but when you maintain the upright virtue of constantly analyzing and evaluating the significance and value of things so as to name them and organize them appropriately and properly then you can recall them in an instant...

this ability to powerfully manage many things comes from The Virtue that organizes and names and categorizes things

this is not a specialty virtually that some people are called to and others are exempt from, but this is the fundamental nature of what it means to be an Adam, or to put it in our language, what it means to be a proper man or human.

being a proper Human by default engages you with the capability to do proper file management, and this as a result enables you to properly manage multitude of people and resources.

everytime you assess a new item or person or resource it is time to faithfully and responsibly Ponder and categorize its significance and appropriate placement so that it's recall can be intuitive and within reach and scalable so that both you and all future humans, especially leaders, are served well in successful management.

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

The “Proverbs 31 Woman” is Profiting!

· Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

· Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

· Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

· Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

· How Can Women Win

How to look for auto-recognize auto red flag mode

- don't ever say anything when I am typing! -- that automatically means you are forcing me to hurt / be interrupted

- in me and for each other, and for others...

- how to efficiently communicate when the tour guide is busy thinking of many other managerial pragmatics

Communication changes

...Auto-detect Non-Interrogation Thinking Needs

- when I pause to think, this is not the time to insert another thought

- if I am already overwhelmed with trying to concentrate, this is not the time to keep throwing things in on top of that.

- Pausing to recover does not imply space to do more...

Neatness & Clean Up

9/17/19

BDC: Orderly Clothing

Leaders should be “decorous”?

Demoniac: Clothed and in right mind

1Ti_2: saved minded

Folding your Bed

Prepare the Way

9/17/19; 9/26/19

Point A to B is rough

Point B is supposed to be “prepared”

Exo_23:20 WEB "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

Exo 23:20 LB “And behold, I send My Angel before your face, that He may keep you in the way, that He may bring you into the land which I have prepared for you.

Exo 23:20 Καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω τὸν ἄγγελόν μου πρὸ προσώπου σου, ἵνα φυλάξῃ σε ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, ὅπως εἰσαγάγῃ σε εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἡτοίμασά σοι.

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Jer_2:6 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?

Jer_12:10 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jer_51:43 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

Job_12:24

Job 12:21 WEB He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

Job 12:21 He pours dishonor upon princes, and heals the lowly.

Job 12:21 ἐκχέων ἀτιμίαν ἐπ᾿ ἄρχοντας, ταπεινοὺς δὲ ἰάσατο.

Job 12:22 WEB He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Job 12:22 Revealing deep things out of darkness: and He has brought into light the shadow of death.

Job 12:22 ἀνακαλύπτων βαθέα ἐκ σκότους, ἐξήγαγεν δὲ εἰς φῶς σκιὰν θανάτου.

Job 12:23 WEB He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

Job 12:23 Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them away.

Job 12:23 πλανῶν ἔθνη καὶ ἀπολλύων αὐτά, καταστρωννύων ἔθνη καὶ καθοδηγῶν αὐτά.

Job 12:24 WEB He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 12:24 Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth, and He causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, saying,

Job 12:24 διαλλάσσων καρδίας ἀρχόντων γῆς, ἐπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτοὺς ὁδῷ, ᾗ οὐκ ᾔδεισαν·

Job 12:25 WEB They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Job 12:25 Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

Job 12:25 ψηλαφήσαισαν σκότος καὶ μὴ φῶς, πλανηθείησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὁ μεθύων.

Psa_107:40 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

no wonder Moses wanted help from an experienced Midenite to travel through such a wilderness!

Psa_63:1 WEB-LB-Grv
Psa 63:1 WEB God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

My Soul Thirsts for You

Psa 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Edom. O God, my God, I cry to You early; my soul has thirsted for You: how often has my flesh longed after You, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

My Soul Thirsts for You

Psa 63:1 (62:1) Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυιδ ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῆς Ιουδαίας. (62:2) Ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός μου, πρὸς σὲ ὀρθρίζω· ἐδίψησέν σοι ἡ ψυχή μου. ποσαπλῶς σοι ἡ σάρξ μου ἐν γῇ ἐρήμῳ καὶ ἀβάτῳ καὶ ἀνύδρῳ;

Deu_8:4

Deu 8:2 WEB You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

Deu 8:2 And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness, that He might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deu 8:2 καὶ μνησθήσῃ πᾶσαν τὴν ὁδόν, ἣν ἤγαγέν σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, ὅπως ἂν κακώσῃ σε καὶ ἐκπειράσῃ σε καὶ διαγνωσθῇ τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, εἰ φυλάξῃ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ ἢ οὔ.

Deu 8:3 WEB He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

Deu 8:3 And He afflicted you and let you hunger, and fed you with manna, which your fathers knew not; that He might teach you that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.

Deu 8:3 καὶ ἐκάκωσέν σε καὶ ἐλιμαγχόνησέν σε καὶ ἐψώμισέν σε τὸ μαννα, ὃ οὐκ εἴδησαν οἱ πατέρες σου, ἵνα ἀναγγείλῃ σοι ὅτι οὐκ ἐπ᾿ ἄρτῳ μόνῳ ζήσεται ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλ᾿ ἐπὶ παντὶ ῥήματι τῷ ἐκπορευομένῳ διὰ στόματος θεοῦ ζήσεται ὁ ἄνθρωπος.

Deu 8:4 WEB Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

Deu 8:4 Your garments did not grow old from off you, your shoes were not worn from off you, your feet were not painfully hardened, behold, for these forty years!

Deu 8:4 τὰ ἱμάτιά σου οὐ κατετρίβη ἀπὸ σοῦ, οἱ πόδες σου οὐκ ἐτυλώθησαν, ἰδοὺ τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη.

Deu 8:5 WEB You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

Deu 8:5 And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord your God will chasten you.

Deu 8:5 καὶ γνώσῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ὅτι ὡς εἴ τις παιδεύσαι ἄνθρωπος τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, οὕτως κύριος ὁ θεός σου παιδεύσει σε,

context /\\//\ -- feeling hunger & going through trials

Deu_29:5

Deu 29:3 WEB the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

Deu 29:3 the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

Deu 29:3 (29:2) τοὺς πειρασμοὺς τοὺς μεγάλους, οὓς ἑωράκασιν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου, τὰ σημεῖα καὶ τὰ τέρατα τὰ μεγάλα ἐκεῖνα

Deu 29:4 WEB but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Deu 29:4 Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

Deu 29:4 (29:3) καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῖν καρδίαν εἰδέναι καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς βλέπειν καὶ ὦτα ἀκούειν ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

Deu 29:5 WEB I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

Deu 29:5 And He led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away from off of your feet.

Deu 29:5 (29:4) καὶ ἤγαγεν ὑμᾶς τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ· οὐκ ἐπαλαιώθη τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν, καὶ τὰ ὑποδήματα ὑμῶν οὐ κατετρίβη ἀπὸ τῶν ποδῶν ὑμῶν·

Deu 29:6 WEB You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

Deu 29:6 You did not eat bread, you did not drink wine or strong drink, that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

Deu 29:6 (29:5) ἄρτον οὐκ ἐφάγετε, οἶνον καὶ σικερα οὐκ ἐπίετε, ἵνα γνῶτε ὅτι οὗτος κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν.

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Deu_19:3 WEB-LB-Grv -- MT
Deu 19:3 WEB You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

Deu 19:3 Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.

Deu 19:3 στόχασαί σοι τὴν ὁδὸν καὶ τριμεριεῖς τὰ ὅρια τῆς γῆς σου, ἣν καταμερίζει σοι κύριος ὁ θεός σου, καὶ ἔσται καταφυγὴ ἐκεῖ παντὶ φονευτῇ.

1Sa_7:3 WEB-LB-Grv
1Sa 7:3 WEB Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

1Sa 7:3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your heart, then take away the strange gods from your midst, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to serve the Lord, and serve Him only; and He shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

1Sa 7:3 καὶ εἶπεν Σαμουηλ πρὸς πάντα οἶκον Ισραηλ λέγων Εἰ ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν ὑμεῖς ἐπιστρέφετε πρὸς κύριον, περιέλετε τοὺς θεοὺς τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους ἐκ μέσου ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ ἄλση καὶ ἑτοιμάσατε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν πρὸς κύριον καὶ δουλεύσατε αὐτῷ μόνῳ, καὶ ἐξελεῖται ὑμᾶς ἐκ χειρὸς ἀλλοφύλων.

2Sa_22:33 WEB-LB-Grv
2Sa 22:33 WEB God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect.

2Sa 22:33 It is the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, and has prepared my way without fault.

2Sa 22:33 ὁ ἰσχυρὸς ὁ κραταιῶν με δυνάμει, καὶ ἐξετίναξεν ἄμωμον τὴν ὁδόν μου·

(2Ch_6:30 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

2Ch_27:6 WEB-LB-Grv
2Ch 27:6 WEB So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

2Ch 27:6 So Jotham grew strong, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

2Ch 27:6 καὶ κατίσχυσεν Ιωαθαμ, ὅτι ἡτοίμασεν τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ ἔναντι κυρίου θεοῦ αὐτοῦ.

(Job_15:28 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Psa_50:23 WEB-LB-Grv -- MT

Psa 50:23 WEB Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."

Psa 50:23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify Me; and that is the way in which I will show to him the salvation of God.”

Psa 50:23 (49:23) θυσία αἰνέσεως δοξάσει με, καὶ ἐκεῖ ὁδός, ᾗ δείξω αὐτῷ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ.

Jdt_9:6 WEB-LB-Grv
Yea, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and said, Lo, we are here: for all thy ways are prepared, and thy judgments are in thy foreknowledge.

Psa_85:13 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

Psa 85:13 Righteousness shall go before Him; and shall make His footsteps our pathway.

Psa 85:13 (84:14) δικαιοσύνη ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ προπορεύσεται καὶ θήσει εἰς ὁδὸν τὰ διαβήματα αὐτοῦ

>> he prepared his hart to seek the Lord

Isa_26:7 WEB-LB-Grv
Isa 26:7 WEB The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

Isa 26:7 The way of the godly is made straight; the way of the godly is also prepared.

Isa 26:7 ὁδὸς εὐσεβῶν εὐθεῖα ἐγένετο, καὶ παρεσκευασμένη ἡ ὁδὸς τῶν εὐσεβῶν.

Isa_40:3-4 WEB-LB-Grv
Isa 40:3 WEB The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Isa 40:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

Isa 40:3 φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν κυρίου, εὐθείας ποιεῖτε τὰς τρίβους τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν·

Isa 40:4 WEB Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

Isa 40:4 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places smooth.

Isa 40:4 πᾶσα φάραγξ πληρωθήσεται καὶ πᾶν ὄρος καὶ βουνὸς ταπεινωθήσεται, καὶ ἔσται πάντα τὰ σκολιὰ εἰς εὐθεῖαν καὶ ἡ τραχεῖα εἰς πεδία·

Isa_57:14 WEB-LB-Grv
Isa 57:14 WEB He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."

Isa 57:14 And they shall say, “Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people.”

Isa 57:14 καὶ ἐροῦσιν Καθαρίσατε ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ὁδοὺς καὶ ἄρατε σκῶλα ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ τοῦ λαοῦ μου.

Isa_62:10 WEB-LB-Grv
Isa 62:10 WEB Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.

Isa 62:10 “Go through My gates, and make a way for My people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.

Isa 62:10 πορεύεσθε διὰ τῶν πυλῶν μου καὶ ὁδοποιήσατε τῷ λαῷ μου καὶ τοὺς λίθους τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ διαρρίψατε· ἐξάρατε σύσσημον εἰς τὰ ἔθνη.

Isa 62:11 WEB Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.' "

Isa 62:11 For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your Savior has come to you, having His reward and His work before His face.’

Isa 62:11 ἰδοὺ γὰρ κύριος ἐποίησεν ἀκουστὸν ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς Εἴπατε τῇ θυγατρὶ Σιων Ἰδού σοι ὁ σωτὴρ παραγίνεται ἔχων τὸν ἑαυτοῦ μισθὸν καὶ τὸ ἔργον πρὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ.

Isa 62:12 WEB They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Isa 62:12 And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.”

Isa 62:12 καὶ καλέσει αὐτὸν λαὸν ἅγιον λελυτρωμένον ὑπὸ κυρίου, σὺ δὲ κληθήσῃ ἐπιζητουμένη πόλις καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλελειμμένη.

(Jer_31:21 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.)

Mal_3:1 WEB-LB-Grv
WEB "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.

Mat_3:1 WEB-LB-Grv
In those days John the Baptist arrived preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

Mat_3:3 WEB-LB-Grv
For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "A voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.' "

Mat_11:10 WEB-LB-Grv
For this is he about whom it is written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.'

Mar_1:2 WEB-LB-Grv
As it is written in the Prophets: "Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You."

Mar_1:3 WEB-LB-Grv
"A voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.' "

Luk_1:76 WEB-LB-Grv
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

Luk_3:4-5 WEB-LB-Grv
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: "A voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.

Luk_7:27 WEB-LB-Grv
This is he about whom it is written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.'

1Pe_3:15 WEB-LB-Grv
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be prepared with a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Rev_16:12 WEB-LB-Grv
Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its water dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.

Doing Things Right

6/6/26

Collaborative Summary:

(needing review/refinement)

Moses Builds the Tabernacle Exactly as Commanded

Exo_39:32 – Tabernacle work finished exactly according to God's command (Israel obeys completely).

Exo_39:42-43 – Moses inspects work; everything done as commanded; Moses blesses them.

Exo_40:16 – Moses does all things exactly as the LORD commanded.

Exo_40:17-33 – Tabernacle erected; furnishings, altar, laver, and court arranged according to God's instructions.

Exo_40:34-35 – Cloud covers Tabernacle; glory fills it; Moses unable to enter (God's approval and presence).

Exo_40:36-38 – Cloud and fire remain upon the Tabernacle, guiding Israel.

Pattern: Exact obedience → God's glory descends.

Priestly Ministry Established

Lev_8:4-36 – Aaron and sons consecrated; everything done as commanded through Moses.

Lev_9:6 – Promise: obey God's commands and His glory will appear.

Lev_9:22-23 – Moses and Aaron bless the people; glory appears.

Lev_9:24 – Fire comes from the LORD consuming the offering; people worship and fall on their faces.

Pattern: Obedient worship → visible manifestation of God.

Solomon Builds the Temple

1Ki_5:5 – Solomon builds according to God's promise.

1Ki_6:11-13 – God promises to dwell among Israel if they walk in His statutes.

1Ki_8:17-21 – Temple built according to God's covenant with David.

1Ki_8:54-61 – Solomon calls Israel to wholehearted obedience.

1Ki_8:10-11 – Cloud fills the Temple; priests unable to stand ministering.

2Ch_5:13-14 – Unified praise and thanksgiving; glory-cloud fills the house.

2Ch_6:14-42 – Solomon prays covenant-faithfulness and obedience.

2Ch_7:1 – Fire falls from heaven consuming sacrifice.

2Ch_7:1-3 – Glory fills the Temple; worshipers bow with faces to the ground.

2Ch_7:11-12 – God appears to Solomon accepting the Temple.

2Ch_7:17-22 – Continued dwelling conditioned upon covenant faithfulness.

Pattern: Temple completed according to God's word → prayer, sacrifice, worship → fire and glory descend.

David's Preparation for the Temple

1Ch_22:11-13 – David charges Solomon to build according to God's commands.

1Ch_28:11-19 – Temple plans received from God; pattern shown by the Spirit.

1Ch_28:20 – God will not fail Solomon until all work is finished.

Pattern: Divine blueprint must be followed.

2^nd Temple

Ezr_3:10-13 – Foundation laid according to ordinance; praise erupts.

Ezr_6:14-18 – Temple completed through prophetic word and obedience; dedication follows.

Hag_2:4-9 – God promises His presence and future glory for the restored house.

While no explicit glory-cloud filling is recorded as in Moses' and Solomon's day, God's presence and future greater glory are promised.

Ezekiel's Vision of Future Restoration

Eze_43:1-5 – Glory of the LORD returns and fills the future Temple.

Eze_43:10-11 – House shown so people may be ashamed of sin and carefully follow its pattern.

Eze_43:12 – Entire house declared most holy.

Pattern: Repentance and conformity to God's pattern accompany God's return.

New Covenant Fulfillment

Joh_1:14 – The Word tabernacles among us; divine glory seen in Christ.

Joh_2:19-21 – Jesus identifies His body as the true Temple.

Act_2:1-4 – Spirit fills believers as God's new dwelling place.

1Co_3:16-17 – Church becomes God's temple; Spirit dwells within.

1Co_6:19 – Individual believer's body becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Eph_2:20-22 – Believers built together into a dwelling place for God.

1Pe_2:5 – Living stones built into a spiritual house.

Rev_21:3 – Final fulfillment: God's dwelling permanently among men.

If they were careful with the physical temple, how much more should we guard the new Spiritual Temple?

Hebrews' Emphasis on Doing Everything According to the Pattern

Heb_8:5 – Moses warned to make everything according to the heavenly pattern shown on the mountain.

Heb_9:1-11 – Earthly tabernacle serves as a copy pointing to heavenly realities.

Heb_3:2-6 – Moses faithful in God's house; Christ over God's house.

GP: Overall Bible Pattern

Exo_40:34-35 – Glory fills Tabernacle (Moses).

Lev_9:24 – Fire falls on obedient worship.

1Ki_8:10-11 – Glory fills Solomon's Temple.

2Ch_7:1-3 – Fire and glory fill the Temple.

Eze_43:1-5

Act_2:1-4

Rev_21:3 – God permanently dwells with His people.

Productivity Prudence & Efficiency Virtues

3/16/17; 4/11/17

Co-Labor with Archive-Reverence in Passing on a Legacy

4/11/17

>>Scrip:

Consider All the verses that talk about arche & preservation of passed on legacy

We need to take hold of the Labor of our soul being archived and kept and retained

People are constantly laboring to dis arrange our Communications and the creation of our jealous Souls

When you create different locations to scatter people’s communication out of their legacy and context this is dis arranging and evil and uncaring toward the preservation of human survival

All of this evil careless this Arrangement is unnecessary and unethical and immoral and wrong comma yet it is the default for all Filthy workers of iniquity

It is shallow and unwise to boast in the convenience of something while not taking the malicious destruction and disarrangement deeper into your heart.

Violations of Authority are more important than ease of convenience

A long-term Legacy is more important than the temporary convenience of the moment

It is wrong to follow Pepsi’s foolish Pagan slogan and live for now

>>Scrip:

Prudence vs. Wisdom

Most of the values here are based on the presupposition that heaven wants you to produce things with technology.

If not, in general, you should mind your own business, and live a quiet life that starts and stops in greatness without needing or being commissioned to write books, or epistles, or preserve a legacy in writing and content.

It can be lawful to use technology in a minimalist way to get through this society.

You should not be quick to mix trying to use technology to gain major advantages without being committed to a higher level of content management.

You should not seek the quick and shallow benefits of tools that you are not prepared to invest in learning.

There is something shallow and potentially even brat-ish about wanting luxurious benefits without investing mindfulness and diligence and skill and prudence and dedication. -- Welcome to the iOS generation! where foolishness made shallow and perverted people surpass the usefulness of laptops, and criminals won big time for being evil and perverted.

It is through the love of extreme ethics that people make useful technology that requires little investment to gain major benefits off of.

There is a type of hypocrisy to like the success of those who have paid the price, and yet enjoy the shallowness of tools that treacherously do not allow you to do the same thing.

Once people have made better tools that require less investment, then good!

In the meantime, don’t be so foolish as to prefer the lollipop that deceives you, and enables you to lead a less disciplined and less mindful and less prudent lifestyle.

Prefer that which is real, even at the higher investment price tag, even one that makes you think more, as long as it doesn’t allow you to lead a non-canonical, shallow, lifestyle of bad habits where you do not really have control over your content production.

Internet Independence

Always fight hard to own your data.

The convenience of someone else owning your data in the cloud is foolish.

It is not prudent to let an unbeliever be trusted with a labor of your soul.

>>Scrip:

Do not be like the ostrich, which the Bible says has been deprived of wisdom, and works to lay her eggs only to let some other animal eat them.

Over and over again there are countless multitudes of examples where cloud-dependent files and software have done exactly what you should expect them to do -- failed big time and robbed countless many of their hard work!

The in an age full of injustice and perversion and disgusting deceptions, the last thing on earth someone should do is move things to the cloud (if they can help it).

(notice that move is distinct from copy / make use of.)

Eagerly desire that which is not dependent on the Internet.

If the Internet crashes, I want my website to still be usable & fully functional by local disciples!

(in fact, it eventually, I hope I might be able to print out my Bible studies with solar panels and laser printers if the electric grid crashes.)

We are not supposed to idealize conforming to the world, but even surpassing it in prudence and gaining benefits and protection when everyone else is punished.

If we condescend to the lower practices of our society, it is limited, and not preferred, and only because we have to.

Examples include: drivers licenses, women working at jobs, wed based apps, etc.

Note: wed based apps = setting up a Facebook account

Always default to preferring what gives you more control and more options and more customization.

It is not lawful within prudence to prefer simplicity over options and control.

Righteousness does not admire the iOS generation.

People would rather have a simple menu, than to be able to choose how they could work better.

Popular Perversion

There is nothing admirable about the preferred style of dressing “flat” and thinking that tools on your belt are not cool.

There is nothing really admirable about lusting after “thin” phones, more than phones which have real keyboards.

It is foolish to prefer a simple, thin, lightweight laptop over the power work horse laptop with the ability to store many more files.

It is not prudent to prefer the mouse over the keyboard -- at least not until they come up with something that has exactly the same amount of productivity, or more, all built in without using a key board.

Web site formatting

· Narrow verses more control

· Don’t be shallow

· Don’t let the enabling intoxication deceive you into thinking it’s better

· Your shallowness and lack of prudence is not canonical

See: Technology -- How Much Should We Use it?

Obey A Posture of Profit

8/26/15; 10/1/15; 10/8/15; 1/23/16-1/24/16 (Dont-Be-Lazy); 1/29/16-1/30/16 (First Level Virtues; Genesis Dynamics); 5/5/16

The Productivity-Efficiency Commission

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Obey-A-Posture-of-Profit--01--Dont-Be-Lazy--1.24.16.mp3

Obey-A-Posture-of-Profit--03--Dont-Be-Lazy--Profit-Challenges-of-Women--2.07.16.mp3

>> Comp: Sync

Opening the Window - Follow Up

Stand By & Be Prepared for Action

>> Finish finding all:

>>Scrip:

The work ethic of “Profiting” is a first-level virtue.

Understanding the Pre-requisite Nature of First-Level Virtues

1/30/16

· Basic virtues like head coverings, work ethic, etc. lead you to Anointed One.

· It might be a small virtue, but that is no small feat!

· (Just think about it: on your best day, your flesh can’t even lead you one step in the right direction without taking you 20 steps in the wrong direction.)

· How do small virtues end up being big ones? -- when they make the difference between you obeying or disobeying the Shema of Loving God with everything!

· When they don’t contribute to the Shema, they are indeed, very small, even to the point of insignificance and despicableness. When they do make that difference, they are immeasurably huge!

· Small virtues are not measured by their own weight, but by the impact they make on your choice to love God enough to obey.

· Ironically, when a (hypocritical, fleshly) church person finally gets into an unpopular basic virtue, they very frequently think they have broken into being the most spiritual people on the earth! -- “so don’t be like them” (Mat_6:8)!

· They have neglected the weightier parts of the law, and therefore their “small tokens” are insignificant in light of their overt evils which disqualify their soul of all good of counting toward their credit.

· ‘All their righteousness is as filthy rags’ (Isa_64:6)

· Don’t be a goofy, would-be spiritual church person.

· Consider the countless examples: health food, pragmatics of success, prudent investments, head coverings, or even fasting, etc.

· What other examples can you think of?

· Let their lack rebuke you, but don’t let their presence approve you.

· Let your own lack of basic virtues rebuke and challenge your own soul, but never be so hypocritical and foolish as to let the presence of basic virtues affirm you as approved of having superior holiness, or let them seem to qualify you to speak on more lofty spiritual things with confidence.

· Rom_12:3 LB For I say, through the grace [της χαριτος] given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself too highly, beyond what you should think [μη υπερφρονειν παρ ο δει φρονειν], but to think soberly [αλλα φρονειν εις το σωφρονειν], as God has imparted to each one a measure of faith.
Rom_12:3 λεγω γαρ δια της χαριτος της δοθεισης μοι παντι τω οντι εν υμιν μη υπερφρονειν παρ ο δει φρονειν αλλα φρονειν εις το σωφρονειν εκαστω ως ο θεος εμερισεν μετρον πιστεως

· You cannot (esp. intentionally) keep violating your first-level virtues and expect to perfect higher-level ones that are directly beyond them.

· Don’t put the cart before the horse.

· Don’t make any virtue / law or rule too small in the name of prioritizing higher virtues, lest you be called “least” and ‘not no way enter the kingdom of heaven’.

· Being saved from sin ultimately means fulfilling and far surpassing basic virtues.

· Are you missing something spiritually? -- Sometimes you are shooting yourself in the foot with something basic while theoretically trying to focus on something higher.

· Hint/reminder: In such cases, the basic thing is often in the direct path to the higher thing, between you and your ultimate virtue goal, so to go higher you have to first go lower.

· Aiming high while ignoring immediate responsibilities is a character flaw of potential hypocrisy which can sabotage your faith and victory against sin.

· As some say, ‘deal with what is revealed before requesting what is concealed’.

· In many ways, bringing your humanity to the Father can be a prerequisite for bringing your spirit to Jesus for a resurrection. (If you want to be a martyr for Jesus, you first have to be an obedient creature to the Father)

· You might (accidently/“randomly”) get somewhere spiritually out of God’s generosity despite your lack of basic human virtue, but to move on to perfection so that you can reproduce your truth in others, you have to get back to basics, and get romantic and meet God’s original desire and ultimate goal of you choosing what is wise and agreeable with his basic substance and honorable nature.

· Typically, the best things that happen to you in life are by your accident, but the best things you do to serve and deeply please God in a way that you are rewarded are by your whole-hearted cooperation and fully persuaded faith.

· Don’t ever minimize the vital importance of choosing virtue, whether small or great.

Genesis Dynamics of Multiplicative Profit

Genesis Teaches Commanded Multiplication from the Beginning

…1/29/16 (Cain’s Multiplied Children…)

Multiplying People or Production?

· God created, and then assigned man to work.

· The command is to Multiply!

· You might say “Multiply people” -- very true.

· But multiplying people definitely means multiplying production.

The Point: the command to multiply people teaches us about having a multiplicative work ethic / ambition (and shows us what God delights in seeing??).

Original Commission of Man

Gen_1:28 WEB God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Gen_1:28 CAB And God blessed [ηὐλόγησεν] them, saying, Increase [Αὐξάνεσθε] and multiply [πληθύνεσθε], and fill [πληρώσατε] the earth and subdue [κατακυριεύσατε] it, and have dominion [ἄρχετε] over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

Gen_1:28 καὶ ηὐλόγησεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς λέγων Αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆς καὶ ἄρχετε τῶν ἰχθύων τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ πάντων τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ πάσης τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῶν ἑρπόντων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Gen_1:29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Gen_1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food.

Gen_1:29 καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Ἰδοὺ δέδωκα ὑμῖν πᾶν χόρτον σπόριμον σπεῖρον σπέρμα, ὅ ἐστιν ἐπάνω πάσης τῆς γῆς, καὶ πᾶν ξύλον, ὃ ἔχει ἐν ἑαυτῷ καρπὸν σπέρματος σπορίμου-- ὑμῖν ἔσται εἰς βρῶσιν--

Gen_1:30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

Gen_1:30 And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.

Gen_1:30 καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ παντὶ ἑρπετῷ τῷ ἕρποντι ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὃ ἔχει ἐν ἑαυτῷ ψυχὴν ζωῆς, πάντα χόρτον χλωρὸν εἰς βρῶσιν. καὶ ἐγένετο οὕτως.

Cain’s Multiplied Children Multiplied Profitable Production

>> review & paste in Gr!

Despite the evil heritage, God used Cain’s descendants to accomplish His will

Gen_4:15 – God refuses to let Cain be killed after Cain’s sin of murder

Gen_4:16 – Cain spreads out “in the land of Nod opposite Eden”

Gen_4:17 – “She conceived, and gave birth [συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν (same as Gen_3:16; Gen_4:1)]… He built a city” (WEB)

Gen_4:20 – Cain’s descendant Jabal [Ιωβελ] “was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock [LB: feeding cattle].” (WEB)

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Gen_4:21 – Jabal’s [Ιωβελ] brother “Jubal [Ιουβαλ]… was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe. [LB: it was he who invented [καταδείξας – down-show; “bring to light, show forth” (perseus); also: LSJ] the psaltery [ψαλτήριον] and harp [κιθάραν]]” (WEB)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=dei%2Fcas&la=greek&prior=de\

Cain’s multiplied descendants are still helping us today!

Gen_4:22 WEB Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron…

Gen_4:22 CAB And Zillah also bore [ἔτεκεν – produced] Tubal-Cain; he was a smith [σφυροκόπος – seal-cutter? APB: hammer-smith], a ·manufacturer both of brass [χαλκεὺς χαλκοῦ – ABP: brazier of brass] and iron [σιδήρου]…

Gen_4:22 Σελλα δὲ ἔτεκεν καὶ αὐτὴ τὸν Θοβελ, καὶ ἦν σφυροκόπος χαλκεὺς χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου· ἀδελφὴ δὲ Θοβελ Νοεμα.

Genesis_4:22 Considerations

· We are still using these things still this day, are we?

· Whatever the case with the textual variations, he was a worker of metals

· Apparently he was the first person to do this

· What would life be like without scissors, knives, axes, saws, etc.?

Genesis 4-5 – Seth’s Righteous Descendants: from Enosh to Noah

(A) Genesis_4:25-26 – Seth to Enosh

Gen_4:25 – Eve didn’t give up, but made [συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν] Seth

Gen_4:26 – Seth had “Enosh” WEB: “Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.” LB: “Enosh: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God” -- Enosh invented prayer meetings.

(B) Gen_5:29, etc. – Noah

· Noah produced mercy & peace with God upon the earth

· Retained all the inventions that Evil Cain’s descendants produced

· God got the productivity he wanted out of Cain’s descendants and got the saving righteousness He wanted out of Noah & his more righteous descendants

· God took what Cain’s descendants though they had & gave it to Noah -- just as Jesus’ parable teaches

Genesis 8-9 – Coming Out of the Ark to Work on Having Babies

Gen_8:15 WEB God spoke to Noah, saying,

Gen_8:15 CAB And the Lord God spoke to Noah, saying,

Gen_8:15 Καὶ εἶπεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Νωε λέγων

Gen_8:16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

Gen_8:16 Come out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

Gen_8:16 Ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ, σὺ καὶ ἡ γυνή σου καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τῶν υἱῶν σου μετὰ σοῦ

Gen_8:17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

Gen_8:17 And all the wild beasts, as many as are with you, and all flesh, both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Gen_8:17 καὶ πάντα τὰ θηρία, ὅσα ἐστὶν μετὰ σοῦ, καὶ πᾶσα σὰρξ ἀπὸ πετεινῶν ἕως κτηνῶν, καὶ πᾶν ἑρπετὸν κινούμενον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐξάγαγε μετὰ σεαυτοῦ· καὶ αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Repeatedly Blessed When Coming Out of the Ark

Gen_9:1 WEB God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Gen_9:1 CAB And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it.

Gen_9:1 Καὶ ηὐλόγησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Νωε καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν καὶ κατακυριεύσατε αὐτῆς.

Gen_9:7 WEB Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

Gen_9:7 CAB But as for you, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over it.

Gen_9:7 ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐξάνεσθε καὶ πληθύνεσθε καὶ πληρώσατε τὴν γῆν καὶ πληθύνεσθε ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς.

Gen_9:18 WEB The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Gen_9:18 CAB Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

Gen_9:18 Ἦσαν δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ Νωε οἱ ἐξελθόντες ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ Σημ, Χαμ, Ιαφεθ· Χαμ ἦν πατὴρ Χανααν.

Gen_9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

Gen_9:19 These three are the sons of Noah, of these were men scattered over all the earth.

Gen_9:19 τρεῖς οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ υἱοὶ Νωε· ἀπὸ τούτων διεσπάρησαν ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.

See: Gen_10: -- more examples of inventing things, like Nimrod getting real good at hunting!

>> Get / integrate / paste in examples

>> add Gen_11: -- they made briks

The Continuing Adventure Of Multiplying Patriarchs

TSK: ...Gen_17:16, Gen_17:20, Gen_22:17, Gen_22:18, Gen_24:60, Gen_26:3, Gen_26:4, Gen_26:24, Gen_33:5, Gen_49:25, Lev_26:9, 1Ch_4:10, 1Ch_26:5, Job_42:12, Psa_107:38, Psa_127:1-5, Psa_128:3, Psa_128:4, Isa_45:18, 1Ti_4:3

These TSK Refs reminded me of...

1Ti_5:14 – I desire young widows to marry

Act_21:8-10 – Philip had 4 prophetic virgin daughters (comp. Enosh inventing prayer meetings)

>> read???

The Point (so far):

Genesis 11 – Contending With Babble – to Spread Out & Produce According to God’s Rules

Gen_11:1 WEB The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Gen_11:1 LB And all the earth had one language, and one speech.

Gen_11:1 Καὶ ἦν πᾶσα ἡ γῆ χεῖλος ἕν, καὶ φωνὴ μία πᾶσιν.

Gen_11:2 WEB It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Gen_11:2 And it came to pass as they moved from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

Gen_11:2 καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ κινῆσαι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν εὗρον πεδίον ἐν γῇ Σεννααρ καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐκεῖ.

Gen_11:3 WEB They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Gen_11:3 And a man said to his neighbor, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire.” And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was asphalt.

Gen_11:3 καὶ εἶπεν ἄνθρωπος τῷ πλησίον Δεῦτε πλινθεύσωμεν πλίνθους καὶ ὀπτήσωμεν αὐτὰς πυρί. καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς ἡ πλίνθος εἰς λίθον, καὶ ἄσφαλτος ἦν αὐτοῖς ὁ πηλός.

Gen_11:4 WEB They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." [KJV+: lestH6435 we be scattered abroadH6327 uponH5921 the faceH6440 of the wholeH3605 earth.H776]

Gen_11:4 And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall reach the heavens, and let us make for ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Gen_11:4 καὶ εἶπαν Δεῦτε οἰκοδομήσωμεν ἑαυτοῖς πόλιν καὶ πύργον, οὗ ἡ κεφαλὴ ἔσται ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ποιήσωμεν ἑαυτοῖς ὄνομα πρὸ τοῦ διασπαρῆναι ἐπὶ προσώπου πάσης τῆς γῆς.

Gen_11:5 WEB Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Gen_11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.

Gen_11:5 καὶ κατέβη κύριος ἰδεῖν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον, ὃν ᾠκοδόμησαν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

Gen_11:6 WEB Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Gen_11:6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have one language between them, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they have purposed to do.

Gen_11:6 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος Ἰδοὺ γένος ἓν καὶ χεῖλος ἓν πάντων, καὶ τοῦτο ἤρξαντο ποιῆσαι, καὶ νῦν οὐκ ἐκλείψει ἐξ αὐτῶν πάντα, ὅσα ἂν ἐπιθῶνται ποιεῖν.

Gen_11:7 WEB Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

Gen_11:7 Come, let Us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.”

Gen_11:7 δεῦτε καὶ καταβάντες συγχέωμεν ἐκεῖ αὐτῶν τὴν γλῶσσαν, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσωσιν ἕκαστος τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ πλησίον.

Gen_11:8 WEB So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Gen_11:8 And the Lord scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

Gen_11:8 καὶ διέσπειρεν αὐτοὺς κύριος ἐκεῖθεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐπαύσαντο οἰκοδομοῦντες τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον.

Gen_11:9 WEB Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Gen_11:9 On this account its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and then the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

Gen_11:9 διὰ τοῦτο ἐκλήθη τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς Σύγχυσις, ὅτι ἐκεῖ συνέχεεν κύριος τὰ χείλη πάσης τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐκεῖθεν διέσπειρεν αὐτοὺς κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς.

Weather Avoiding or Procrastinating, They Were Disobeying

· My initial impression was that they were avoiding obedience to spread out.

· Someone might say that they were just trying to do something before spreading out.

· Whether they were avoiding or procrastinating they were not doing what God said.

· God made sure they did what he said.

The Point

· We Want to Do the Productivity God Requires!

· We want to do it how he wants us to do it.

· We don’t want to produce the wrong way, but we do want to produce!

>>Scrip:

Sometimes this Scattering is Repeated:

· Mar_16:15 – Go into all the world…

· They gathered in upper room and multiplied in Jerusalem

· Act_8:1 – The persecutions in Acts brought them into all the world

· Act_21:9 – Phillip had prophetic daughters from that scattering!

The Point

· We are still at the Ezra stage, but we never want to be slow to go out!

Gen_35:11 WEB God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Gen_35:11 CAB And God said to him, I am your God; be fruitful and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come out of your loins.

Gen_35:11 εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ θεός Ἐγὼ ὁ θεός σου· αὐξάνου καὶ πληθύνου· ἔθνη καὶ συναγωγαὶ ἐθνῶν ἔσονται ἐκ σοῦ, καὶ βασιλεῖς ἐκ τῆς ὀσφύος σου ἐξελεύσονται.

Liberals Are Place Holders For the Righteous

10/11/17

Deu_7:22 WEB Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

Deu_7:22 LB And the Lord your God shall consume these nations before you by little and little: you shall not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against you.

Deu_7:22 καὶ καταναλώσει κύριος ὁ θεός σου τὰ ἔθνη ταῦτα ἀπὸ προσώπου σου κατὰ μικρὸν μικρόν· οὐ δυνήσῃ ἐξαναλῶσαι αὐτοὺς τὸ τάχος, ἵνα μὴ γένηται ἡ γῆ ἔρημος καὶ πληθυνθῇ ἐπὶ σὲ τὰ θηρία τὰ ἄγρια.

Deu_7:23 WEB But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

Deu_7:23 And the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, and you shall destroy them with a great destruction, until you have utterly destroyed them.

Deu_7:23 καὶ παραδώσει αὐτοὺς κύριος ὁ θεός σου εἰς τὰς χεῖράς σου καὶ ἀπολέσει αὐτοὺς ἀπωλείᾳ μεγάλῃ, ἕως ἂν ἐξολεθρεύσῃ αὐτούς,

Deu_7:24 WEB He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

Deu_7:24 And He shall deliver their kings into your hands, and you shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before you, until you have utterly destroyed them.

Deu_7:24 καὶ παραδώσει τοὺς βασιλεῖς αὐτῶν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας ὑμῶν, καὶ ἀπολεῖται τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν ἐκ τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου· οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται οὐδεὶς κατὰ πρόσωπόν σου, ἕως ἂν ἐξολεθρεύσῃς αὐτούς.

>> Sync: SPW | GMM | Wk Eth

Disciple Shorthand Notes

The most pressing needs is often the clearest way God has communicated to you what he wants you to produce.

Tell me what you do in your "free time" and I will show you where your heart is at

If injustices are going on and you are not fighting it with your heart, mind, all of your free time and all you ability then you are not doing what God intended you to do.

Being logical is not a measurement of your IQ it is about your love for truth. It is not about intellect!

The purpose of a helpmate is to put courage in her man to work.

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It’s better for you to die than for you to have lived not benefiting people

Our culture lives for the weekend. They work 5/days a week to play for 2 days. They work so that they can spend and indulge in the between time.

Our culture teaches that work is bad and recess is good. We have bred a seriously perverted sickness.

God said to Adam, ‘go work’ (not, go play).

I believed You, I did what You said, and I cared about people more than recess. Then the Lord will say to you, ‘well done, good and faithful servant’.

“Don’t Be Lazy” Bible References

From Begetting People to Begetting the Virtue of Productivity

Originally: this was point one, now it is point two.

…1/29/16 (retitled and moved)

It is an issue of integrity and love of truth and justice to be in a posture of profit (have a good work ethic).

Mat_25:19-23 – Well done you good and faithful servant...

Mat_25:24-30 – Throw that unprofitable servant out...

TSK: Luk_16:10, 2Co_5:9, Eze_15:1-5, Luk_14:34-35, Tit_3:14, Heb_6:7-8

2Th_3:10-15 –

13 If any man does not work, neither let him eat.

TSK: Gen_3:19, Pro_13:4, [Pro_15:19, Pro_18:9, Pro_19:15]; Pro_21:25-26, Pro_24:30-34, [Pro_26:13-16, Pro_27:23-27, Pro_29:21]; 1Th_4:11 [2Th_3:10-15] [this list is combined with TSK on Luk_16:3]

Eph_4:28 – that you might have to give to them in need

Violent (WEB) or Strong (KJV) Vigorous (ABP) Men Obtain Riches

Pro_11:16 WEB A gracious woman obtains honor, but ·violent men obtain [KJV+: strong^H6184 men retain^H85⁵¹] riches.

Pro_11:16 ABP [²wife^G1135 ¹A gracious]^G2170 raises^G1453 [²to her husband^G435 ¹glory];^G1391 but a throne^G2362 ^G1161 of dishonor^G819 is a wife^G1135 detesting^G3404 righteous things .^G1342 [⁴of riches^G4149 ¹ The lazy^G3636 ³lacking^G1729 ²become];^G1096 but the^G3588 ^G1161 vigorous^G406.2 establish^G2043 riches.^G4149

Pro_11:16 γυνὴ εὐχάριστος ἐγείρει ἀνδρὶ δόξαν, θρόνος δὲ ἀτιμίας γυνὴ μισοῦσα δίκαια. πλούτου ὀκνηροὶ ἐνδεεῖς γίνονται, οἱ δὲ ἀνδρεῖοι ἐρείδονται πλούτῳ.

>> incl. women getting up early

General Work Reminders

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· God has ordained that there is always urgent work to do and be responsible for.

· God made the entire creation revolve around this testimony.

· If you ever start taking life easy (esp. before you are too old to work) beware of the hatred you are liable to receive for blaspheming the universal ordinance of God!

Luk_12:13-34 (esp. Luk_12:16-21, & esp. Luk_12:19-21, Luk_12:33-34)

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When you get happy for things that there is no reason to get happy about it ruins your integrity. That's why disney movies are no evil because it is based on things that are no real.

The way of the wicked is prone to believe things that are not even true.

Anytime you stop working you're indulging in luxury (being rich unto yourself), you are stealing from God the riches that you don’t deserve to have.

TSK:

Soul: Deu_6:11-12, Deu_8:12-14, Job_31:24, Job_31:25, Psa_49:5-13, Psa_49:18, Psa_52:5-7, Psa_62:10, Pro_18:11, Pro_23:5, Isa_5:8, Hos_12:8, Hab_1:16, Mat_6:19-21, 1Ti_6:17, Jam_5:1-3

for: Job_14:1, Pro_27:1, Jam_4:13-15

take: Luk_16:19, Luk_21:34, Job_21:11-13, Ecc_11:9, Isa_5:11, Isa_22:13, Amo_6:3-6, 1Co_15:32, Phi_3:19, 1Ti_5:6, 2Ti_3:4, Jam_5:5, 1Pe_4:3, Rev_18:7

The Profit-Challenges of Women

The Challenges / Obstacles Women face Against Profiting

other dates; 2/05/16-2/7/16

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

· Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

· Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

· Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

· Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

· How Can Women Win

· The initially good way women and men work: The produce of women might not always be as financial as men.

· Hence, a man does “maintenance” for his helpmate, and she in turn builds up his house, and she makes everything work well at home as a household despot.

· Whenever women get complacent in the posture of being supported, they often end up exploiting their husband or dad as a sugar daddy, and they take his hard-earned substance for granted, and spoil/waste it on enflaming on out their own worthless character.

· Instead of building up their man they are wasting his substances.

· Wasting hard-earned substance on cheap, temporary, here-and-now frills is a crime heaven will by no means overlook.

· What he might have generated through mindfulness, labor, and uphill striving, she quickly and frivolously destroys with carelessness and the hatred of God.

· Remember: The prodigal son wasted his father’s substance / livelihood.

· If women are supported, women can fall into & exploit a posture of idleness and non-productivity.

· If you like the sweetness (the sugar) of simply being supported, BEWARE!

· The love of non-responsibility and the luxury of leisure are initially sins of omission that will destroy your soul with integrity breeches, crimes of injustice, indulgence in the flesh, and foolish pollutions, where you will busy yourself all around with cheapening and criminal vanity in the devil’s workshop of idleness.

· Are you supported? Beware lest at any time your heart, brain, and/or soul does not love to work hard as God has ordained you in order to escape vanity, leisure, idleness, and injustice.

· How much urgency and pressure should you feel and put yourself under in bearing the responsibility to work hard?

· Warning: by default, women (especially those without a proven track record & those under 60) need to be married and raise children to not default to idleness.

· Hence: in 1Ti_3:1-13 (esp. v. 1Ti_3:1, v. 1Ti_3:5) & 1Ti_5:17, men are supported (even if he is young Timothy -- 1Ti_4:12), but in 1Ti_5:3-16 (esp. v 1Ti_5:3, v. 1Ti_5:9, v. 1Ti_5:11, v. 1Ti_5:16-17) women are not supported until after 60.

· If a man is blameless (and not newly converted 1Ti_3:6), he can be trusted to take the proper initiative to fulfill a good work ethic and give over way more than what is invested in him.

· By default, even if a woman has a blameless character, she is not trusted with being supported until after 60.

· Paul wants women to feel the (often urgent) responsibility of providing for others lest they start serving in the devil’s workshop of idleness.

· Consider!: Paul would rather create self-sacrificing work for women that was not there before rather than risking the possibility of them selfishly sitting by without urgent responsibilities.

· This proves that “God has ordained that there is always urgent work…”

Proverbs_31:10 – Manly Virtue for Women

Obey-A-Posture-of-Profit--04--…

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

·Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

·Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

·Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

·Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

·How Can Women Win

Pro_31:10 – Who can find...

“Virtuous” -- in Hebrew & Greek

Pro_31:10: virtuous^H2428 [MT: "חַ֭יִל^H2428 Cha·yil"; LXX: Γυναῖκα ἀνδρείαν τίς εὑρήσει; ABP: vigorous]

Rth_2:1 KJV+: "a mighty man of wealth^H2428"; LXX: ὁ δὲ ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς ἰσχύι

Rth_3:11 KJV+ : "all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous^H2428 woman."; LXX: γυνὴ δυνάμεως εἶ σύ

Pro_31:29 – Virtue/Wealth/Strength issue comes up again

Women Should Be Manish, But Men Should not Be Womanish

· This verse shows us that there are qualities that are inherently lacking in woman which are intended to be met in her subjection under the mindfulness of rational men.

· Just as a bee gathers pollen from flowers, and other creatures gather vital necessities from their environment, so women are naturally supposed to gain rationality from the righteous examples of men they observe.
[notice we are talking about creatures, not new creations.]

· Men are never exhorted to be feminine.

· Women are praised for taking up the rationality of men.

· A womanish-man is cursed in the Scriptures, but a manish-woman is praised and blessed (as seen below).

· There is some sense in which within the potential of man’s parable, he should have access to every basic virtue and character need by being extremely true to his masculinity.
[i.e. cultivating excellence out of his own nature (esp. when it is by faith and power from above)].

· Women should not be socially "manly" in an assertiveness/leadership/etc way, but courageously "man-ish" in virtue -- that is what the Bible has to say throughout many passages on a woman’s management of her own gender and her subjection under man’s gender.

Can Women Perfect Men?

· Men directly and personally complete and perfect women by bringing them into their virtuous knowledge (as with Adam and Eve) and women indirectly perfect men by displaying to society how they ought to be toward God.

· Men can learn gentleness, submission, and other virtues from women, esp. when men are dense.

· Additionally, a spiritual woman can teach a spiritual man lots of things, but this is beyond the human capacity where they are male and female.

Question from Al: If within man’s parable he possess everything he needs for virtue and perfection, then where does Paul’s sentiments fall where he expresses travailing like a woman until Anointed One is formed (seems to testify of the strength and endurance and virtue that women can inherently possess in pain and childbirth), and where he also mentions in Thess that he nourishes & cherishes the church (like a mother?)?

There is the initial responsibility of men and women as seen in Adam’s covenant and in the Law of Moses where women learn virtue from men. And then there is the supernatural man who continues in a spiritual capacity beyond this life. The supernatural/spiritual man is neither male nor female because he is in Anointed One.

“Travail” is a physical parable of spiritual things.

Men are never called to directly display the (physical) virtue of enduring in childbirth.

Paul is not doing the physical parable, but the spiritual thing. -- and that is in the realm beyond his masculine flesh.

Men Are Not Be Feminine

1Co_6:9 CAB Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals [μαλακοὶ], nor sodomites [ἀρσενοκοῖται],

1Co_6:9 ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἄδικοι βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσι; μὴ πλανᾶσθε· οὔτε πόρνοι οὔτε εἰδωλολάτραι οὔτε μοιχοὶ οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται

1Co_6:10 nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1Co_6:10 οὔτε κλέπται οὔτε πλεονέκται οὔτε μέθυσοι οὐ λοίδοροι οὐχ ἅρπαγες βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσι.

Pro_19:15 KJV+ Slothfulness^H6103 casteth^H5307 into a deep sleep;^H8639 and an idle^H7423 soul^H5315 shall suffer hunger.^H7456

Pro_19:15 LB Fear restrains the effeminate man [ἀνδρογύναιον], and the soul of the idle person shall hunger.

Pro_19:15 δειλία κατέχει ἀνδρογύναιον, ψυχὴ δὲ ἀεργοῦ πεινάσει.

We are All Commanded to Be Man-ish

Job_38:3

Manly – ABP+ on G407: Deu_31:6-7; Deu_31:23; Jos_1:6-7, Jos_1:9, Jos_1:18; Jos_10:25; Rth_1:13; 2Sa_10:12; 2Sa_13:28; 1Ch_19:13; 1Ch_22:13; 1Ch_28:20; 2Ch_32:7; Psa_27:14; Psa_31:24; Pro_18:8; (Pro_19:15); Jer_2:25; Jer_18:12; Dan_10:19; Mic_4:10; Nah_2:1; 1Co_16:13;

Manly – ABP+ on G406

Psa_68:6; Pro_10:4; Pro_11:16; Pro_12:4; Pro_13:4; Pro_15:19; Pro_21:5; Pro_21:30; Pro_28:3; Pro_31:10; Ecc_2:21; Ecc_4:4; Ecc_5:11;

Man-ish-ness Praised

ABP+ Pro_10:4; Pro_11:16; Pro_13:4; Pro_15:19; Pro_21:5; Pro_28:3; Pro_31:10;

Be like courageous soldiers: Eph_6:13-17, 1Ti_6:12, 2Ti_2:3-5, 2Ti_4:7, Heb_11:32-34

Background: Enemy Philistines Know You Got to Be a Man for your side to win:

1Sa_4:9 WEB Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men [MT: ish], and fight!

1Sa_4:9 CAB Strengthen yourselves and behave yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye may not serve the Hebrews as they have served us, but be ye men and fight with them.

1Sa_4:9 κραταιοῦσθε καὶ γίνεσθε εἰς ἄνδρας, ἀλλόφυλοι, μήποτε δουλεύσητε τοῖς Εβραίοις, καθὼς ἐδούλευσαν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἔσεσθε εἰς ἄνδρας καὶ πολεμήσατε αὐτούς.

2Sa_10:12 WEB Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.

2Sa_10:12 CAB Be thou courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the sake of the cities of our God, and the Lord shall do that which is good in his eyes.

2Sa_10:12 ἀνδρίζου καὶ κραταιωθῶμεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ λαοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ περὶ τῶν πόλεων τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν, καὶ κύριος ποιήσει τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ.

(parallel: 1Ch_19:13)

1Co_14:20 CAB Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be ~~men~~ [τέλειοι].

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

1Co_16:13 CAB Watch, stand fast in the faith, be courageous, be strong.

1Co_16:13 Γρηγορεῖτε, στήκετε ἐν τῇ πίστει, ἀνδρίζεσθε, κραταιοῦσθε.

Even Women are to Be Man-ish

Pro_31:10 – Who can find...

2Ma_7:21 Br Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,

2Ma_7:21 ἕκαστον δὲ αὐτῶν παρεκάλει τῇ πατρίῳ φωνῇ γενναίῳ πεπληρωμένη φρονήματι καὶ τὸν θῆλυν λογισμὸν ἄρσενι θυμῷ διεγείρασα λέγουσα πρὸς αὐτούς

(comp. 4Ma_7)

Men and Women Often Get Satisfaction Differently

· Women often get emotional friendship satisfaction by simply spending time together

· Men often get emotional friendship satisfaction by doing things together

· Both activities are technically “spending time together”*, but manly men want to accomplish something when they “spend time together”

· Women can often get satisfaction from their work when they maintain the home front

· Manly men almost always get most of their satisfaction from their work when they accomplish things

· Being “goal-oriented” is a virtue that manly men are very strongly oriented towards

· In many ways, women should learn from men to be “strong”/virtuous/manish in their work ethic, as seen in Pro_31

* Watch this Typical Scenario

2 women sit down to communicate: “How has your day been?” “I really like that new pink dress that you have on.” “I had a really great time talking to the librarian.” “That picnic was so fun”

2 men sit down to communicate: “How should we build this house?” “What can we do to improve our work force?” Etc…

Manly Virtue QNAs

DAP Questions Regarding Manly Virtue

When to Stop things and Communicate

Aye: Amo_3:3. This might be an exception to the what you're saying. Is it Ok to feel like my motivation can be helped if I feel like justice needs are being met and we're "walking together?" Sometimes that means being on the same page about priorities and needs don't feel like they are competing. I find that communication can make a difference in whether I feel valued or just doing something out of obligation. I feel like it can be very hard and distracting for me to work with elephants, though I'll still "do what i'm supposed to do."

Aye: having talked through things can put a "pep in my step" when it's time to work.

Man’s Answers:

Amo_3:3

Vs.

2Ch_32:31

Col_3:24, etc.

What About The Higher Rates of Success in Women in Our Society?

· The flesh polarizes

· If women stop being feminine in the name of being successful, they have not gained anything

· We want to use manly virtues to accomplish clean work goals

Reminder: Women should learn to be manish, NOT manly

· In our culture, we have a reversal of roles.

· If many women are successful in our society, it is extremely rare that they are still feminine

The “Proverbs 31 Woman” is Profiting!

How Does “Required Profit” Apply to Women?

Proverbs 31 Summaries & Points

1/23/16-1/24/16; other dates; 2/6/16-2/7/16; 2/14/16

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

· Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

· Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

· Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

· Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

· How Can Women Win

Intro – Whose Who?

Pro_31:2 – "Son of my ~~vows~~ -- requests"

only Biblical example of a son resulting from a “request”: 1Sa_1:11 (not as in Eze_16:8).

See: Proverbs_31:10 – Manly Virtue for Women

Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

Comp. Pro_31:11-12, Pro_31:21, Pro_31:25

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

·Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

·Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

·Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

·Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

·How Can Women Win

Pro_31:11 – KJV+: “The heart^H3820 of her husband^H1167 doth safely trust^H982” / Makes him bold/courageous

θαρσειG2293 < θάρσος G2294

DAP Note:

A man's heart is designed to trust women.

Pro_31:12 – does him good

everything she does is for his good all the time (if she were to be caught on camera at any moment, she would be found reinforcing his goodness and building up his honor)

Pro_31:11-12 – Doing Him Good Makes Him Courageously Trust You

If you want a man that has a heart that safely trusts in you (or, has boldness/courage upon you) at all times, this is the only way: Care about and believe to accomplish the goals that relieve him and comfort him and love him in every way. Don’t pretend to love his company only to be indifferent to the grief of his soul in the trials of this life, so as to not lift a finger to relieve him and make him feel safe, but instead, swell his heart with joy at your work ethic!

DAP Notes:

Be skillful at how to spend money carefully, but also be skillful at how to make money.

The default of virtue (i.e.being a merchant) is better than defaulting to your personality ("it's too hard").

So don't be intimidated by the things you feel like you can't do. If it's profitable you should be open to it.

Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

· Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

· Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

· Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

· Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

· How Can Women Win

Pro_31:13 – Gathering wool and flax (useful resources) she works optimistically and eagerly with her hands, making use of what she gets

Pro_31:14 – Ship Selling & making money

Like a merchant ship, she not only imports, but she exports. She knows how to sell things and make money even at a distance.

Pro_31:15 – Early Morning Work

Early in the morning, while it is still dark, she rises and oversees food-needs and the tasks of the maidens

Pro_31:16 – Buys land, plants a garden

Pro_31:17 – Girds her loins, strengthens her arms

Pro_31:18 – Lamp does not go out

See: Stand by Your Post

DAP Notes:

Standing by your post, being on-call: if you're not ready, you're not pro 31. When you're the one that’s unavailable, you're not in the posture of a servant but as one who costs.

Luk_12:35 Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning..wait...when master comes, immediately they open

SOS theme of being ready

Women have a tendency to not be ready

Pro_31:19 – Sews

Pro_31:20 – gives to poor

She welcomes the poor and gives to the needy

Pro_31:21 (comp. v. Pro_31:11-12, Pro_31:21, Pro_31:25) – Prepared & Not Afraid

She is not afraid of up-and-coming seasonal threats; and husband doesn’t “think twice” when he’s away.

Pro_31:22 – Makes clothing

she puts together good quality clothing for herself and her husband
Pro_31:23 – respected husband

husband is respected among the elders

Pro_31:24 – selling things

she makes and sells things even to pagans

Pro_31:25 (comp. v. Pro_31:11-12, Pro_31:21, Pro_31:25) – Puts on strength, honor, and rejoicing (not discouragement); doesn’t fear what’s ahead

Pro_31:26 – She speaks mindfully and according to lawfulness

Pro_31:27 – No Idleness Food, But Responsible Care

She doesn’t eat the bread of idleness; watches and is preoccupied in all the ways of her household

Pro_31:28 – Her husband praises her
Pro_31:29 – She excels all manish women
Pro_31:30 – Real Beauty

Attractiveness is deceptive, beautifulness is vain, but not so with a woman associated with the fear of the Lord
Pro_31:31 – Rewarded

Let her reap what she’s sown, and let praise go out

Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep !

While many men get to support women who might simply sit at home and maintain everything, if a man marries a Proverbs 31 woman then he is really well off, because she is making strategic and rational and profitable marketable trades and purchases to increase him in every way while he’s gone. -- She is not about to be thrown out of his house!

How Can Women Win – In Fighting For an Excellent Work Ethic?

How can women be in the posture of profit?

Don’t Be Lazy

The Profit-Challenges of Women

· Verse 10 – Manly Virtue for Women

· Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

· Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

· Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep

· How Can Women Win

· Submit to your dad, or,

· get married, or,

· Get an overseer who will insist on accountability and man-ish structure in your life.

· To whatever degree none of these are available, be an Abigail, a 1Pe_3 woman, and a 1Co_7 woman, who is more spiritual than the men in their lives.

· Learn from the examples of the righteous, rational men in the Scriptures, and any you might know in person.

· Learn from righteous/rational men how to have a righteous, strategic work ethic.

· Absolutely remove all leaven out of your cupboards (a little leaven leavens the whole lump).

· First fulfill, and then even Surpass “”.

· We are talking about how to run in such a way as to win!

· Be a proverbs 31 woman.

Inventions

LXX: Machines in the Bible!!

2Ch_26:14

2Ch_

2Ch_26:15 WEB He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.

2Ch_26:15 LB And he made in Jerusalem machines [μηχανὰς (see page 375 in ALS)] invented by a wise contriver, to be upon the towers and upon the corners, to cast darts and great stones. And the fame of their preparation was heard from a great distance; for he was marvelously helped, till he became strong.

2Ch_26:15 καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐν Ιερουσαλημ μηχανὰς μεμηχανευμένας λογιστοῦ τοῦ εἶναι ἐπὶ τῶν πύργων καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν γωνιῶν βάλλειν βέλεσιν καὶ λίθοις μεγάλοις· καὶ ἠκούσθη ἡ κατασκευὴ αὐτῶν ἕως πόρρω, ὅτι ἐθαυμαστώθη τοῦ βοηθηθῆναι, ἕως οὗ κατίσχυσεν.

2Ch_

God helps the righteous to grow strong and make machines and inventions, and they might even get famous from it

Ecc_7:29 WEB Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.

Ecc_7:29 LB But behold, this have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

Ecc_7:29 CT God made mankind upright; but they have found out many classes.

Ecc_7:29 πλὴν ἰδὲ τοῦτο εὗρον, ὃ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς σὺν τὸν ἄνθρωπον εὐθῆ, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐζήτησαν λογισμοὺς πολλούς.

Automation in the Bible

12/15/17; 12/31/17

Finding Meaning Behind a Good Work Ethic

Many corporations have become too secular for their own good

People can be searching for a real reason to even have ethics at all in the work place

Automatic Greek

G844: αὐτόματα = αὐτό + ματα

/\ ματα -- comp. G3155: μάτην (vain)

/\ G3145: μασσάομαι -- St: “…From a primary word μάσσω massō (to handle or squeeze); to chew: - gnaw.”

Natural Automation

Lev_25:5, Lev_25:11

2Ki_19:29; Mar_4:28;

Job_24:24 (LXX, self-wilting);

No intervention necessary

Supernatural Automation

Jos_6:5 – Joshua & battle of Jericho: Self-falling Walls!

Act_12:10 – Automatic Door!

>> TSK

Jos_6:5 WEB It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."

Jos_6:5 LB And when they have shouted, the walls of the city shall fall by themselves; and all the people shall enter, each one rushing directly into the city.”

Jos_6:5 καὶ ἔσται ὡς ἂν σαλπίσητε τῇ σάλπιγγι, ἀνακραγέτω πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἅμα, καὶ ἀνακραγόντων αὐτῶν πεσεῖται αὐτόματα τὰ τείχη τῆς πόλεως, καὶ εἰσελεύσεται πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὁρμήσας ἕκαστος κατὰ πρόσωπον εἰς τὴν πόλιν.

Act_12:10 And going though the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate which leads into the city, which [ἥτις] ·was opened to them [νοίχθη αὐτοῖς] ·of its own accord [αὐτομάτη]; and going out, they went forward one street, and immediately the angel withdrew from him.

Act_12:6 CAB But when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that night Peter was sleeping, between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains; and guards before the door were keeping the prison.

Act_12:6 ῞Οτε δὲ ἤμελλεν αὐτὸν προάγειν ὁ ῾Ηρῴδης, τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ ἦν ὁ Πέτρος κοιμώμενος μεταξὺ δύο στρατιωτῶν δεδεμένος ἁλύσεσι δυσί, φύλακές τε πρὸ τῆς θύρας ἐτήρουν τὴν φυλακήν.

Act_12:6 οτε δε Aημελλεν Aπροαγαγειν TSBεμελλεν αυτον TSBπροαγειν ο ηρωδης τη νυκτι εκεινη ην ο πετρος κοιμωμενος μεταξυ δυο στρατιωτων δεδεμενος αλυσεσιν δυσιν φυλακες τε προ της θυρας ετηρουν την φυλακην

Act_12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood there, and a light shined in the prison room; and striking the side of Peter, he roused him saying, "Arise quickly!" And his chains fell away from his hands.

Act_12:7 καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος Κυρίου ἐπέστη καὶ φῶς ἔλαμψεν ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι· πατάξας δὲ τὴν πλευρὰν τοῦ Πέτρου ἤγειρεν αὐτὸν λέγων· ἀνάστα ἐν τάχει. καὶ ἐξέπεσον αὐτοῦ αἱ ἁλύσεις ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν.

Act_12:7 και ιδου αγγελος κυριου επεστη και φως ελαμψεν εν τω οικηματι παταξας δε την πλευραν του πετρου ηγειρεν αυτον λεγων αναστα εν ταχει και Aεξεπεσαν TSBεξεπεσον αυτου αι αλυσεις εκ των χειρων

Act_12:8 And the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and put on your sandals"; and he did so. And he said to him, "Put on your cloak and follow me."

Act_12:8 εἶπέ τε ὁ ἄγγελος πρὸς αὐτόν· περίζωσαι καὶ ὑπόδησαι τὰ σανδάλιά σου. ἐποίησε δὲ οὕτω. καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· περιβαλοῦ τὸ ἱμάτιόν σου καὶ ἀκολούθει μοι.

Act_12:8 ειπεν Aδε TSBτε ο αγγελος προς αυτον Aζωσαι TSBπεριζωσαι και υποδησαι τα σανδαλια σου εποιησεν δε ουτως και λεγει αυτω περιβαλου το ιματιον σου και ακολουθει μοι

Act_12:9 And going out, he was following him, and did not know that the thing taking place by the angel was true, but he was thinking that he was seeing a vision.

Act_12:9 καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἠκολούθει αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐκ ᾔδει ὅτι ἀληθές ἐστι τὸ γινόμενον διὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου, ἐδόκει δὲ ὅραμα βλέπειν.

Act_12:9 και εξελθων ηκολουθει TSBαυτω και ουκ ηδει οτι αληθες εστιν το γινομενον δια του αγγελου εδοκει δε οραμα βλεπειν

Act_12:10 διελθόντες δὲ πρώτην φυλακὴν καὶ δευτέραν ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην τὴν σιδηρᾶν τὴν φέρουσαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν, ἥτις αὐτομάτη ἠνοίχθη αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐξελθόντες προῆλθον ῥύμην μίαν, καὶ εὐθέως ἀπέστη ὁ ἄγγελος ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

Act_12:10 διελθοντες δε πρωτην φυλακην και δευτεραν Aηλθαν TSBηλθον επι την πυλην την σιδηραν την φερουσαν εις την πολιν ητις αυτοματη Aηνοιγη TSBηνοιχθη αυτοις και εξελθοντες προηλθον ρυμην μιαν και ευθεως απεστη ο αγγελος απ αυτου

Act_12:11 And Peter, having come to himself, said, "Now I know truly that the Lord has sent forth His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jews."

Act_12:11 καὶ ὁ Πέτρος γενόμενος ἐν ἑαυτῷ εἶπεν· νῦν οἶδα ἀληθῶς ὅτι ἐξαπέστειλε Κύριος τὸν ἄγγελον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξείλετό με ἐκ χειρὸς ῾Ηρῴδου καὶ πάσης τῆς προσδοκίας τοῦ λαοῦ τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων.

Act_12:11 και ο πετρος TSBγενομενος εν εαυτω Aγενομενος ειπεν νυν οιδα αληθως οτι εξαπεστειλεν Aο κυριος τον αγγελον αυτου και Aεξειλατο TSBεξειλετο με εκ χειρος ηρωδου και πασης της προσδοκιας του λαου των ιουδαιων

Examples of Automatic Things

Being Fruitful and multiplying -- kid’s should be your retirement

Creating tools / inventions

Taking consolation in your creations

Focusing on the algorithm instead of the problem

Related Words:

G843 -- αὐτοκατάκριτος

G830 -- αὐθαίρετος – Self-Chosen; WS: Choosing or willing of oneself…

G829 -- αὐθάδης – WS: adj. from autós (G846), himself, and hḗdomai (n.f.), to please. One who is pleased with himself and despises others…

>> Genesis productivity Dynamics

Compare: Solomon’s Servants

Applying Profitability

Other dates; 3/5/16 (Al & JS); 3/19/16

>> revise structure…

-- Under Construction --

>> Eze_16:49

Wanting the Right Things

In our deepest defaults/preferences desires, we are in danger of not having integrity of a level-headed good and honorable work ethic.

We are aiming for motives and desires more than performance.

>> Desiring / being most happy at the right end goals

Observing boundaries

Being Perceptive

Defining Profitability

· Being profitable means that wherever your life costs anything, you produce way, way much more than you cost.

· As a non-servant, God assumes that every worker can produce more than 110% of their living expenses, and that of their houshold, so they can afford to support the Levites.

· As a servant, if you are profitable, without serving your own goals or lusts, a master is very happy to buy you, because you profit and build up his goals.

“Servants” Illustrate What is Profitable & Why it is Needed

· Can you imagine a master hiring a servant and then the servant breaks even so that his produce pays for his expenses?

· What is the master of that servant going to say to him?

· Can you imagine if that servants says, “I am doing great! My Hobby income has paid 75 percent of all of my needs! My master will be so thrilled!”

· What does the master answer the servant who gives him back exactly what was invested in him?

· Mat_25:24-30 – Throw that unprofitable servant out...

The point of living in this life is to be profitable.

We Need Most of Our Activity to Be Profitable Production

12/8/15; 1/24/16-1/25/16

We should crave and burn and insist on getting to the point to where most of what we do is productive and contributes to a change that was not there before.

If you delight in maintenance/doing things that die with you / doing things that just enjoy this life, you are in danger of a curse…

Heb_6:7-8 – don’t enjoy just maintaining the drinking in of the earth

--------------- Where to put the rest of these… Don’t Be Lazy?

Be Like the Ant

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· Pro_6:6-11, Pro_24:30-34 Wake up and continually work

· Mat_28:1, Mar_16:1-4, Joh_20:1 – Women going to take care of Jesus’ body

· Pro_31 woman

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Give No Sleep To Your Eyelids

2/3/16

Give no sleep to your eyelids

Bible Sirach if you give away a daughter you have accomplished a great task

Isaac went out into the field to meditate

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How do you Live Right? -- Think Justice!

Tell me what you are meditating and seeking to accomplish all day…

Don’t spend your day seeking to create a new coloring book, when people’s lives are at stake and we need resources to win.

Surpassing Unbelievers is Required!

12/8/15; 2/5/16

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If not more than scribes and pharisees… no kingdom

If you compare our default satisfactions to ants or even to my mother, we have often fallen far behind unbelievers!

My mom should be able to look at our practices and ambitions and find no fault, but have not had the integrity to withstand examination to show a good answer to establish our faithfulness.

…

12/5/15

We have absolutely got to surpass the heathen in our work ethic!

Solomon’s Servants

It is time to surpass Solomon’s servants and shock the nations with our organization.

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1Ki_10:4-5 CAB And the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built, and the provision of Solomon and the sitting of his attendants, and the standing of his servants, and his clothing, and his cup-bearers, and his whole burnt offering which he offered in the house of the Lord, and she was utterly amazed.

11/14/15

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adorn the good Announcement so no one can blaspheme...

provide honest things in the sight of all men

The Point: How should we change our ambitions toward being truly “profitable”?

No Begging ?

1/19/16-1/20/16; 1/24/16 (partial answers/thoughts); 1/29/16; 3/19/16

The Begging Question

The Main Begging Question that Started this Point

V: What is considered begging? Is asking and begging different in the Bible

In Sir_40:28 it says a life of begging do not live; it is better to die than to beg.

Does this pertain to not begging strangers, or making it a habit/lifestyle of begging, because earlier in the chapter verse 24 it says brothers and aid are for a time of distress. Does this imply that it is okay to ask for aide in a time of distress? But is not okay to beg continually / if you are not in distress?

How do you reconcile begging in Sir_40:28-30 with our current situation

Sirach 40 -- Better To Die Than To Beg

Sirach 40 -- Hebrew-Based

28 My son, do not live the life of a beggar, better to die than to beg;

29 when one has to look to another’s table,

his life is not really a life.

His neighbor’s delicacies bring revulsion of spirit

to one who understands inward feelings.

30 In the mouth of the shameless man begging is sweet, but within him it burns like fire.

Sir_40:28-30 Br My son, lead not a beggar's life; for better it is to die than to beg. 29 The life of him that dependeth on another man's table is not to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men's meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof. 30 Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless: but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

Sir_40:28-30 Greek Τέκνον, ζωὴν ἐπαιτήσεως μὴ βιώσῃς· κρεῖσσον ἀποθανεῖν ἢ ἐπαιτεῖν. 29 ἀνὴρ βλέπων εἰς τράπεζαν ἀλλοτρίαν, οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ ὁ βίος ἐν λογισμῷ ζωῆς, ἀλισγήσει ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐδέσμασιν ἀλλοτρίοις· ἀνὴρ δὲ ἐπιστήμων καὶ πεπαιδευμένος φυλάξεται. 30 ἐν στόματι ἀναιδοῦς γλυκανθήσεται ἐπαίτησις, καὶ ἐν κοιλίᾳ αὐτοῦ πῦρ καήσεται.

Psa_37:23 WEB A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Psa_37:23 CAB The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord; and He will take pleasure in his way.

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Psa_37:24 Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Psa_37:24 When he falls, he shall not be ruined; for the Lord supports his hand.

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Psa_37:25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Psa_37:25 I was once young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

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Psa_37:26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

Psa_37:26 He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.

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Important Notes

· The man made sure his “seed” had bread!

· This does not exclude asking family for help, it epitomizes it!

Compare Sirach & Psalms with “asking for bread” from Neighbors and Family

Luk_11:5 CAB And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

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Luk_11:6 for a friend has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him';

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Luk_11:7 and he will answer from within and say, 'Do not trouble me; the door has already been shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give to you'?

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Luk_11:8 I say to you, even if he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, yet on account of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

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Luk_11:9 "So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

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Luk_11:10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

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Luk_11:11 And which father among you, if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

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Luk_11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

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Luk_11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, by how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

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What is The Shame of Begging?

Luk_16:3; Luk_16:20-22; Mar_10:46, Joh_9:8, Act_3:2

Is “begging” when you do it publically because you have to go out of the family and depend on the devaluing of impersonal people to focus on you and care about you?

It can be said, “this man has a face that only a mother could love” -- isn’t there something shameful when even your own family does not love you enough to support you, and you have to “stick your ugly and strange face” in society, and admit your unlovable-ness and worthlessness to need outsiders to help you?

Are you so unlovable and inherently un-valuable that you have to ask and plead with random and strange people to value you?

Are you so un-valuable that you are willing to endure countless strange people rejecting you and pushing you out of their warm home and cursing you value until you find one person who is willing to give you what you do not deserve and do not appear worthy of?

Here is the shame: Pro_20:4

Begging that is sinful is when you are not working.

Begging Applied to Us

Partial Answers

· Don’t wait to get worried when we talk about gov assistance.

· We are already begging if we are not living a posture of profit.

Comp.

1Co_6:7 CAB Actually then, it is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits against one another…

1Co_6:7 ἤδη μὲν οὖν ὅλως ἥττημα ὑμῖν ἐστιν ὅτι κρίματα ἔχετε μεθ᾿ ἑαυτῶν. διὰ τί οὐχὶ μᾶλλον ἀδικεῖσθε; διὰ τί οὐχὶ μᾶλλον ἀποστερεῖσθε;

· If the leader goes to be relieved it is hypocritical to start feeling ashamed and asking where our faith if at if just yesterday we could not have enough faith to be energized and full of optimistic energy to learn AutoHotkey.

· If you were just discouraged about learning software, you should rebuke yourself for compelling the leader to actually improve the situation by seeking food stamps.

You could partly apply:

Mat_10:5-6…Mat_10:9-10 – Don’t go the way of the gentiles…worker is worthy

3Jn_1:5-8 – Taking nothing from the gentiles

Abraham went to Egypt and other places because of famine.

1Co_9: -- Supported Workers

1Co_9:7 – you plant and so you eat; you labor and then you drink…likewise the apostles are not paying to distribute their services but they are working and thus are worthy to partake (being provided for from their labors)??; thus they are not required to “beg” Mat_10:9-14 ??

1Co_9:4 – they have a basis (their labors give them a basis) to believe for food, drink, and assistance to be provided for them

1Co_9:9 – let the ox eats who treads

1Co_9:10 – If you are “ploughing” then you have a basis to hope; if you are “threshing” then you can hope for your needs to be meet

1Co_9:13 – If you serve well then you are also entitled to partake

But this is because those serving deserve/are worthy of being supported by faith -- this is why they are not supported by non-faith.

For those who are not proclaiming, they should not worry about themselves or proclaimers getting help from outsiders before they have first dealt with the more foundational factor if they themselves are not in a posture of profit for the proclaimer.

Ruth needed help, but she got help from Boaz while working hard in the posture of profit.

Don’t Start Having Faith When it Is Time To Spend Before Having Faith To Produce

1/16/16

We need faith for making decisions where are actions are most required.

Where faith and responcibility meet -- this is where we have to first ask, 'where is our faith?'

We should not be zealous for faith to happen when it comes time to receive a blessing before we are zealous to have faith to give over a responcibility.

We should not happen to fall in line with faith that is most oriented toward consuming [partaking], more than the faith that is conssitent with producing.

Personal examples:

discouraged when talking about making an income

zealous when it comes to obtaining provision

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provided for:

like the animals needing food

Abraham going down into Egypt

David Asking Nabal for food

Providing food and shelter is different than

· Needing/expecting/asking for a ramp to be built to every cave that David stays at

vs.

· Barzillai stayed back and King David blessed him- 2Sa_19:34-39

Normal sicknesses: helped Egyptian recover vs. Barzillai -- not having the basis to recover without particular miracles

David left parents at a certain stronghold for safe keeping

1Sa_22:1-5 – David's parents protected in Moab (btw, place of his dad's heritage- i.e. Grandma Ruth the Moabitess...?)

Righteous asking for bread: ambitions, not commands

Picking up snakes: ambitions

Don’t open your hand when it is time to receive and close it when it is time to give

Sir_4:31 Do not let your hand be open to receive, but clenched when it is time to give.

Old / Archived

Questions About “Air”

10/8/15

Ac when heat is on

Mistaking warm air for not being fresh?

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-- Girls: Don’t Read Yet (except Al)

General Formulas For Success

12/11/15-12/12/15, 1/24/16 (Al)

Weak Toward Profit & Strong Toward Lust

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Don’t give over weak hands when it is time to help others, because then you are being rich toward the things that please your lust and NOT being rich toward God!

Goal-Oriented

12/5/15

bolders, rocks, pebbles -- a natural parable for human sanity & reasonableness

Just Get a Job

12/8/15

If we would be more productive with a job than we are now for truth, then we are acting under the law, where external <<forceful>> circumstances are the only way to make us do honorably.

Being Level Headed

12/8/15; 2/5/16

The ‘free-spirited’ extroversion among us has somehow caused contradictions to love and integrity.

Be serious and level headed.

Do not unravel commitment to accomplishing good obligations.

Stop tending toward waste and non-production.

Stop always defaulting to that which does not have lasting long-term profit/change.

Stop delighting most when time is not redeemed.

In Your Understanding Be Full-Grown

12/5/15

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In Your Understanding Be Men

Don't be as children with your head in the clouds...

Jesus said the jews/Pharisees were like children playing to one another, and it did not work.

Be logical, rational, and even practical.

Important Dynamics of Profit

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Wages vs. Profit

Google: How is profit better than wages

Employee vs slave

Work Satisfaction for the Restless

TAGS: Mill ; H: h2:

Work-Satisfaction--Part1-a--1.13.19.mp3

Intro to Work Satisfaction

· If we are still frustrated with our work, it is time to renovate and revolutionize our work ethic.

· Part of this renovation addresses how we derive value out of what we do.

· Another part of this renovation addresses how we view money and seeks to make sure we have a very unique view of money strategy.
(This intentional uniqueness is the inherent nature of wishing for wisdom and the prudence it can offer).

· If we have a similar view of Work Satisfaction and/or money strategy as the virtue-lacking world has we may very well face unavoidable and unresolvable frustrations when seeking to go toward heaven and its “above-average” strategies.

· Once we successfully address the deeper spiritual and moral problems in our souls, then we can also enjoy the privilege of defaulting to more glorious prudence that can often automatically snatch away all of our otherwise incompatible and un-heavenly frustrations and cares.

H’s QNA -- Millennials & Redundant Work

Q&A: i have noticed that millenials in particular really emphasize having a job that is exciting and full of problem solving and promotes growth and is different everyday and really promotes brain crunching work and its meaningful etc. This is a huge theme with a lot of people in my "generation" and i feel like i have not escaped these feelings at all. I meet so many ppl my age who hop from job to job looking for this and are not content with a mundane job. We look at ppl who have stayed at the job for 10 or 15 years like they are crazy because we feel like we can hardly stay there for 3 months. At my job i feel tempted to get angry everyday because of this mentality and i have to calm myself down everyday at work. I know in the bible most ppl had really slow redundant jobs like being a shepherd etc. Do you have any thoughts on how to be happy being in a redundant job.

I know we are supposed to do everything unto the Lord and i think i calm myself down with the thought that ok this is my assignment today i need to make the best of this etc. So this calms me down, but this does not relieve a wild restlessness in my soul and really i am just going to be angry again tomorrow and have to calm myself down again

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Btw i recently came across an article about the quarter life crisis among melineals and i really related to that concept too. I feel like i face that too, including in regards to work

1/13/19

>>>>> New/Review!!!:

“people can use a crisis as a spark for change, but in the process discovered a huge number of 25 to 35-year-olds are struggling to cope amid financial, career and personal pressures…financial difficulties were the biggest single cause, with more than half (53 per cent) of people going through a quarter-life crisis admitting they spend more than they earn each month.

Other pressures include trying to find the right job (26 per cent) or working in a challenging job (24 per cent), trying to get on the property ladder (22 per cent), and being in the right relationship (25 per cent).

The data also revealed that the average millennial claims to have been feeling at rock bottom for more than six months before trying to “sort their life out”.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/millennials-quarter-live-crisis-half-25-35-finance-career-property-first-direct-a8253036.html

1/17/19

The Short Answer: Unresolvable frustration over your situation is often a sure sign of needing more Truth about your values, goals, and motivations.

So let’s consider some basic virtues that help us apprehend a bullet-proof Work Satisfaction, and let’s dig in deeper and renovate!

General Prerequisite: Enjoy an Endurance Strategy, Not Cheap Quick Gratification Lust

12/14/18; 1/6/19; 1/13/19

Common Modern Problems from “Failed Parenting”

· Shallow “relationships”

· No Discipline

· Breeds ever-increasing Narcissism

· Justifying sin and rushing into foolishness -- instead of being horror-struck and repenting of foolish shallowness

· Dysfunctionality at work from cheap pride and vain lust and foolish mindlessness

How do we correct this evil shallow dysfunctionality?

Long-Term Work Examples

· Noah

· Moses & Jacob working for their father-in-law

· Rachel Shepherding

· Gal_6:9 – Don’t grow weary in well doing

Joseph -- How did his guide his life in integrity when working for Potiphar?

Moses -- How did his shepherding in the wilderness prepare him for his calling?

Redirect Your Enjoyments

· Never enjoy what is not healthy for you... (that is deception lust).

· Don’t even want cheap stimulation and gratification

· Due to the wrong enjoyments/values/motivations, expectations for finding meaning are set in “all the wrong places”.

Boredom Faceoff

· Many hardcore Anabaptists love being boring in order to avoid being modern

· Modern people are cheaply running to the world to escape boredom, and many Anabaptists just accept the death of vanity and embrace being board

· Story: In 2008 I talked to an Amish, and like so many I expressed my appreciation for their more simple life, but he readily admitted it was boring being Amish

· Hopefully you know that I never want to be boring

· But I actually do deeply enjoy being tempted to be bored

· I do not enjoy monotony, but I do count it as valuable to endure and an honorable opportunity to be proven true in endurance...

· I avoid boredom by running straight into it

· I avoid boredom by always remembering that it is a season of endurance

· learn discipline from the Father

· Stop turning to the stimulation of Activity for value and honor and start turning to real honor to receive courage and value in your soul...

· Stop turning to external circumstances & things for comfort

Enjoy a Chance to Think, Rather than Wishing to be Vainly Stimulated

· Be thankful and enjoy and appreciate the slower pace of less demanding work.

· If something is repetitive and monotonous enough it might give me a chance to pray or think about how to change my situation...

· Look at things from a wiser perspective, and consider that instead of a mundane job meaning lack of growth, it can instead rather mean time to think about more important things...

· One of the best things you can do when working for someone else is not daydream about a better position working for someone else, but daydreaming about how to take bigger and bigger steps toward a much more real and ultimate goal...

Between Thinking and Distraction

· I generally wish for either work that is so quiet that I can think, or else work that is so high paying I can afford to buy back other time in other areas and seasons of my life so I can think sufficiently there to save the world.

· If work is busy enough to keep you occupied but not quiet enough to let you think sufficiently, then in addition to enduring in hope, I would seek to change things, at least eventually.

· But despite all of this, in my often not-so-exciting job at UF, I at least had time to think sometimes and it was in this context that the inspirations page started, including Praise of Women!

· So you can potentially have earth-shattering things happen in the midst of monotony...

· That which they do in undervaluing you can so easily be turned around into hopeful glory, therefore, we have no complaints about their irresponsibility if they don’t care.

· The less “brain crunching” responsibilities you have, the better space you have for creating eternity with your hope…

· Therefore, your faith can be bullet-proof if you have been helped and saved by this prudence.

Work on Work Vanity -- Work Satisfaction Part 2

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· Cheap quick work is the worst place you can even think to find meaning.

· Jobs are usually disposable, so don’t be surprised if you find yourself frustrated and cheapened when wishing to find value in them.

· A lot of the lack of long-term development investments in modern generations is due to the instantaneous gratification lust model worldview that younger Generations have been mesmerized and addicted and deceived and gluttonize by...

· Don't glory in instantaneous quick gratification...

· but rather take deep courage and consolation and comfort from the privilege of the occasion of endurance and Faithful investment and long-term hope and perseverance and faithfulness and rational mindfulness in things to come....

· It does not matter at all if the work itself is satisfying or gratifying or exciting or fulfilling...

· (this is a very shallow and meaningless fleshly thoughtless cheap way to look at work, and this reflects on the millennial generation’s cheapness and shallow relationships and shallow concepts of the world... -- more on that later, Lord willing)

· Life is not about work, and the sooner you figure that out the better you will be able to play this game to a much more strategic advantage...

· Life is not about work, it's (in some sense) about the next step, and it is especially about the ultimate step which leads to much more spiritual and meaningful and wiser goals with your life...

· Most people have nothing more meaningful to do than to work for someone else and build up someone else’s great ideas / “empire”.

· If any restless person feels dissatisfied with their work because it does not honor their full capacity, sometimes that's a good thing because it testifies against their shallowness of trying to find fulfillment from work in the first place...

· Stop measuring success and “impact” the way the world measures things according to a vain standard and a worthless perception of blindness...

· Stop even thinking to try to find fulfillment in the work of this here and now life without the necessity of developing personal virtue

· If you feel the meaninglessness, don’t even think about trying to oppose it with your own vanity, but instead use the pain to motivate you to get a hold of deep and True meaning and value and legitimate purpose of goals that are greater than the vain person whom you are probably working for.

Looking for Value in All the Wrong Work Places

12/30/18; 1/19/19

The Link Between Social Media & Work Vanity

· Is it possible that the same flaw that causes millennials to look into the quick gratification of social media and technology for meeting their value needs is also the same flaw that makes them look for meaning in their work... (insisting on having impact)?

· You should not ever expect to get meaning from work any more than you should expect to get a social life from Facebook!

Mid-point Transition: Now let’s move from addressing our unique satisfaction strategy and also consider and see why we need to include a unique money strategy.

Care About Integrity Instead of Shallowness

· Millennials are said to care more about making impact than they do about making a good wage...

· This shows that vanity has distracted them to look for meaning in their work instead of the value generated from their work...

· This sets you up for failure! -- Your values, priorities, and expectations are in the wrong place

· When millennials, and others in similar fashion, insist on an exciting job where they can feel like they are making an impact, they are still looking for meaning in all the wrong places

· Having impact in your work is nice, and it is very ideal and even honoring, but insisting on it is a dangerous shallow vanity.

· For example, why aren't you much rather satisfied with knowing that you achieved doing things the right way with integrity?

· Why can't we faithfully work in the quiet laboring toward a bigger goal of using the value generated from our work for the real quality impact and exciting adventure in the rest of our life, (which should obviously not be at work by default)?

· Life is more than work, so don’t expect your life to find satisfaction from anything less than real life!

The Vanity of Experience Lust -- Work Satisfaction Part 3

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· If work can be frustrating, then this proves that the experience itself is not worth chasing.

· We should instead prioritize the resulting value of work.

· Living for “Experience” requires no faith, but waiting for the resulting value can sometimes require endurance, faith, and hope.

Instead of craving the “Experience” of immediate gratification of the best circumstances that may suit a shallow soul, we should be motivated by demanding something better to be produced from within ourselves.

We want to actually contradict the lack of virtue in our age and point ourselves toward self-discipline and endurance toward longer-term goals and seek a wiser view of the bigger picture and gain foresight for what really matters in the future...

The Limitations of Most Work Point Us to a Different Value

· Frustration over monotony at work can be a clear sign of not seeing how your work relates to your overall goals and best strategy in life.

· At its best, work is usually a practice ground and a testing and learning environment that indirectly contributes toward our ultimate goals...

· (In most cases, the only kind of work where you should prioritize an intrinsic awareness of meaning, is spiritual biblical work on the Truth.)

· Unless employers show themselves to be remarkably virtuous and honoring and relevant, most every work situation in society should almost always default to be seen as a stepping stone to generate value for a bigger cause...

Pro_14:4 WEB Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Pro_14:4 LB Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean, but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent.

Pro_14:4 οὗ μή εἰσιν βόες, φάτναι καθαραί· οὗ δὲ πολλὰ γενήματα, φανερὰ βοὸς ἰσχύς.

but where there is much produce, the

strength of an ox is apparent.

What Time is it?

Other date(s); 1/26/19; 1/27/19

· It is not time to make the most of your experience at work, per se.

· It is not time to adjust your self-perception as though you were defined by the work that you currently do, especially in the big picture of things.

· It is not time to establish/determine how your current job (and current pay rate) is going to get you to your final destination.

· In general you should always default to taking your current situation with a grain of salt and curiously and patiently watching how it can contribute to change -- NOT getting to your final goal, but simply how can it contribute toward moving you to the next step toward your final goal.

· Millennials are said to not endure and work long and hard toward a long-term goal, but we want to prudently shape our entire strategy for that very purpose / thing.

· The blessed H does seem headed for a long-term goal, and we are still searching for what might could be interfering with that…

Layers of Financial Responsibility & Motivation

1/6/19; 1/26/19; 1/27/19

Intro

· We have established that we should default to looking for the produced value of a job rather than any imagined potential intrinsic value within the work itself.

· Now we should consider the different factors and layers that affect and constrain our financial goals and values.

· Unresolved frustration has indicated that something is apparently misaligned in our values, so let’s set the record straight so we can reclaim our courage!

Goal (Key Take Away)

· Recognize more accurately what your most strategic and most valuing goals and values should be.

· Repositioning your heart away from your short-term needs unto your best long-term goals.

The following “layers” take you from where you're at on into your ultimate responsibility...

(1) Family Constraints

· Your family's desires/goals/ambitions plans for your life

· Accept whatever responsibility you have to accept, but,

· Never take these things too personally or seriously down deep into your own heart, because,

· What partnership can we have with the world (2Co_6), and,

· How can the foolishness of unbelievers trump and overrule the wisdom and prudence and strategy of the wise?

· Despite the ideals of your family, heaven may indeed sometimes reward and prosper you for subjecting and submitting yourself under the rule of Family Constraints (especially for your dad’s sake) but that does not at all imply that unbelievers are actually inherently wise or that they really know what is best for you (especially when they don’t even know who you are!).

· When Family Constraints bid you to go to school and/or choose this career or that path to success, take it with a major grain of salt, because their council is only for this life and does not endure forever.

· Be especially disenchanted when it requires you to believe in their insight and take their word for it against your own conscience and your own pursuit of wisdom.

· Be very non-optimistic with council that calls for your whole-hearted effort and hope and faith and endurance and belief from those who don’t share your heart, or hope, or belief.

· Family Constraints can often represent a very temporary and short-term and short-sighted ambition, and they can often stink with perverted and foolish ideals, so this is a short term realm where we don’t want to set our heart.

· This realm does not represent our greatest ideals or values or honor or strategy.

· Don’t let your heart get contradicted and cheapened by living here.

(2) Best Lap Strategy

· The best wise and prudent strategy based on lap communication to get from point A to point B

· This is the longer-term strategy that applies especially after you might leave the jurisdiction of your parents, and

· This strategy and counsel and these deeper & more personal real desires and goals are found among the council of the righteous and the wise...

· This strategy is where to set your ambition until you have a prophecy otherwise...

· This is what you want to secretly set your heart toward and work toward while seeking to accommodate family constraints as minimalistically as possible to keep peaceableness and jump through the least amount of hoops to get to your real goal

· Setting your ultimate goals to your best strategy is the most personally valuing and non-contradicting way to live that will reinforce your consolation and sanity and encouragement and resolve...

· and go figure: it is the wise & the righteous who know how to truly value you and direct you toward the consolation of who you really are rather than the world (i.e. family constraints)

(3) Providence & Prophecy

· Heaven's providence and prophetic Revelation that unfold how all of this ends up happening and coming together and working out in the end

· Being Faithful in 1 & 2 = the best outcome for 3 (no matter how surprisingly or ironically or unexpectedly everything may turn out in the end)

To Save or Not to Save -- Work Satisfaction Part 4

Other date(s); 1/27/19; 1/30/19; 2/3/19

Work-Satisfaction--Part4--2.3.19.mp3

It’s time to get a unique money strategy (that correlates with how unique we are living and how uniquely we are positioned).

Review: Layers of Financial Responsibility & Motivation

Story #1: Selling Profitable Stocks & Buying Something to Rent Out

Story #2: Saving for Retirement -- Too Premature for the Highly Ambitious

There are Reasons to save, and there are sometimes reasons not to save. In any case, in our case, for us, let’s NOT be like the article on Michael Langieri, my high school classmate in art class, who finally became a manager at Wendy's (in the Reitz Union cafeteria) and started trying to see how he could save up for retirement at a young age... (and he even got in the newspaper for it!)

“Saving for retirement at career’s start” -- Excerpts

“When Michael Langieri dropped out of Santa Fe Community College in 2003, he’d already started planning for retirement.

As store manager for Wendy’s in the Reitz Union at the University of Florida, 26-year-old Langieri now oversees 40 people and saves 12 percent of his salary through his company’s 401(k) program.

Ever since I was a kid, my mom has been drilling into my head to save for retirement as much as possible, says Langieri, who has already stashed away 10,000. I always had a piggy bank. I’ve always been a saver, I guess.”

“Langieri laughs when asked if his friends are also saving for the long term.

Most of my peers don’t think about retirement at all, he says.

But some have gotten the message. We don’t know what Social Security is going to be when we retire, Eisner says. To rely on that alone I think would be futile.

He says it gives him peace of mind knowing that he’s planning ahead, and Wallingford agrees.”

“The people who start out young are going to win, says Joel Daunic, financial representative for Guardian Life Insurance in Gainesville. He recommends developing a strategy - saving first and then making a budget - to take the stress out of retirement planning.

Jo Turner, a certified financial planner and UF professor of family finance, recommends workers save 10 percent of their salaries. But even if they can only afford to save 1 percent, they should do so, Turner says, and increase the percentage as their pay increases.

It’s more important to start, regardless of what it is, she says.

Eisner now sets aside 10 percent in a 401(k) and has already saved 35,000. He advises his peers to have 3 to 5 percent taken out of their paychecks automatically and set aside in a retirement fund.

You never see it, you won’t miss it, he says.

It’s the same philosophy used by 23-year-old Ashley Wallingford, a program assistant in the UF College of Medicine’s compliance office.

If I have money, I’ll spend it, says Wallingford, who saves 2 percent in her employer-sponsored plan and has amassed nearly 1,000 since graduating from UF in April 2005. If it’s something I can’t touch, then I don’t think about it.”

“In 20 years as a financial professional, Turner [is] …part of a multi-state team that teaches county extension offices how to guide 18- to 24-year-olds in planning for their futures.

There are an awful lot of young people who spend every penny they make as soon as they make it, Turner says. We’re trying to change that pattern.”

Saving for retirement at career’s start

https://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20061120/News/604176854/GS/

2006 Article; Accessed/retrieved: 12/30/18

DAP Comments

2/3/19 Sun_5:38pm

Sun_5:40pm

Amen

Important: What are the typical motivations and reasons this article mentions for saving for retirement even if you’re on a minimal wage?

(refer to underlines above)

Save $15 a day or make $15,000 a Week?

· Why save $15 a day when you can use it to make $15,000 a week?

· Average wage for managers has often been less than $20 per hour…

· This question represents the contrast between saving one hour from a $15 an hour wage vs. using it to get an $80,000 salary (as one of us has somewhat experienced recently).

· If we can see this contrast, how much more should we see this potential in ever increasing ways, especially on up until we have reached our potential?

2/3/19 Sun_5:48pm

Do you get interest on 401K?

5:48pm

When to Save and What to Save For?

· Retirement? -- NOT yet, but rather,

· Save up money to afford current needs.

· Save up to avoid going into debt when needing to make larger purchases.

· Save money to purchase the right things (contributions toward our best strategy -- more on that below).

· Saving money and knowing when to spend it can be a very big and critical factor for our success.

Warning: Ironically, Saving Money Can Be A Sign of Hating Money or Loving it

· Sometimes willingly saving money can be a sign of hating money enough not to spend it.

· Other times, saving money in a (locked away) retirement account can be a sign of knowing you are too evil to avoid spending it on unprofitable things in the meantime.

· You can recognize the difference by examining your real needs, best strategies, and your deeper motivations for saving.

· Saving money for retirement as early as possible can seem best for most people, but if it is not best for us, we should beware lest we betray ourselves as though we expect to be evil more than we expect to succeed.

· It is better to focus on talking through spending practices, values, expectations, goals, and strategies than to just fear being evil and lock it away.

· Although employee sponsorship and tax breaks are often very good reasons to save, yet the “parental controls” / “parenting” of not letting you spend your savings is a shame that is sometimes too contradicting to be profitable.

· We should never desire “parental controls” / “parenting” constraints when we have perfect wisdom more available to us than those who would parent us.

· Living under constraints is better than unbridled indulgence, but living free to always do what is best is better than them all (and I would rather die than to give up that hope and goal and wiser ambition).

· If there is any degree where we are not there yet, let’s work on it now, and by no means let us settle for less and incriminate ourselves due to our lack of self-control!

Saving For Retirement Is Not A Stricter Prudence For Us

· For the purposes of this discussion, in our context, "saving for retirement" means anything of saving for longer-term goals that sacrifices our unique immediate potential in the meantime, which is more at hand.

· Those who are fleshly have found their own ideals of so-called wisdom and we should not live according to their supposedly stricter constraints in order to govern (or disarrange and suppress) the freedom we have to do even better in the Truth.

· They can do better when they constrict and force the flesh to behave less indulgently, but we can fly higher by the help of spiritual things and by disregarding the need to constrain a crucified flesh...

· Let them have their strength and relative advantage in constraining the flesh to behave itself better, as best as they can achieve, but let us have our distinct advantages by being able to entirely outmaneuver the flesh as an element to begin with, and let us use its absence as leverage to reap the rewards of righteousness that are uniquely available to those who can do better than the flesh.

· If we are well-behaved within our hope, and we only spend to serve others, and never spend our resources on vanity or pleasing the flesh, and if we have apprehended enough understanding to be faithful with our own prudence, then let us be courageous and hopeful that our spending is not in vain, and if our behavior is prudent and well behaved, then let us look to heaven for success and not “halt on two feet” or have one foot on the gas and the other on the break…

Conclusion: Investing in upgrading our situation is exponentially more profitable than “Saving for Retirement” with a lower income, as long as we know it is right to be very ambitious and not evil in the process.

The Point: Don't be overly troubled if you cannot save as much yet for now, because that is not necessarily one of the top most strategic needs at hand just yet.

Focus on making more before saving more, & you might end up more consoled, comforted, and satisfied in your daily work grind…

>> Review

People like spending money, so they got to protect the money from themselves.

People are putting “parental controls” over their own money to protect it and their future self from their current evil self.

People are advising and asking each other: How can we successfully save money and love spending it too…

This forms the basis and motivation of their “philosophy” and “strategy” of locking away money for retirement “at career’s start” (at the beginning of their career) -- and this is their “wisdom” and “prudence” in order to avoid the bad effects of their love for evil…

This motivation is nasty and must not ever be influencing us or directing our money strategy.

They said that you ‘wouldn’t miss’ the small % / amount of money you put in your 401K, but that assumes a very evil way of operating where you intentionally/strategically/philosophically (still) live paycheck to paycheck (and essentially spend each month on pleasures and perversions).

Story: I very well would have missed any money I had locked away when I (and we) moved around and traveled -- I would have been in grave danger of getting into horrible debt and desperate situations! (Living intentionally looks VERY different than living accidentally and unwisely.)

For us, it does not matter what we have per week or month, it matters what we actually have in the end in the big picture, and it is from that total value that we make our strategic decisions on a much more long-term basis (& perspective) -- and that is the RIGHT way to budget.

If their “small” monthly percent equals a total of $35,000 in the end, then we DO miss that, because this total annual, or multi-annual, value is what we operate by and decide whether or not we can move or buy a house or if more of us have to get “regular jobs” and postpone our bigger wins and better success… (and because we are committed to only investing it prudently, and not hastily spending it in the meantime).

They enjoy spending money on immediate pleasures, and therefore they “force” themselves to invest and lock away a small percent in their own future, but we enjoy investing 100% of our funds right now on immediate strategies for saving the whole world… (and we are persuaded that this will be more profitable for everyone in the end in multiple ways).

We hate money, therefore we do not ENJOY spending money, especially on Satan worship, but we only enjoy INVESTING it as strategically as possible to win eternal profits in the end.

So since we are committed to doing things differently (in holiness, without living in pleasures) we also hope to take advantage of the unique blessings and benefits that come with prudence for much more success.

Let’s not shoot too far into the unforeseen future by accidentally adopting any of the values from worldly strategies.

Let’s not sacrifice our immediate success for financially investing in the faraway ideals of others.

(we are calling this mistake, “Saving for retirement at career’s start”).

Let’s instead first achieve stability, increase, and growth for our more current needs, options, advantages, opportunities, progress, and (esp.) profitability increases which are at hand, and from that we hope to generate more value in the end than if we had been saving for retirement from the little we had all along the way.

Non-Contradictory Plans for Success -- Work Satisfaction Part 5

Don't Prioritize Contradictory Financial Strategies

Obtain Satisfying Plans that Don't Contradict Your Own Success

Work-Satisfaction--Part5--2.10.19.mp3

Other date(s); 1/27/19; 2/10/19?

>>>> Review!!! /\/\/\

· (Disclaimer #1: We’re talking in terms of priority and percentages not in terms of absolutes.)

· (Disclaimer #2: We are also recognizing the limitations of those Layers of Financial Responsibility we already talked about)

· Don't contradict your best strategy by contradictory behaviors, values, & less than strategic maneuvers.

· Either be a content Carpenter and plan on staying a Carpenter and 'making sure you begin to save now', or,
be an ambitious strategist who seeks to become more successful, and then,
save money after you have first achieved a more urgent practical real need of increasing your marketability and becoming more profitable.

· Which strategy are we in?

· If each of our monetary goals were for one person a piece, then our strategies might look very different, but if you compare the amount of assets to people in our corporate situation, then we have lots of reasons to keep shooting for bigger and bigger ambitions.

· (BTW, shooting for bigger wins can be even less “love of money” than chasing after every small profit. -- just in case anyone misunderstood our orientation and relevance to the SOM.)

· We are shooting to meet everyone’s basic needs and have enough beyond that to preach.

· Succeed first at selling yourself, then you can save money for your ultimate goals.

· In general, if you have no further plans of “doubling your income” (or at least drastically increasing it), then you can think about “retirement”.

· In the meantime it is better to invest in doubling your income rather than saving out of less than half of what you could have.

· If you have prudence on your side, then often your own success and increase is a way better investment than all the other banks and stocks and other investments you can make.

· Don't contradict yourself and frustrate your own strategy by first saving for retirement before you have achieved a wage worthy of saving.

· If you are discontent and frustrated at your current work and yet you want to start prioritizing less relevant things like saving for your ultimate goals, this implies that you plan to stay there until you retire, which can be very contradictory and frustrating…

· In general, better to keep your assets somewhat liquid, and be ready for them to flow here and there until you can get them to “heap up”, and then you can frieze some of them when you have more profit than you yourself can keep track of and personally re-invest.

The Point: Can we think of any very good priorities or ways to invest in ourselves to use our money to increase our profitability to exponential degrees that would be way more advantageous than traditional investments?

H’s Reaction-Questions -- Work Satisfaction Part 6

Work-Satisfaction--Part6--2.17.19.mp3

Intro

We are in the middle of 5 & 6

Explorative

Applying best I know so far

Until supernatural provision

QNAs

H 2/10/19 6:43 PM: [with insertions by J]

here are my reactions so far from the bbs

[(A) Funds not in Common]

I think i feel like our funds are not truly like a community yet and so i dont know all the way how to process this section of the bible study.

[(B) No Doubling Solution Yet]

1. I dont think i know what to do in this stage of my life to invest in doubling my income. [(C) Health] I think one thing i face is not wanting to over tax myself (esp with my health not being the best for a while). [(D) No Clear Direction Yet] I think in general i am very open to investing towards these types of things but dont think i have heard a clear direction that is easily assecible for me to take and [(E) Community Not Synced Yet] when i mention things that i do think i can do no one in the community seems to like it.

2. [(F) Can’t Just Give All without Full Financial Commonality] I also dont know how to "invest" all my paycheck (minus my own expenses) towards the community because it does not immediately benefit me. It would really be giving all my paycheck to the community and not sure how to do that yet, in particilar because our funds are not truly in one pot yet.

I think i have other reactions that are maybe just reflections of these two main reactions.

haSun_8:18pm

[(G) Leave Job, Recuperate Health] A mini btw, ive thought about how quickly i would leave this job and i think i liked the idea of recuperating from my last job (as previously mentioned corporately) and in light of this i am trying to focus on my health and getting that stablized before trying to hop to another job, unless ppl think otherwise.

Also btw i really appreciate the bbs, just trying to understand how to process things and not be frustrated

haSun_8:46pm [(H) Thrifty Limits]

[4] @Hd I also dont think i understand the saving money concept. I thought it was good to be frugal, and that being frugal adds up and allows you to invest your money elsewhere. I think i understand that being frugal to the point of being non-functional is bad (like if you dont have time to cook everyday it would be a bad idea to stop eating vs buying cooked meals or paying someone to cook for you) but i thought in general being frugal was a good thing. I think you may be getting at extreme frugality as being bad but i dont think i yet understand where the line is nor how to apply what youre saying yet.

Our Answers

(1-B, 1-D) We Need to Talk -- 3 Quotes to Answer #1

· “Best Lap Strategy…[is] found among the council of the righteous and the wise...”

· “It is better to focus on talking through spending practices, values, expectations, goals, and strategies than to just fear being evil and lock it away.”

· “Addressing this big question means to thoroughly TEST and examine and consider and pray over and discuss and ask each other what our best strategy actually is.”

Defining The Council of the Righteous

· The council of the righteous does not refer to the ideas that the righteous may have, but more so rather,

· The council of the righteous is essentially the conclusions which they all find and come up with in unison corporately, especially among leadership, after doing all due diligence.

· There may be perhaps many better ideas that unbelievers may come up with, which may be practically more successful than the righteous in many ways, but,

· The council of the righteous will examine all of the ideas available (due diligence) from both righteous and unrighteous (after all, God has a proper purpose for all His creatures, including the ones who do not obey Him) and after the righteous council has considered all information available, she can seek to determine what is uniquely best for those hoping in Truth.

· The council of the righteous is reflected in examples such as Acts 15 when the righteous met up and determined what the Truth was.
(Notice they considered the words of both saints, like Peter and Paul, as well as heretics, like the Judaizers.)

(1-E) We Need to Get Synced

“when i mention things that i do think i can do no one in the community seems to like it”

That’s why we need to talk and get synced, that’s why we need the council, and that’s why we need to get through this BBS -- because we have not all been on the same pg!

It does not seem like we have first established our basic unifying pragmatic values & goals yet…

(4) Thrifty

Coupons should be profitable -- when measured by Money & by Time & Focus

Coupons and being thrifty = GOOD!

Losing more time & focus than they are worth = not good

“being frugal adds up and allows you to invest your money elsewhere” -- yes, if it does not cost you too much

Cost: Time and Focus

Trying to save too much can be the opposite of buying back our time…
Focusing too much on saving money can diminish our time & focus…

Loss Management (being thrifty, frugal) is best suited for reoccurring expenses and larger purchases and larger (more expensive) assets, and general virtuous living, and anything else that is within reach and does not subtract or jeopardize time and focus from success.

Whenever loss management prohibits/hinders us from bigger gains, then it has likely surpassed its profitability and gone too far…

Let’s not only think about loss management, but also profitability gain (and increasingly more so as we may have opportunity).

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Couponing Article #1 -- $25-$50 / Hr

“How to Start Couponing for Beginners

1. Set aside time.

Time-Management-Tips

Commit a time-slot to coupon and cut the distractions. Like many things in life, couponing doesn’t take that long when it has your full concentration. My fellow wanderluster, Alicia, allots ~1-2 hours per week and saves about $25-$50 weekly, which, as she thriftily puts it, “equivocates to making $25-50 an hour!”.”

https://thriftynomads.com/couponing-for-beginners-guide/

2/17/19

Couponing Article #2 -- $57.27 / hour

“Is Couponing Worth It?

One week, I kept track of the time spent we spent couponing. If you count the time spent at the breakfast table, we spent a total of 23 minutes on coupons alone that week [times how many people?], along with an extra 14 minutes preparing a grocery list and meal plan [not sure if this counts]. In total, that means we spent 37 minutes planning our weekly shopping trip.

When in the store, we saved approximately 15 minutes because we had a tight, clear shopping list to follow, so our total time lost to the coupons was roughly 22 minutes for the week.

The savings from the coupons alone was $21 on our final receipt, which was actually slightly less than average. That means our “wage” for clipping coupons with this system was $57.27 an hour after taxes for the given sample week.”

https://www.thesimpledollar.com/how-to-coupon/

2/17/19

Couponing Article #3 -- Why They Stopped

“Couponing Can Become a Time-Consuming Obsession

Lastly, a major problem with couponing is that it can become a time-consuming obsession. To truly experience significant savings, you can’t have just a coupon or two – you need to get the coupon inserts every week. You need to buy multiple newspapers to have enough coupons to get several items for free, and you need to organize all of those coupons so you can access them when you need them. Many extreme coupon shoppers carry entire binders full of coupons.

Buying multiple papers, organizing the coupons, reading up on the deals, making shopping lists, going to multiple stores, and checking out while using 100 or more coupons can take huge amounts of time. Ultimately, it may not be time well spent if you are saving thousands of dollars on things that you don’t need and shouldn’t buy.”

https://www.moneycrashers.com/reasons-stop-extreme-couponing/

2/17/19

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Couponing and saving money can be good, useful, & necessary for now, but a significant amount of it might not be best for our ultimate future goals…

This can equate to non-specialization of labor… and that can kill our success…

I want us to start thinking in a big time success mentality, even if we cannot live that way yet… (Remember the parables: there was a certain land owner who hired workers, etc. -- eg. Mat_20:1-16, etc.)

Ultimately (even if not immediately) we want to eventually ask, not as much, just how can I spend time to save money, but more so rather (whenever possible), how can I spend money to save re-invest-able time (and focus) and pour it (back) into the specialization of what only we can do…

“Critical Question: When might it become profitable to buy back our time?”

Eventually buying back time (in at least some form) is inevitably part of being happy to give people their wages and specialize in your own labor -- thus producing more profit and a healthier economy for all… and this is Biblical and ordained by God that humans should get along and collaborate, in the closes picture of human love and collaboration, as much as possibly available, and in this way to do better and increase…

Pay for Profitability -- Work Satisfaction Part 7

I Believe in Our Potential Profitability Enough to Pay for it

Work-Satisfaction--Part7a--2.24.19.mp3

>>>> H’s Question!!! /\/\/\

>> READ PRO_31!!!

Alternate Scenarios -- Review

· Supernatural provision, and/or,

· Enough poor hard-working hands to stay poor

· Go for big wins -- What it appears we might need to do in the meantime while waiting for the 1^st 2 scenarios

Steer a moving car

Children

Ay looks like success

EH too √

Profiting Examples in the Scriptures

>> Scrip:

· Gen_30:25-31:16 – Jacob increasing sheep

· Gen_39 – Joseph prospering - in Potiphar's house, in prison, and in control

>> READ /\/\

Notes & Disclaimers About Our Strategy

Note 1: Heads-up: this can be VERY pragmatic, but hopefully it can be helpful…

Note 2: Heads-up: these examples may become outdated at some point and our examples may change over the years (because these examples are based on seeking to apply prudence to the knowledge I have diligently gathered so far for this specific season and stage we are currently at), but I expect the core ideals and principles to remain essentially the same (aside from prophetic/providential redirection)

Note 3: We are not yet discussing WHAT exactly we should be doing, or WHEN we are ready to do it, but we are mainly trying to get on the same goals and values.

Please endure with these big picture, long-term goals first until we are all sure that we agree on the same goals and then we can flesh out how to specifically take action on these ideals.

Pray as we go over these things so that we might have “aha” moments as we speak, or perhaps gain helpful understanding later in prayer or reflection.

Ideal Goal: after establishing the value we are all seeking, then when we come together we can each bring a prophecy or word or knowledge on how it can go well with us.

Seated Close to Success

2/17/19

Evidence That Our Strategy Could Win & Why I might be Willing to Pay for Our Potential Success

I think I have a lot of reasons to believe in our success...

Sometimes it can seem like we are “seated” so close to winning at any moment...

AySun 12:09am(edited)

I went to a training at work on monday. It was conducted by the company's chief agile coach recently hired to help the company transform. He was also one of the people who starter the agile movement 20 years ago and helped with writing the scrum guide used today.

He sent us his PowerPoint slide and video links so i have an outline (though id have to recreate my own but it wouldnt be from scratch).

He aslo sits 2 seats away from me at work. 1 benefit of being in the "collaborative" environment is thst o get to overhear a lot of his phone calls and thoughts.

As much as i dont like the seating setup, its interesting that im seated next to the agile coaches since coaching stuff is what id prefer to do.

AySun_12:13am(edited)

I was/am concerend about going to interactive trainings cause not sure what might come up with not fully inderstanding what situations are ok to speak in.

There is another training i signed up for this wednesday for the software commonly used by agile teams, JIRA.

Hoping the setup works out well again. This one might b taught by a female coach that sits 1 seat away from me.

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AlSun 8:09am

You're so courageous and ambitious @Ay = -)

May the Lord help you navigate these scenes and cause you to prosper!

Network With Kings -- it’s Biblical (at Least Partly)!

Can we please watch for opportunities to get the important contacts that business leaders have?

Rule of thumb: make the very most of what connections you have while you have them, because you never know whenever seasons may change and opportunities may pass us up…

Examples: Interview people. Take notes. Get referrals. Use the “small ask” principle (Be faithful with little requests and involve them in your achievements). Ask them a lot about the books they wrote or blogs they have posted, awards and successes they’ve achieved, ask them about things they have said and done and decisions they have made. (Ask our local secretary how to call people and make them feel good :+)

Get on good terms with honoring their exaltation (whenever appropriate)…

Go ahead and fully connect with people on LinkedIn (as I wish I had done when I was 1^st with MrS).

>> Heb/Gr

Pro_22:29 WEB Do you see a man skilled^H4106 [i.e. swift / diligent (KJV)] in his work [KJV: business]? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

Pro_22:29 LB It is fit that an observant man and one diligent in his business should attend on kings, and not attend on slothful men.

Pro_22:29 ὁρατικὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ὀξὺν ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ βασιλεῦσι δεῖ παρεστάναι καὶ μὴ παρεστάναι ἀνδράσι νωθροῖς.

Let's keep networking and searching and focusing on shooting for big wins... it's good to go to bat over and over again until we finally hit the ball, and it looks inevitable that we should indeed eventually hit the ball if we just at least keep persisting...!

If we really have this potential, then that gives us reasons to focus more on what we are seeking to achieve and not so be caught up and discouraged with our current seasons of lack.

So when do you think we might be ready to even accelerate our success by paying for our profitability?

Practical Examples of Agreeing with Our Success

When can we even agree Enough to Buy Back Our Time?

· One of the big pragmatic realizations I have had is that success is often determined more by buying the right things rather than just saving money every chance you get (she considers a field and BUYS it, etc. -- Pro_31:16).

· (Loss management can indeed help you from “going under” and failing prematurely, but it is actually how you pay for things that is ultimately more defining in determining success.)

· Pay for profitability increase!

· Remember: profits are better than wages.

· Pay other people to make you more money.

· Pay for even better ways to get yourself more marketable / certified / creditable / in demand / etc..

· Pay to have your marketability better communicated.

· Outsourcing -- re-write your resume to a smashing success.

· In this season: I am very willing to pay for developing marketable CONTENT.

· You could buy credibility in the form of written marketable materials.

· Keep writing & creating conceptual “services” / solutions / courses / etc. (this is even better than virtual products)

· Polish/SEO/Refine/Perfect your master sales pitch / script / infomercial

· Use your current pay to create inbound-educational marketing / BLOGS / YouTube videos /

· (esp. ideally marketing high-end services, rather than consumer products… sell US, not products)

· General: pay to swiftly/most effectively accomplish something once that can keep on paying you over and over again.

· Invest in refining all your processes

· Pay to increase efficiency and decrease the burden of what you face and deal with every day….!!!

· Pay to increase daily functionality (and sometimes weekly/monthly functionality)

· Critical Question: When might it become profitable to buy back our time?

· Addressing this big question means to thoroughly TEST and examine and consider and pray over and discuss and ask each other what our best strategy actually is.

· Notice that we have NOT yet determined how many coupons we should use or pass up, or how much we should buy back our time, or what exact success we should purchase, or when we are ready to pay for these things, but we have only said that we want to seek these things and corporately determine what and when they should be…

· Generically (esp. in other contexts), I might invest in profitability by PAYING to…
Increase our sales (& salesforce)
Reduce expenses
make new products
Remodel our storefront
Increase our portfolio in various ways

· More examples?

· Usually it is best to buy from cheaper stores, but sometimes it is more profitable to buy from the local Publix (esp. when we can’t go on errands for a while) -- (but that is the EXCEPTION until we cannot afford to go out anymore due to increasing profits.)

Pro_

Transition from Being a “Consumer-Worker” to a Successful Entrepreneurial Business

Let’s Aim to Change our mentality, ideals, goals, strategies, functionality as swiftly as we can Afford

· A long time ago I concluded that there should be a much higher percentage of righteous people starting their own business because they can have special privileges of help beyond all creatures (compare Joseph, Jacob, and even the beginning and end of Job’s life, for example).

· Just as mega corporations and chains and franchises pay designers and architects and builders to come build more stores for their empires, so also we should consider what is successful and see how we can pay others to build our success.

· But in any case (whether products or services) consider this irony: who is more successful? The one who is PAID to build stores, or the one who PAYS to have them built?

· If it were not way more profitable to PAY for stores than to build them, major stores would almost never be made…

· The one who is hired gets wages (gets paid), and the one who hires (pays) gets profits…
(Therefore even bigger construction companies can be owned by people who basically no longer do construction themselves…)

· The BIG catch to realize is that big corporations can often pay to become more successful at mass producing products, but individuals almost always have to sell unique services to operate on this same scale.

· and NO, the internet does not usually work for making even decent money for most people, not to mention big wins, because the internet is fundamentally BROKEN, and is somewhat like trying to win the lottery… and since we are not willing to rely on “luck” we might only go this route if we have a very unique and high potential of beating the odds…)

· If people don’t fall for “saving for retirement” then they often get inflated with vain glory and gamble all their hopes on pipe dreams and imagine they can succeed by marketing on the internet…

· People often either think that wages are a means to big success or they think that the internet is a great way to quit your job and become very successful by marketing to LOTs of other consumers -- both of these are essentially “consumer mentalities”, and hopefully we can dodge both of these and find what is truly best for us…

· The typical consumer knows nothing beyond being a consumer, and therefore he seeks to make money the same way he spends it, and he seeks to earn his food the same way he eats it.

· If you have bigger projects than the average consumer, then we have all the more reason to get away from the “consumer mentality” and consider and (hopefully) permanently get over on the better side of the fence were people can do things differently to succeed on a much larger scale.

· The sooner we pay to become more marketable and in demand the sooner we can have big leverage to upgrade our functionality to larger scale operations.

Getting Our Ambitions Synced to Embrace Synchronized Endurance

· Let's labor to all have the same knowledge, and persuasion, and ideals of our potential

· If we get on the same page about our best financial strategy, then we will probably reinforce each other's encouragement by chopping in the same hope and knowledge and direction and strategy and goals.

· Best Spiritual Strategy: let me just temporarily use the things in this world to get through this life and then get rewarded forever.

· Potentially Best Parabolic Physical Strategy: in general, in a very important sense, all we might need to do is use the limited funds we have and those which we can possibly acquire at this season to make it through into the next season of better success.

· The only remaining question in the meantime is: what is our best strategic priority & potential?

This partly answers V’s questions:

>> TTS: Refine \/\/

Review

Work-Satisfaction--Part7b--3.3.19.mp3

· internet is broken -- core tech (IP addresses) to the vanity of “popularity” content overruling quality content -- the myth that “content is king” is a comparable joke just as winning the election is not about real qualifications, but it is almost just like a little high school popularity contest!

· I have put out way better Biblical and sometimes even partly secular content and (almost always) the only thing I get even slightly/partly ranked for is when I talk about other people who are popular!

· You usually have to cheat to win on the internet, therefore you cannot count on serious success unless you start with an offline-first approach that is supplemented by the internet -- DOWN Stream (and completely independent of search engines) -- and that’s why I am so angry at “internet first”, worthless-hearted, sleazy cheater “gospels”…

· The internet is way over flooded with people trying to win big (people who boast otherwise, saying, there is still enough of the internet for everyone to get a slice of the pie -- they are almost always lying out of their own cheap vanity and filthy cheating), so you have got to do something fundamentally different and extremely valuable and offline-first to win

· It can be challenging even with YouTube: there is no real connection between how many views you have and how much money you are making. all that matters is how many conversions you are making and that determines how much money you're making on YouTube

· Who you know determines where you go -- so “networking with kings” makes sense

· Notice @Ay spent allot to move & that made more money

· notice how willing I/we can be to invest all kinds of time & money into creating courses

· more blessed to give than to receive

“Best Strategy for Satisfaction” Scripture Readings -- Work Satisfaction Part 8

Other date(s); 3/3/19; 4/21/19; 4/28/19

Work-Satisfaction--Part8--4.21.19.mp3

>> Review!!!!!! /\/\/\/\

Scripture Translation Disclaimer

· General Scripture Quotations virtually always differ to an update…
(and that’s mostly what we got today)

· So by the time some might refer to any written resources we expect to have in the future, these newer resources should expectantly surpass our current efforts, however, nevertheless,

· we hope there can also be pertinent exhortations in the meantime (when recording).

>> Scrip:

Pro: Blessed diligent hands

>tsk

Matthew 13 & 25, Luke 19 – Make Money Work for Us

Our Concluding Goal

Other date(s); 3/3/19; 5/5/19; 5/26/19

Instead of working as a slave to get more money, you should much rather prefer to learn how to turn your money into a slave for you and make your money work for you.

Matthew 13 – Treasure & Pearl Parables

· Mat_13:44 – Treasure Hidden in the Field

· Mat_13:45-46 – The Pearl of Great Price

· Think: Bigger Wins

· Profits are better than wages.

· We are not seeking to exchange value.

· We are looking for mega profits on what we pay for now.

· Loss management can stop you from going under, but it's how you spend your money that usually determines if you're successful.

· In most cases you cannot save your way to success but you can pay your way there.

Luke 19 & Matthew 25 – the Parable of the Talents

· Luk_19:12-27 – Traveling Nobleman/King/Lord & 10 Servants with 3 examples
(Jerusalem journey clarifying parable)
Characters: Lord, 10 servants, citizens
10 Servants = 10 virgins in Matthew 25
Servants told to Occupy till I come
(Citizens hatted Him)
Trading
1lb/μνᾶς* H4488>G3414 > 10 servants [1Ki_10:17; Ezr_2:69; Neh_7:71-72; Eze_45:12; Luk_19:13, Luk_19:16, Luk_19:18, Luk_19:20, Luk_19:24-25]
(* LJS: “as a weight, = 100 drachmae”; VGNT: “per month”—the usual rate of interest…used with reference to weight”; WS says: twelve ounces…a silver coin)
1lb > 10/5 MNAs
1lb > Hidden in a napkin
out of your own mouth -- I will judge you
Bank/interest/usury: minimum
(Slay enemies)

· Mat_25:14-30 – Traveling Lord & 3 Specified Servants
(Context:
(A) Mat 24: House Guarder (Mat 24:42-43), Feeding Servant -- exalted or executed? (Mat 24:44-51);
(B) Mat 25: 10 virgins, Talents, Sheep & Goats)
Delivered unto Hi servants His goods: 5, 2, 1 Talents
5 Tal: Traded, made 5 more
2 Tal: Gained 2 likewise
Reward: Faithful (according to ability) > Ruler
1 Tal Deeds: hid money vs. bank/interest/“usury” (due to “hard man” fear)
1 Tal Incrimination: wicked/slothful/lazy > outer darkness, i.e. I never knew you (preceding context of 10 virgins)

Valid, Better, Best?

· None of these examples are wages -- all are profits

· Saving in the bank is valid, but it is the very LEAST you could do, not the best.

· The more aggressive and multiplicative investments bring about the most profits and praise from the master.

· Saving money for retirement = Crazy, if you’re young and ambitious and expecting to increase from a minimal wage

· Saving money to buy an upgrade to your life so you can make more is prudent.

· Spending much money to make much, much more money is very thoughtful and prudent!

· (because profits are better than wages)

...

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_16:1-13

Sorry wrong reference

_25:27”

Woe to the Lazy Servant!

5/13/19; 6/9/19

· The lazy servant was not a problem solver and therefore was not toward profit...

· This lazy non problem solving servant is hated and rejected and thrown out into outer darkness...

· Do we break things when eyes turn the other way???

· Let us not bear the parable of the cursed who are hated in hell forever, but let us fully delight in bearing the icon of Truth and honesty and love and courageous service that profits

Proverbs 31 – Buying to Increase

Pro_31:10-29, etc.

Lydia of Thyatira – a Dealer of Purple Cloth

Wiki: regarded as the first documented convert to Christianity in Europe

Think: Bigger Wins

Act_16:14 CAB And a certain woman named Lydia, ·a dealer of purple cloth of the city of Thyatira [πορφυρόπωλις πόλεως Θυατείρων], who worshipped God, heard us, whose heart The Lord opened to give heed to the things spoken by Paul.

Act_16:14 καί τις γυνὴ ὀνόματι Λυδία, πορφυρόπωλις πόλεως Θυατείρων, σεβομένη τὸν Θεόν, ἤκουεν, ἧς ὁ Κύριος διήνοιξε τὴν καρδίαν προσέχειν τοῖς λαλουμένοις ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου.

Act_16:15 And when she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." So she persuaded us.

Act_16:15 ὡς δὲ ἐβαπτίσθη καὶ ὁ οἶκος αὐτῆς, παρεκάλεσε λέγουσα· εἰ κεκρίκατέ με πιστὴν τῷ Κυρίῳ εἶναι, εἰσελθόντες εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου ^TSBμείνατε |Aμενετε|· καὶ παρεβιάσατο ἡμᾶς.

[“Thyatira in the province of Lydia (located in what is now western Turkey) was famous for the red [variety of purple] dye”

Cumming, John (1998). Butler's Lives of the Saints. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press. p. 24.]

Dorcas – A Maker of Tunics And Cloaks

Act_9:39 CAB And arising, Peter went with them. When he arrived, they took him into the upper room, and all the widows stood beside him weeping, showing him tunics and cloaks which Dorcas was making, while being with them.

Act_9:39 ἀναστὰς δὲ Πέτρος συνῆλθεν αὐτοῖς· ὃν παραγενόμενον ἀνήγαγον εἰς τὸ ὑπερῷον, καὶ παρέστησαν αὐτῷ πᾶσαι αἱ χῆραι κλαίουσαι καὶ ἐπιδεικνύμεναι χιτῶνας καὶ ἱμάτια ὅσα ἐποίει μετ᾿ αὐτῶν οὖσα ἡ Δορκάς.

Profiting Examples in the Scriptures

· Gen_30:25 – Gen_31:16 – Jacob increasing sheep

· Gen_39:1-23 – Joseph prospering - in Potiphar's house, in prison, and in control

>> READ /\/\

Don’t Be Stingy -- Proverbs and Sirach -- Work Satisfaction Part 9

WKI: Miser

“A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions.[1] Although the word is sometimes used loosely to characterise anyone who is mean with their money, if such behaviour is not accompanied by taking delight in what is saved, it is not properly miserly.”

Proverbs 23 – A Rich Ruler and a Stingy Miser

Pro_23:1 WEB When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

Pro_23:1 LB If you sit to eat at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before you;

Pro_23:1 ἐὰν καθίσῃς δειπνεῖν ἐπὶ τραπέζης δυναστῶν, νοητῶς νόει τὰ παρατιθέμενά σοι

Pro_23:2 WEB put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Pro_23:2 and apply your hand, knowing that it behooves you to prepare such meats; but if you are very insatiable,

Pro_23:2 καὶ ἐπίβαλλε τὴν χεῖρά σου εἰδὼς ὅτι τοιαῦτά σε δεῖ παρασκευάσαι·

Pro_23:3 WEB Don't be desirous of his dainties, seeing they are deceitful food.

Pro_23:3 do not desire his provisions; for these belong to a false life.

Pro_23:3 εἰ δὲ ἀπληστότερος εἶ, μὴ ἐπιθύμει τῶν ἐδεσμάτων αὐτοῦ, ταῦτα γὰρ ἔχεται ζωῆς ψευδοῦς.

Pro_23:4 WEB Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Pro_23:4 If you are poor, do not measure yourself with a rich man, but refrain yourself in your wisdom.

Pro_23:4 μὴ παρεκτείνου πένης ὢν πλουσίῳ, τῇ δὲ σῇ ἐννοίᾳ ἀπόσχου·

Pro_23:5 WEB Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Pro_23:5 If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle’s are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.

Pro_23:5 ἐὰν ἐπιστήσῃς τὸ σὸν ὄμμα πρὸς αὐτόν, οὐδαμοῦ φανεῖται, κατεσκεύασται γὰρ αὐτῷ πτέρυγες ὥσπερ ἀετοῦ, καὶ ὑποστρέφει εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ προεστηκότος αὐτοῦ.

Pro_23:6 WEB Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

Pro_23:6 Do not eat with an envious manG940.1 [βασκάνῳ (Gal_3:1: ἐβάσκανε – fig. bewitched)], neither desire his meats;

Pro_23:6 μὴ συνδείπνει ἀνδρὶ βασκάνῳ μηδὲ ἐπιθύμει τῶν βρωμάτων αὐτοῦ·

Pro_23:7 WEB for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Pro_23:7 so he eats and drinks as if anyone should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him;

Pro_23:7 ὃν τρόπον γὰρ εἴ τις καταπίοι τρίχα, οὕτως ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει.

Pro_23:8 WEB The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

Pro_23:8 for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.

Pro_23:8 μηδὲ πρὸς σὲ εἰσαγάγῃς αὐτὸν καὶ φάγῃς τὸν ψωμόν σου μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ· ἐξεμέσει γὰρ αὐτὸν καὶ λυμανεῖται τοὺς λόγους σου τοὺς καλούς.

>> Sync: WkEth | GePa (Pro_23:7-8)

Proverbs Summaries and Sirach Previews

· There are two characters at the beginning of Proverbs 23, and you got to watch out for both of them!

· Be careful when eating with a ruler/prince (Pro_23:1)

· Don’t desire/pursue or trust/believe in his deceitful/false riches (Pro_23:3-5)

· Don’t eat at all with a stingy/corrupted/envious/bewitched man (Pro_23:6)

· Only carefully eat a little of the deceitful/false (Pro_23:3) food of a ruler/prince (Pro_23:1-2)

· Don’t even desire the food of a stingy/corrupted/envious/bewitched man (Pro_23:6-8)

· You might get away with the necessity of carefully eating a little with a rich ruler/prince (Pro_23:1-5) but you will regret ever eating with a rotten evil man… (Pro_23:6-8)

· It is bitter to share the benefits of most rich people because their heart is set on cheating to get their wealth

· Don’t seek to get rich by saving every little bit at the expense of current needs

· God’s way of providing is often very sudden and is not based on your own effort (see: Sir_11:21, etc.; Jesus’ miracles, etc.), but by faithful endurance being worked through you (by enduring in doing things right)

· God’s exaltation is contrary to cheating: both grabbing wealth too quickly in covetousness and by worrying to save it up yourself by stinginess

· God’s exaltation first recognizes the fleeting “wings” of riches/rich people and does not hope to get needs met by grabbing after them like that

· Righteous people do not want to get rich like normal rich people get rich (because it is deceitful!)

Sirach Prep Cautions

· We don’t know what text is original -- the text is not completely established

· Let’s be careful not to jump on one text and run with it when we don’t know for sure what the details are saying…

· We don’t know if our season is here yet to buy back our time like these passages discuss

· Hypocrites abused teachings like this -- as can be seen in Wisdom 2 and Luk_16, etc.

· Let’s carefully examine and consider in what sense these things are True, and not be like the Hypocrites who prematurely congratulated themselves for being happy to justify their sin and love of money, etc.

· What is the big picture idea and goal, and in what sense can this said to be true within the boundaries of Orthodoxy (i.e. self-denial, humility, preferred poverty exaltation, the New Covenant in general, etc.)?

· This is how you obey as much of the Bible as possible when you are not sure where the iotas and Kerias are at

· This is our special strategy for scenarios such as this when the details are pending

Sirach 11 Preceding context: Wife’s song

Sir_11:17-22, etc. – Suddenly Exalted By Virtue, Not Stinginess

17 Yahweh’s gift remains with the pious;

his favor brings continued success [br: bringeth prosperity for ever].

Sir_11:17 δόσις κυρίου παραμένει εὐσεβέσιν, καὶ ἡ εὐδοκία αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα εὐοδωθήσεται.

Sir_11:18 HEB A man may become rich through a miser’s life,

and this is his allotted reward:

Sir_11:18 Br There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this his the portion of his reward:

Sir_11:18 ἔστιν πλουτῶν ἀπὸ προσοχῆς καὶ σφιγγίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὕτη ἡ μερὶς τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ·

Sir_11:19 HEB when he says: “I have found rest,

now I will feast on my possessions,”

he does not know how long it will be

till he dies and leaves them to others.

Sir_11:19 Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall come upon him, and that he must leave those things to others, and die.

Sir_11:19 ἐν τῷ εἰπεῖν αὐτόν Εὗρον ἀνάπαυσιν καὶ νῦν φάγομαι ἐκ τῶν ἀγαθῶν μου, καὶ οὐκ οἶδεν τίς καιρὸς παρελεύσεται καὶ καταλείψει αὐτὰ ἑτέροις καὶ ἀποθανεῖται.

Sir_11:20 HEB My son,2 [2 [Sir_11:20] Heb(A), Syr / LXX, Lat omits “My son”] hold fast to your duty,3 [3 [ Sir_11:20] Heb(A) / LXX, Lat “covenant” [διαθήκῃ]] busy yourself with it, grow old while doing your task.

Sir_11:20 Be stedfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and wax old in thy work.

Sir_11:20 Στῆθι ἐν διαθήκῃ σου καὶ ὁμίλει ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ σου παλαιώθητι.

Sir_11:21 HEB Do not admire how sinners live,

but trust in Yahweh and wait for his light;4 [4 [ Sir_11:21] Heb(A), some Lat / LXX, most Lat “for your labor”]

for it is easy in the eyes of Yahweh,

suddenly, in an instant, to make a poor man rich.

Sir_11:21 Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

Sir_11:21 μὴ θαύμαζε ἐν ἔργοις ἁμαρτωλοῦ, πίστευε δὲ κυρίῳ καὶ ἔμμενε τῷ πόνῳ σου· ὅτι κοῦφον ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς κυρίου διὰ τάχους ἐξάπινα πλουτίσαι πένητα.

Sir_11:22 HEB The blessing of the Lord is in5 [5 [ Sir_11:22] Heb / LXX adds] the lot of the pious man, and in due time his hopes bear fruit.

Sir_11:22 The blessing of the Lord is in the reward of the godly, and suddenly he maketh his blessing flourish.

Sir_11:22 εὐλογία κυρίου ἐν μισθῷ εὐσεβοῦς, καὶ ἐν ὥρᾳ ταχινῇ ἀναθάλλει εὐλογίαν αὐτοῦ.

Sir_14:3-19 – A Person Won't Succeed If They Won't Pay Even For Them Self

>> big wins

Sir_14:3 HEB Wealth ill becomes the mean man;

and of what use is gold to the miser?

Sir_14:3 Riches are not comely for a [stingy person] niggard* [Scandinavian? → Middle English (aparently not Latin origon)]: and what should an envious man do with money?

Sir_14:3 Ἀνδρὶ μικρολόγῳ οὐ καλὸς ὁ πλοῦτος, καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ βασκάνῳ ἵνα τί χρήματα;

[* niggard (not: -er) – Google: “alteration of earlier nigon, probably of Scandinavian origin”; the profanity, ending in “-er”, is of Latin origon and is used in the Bible in its original sense of “black”.]

Sir_14:4 HEB What he denies himself, he collects for someone else, and in his possessions a stranger will revel.

Sir_14:4 He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for others, that shall spend his goods riotously.

Sir_14:4 ὁ συνάγων ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ συνάγει ἄλλοις, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς αὐτοῦ τρυφήσουσιν ἕτεροι.

5 To whom will he be generous who is stingy with himself and does not enjoy what is his own?

Sir_14:5 He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? he shall not take pleasure in his goods.

Sir_14:5 ὁ πονηρὸς ἑαυτῷ τίνι ἀγαθὸς ἔσται; καὶ οὐ μὴ εὐφρανθήσεται ἐν τοῖς χρήμασιν αὐτοῦ.

Sir_14:6 No man is more stingy than he who is stingy with himself;

he punishes his own miserliness.

Sir_14:6 There is none worse than he that envieth himself [βασκαίνοντος ἑαυτὸν]; and this is a recompence of his wickedness.

Sir_14:6 τοῦ βασκαίνοντος ἑαυτὸν οὐκ ἔστιν πονηρότερος, καὶ τοῦτο ἀνταπόδομα τῆς κακίας αὐτοῦ·

Sir_14:7 If ever he is generous, it is by mistake;6 [6 [ Sir_14:7] Syr / LXX “it is through forgetfulness”]

and in the end he displays his greed.

Sir_14:7 And if he doeth good, he doeth it unwillingly; and at the last he will declare his wickedness.

Sir_14:7 κἂν εὖ ποιῇ, ἐν λήθῃ ποιεῖ, καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων ἐκφαίνει τὴν κακίαν αὐτοῦ.

Sir_14:8 The miser is an evil man;

he refuses his neighbor and brings ruin on himself.7 [7 [ Sir_14:7~8] LXX / Heb(A) omits “If ever he is generous…ruin on himself.” / Syr omits “In the miser’s opinion…ruin on himself.”]

Sir_14:8 The envious man hath a wicked eye; he turneth away his face, and despiseth men.

Sir_14:8 πονηρὸς ὁ βασκαίνων ὀφθαλμῷ, ἀποστρέφων πρόσωπον καὶ ὑπερορῶν ψυχάς.

Sir_14:9 In the miser’s opinion his share is insufficient;

but his stinginess withers his appetite.

Sir_14:9 A covetous man's eye is not satisfied with his portion; and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

Sir_14:9 πλεονέκτου ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ ἐμπίπλαται μερίδι, καὶ ἀδικία πονηρὰ ἀναξηραίνει ψυχήν.

Sir_14:10 The miser’s eye is rapacious for bread,

but on his own table he sets it stale.

Sir_14:10 A wicked eye envieth his bread, and he is a [stingy person] niggard [Scandinavian origin?] at his table.

Sir_14:10 ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρὸς φθονερὸς ἐπ᾿ ἄρτῳ καὶ ἐλλιπὴς ἐπὶ τῆς τραπέζης αὐτοῦ.

>> Sync: WkEth | GePa (Sir_14:10)

Sir_14:11 My son, if you have anything, do good to yourself,8 [8 [ Sir_14:11] LXX / Heb(A) “if you have anything serve yourself; if you have anything, do good to yourself” / Syr “if you have anything serve yourself”]

·and enjoy it as best you can [Br: and give the Lord his due offering [καὶ προσφορὰς κυρίῳ ἀξίως πρόσαγε]].

Sir_14:11 My son, according to thy ability do good to thyself, and give the Lord his due offering.

Sir_14:11 Τέκνον, καθὼς ἐὰν ἔχῃς, εὖ ποίει σεαυτὸν καὶ προσφορὰς κυρίῳ ἀξίως πρόσαγε·

Sir_14:12 Remember that death does not tarry,

nor has the decree9 [9 [ Sir_14:12] Heb, Syr / LXX “covenant”] of the Netherworld been shown to you.

Sir_14:12 Remember that death will not be long in coming, and that the covenant of the ~~grave~~ [ᾅδου] is not shewed unto thee.

Sir_14:12 μνήσθητι ὅτι θάνατος οὐ χρονιεῖ καὶ διαθήκη ᾅδου οὐχ ὑπεδείχθη σοι·

Sir_14:13 Before you die, be good to your friend,

and give him a share in what you possess.

Sir_14:13 Do good unto thy friend before thou die, and according to thy ability stretch out thy hand and give to him.

Sir_14:13 πρίν σε τελευτῆσαι εὖ ποίει φίλῳ καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἰσχύν σου ἔκτεινον καὶ δὸς αὐτῷ.

Sir_14:13 Do not deprive yourself of present good things, let no choice portion escape you [Br: Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee].

Sir_14:14 Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee.

Sir_14:14 μὴ ἀφυστερήσῃς ἀπὸ ἀγαθῆς ἡμέρας, καὶ μερὶς ἐπιθυμίας ἀγαθῆς μή σε παρελθάτω.

Sir_14:15 Will you not leave your riches to others, and your earnings to be divided by lot?

Sir_14:15 Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy labours to be divided by lot?

Sir_14:15 οὐχὶ ἑτέρῳ καταλείψεις τοὺς πόνους σου καὶ τοὺς κόπους σου εἰς διαίρεσιν κλήρου;

Sir_14:16 Give, take, and ·treat yourself well [Br: sanctify thy soul],

for there are no joys to seek in the Netherworld.

Sir_14:16 Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no seeking of dainties in the ~~grave~~ [ᾅδου].

Sir_14:16 δὸς καὶ λαβὲ καὶ ἀπάτησον τὴν ψυχήν σου, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ᾅδου ζητῆσαι τρυφήν.

Sir_14:17 All flesh grows old, like a garment;

the age-old decree10 [10 [ Sir_14:17] Heb / LXX “covenant”] is: All must die.

Sir_14:17 All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.

Sir_14:17 πᾶσα σὰρξ ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιοῦται· ἡ γὰρ διαθήκη ἀπ᾿ αἰῶνος Θανάτῳ ἀποθανῇ.

Sir_14:18 As with the leaves that grow on a vigorous tree:

one falls off and another sprouts—

So with the generations of flesh and blood:

Sir_14:18 As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.

Sir_14:18 ὡς φύλλον θάλλον ἐπὶ δένδρου δασέος, τὰ μὲν καταβάλλει, ἄλλα δὲ φύει, οὕτως γενεὰ σαρκὸς καὶ αἵματος, ἡ μὲν τελευτᾷ, ἑτέρα δὲ γεννᾶται.

1 [ Sir_13:20

2 [ Sir_13:21

3 [ Sir_13:21] LXX “humble”

4 [ Sir_13:26] Heb, LXX / others add

5 [ Sir_13:26

6 [ Sir_14:7

7 [ Sir_14:7~8

8 [ Sir_14:11

9 [ Sir_14:12] Heb, Syr / LXX “covenant”

10 [ Sir_14:17] Heb / LXX “covenant”

one dies and another is born.

19 All man’s works will perish in decay,

and his handiwork will follow after him.

Sir 14:18

Sir 14:19 Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker thereof shall go withal.

Sir 14:19 πᾶν ἔργον σηπόμενον ἐκλείπει, καὶ ὁ ἐργαζόμενος αὐτὸ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἀπελεύσεται.

Sir_22:23 – Faithful Generosity Shares in The Exaltation of the Poor

23 Make fast friends with a man while he is poor;

thus will you enjoy his prosperity with him;

for there should never be any despising o f a man’s appearance

or admiration of a rich man who is ~~stupid~~.2 [2 [ Sir_22:23] some LXX adds]

in time of trouble remain true to him,

so as to share in his inheritance when it comes.

Sir_22:23 Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.

Sir_22:23 πίστιν κτῆσαι ἐν πτωχείᾳ μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον, ἵνα ἐν τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς αὐτοῦ ὁμοῦ πλησθῇς· ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως διάμενε αὐτῷ, ἵνα ἐν τῇ κληρονομίᾳ αὐτοῦ συγκληρονομήσῃς.

Sirach 31 Heb / Sirach 34 LXX

Sir_31:22 Listen to me, my son, and do not scorn me;

later you will find my advice good. In whatever you do, be moderate,1

and no sickness will befall you.

Sir 34:22 My son, hear me, and despise me not, and at the last thou shalt find as I told thee: in all thy works be quick, so shall there no sickness come unto thee.

Sir 34:22 φονεύων τὸν πλησίον ὁ ἀφαιρούμενος ἐμβίωσιν, καὶ ἐκχέων αἷμα ὁ ἀποστερῶν μισθὸν μισθίου.

23 On a man generous with food, blessings are invoked, and this testimony to his goodness is lasting;

Sir 34:23 Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of him; and the report of his good housekeeping will be believed.

Sir 34:23 εἷς οἰκοδομῶν, καὶ εἷς καθαιρῶν· τί ὠφέλησαν πλεῖον ἢ κόπους;

24 he who is miserly with food is denounced in public, and this testimony2 to his stinginess is lasting.

Sir 34:24 But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be doubted of.

Sir 34:24 εἷς εὐχόμενος, καὶ εἷς καταρώμενος· τίνος φωνῆς εἰσακούσεται ὁ δεσπότης;

Following context: don’t abuse wine

Sirach 34 Heb / Sirach 31 LXX

21 If one sacrifices ill-gotten goods, the offering is tainted.2

Sir 31:18 He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is ridiculous; and the gifts of unjust men are not accepted.

22 The presents3 from the lawless are not acceptable.

Sir 31:18 καὶ εἰ ἀνὰ μέσον πλειόνων ἐκάθισας, πρότερος αὐτῶν μὴ ἐκτείνῃς τὴν χεῖρά σου.

23 The Most High does not approve the gifts of the godless, nor for their many sacrifices does he forgive their sins.

Sir 31:19 The most High is not pleased with the offerings of the wicked; neither is he pacified for sin by the multitude of sacrifices.

Sir 31:19 Ὡς ἱκανὸν ἀνθρώπῳ πεπαιδευμένῳ τὸ ὀλίγον, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς κοίτης αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἀσθμαίνει.

24 Like the man who slays a son in his father’s presence

is he who offers sacrifice from the possessions of the poor.

he who withholds it is a man of blood. [LXX: next verse]

Sir 31:20 Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as one that killeth the son before his father's eyes.

Sir 31:20 ὕπνος ὑγιείας ἐπὶ ἐντέρῳ μετρίῳ· ἀνέστη πρωί, καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ. πόνος ἀγρυπνίας καὶ χολέρας καὶ στρόφος μετὰ ἀνδρὸς ἀπλήστου·

25 The bread of charity is life itself for the needy;

Sir 31:21 The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood. [Heb: previous verse]

Sir 31:21 καὶ εἰ ἐβιάσθης ἐν ἐδέσμασιν, ἀνάστα ἔμεσον πόρρω, καὶ ἀναπαύσῃ.

26 He slays his neighbor who deprives him of his living:

27 he sheds blood who denies the laborer his wages.

Sir 31:22 He that taketh away his neighbour's living slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

Sir 31:22 ἄκουσόν μου, τέκνον, καὶ μὴ ἐξουδενήσῃς με, καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων εὑρήσεις τοὺς λόγους μου· ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις σου γίνου ἐντρεχής, καὶ πᾶν ἀρρώστημα οὐ μή σοι ἀπαντήσῃ.

28 If one man builds up and another tears down, what do they gain but trouble?

Sir 31:23 When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit have they then but labour?

Sir 31:23 λαμπρὸν ἐπ᾿ ἄρτοις εὐλογήσει χείλη, καὶ ἡ μαρτυρία τῆς καλλονῆς αὐτοῦ πιστή.

29 If one man prays and another curses, whose voice will Yahweh hear?

Sir 31:24 When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voice will the Lord hear?

Sir 31:24 πονηρῷ ἐπ᾿ ἄρτῳ διαγογγύσει πόλις, καὶ ἡ μαρτυρία τῆς πονηρίας αὐτοῦ ἀκριβής.

Sirach 31 Heb / Sirach 37 LXX

Sir_31:11 Do not speak to a woman about her rival, nor to a coward about war,

to a merchant about business, to a buyer about value,

to a miser about generosity,6 to a cruel man about mercy, to a lazy man about work,

to a seasonal laborer about the harvest, to an idle slave about a great task:

pay no attention to any advice they give.7

Sir 37:11 Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.

Sir 37:11 μετὰ γυναικὸς περὶ τῆς ἀντιζήλου αὐτῆς καὶ μετὰ δειλοῦ περὶ πολέμου, μετὰ ἐμπόρου περὶ μεταβολίας καὶ μετὰ ἀγοράζοντος περὶ πράσεως, μετὰ βασκάνου περὶ εὐχαριστίας καὶ μετὰ ἀνελεήμονος περὶ χρηστοηθείας, μετὰ ὀκνηροῦ περὶ παντὸς ἔργου καὶ μετὰ μισθίου ἐφετίου περὶ συντελείας, οἰκέτῃ ἀργῷ περὶ πολλῆς ἐργασίας, μὴ ἔπεχε ἐπὶ τούτοις περὶ πάσης συμβουλίας·

Sirach Summaries for When to Spend

· Don’t focus on saving up for the unknown future when we all know that the known future includes an unknown death timing

· Being too focused on saving up for the long-term can ruin the short term in the meantime before you even get a chance to reap any real benefit in the long-term

· Focus on the healthiness of meeting current needs -- both yours and others

· Generosity includes not being stingy against others but it can start with being stingy within yourself

· If you will not even meet your own needs for the sake of improperly saving for the future then you are already poisoned when it comes time to be generous with others

Concluding on Consolation

Let’s address what we’ve said in somewhat of a reverse order…

Strategy Summaries & Follow-ups

· Our best strategy does not have/need to be “to each his own...”

· We wish all our goals/dreams could all be advanced/increased by the same/unified collaboration [working together/team effort], and it has not been this way in recent seasons, but ultimately/eventually (in the end) we want that...

· Interestingly, in order to achieve [accomplish or gain with effort] work satisfaction , we need to apprehend [understand/capture] consolation in longer-term work Investments, and possibly shorter-term financial [monetary] investments.

· I much prefer to focus on the best path (course/route/direction) to (longer-term) success, rather than [instead] the shortest path to (shorter-term) financial relief [alleviation] -- (on every occasion) whenever at all possible, because [due to the fact that] this is most profitable and is our (best and most) ideal strategy.

>>> VA from the Philippines???

Aiming for Profitability While Enduring Through the Investment Stage

· We are still [nevertheless] in the “investment stage” as a “business” (in a very an important sense) and we are definitely [genuinely/legitimately] aiming to get to the profitability stage...

· In any case, it is better to aim for profitability (even including longer-term investment) rather than saving pennies on the dollar by [through] easing the shorter-term constraints/hardships.

H’s Consolation can be Frustrated by…

· Being a part of her generation, and,

· The ongoing [continued] pressure [stress] from family constraints [restrictions] that put [raised] her there [brought her up] in that generation to begin [start] with in the first place, and,

· Any partial (unintended/unintentional) accidents of (perhaps even slightly/barely/temporarily) believing (or being pressured/“compelled” to believe / play, as though true / as if real, along with) the motivations and values that lie behind family constraints , and

· Accidentally doing things or being persuaded [influenced/swayed] by things or being tempted and confused by things that contradict [go against / move in opposition to] the [greater and] more excellent [amazing] and resolving goals [dreams desires] and values that more directly [immediately] agree [cooperate in faith] with her new way of life [manner of existence]…

Let’s seek to break free [and get loose] of the family pressures and their anxieties [atmospheric worries] that tempt us to fall prey to [and are damaged by] the follies [silly mistakes] of our culture and generations.

Working with the End in Mind

However we may manage to resolve [unravel] our different [particular/distinct] layers of responsibility, our consolation [comfort] is best achieved when we can see past [beyond] our short-term [temporary/brief] situations and short-term [temporary/brief] goals [dreams] and see how they all connect and contribute [add/give / make contributions] to our ultimate [most important] goals.

Sometimes unresolve is because you don't have [due to not having] a clear picture [vission/blueprint/foresight] of what our long-term goals [objectives, aspirations, strategies] are in the first place, so it is hard [difficult tough challenging] to see how to be consoled [comforted] when you don’t know where you are even going or what you are really [actually] trying [attempting] to accomplish [achieve] and how you are [you're] even making progress [strides/headway] toward these dreams [goals, aspirations, objectives] by the sacrifices you make and work you do every day.

Let’s invest [make investments] the time to definitively talk through [communicate & discuss] and work through the most relieving [vindicating, motivating, alleviating] and consoling [comforting] and prudent [perceptive/cautious] and wise and loving strategies that give [grant] us all real answers [solutions] to thrive and keep making progress in our long-term labors of Love, even on up until we reach [attain/obtain/approach] our ultimate [final & most important] goals, or rather, until we are overtaken by even greater goals than we can imagine.

Don’t Waste -- Scriptures

Tags: not: Don’t waist

4/3/17; 3/17/19…9/29/20

>> EFF

Joh_6:12-14 (Eze_16:49) – don’t waste the fragments of food

Gen_25:29-34 Heb_12:16, Jdg_16:18-21 – birthright

2Sa_1:17-27 Mat_27:3-5 – the wasted life of Saul & Judas

Lev_19:9-10 – giving leftovers to the poor is not wasteful

Mat_25:14-30; Luk_19:12-27 – Hiding money is wasteful

Eph_4:28 – no stealing

Luk_16:1 – unrighteous steward

Luk_15:13-16 – prodigal

Pro_9:7; Pro_23:9 1Co_2:14 – wasting your time on unworthy people

Pro_21:20

Pro_29:3

Pro_26:14, Pro_18:9, Pro_12:24 Pro_6:9-11 Pro_20:13

Pro_14:23

Pro_21:25, Pro_20:4, Pro_19:15, Pro_15:19

Pro_13:4

Pro_13:23

Pro_12:27

Pro_6:6-8

Pro_24:30-34 – laziness wastes the potential profit of a field

1Pe_4:3-5; Eph_5:15-17; Col_4:5 – no more time to waste on unrighteousness (redeeming the season)

Judgement wastes your work (makes your life useless and unprofitable)

Jer_34:22

Lev_26:31-33

Num_5:21

Deu_28:22

Deu_29:23

Deu_32:24

Psa_106:43

Isa_24:1

Eze_4:17

Hos_5:9

Wasting Away & Decay

Job_13:28

Job_33:21

Psa_32:3

Lam_4:9

2Co_4:16

Lev_13:58, etc. – Wash Garment

Lev_13:58 WEB The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."

Lev_13:58 LB And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or any article of skin, which shall be washed, and the plague depart from it, shall also be washed again, and shall be clean.

Lev_13:58 καὶ τὸ ἱμάτιον ἢ ὁ στήμων ἢ ἡ κρόκη ἢ πᾶν σκεῦος δερμάτινον, ὃ πλυθήσεται καὶ ἀποστήσεται ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἡ ἁφή, καὶ πλυθήσεται τὸ δεύτερον καὶ καθαρὸν ἔσται.

Before the industrial revolution, they really had to make the most of the things that they had.

Whatever they created, they had to fix it and make it work, if possible.

It makes you wonder how much “God has changed his values” now that we are in an industrial society.

Good Sacrificing is NOT Wasting

Through away himation

Anathema sacrifice

Anointing Jesus feet

Don't Waste -- Exhortation

Other date(s); 9/29/20

>>Scrip:

bbs: do all things with council - don't be ignorant in a big or a small matter

Foresight

9/20/20

>>Scrip:

Forsees evil wicked are punished

Don’t pay to avoid your punishment

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”

― Albert Einstein

Dye to Basic Needs to Avoid Waste

9/13/20; 9/20/20

Typed by V

dying means dying to basic needs

dying means dying to your own way of doing things

we by default are in a worst that existence sin body

you die to it and you only do it God's way

Luke 17:10

we are unprofitable servants that have only done our duty

it's not our responsibility to guarantee success, it's our responsibility to be faithful

Abraham trial - God may redeem the decision you make outside of the way God wants like Ishmael

After getting Issac then told to kill him - emergency faithfulness test

We got to do it God's way

God holds us to different standards

Philistines sends the ark on a cart and they get rewarded by being healed and relieved etc

King David brought the ark on a cart and someone was killed

Jesus was called to multiple bread � �, rule and reign, ascend into heaven

and was tempted to do these things in an independent way or God.

In order to do things God's way means that you are going to hurt waiting for him to do it in his way

God made them hunger, and thirst so they would know that man will not live by bread alone but will depend upon every spoken flowing word from God, every step of the way.

Waiting provides for virtue

Rushing provides for sin

If you are forcasting in the future without virtue you can't think critically.

Thinking critically and strategically seems like the bird waiting for God's provision

These worries Sir sick

preference

default

tendency

and choices

that use money to buy your way out of virtue

Sir prays life for someone who does these. this is moral integrity issue that is not the path to life.

Waiting on the creator to provide for you means foraging, look at the squirrels he goes out daily to forage and he does that diligently

Buying back your time versus buying your way out of squirrel virtues.

We could be in a squirrel like posture but we tend to not do it that way - this really worries Sir

It's not good enough to be on the right mission

you have to be on the right mission and do everything right, God's way

buying their way out of virtue

they are lusting their way to success

fornicating left and right

these are the ones that will not escape the deception to come

buying yourself out of virtue = I will pay to pamper myself in a land of luxury while others die of hunger

these can't go to heaven

these defraud the poor of his livelihood

these do not love people

these fatten their heart in a day of slaughter

these are blind to their numerous crimes

Renting washing machine and dryer

Sir speaking as one who doesn't know everything

Being as one going to NYC

might listen to the ungodly but don't take them seriously (take them with a big grain of salt)

setting aside/silencing the fleshly counsel/option

Seek out the counsel of the righteous

washing machine was a grievous situation

there were limitations (not using CL, getting up stairs, etc)

better to go out and buy new than to commit to wasting

mindset versus circumstances

We consider it that we suffer lost when we have to pay more because of circumstances.

Buying gas on the expensive side of town because we don't have enough gas to take us to the cheaper gas station. we do it because we have to but we don't like to nor do we have a tendency to prefer that

Difference between buying back your time and wasting

?when the amount saved is less than...

throwing away dirty clothes when it cost more to give it away.

Goodwill turning up the nose at the dirty clothes

pressure cooker -seeking to buy the best one at the best price and that process taking longer

my Q&A for next time

does having a reaccurring cost put more responsibility on doing more work upfront or as soon as possibly?

AyMon 3:50pm

Do you if there is a timeframe cut off? Like 1 month before, 6 minths, etc? You don't have to answer now. if it's not on the tip of your head I don't want to distract you

See: Personal Email

9/17/20

Followup

Don’t reward yourself for having a habitual pattern of wasteful loosing.

You should be glad to hurt for not having healthy foresight -- as long as it does not produce significantly more loss to sit still and endure with hurt.

Recycling is Biblical

>> Scrip:

they will turn their weapons into plowshares and their swords into pruning hooks

key differences between wasteful convenience vs prudent time redemption

attempt to never spend money to keep a problem

never pass on a problem if you can help it

find the very best solution and the very best answer and only let people pay money when that is the only best available option and is truly necessary

as a general rule of thumb in this age and generation and stage of human progress to never pay computers or machines when they should be slaves doing things for free (when our economy easily affords free computer slaves)

there are warm fuzzies for paying people their wages

there should not be warm fuzzies for paying machines when they should and could be free slave labor to serve humanity

if humanity has been blessed with such progress in acquiring these machines, each Creator should be extremely happy to pass on the blessing to serve other people as a redemption of their success and progress and blessing

if someone is charging money for machine labor that should be a blessing which is passed back onto humanity then this is a failure not a solution

finding the best solution keeps things in their appropriate places

examples include, email and chat and such should be free

computational solutions that someone else would probably make available for free should generally be free

if it could and should be free in today's economy and yet it is more convenient to just pay for the first premium solution that you find then this is a failure not a solution

there are deeper ethics at stake here then just one instance

you do not deserve big wins or a high-wage whenever you pass along an ethical problem to someone else

you do not deserve big wins when you make your way through life by losing and being willing to lose

you make yourself worthy of big wins when you do something distinctively different than everyone else is doing in this over luxurious and over convenient embarrassing shameful shallow age

When to NOT Spend on Convenience

Start with The Best, or start at the bottom and work your way up?

It is Time to answer my Wife’s Question on How Much to Buy Back Time By Starting with more Expensive options or how much to start with cheaper ones.

Intro

· We already gave examples of what we should be happy to spend money on to buy back our time.

· It might be time to address ways in which we do NOT want to spend our money.

· My wife might have somewhat asked this question right in time so that we might REALLY accomplish talking through the boundaries for all these things…

· Remember that if we talk about what we do NOT want to buy, we are essentially making considerations in the realm of Loss Management

· So we’re talking about the realm of success from buying back our time vs. the righteousness of Loss Management that can help us from going under in the meantime --

· but we are also talking about the enduring virtue of Loss Management which continues righteous-ifying after exaltation (whenever available)

· Keep in mind that Loss Management especially and most particularly includes and is most suitable for: reoccurring and larger expenses.
(So let’s not primarily imagine examples that are outside of the scope of what we are addressing… we’re not talking about a 1-time “accident” of needing to buy something from Walmart for $1.15 when it was only a dollar at Dollar Tree…
Furthermore, your level of dissatisfaction from the accident can be proportionate to the actual expense…)

Al: Question on How Much to Buy Back Time

As some of us were talking last night at dinner, I was thinking again about how I like the posture of starting minimally and then moving up as I have a basis to do so. My soul feels more stable before God with that posture rather than starting off with the best and then downgrading when/if it becomes convenient.

I would rather eat 1 piece of chicken, for example, and learn that I need 2, than to eat too much chicken.

Or, generally speaking, I would rather gain knowledge and understanding while foraging than to just consume while being overly sheltered.

I would rather glean an ingenius skill, or find an innovative way on how to survive than to take for granted what might be most popularly available.

What place do these sentiments have in our current Bible Study? Especially in light of "buying back our time" for example?

(Btw, my sentiments do not include buying something that is already broken from Craigslist for example. I am troubled by these situations especially if they could have been avoided. I am willing though to buy something from Dollar Tree and then if it breaks, upgrading depending on the frequency of need and how it might be used)

Sun Mar 3 2019 at 6:08pm(edited)

Annihilating the Problems of the Past to Finish the Trials of Today

Examples to Consider for Answers

· A significant portion of variation in this season may very well be shaped by our different seasons and life postures and abilities and advantages, but to still fully answer my wife…

· Yes to my wife: It is very natural and fleshly and it does not take any wisdom or even prudence at all to start at the top by default -- all that takes is money, pride, and or indulgence… oh yes: and shameful foolishness!

· Big Question: What do you want/prefer/default to?

· If we start at the top -- Are we wanting to / tending to / liking to / preferring to or are we having to & being constrained to?

· Are we doing something more expensive because these things came upon us or because of our own lack of applied foresight? ^1Ti^_5:8

· By the way: Even worse than simple indulgence can be rewarding yourself for operating wrongly… because there is a lot more mindfulness that is at stake than just simply buying back your time!

· It is better for the rich if they willingly embrace simulated seasons of doing without rather than rewarding themselves for lack of applied for sight

· When spending more, do we see a pattern of preference or a patience of priority -- i.e. prioritizing a surpassing mission?

· Are we wishing and waiting to be able to afford to waste more or are we enduring through loss for the sake of a mission and looking forward to hopefully getting to do things better and more properly and strategically?

· It is evil and fleshly to prefer and default to starting at the top and working your way down -- there should be a good REASON to move to the upper starting position whenever we might do that.

· While I do not consider us to be in the shameful posture of always starting with the best (esp. willfully), yet in varying degrees this could be the dark shadows of the past for some of our disciples, and we are still indebted to fully fulfill The Reversals of Freedoms commanded to the Corinthians. ^1Co^_7:21-23

· When I might turn my back on my wife, I am sure that if I turn back around I will nearly always find her being responsible and seeking profit and seeking to eliminate waste.

· I wish this was the absolutely build-in internal virtue of us all so that no oversight was even needed…

· We actually want to absolutely annihilate “silver defilement” (“being born with a silver spoon in your mouth”) from our midst (not just ease off or drift away, but totally reverse and annihilate) so that we can more freely and courageously invest larger amounts into real prudence that profits, without any tinge of regret or damage from lacking virtue in gaining success.

· It is actually indulgence (not true thriftiness) which could hinder us the most from blamelessly identifying and courageously investing in what is actually most profitable for us (and even loaded with clean success).

· This pending virtue might be a very good reason for Heaven to hold back on exalting us -- because how could we properly get this out otherwise if it were not in the midst of (at least partial, relative) poverty, pain, and trials?

· I would be compelled to whole heartedly amen and agree with heaven in holding back all kinds of relief from us if there is even a little hint of this silver defilement among us that could be covered up and which might avoid detection if our pain and poverty were removed prematurely.

· Love compels us to stop living for ourselves and start living for others -- and this very interestingly makes us much better problem solvers who live in scalable ways that everyone can imitate* (… and if you did not want to live to be imitated*, what is wrong with you???)
(* And when we speak of being imitated we are of course speaking of doing so in properly and appropriately correlating ways and percentages ^1Ti^_5:17-18)

· What is the best phone for the community? -- what is our default preference to determine this?

· What are general and repeatable solutions that could help all of us over and over again? (Remember: always seek to do something once that keeps rewarding over and over again indefinitely.)

· Where are the best stores and what are the best options for all of us, especially when it comes to reoccurring expenses?

· What are the repeatable savings and what is the monumental relief we could experience if we all defaulted to solving each problem once for the sake of everyone?

· Can we get to the point to where we fully honor and rejoice in doing things right and our hearts are so far removed from lusting after convenience that it almost never even crosses our minds?

1Ti_5:8 CAB But if anyone does not provide [προνοεῖ] for his own, and especially [μάλιστα] for those of his own house [TSBτῶν οἰκείων], he has denied [ἤρνηται] the faith and is ·worse than an unbeliever [ἀπίστου χείρων].

1Ti_5:8 εἰ δέ τις τῶν ἰδίων καὶ μάλιστα TSBτῶν οἰκείων οὐ προνοεῖ, τὴν πίστιν ἤρνηται καὶ ἔστιν ἀπίστου χείρων [χείρων < χέρης – WS: “irregular comparative of kakós”].

Needing to Speed Up or Slow Down?

· Needing to speed up can be a virtue of the righteous, but needing to slow down is a character flaw of those lacking righteousness (at least to some degree).

· It is better to be told to “come up here” than to be told to “go down there”.

· The parable of the Speed limit: Going slower than the limit is usually ok (unless your speed drops under 40 MPH), but it is the one going above the limit who is usually the one breaking the rules.
(and most people treat the speed limit as though it is a speed minimum)

· Being told to “speed up” in purchases can easily be told to one who is already exceling in righteousness (as the officer did to me when driving through the NJ area) - and there can easily be no damage in the reward of increasing speed (or the righteous may even “change lanes” and refuse a successful advantage for the sake of more righteousness and still be righteous in their humility).

· But if you must be told to spend less, it is quite usually a correction which comes due to lack of virtue from the healthy soundness of righteousness.

· If you need to be slowed down don’t complain about any external corrections until you are first surpassing their virtues.

· Don’t have premature zeal for convenience (or even buying back time) if you have tended to be on the wrong side of the fence in this area.

· Even if the righteous might possibly be found at any point to be suspected of going too fast, this non-habitual and non-typical scenario is characterized by:
(A) Appreciation for the heads up and potentially new information and for generally reinforcing those excellences they themselves already deeply love, and,
(B) A plan, a vision, and a determination to change wherever appropriate, and,
(C) Perfect agreement and unity extended toward the one who brought this up, etc.
-- in this way the righteous wash their hands of all liability or association with defilement.

If You Have To, But Not If You Want To

3/14/19; 3/16/19-3/17/19; 3/24/19

· It is permissible and temporarily tolerable and generally lawful to start at the top when you have to, but not when you want to.

· If you want to, this shows a lack of virtue that should be changed (whenever possible) and not accommodated and justified.

· Change what you want to do by default, and then you can happily receive exaltations to greater speeds in innocence without shame or the guilt or defilement of indulgence.

· It is somewhat understandable if you are making too much money to stop and save less than you are making, but a clean heart would still rejoice for others to be able to practice loss management so we have the best of both worlds.

· (It is nice to have enough help that at least others could pick up the slack and prevent loss while they are still waiting and being subjected in the long process of endurance and growing into eventual success.)

· Those who are happy to pay other people’s wages are blessed but those who forget (and don’t really care) about Loss Management after loving convenience are luxurious in their exaltation.

Example: WordArt.com

4/11/19

Hd -- 4/11/19 Thu_2:12pm(edited)

wordart.com = Paying a machine (Not similar enough to paying Someone)

Generally don't use anything where you have to pay for the software when there are free alternative that we can probably make work well

don't even invest time or thought if it = paying in order to not solve a problem

if we like wordart.com, then google:

Best free alternative to wordart.com

@Vc: the only use I see so far for this website is for it to generate an idea for us to recreate in illustrator

New Messages

Vc -- Thu_2:24pm

ok, maybe we can talk more in person

Url app | wke

...

Ÿ plans to improve....

Ÿ AHK ecosystem....

Ÿ yD is best after test in countless downloaders...

Ÿ less click s is exactly why I chose it... less damage to brain

Ÿ it is evil to be complacent and prefer what is more intuitive and wasteful rather than what is more strategic and profitable

Ÿ the URL app takes a little bit more discipline up front to use but in the long run saves you from great amounts of mental waste...

Ÿ it gives you the opportunity to practice righteous virtue of prioritizing the long-term virtual over the short-term laziness

Ÿ everything we are doing is to confront bad habits head-on and to be different distinctly and to profit from that Superior excellence

Ÿ you don't have to team up with our Prudence lust in order to be a disciple but you do in order to be a colaborer in the inner circle

When to Loose Stuff to Accomplish the Mission

Jon_1:4-7, etc. Act_27:18-38 – They threw their stuff overboard out of the ship in the storm

(i) Jonah’s Shipmates Lighten The Load

Jon_1:4 WEB But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

Jon_1:4 LB And the Lord raised up [ἐξήγειρεν] a wind [πνεῦμα] on [εἰς] the sea; and there was a great storm [κλύδων μέγας] on the sea, ·and the ship was in danger of being broken [καὶ τὸ πλοῖον ἐκινδύνευεν συντριβῆναι].

Jon_1:4 καὶ κύριος ἐξήγειρεν πνεῦμα εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἐγένετο κλύδων μέγας ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ τὸ πλοῖον ἐκινδύνευεν συντριβῆναι.

Jon_1:5 WEB Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Jon_1:5 And the ·sailors [ναυτικοὶ] were alarmed [ἐφοβήθησαν], and cried everyone to his god [ἀνεβόων ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν]. And they threw the cargo that was in the ship [ἐκβολὴν ἐποιήσαντο (same as Act_27:18) τῶν σκευῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ] into the sea, that it might lighten the load [τοῦ κουφισθῆναι (same as Act_27:38) ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν]. But Jonah ·had gone down [κατέβη] into the ·hold [κοίλην] of the ship [πλοίου], and was asleep, and was snoring [καὶ ἐκάθευδεν καὶ ἔρρεγχεν].

Jon_1:5 καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ ναυτικοὶ καὶ ἀνεβόων ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐκβολὴν ἐποιήσαντο τῶν σκευῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τοῦ κουφισθῆναι ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν· Ιωνας δὲ κατέβη εἰς τὴν κοίλην τοῦ πλοίου καὶ ἐκάθευδεν καὶ ἔρρεγχεν.

Jon_1:6 WEB So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."

Jon_1:6 And the shipmaster [πρωρεὺς] came to him, and said to him, “Why do you snore? Arise, and call upon your God, that God may save us, and we not perish.”

Jon_1:6 καὶ προσῆλθεν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ πρωρεὺς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Τί σὺ ῥέγχεις; ἀνάστα καὶ ἐπικαλοῦ τὸν θεόν σου, ὅπως διασώσῃ ὁ θεὸς ἡμᾶς καὶ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα.

Jon_1:7 WEB They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Jon_1:7 And each man said to his neighbor, “Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

Jon_1:7 καὶ εἶπεν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ Δεῦτε βάλωμεν κλήρους καὶ ἐπιγνῶμεν τίνος ἕνεκεν ἡ κακία αὕτη ἐστὶν ἐν ἡμῖν. καὶ ἔβαλον κλήρους, καὶ ἔπεσεν ὁ κλῆρος ἐπὶ Ιωναν.

>> Read following context?

(ii) Paul’s Shipmates Lighten The Load

Act_27:9 CAB Now when much time had been spent, the voyage having already become dangerous, because the Fast had already gone by, Paul recommended [παρῄνει = παρά + αἰνέω (Strong: to praise); see: Act_27:9 Act_27:22 -- not quoted yet],

Act_27:9 ῾Ικανοῦ δὲ χρόνου διαγενομένου καὶ ὄντος ἤδη ἐπισφαλοῦς τοῦ πλοὸς διὰ τὸ καὶ τὴν νηστείαν ἤδη παρεληλυθέναι, παρῄνει ὁ Παῦλος

Act_27:10 saying to them, "Men, I perceive [θεωρῶ] this voyage ·is ~~going~~ to be [μέλλειν ^V-PAN ἔσεσθαι] with hardship [ὕβρεως] and much loss [ζημίας], not only of the cargo [TSφόρτου^N-GSM |BAφορτιου^N-GSN|] and of the ship but [ἀλλὰ] also our [soul-]lives [ψυχῶν]."

Act_27:10 λέγων αὐτοῖς· ἄνδρες, θεωρῶ ὅτι μετὰ ὕβρεως καὶ πολλῆς ζημίας οὐ μόνον τοῦ TSφόρτου^N-GSM |BAφορτιου^N-GSN| καὶ τοῦ πλοίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν μέλλειν ἔσεσθαι τὸν πλοῦν.

Act_27:11 But the centurion was persuaded by the helmsman [κυβερνήτῃ* – i.e. steerer/director/governor] and the ·ship owner [ναυκλήρῳ], rather [μᾶλλον] than by the things being said by Paul.
[κυβερνήτῃ* – Strong: of Latin origin, to steer; AMGL: Lat. gubernare, to guide; LSJ: steering, pilotage…2. metaph., government, πολίων of cities, Pi. P. 10.72 (pl.), cf. 1Co_12:28 (pl.); θεοῦ by a god]

Act_27:18 And because we were exceedingly [σφοδρῶς] tempest-tossed [χειμαζομένων], the ·next day [ἑξῆς – i.e. held next to thing/day, as already used in: Act_21:1; Act_25:17 (comp. v. Act_27:20 & Luk_9:37 = explicit – ἐν τῇ ἑξῆς ἡμέρᾳ)] ·they lightened the ship [ἐκβολὴν ^N-ASF ἐποιοῦντο ^{V-IMI-3P
(Imperfect, Middle, Person: third [they], Number: Plural)} – ABP (fig): on the next day an expulsion of cargo was made; same as Jonah LXX: ἐκβολὴν ἐποιήσαντο (Jon_1:5)].

Act_27:18 σφοδρῶς δὲ χειμαζομένων ἡμῶν τῇ ἑξῆς ἐκβολὴν ἐποιοῦντο,

Act_27:19 And ·on [in/to/at/with] the third day [τῇ ^T-DSF τρίτῃ ^A-DSF] ·^TSBwe [^Athey] threw off [^TSBἐρρίψαμεν ^V-AAI-1P |Aερριψαν ^V-AAI-3P|] ·the equipment of the ship [τὴν σκευὴν τοῦ πλοίου] ·with ^TSBour [^Atheir (Gr: see previous word)] ·own hands [αὐτόχειρες ^A-NPM].

Act_27:19 καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ αὐτόχειρες ^A-NPM τὴν σκευὴν τοῦ πλοίου ^TSBἐρρίψαμεν ^V-AAI-1P |Aερριψαν ^V-AAI-3P|·

Act_27:20 ·And neither the sun nor stars [μήτε δὲ ἡλίου μήτε ἄστρων] appeared [ἐπιφαινόντων] for many days [ἐπὶ πλείονας ἡμέρας], ·and no small storm pressed on us [χειμῶνός^N-GSM τε οὐκ ὀλίγου ἐπικειμένου^V-PNP-GSM], finally [λοιπὸν ^A-ASN ?] all hope [πᾶσα ἐλπὶς] ·for us to be saved [τοῦ σῴζεσθαι ἡμᾶς] ·was [being] taken away [περιῃρεῖτο ^V-IPI-3S].

Act_27:20 μήτε δὲ ἡλίου μήτε ἄστρων ἐπιφαινόντων ἐπὶ πλείονας ἡμέρας, χειμῶνός τε οὐκ ὀλίγου ἐπικειμένου, λοιπὸν περιῃρεῖτο πᾶσα ἐλπὶς τοῦ σῴζεσθαι ἡμᾶς.

· Paul (and Moses) cooperated with Divine trials -- and I do too…

· Heaven is satisfied with the exhaustion of men so that they finally give up and give over the justice of stopping to hope in themselves and their own salvation and do the faithfulness of endurance in being cheered by the truth (Act_27:36)

· v. 20 is precious

Then Paul had to encourage them…

Act_27:34 Therefore I urge you to take food, for this is for your deliverance; for not a hair from your head shall fall."

Act_27:34 διὸ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς μεταλαβεῖν τροφῆς· τοῦτο γὰρ πρὸς τῆς ὑμετέρας σωτηρίας ὑπάρχει· οὐδενὸς γὰρ ὑμῶν θρὶξ ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς πεσεῖται.

Act_27:34 διο παρακαλω υμας Aμεταλαβειν TSBπροσλαβειν τροφης τουτο γαρ προς της υμετερας σωτηριας υπαρχει ουδενος γαρ υμων θριξ Aαπο TSBεκ της κεφαλης Aαπολειται TSBπεσειται

Act_27:35 And having said these things and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and having broken it, he began to eat.

Act_27:35 εἰπὼν δὲ ταῦτα καὶ λαβὼν ἄρτον εὐχαρίστησε τῷ Θεῷ ἐνώπιον πάντων, καὶ κλάσας ἤρξατο ἐσθίειν.

Act_27:35 Aειπας TSBειπων δε ταυτα και λαβων αρτον ευχαριστησεν τω θεω ενωπιον παντων και κλασας ηρξατο εσθιειν

Act_27:36 And they all became cheerful and also took food themselves.

Act_27:36 εὔθυμοι δὲ γενόμενοι πάντες καὶ αὐτοὶ προσελάβοντο τροφῆς·

Act_27:38 ·And having eaten enough [κορεσθέντες δὲ |Bτης| τροφῆς], they began lightening [ἐκούφιζον^V-IAI-3P < St: “κοῦφος kouphos (light in weight)”; same as Jon_1:5] the ·ship [πλοῖον] and throwing out [ἐκβαλλόμενοι] the wheat [σῖτον (same as the root for fasting used previously -- not quoted yet)] into the sea.

Act_27:38 κορεσθέντες δὲ |Bτης| τροφῆς ἐκούφιζον^V-IAI-3P τὸ πλοῖον ἐκβαλλόμενοι τὸν σῖτον εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν.

The Parallel of More Extreme Sacrifices

·Hand Cutting

·Subordinates Sacrificed

Examples of Convenience vs. Profits

Other date(s); 3/31/19

· There are boundaries to buying back our time, and neglecting/forgetting/relaxing them can easily slip into luxury (like Steve T did).

· Consider the difference: Over-buying along sales and coupons vs. finding the ways to purchase reoccurring expenses?

· More swiftly spending larger amounts of money to better accomplish a time-sensitive mission vs. losing patience and not wanting to spend the time on a problem.

· Happily pay and invest in profits, but do not enjoy paying too much for convenience.

· Reminder Hint: you can pay for “convenience” if it stops you from losing more money (or time or focus) than the potential savings are worth. --

· That is: you can pay for what might seem like “convenience” when it’s actually the profitability you are paying for.

· Are you avoiding patience and mindfulness and the work of learning new skills and are you sacrificing the common good for the sake of convenience and impatience? Or,

· Was that which you paid for indeed acquired in innocence and toward the goal of profit and the greater good?

· Real and enduring profits will never sacrifice virtue and will not tolerate luxury or the unwillingness to learn new things to solve a God-given problem (your “thorn” ^2Co^_12:7-10 to keep you humble and learning), and they will never excuse being content to pass on the same problem and allow others to come behind because of your own foolishness.

· In virtually every case, I do not approve of any willingly purchased convenience that passes on the same problem to others

· This is why the world is such an awful place, and this is why designers are so evil and are one of the worst threats to human survival, and this has been one reason why, once upon a time, even we have contradicted and run into each other numerous times in the past.

· Since Paul wants there to be general equality for the assemblies ^2Co^_8:12-15, this absolutely requires synchronized values the more and more we get to fulfill his heavenly desire and righteous ordinances.

· More examples?

1Co_7:21-23 – The Reversals of Freedoms

1Co_7:21 CAB Were you called as a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather make use of it.

1Co_7:21 δοῦλος ἐκλήθης; μή σοι μελέτω· ἀλλ᾿ εἰ καὶ δύνασαι ἐλεύθερος γενέσθαι, μᾶλλον χρῆσαι.

1Co_7:22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ's slave.

1Co_7:22 ὁ γὰρ ἐν Κυρίῳ κληθεὶς δοῦλος ἀπελεύθερος Κυρίου ἐστίν· ὁμοίως ^TSBκαὶ ὁ ἐλεύθερος κληθεὶς δοῦλός ἐστι Χριστοῦ.

1Co_7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

1Co_7:23 τιμῆς ἠγοράσθητε· μὴ γίνεσθε δοῦλοι ἀνθρώπων.

2Co_8:12-15 – Financial Equality

2Co_8:12 CAB For if there is first a readiness [προθυμία πρόκειται (2nd word: as in Lev_24:7)], it is acceptable [εὐπρόσδεκτος] according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

2Co_8:12 εἰ γὰρ ἡ προθυμία πρόκειται, καθὸ ἐὰν ἔχῃ ^TSBτις εὐπρόσδεκτος, οὐ καθὸ οὐκ ἔχει.

2Co_8:13 For I do not mean that others should be relieved [ἄνεσις] and you burdened [λῖψις];

2Co_8:13 οὐ γὰρ ἵνα ἄλλοις ἄνεσις, ὑμῖν ^TSBδὲ λῖψις, ·ἀλλ᾿ ἐξ ἰσότητος·

2Co_8:14 ·but by way of equality· [ἀλλ᾿ ἐξ ἰσότητος], that now at the present time your abundance may supply their need, that their abundance also may supply your need, in order that there may be equality [ὅπως γένηται ἰσότης].

2Co_8:14 ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ τὸ ὑμῶν περίσσευμα εἰς τὸ ἐκείνων ὑστέρημα, ἵνα καὶ τὸ ἐκείνων περίσσευμα γένηται εἰς τὸ ὑμῶν ὑστέρημα, ὅπως γένηται ἰσότης,

2Co_8:15 As it is written, "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack."

2Co_8:15 καθὼς γέγραπται· ὁ τὸ πολὺ οὐκ ἐπλεόνασε, καὶ ὁ τὸ ὀλίγον οὐκ ἠλαττόνησε.

[Lev_24:7 WEB You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Lev_24:7 CAB And you shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt; and these things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before [προκείμενα] the Lord.

καὶ ἐπιθήσετε ἐπὶ τὸ θέμα λίβανον καθαρὸν καὶ ἅλα, καὶ ἔσονται εἰς ἄρτους εἰς ἀνάμνησιν προκείμενα τῷ κυρίῳ.]

1Ti_5:17-18 – Individual Diferenciation

1Ti_5:17 CAB Let the elders having ·ruled well [καλῶς προεστῶτες] ·be counted worthy of double honor [διπλῆς τιμῆς ἀξιούσθωσαν], especially [μάλιστα] those who labor [οἱ κοπιῶντες] in the word and doctrine [ἐν λόγῳ καὶ διδασκαλίᾳ].

1Ti_5:17 Οἱ καλῶς προεστῶτες πρεσβύτεροι διπλῆς τιμῆς ἀξιούσθωσαν, μάλιστα οἱ κοπιῶντες ἐν λόγῳ καὶ διδασκαλίᾳ·

1Ti_5:18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain," and, "The worker is worthy of his wages."

1Ti_5:18 λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφή· βοῦν ἀλοῶντα οὐ φιμώσεις· καί· ἄξιος ὁ ἐργάτης τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ.

Others

Like Work

10/14/17

Deu_8:9 WEB a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Deu_8:9 LB a land on which you shall not eat your bread with poverty, and you shall not need anything upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains you shall dig copper.

Deu_8:9 γῆ, ἐφ᾿ ἧς οὐ μετὰ πτωχείας φάγῃ τὸν ἄρτον σου καὶ οὐκ ἐνδεηθήσῃ οὐδὲν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς· γῆ, ἧς οἱ λίθοι σίδηρος, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀρέων αὐτῆς μεταλλεύσεις χαλκόν·

>> Sync (partial): WkEth (v 9) | Lux

Being a Good Woman - in General

Now comp. Wis_7, 8, etc.

· No selfishness

· Never add sorrow that was not there before / it is not substantial/real*

· Always add, never subtract (unless you are a maiden in distress believing in his salvation as your hero-man)

· Follow all “leads” -- both subtle and overt

· REALLY want everything he wants

· Don’t have different goals to his production/labor

· Don’t be a hill to push a rock up

· Be congruent

· Be a helpmate, not an “anti-justice”

· Do not feel more guilty than he does

· Do not ever coerce, or use guilt as a motivation

· Do not despise authority / be unhappy with decisions he makes

· Submission means being happy with his leadership even when he does what you would not otherwise prefer

· Prepare your heart to welcome correction/re-direction with gratitude

· Do not focus attention on what he cannot do, but on what you can help him do

· Bring more solutions than the problems you discover

· Be a problem-solver

Pro_22:13 WEB The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

Pro_22:13 LB The sluggard makes excuses, and says, “There is a lion in the road, and murderers in the streets.”

Pro_22:13 προφασίζεται καὶ λέγει ὀκνηρός Λέων ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς, ἐν δὲ ταῖς πλατείαις φονευταί.

Required Curiosity and Ambition

2/8/16

You should not be evil and complacent toward all the things passing before you which you do not understand.

Get curious and desperate to get good at things you cannot do.

Work Ethic - 3

April 2015; 4/28/15-4/29/15; 5/11/15; 5/26/15; 5/27/15-5/28/15; 7/28/15; 8/12/15; 8/23/15; 9/16/15; 9/26/15; 9/27/15; …12/11/15-12/12/15; 12/26/15; 1/16/16; …1/24/16; 2/21/16; 3/3/16

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Work Ethic

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2/21/16

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of powerful ability and of love and of a saved healthy mind.

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Stand by Your Post & Be Prepared for Action

…2/27/16

WS on H2290

“חגוָֹרה

ḥ^ag̱ôrāh, ֲחֹגָרה

h^ag̱ōrāh: A feminine noun referring to a sash, a belt, a girdle, a loincloth, loin coverings. It refers to a loincloth of fig leaves as the first covering of humankind (Gen_3:7). It was a regular feature of Israelite clothing (Isa_3:24). It was a valuable and desirable part of a soldier's military uniform (2Sa_18:11). To stain or to put the blood of battle on one's belt was to be guilty of violent bloodshed (1Ki_2:5). To put on a military belt was to prepare for war (2Ki_3:21).”

Keep Your Tools Attached to Your Side

Neh_4:13 WEB Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set there the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Neh_4:13 CAB So I set men in the lowest part of the place behind the wall in the secret places, I even set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Neh_4:13 (4:7) καὶ ἔστησα εἰς τὰ κατώτατα τοῦ τόπου κατόπισθεν τοῦ τείχους ἐν τοῖς σκεπεινοῖς καὶ ἔστησα τὸν λαὸν κατὰ δήμους μετὰ ῥομφαιῶν αὐτῶν, λόγχας αὐτῶν καὶ τόξα αὐτῶν.

Neh_4:16 It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Neh_4:16 So it was, from that day on, that half of them that had been driven forth, did the work, and half of them kept guard; and there were spears, shields, bows, and breastplates, and rulers behind the whole house of Judah,

Neh_4:16 (4:10) καὶ ἐγένετο ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης ἥμισυ τῶν ἐκτετιναγμένων ἐποίουν τὸ ἔργον, καὶ ἥμισυ αὐτῶν ἀντείχοντο, καὶ λόγχαι καὶ θυρεοὶ καὶ τὰ τόξα καὶ οἱ θώρακες καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες ὀπίσω παντὸς οἴκου Ιουδα

Neh_4:17 They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;

Neh_4:17 even of them that were building the wall. And those who carried the burdens were under arms: each with one hand performing his work, and with the other held his weapon.

Neh_4:17 (4:11) τῶν οἰκοδομούντων ἐν τῷ τείχει. καὶ οἱ αἴροντες ἐν τοῖς ἀρτῆρσιν ἐν ὅπλοις· ἐν μιᾷ χειρὶ ἐποίει αὐτὸ τὸ ἔργον, καὶ μία ἐκράτει τὴν βολίδα.

Neh_4:18 and the builders, everyone had his sword girded by his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

Neh_4:18 And the builders worked with each man having his sword girded at his side, and so they built; and the trumpeter with his trumpet next to him.

Neh_4:18 (4:12) καὶ οἱ οἰκοδόμοι ἀνὴρ ῥομφαίαν αὐτοῦ ἐζωσμένος ἐπὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ᾠκοδομοῦσαν, καὶ ὁ σαλπίζων ἐν τῇ κερατίνῃ ἐχόμενα αὐτοῦ.

Note: not like a ditzy girl fumbling for her cellphone in the middle of a meeting, while it is always buried deep in her purse in several layers of casings…

Girded & Ready

Luk_12:35 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;

Luk_12:35 ῎Εστωσαν ὑμῶν αἱ ὀσφύες περιεζωσμέναι καὶ οἱ λύχνοι καιόμενοι·

Luk_12:36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks, immediately they may open to him.

Luk_12:36 καὶ ὑμεῖς ὅμοιοι ἀνθρώποις προσδεχομένοις τὸν κύριον ἑαυτῶν, πότε ἀναλύσει ἐκ τῶν γάμων, ἵνα ἐλθόντος καὶ κρούσαντος εὐθέως ἀνοίξωσιν αὐτῷ.

Luk_12:37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them recline to eat, and he will come and serve them.

Luk_12:37 μακάριοι οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι, οὓς ἐλθὼν ὁ κύριος εὑρήσει γρηγοροῦντας· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι περιζώσεται καὶ ἀνακλινεῖ αὐτοὺς, καὶ παρελθὼν διακονήσει αὐτοῖς.

Luk_12:38 And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Luk_12:38 καὶ ἐὰν ἔλθῃ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ φυλακῇ καὶ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ φυλακῇ ἔλθῃ καὶ εὕρῃ οὕτως, μακάριοί εἰσιν οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι.

Luk_12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Luk_12:39 τοῦτο δὲ γινώσκετε ὅτι εἰ ᾔδει ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης ποίᾳ ὥρᾳ ὁ κλέπτης ἔρχεται, ἐγρηγόρησεν ἂν καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἀφῆκε διορυγῆναι τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ.

Luk_12:40 Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not, the Son of Man comes."

Luk_12:40 καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι· ὅτι ᾗ ὥρᾳ οὐ δοκεῖτε ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται.

>>Scrip:

Sell your possessions

Be Ready!

Important TSK:

your loins: 1Ki_18:46, Pro_31:17, Isa_5:27, Isa_11:5 (Anointed One is Girded), Eph_6:14, 1Pe_1:13

your lights: Mat_5:16, Mat_25:1, Mat_25:4-10, Phi_2:15

men: Luk_2:25-30, Gen_49:18, Isa_64:4, Lam_3:25, Lam_3:26, Mat_24:42-44, Mar_13:34-37, Jam_5:7, Jam_5:8, 2Pe_1:13-15, Jud_1:20, Jud_1:21

This Readiness Readily Applies to Righteous Women who Conquer Shallowness

SoS – It Pays to Be Ready

Remember: Son_2:10, etc. (Rise up, my love); Son_3:1-4 (By night on my bed, I sought him… I will get up now…I found him); Son_5:2 (she pauses)

The Proverbs 31 Woman is Girded

Pro_31:17 WEB She girds her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

Pro_31:17 She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work.

Pro_31:17 ἀναζωσαμένη ἰσχυρῶς τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτῆς ἤρεισεν τοὺς βραχίονας αὐτῆς εἰς ἔργον.

Mat_25:1-13, etc. – 10 Virgins with lamps

· women face the danger of being foolish and unprepared.

· This is a fitting parable for Jesus’ Bride!

· women have an extra tendency to not be ready.

· Those who win overcome this.

The Spiritual Point of The Proper Virtue

Eph_6:14 CAB Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Eph_6:14 στῆτε οὖν περιζωσάμενοι τὴν ὀσφὺν ὑμῶν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, καὶ ἐνδυσάμενοι τὸν θώρακα τῆς δικαιοσύνης,

1Pe_1:13 CAB Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, stay sober, put your hope fully in the grace brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1Pe_1:13 Διὸ ἀναζωσάμενοι τὰς ὀσφύας τῆς διανοίας ὑμῶν, νήφοντες, τελείως ἐλπίσατε ἐπὶ τὴν φερομένην ὑμῖν χάριν ἐν ἀποκαλύψει ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Get Ready, Don’t Slack/Wait around before thinking of what to do next

Get ready for the next thing in a pinch. Don’t wait till I get there to start getting ready

Friends, why do you stand idle in the market place?

Staying in Chat

12/26/15 (recompiled); 2/27/16

What can we do to keep everyone in Chat???

· This keeps coming up

· Esp. when others are dependent on you

· When we are about to meet

· If you have a heads up, you need to give a reasonable response -- example: returning phone, meeting, etc.

· We should “man our post”

· Be ready, don’t constantly default to being usually not ready -- that does not mk sense…

Errands Communication Problems

* we need to prioritize helping those who are out

* this is how we break dependence on cell data

V + Chat

· Esp. when we all know we are planning to meet at any moment

· V: How can we mk sure you are always checking chat?

· Should we install a chat client that has a vibration notification?

· Stop being missing in action

10/1/15

Don't missplace things, esp. Mission-critical tools

Missing in Action

Leaving the Job Site

With almost Whatever it takes, fight and insistently stop alternating, rapid-fire reasons to leave corporate activity

Dysfunctionality

Don’t be addicted to repeat disfuntionality

Missing in action

Come to meal ready to work

Stop being gone when we need to meet

Repenting of Dysfunctionality

If something is dysfunctional, DO NOT KEEP DOING IT!

Weakness vs. Incapableness

12/23/15-12/24/15

When are challenges due to limited capacity, and when are they due to irresponsibility?

limited capacities are due to Divinely prescribed glories, and irresponsibility is due to moral problems…

Sure you know which one it is, and make sure you judge with righteous judgment and not according to appearance!

Beware lest you despise what God has glorified, and beware lest you excuse that which God rebukes.

Distinguishing

12/23/15

Dealing with hurts is not the same as dealing with laziness.

Dealing with lack of knowledge is not the same thing as complacency.

Weakness always has to do with limited capacity.

Incapableness always has to do with unwillingness to stretch yourself.

Defining a Devil

12/23/15

Accusing without giving an effective answer.

>>Scrip:

One of you is a devil

Female devil

On the contrary: God gives Cain a real answer for life.

Whenever I am troubled about someone’s activity but I cannot verbalize a real answer, I quickly rebuke my soul from any indignation lest I become a slithering hypocrite much worse off than them!

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If you do not verbalize an answer, then you are far worse off than the one that you seem to be criticizing. -- of you cannot or refuse to pipe up, then you yourself are even more liable than they are.

so many times sparadic things just happen upon a leader, and this is not the leader's doing but just what happened to all of them, and evil despising people have a curious way of projecting proactive responcibility on Moses who did not even want to lead in the first place.

Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness?

if we watch a video and they do not start taching things the right way from the beginning, this is something that happened to the leader, and the leader is victomized by the evil video...

remember: we already talked about what SL are...

either stop being evil so that you can pipe up and speak in a way to help, or harshly rebuke and slapp your demonic heart closed.

you have no right to criticize what you yourself are too worthless to help.

Defining Fleshly Strength

Tags: fleshly strength of the flesh

12/23/15

When it stops with you.

>>Scrip:

For the perfecting of the saints…

This strength is simply lent to you, and gullible flesh-balls are so quickly deceived under it, and woe to them, because ‘even what they think they have will be taken away’.

Fleshly Sin Makes you look Strong, and Reverence Makes You Look Vulnerable

The Evil of a Fleshly Person makes them look strong and successful, and the vulnerability of a righteous person makes them look weak.

You can make more money with pornography than you can with an honest sale.

In the same way also, you can often succeed much quicker with the energized strength of the flesh.

Most people are successful in this life because they take their sin to work with them.

They get up in the morning and express their unresolved hurt as is convenient, and or they cope with their breaches with indulgences, and motive themselves with the resolve of pride and arrogance (weather externally or internally).

Rev: she made all nations rich with her fornication

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12/24/15

They do not have to make decisions for achieve accomplishment that require righteousness, therefore they are able to move quickly from the morning into the work day and accomplish much in the strength of the flesh without the carefulness of reverence.

Sometimes evil people can make decisions and achieve accomplishments quicker because they do not have to do the much harder task of doing things right.

We are not here to get things done, we are here to do the right things.

We are not here to do something, we are here to do the right thing. That takes a lot more time. Fleshly people marvel at what they think is much easier to accomplish with their priorities.

personal salvation note: i do have integrity so that you can freely and easily come to me with all your concerns. your only limitation is your own bowels and lack of being set right.

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Some Conclusions

12/23/15

Someone’s weakness and limited capacities in this life might just be divinely appointed leverage to make them blasted out of this world for limitless Greatness in heaven.

'Personalities' are Not Created Equal

Peter recognized that the default of Cornelius is pre salvation personality was superior to the character of Naball, who refused to acknowledge the superiority of David.

I did have something different than my brother as a child, and he has been deeply offended to the point of never acknowledging that.

Capableness – How Capableness Can Be Richness Toward God

8/25/15; 12/20/15 (H’s optimism to tackle hard new things); …2/9/16; 3/5/16

· Mat_28:1, Mar_16:1-4, Joh_20:1Women going to take care of Jesus’ body
<<Al: wow, in the Mark account, the women set themselves to do a good work even though they didn’t know how they would pull it all off without help. They proceeded to the tomb to anoint the Lord’s body inside the tomb, even though they didn’t know how the stone was going to get moved out of their way…wow, they proceeded to do good, and choose not to be discouraged and give up and quit before they even started. How to distinguish this with something like Luk_14:28-31 where a person would naturally, and understandably, get discouraged if they don’t know that they have what it takes to take on, and succeed in, a hefty project / great task ??>>

False Gospel Cripples Your Ability, but Faith Changes Your Skills

2/9/16 - early morning

Why is everyone so energized and impressed with the gospel of incapableness?

Why are we so rich when it comes to knowing how to skillfully do idleness, and so poor when it comes time to give something over to God?

It is time someone said enough, and through off the foolish and apostate yoke and believed to do some miracles and tapped into the faith of rational, brain-changing Monotheism and started doing things out of nowhere that they could never do before!

The smooth melody of Faith changes everything.

Optimistic and happy love makes you accidently slip very well into new abilities and enjoy new skills you used to abominate.

Note if you have idle skills, then you can do a lot more than what you are doing by faith.

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2/9/16 12:45pm

The sin is not feeling fears and challenges, but in being so passionately and emotionally persuaded, and most of all, in being unwilling to be open and persistent and zealous that you can change.

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Josh: be strong

Dan: leaped…

>> Cain -- no hope

1Pe_3:6 – you may feel like huble and weak females, but you must not be fearful...

remember that the great women did manly feats -- with a woman's mind and a man's stomach

1Ti_2:15

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Circumstances Command You Unto Courage

12/22/15

You can often let the circumstance tell you what God wants you to do.

Everything that God has laid upon you, you are to believe that God will provide for you to face it and He will meet the need.

Do your best in courage and determination to do more than you believed you could do, all for the simple reason that god laid it upon you to do.

Repent of cooperating with feelings of inadequacy and intimidation. Righteousness is at stak. It is time to get up and believe that the creator will help you learn new skills and somehow meet the need, by life or by death.

Give Over Fruit

12/22/15

At some point these things become and issue of giving over fruit.

Be Sure you are ready and that you give over faith and courage (not results necessarily) so that you will be approved.

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The freshness of great ones will accomplish much by faith. They will be my refreshers and friends.

They will have intimate portions of the crowning rewards…

>> think: how does this tie in w “praying all day” in dibilitation vs. being responcible to do what is required of you?

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12/20/15

State your fears/feelings of inadaquisy once, but then do not keep repeating them.

Let the requirements of righteousness be upon you, and demand courage from yourself, knowing that faith to do whatever is obligated from you is a matter of being approved and obeying truth and winning God’s approval.

Do you want God’s rejection? -- then be a coward and burry the things he has called you to do in the sand, and complain about how hard his requirements are…

So stop blaming God and demand courage and fruit from yourself. -- increase -- wherever required by what is right and good… give your life away, and give over the faith of spiritual capability --- just as Paul said that Anointed one is his sufficiency…

>>Scrip:

Children of Israel call to go in and conquer the Canaanites

>> Remember that grumbling and complaining and feeling inadiquet will always get you punished way more than you were counting on for your sin…

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H’s Optimism to Tackle Hard New Things

Think: H staying optimistic (encouraged) when going over difficult & unfamiliar geeky comncepts

>> connecting the faith toward capability via her eagerness toward the determination toward the goal of accomplishing truth

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People like being around capable people -- for more than one reason…

Being weak before God is good

Being incapable toward helping people is not humble…!

Be rich toward God!

Some people have the faith of experience

Use the faith of God toward “being rich” in capableness to help people

Lacking skill towards a strong project may be your humiliation before God

But lacking courage toward learning new skills to be rich in helping others is disrespectful toward the poor… and does not show richness (through the courage of faith) toward the poor you ought to optimistically help.

Motivated By a Fun Personality vs. Faith

9/6/15

I have seen it time and time again.

A serious person is in charge, and people reluctantly do what they’re told (at best).

They drag their feet, and they move slow.

You can see that they are unmotivated, and do not enjoy what they’re doing.

They are doing what they are doing because they have to, and it shows.

A fun person takes over.

They are not nearly as reverent.

The internship skips along in motivated fun, doing everything they are told, even when it does not make sense or even really serve any purpose.

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Less Than 10 People Makes Us Constrained in Seeking to Have a Synagogue

8/22/15

10 people = a synagogue

12 = well developed Jewish glory

We have to live extra Ezrah like

The Faith of Experience

8/12/15

Do not morn as one who is incapable lest you give up believing from favoring intimidation, and don’t use your humbled skill level as an open door to doubt.

“Be strong and courageous” is the command.

Believing people who don’t ever stop and give up, but keep on working are encouraging and helpful to have around.

Don’t let my unbelieving family ever use their natural experiential faith to outdo you with a better work ethic and offer more hearty help when you are the ones with the Scriptures that say to do everything as unto the lord.

…

8/13/15

This is not just lousy 'more crowns in heaven' heresy, even your base of salvation is made of this material.

Jesus called her a dog, and she kept coming -- that is righteous justice!

The men would not quickly give up, but dug through the roof to see the paralitic healed!

Good Speed

11/19/16

Righteous Quickness

Quickness is Not always wrong

…4/12/16; 5/21/16; 9/5/16; 9/19/16; 12/14/16

tags: Not all Quickness is wrong how fast to Be quick is not always bad ; quick not always bad ; fast is not always bad ; fast not always bad not always wrong to go fast

>> get other refs from marriage exhortations?

Exo_12:11 WEB This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

Exo_12:11 CAB And thus shall you eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover to the Lord.

Exo_12:11 οὕτως δὲ φάγεσθε αὐτό· αἱ ὀσφύες ὑμῶν περιεζωσμέναι, καὶ τὰ ὑποδήματα ἐν τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, καὶ αἱ βακτηρίαι ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ὑμῶν· καὶ ἔδεσθε αὐτὸ μετὰ σπουδῆς· πασχα ἐστὶν κυρίῳ.

Exo_12:33 WEB The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

Exo_12:33 CAB And the Egyptians constrained the people, so that they cast them out of the land with haste, for they said, We all shall die.

Exo_12:33 καὶ κατεβιάζοντο οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὸν λαὸν σπουδῇ ἐκβαλεῖν αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῆς γῆς· εἶπαν γὰρ ὅτι Πάντες ἡμεῖς ἀποθνῄσκομεν.

Gen_24:17

Gen_24:20

Gen_43:29 KJV+ And he lifted up^H5375 his eyes,^H5869 and saw^H7200 his brother^{H251 (H853)} Benjamin,^H1144 his mother's^H517 son,^H1121 and said,^H559 Is this^H2088 your younger^H6996 brother,^H251 of whom^H834 ye spake^H559 unto^H413 me? And he said,^H559 God^H430 be gracious^H2603 unto thee, my son.^H1121

Gen_43:29 And Joseph lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said, “Is this your younger brother, whom you spoke of bringing to me?” And he said, “God have mercy on you, my son.”

Gen_43:29 ἀναβλέψας δὲ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς Ιωσηφ εἶδεν Βενιαμιν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν ὁμομήτριον καὶ εἶπεν Οὗτος ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὑμῶν ὁ νεώτερος, ὃν εἴπατε πρός με ἀγαγεῖν; καὶ εἶπεν Ὁ θεὸς ἐλεήσαι σε, τέκνον.

Gen_43:30 KJV+ And Joseph^H3130 made haste;^H4116 for^H3588 his bowels^H7356 did yearn^H3648 upon^H413 his brother:^H251 and he sought^H1245 where to weep;^H1058 and he entered into^H935 his chamber,^H2315 and wept^H1058 there.^H8033

Gen_43:30 And Joseph was troubled, for his heart yearned over his brother, and he wanted to weep; and he went into his chamber, and wept there.

Gen_43:30 ἐταράχθη δὲ Ιωσηφ--συνεστρέφετο γὰρ τὰ ἔντερα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ--καὶ ἐζήτει κλαῦσαι· εἰσελθὼν δὲ εἰς τὸ ταμιεῖον ἔκλαυσεν ἐκεῖ.

Gen_44:11 KJV+ Then they speedily^H4116 took down^H3381 every man^{H376 (H853)} his sack^H572 to the ground,^H776 and opened^H6605 every man^H376 his sack.^H572

Gen_44:11 And they made haste, and took down every man his sack on the ground, and they opened every man’s sack.

Gen_44:11 καὶ ἔσπευσαν καὶ καθεῖλαν ἕκαστος τὸν μάρσιππον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ ἤνοιξαν ἕκαστος τὸν μάρσιππον αὐτοῦ.

Gen_45:9 KJV+ Haste^H4116 ye, and go up^H5927 to^H413 my father,^H1 and say^H559 unto^H413 him, Thus^H3541 saith^H559 thy son^H1121 Joseph,^H3130 God^H430 hath made^H7760 me lord^H113 of all^H3605 Egypt:^H4714 come down^H3381 unto^H413 me, tarry^H5975 not:^H408

Gen_45:9 Hurry, therefore, and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph: God has made me lord of all the land of Egypt; come down therefore to me, and do not delay.

Gen_45:9 σπεύσαντες οὖν ἀνάβητε πρὸς τὸν πατέρα μου καὶ εἴπατε αὐτῷ Τάδε λέγει ὁ υἱός σου Ιωσηφ Ἐποίησέν με ὁ θεὸς κύριον πάσης γῆς Αἰγύπτου· κατάβηθι οὖν πρός με καὶ μὴ μείνῃς·

Gen_45:13 KJV+ And ye shall tell^H5046 my father^H1 of^(H853) all^H3605 my glory^H3519 in Egypt,^H4714 and of all^H3605 that^H834 ye have seen;^H7200 and ye shall haste^H4116 and bring down^H3381
(H853) my father^H1 hither.^H2008

Gen_45:13 Therefore report to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all things that you have seen, and make haste and bring my father down here.”

Gen_45:13 ἀπαγγείλατε οὖν τῷ πατρί μου πᾶσαν τὴν δόξαν μου τὴν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ ὅσα εἴδετε, καὶ ταχύναντες καταγάγετε τὸν πατέρα μου ὧδε.

Luk_1:39 CAB Now Mary rose up in those days and traveled into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,

Luk_1:39 ᾿Αναστᾶσα δὲ Μαριὰμ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις ἐπορεύθη εἰς τὴν ὀρεινὴν μετὰ σπουδῆς εἰς πόλιν ᾿Ιούδα,

>> prodical son

9/5/16

Gal_2:10 only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

Gal_2:10 μονον των πτωχων ινα μνημονευωμεν ο και εσπουδασα αυτο τουτο ποιησαι

Rom_12:16: speedy diligence

Move Quickly

3/18/16

Gen_18:6

Gen_

Why do you should work fast, and not slow

8/13/15

Luk_19:5 ASRV And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, |and saw him|, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house.

Luk_19:5 και ως ηλθεν επι τον τοπον αναβλεψας ο ιησους TSBειδεν TSBαυτον TSBκαι ειπεν προς αυτον ζακχαιε σπευσας καταβηθι σημερον γαρ εν τω οικω σου δει με μειναι

Google: What ever you do, do it with all your soul... As unto the lord

Don't be slow, sluggish, nothroy

>>TSK

At the same time, don't rush with your feet…

As soon as you have soundness within your being

Give over surprising spurts of energy

Swift and motivated movements of cheerful, happy labor, with a smile, that contradicts and confounds the flesh unto no end.

Do it as from the soul, yet drawing from a supernatural source.

Persist in this with a limitless supply of motivation, coming from nowhere, believing in faithfulness, rejoicing in favor, doing out justice that has never been done before, fully persuaded in the reward, incited with zeal, bullet proof consolation in resolve, un-dissuade-able resilience, bulldog persistence, letting no one, or nothing, or no daemon cut in on the full, decked out reward of your prize!

Spirit of Excelence

9/29/15

Daniel had Spirit of excelence

Solomon's servents

Jesus bbs

God-man

9/29/15

>Scrip: Surely this was the son of God

This is very ironical,

It plays off of the ironically correct 'confusion' of pagans

But NT is definitely against the pagan wiship of men and demons as God:

>scrip: God struc Herod for not giving glory to God...

Did God help him? Is that why he should have given glory to God?

Paul & _ terr their clothes and oppose worshiping them as demon Gods...

Intro: Why It is Time to Sync

9/26/15

You might remember that I said that after we got here we would seek to chop away and focus on gtting/being highly synced.

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Solomon servants

> Tsk

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Accidents are OK, But Choosing Non-excellence is Not

To a spiritual person, it is very ok to be merciful whenever there are slip ups, and the disciples forgot bread, and this part of life is often ordained so that supernatural power can surpassly overcome and save and overflow the shortcommings and accidents of this life with exceding faith and favorable joy.

But while having an accident outside of your normal practice of responsibility can be an occasion for spiritual people to mercifully know better and more surpassing things, yet being in a habitual life postues with repeated habits and patterns of randomness and unpreparedness is not blessed, having neglected the excelence and faith of Solomon's orderly servents.

Get Sequential

Foresight is Required

3/29/16

>>Scrip:

>> sit down first and count the cost….

You do not wait until after something is done to think about it and regret things and change your plans and stradgety!

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9/28/15

Repent of all willful (and sometimes unwilful) cooperation with non-sequential ways/tendencies/behavioral patterns/choices.

Not talking about circumstances, but behavioral patterns that are truly dysfunctional.

Dysfunctionality includes being non-sequential.

Going to WalMart twice

Interrupting corporate activity with something that could have been taken care of ahead of time.

Accidents are another arena altogether, but bad/non-prudent values/attitudes and choices are evil and should be repented of.

The flesh wants to consume.

The flesh wants to make multiple trips to wal Mart -- to get done what you immediately have in mind, rather than sacrificing the current immediate gratification for ultimate accomplishment.

I am at war with the flesh, and I am intentionally trying to hurt it by meeting needs in the most advantagious way, and denying non-sequentiality.

Sync Meets Needs and Kisses Justice

8/27/15

You all have said you want to know me and meet my needs.

Whenever you do things non-sequentially, not only do you not meet my needs, you create new competition for my courage, and make my burden mutiply in weight.

Whenever we don't think a head and leave things to the last second, it says you are content for me to continew being woried and burdened and pressured and bussied, and never getting to work on bbs.

Forsake non-profitable, non-sequential

Emotionally Sequential

9/24/15; 11/29/15

>>Scrip:

Google: How can they morn when the bride groom is with them?

>> choosing when to morn -- at the orthodox time!

>>Scrip: don’t morn right now because it is a holy day…

…

There are times when jews are commanded to be happy.

Nehemiah was afraid to be sad before the king.

Let each no look to his own needs, but how to please others

...orderly assembly

God is not the author of confusion

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Feed my sheep

9/25/15

I really do care about the sensitive need for leading and feeding you all in good pastures. I really do feel loved by you all when you care about the good I am trying to achieve among us.

If you want to know one of the main reasons I have had to hurt alone, it is because people cannot perceive how to love and comfort me and support my effort when I am seeking out our corporate life . Get on my side.

(So often it can feel like I am explicitly seeking to swiftly direct things in a direction, and random competitors and distributions are all too free to prioritize disarrangement over my hope. If you are not on my side, then I will continue and continue to be and hurt alone.)

Whenever we need to go disciple others, will we not need to have our own act syncronized?

Live randomly and haphazardly, and you will live for yourself. Live consciously and perceptivly and you will save others including making me unstoppable over you.

If any of these things feels out of reach and beyond your grasp, do not sorrow, but be moved that you have a chance to hear. And Keep listening until you hear.

Being sequential really is about loving people enough to urgently prioritize meeting their needs long before meeting your own needs.

It is ultimately about loving people enough to strategicly order events, and promote and help the order of events to somehow barley achieve the good that people most desparately need. It is a sensitive thing to direct toward resolve...

Don't shoot in the dark and guess and say, 'I have not considered how they will feel or how this will affect people emotionally or what direction this will afect and sway the Assembly, but they are a rock anyway, so let me make the most of this time to express what I feel...'

Sequential Feelings

Being sequential, all the way to the soul

9/24/15

Being sequential all the way to your soul means being spiritual, wise, prudent, perceptive, and especially, loving to the needs of others and the truth of God's Justice and priorities and goals for people.

Being emotionally and socially sequential is about making your soul (with all its instabilities) come under the authority of your spirit, so you can gain soundness and approval in your being, and be freed up to love others and meet their needs.

Loving people: prioritizing them above your own comfort.

Don't act as if others are a rock!

> add: Al notes!

Be sequential even in the way you feel!

When it is time to rejoice, rejoice!

Don't spoil a salty meal by adding sugar, and don't spoil cake by adding hot sause.

Arrange and Order you feelings according to authority and choice.

Most people consider that feeling one thing and saying another is hypocrisy. But when your inner heart has been purified by faith in the truth, then you can indeed set asside unprofitable, unplanned, inappropriate presentations made to your soul (as the snake came to Eve) and you can say who you are in truth, even from the heart of faith, even when your soul is threatened with something else that is troubling and inconvenient. -- it is not true

Capture, subdue, rule, and dominate rouge feelings, and tell them where to sit and wait. --

don't be persuaded by their untimley arrival, but be suspicious of their impressions as you would a disorderly child.

Do not believe it at all, and do not be gullible before its presentation, because it will fool with you, and waste your time, and spoil righteous arrangements, and disorder the sequence of Justice and faith.

Feel one thing, Deflate it and set it asside for another time, and then say another thing, being much more persuaded in the continuity and permanece of goodness, knowing that there is always a good time for Justice before you, and an appropriate time for building and repairing is soght when you are in your work clothes.

There is no real need to get wet concrete on your wedding clothes. There is no truth in an unrelieved burden whose goal is to interrupt you.

Unwelcomed Hesitation and uncertainty are enemies to faith and reejoicing.

Plan according to God.

Many questions do not help faith.

Prioritize the produce, when it is needed.

Consider that people are not rocks. Tell yourself and instruct yourself on how they feel at your words.

Value the righteous goal more than the moment of unreal insecurities.

Unrestricted bliss is still absolutely true, and there is no legitimate worry or care when it is time to do and speak worship.

Insp

A church person who causes others to compromise the Bible is worse than a homosexual who causes others to compromise America.

9/23/15

prioritize corporate activity

9/23/15

Whenever we do not prioritize corporate activity, it opposes my leadership.

Taking a shower before we meet.

Letting other random, staggered goals rapid fire untill we are hours latter than we sought to be...

Moving slow...

Doing other goals instead of getting in the car and waiting.

> turns into accomplishment competition... Always doing things and making others wait...

...

Although slowing down is one of the main needs in our culture, it is not the only virtue needed to fulfill righteousness

'Nothroi' is sluggish/slow...

> don't be a passive-aggressive lazy ghetto kid with an independent image to uphold, who refuses to be hurried along to help the group go...

Do your work with all of your soul as unto the Lord

So that he who reads can run...

12/22/15

Being sequential is about not ‘greeting someone with a loud voice, rising early in the morining’

Basic requirements: (1) be perceptive of the flow of other people, and, (2) communicate your needs, -- and then reverence the logical and right operation of each other…

9.26.15

At some point we will put into practice what we have only theorised, and we will just keep choosing to persistently and insistently overthowing the things that are against us until we get our practices changed and orderly

General Work Ethic

>>Scrip:

If anyone does not work, neither let him eat

>> TSK

>> this is a community accountability, corporate work ethic to hold all accountable to…

Nehemiah’s Extreme Work Ethic

>>Scrip:

Everyone sacrificed, debts were automatically canceled, and everyone pulled together in unusual intentional community to make the small remnant statup community survive…

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Sync = Loving & Serving Others

Gal: But out of love, slave-serve one another

Being randomly needy is about anarchy. Being squential is about Slave serving one another, as it says, 'in love slave serve one another'.

Do you want to be lords over others or do you want to come as one who serves?

Randomly coming up with events/needs without self control is one way to be sure and lead (as you make others bend around your unpreparedness). Being sequential is how you can present an orderly life that invites others to lead you by honoring their authority and perogative (when you prioritise their preference).

Randomness prioritizes your preferences and convenience and pre-siezes/reserves your own perrogative to be acomidated. Being orderly is reverent, respectful, honoring, valuing others in righteous thoughtfulness, pressed down, prudent is exploiting ways to definitively love other, non presumptious, sound with down standing, well ordered

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Whoever does not prepare ahead of time to provide for his own is worse than an unbeliver.

No one can fully lead someone who is continually making them accomidate their lack of planning.

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Go On Out to the Car

It is great to always be working, and it is right to always have something productive to do, but be mobile in your productivity, and have a way to contribute to our goals while waiting in the car. Be versitle in your productivity so that you maintain a submissive posture that waits on others and is ready to be lead.

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How to repent

You should always 'search your heart on your bed' and face any and all negative things that might have recently come through you, and repent of the concrete things themselves, and then also of the potentially more abstract root that causes these events.

Even though you might not always have a name for these roots, especially when you feel like you cannot controle them, yet you can point to them with your heart in prayer and say 'I'm sorry' until you are thoroughly sorry. And through continually humbling yourself and owning responsibility, and denyng excuses of not being able to do better, and refusing to outsource responsibility, and by aggressively believing that spiritual faith has all answers for truth and excelence, you can believe and apprehend all excelence and glorious order, and righteous intentionally, and take hold of strategic Justice, and do what you previously had no ability or concept on how to do.

(hint: often they are fear, hurt, etc. When unintentionally repeated)

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Do not greet anyone along the road

When mission is so important that you shun optional or even vain diversions...

Happy When Profiting

9/13/15

You should be absolutely happiest when you are profiting.

We spend way too much time maintaining, and when we finally get to dig or make progress we need to be the most gratified. -- even if you do not like digging, there is an overarching justice that is surpassingly at stake and at hand!

While unbelievers and flesh balls are happiest on the weekends when they get to do unprofitable things, the righteous are finally happy when they get to turn the tide and profit things and serve others.

With fleshly managers and fleshly workers, they are all tied up in unbearable vanity.

Therefore, whenever they work much, the manager is satisfied, and whenever they have extra breaks, the workers are satisfied...

Vanity of vanities, and abominable of all evils! It must never be so worthless and treacherous and evil among the righteous...

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Work Ethic

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9/15/15

Don't be as one who is paid a wage: they wait till they get to work to start thinking about the needs at hand...

be as one who is paid a salary, and always working until it is done

>> have foresight, don't just wait for everything to go wrong

take assignments / words seriously

don't think about your own ideas, but listen to what other peopl's goals are

Do mission critical things first

refuse to do optional things when it is crunch time

be a problem solver

go ahead to the car or set up sight, and imagin you are starting and do all of those things

don't wait for me to go out and keep doing thing in the meantime -- this can be a subconscious competition -- don't refuse to quickly finish your needs and wait on others in the car

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Non-Foresight-ed, Non-Sequential, Unprofitable, Disfunctionality

8/27/15

Do not roll the windows back up when we park, do it when we hit the parking lot or before!

If you have been sitting there waiting for 30 min, and then you remember that you need ice in your water as soon as everyone has loaded up in the car, sometimes you need to be self-disciplining and corrective an make your sould bear responcibility to change and use self percribed pain as motivation and proof that you need to write things down and change.

Get in the car before everyone else to change your soul.

Stop little things that are moral breaches for many much bigger things.

As long as you are in control of your schedule and activity, to this same degree you should be looking ahead (as it says you should do for your family members!) and organizing the sequence of what is upcomming to make provision for profitable sequential accomplishments.

You should be loving people as family, and being responsible, and living life for what is ahead and not being complacent and just dealing with what is right infront of your eyes.

Forsee evil and hide your self

“provide” for your own

Don’t be evil and complacent!

Stop Constant Intermittent interruptions

>> re-title & sort this section?

I got to get my boots

change my dress

get shoes that I can walk in

I knew we were going to work, but I have to change into something that willo work

You should be zealous to do justice and wait on others, not always habitually/addictively expect/be in the posture/habit of always having other wait on you.

Getting Sequential to Make This Dream Come True…

- we have strongly tended to plan on returning things

- Go to the city one day (7/27/15) and then the next day, “Your Feared-ness? If I may speak yet a little more...I am seeing and realizing that we girls need 'vacuum storage space bags' (we need them for multiple reasons). I was not reminded about this/I didn't even think about this yesterday while I was at Walmart. Since I need to go out anyway then it might be the best time for me to pick those up. And then I could drive back to this vicinity and "hang out"?”

- self-discipline includes chastising your brain, and your privilages, and re-routing your functions to be more sequential

- be sequential in your communications (both written and verbal) and in your corrective planning be diligent and determined to always change and make progress

- being mobilized means having your pcs, glases, water bottle, etc.

- be quick, spiffy, responsive, etc...

- Just like you want your smart phone to do to you, likewise also do to men... be smooth and well-responding So that we might all be blessed...

- & in doing this, let's be thinking of real good ways to do this over the phone so I can still delegate things...

- how could we plan on having book days after you are gone...?

- can we streamline things so that you are fluidly available... & at least various one of you can come in and read what Al is helping me w?

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Women answered the Door

You have got to always be in the posture of answering the door so you can be living like a servant. If you take longer to manage your response time than others, then you are not like a servant, but have forced others to get up and open the door...

- Somehow you want to spend time on others more than you spend time gearing

- we are still planning in a non sequential habbit most of the time...

- if you are not available to help, then I have to do it since my productivity is dependent on these needs...

Becoming a High-Productivity Work Force is A Big Answer with Important Potential

Prudence is healthy

Goal: be blessed by acknowledging healthy and prudent things

Deu_15:10

(Deu_6:3)

- if I could just turn your hands into having the ability to work on the goals I need and could direct us toward, we would have way more than all of our needs met and eventually have funds left over to help others

- you should not love silly and non-serious things. You should love what is faithful and true and owning God's blessing

- I should never have to pep talk / motivate you to any faithful activity that is good

- I should not have to constantly remind you how any pragmatic is spiritual and how it ends in a righteously required goal

- I should not have to remind you that we are not willing to boast in computers, because even if there have been brief mistakes they are very quickly swallowed up in reverence,

- we should not have to remind you that we are never willing to do anything that glorifies or love or even likes money

- in all our ambitions, you should not feel a goal of pride or intellectual boasting, or elitist confidence

- If your conscious is weak, we are willing to wait and prioritize rational consolation...

- there is a difference between a weak conscious and an evil one...

- If your conscious is weak unto being evil, we can be profoundly hurt, and intolerably crippled.

- If your conscious stays defiled, at some point it is eventually time to repent, especially if it is weak toward another person, through hardness, shortsightedness, shallowness, mis-prioritized misunderstanding

- potential marriage and other inevitable labors in life will eventually demand a repentance from defiled conscious that is troubled over non-sanctioned things, so wisdom loves to be first in choosing right boundaries now...

- great people do not keep a decaying consciences indefinitely... At some point they insist on maximum truth in them...

- you should be enthusiastic about learning skills that feel foreign to you, even if that sometimes means taking responsibilities or chopping labor that you don't understand the purpose for, or the redemptive value for.

- faithfulness believes in what is true without seeing, and works hard and long, always fighting for the honor of not becoming discouraged / fainting in well-doing / doing good.

Schedule

I have said, “if I worked this hard when I did not have a job, then I would not need a job because I would produce so much and be in such great success”

What if we treat truth as diligently as a full-time job?

Always doing what is most disciplined is the answer to guiltless and approved work ethic.

The logos of submitting to a written set of instructions an doing that strictly is not unmerciful or harsh, it is submissiveness to logos.

We have to make space for this to freely happen among us without supersticion.

Good Ideals & Pragmatic Goals

How could you get me wk in Denver?

Is there a college there? (sort of hope not)

Is there a technical school? That could be nice...

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5/26/15

.....tpctd

Help me get it started, then Research this to utter extremes and mk us sound extremely smart so that managers will be begging to to come and fix their company!

YT: the point of all YT videos is that: you managers / decision makers need to make sure that focused skill development / continuing education is an absolute high priority. You need to be checking off metrics, having efficiency suprovisors, etc.

The solution to inefficiency is configuration and training

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5/10/15

The way to get really big on YT is to mk a whole lot of very short, quick, highly polished videos on many subjects within your nich.

That's why we might need to create highly highly refined & simplified, and informative scripts, and get really good at editing lots and lots of videos...

We need some serious QA to the degree that many companies have 1 QA person for 10-20 workers, but we need, like, 80% refiners and QA workers...

Prep Goals for Gathering Up

Original titles: Coll - Prep / Gearing up...

- let's get synced & very mobilized

- let's meet by my PC so...

- we can read the Bible

- we can go over goals

- I can delegate things

WE Can All Help Me Shift From Doing IT to Teaching IT

- Western Technology Center -- this seems like the best way to go.....

- IT is hard / impossible / competitive / exasporating....

- you all cannot help me w IT nearly as much as I need, but.....

- You CAN Help with courses very much!

- we need to sell me as a teacher who can teach extremely profitable vast PC topics that managers will seriously crave....

- offer a feeling of critical quality change and motivation to feel relived with helpful answers to make everything work well for them

- Managers deeply want problem-solvers that get things off of their plate and quickly and professionally solve problems

- mk all their employees a blessing to them, & potently communicate/market this idea

- I can mostly do it, esp. w course manuals, but I need lots of help marketing this idea

- I have thought of using oDesk to higher outside help.... but doesn't that feel ocward??? as though we don't have a team? -- we just need to get synced and trained and then I would not think to look outside of our team for what we could do better w a lot of training....

- ex. of why I can't higher outside help: they would "represent" me to others....

Terms and places…

Votex

okcareertech.org

How To Find, Compile, & Create Courses For Me!!

- extremely persuasive for interviews to already have things printed out (example: letter of recommendation!)

- want the simplest way to have printed training manuals on hand for critical software options to quickly show decision makers...

- best freeware for printing out help files

- best way to print out help file contents

- best website for downloading and printing out free popular software training manuals for teachers

- google: download free pdf training manuals

- google: free pd printable Microsoft Word 2013 instruction manual / training course

- Google: free docx Word 2010 training manual

- google: download free pdf teachers guide / class (cilabus / silibus)

- get more google ideas from Ay and others

- POST IDEAS in chat...

The Rural Advantage?

· talked to PC consultant [Wilma Melot Newby] that had been doing it since the 80's and got really good advice and a feel of important things from her....

· ‘Seagate moved all IT people to another state’ -- so we got a lot of techies in OKC looking for wk

· One idea: find a big business with many computer employees in a rural area, and bring high Tech Computer training and help to them…

· This has already worked well to get me into WDN

· Maybe we can reuse this dynamic for ‘bigger and better opportunities’ at some point…

Terms and places…

norman

More norman technology center

Frances tutdle boteck center

Paul's vally

south of more norman

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What “Style” Directions to Go in, and How to Conceive a Value of This Morally

- we may have many "styles" and "personality"-feeling things, but don't ever assume that you know the difference between non-essential styles and divinely superior advantages

- it's ok to let things rest w out categorizing them

- if you can see ways that might help, then seek to contribute and improve with meekness and thankfulness

I can Teach You & You Can Help Me Teach

IT is hard. Teaching would be a relief for me. What can we do so that writing is fun for you and matches what you enjoy writing about?

Example: Al wrote some kind of summary recently, (which I still need to get) and she was 'surprised' that I wanted it since it did not feel like technical writing...

One day I really want to teach V Illustrator/Inkscape & Photoshop/GIMP

How can we mk this very easy & lightweight & even fun for you, and relieving for me, and sucessful for an income for us?

Main Needs:

· post cards (V & H?) &

· Very brief, VERY well thought out Course Summaries

· training manuals/summaries

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Work Ethic - 1

a week earlier...; and then again 9/17/11

Basic Context

Roommate Dynamics Community Work Ethic

The prophets lived together

What was it like to live in community with Jesus? What was it like for Moses' wife to be married to him?

Submission helps, and to always keep it special, but now for communities we are no longer allowed to be lords, but it says 'all of you submit to each other' (Moses even did this with Aaron & his own father in law)

- hypocrisy stops forgiveness

If No Work, No Eat

2Th_3:6-16 CAB But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother living in idleness, and not according the tradition which they received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you; 8 nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you, 9 not because we do not have authority, but in order that we may give ourselves as a pattern to you, so that you might follow us. 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat! 11 For we hear that some are walking among you in a disorderly way, not working at all, but being busybodies. 12 And to such people we command and urge by our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread. 13 But as for you, brothers, do not lose heart in doing good. 14 Now if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, take note of him, and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 16 Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all.

- These are the terms (rules) of reciprocation (compare this with ‘do not turn away from the one who asks you’)

What if You Stay Home?

- remember David’s saying? (those who stayed back are made equal with those who go out)

- what do you have that you have not received?

- Pragmatic Work ethics (RL & AL)

- trust is needed - you will work harder to pay back... more than they are asking

- you do not need to defend yourself.... but you do need to communicate and help someone peacefully know that you are covered and conscientiously sharing the effort

- serve more than they are asking

- valuing their substance more than they do

- Make sure what you do answers to a consolation for her going out and being tried at work

- something at home needs to be equivalent for there to be reciprocation

Ministry is called work...

- worker is worthy

- 1Ti 3

But

- is mostly reserved for those so appointed

- sometimes they were unwilling to refrain from working for their sake

Goal-Oriented Priorities – How to Work

- You are not there to maintain, but to advance

- measurable accomplishments

- Get assignments done with priority

- coordinating to prioritize

- how to spend time?

- sewing?/ cooking

Work Ethic - 2

2/11/12- 2/13/12; 3/3/12-3/4/12; 3/17/12

Reminders

Take notes in chat

Write down questions!!

Intro – Perfect Community!

Some Very Big Ways You Can be Repentant and Sober for Community

Begin…

· Submissively listening.

· Patiently understanding.

· Willingly bearing.

· Faithfully Believing.

1Sa_20:1-4 – Deal GENTLY With Friction Before it Becomes Conflict

Hay: “you mentioned this as a good example of agreement before”

If you make what is perfect your ambition and obsessive lust, you will be at *peace when everyone else falls to *pieces.

If you treat each other *commonly, don’t be surprised when you have an unholy *community.

We MUST Have Courageous Self-Sacrifice!

Let Go Of Needing Others to Benefit You in Order For You to Function

Goal: Learn How to be a Martyr and Win

We do not need to figure out how to live and be comfortable when people love us, we need to find out how to live and be content when people do us great harm (and everything else goes wrong), because this endurance will fill you in the end.

[Which is greater: a king or a martyr?]

Believe in what you do not see and what you do not feel and give yourself as a martyr and you will save yourself & your hearers

Our dream- How can I make things crucifixion-like so that I can win, NOT how can I make things palatable so that I can survive

(remember David’s example)

Never let your circumstances pertain to your contentment.

Php_4:11-13 CAB …I have learned [ἔμαθον] to be content in whatever state I am. 12 I know how to be abased [ταπεινοῦσθαι (see Mat_5:)], and I know how to abound [περισσεύειν]. In every place and in all circumstances [ἐν παντὶ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι – they reversed these two words?] I have learned [μεμύημαι – from μυστήριον (G3453 from G3466)] both to be full [χορτάζεσθαι] and to be hungry [πεινᾶν], both to abound [περισσεύειν] and to be in need [ὑστερεῖσθαι (see Psa_23:)]. 13 I can [strongly] do all things [πάντα ἰσχύω] through Christ [χριστῷ – anointed one] who ~~strengthens~~ me [ἐνδυναμοῦντί – enables/empowers (note: that is: inables/inpowers)].

Can you think of some promises for lowered/pushed/pressed down people (“depressed”)?

AL: It should not be that we operate like the animals- ex if you make an animal mad it gets mad; if you take away its food it gets upset-no matter what the circumstances or frictions you should be satisfied as long as you can do the will of God (do righteousness and give your life away)

Al: a self-serving discontentment is VERY different than a selfless ambition...be content for your own personal needs (ex food & clothing) and be ambitious (or have a discontented groan) for eternal things

AL: Phil 4 application- endure by faith any difficult or undesirable circumstances

Repent of setting your heart and expectation on things going easy.

You need to Prepare your courage for crucifixion, not your lusts on comfort

Al: If someone slaps you- you don't groan because your face hurts (pertaining to your own personal gratification); if you groan let it be because you are longing for perfection in the midst of having your face slapped

Through Trouble in this World We Must Enter

Fact: friction always happens… (just look at the patriarchs)

Good news: conflict does not have to.

Act_14:22 CAB strengthening [ἐπιστηρίζοντες] the souls of the disciples, urging [παρακαλοῦντες] them to continue [ἐμμένειν] in the faith, *saying, [* καὶ ὅτι – and that] "Through many tribulations [θλίψεων] we must [δεῖ] [, in going in,] enter into [εἰσελθεῖν εἰς] the kingdom of God."

Joh_16:33 CAB These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation [θλῖψιν ἔχετε]; but have courage [θαρσεῖτε – (for what it’s worth: “θαρ-” is where we eventually get “therapy” from)], I have overcome [ενίκηκα – concurred] the world."

We need to set our heart to endure things from others, not “expect” things from others.

Joh_13:1 CAB Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

You never have a right for others to do as much work as you do, or what kingdom are you laboring for anyway?

[And if you did not choose this situation, then do you suppose it is impossible to fulfill Peter’s commands to servants?]

[Remember that Jesus sent the disciples out two by two. They did not choose teammates]

Every single conflict basically comes from competition (bad zeal) and insensitivity (indifference).

2Co_10:2 For we dare not to class ourselves or to compare ourselves with those who commend themselves, but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, *do not understand. [?]

Remind your heart that you do not deserve anything from others but you always have an obligation to care for others far more than they care for themselves.

Do not lust after luxury, but be determined to gain a reward.

Giving Your Life Away & Preparing for The Greatness of Jail

Give Your Self to Courageous Sacrifice NOW, Before You Go to Jail!

- Ask yourself: how are you going to survive and do righteousness if in jail… or in some 3rd world country, without our usual “cushions.”

- Be wise: this also teaches us to never imagine that the ideal should happen as a basis for how to function in your life right now.

- don’t say: “I am so looking forward to not being tempted and tested, like all REAL disciples must be tried and sifted, in order to go to heaven!”

(How is THAT going to profit you??)

Always Remember: Whenever you begin to think that you deserve anything, you are just about to get in BIG trouble!

(If you are not merciful to others, what should happen when you need mercy from those over you?)

Good idea: Pray to be the least every single day of your life

- Don’t wait around to get in BIG trouble from your drifting selfish sentiments

- pray: “Lord, I release them from everything they have ever owed me…” (repeat prayer as necessary)

- REAL life is all about expecting nothing from others and giving everything to benefit them

- You MUST find out how to live without anyone else’s love or affirmation… and that’s when you start to LOVE others, instead of seeking out how you can be benefited from them

Small Side-note Clarification: Facing Trials & The Difference Between Worry, Integrity, and Ambition

As For Worrying: imagine the best and feel and think that way;

As For Integrity And Courage: imagine the worst and hardest outcome, and pray for a noble heart of faithfulness that does truth and wins even in this.

As for Ambition: set your heart on perfect community, and never, *never* let go!

The Son Of Man Did Not Come To Be Served…

Context: James, John, and their mother asked for greatness for them, and the others were indignant

Mat_20:25-28 CAB But Jesus, having summoned them, said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, shall be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave; 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many."

(also Mar_10:42-45)

Mar_

We Are Only Unprofitable Servants…

Luk_17:1-10 CAB Then He said to the disciples, "It is impossible for offenses not to come, but woe to the one through whom they do come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were around his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day he returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him." 5 And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith." 6 So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. 7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come and recline to eat'? 8 But will he not say to him, 'Prepare something that I may dine, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink'? 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things having been commanded? I think not. 10 So likewise you, whenever you do all the things having been commanded to you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done what we ought to do.' "

The Patient Self-Sacrifice of a Farmer!

Instant grits maybe America but instant community is not God's kingdom

Physical Death

Unless a corn of wheat falls to the ground and dies

Joh_12:23-28 CAB But Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life. 26 And if anyone serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant shall be also. If anyone serve Me, him My Father will honor. 27 "Now My soul has been troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again."

1Co_15:36-38 CAB Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that will be, but a bare grain--perhaps wheat or some other grains. 38 But God gives to it a body just as He desired, and to each of the seeds its own body.

(see important context!)

James 5

Preceding context: patience in light of the indulgent, rich, oppressive pagan in this life

Jas_5:7-11 CAB Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer awaits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and late rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near. 9 Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Behold, the Judge stands before the doors! 10 My brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of evil suffering and of longsuffering. 11 Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.

2 Timothy 2

2Ti_2:1-11 CAB You therefore, my child, be empowered by the grace which is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also. 3 You therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of civilian life, in order that he may please the one having enlisted him. 5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is necessary for the hard-working farmer to be first to receive of the fruits. 7 Consider the things I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. 8 Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel, 9 in which I endure hardship unto chains as an evildoer; but the word of God is not chained. 10 Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 11 Faithful is this word: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him.

Ephesians 4 – Bear With One Another

Read through the whole chapter

Eph_4:1-3 CAB Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Don’t Allow Evil & Bitterness to Perpetuate!

Eph_4:22-27 CAB that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness. 25 Therefore, having put off falsehood, "Let each one speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another. 26 "Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun set on your anger, 27 nor give opportunity to the devil.

Only Speak what Imparts Favor

Eph_4:29, 31-32 CAB Let no corrupt word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, that it may give grace to them that hear… 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and blasphemy be removed from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ forgave us.

If Anyone Has Wronged Any

Col_3:12-15 CAB Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on ~~hearts~~ of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience; 13 forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone should have a complaint against any; just as Christ forgave you, so you also do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

(see Rich Context also)

The Disorderly – It Has to Get This Bad Before You Stop Giving Yourself to Community With Them

1Th_5:14-15 CAB Now we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the discouraged, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all. 15 See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue that which is good, both for one another and for all.

(see the rest of the chapter)

2Th_3:4-15 – when you have to withdraw

The Strong Should Bear with the Weaknesses of the Weak

Rom_13:14 –

Rom_14:1, etc., Rom_14:19-22; Rom_15:1-8

>> see: LO / SRP (Rom_15:1-3)

And when it finally comes time to talk to them, apply logos over your feelings before speaking lest situations of friction become situations of conflict!

Jurisdiction – Leave Another Person’s Realm Alone!

Proper Use

2Co_10:13-16

The Ravaging Violation of Compulsive Blasphemers

2Pe_2:9-18 CAB then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and how to keep the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are bold, self-willed, illustrious persons, they do not tremble at blaspheming, 11 whereas angels, being greater in might and in power, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as unreasoning natural animals, having been born for capture and destruction, blaspheme at things which they are ignorant of, and shall be destroyed in their destruction, 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, they are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart having been trained in greediness, they are accursed children. 15 They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 but he was rebuked for his own lawlessness: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet. [note: he violated jurisdiction] 17 These are waterless wells, clouds being driven by a storm, for whom the darkness of the netherworld has been reserved forever. 18 For when they speak haughty words of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

Jud_1:8-10 CAB Likewise indeed even these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glories. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when taking issue with the devil, was arguing about the body of Moses, dared not to bring a railing accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" 10 But these speak blasphemously of those things which they do not know; but what they do know naturally, like unreasoning animals, they are destroyed by these things.

These speak evil of what they know not

- I often deal with customers who thoughtlessly use me as a convenient scape goat for their computer frustrations

- they “need someone to blame” so they exploit their own ignorance, strike at the very first thing they can see (me), and violate into what they have not seen and do not know or understand and quickly and rashly strike at the hand that feeds them while they are enraged with mindless fear and frustration. – integrity is an issue here.

- Have you heard this human saying? – “You have a bad day at work and you come home and kick the dog”

- such violence is fool-hearty, treacherous, evil, and self-condemning

[- recall Scriptures about condemning yourself: with the measure you use it will be measured back to you (Mat_6:)]

- We also are tempted to violate jurisdiction this way

- Didn’t they know that I was trying to get this done?? So why did they do it this way!?

- If you do not know, cease with your fool-hearty violence! Correction is for those with knowledge, and silence and passivity are for those who are still ignorant. But the earth cannot tolerate an ignorant fool who opens up his mouth and, with great perversion and inhumanity, blindly strikes at the innocent.

Don’t Assume Your Insanity Equals Another Person’s Heart!

- First assume the best motives, then proceed to understand their unclear actions.

- Ask permission before believing something hidden about another person’s heart, because remember, it does not belong to you!

- We are never in a place to challenge non-material judgment calls in another person’s domain (weather that means a master’s purchases or a servant’s faithfulness at home)

- there is great trouble when you cannot trust another person’s jurisdiction.

- We need accountability, but after that, we really do need to leave it to them to report to us

- We are not allowed to infringe on other people’s hidden motives or crossing their testimony (Jesus with Judas… He really let him have his domain)

- This is the standard until it gets to the point of withdrawal from a person living ‘disorderly’ (Thess)

- If you are insane against another person, own your own guilt if you have entertained transgression – come to terms yourself with your own evil before opening your mouth to them about your insanity against them. Then, with peace and faithfulness, inquire to help fortify your soul and promote sharing and reciprocation in all things.

Paranoid of Being Despised

- Never assume you know how someone else feels about you, because you are looking at them, you are not looking at yourself through them

- a trespassing heart will accuse another person of trespassing against them with their only evidence being their own hurt eyes

- (example: “I feel like you are really harsh toward me”)

- (but for benefit: you often need Another person to believe in your labor toward them, before you can talk through things)

- Beware of the treachery of darkness which (by the failings of unresolved hurt) will energize you in hypocrisy, and strengthen your breached mind to sin into others. One accuses another of violating their life, all the while vilely intruding into the motives they have not seen and profaning the character of another, preferring to compulsively betray another with their own falsehood rather than remorsefully amending their own conscious from dead works, and the unbelief of hurt.

Scrip

- 1Co 4

- Don’t despise a servant

- Jacob’s children, when deciding about Shechem & Egypt

- The older bother

If we are in community we must share; don’t ever leave it up to others to pry.

But all of that being said, we must communicate in order to understand another person’s motives so that we can have a shot at trust.

- You do not have a place to offer advice where your advice has not been requested. (determine: to what degree have I been received?)

Repent of Presumptuous Confrontation; Embrace Humble Inquiry

“H: I wanted to go into some greek details.

Pro_16:32 NETS "A man who is slow to anger is better[κρεισσων-i.e with the idea of being stronger] than the mighty[ισχυρου], and he who controls [κρατων-ie. to use might to control] his temper[οργης-lit. something you stretch out for in desires; fig. violent passions] better [κρεισσων]than one who captures a city." I wanted to go into detail so that I can say, hd you are the strongest man I know!!! You are far more superior than a body builder!”

~4/25/12

Never let your heart have permission to find fault in another until you yourself are walking blamelessly.

Find much fault and accuse your own heart before looking outside of yourself and finding fault with others.

Have you sinned against another? Rebuke yourself frequently before talking with them, and only speak to them that which does not incriminate their motives.

Make all of your concerns as submissive inquiries, assuming first that you know nothing and have no right to assert “facts” about anything (Gal_6/ Jas_3).

If they talk to you before your heart is noble, then receive their injury (1Co 6), and wait patiently for opportunity to righteously answer, no matter how long it requires.

[You need permission to answer, and you may need to bear their injury for a prolonged amount of time]

Let our souls all be gripped with reverent fear that we are zealously pursuing to take wrong from each other whenever needed!

If you are moved by a fault in another person that is within the scope of your vision then you are foolish and unfaithful, but if you find praise that is from God’s sentiments then you are righteous and are loved in spite of your past sins. If you endure an injury then you are faithful. If you seek accountability for everyone, and judge the church as necessary then you are obedient.

Repent profusely of grievous words.

If another person is being patient and bearing with your injustice, move quickly FEAR GOD!

Don’t ever let competition motivate you… always pray to be the least every morning

See: Repent and Make Restitution

Relating to People Based on Their Sin

It is not your place or responsibility to relate to someone based on their sin (unless they are your children, as with God with mt sini)

It is your job to love people patiently based on faith for who they will be (according to the image of Him who created him)

Don't let yourself relate to people based on their sin, but on their righteousness, which is ultimately from God, and endure with them based on that righteousness.

2Co_5:15-16

Critical Spirit

Saul David

This son of Jessie

Becoming evil judges against the law

With evil thoughts in our heart

1co4 leave the hidden motives alone - see juristiction

And all of this as opposed to eph 4 / Col 3

Bitterness is Absolutely NOT optional

Jas_3:14-16 (etc.) – instability!

Can’t tell someone what they need!

Not honest!

It is not lawful to speak your demonically motivated mind!

It is not ok to vent when you are doing evil to another person!

Mr.H- if you find a good time to answer the following question then I would appreciate that: Acts_8:23 mentions "the gall of bitterness and together bond of unrighteousness". I have been wondering for a long time now exactly what that means?

What to do With Disgruntled Feelings

- Forsake Defensiveness: we never want to have areas that are off limits to reasonable inquiry

- if they are not anathema (disorderly), then you are required to hear them

- be willing to be hurt… if that is threatening to you, then get desperate to have help in prayer quick

- Yes: you must be spiritual at all times, and always be willing to be hurt.

- save one another by bearing hurt

- Never set high expectations of being served/ benefited by others (in this life)

- Never foresee (imagine) the best case scenario, anticipate the ideal, and base your concept and expectation of functioning off of that

Trust God’s Providence – Don’t Ever Despair over Seemingly Unresolvable Challenges

“This too will pass”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass

2/16/12

- unusual pressures = not the way God designed it, but the way He wisely orchestrated it

- don’t ever despair against/ disbelieve in the real situation you are actually in…

- your current case (which you cannot change) is always God’s current will for your life, until He shows a righteous way to change things.

- this means the “impossible” feelings are totally bogus

Integrity for Your Frustrations

Make sure that you never give yourself permission to be angry when taking it personally.

You only have a place to find fault when you are first dead – otherwise it is treachery and hypocrisy.

It is not your prerogative to be “lords” (as Jesus and Peter say*) therefore it is not your prerogative to assume the worst, or make guesses at motives.

Passages

[Mat_23:___; Peter _ ?]

1Co_4:___ !!!

If you are waiting on your own heart and continually experiencing unbearable friction which you cannot righteously rebuke (i.e. you don’t want to be a hypocrite), then let that burning pain motivate you to have righteousness.

If you are burdened by injustice done against you, then hate also the injustice you do before protesting about what is outside. If that is an unbearable wait, then move your soul quickly to righteousness!

But what happens after you fix your heart and yet you still need to communicate with others to fix friction?

Submit, Esteem, and Trust Others – Unfinished Thoughts

Rom_15:1 etc. – receive one another

Counting People Worthy of Underserved Honor

David magnified Saul’s life

Esteeming demonized Saul

Count Masters (even parents/ husbands) worthy of all honor

Let the woman see that she fear the man

Pray to be the least, then you will be obliged to esteem others greater than yourself

Submit and Live – Some Seasonal Exhortations

12/21/11

- Glorious submission to each other

- humility to believe with one another

- fervent eagerness toward each other

It makes all the difference in the world when someone thinks they are less than you. We all become worthless to each other and to God when we think we are better than each other. It makes all the difference when someone is ready to be discipled. Give me an erring disciple, who will willingly be discipled, any day above a self-leader who does not trust being directed.

Love perfectly prefers the fulfillment of others.

The Difference Between a Leader and a Follower

Esteem each other, do not presume for yourself!

Remember: being a colaborer is not the same as discipling people. If you see someone speak authoritative to another, that has nothing to do with how you ought to speak to others if you do not have authority in their life. Speak to others based on your humble lot, not based on the presumption that your creative imagination can come up with about yourself (Gal_6:1-6). Be realistic on who you actually are, according to the actual measure of faith and favored lot you have actually been given (Rom_12:2-3)!

Determined Mercy and Esteem

Remember the ways that you are like them

Be determined to keep goodness in your heart for them

Trust

I don’t understand, so I am frustrated and don’t trust. – this goes back to jurisdiction

Unfinished Problems

Leader: bitterness/ jealousy > harshness

(cannot see how other is pulling her weight… would really like to understand how that is happening)

Councilor (Mother):

- but not sure that that is the real answer, may help, but not answer.

Repent of Conditional Agreement

This is deep and profound, but it is very practical and vital if we will let it be by faith

Tell so and so and so and so to agree!

Php_4:2 CAB I implore [παρακαλῶ] Euodia and I implore [παρακαλῶ] Syntyche *to be of the same mind in the Lord [* τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν ἐν Κυρίῳ].

Rom_12:16 WEB Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be ~~wise~~ in your own conceits.

1Co_1:10 WEB Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same ~~judgment~~.

1Co_1:13 CAB Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

2Co_10:1-7 – if you presume others are speaking from flesh, you are just asking for flesh! – it is time to repent and tear down foolishness and come to a safe place!

Jud_1:8, Jud_1:10-11

Pro_3:5-8 NETS

Joh_7:17

--------------- return:

We are not immune to being tempted. If it tried to spoil the Apostolic Church in the Scriptures, Heresy will certinly also seek to spoil us as well.

5/14/12

Conditional agreement with real disciples truly is the same as conditional faith toward God

5/15/12

1Co_2:1 – disagreement is through vain boasting in the flesh of men (treating those sent out by Jesus as vain, well speaking philosophers).

Scrip!

unity of Spirit... bond of perfection

But we have the mind of Anointed One! Therefor we can instantly be of the same mind and agree!

(But no agreement with paganism: 2Co_6:15-16)

Edited from TSK:

Psa_133:1, Jer_32:39, Joh_13:34-35 (love), Joh_17:23, Act_4:32, Rom_15:5-6 , 2Co_13:11, Eph_4:1-7, Eph_4:31, Eph_4:32 (good-boweled), Phi_1:27, Phi_2:1-4, Phi_3:16, 1Th_5:13 (command), Jam_3:13-18 (wisdom avoids bad zeal), 1Pe_3:8-9

divisions: Gr. schisms, 1Co_11:18, 1Co_12:25

In all of these examples there is a running, moral presupposition that agreement is always accessible for people obeying God’s Spirit through faith.

- this is why we talk about "being on the same page"

- listen by reverent faithfulness and truth: agree with me now about everything!

- do not be fleshly and evil in heart and wait to be persuaded before believing.

- to the degree that we are in the faith and seek out speaking the words of Jesus we will have the Words of life that must be agreed with and zealously received by faith before we understand.

- a basis from what you can know really does demand an embrace for what you do not know (just as sitting in a chair)

- we do not need to discuss so that we can agree. We should have already repented of that a long time ago as Paul commands perfection for the assembly.

- let us repent so we can be real Christians; let us completely believe God's perfect truth so that we can all believe and perfectly agree before we even know all the standards God has; and let us discuss and communicate so that we can simply understand each other and be on the same page.

- repent of conditional agreement with the faith. Repent and agree completely and perfectly now, wholeheartedly without any boundaries or reserves. Give yourself in complete abandonment to truth, and be in perfect agreement, right now! (or are you still yet not attracted, and Do you still yet harbor and cherish unbelief, hardheartedness, stubbornness, wickedness, and unpersuasion ?)

Despising / Familiarity

Integrity for Authority & Submission – Judgments to Repent of

Scrip

Pro: – don’t despise a servant

(see EC)

Leaders Are the Ones Most Responsible for Communication

How we must be committed to safe submission and leader responsibility

- If you see someone grieved when you question their cereal, then STOP asking about their cereal. – it is more important that you wait in faithfulness promoting another’s best interest than to guide them into decisions that are based out of coercion and disregard for their need to defeat unbelief and agree in faith.

- Actually be perceptive and considerate to deeper things, considering the outcome and feelings and perceptions of others before speaking and acting

- you are commanded to stop having a heart of inconsideration – open your eyes, and start paying attention to the excellent things of truth!

- you may have a better idea, but often you do not have a better heart if you have to insist on giving it.

- let go of your right to make sure other people do things right

- And then reverencing leader asks: “but what about ‘do all things with council’?” – Yes, that’s right. It is up to you as a leader to make sure they are a welcome councilor in your domain.

Deliberating Servant: no means no (authority says what it means)

Fast-paced Extravert: no means come ask again (if it is that important)

If you want someone to ask again it is your obligation to never ever shut them down, and you must beg them to come to you again.

If you have answered harshly at times, own up to the fact that you have forbidden them to come to you again.

It is righteous to “stop asking about the cereal” – therefor it is your obligation as a leader to beg them to tell you about the cereal.

It is always easier for a leader to take oppression for granted!

Therefore, redeem this and take communication on as your vital responsibility.

You cannot let the hurt, weakness, and vulnerability that results from this communication hurt your willingness to hear people.

Do they make you weak when they say difficult words? Be willing to be made weak, and courageous to still make decisions.

Are You Dealing Unjustly?

- it is not our business to be involved in critiquing those who are not under our authority. This is when it is time to put things behind your back, hold on to unseen faith, look for truth and perfection.

- are you doing others well and believing for them more than they are in you?

- Bear with the feeble…

If you Are Being Dealt Unjustly

- Is another person critiquing you? Let their pressure be your discipline. But is it false? Then endure false accusations and trust in God who brings forth your righteousness as the noon day.

- If you have light, then it is God’s business to make sure that He makes it shine in due time.

- God puts your ignorant sins behind His back all the time… command: “go and do likewise”!

- if you do not have light, then you of all people have no right to: wrath/ anger/vindication/ to stand up against your trouble

- Stop being personally defensive or offended

- How do you feel Personally? Is it like David? A Dead dog and a flea

Hypocrisy Concerns – Don’t Violate Community Imitation!

- we say we all want it

- this has been going on right in front of your face as an example

- sounds cool on phone (feel like a looser for ignoring amazing presentation)

- when it is actually going on, it is completely overlooked…

- esp. the last one about being attracted to God/ first love (in RV)

- is it because they can follow an energized teaching, but don’t admire/ imitate it when it is right up in your face…

- indifference

- say, “amen,” but not energized by weak personality serving faithfully

- if unbelievers are indifferent, that’s one thing…

- but it is different for those who are supposed to get married together

- there should be the same response if the same substance is coming out of you

- but since you are not in a place of authority, and you are not laying down the law,

- it is easier to overlook you

- leader may say something, and then when you say it, people think it can be argued with more

- despising one in law estate and disregarding their humble container which holds the same truth as the leader who no one dares to say is wrong.

- someone keeps responding that righteousness is personalities traits – maybe they won’t say that anymore, but still indifferent to imitate… feeling not that important… indifference that is worse than hatred.

Applications

- you are being lost among us if that is the case…

Delegation – Be Servants, Not Colleagues

Gal_5:13 CAB For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Gal_6:2 CAB Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.

(see context)

Mar_10:43-45 – become a servant

More TSK

... Joh_13:14, Joh_13:15, Act_20:35, Rom_15:1, Rom_15:2, 1Co_9:19, 1Co_13:4-7, 2Co_4:5, 2Co_12:15, 1Th_1:3, Jam_2:15-17, 1Jo_3:16-19

We are not aiming to just be colleagues who happen to be in the same trade, but servants to each other, according to the season and lot which God has laid upon us.

- those who are just “colleagues” in the same trade incorporate their friends needs into their own goals.

- A colleague works their friend's suggestions into their own priorities.

- Servants make their friends needs their primary goals

- A servant takes their assignments more seriously than their assigner does

- A servant is deeply zealous to give an account for the task that was assigned to them, because a servant's character, as a servant, and faithfulness is on the line when it comes to performing their tasks.

- They must give an answer to clear themselves and be found faithful before God and man

- what does it take to make someone a supporter of another person’s work? Usually it takes a lot of money just to create this in the flesh, but whatever happened to “love your neighbor as yourself”? or as Jesus said ‘love one another as I have loved you’!

- It is grievous if you know more about how to be motivated by an employer who pays you money than humility which obliges you to serve others whenever you may be in such a lot.

So then, your main question is: what am i obliged to work on at this season? Has it been ordained for me to be a servant to someone, or should I instead have goals of personal development? Personal and corporate development is the great responsibility of leaders and providers, but personal ambitions are unseemly for servants who are constrained to support the agenda of those leading.

Food for thought

(A) Consider well these words: - handmaid, - helpmate

(B) My Story: working at a cafeteria, but expressing higher ambitions

Scrip

Servants sometimes had children too!

Delegation – Get Disciplined, Organized Diligence

Never be forgetful to follow through with delegated needs.

Don’t be at ease with forgetting other people’s priorities.

You must always hurt as much as they do over the need.

Write down responsibilities, and don’t stop putting it on the top of your list until you can report to your master that the mission is successful.

Make Progress a Priority

- commitment to progress (work hard… don’t have time for luxurious development)

- we cannot afford the luxury of letting the majority of our energy go to maintaining… we just cannot do that…

- do not be or promote anxiousness, but make sure you are hurting as much as they are with labor

Disagreements? – Work Ethic Contradictions?

- If Different ethic: Gl is right

- If Different expression of it: Vic is right

Al: probably expression, but probably something to…

‘Why is it so hard to stay home and take care of a child?’

Action point: list all of the values/ work ethics that seem to conflict

Fix Communication

Side note: Fix communication; get sound quick! Speak in context. Sure up your motives for speaking.

Weep with Those Who Weep

I have noticed at times that a person among us may be displaying faith and then all of a sudden things are tremendously difficult for another person; or one person may be struggling and then all of a sudden another busts out in faith. I am not claiming to understand why this dynamic frequently happens, or all the different aspects/factors involved in it. But I would like to at least share one thought that may touch on at least one of the dynamic's potential aspects:

Rom_12:15-16 CAB Rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep. Be of the same mind toward one another. Not minding the high things, but associating [συναπαγω] with the humble...

1Co_12:26 CAB And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together; or if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

If people are displaying real faith on phone conferences, for example, then it is requisite for me to join them in faith, instead of giving into things like intimidation.

"Rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep..."
Of course I shouldn't be shallow with shallowness, or unbelieving with unbelief; but neither should I feel more confident when others are weak. It shouldn't be that all of a sudden I am having a better day "walking in faith" when I become aware that my sister is having a rough day. It shouldn't be that their moment of weakness is somehow inadvertently used as a stepping stone which helps me feel better. If competition is going on though then this is no surprise.

If I do get "strong" then let it be that I have found the strength to help my sister, and NOT that my arms & legs have gotten strength to leave them in the dust.

It shouldnt be that I find myself having left a weak and humble person in the dust; but that rather I would be found "associating [συναπαγω] with the humble".

Rom_15:1-3 WEB Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

Being Well Persuaded

One challenge that I am running into, in regards to me pouring myself out even when it seems that others aren't wanting to eat, is this: often times (not all the time) I find myself hearing-out some of the girls and then at the end I may say things like "that makes sense". That may be fine but here is the friction I've felt- even if I've said something in the beginning of the conversation that I thought would be helpful to them, it can feel like someone always has something else to say or has some point to make, and I just end up justifying them in the end (bcuz really,their logic is reasonable, their feelings have a legitimate basis, and they have made their point). As for me, I don't end up feeling like I have anything important to say or to give to them. If I did say something then it might just end up be refuted/resisted through the bringing up of all the considerations that I did not consider. And I end up just wanting to keep my mouth closed because I don't want to think I know something when I don't (1Cor_8:2). Discussions have gotten to the point to where I often find myself quickly yielding to others if they say anything reasonable (cuz I don't have the strength to do otherwise). Sometimes I have walked away from situations thinking "well Lord, I understand what they're saying and they're correct, and I'm...I don't know what I am".

At the same time, I have also thought things like "oh Lord, instead of people always having something to say and always wanting to get their point across, does anyone ever just listen and is well persuaded (Jam_3:17 [1Co_13:])?"

If the Lord wants me to pour something out to others then my hope is that i can cry out and He'll provide the resources and strength for my arms and affirmation for my soul that I need.

Expectations

We are only Unprofitable servants

He says: wicked and lazy servant does not advance – do not simply give Him back what he gave you

What do we expect from each other concerning work?

Are they in a husband and wife scenario?

Should one go out and work?

Do they pertain to you?

Earn your keep in addition to house work?

Me bringing up a point does not mean that someone is necessarily falling at that point.

We just want clarity

Dad’s Preference

How serious to consider moving?

Is it a command?

Is it even an option for us? (safety)

No going along with chain jerking…

Work Ethic Accountability

- Inventory/ Tune-up meetings

- what are your goals?

- …priorities at this season?

- what do you perceive God has made you responsible to seek?

- is there anything you can cut out of your schedule? (a “Do-not-Do List”)

Additional Questions

Btw- maybe you can mention on Sunday what is expected among us (as far as work goes). For example, both my roomie and I feel that Joanna should not in any way feel bad about not going out and making an income. Raising a child and taking care of the home is already a full time job. Are we all on the same page with this sentiment? Regarding myself, my roommate has voiced to me that she is strongly not in agreement with me presently working outside the home since she is already working a full time job.

All that to say that it may be good for us to go over what our expectations are for each other regarding "work".

Things We Desperately Need Delegated

- Russia research

- job opportunities

- book work

Motivation

Act_27:29-32 CAB and being afraid lest we should run aground on the rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and were praying for day to come. 30 Now as the sailors were seeking to flee from the ship, and letting down the skiff into the sea, in pretense of spreading out anchors from the prow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "If these men do not remain in the ship, you cannot be saved." 32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the skiff and let it fall off.

Wis_3:10-13 Brenton But the ungodly shall be punished according to their own imaginations, which have neglected the righteous, and forsaken the Lord. 11 For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture, he is miserable, and their hope is vain, their labours unfruitful, and their works unprofitable: 12 Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked: 13 Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.

Zec_8:10 CAB For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in, for I would have let loose all men, everyone against his neighbor.

Mal_2:10 CAB Have you not all one Father? Did not one God create you? Why have you forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

Being faithful to relating to the covenant of God has always been immediately measurable by the faithfulness that we have to each other.

Mal_3:16-17 WEB Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name. 17 They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Mal_3:16-17 CAB Thus they spoke, those that feared the Lord, everyone to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and He wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced His name. 17 And they shall be Mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.

Work Ethic 1 -- Working in Community

Community Living

Eagerness

Maintaining Fresh Eagerness

General

1Th_2:8

Bond of Perfection!

Col_2:13 CAB And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven [χαρισάμενος – favorably granted] us [from] all our trespasses,

Col_3:12-17 CAB Therefore, as the elect of God, holy [ἅγιοι] and beloved, put on ~~hearts~~ [σπλάγχνα – bowels] of compassion [οἰκτιρμοῦ], kindness [χρηστότητα], ~~humility~~ [ταπεινοφροσύνην – subjected minded-ness (lit. “depressed” {as a button, not emotionally})], meekness [πρᾳότητα], patience [μακροθυμίαν]; 13 forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone should have a complaint against any; just as Christ forgave you, so you also do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection [σύνδεσμος τῆς τελειότητος]. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you may do in word or deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1Co_10:31 CAB Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God.

Good-Bowelled – ‘Tenderhearted’

Eph_4:29-32 CAB Let no corrupt word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, that it may give grace to them that hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and blasphemy be removed from you, with all malice. 32 And be[come] [γίνεσθε] kind [χρηστοί] to one another, [fig:] tenderhearted [ευσπλαγχνοιG2155 – good-boweled], forgiving [χαριζομενοι^G5483 ] one another, just as also God in Christ [anointed one] forgave us.

- Forgiving...

- No despising...

Love Fervently

1Pe_1:22 CAB Since you have purified [ἡγνικότες – lexical: ἁγνίζω (G48); from: ἁγνός (G53); related to ἅγιος (G40)] your souls [ψυχὰς] by obedience to [ὑπακοῇ – listening under] the truth through the Spirit in[to] [εἰς] *~~sincere~~ love for the brothers [* φιλαδελφίαν ἀνυπόκριτον – brotherly Love, without distinguishing yourself under a false guise, (un-hypocritical)], love one another fervently [ἐκτενῶς] ~~from~~ [ἐκ – out of] a pure heart [καθαρᾶς καρδίας],

Examples to Follow

The Examples that give some Answers

Patriarchs and their children -do you think that required endurance? – in the end they still wanted the blessing

Compare: Thess church

- Joshua with Moses (Exo_33:11)

> You will always be tempted to grow complacent (Num_12 and 16)

- people had more dedication to discipleship then

- Job (Jas – ‘remember Job’);

- Psalms

- Song of Songs

- the Prophets under persecution

Nehemiah – giving when there is little immediate consolation

- do not neglect assembling

- coming together breaks the powers of hell

- giving into neglect is giving up hope in the middle of everyone trying to make it on a team

- moses' anger over this

- it is a devilish seed

- you never think your actions are weakening the community

- pornographers & rapists do not cnsider it so bad

- AL verse: moses commanded do not be afraid of them... Don't say how are we going to be able to destroy them

- 12 spies - when "settling east of Jorden" idea was brought up - when it was time to go defeat the kings

- Ester remained eager after exaltation

- Elijah and Elisha – think of Discipleship in general

- Paul writing to these churches

> do you think he maintained eagerness??

> ‘we long for you’

Naomi and Ruth

- still eager in trial

- how does this compare with David’s men?????

> Stop morning!... oh, ok:

2Sa_18:32-33

2Sa_19:1-8

2Sa_19:14

> They thought of stoning him

1Sa_30:6

Examples of Peter & Disciples...

When Jesus first called His disciples, it says…

Luk_5:8-10 CAB When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!" 9 For astonishment gripped him and all who were with him at the haul of fish which they had taken. 10 And likewise also it gripped James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not fear; from now on you shall be catching men."

And again, after the resurrection…

Joh_21:7 WEB That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved [ἡγάπα] said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, *he wrapped his coat around him [τὸν ἐπενδύτην διεζώσατο] (for he was naked) [ἦν γὰρ γυμνός], and threw himself into the sea.

- Examples of those who were healed

- Paul and Timothy

Bad Examples Not To Follow

- Saul and Samuel

- 2Ch_26:1-23 – Uzziah* with leprosy (compare 2Ch_27:2; Isa_6:1)

[* also known as, Azariah – 2Ki_15:1-7]

- Judas with Jesus

- Corinthians and Galatians -temporarily-

cor—be imitators of me

gal—i begg you- become as i am

Getting rich

Finishing all of your goals in life

Full Retirement = death

Paul always remembered his current weakness and past sinfulness so that he would never pass over from being a concientious mercied one who's sins had shortly been washed to being an experienced and hardened hypocrite

Knowledge, Experience and independence (in this mixture) are the enemies of your soul.

Jer_2 !!!

Compare special principle of:

Rom_9:1; Rom_10:1; Rom_11:1; Rom_12:1

Why Does God Take Her to Court?

- back in those days you could not just give a ring back to the guy!!

- Story: a guy I knew in Office Depo… wanted to through his ring into the sea… unresolved hurt… hopeless pain

- Story: Girl felt even worse when a man did not resist the breakup she proposed

- God is angry because He Loves, and refuses to ignore His Lawful relationship with Abraham and covenant with all the sons of Jacob

- A saying: “indifference is worse than hatred” (Elie Wiesel)

- I wish you were hot or cold

- Whatever you do, do it quickly

“Relationship” Examples

What hurts most in a relationship indifference or hate?

Secular Quotes from: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/863510

10/6/11

“Indifference; it shows that you don't even mean enough to them for them to care. Hate, will eventually subside...and hating someone requires alot of feelings and emotions to be involved. You know how they say "There's a thin line between love and hate"? Well, in some cases, it's true. Hate can also sometimes be an unknown mask to cover frustrated love.”

“Indifference.. you can always endure hate... but indifference... its unbearable”

“...indifference, because you don't matter anymore... with hate, you still matter!”

“It depends. If you love, respect and admire the person and still place those feelings as a priority in your life and they also used feel the same about you - indifference is probably the very most painful thing in the world - because it means they they have no value whatsoever for the feelings they used to share with you or the feelings you have.

Hate is almost always a reaction to a single or group of betrayals but the underlying emotions of of love, respect, or admiration need to still be there or have been there for the hate to even occur.

Hate will almost always subside - the trust might not return but the other person might still see value in the feelings they used to have when they have healed. But there is still hope that something is left - so patience might bring a better time.

Indifference pretty much never changes and there really isn't any hope. So it is far more painful to experience because the only thing you can do to heal is to try to become indifferent too. Not so easy to do if the other person has done nothing to change your feelings for them.”

The Result

1Th_1:6-9 - you did it!; 2Th_3:9 – we have a right to call people to this

Be Saved by Favor

Heb_12:1 (remember: Heb_6:10-12 - imitate favor)

The Point of Considering Eagerness

It Can Seem Easy To Start, But It Is Something Else To Endure

Heb_3:6-7 WEB but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. 7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

Heb_3:12-14 WEB Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

There is No Assurance Left For those who Falter

Heb_10 – Don’t Draw Back

Heb_10:23-26 WEB let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. 24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching. 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

- community keeps us accountable to reality (humans do this service for us in general, but how much more those who pertain to Jesus?)

- eagerness pertains to each other

- you can see the onset of apostasy, because it often comes in non-eagerness toward God’s favored

Also see:

- wait for one another (1Co_11:_)

- each member belongs to one another

You know Error is there when there is isolation

Pro_18:1 CAB A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses, but at all times he will be liable to reproach.

Pro_18:1 WEB An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

- Think of Jesus with His disciples… did they always add to his emotional resources? So why was He always eager to be with them?

(think: my children, my children!)

Heb_10:32-39 WEB But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. 35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait. 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Heb_6 – Better Things for You

Heb_6:4-12 WEB For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. 10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. 11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

General Notes

- Don’t be the seed that Fell on bad ground and was choked! (Mat_13:4, etc.; Mar_4:4, etc.; Luk_8:5, etc.)

Share All Things

How to not sour your reciprocation of all things

What if You Have Favorite Clothes?

How to not cause damage to other people’s things

How can I express to people: I really would appreciate it if the pages of this Bible did not have wrincles… just so you know… but you are free to turn the pages however you judge acceptable after I pass it over to your jurisdiction….

Remember: IT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU… so don’t give it sparingly and follow up on it beyond what is a easy, agreeable yoke…

The other person should be trusted to share your same “special sentiments”

Make sure that fine clothes are never finer than another person.

Ultimately: we need to look down on vain, unusable things that will break if you use them like normal

We need to be the father who freely gave to the son, and the manager who commended the unjust steward.

Give each other the jurisdiction to carry out your preferences.

Don’t give with conditions… do it like this, and cross it like that…

Nice things are vain and disposable… we just need to entrust and be faithful with giving over things…

Guard the tender grapes rather than waiting for your finer garments to become moth-eaten, and your fine silver to become corroded…

“Your garments are moth-eaten”

He says eat, but His hart is far from you

But what does it say?

“Lose your money for your friend”

Financial Values, Strategies, and Goals

We must be Free from Caring for Money, But Diligent to work for it

Extravagance

Whenever you spend other people’s money it absolutely must be your deep set, vital honor to temper your expenditure more than they do. If you spend on behalf of many people, let any extravagance be upon you by default, and measure it on your prerogative.

Acts: So And So Gave This

It is appropriate for people to know who did what.

Act_4:34-37 CAB Nor was there anyone needy among them; for all who were owners of lands or houses were selling them, and were bringing the proceeds of the things which had been sold, 35 and were placing them beside the feet of the apostles; and they were distributing to each, to the degree that anyone had need. 36 And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a Cyprian by nation, 37 who, possessing a field, sold it and brought the money and placed it beside the feet of the apostles.

Act_5:1-11 CAB But a certain man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2 And he kept back for himself from the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and placed it beside the feet of the apostles. 3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and for you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain yours? And after it was sold, was it not in your control? Why have you purposed this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God." 5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. And great fear came upon all those hearing these things. 6 And the young men rose up and covered him up, carried him out, and buried him. 7 And it happened about three hours later, that his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. 8 And Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much?" She said, "Yes, for so much." 9 Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that it was agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out." 10 Then immediately she fell down beside his feet and died. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, buried her with her husband. 11 And great fear came to be on all the church and upon all those who were hearing these things.

Do Not Fear Financial Needs

Heb_13:5-6 CAB Let your way of life be without loving money, being satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, "By no means shall I desert you, nor in any way shall I forsake you;" 6 so that being confident, we may say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Helpful TSK Refs

and be: Exo_2:21, Mat_6:25, Mat_6:34, Luk_3:14, Phi_4:11, Phi_4:12, 1Ti_6:6-8

I will: Gen_28:15, Deu_31:6, Deu_31:8, Jos_1:5, 1Sa_12:22, 1Ch_28:20, Psa_37:25, Psa_37:28, Isa_41:10, Isa_41:17

Goals – A House? Perhaps a Studio Apartment? Perhaps a Mobile Home?

Good to get out from under the tyranny of rent (“use it rather,” if it is an option)

Buy a house? (as many as you need can live there)

Main “House” Passage

2Ki_6:1-7 CAB And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before you is too narrow for us. 2 Let us go to the Jordan, and take from there every man a beam, and make for ourselves a habitation there. 3 And he said, Go. And one of them said gently, Come with your servants. And he said, I will go. 4 And he went with them, and they came to the Jordan, and began to cut down wood. 5 And behold, one was cutting down a beam, and the axe head fell into the water. And he cried out, Alas, master; and it was hidden. 6 And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And he broke off a stick, and threw it in there, and the iron came to the surface. 7 And he said, Take it up to yourself. And he stretched out his hand, and took it.

Eventually a Studio Apartment for Me?

2Ki_4:10

Also: acts 10 w Peter

Deu_8:11-18 – But when established, don’t grow confident.

Remember: Hunger first, fulfilled promises second.

Let me be happy that God is making me go through hardship and let me be faithful to remain in the poverty.

We Must Be Diligent to Work for Finances

Provide thing honest

Proverbs

- fill vats

- inheritance

Not the Default of “Forced Communism”

- a purchaser does not need your permission to use their money – Act… Aquila/ Pricilla

But where there is favor, “they had all things in common”

Unusual cases where women worked and provided

Ruth

2Ki_4:10 – Studio apartment

Widows with oil (Elijah & Elisha)

Highest Need – How to Hate Money

Only serve one master

Joyfully Accepting Confiscation

Be Diligent to Work for It; Be Faithful to Hate It

Note 1: Master worked for it, but was unconcerned about it being given away

Note 2: The fact that this makes us mad is part of one of the subtle points of this story

Parable of the unjust steward

Parable of the prodigal Son

Luk_15:11-32

Esp. Luk_15:12-14

Nehemiah

- do not neglect assembling

- Moses' anger over this

- it is a devilish seed

Eagerness - bad ex

Getting rich

Finishing all of your goals in life

Full Retirement = death

Having the Integrity to Demand Relational Perfection

Avoiding Despising

you are not allowed to have occasional conflicts and be OK with just letting it go

this makes it impractical to keep having flesh moments

make every suggestion as a question

do not ever be satisfied with less-than-perfect agreement...

- that means you have to go back and trouble yourself to fix all of the little details and snags!

- can talk quick

- have to be slow to react and assert your accusation of what is going on (that's good)

- now you have to spend a lot of time just thinking and laboring over how you ought to engage relationships (that is a definit thing God did!)

- don't let things go undealt with and build up

- righteousness is not making the best atmosphere as quickly possible, and then leting other things hang

- when you are ok with occasional scuffles and disagreement you are ok with not being a Christian

- this is why people think opinions are ok

- got to obsess over perfection

- not being sporadic; not being impulsive; intentional time management; goal-oriented with time as well as work

Hope for Perfection

- love, truth, diligence, wisdom, faith will bring everyone to perfect agreement as long as we will insist on truth and never give up on perfection

Lust to Know Each Other

Endeavoring to keep the bond of perfection... Unity of the Spirit...

We really need to be critically zealous for each other that we may be found worthy of each other's favor which God has given. A complacent benefiter is not worthy of reciprocation. We are not physical, emotional, nor spiritual prostitutes. It is time to raise up with zeal to know each other. Not by asking for more social approval from each other, but by crying out to God for the reasonable zeal for what each other has been given.

- but the end of complacency is 'we ate and drank in your presence...'

- even the dog's

- if a poor person cries I will hear them

Follow up

Help Others

Where are the limits to Meeting people needs? – Personal responsibility exists

Quick

Books = random access

"El ceapo chater"

Google example – illustrated man with sandwich in one hand, and writing on phone with other hand – made my stomach sink with disgust at the sickness

Don’t Be Quick For Your Self, Be Focused to Benefit Others

Patience, faith, diligence, obedience and conformity in this area extends your efforts from being tied up in your own goals to truly meeting needs of others

Mistakes Can Still Happen Where there are good intentions

Think: parents who provide, but are bad parents! – “I Don’t Love you?? Don’t I bring home groceries every day??”

“I told you I love you when we got married… and if I change my mind I’ll let you know”

Disclaimers

- Need you to flex

- need you to only apply were needed

- it is not about one situation

General Principals

Work ethic

Determined to Investing in a Goal

- do not keep your foot on the peddle

Some Trying Solutions

Sabbaths & all-day prayer

Refusing to Produce Quick Work

Throwing food together might be occasionally needed; throwing truth together is repeatedly hazardous!!

Quick House work is life; Quick Bible work is death

- do not give quick/ convenient thoughts on spiritual things

- just because it is conv. for you does not mean it is heathy for them << ----

2Ki_:15 CAB And now fetch me a harpist. And it came to pass, as the harpist played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

- do not jump into projects you cannot truly, reasonably cover

- do not indulge in quick projects just because “you can”

- knowledge and communication was never intended for the quick product that we think is acceptable

- do not wake up each day with new inspiration and generate new projects and needs

- you will answer to God for the things you have reprented to men

What to Focus on Instead

- Life was originally designed with horses and buggies... if even that! – How should this starting point affect our values on determining what is the proper way to work?

- Think about what life was like when most women were illiterate – this is the default of your life

In light of this…

- How does God feel about the distribution of truth and information?

- be faithful to contribute to existing needs... and channel the entirety of all your energies on current needs

- don't knee-jerk into new things every day, supposing that you have been given adequate resources, time, wisdom, permission, etc. to be faithful to achieve these things

- If God commissions He will also provide... we need to sober up on what we consider we have been commissioned to do

- do not live like people who do not have jobs! (just because you can, and have an occasion does not mean you should)

- don't do what is entertaining; Relieve the afflicted!

- Take your work ethic seriously

Big Summary Points

- Do not be ambitious to make up new things, be ambitious to lead a quiet and diligent life.

- Don't seek out that which cannot be achieved faithfully - Not from me, nor for yourself

Refined Words

Pro_30:5

TSK

word: Psa_12:6, Psa_18:30, Psa_19:8, Psa_119:140, Rom_7:12, Jam_3:17

(Sir_46:15)

https://www.msu.edu/~defores1/gre/roots/gre_rts_afx2.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English

Examples

- Ruth's website = good

- wanting to embellish it = bad

- making things that help blos = good

- making things that entertain our fancy = bad

- do not email requests

And use the fact that that it is quick for flesh as grounds to engage it

Prophets Build House

The Company of Prophets

1Sa_10:5; 1Sa_19:20, 2Ki_2:3, 2Ki_2:5, 2Ki_2:15, 2Ki_4:38

Don’t Touch my Prophets

1Ch_16:22; Psa_105:15

Same Care

1Co_12:24-27 WEB …But God composed the body together… 25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Bear one another’s burdens

2Co_8:12-22 WEB For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have. 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed, 14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality. 15 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack." 16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. 17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord. 18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies. 19 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. 20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us. 21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Don’t Be Idle with Your Head in the Clouds

Ecc_11:4 CAB He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.

Wis_9:14-17 Brenton For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain. 15 For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things. 16 And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out? 17 And thy counsel who hath known, except thou give wisdom, and send thy Holy Spirit from above?

1Ti_5:9-10 CAB Let a widow be enrolled having become not less than sixty years, the wife of one man, 10 having a reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

1Ti_5:13-15 CAB And besides they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle but also gossipy and busybodies, speaking things which are not proper. 14 Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because of reproach. 15 For already some have turned aside after Satan.

Out of His Place

Pro_27:8 CAB As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place.

Hag_1:2 CAB Thus says the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time has not come to build the house of the Lord.

1Co_7:20

Outside Work

Pro_24:27 CAB Prepare your works for your going forth, and prepare yourself for the field; and come after me, and you shall rebuild your house.

compare:

Pro_24:27 UKJV Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build yours house.

Preparation

1Ki_5:17, 1Ki_5:18, 1Ki_6:7, Luk_14:28-30

Pro_27:23-27 CAB Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds? 24 For a man has not strength and power forever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation. 25 Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay; 26 that you may have sheep's wool for clothing; pay attention to the land, that you may have lambs. 27 My son, you have from me words very useful for your life, and for the life of your servants.

Pro_28:19 CAB He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty.

Pro_12:11 CAB He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. (12:11A) He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strongholds.

Pro_7:11-12 CAB And she is fickle and rebellious, and her feet abide not at home. 12 For at one time she wanders outside, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.

Don't Abuse the things of this World

1Co_7:29-31

Don’t Let Your Life Involve Many Things

Sir_11:6-12 Brenton Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men's hands. 7 Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand [νόησον] first, and then rebuke [ἐπιτίμα]. 8 Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt [παρεμβάλλου] men in the midst of their talk. 9 Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not [περὶ πράγματος, οὗ οὐκ ἔστιν σοι χρεία]; and sit not in judgment with sinners [no jury deuty]. 10 My son, meddle not with many matters [περὶ πολλὰ ἔστωσαν αἱ πράξεις σου]: for if * thou meddle much [* πληθύνῃς], thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain [καταλάβῃς], neither shalt thou escape by fleeing. 11 There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind. 12 Again, there is another that is slow [νωθρὸς], and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

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Foraging

12/2/18

Abraham wandering… into greatness

Like a squirrel

See: SPI > Defeat Fear

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The Hard Working Laborer Must be Prioritized!

3/20/18

The Work Ethic of Justice!

>>Scrip:

The Hard Working Laborer is worthy!!!!!

2Ma_2:23 All these things, I say, being declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one volume.

2Ma_2:23 ὑπὸ Ἰάσωνος τοῦ Κυρηναίου δεδηλωμένα διὰ πέντε βιβλίων πειρασόμεθα δι᾿ ἑνὸς συντάγματος ἐπιτεμεῖν.

2Ma_2:24 For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the variety of the matter,

2Ma_2:24 συνορῶντες γὰρ τὸ χύμα τῶν ἀριθμῶν καὶ τὴν οὖσαν δυσχέρειαν τοῖς θέλουσιν εἰσκυκλεῖσθαι τοῖς τῆς ἱστορίας διηγήμασιν διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς ὕλης

2Ma_2:25 We have been careful, that they that will read may have delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit.

2Ma_2:25 ἐφροντίσαμεν τοῖς μὲν βουλομένοις ἀναγινώσκειν ψυχαγωγίαν, τοῖς δὲ φιλοφρονοῦσιν εἰς τὸ διὰ μνήμης ἀναλαβεῖν εὐκοπίαν, πᾶσιν δὲ τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσιν ὠφέλειαν.

2Ma_2:26 Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour of abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching;

2Ma_2:26 καὶ ἡμῖν μὲν τοῖς τὴν κακοπάθειαν ἐπιδεδεγμένοις τῆς ἐπιτομῆς οὐ ῥᾴδιον, ἱδρῶτος δὲ καὶ ἀγρυπνίας τὸ πρᾶγμα,

2Ma_2:27 Even as it is no ease unto him that prepareth a banquet, and seeketh the benefit of others: yet for the pleasuring of many we will undertake gladly this great pains;

2Ma_2:27 καθάπερ τῷ παρασκευάζοντι συμπόσιον καὶ ζητοῦντι τὴν ἑτέρων λυσιτέλειαν οὐκ εὐχερές, ὅμως διὰ τὴν τῶν πολλῶν εὐχαριστίαν ἡδέως τὴν κακοπάθειαν ὑποίσομεν

2Ma_2:28 Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular, and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement.

2Ma_2:28 τὸ μὲν διακριβοῦν περὶ ἑκάστων τῷ συγγραφεῖ παραχωρήσαντες, τὸ δὲ ἐπιπορεύεσθαι τοῖς ὑπογραμμοῖς τῆς ἐπιτομῆς διαπονοῦντες.

2Ma_2:29 For as the master builder of a new house must care for the whole building; but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it is with us.

2Ma_2:29 καθάπερ γὰρ τῆς καινῆς οἰκίας ἀρχιτέκτονι τῆς ὅλης καταβολῆς φροντιστέον, τῷ δὲ ἐγκαίειν καὶ Ζωγραφεῖν ἐπιχειροῦντι τὰ ἐπιτήδεια πρὸς διακόσμησιν ἐξεταστέον, οὕτως δοκῶ καὶ ἐπὶ ἡμῶν.

2Ma_2:30 To stand upon every point, and go over things at large, and to be curious in particulars, belongeth to the first author of the story:

2Ma_2:30 τὸ μὲν ἐμβατεύειν καὶ περίπατον ποιεῖσθαι λόγων καὶ πολυπραγμονεῖν ἐν τοῖς κατὰ μέρος τῷ τῆς ἱστορίας ἀρχηγέτῃ καθήκει·

2Ma_2:31 But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.

2Ma_2:31 τὸ δὲ σύντομον τῆς λέξεως μεταδιώκειν καὶ τὸ ἐξεργαστικὸν τῆς πραγματείας παραιτεῖσθαι τῷ τὴν μετάφρασιν ποιουμένῳ συγχωρητέον.

2Ma_2:32 Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

2Ma_2:32 ἐντεῦθεν οὖν ἀρξώμεθα τῆς διηγήσεως τοῖς προειρημένοις τοσοῦτον ἐπιζεύξαντες· εὔηθες γὰρ τὸ μὲν πρὸ τῆς ἱστορίας πλεονάζειν, τὴν δὲ ἱστορίαν ἐπιτεμεῖν.

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Deu_20:5

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Safety First

Deu_22:8

--TSK

Act: Peter on the roof

Act: Euticus fell out of a window

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Time Management

10/25/17-10/26/17

Value generation

value maintenance

Success vs wisdom

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Not Willing Work, Not Willing Eating

8/22/17-8/23/17

Pro_16:26

Pro_

2Th_3:6 CAB

2Th_

2Th_3:6 ^Aημων ^TSB^Aπαρελαβοσαν ^Bπαρελαβον ^TSπαρελαβεν παρ ημων

2Th_3:7

2Th_3:8

2Th_

2Th_3:8 ^Aνυκτος ^TSBνυκτα και ^Aημερας ^TSB

2Th_3:9

2Th_

2Th_3:9

2Th_3:10

2Th_

2Th_3:10

2Th_3:11

2Th_

2Th_3:11

2Th_3:12

2Th_

2Th_3:12 ^Aεν ^Aκυριω ^TSBδια ^TSBτου ^TSBκυριου ^TSBημων ιησου ^Aχριστω ^TSB

2Th_3:13

2Th_

2Th_3:13 υμεις δε αδελφοι μη ^Aεγκακησητε ^TSB

2Th_3:14

2Th_

2Th_3:14 ^TSBκαι μη ^Aσυναναμιγνυσθαι ^TSB

2Th_3:15

2Th_3:10

that: Gen_3:19, Pro_13:4, Pro_20:4, Pro_21:25, Pro_24:30-34, 1Th_4:11
Pro_16:26

Work while it is day:
Joh_9:4

TSK: while: Joh_11:9, Joh_11:10, Joh_12:35, Ecc_9:10, Isa_38:18, Isa_38:19, Eph_5:16, Col_4:5

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When Success Indicates Virtue

8/20/17; 8/22/17

>>Scrip:

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Get A Lot Done On Errands Days

8/11/17

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Technology Ethics & Wisdom for Content Producers

12/2/16; 8/11/17

Technology Justice & Wisdom & Love for content producers

Technology Wisdom & Justice

Ethics, Values & Goals

choosing wisdom in an age of shallowness

12/2/16

the potential redemption of tech is producing things to serve others

Repenting of iOS Culture

foolish people want benefits before establishing integrity

don't build house on sand -- commit to not do work that can easily be lost after the moment

mk all your work geared toward the longest term benefit

it is not right to prefer a phone over a lt

difference between consuming things in quick sloppiness vs. producing things to serve others with quality excelence

retrieval -- planning on good memory rather than seeking to trick yourself into feeling like the job is done.

be a monotheist that loves other people and cares about truth enough to pass your works on to other people

stop defaulting to folly

stop prefering the cheapest work ethic

love others enough to direct all your efforts in integrity

learn prodence to do everything better

love acquirering knowledge and improving your work ethic and insist on learning to do even better that you may serve and more potently help others.

do not be happy to not have control

·ad block in your browser

·enslaved and unethically oppressed

·becomming slaves of men

·bullied into doing things wrong and foolishly

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Don't Get Distracted by Demons

11/5/16

scr:

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num_32:24

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Don’t Be At Ease & Not Working

11/5/16

Jer_49:31 WEB

Jer_49:31 CAB

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11/4/16

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Attitude of Capability

Gen_31:4 WEB Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

Gen_31:4 LB And Jacob sent and called Leah and Rachel to the plain where the flocks were.

Gen_31:4 ἀποστείλας δὲ Ιακωβ ἐκάλεσεν Ραχηλ καὶ Λειαν εἰς τὸ πεδίον, οὗ τὰ ποίμνια,

Gen_31:5 WEB and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

Gen_31:5 And he said to them, “I see the countenance of your father, that it is not favorable toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.

Gen_31:5 καὶ εἶπεν αὐταῖς Ὁρῶ ἐγὼ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν πρὸς ἐμοῦ ὡς ἐχθὲς καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν· ὁ δὲ θεὸς τοῦ πατρός μου ἦν μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ.

Gen_31:6 WEB You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Gen_31:6 And you too know that with all my might I have served your father.

Gen_31:6 καὶ αὐταὶ δὲ οἴδατε ὅτι ἐν πάσῃ τῇ ἰσχύι μου δεδούλευκα τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν.

Gen_31:7 WEB Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.

Gen_31:7 But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God did not give him the power to hurt me.

Gen_31:7 ὁ δὲ πατὴρ ὑμῶν παρεκρούσατό με καὶ ἤλλαξεν τὸν μισθόν μου τῶν δέκα ἀμνῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸς κακοποιῆσαί με.

Gen_31:8 WEB If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

Gen_31:8 If he should say thus, The speckled shall be your reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be your reward, then would all the cattle bear white.

Gen_31:8 ἐὰν οὕτως εἴπῃ Τὰ ποικίλα ἔσται σου μισθός, καὶ τέξεται πάντα τὰ πρόβατα ποικίλα· ἐὰν δὲ εἴπῃ Τὰ λευκὰ ἔσται σου μισθός, καὶ τέξεται πάντα τὰ πρόβατα λευκά·

Gen_31:9 WEB Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

Gen_31:9 So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Gen_31:9 καὶ ἀφείλατο ὁ θεὸς πάντα τὰ κτήνη τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν καὶ ἔδωκέν μοι αὐτά.

Jos_17:12 WEB Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Jos_17:12 LB And the sons of Manasseh were not able to destroy these cities; and the Canaanite began to dwell in that land.

Jos_17:12 καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνάσθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Μανασση ἐξολεθρεῦσαι τὰς πόλεις ταύτας, καὶ ἤρχετο ὁ Χαναναῖος κατοικεῖν ἐν τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ·

Jos_17:13 WEB It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out.

Jos_17:13 And it came to pass that when the children of Israel were strong, they made the Canaanites subject to them, but they did not utterly destroy them.

Jos_17:13 καὶ ἐγενήθη καὶ ἐπεὶ κατίσχυσαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ, καὶ ἐποίησαν τοὺς Χαναναίους ὑπηκόους, ἐξολεθρεῦσαι δὲ αὐτοὺς οὐκ ἐξωλέθρευσαν.

Jos_17:14 WEB The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?"

Jos_17:14 The Sons of Joseph Protest And the sons of Joseph answered Joshua, saying, “Why have you caused us to inherit one inheritance, and only one lot, seeing we are a great people, and God has blessed us?”

Jos_17:14 Ἀντεῖπαν δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ Ιωσηφ τῷ Ἰησοῦ λέγοντες Διὰ τί ἐκληρονόμησας ἡμᾶς κλῆρον ἕνα καὶ σχοίνισμα ἕν; ἐγὼ δὲ λαὸς πολύς εἰμι, καὶ ὁ θεὸς εὐλόγησέν με.

Jos_17:15 WEB Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."

Jos_17:15 And Joshua said to them, “If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for yourself, if Mount Ephraim is too small for you.”

Jos_17:15 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Ἰησοῦς Εἰ λαὸς πολὺς εἶ, ἀνάβηθι εἰς τὸν δρυμὸν καὶ ἐκκάθαρον σεαυτῷ, εἰ στενοχωρεῖ σε τὸ ὄρος τὸ Εφραιμ.

Jos_17:16 WEB The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel."

Jos_17:16 And they said, “Mount Ephraim does not please us, and the Canaanite dwelling in it in Beth Shean, and in its villages, and in the valley of Jezreel, has choice cavalry and iron.”

Jos_17:16 καὶ εἶπαν Οὐκ ἀρκέσει ἡμῖν τὸ ὄρος τὸ Εφραιμ, καὶ ἵππος ἐπίλεκτος καὶ σίδηρος τῷ Χαναναίῳ τῷ κατοικοῦντι ἐν αὐτῷ ἐν Βαιθσαν καὶ ἐν ταῖς κώμαις αὐτῆς ἐν τῇ κοιλάδι Ιεζραελ.

Jos_17:17 WEB Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

Jos_17:17 And Joshua said to the sons of Joseph, “If you are a great people, and have great strength, you shall not have only one inheritance.

Jos_17:17 καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς τοῖς υἱοῖς Ιωσηφ Εἰ λαὸς πολὺς εἶ καὶ ἰσχὺν μεγάλην ἔχεις, οὐκ ἔσται σοι κλῆρος εἷς·

Jos_17:18 WEB but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it's farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."

Jos_17:18 For you shall have the wood, for there is a wood, and you shall clear it, and the land shall be yours; even when you shall have utterly destroyed the Canaanite, for he has chosen cavalry; yet you are stronger than he.”

Jos_17:18 ὁ γὰρ δρυμὸς ἔσται σοι, ὅτι δρυμός ἐστιν καὶ ἐκκαθαριεῖς αὐτὸν καὶ ἔσται σοι· καὶ ὅταν ἐξολεθρεύσῃς τὸν Χαναναῖον, ὅτι ἵππος ἐπίλεκτός ἐστιν αὐτῷ, σὺ γὰρ ὑπερισχύεις αὐτοῦ.

Jos_18:1 WEB The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

Jos_18:1 LB The Remainder of the Land Divided And all the congregation of the children of Israel were assembled at Shiloh, and there they pitched the tabernacle of witness. And the land was subdued by them.

Jos_18:1 Καὶ ἐξεκκλησιάσθη πᾶσα συναγωγὴ υἱῶν Ισραηλ εἰς Σηλω καὶ ἔπηξαν ἐκεῖ τὴν σκηνὴν τοῦ μαρτυρίου, καὶ ἡ γῆ ἐκρατήθη ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν.

Jos_18:2 WEB Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

Jos_18:2 And the sons of Israel remained, even those who had not received their inheritance, seven tribes.

Jos_18:2 καὶ κατελείφθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ, οἳ οὐκ ἐκληρονόμησαν, ἑπτὰ φυλαί.

Jos_18:3 WEB Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Jos_18:3 And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “How long will you be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God has given you?

Jos_18:3 καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ Ἕως τίνος ἐκλυθήσεσθε κληρονομῆσαι τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἔδωκεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν;

·My Dad fixing things

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>> Mat_11: Easy yoke

but they all began to make excuses... i have purchased a field, pls excuse me

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Widow gave her two mites

They gave beyond their ability

So for all who are not rich toward God

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Dad: failure is not an option

>> find this in some other BBS???

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Isa_29:11 WEB

Isa_29:11 CAB

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Ecc_

Ecc_5:1-7 – Vanity of wandering Dreams:

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Integrity Produces Excellence

1/10/18

integrity is not just doing what is right when no one is looking. (that can actually absurdly assume that people have any sort of accurate idea of what is right).

integrity is about having the moral infrastructure and backbone to do what is right against all temptation.

integrity is about knowing what you believe and care about and actually being consistent with what you actually believe/value.

and actually, infact, a good work ethic does not just sprout from diligence and discipline and hard work, but from integrity.

your excellent work ethic absolutely has got to sprout and grow out from the core essence who why you exist.

your mission for integrity and excellence has got to be unstoppable and un shake able to ensure that you were win.

you cannot do things the way you do them just because they make you happy or they avoid you getting caught!

for example if you could steal money and be very assured that you would not yet caught would you still do it? (if you look at bad stuff on the internet, for example, you can already rest assured that you do not have integrity...)

(otherwise you will only seem to succeed in integrity when the right conditions seem to shelter you from temptation.)

How Much Should We Use Technology ?

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Paul Knows How to do Logical Coding

9/12/17

1Co_9:24 Do you not know that [indeed (μὲν)] those running [τρέχοντες] in a stadium [σταδίῳ] all run, but one [εἷς] receives [λαμβάνει] the ·prize [βραβεῖον]? So run, ·in order that [ἵνα] ·you may win [καταλάβητε].

1Co_9:24 Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι οἱ ἐν σταδίῳ τρέχοντες πάντες μὲν τρέχουσιν, εἷς δὲ λαμβάνει τὸ βραβεῖον; οὕτω τρέχετε, ἵνα καταλάβητε.

“Taking hold of” has been made logically equivalent to taking hold of the prize.

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The End of Technology

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Compare: Tower of Babble

Num_33:4

Num_33:4 CAB

Num_33:4

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Isa_2:7-17 – the haughty/exalted-ness of man will get brought low

See: LUX

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10/24/16

10/4/16

Compare (as a background):

Shameful Progress

How Would the Apostles Use Technology?

10/4/16

Mat_

1Co_

10/4/16

no rushing with feet

be anxious for nothing

Hyperlinks are Biblical

10/4/16; 10/11/16

1Ch_

Est_

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Ezrah building a platform for preaching

Preach from the roof tops

Pro_

Pro_23:3 εἰ δὲ ἀπληστότερος εἶ, μὴ ἐπιθύμει τῶν ἐδεσμάτων αὐτοῦ, ταῦτα γὰρ ἔχεται ζωῆς ψευδοῦς.

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Pro_23:4 μὴ παρεκτείνου πένης ὢν πλουσίῳ, τῇ δὲ σῇ ἐννοίᾳ ἀπόσχου·

this is a false life.

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7/1/16

Don’t do disfunctionality

Don’t wear a dress without pocets

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6/12/16

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5/20/16

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Old:

Mat_25:14-30 (Talents); Mat_13:45-46 (Pearl)

BBS: Work Ethic Follow Up

Adam's Naming Virtue

Neatness & Clean Up

BDC: Orderly Clothing

Folding your Bed

Prepare the Way

Doing Things Right

Moses Builds the Tabernacle Exactly as Commanded

Priestly Ministry Established

Solomon Builds the Temple

David's Preparation for the Temple

2nd Temple

Ezekiel's Vision of Future Restoration

New Covenant Fulfillment

Hebrews' Emphasis on Doing Everything According to the Pattern

Productivity Prudence & Efficiency Virtues

Understanding the Pre-requisite Nature of First-Level Virtues

Genesis Dynamics of Multiplicative Profit

“Don’t Be Lazy” Bible References

The Profit-Challenges of Women

Proverbs_31:10 – Manly Virtue for Women

Manly Virtue QNAs

The “Proverbs 31 Woman” is Profiting!

See: Proverbs_31:10 – Manly Virtue for Women

Verse 11-12 – How She Gets His Heart

Verses 13-31 – Lots of Work!

Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep!

How Can Women Win – In Fighting For an Excellent Work Ethic?

Inventions

LXX: Machines in the Bible!!

Automation in the Bible

No Begging?

Old / Archived

Work Satisfaction for the Restless

Intro to Work Satisfaction

H’s QNA -- Millennials & Redundant Work

General Prerequisite: Enjoy an Endurance Strategy, Not Cheap Quick Gratification Lust

Work on Work Vanity -- Work Satisfaction Part 2

Looking for Value in All the Wrong Work Places

The Vanity of Experience Lust -- Work Satisfaction Part 3

The Limitations of Most Work Point Us to a Different Value

What Time is it?

Layers of Financial Responsibility & Motivation

To Save or Not to Save -- Work Satisfaction Part 4

Non-Contradictory Plans for Success -- Work Satisfaction Part 5

H’s Reaction-Questions -- Work Satisfaction Part 6

Pay for Profitability -- Work Satisfaction Part 7

“Best Strategy for Satisfaction” Scripture Readings -- Work Satisfaction Part 8

Don’t Be Stingy -- Proverbs and Sirach -- Work Satisfaction Part 9

Concluding on Consolation

1/27/19; 2/18/19; 3/3/19; 3/16/19; 3/30/19; 4/28/19; 5/12/19

Don’t Waste -- Scriptures

Don't Waste -- Exhortation

Foresight

Dye to Basic Needs to Avoid Waste

Recycling is Biblical

key differences between wasteful convenience vs prudent time redemption

When to NOT Spend on Convenience

Annihilating the Problems of the Past to Finish the Trials of Today

Needing to Speed Up or Slow Down?

If You Have To, But Not If You Want To

Example: WordArt.com

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When to Loose Stuff to Accomplish the Mission

Examples of Convenience vs. Profits

Others

Capableness – How Capableness Can Be Richness Toward God

2^nd Temple

Proverbs 31 Woman Earns Her Keep !

No Begging ?