will never find the balance on any issue of Godliness because there has never been any such thing! Anything that throws you in to an unhealthy extreme can by no means help you in smaller quantities! That would be as foolish as saying that ‘you need to sin a little every day, or you will not be balanced.’

But any unhealthy extreme is made up of a counterfeit substance unrelated to the original. Let me use an analogy:

If I put chocolate syrup in my car because I thought that it was oil, and mess up my engine to a degree, then I should not say, "I need to stop trying to add so much oil!" The answer is to stop putting syrup in my car and get some real oil. But if I become disillusioned with attempting to add oil and only focus on putting water in my car, I haven’t solved a thing. I still have a counterfeit lubricant being pumped throughout my car, and it’s in desperate need of the real thing. In the same way, people often hear bad Hell-fire-and-Brimstone sermons, and become disillusioned with GOD’s judgment, and try to "balance" it by only focusing on God’s grace. This solves nothing but worsens the problem.

In the case of my car, I never addressed my need for oil because I never had the right substance, and now my motor is doomed to burn up because I was trying to "be balanced." Oil and water are both needed, and one doesn’t seesaw down in quantity when I add the other.

Extreme views of GOD’s judgment are BIBLICAL and indispensable. Foolish is the one who tries to balance them with "grace"! Any substance that diminishes such views is demonic, because it is against the BIBLE. BIBLICAL Grace only reinforces our view of GOD as a judge. Extreme views of GOD’s Grace are BIBLICAL and indispensable, because whoever does not have them is a slave under the law, in whatever area he does not have them. Anyone who tries to balance their view of grace with an understanding of God’s judgment is still in need of Grace, because only by Grace do we stop sinning. Anyone speaking GOD’s Judgment without any Grace is speaking the words of the devil, because all of the judgments of GOD necessitate GOD’s Grace to those who are not condemned.

Harsh speakers are not prophets as we wrongly deem them. -People who here the declarations of GOD are prophets. Sometimes they are to rebuke, and sometimes to encourage. But no one ever needed any special help from GOD to get up and vent on people.

So the conclusion is this: be as absorbed in knowing GOD’s judgment as possible; in other words be strong in GOD’s Grace, (if you know what I mean).

(Response to "Sarah Lastinger 9-6-03," -Slightly Clarified-)

Bad Examples

Historically, the church has reactionally swung from one unhealthy extreme to the other, every swing leading to another perversion for people to swing away from in future generations. But we were never called to be a pendulum but a pillar in God’s house. Paul says, "I write these things… that you may know how you ought to behave in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth," (1Ti_3:14-15 MKJV). And Jesus says, "Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God…" (Rev_3:12 MKJV).

Unfortunately, to counter this swinging, the church has started incorporating the pagan concept of "balance," and this too is a perversion. Reacting against reactionalizm is not less reactional.

It is not right to be like the one who will run from one end of "the scales" to the other frantically trying to keep things "balanced" when he hears extreme statements. He will make this part of his religious mission, always uttering one statement to balance another that he hears, but his statements are as perverse as the ones that he tries to correct. May you not be like either of these examples.

If we will know the Truth, then we will be free, and we will need neither of these counterfeits.

"Stand Up For What You Believe"

Some people say that they respect a person for standing up for what they believe. I am glad I do not. I respect a person for standing up for what is right. This is a thing worth being zealous for! There is nothing respectable before God, about standing up for what is wrong no matter how much you believe it, because Paul says, "For you heard my manner of life when I was in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God with surpassing zeal, and ravaged it," (Gal_1:13 MKJV).

God speaks against wrong zeal in this way:

Rom_10:2 KJV For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

[And]

Gal_4:17-18 MKJV They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them. But it is good to be zealous always in a good thing, and not only in my being present with you.

A Truth is only notably significant if its reverse is also True. So we will just as confidently say: "It is not good to be zealous in a bad thing" as its context affirms.

This is the conclusion: Your zeal and boldness about your beliefs does not justify anything, but the Truthfulness of them justifies both you and your beliefs.

Edited Excerpts

From other papers I wrote

Truth needs no balance because it in no way ever does any harm for the humble. Only the perversion of Truth does people harm whether that is by means of a speaker or the listener who is under the Law and cannot accept the things of God. Truth is perfectly good and needs no help to be more Truthful. Even when it is not understood, it still stands just as good and in no need of change. Jesus shows this over and over by example. He told us to Take up our cross, chop off our hands, eat His flesh and drink His blood, and hate our parents, but in none of these cases did He feel any anxious need to explain what these Truths meant though many misunderstood Him.

As soon as we put one True thing as an opposing balance against another True thing, we have then left Truth and gone on to balance perversions of Truth. The only way to describe the things of God as though they were opposing each other is to use perverted concepts of them.

This life is full of balances in areas such as our diet, time, etc. But the things that are incorruptible can by no means be over-emphasized.

Spiritual "balance" is a pagan concept where fleshly, unregenerate, demonized people try to apply corruptible concepts to spiritual things. Yoga, and other religions like it, teach us that we need to be balanced (and these religions are lies). I hope you are paying attention. Where have we gotten our concept of "balance"? It is not found in the Bible.

Some churched people will tell non-christians their "personal christian opinion" when witnessing. If God is your opinion, then He is not your God, He’s your opinion. The sun is not an opinion, but a fact. It is not my opinion that there is a sky, but a fact. More so, God is not an opinion, but the fact of all facts. Whoever wants to preach his opinion about God to others is practicing heresy, because they are preaching qualities of a god other than the factual living God and His factual qualities.

How Harshly To Treat People about their Opinions

Many times throughout this paper I say that, in general, we need to be gentle to outright sinners and strict toward hypocrites. It seems like I could say this 100 times more and inevitably someone will come up and oppose me citing how Jesus treated certain people who were in sin. They will not cite how He rebuked hypocrites but they will instead mention certain Scriptures such as the following:

Zacchaeus Luk_19:1-10

The Woman at the Well Joh_4:7-29

The Woman Caught in Adultery Joh_8:1-11

Joh_8:3 WEB The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. [and then later…]

Joh_8:10-11 WEB Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

[Many people emphatically remember that He said "Neither do I condemn you" but forget that He said, "sin no more"]

The people who bring up these Scriptures to oppose me are woefully blinded to the things that are obvious to those who would set themselves to have understanding. If you will care to have understanding then please note the following:

In every one of these cases (without exception) the sinner knew they were not that good of a person, (in other words, they were "poor in spirit").
Though some were inquisitive, and did not understand everything, they did not oppose the Truths that Jesus said.
Jesus never treated proud (religious) people this same way!

So we see that to use these verses to contradict harshness is biblically dishonest. These people use Scripture out of context, to teach the opposite of what Scripture teaches. As it says,

2Pe_3:15-16 MKJV Paul also has written to you… 16 …in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

And satan will do this to all whom he perverts because it is his perverse nature to quote Scriptures to encourage sin (as he did to Jesus in the desert -Mat_4:1-11-).

How offensive it is that it is not only the world, but mostly the church, that is perverted in this way. And how much more sorrowful to the point of tears that this at times includes legitimately saved people.

I do not say we should regularly be harsh even with many who set themselves in opposition to God’s Truth when it is spoken. But I say on the contrary, we should be slow to be harsh. At the same time there are many hypocrites and when it comes time to speak anything significant to them, it often calls for some severity.

Tolerance vs. Patience

I think that it is beneficial to make a distinction between two words: Tolerance and Patience.

It is a very post-modern religious belief that says we should herald "tolerance" toward all people, especially meaning toward their "diversity" of beliefs. The problem is that God (being the essence of morality) is the most intolerant being in the whole universe, (Ex. Lev_10:1-3, Neh_13:25, Mat_5:48, Jas_4:4, Rev_21:8 – just to name a few-). But we also learn through the Scriptures that God is patient, (Rom_15:5, 2Th_3:5, Rev_1:9). "The Lord is …patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance," (2Pe_3:9 WEB). Is this a contradiction? No! But we see that the purpose of his patience is not for people to remain the same but for them to repent (or "change") from evil.

"Tolerance" could simply be defined as, "Putting up with something undesirable," whereas "Patience" is "the prolonged endurance threw undesirable things, based upon the hope for change." As God says, "…Jesus…for the joy that was set before him endured the cross…" (Heb_12:2 KJV). That is, He endured the cross because of the hope of the reward.

Jesus praised the Church at Ephesus by saying, "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, [or "patience"] and that you can't tolerate evil men…" (Rev_2:2 WEB).

Now if Jesus praised them for being intolerant why do we dare go about thinking, under the persuasion of the world, that we should aspire to be tolerant? But on the contrary, He rebuked the Church at Thyatira saying, "But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess…" (Rev_2:20 WEB).

If any philosophy asserts a code of conduct as though we "should" do something, the implication is that it is because of moral obligation that we are called to this conduct. We have already established that morality is non-existent apart from God. Therefore, if we say that we "should" be tolerant, we are liars by asserting a moral call that is against God. Morality itself, after all, is the conforming of one’s self to God’s nature.

So then, "Be patient with everyone, (1Th_5:14)," so that they may be saved. But if you tolerate any thing evil, it is an insult and hatred against God.

3. A Biblical Teaching About Opinions

A Step By Step Teaching That Sets Out To Compile and Exposit What The Bible Says On Opinions.

The Following Sections

Please note that the following sections have a specific purpose. They are not meant at all to stomp on those who are seeking the Truth. Some may be hurting and truly wanting the "real deal." This is not any attack on you at all. But it is an attack on the lies of this age, to violently pull down the foolishness by which they stand. I hope these sections bless those who are humble.

The Bible on Opinions

A fool will value his own foolishness demanding his "right to have an opinion."

But the Bible says, "…don't lean on your own understanding, (Pro_3:5 WEB)."

So to avoid such foolishness we must not put any weight in our opinion, or our understanding from which it springs.

"Don't be wise in your own conceits," (Rom_12:16 WEB; Also Pro_3:7).

If you have conceived something in your understanding (such as an opinion), don’t let it be to you as wisdom. If God conceives something and lets you in on it, then count it as wisdom. But we must disdain human opinions because they are not wisdom but only unwise conceptions (as mentioned in the above scripture).

Those who continue in their own wisdom are disobedient to the Bible and are rightly rebuked when they are corrected. Please keep in mind that harshness is for those who think that they are O.K. There is no harshness or judgment against the humble, in as much as they are poor in spirit because, "theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven," (Mat_5:3). But at some point we have to come to terms with the condemnation of those who are not pour, because they publically prove their hatred against God with their many words:

Ecc_10:14 CAB A fool moreover multiplies words…

_29:11 CAB)

Job_32:2-18 WEB I also will show my opinion.'… 17 I also will answer my part, And I also will show my opinion. 18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

Job_32:19-20 KJV

Job_32:2-20 CAB

A fool also is full of words…" (Ecc_10:14 KJV)

Instead of submitting to God’s Words, people like this say, “…we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart,” (Jer_18:12 CAB; Also Jer_23:17).

In the Gospels, it says:

Jesus answered them, and said, "My doctrine is not my own, but His that sent me. If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks His glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." (Joh_7:16-18 KJV-Based)

Jesus said that His Words were True because they were not His own. If we say and promote our own words, then they have no validity and cannot be counted as Truth, and we are not walking as Jesus did.

Please have ears to hear what Jesus is saying! If you choose to promote your own opinion, then you are speaking of yourself and ‘you seek your own glory.’ This is sinful. This is dirty. This prideful rebellion is disgusting in God’s sight and is not permissible for Christians to practice.

If the last clause of this verse is True, then the reverse is also True. If "he that seeks His glory that sent him… is true, and no unrighteousness is in him," then "He that… seeks his own glory… the same is untrue and there is unrighteousness… in him."

People have frequently opposed me saying, "If you do not respect other people’s opinions, then why should they listen to your opinions and what you have to say?" Firstly, if indeed I’m talking to someone who is proud and it is the time to be harsh, I don’t want them to listen to what I’ve got to say. I’m practically as sinful as they in the moment that I give them my opinion. Let me first know the Truth, and then let me speak. If I have my own opinions, why should I sin against God and pollute others with such filth?

Secondly, there is a vast difference in disdaining people and disdaining the falsehood that is killing them. A Spiritual man, (one who is controlled by the Holy Spirit) can Love the person and treat them with respect, while hating the suicidal pistol in their hands.

If they have ears to hear, then let them hear the Living God and not a man when I speak. And if they don’t have the ears to hear, then let it Truly be because of "the offense of the cross" (Gal 5:11) that they "stumble" (1 Pet 2:5-8) and not because of my rash disrespect. Then I may pray with a clean heart like Jesus did,

I thank You O Father Lord of heaven and earth that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them unto babies: even so Father; for so it seemed good in your sight. (Luk_10:21 KJV-Based / Mat_11:25-26)

[And He said this rejoicing (Luk_10:21)]

For indeed, whatever Truth that I may speak had better be counted as offensive foolishness by those who are perishing (1Co_1:18) or else I am preaching a counterfeit message. And if I am propagating my counterfeit, I preach my own opinion and not the Truth of the cross.

Yes, may I never hold back God’s inherent offensiveness and so fulfill Gal_5:11 in my life, because "then is the offense of the cross ceased," (KJV-Based).

Opinions are part of our fleshly, human selves. They are self-generated thoughts, of which we both had and lived in before we came into any state of regeneration. Their correctness depends upon us, and thus they also come from US and not God. This is that category of which Paul spoke of when he said,

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ. But, no, rather I also count all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them to be trash^G4657[σκύβαλα (skúbala)], that I might gain Christ.

(Phi_3:7-8 LITV)

G4657

Literally: that which is thrown (“bala”) to the dogs (“kú…”).

If we consider our opinions to be valuable, then we have not counted all things loss to obtain Christ. We have instead counted them as something to be retained. But what does he say?

"I… count them to be trash^G4657[or "dung"], that I might gain Christ," and are we not clearly doing the opposite by valuing them?

For what it’s worth, Word Study describes this word as:

“…refuse, what is thrown away as worthless. Spoken of the refuse of grain, chaff, or of a table, of slaughtered animals, of dung, and figuratively of the filth of the mind. In the NT, meaning refuse, things that are worthless…” (Word Study)

When you think of human opinions, do you have a sense of disgust, as though they were something you wish to flush down the toilet? If you answer like most people you will say, "No." And if this is your answer, then you have not counted all things as loss. Instead of gaining Christ, we forfeit Him (especially in this area) by counting the flesh as though it had value.

Peter says by the Spirit of Jesus, “…If anyone speaks: as words of God…” (1Pe_4:11 Jos.Trans.), or more functionally, “…[let him speak] as [the] oracles [or, inspired utterances] of God, (1Pe_4:11 ALT).” But instead of obeying this verse we have defiled our neighbor by speaking our own words and beliefs. By exalting our own words to some level of importance, we have disqualified ourselves as those who speak the Words of God. We don’t think of it as a big thing to exalt our own words, but we fail to realize that by this very fact, that we use our own words, we forfeit the opportunity to use those from God.

God says, “There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell,” (Pro_14:12 CAB / Pro_16:25)." And do we think that opinions are morally neutral?? What if we are indeed wrong in our opinion? Do we then say, "We have a right to be wrong"? -No! Not if we call ourselves "Christians."

You have no right whatsoever to propagate the way of death. Wrong opinions are not without consequence. If then they can send someone to Hell, we have all the more reason to forsake our opinions. Some will be so foolish so as to oppose this reality. Don’t you remember that, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue…” (Pro_18:21 CAB)? And that it also says that the Antichrist will come,

2Th_2:10-12 KJV …with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

In short, these verses say "That they all ["that… believe a lie"] might be damned who believed not the truth"

How dare you lie against the Truth and say that opinions can’t send a person to Hell? Are opinions really neutral? But we can clearly see that they are not neutral at all. And that which condemns people must never be respected!

Col_2:4, Col_2:8 MKJV And I say this that not anyone should beguile you with enticing words… 8 Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

We see that "enticing" opinions can and will "rob us," if they are indeed "not according to Christ."

If a Nazi has the opinion that all Jews are scum, does his opinion deserve respect? Why do we take a double standard on other falsehood? It can and will at times destroy as much and more than that of the Nazi.

It is True, "Honor [or "value"] all [people]…" (1Pe_2:17 ALT). (Yes this verse does even apply to the Nazi who believes in annihilating all Jews, because it says, "all" people). But we should never respect that falsehood a person may have because it is as serious as people’s salvation, just as a Nazi’s opinion kills people. But one may say, "As long as an opinion does not hurt someone else, then we should treat it with respect." This blindly and foolishly ignores the last three Bible verses quoted above and countless others like them. Death and Life are in the tongue, whether we see it taking affect or not.

Many try to interpret and obey the above verse by "being nice to all people." If you are to believe the Bible, then you have to accept that it does not contradict itself. If it be so that the Bible is in perfect agreement with itself, then the above verse certainly does not exclude harshly rebuking Pharisees ^A, or other deserving people such as heretics ^B, or even lazy people ^C:

Mat_3:7-12; Mat_12:34; Mat_23:1-39; Luk_3:7-9
2Co_13:2; 1Ti_1:19-20; Tit_3:10-11
Tit_1:12-15
Also see 1Ti_5:20; 2Ti_4:2; and Rev_3:19

[We will not go on to list the volumes of references were the Prophets rebuked those called by God’s name for their spiritual (and physical) adultery, which category and situation most of the church certainly fits into today].

Truly the Spiritual man knows how to "value" all people, yet still be harsh as needed for the sake of Loving God and being zealous for Him. Because it says,

Psa_69:8-10 CAB I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children. 9 For the zeal of Your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached You have fallen upon me. 10 And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

Also Joh_2:17

Welcome to the healthy standard of a real Christian’s life. You are reading the words of one who has many times been a stranger with his own family, for the sake of believing the Truth.

But we have gone another way. Instead of becoming estranged from our families and closest friends for the sake of the (real) Gospel, we have become estranged from God, for the sake of our counterfeit love for people.

Because we as the church have not known Jesus as the Truth, having missed who He really is as well as the chance to Love who He really is and know Him, we have neglected the importance of the Truth from the abundance of our adulterous heart. We dare to think that not loving the Truth, is a separate issue from Loving Jesus. And because of these secret things hidden in our hearts, we are lead astray into spiritual adultery without even realizing it. We disrespect Jesus without knowing it. And we forget the verse that says, “...I will only honor them that honor Me, and he that despises Me shall be despised,” (1Sa_2:30 CAB; Also see Pro_4:8).

I see a life fully zealous for God without compromise that is ready to forsake anyone for the sake of Jesus, that has a heart fully gripped with care and passionate Love for people. I say that it is possible to pour out your life to Love and save people, and still be estranged from your family for the sake of Jesus. I say that the Bible is True, and it is possible to obey it. I say that it is only right to hate that which kills people, and yet to Love the people who use it to kill.

The Examples

What examples does the Bible give us when it comes to how to treat people’s opinions?

David

David did not respect the atheists’ opinion but calls him a fool by God’s Spirit:

Psa_14:1/ Psa_53:1 CAB …The fool has said in his heart, There is no God…

God & Jonah

God did not command Jonah to respect the opinions of the people of Nineveh, but to preach the Truth so as to turn those of that great city away from their sins. And does He not do the same (and more) for us?

Act_14:15-16 MKJV …God… 16 in past generations [or "in times past"] allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

Act_17:30 WEB …The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent.

So we see that God used to let people go their own way, in the opinion of their own heart. But now, more than ever, He does not invite tolerating their opinions but "commands… repentance."

Jesus

Jesus did not respect the Pharisees’ opinions (such as saying that the gold on the alter was more important than the alter), but called them "fools" and "blind guides." Nor did He respect their philosophy that a son could get out of his obligation of honoring and helping his parents, but openly rebuked them, calling them "snakes" and "brood of vipers," (As cited above: Mat_3:7-12; Mat_12:34; Mat_23:1-39; Luk_3:7-9).

Psa_94:11 CAB The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

Please note the obvious, that God does not respect their thoughts (or “opinions”), but calls them "vain." And it also says,

Pro_3:34 CAB The Lord resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

And it says again,

Isa_66:2 CAB …to whom will I have respect [ἐπιβλέψω – lit. look upon], but [ἀλλ᾿ – Sronger contrast] to the humble and meek, and the man that trembles at My words?

In this last verse, the LXX has the word “ἀλλ᾿” (a-ll) and this contrasting word shows that God only acknowledges people who meet the above qualifications. Exclusivity is a strong thrust in this passage, and no one who is self confident has any room in such descriptions. The promises quoted above of grace and acknowledgement from God exclude the one who is full of his own “personal opinions” and not to mention everyone else who does not fit the above requirements.

We somehow through the polluted teachings about the unconditional Love of God, have come to think that this means that God respects all people unconditionally. He certainly values all people, and commands us to do the same, but He does not respect people who don’t tremble at His Word! He does not respect all people, and He certainly does not respect the opinions of men. Sometimes I wonder if those who say otherwise even read the Bible at all, because they evidently don’t believe verses such as, "…that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God, (Luk_16:15 KJV)."

Do you think that God respects the devil? If not, then do you think that God respects the works of the devil (AKA "Abominations")? If not then answer this also: Is it better to conform to the foolish, worldly, lying, anti-scriptural, humanistic philosophies of post-modernism (where we get our idea of respecting others opinions) or is it better to conform to God’s image, (who is "no respecter of persons" -Act_10:34-)?

Notice that I have inserted the most important example in the middle of this section, but for all assurance of what His Word shows, and because of those who do not Truly respect Him, there are yet more.

Elijah

Elijah did not respect the opinions of the prophets of Baal but openly mocked them for their beliefs because He knew the one True God. And on top of mocking their beliefs, he had them killed after God vindicated him with fire from heaven, (1Ki_18:16-40).

Notice: If you mock and then kill someone because of their beliefs, this is not respect!

It is True that we are not under a covenant that (at times) commands and allows killing, but as it says,

1Co_10:11 WEB …all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

And we should aspire to be like the prophets and those Godly people of old, though we do not kill those we oppose (Mat_5:11-12; 1Th_2:15; Heb_11:1-12:2; 1Pe_3:3-6; Eph_6:12).

Paul

Paul did not respect the opinion of "Bar-jesus" but called him a "son of the devil" and prophesied against him that he would be blind for a season, (Act_13:6-12).

Paul did not show respect for the opinions of the philosophers of his time such as Plato, Socrates, and the like, that were necessarily included when he addressed those who lived in the Greek philosophical culture to which 1 and 2 Corinthians was written. Their culture praised such philosophers, and Paul emphatically opposed this repeating that such philosophy was foolishness according to God. (See 1 Corinthians, especially chapters 1 & 2)

Neither Paul nor Jesus respected the opinions of demons but instead cast them out. Is this overstating the obvious? I wish it was, but I continually find people saying that they believe in Jesus who think that we should respect people’s false opinions!

Paul did not command us to respect the opinions of the Circumcision or of lazy people but said they must be rebuked harshly to keep them in their place. For those of the Circumcision, Paul told Timothy to "stop their mouths" by rebuke (Tit_1:10-13; Tit_3:10-11). Paul did not respect those in the Church who had given themselves to false ideas but called them "foolish" (Gal_3:1).

Scripture

Should we go through the entire body of Scripture to show the unquestionable unanimous consensus that God gives us through His people concerning opinions? If you have not believed yet, neither would you believe if we did this very thing. The Bible is very clear:

2Ti_4:2 WEB preach the word… reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

We are not to give way to alternative ideas. We (especially the leaders) are to propagate the Word and to contradict everything that opposes it, "with all patience and teaching."

Follow Such Examples

To follow Jesus in this area, as He has displayed repeatedly throughout His Word, you must at least do these three things: Love people. Love God infinitely more. And completely hate the devil with all your might as well, including all that he is and says, whether it be directly to your mind or through other people.

Mat_16:21-23 WEB From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must… be killed, and the third day be raised up. 22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you." 23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."

End

I hope that as many as are able have understood these things that I have written here. I know that much of it is hard to understand, and in one sense, I am not sorry that it is. If you are hungry to understand and have not yet done so, then you can always re-read it, and/or feel more than welcome to contact me. I would Love to hear your response.

Those who seek a balance will find perversion, because it is a perversion that they truly seek. Those who seek the Truth will find Jesus, because Jesus is the Truth! May those who believe this Truly find Him, and know Him Truly.

And here is the proof of Truth:

Josiahs Scott

Josiahs@trueconnection.org

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PersonalNotes

Additions

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Biblical Balance

1/29/18; 2/25/24

>>Scrip:

Dan_5:27 – You have been weighed in the scales and found wanting

Deu 25:11-16 – Physical Scales

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4/11/17

Lev 19:35

Lev 19:35 LB ‘You

Lev 19:36

>> AbTru | jojb

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Jas Anti-“Balance”

12-27-03; 3/4/17 (recompiled)

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Imbalanced partial Account

Totally agreeing with the truth.

9/4/16

Joh 12:4

Joh 12:4 λεγει ^Aδε ^Aιουδας ^Aο ^Aισκαριωτης ^TSBουν εις ^Aεκ ^TSBεκ των μαθητων αυτου ^TSBιουδας ^TSBσιμωνος ^TSB

Joh 12:5

Joh 12:5 ^BAδια ^BAτι ^TS

Joh 12:6

Joh 12:6 ειπεν^Sαλλα ^TBA^Aεχων ^TSBειχεν ^TSB

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Biblical “Balancing”

8/30/16

Just balance

Dan_5:27

Dan_

Your only danger is lacking.

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7/13/16

Elijah was not balanced.

>>Scrip:

>> Gen_32:31and Psa_38:17

2/25/24

Black and white Absolute extremism

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5/8/16

Speaking of Judgment is Mercy

1/22/15-1/23/15

Johnna - 40 and judgment

Jesus - you will die in your sins

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Biblical Balance

These goals are opposed to one another.

Pro_20:23

Pro_20:23

Pro_20:23 βδέλυγμα

Job_6:2

Job_6:2

Job_6:2 Εἰ

Job_31:6

Job_31:6

Job_31:6 ἱσταίη

Psa_62:9

Psa_62:9

Psa_62:9 (61:10)

Jer_32:10 CAB And

Eze_5:1-2 WEB You

Eze_5:1-2 CAB And

Eze_

Dan_5:27 WEB TEKEL

Dan_5:27 CAB Tekel

Amo_8:5

Amo_8:5

Amo_8:5 οἱ

Don’t be overly righteous

Ecc_7:15-18 CAB [δίκαιος] perishing in his justice [δικαίῳ αὐτοῦ], and there is an ungodly man [ἀσεβὴς - irreverent][γίνου – become] very just [δίκαιος πολὺ^G4183], neither be ~~very~~ wise [σοφίζου περισσά^G4053], lest you be confounded [ἐκπλαγῇς]. 17 Be not very wicked [ἀσεβήσῃς πολὺ], and be not stubborn [σκληρός]

Ecc_7:15-18 LXX Σὺν

Let Your Moderation

Php_4:5 KJV Let

Php_4:5 CAB Let your gentleness [weak upon]

Php_4:5 GNT το

Same as: 1Ti_3:3; Tit_3:2; Jas_3:17; 1Pe_2:18; (Sept.: Psa_86:5)

G1933 ἐπιεικής epieikēs ep-ee-i-kace'

G1503 εἴκω eikō i'-ko

G1502 εἴκω eikō i'-ko

As in Gal_2:5

Truth is One-sided

the stories of the righteous are true because they are one-sided

8/4/18; 2/2/19

TAGS: one-sided stories

11/25/18

how would a pagan unbeliever tell the story when Samson was tied up in ropes and managed to break free and kill a thousand Philistines with a donkey's Jawbone?

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Truth is One-sided, but it is never biased of prejudiced.

if a pagan were retelling the story of lot he would describe lot as having caused his daughters to get pregnant...

if a pervert were telling the story of Joshua and how Israel was defeated in Joshua 7 he would simply say that sometimes people win and sometimes people lose, and they attribute their winning to deity and their losses to sin....

Monotheists are One-sided

both sides of a story are not equal

TAGS: ; one-sidded ; one sidded

2/25/18; 3/18/18

Moses vs. Pharaohs magicians

John: Judas was a thief

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>>Scrip:

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See: PFO

Shocking Wrath

The Shockingly Harsh Wrath of God

God Has Wrath -- Shockingly Harsh Wrath!

TAGS: Shocking wrath Harsh wrath Shocking Harsh Wrath Astonishing Wrath

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The Blessed Scandal of Truth!

7/15/18

TAGS: Scandle

2Co_6:8 CAB

2Co_

…

The Scandal of Truth

12/30/23

>> LOB? | TRU

when doing good looks bad.

when

>> Scrip:

John 5, 10,

1Co2

gal

then has the scandal of the Cross ceased

>> TSK

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Deu_27-28: obeying this Law is your life

>> Sync: LO | TrOb

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Deu 32:45 WEB

Deu 32:45 CAB And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.

Deu 32:46 He

Deu 32:46

Deu 32:47 For

>>>>>>>> TSK!!!!!!!!

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Write Scripture on the Wall!

10/6/17; 10/14/17; 10/19/17

Deu_6:6

Deu_6:6 LB

Deu_

Deu_6:7

Deu_

Deu_6:8

Deu_

Deu_6:9

Deu_

>> Sync: LO | Fir | TrOb

Deu 11:18

Deu 11:18 LB “

Deu 11:19

Deu 11:20

Deu 11:21

Deu 11:22

Deu 11:23

>>Scrip:

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Truth of Righteous Bible obedience

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8/8/17

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Scriptural Warnings

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>> SOM | Testimony | Dis | GCA / API

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>> SOM | Testimony | Dis | GCA / API

Harsh Prophesies

11/18/03 (Word: Created); 1/17/04* (Word: Modified); 3/6/17 (recompiled)

[* original title: Biblical Harsh Prophesies]

>> Compare: True Prophets -- SPI

From the NT

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Act 5:3 (Annanias + Soaf.)

5:8-10

Act 13:9-12 (Deputy was encouraged…)

Jesus

Guy took Paul’s belt.

Jesus gave prophecies of doom

See Ezekial’s Warning

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Lie Statistics

-91 % of people lie regularly

-Av person lies 50-130 times a day

-- Under Construction --

Some one

reprobate

Faith-Truth

10/21/14; 2/21/17 (recompiled)

-- under construction --

>> find: unfaigned faith!!

>> Mk Sr Letter?

faith

Beliving in God vs. beliving God

john 2

KJV: feined faith >> TSK

Anti-Whimsical Truth

12/26/04; 2/22/17 (recompiled)

-- under construction --

Doctrine -- Intern Presentation

11/6/03 (Word: Created); 12/10/03 (For Monday; Word: Printed); 10/30/04 (Word: Modified); 2/22/17 (recompiled; retitled: Doctrine -- Intern Presentation)

-- under construction --

Mat 19:3 Pharisees

Areopagus” Act 17:19-21, & 32 ).

Background doctrines on divorce: (based on Dut 24)

then

Why It’s Important:

-- under construction --

Joh 7:16-18 (KJV-Based)

-What type would you like to have?

Act 2:42 And they (KJV)

Burp!

Tit 2:1 But

(‘…Aged men… Aged women…’).

7 In

Kicker:

1Ti 4:13-16 KJV-Based Till

Bad Doctrine

-- under construction --

Eph 4:14 KJVA

1Ti 1:9-10 KJVA Knowing

False Doctrine

1Ti 6:3-5 If any man teach otherwise(KJV-Based).

2Ti 4:2-4 KJVA

2Jo 1:7-11 WEB-Based For 8 Watch

Good Doctrine

1Ti 4:6 If

Things to Consider:

When to take Bible Literal Vs Figurative

Stages of Certainty

3. What the Bible says

2Pe 1:20-21 KJVA Knowing

Doctrinal Examples to use:

Rom5:12, Ex 20 (anti Pre-Adamic)

· Predestination (deadgiveaway) · Legalism Vs. Grace perversion

Þ Must be submitted!

Lui

A chance to practice you doctrine…

Moved: About Projects: Translations

Pop: bit

Pop: Bibliog

Doctrine -- General Exhortation

11-24-03 (For Monday); 2/22/17 (recompiled; retitled: Doctrine -- General Exhortation)

-- under construction --

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Doctrine Matters!

6/24/13

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Some General Statements:

Bible.

Test Doctrine

-- under construction --

Bible

time we lack more in Loving God

people. Loving God

More General Stuff

God

Questions to Test Your Doctrine

Your Assignment (This is due next Monday)

Full Time: (Optional for Part time)

Doctrine Part 2

(see: above); 2/22/17 (recompiled)

-- under construction --

My request: That you don’t get offended until you have first thoughtfully read the entirety of this follow up paper. Some statements if fragmented would be notably offensive.

1Sa 2:22-29

…27 AndAnd honor your sons above Me

Bullet Point Break Down

(see: above); 2/22/17 (recompiled)

“If you cry out for knowledge…”

2Pe 3:15-16 WEB …twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

singing rejoices

Written to Jose Vega:

· This is not a matter of points:

Personally Destructive Doctrines -- PDDs

5/4/04 (Word: Created); 11/15/05 (Word: Modified); 2/22/17 (recompiled); 10/26/17

-- Under Construction --

>>Scrip:

>>TSK (incl. OT refs)

An Example of a PDD “Victim”

God’s

They are not hopeless,

Your inheritance If you continue in error

2Pe 2:12-22 (KJV-Based) But these, as natural pleasure to riot in the day timeby unbridled

Jud 1:10-13 KJVA

But…

2Ti 2:19-22 WEB

21Ifhonor

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PDDs -- Duplicate:

An example of a PDD Victim:

Definitely not hopless

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-- Under Construction --

Do you want to know the TRUTH?

Every one

Those present

Attendees

Guests -visitors

Participants

Folks

friends

What and who is the TRUTH? JESUS says, “I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH and THE LIFE. No one comes to THE FATHER

Did you know…

Epistemology : Established Knwoledge

See: ElTr

Additions -- Wisdom

Undocumented:

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PersonalNotes

AbTr -- Additions

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What church people are referring to

The Vanity of Ketchup At Death

A. George Barna

Does Being Zealous for Theology Matter?

Problem Noticer vs Problem Solver

Who’s Working for Who?

Fantasy is Wrong

1. Relating to Others – Warnings for the end times

The church:

Relationship

How much do you value the Bible?

Think of Answering These Questions

You Do Not Need “Love vs. Truth”!

Truth is Needed…

Zechariah 8: Love Truth And Peace

Preaching – Complexity vs. Simplicity and Clarity

Righteous Justice Bible study

An Orthodox Sense of Equality

All Of Our Righteousness Is As Filthy Rags

Justice is NOT equality, it is what is Right!

Hebrew, Greek, and the Hypocritical Split in English

Understanding Divine Justice

Identify the Deficit and Blast it With Justice

Identify the Deficit and Blast it With Justice

Wisdom Of Clean Truth

Knowledge – for Better or Worse?

2Ti_3:7-9 –

Tit_1:12-16 –

Eph_4:15-27 –

Heb_3:12-15 –

Knowledge that Cannot be Transferred is not Real Knowledge

Don’t Let Your Ignorance and Unhappy Incompetence Be Another Person’s Guilt and or Disapproval

1. 1Corinthians 1:17-30

2. 1Corinthians 2:6-8

3. 1Corinthians 3:18-21

4. Proverbs 3 – Who’s Understanding Are You leaning on?

5. Love Rebuke

6. Humility

1. The Exhortation and Charge to Repent of Opinions and Believe Truth

3. A Biblical Teaching About Opinions

Additions

Biblical Balance

Imbalanced partial Account

Biblical “Balancing”

Biblical Balance

The Blessed Scandal of Truth!

Write Scripture on the Wall!

Scriptural Warnings

From the NT

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Lie Statistics

Fools Hate Reverence and Slavish Faithful Truth Obedience

Faith-Truth

Anti-Whimsical Truth

Why It’s Important:

Bad Doctrine

Good Doctrine

Things to Consider:

Stages of Certainty

Doctrinal Examples to use:

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