Beliefs of the Church

 

Rev 21:7 - He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.

 

Jer 29:12 - Then you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

 

Ezek 5:9 - because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols

 

Is 55:6 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.

 

Deut 5:29 - ‘Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!’

 

Jer 31:20 - Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child?  For though I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still; therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

 

Col 1:21-23 - And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight - if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

 

1.         BAPTISM  (top)

 

What- Prerequisites: 

 

Acts 2:38-41 - Then Peter said to them, “Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”  And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “ Be saved from this perverse generation.  Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

 

Acts 8:36-38 - Now as they went down the road, they came to some water.  And the eunuch said, “See, here is water.  What hinders me from being baptized?”  Then Phillip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.”  And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”  So he commanded the chariot to stand still.  And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and he baptized him.

 

Acts 10:44-48 - While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.  And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.  For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.  Then Peter answered, “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”  And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.  Then they asked him to stay a few days.

 

Acts 8:13-23 - Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed , seeing the miracles and signs which were done.  Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.  For as yet He had fallen upon none of them.  They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.  And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”  But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!  You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven of you.  For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.

 

Acts 16:31-34 (Phillipian jailer) - And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”  So they (Paul & Silas) said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”  Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.  And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes.  And immediately he and all his family were baptized.

 

Acts 19:4-6 - Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.  When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

 

Acts 20:21 - Testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Acts 22:16 - And now why are waiting?  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

 

Mark 1 - Ministry of John; John baptizes Jesus; Satan tempts Jesus; Jesus begins His Galilean ministry; Four Fisherman called as disciples; Jesus casts our and Unclean Spirit; Peter’s mother-in-law healed; Many healed after Sabbath sunset; Preaching in Galilee; Jesus cleanses a Leper.

 

Luke 3:3 - And he (John) went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 

 

Counting Costs

 

Lk 9:23-25 - Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his lift for My sake will save it.  For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost.  For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.

 

Luke 14 - A man healed on the Sabbath; Parable of the lowly place (take the lowly place); Parable of the Great Supper; Leaving all to follow Christ - vs 26: If anyone comes to Me and does not hat his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.  And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.  For which of you intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it, lest after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’  Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?  Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.  So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

 

Lk 22-:42 - Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will butYours be done.

 

Acts 5:29 - But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.”

 

Acts 5:32- And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit who God has given to those who obey Him.

 

Rom 12:1-2 - I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

 

I Cor 6:19-20 - or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?  For you were bought at a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

 

Gal 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Why? - to receive the Spirit

 

Mt 3:1 - Jesus’ baptism by John.  Vs 16 - when He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.

 

Acts 8:12-17 (see above) after Philip et al baptizes Samaritans, Peter and John visits and prayed and laid hands on them, and “they received the Holy Spirit.”

 

Acts 11:15 - And as I (Peter) began to speak the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, “John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

 

Acts 19:1-6 - And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus.  And finding some disciples he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”  So they said to him, “We have nos so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”  And he said unto them, “Into what then were you baptized?”  So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”  Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”  When they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. 

 

Rom 8:9 - But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

 

Rom 8:14-17 - for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. 

 

Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

II Pet 1:3-10 - as His divine power given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promise, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.  For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.  Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do theses things you will never stumble.

 

Wash away sin

 

Lk 3:3 - and he went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

 

Lk 24:47 - and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

 

Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

 

Acts 5:31 - Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins

 

Acts 22:16 - and now why are you waiting?  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

 

Part of Salvation

 

Acts 10:43 - To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.

 

Rom 5:1-10 - Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulations produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who was given to us.  For when we were without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps a for good man someone would even dare to die.  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.  For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

 

Romans 6:4-6: Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.  For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

 

Command

 

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

 

Acts 10:48 - And he (Peter) commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

 

How - Water

 

Mt 3:13-17 - Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.  And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”  But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”  Then he allowed Him.  When He had been baptized, Jesus came us immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.  And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I and well pleased.”

 

Lk 3:16 - John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.  He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

 

Acts 1:5 - for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

 

Acts 8:36-38 - Now as they went down the road, they came to some water.  And the eunuch said, “See, here is water.  What hinders me from being baptized?”  Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ  is the Son of God.” So he commanded the chariot to stand still.  And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

Acts 10:46-48 - For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then Peter answered, “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?  And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

 

Acts 11:16 - Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

 

Acts 19:1-6 - (see above)

 

Into Christ

 

Mt 28:19-20 - Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

 

Acts 10:48 - And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. 

 

Rom 6:3 - Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

 

By whom?

 

Jn 3:22 - After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He remained with them and baptized.

 

Jn 4:22 - though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples.

 

Acts 2

 

Acts 8:5-6 - Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.  And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

 

Acts 8:26-33 - Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch

 

I Cor 1:13-17- Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you?  Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?  I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name.  Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas.  Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other.  For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

 

2.         BORN AGAIN  (top)

 

We aren’t now

 

Rom 7:14-25 - For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.  For what I am doing, I do not understand.  For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.  If, then, I do what I  will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.  For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.  Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.  I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.  For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is present in my members.  O wretched man that I am!  Who will deliver me from this body of death?  I thank God - through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

 

Rom 8:18-19 - For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

 

I Jn 1:8-10 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

 

I Jn 3:9 - Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

 

We are begotten

 

I Cor 4:15 - For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

 

Heb 1:5 - For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And Again: “I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son”?

 

Should read begotten

 

I Jn 2:29 - If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

 

I Jn 3:9 - Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

 

I Jn 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

 

I Jn 5:1-4 - Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.  For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.  For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.  Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

 

We need to be born again

 

Jn 3:5-8 - Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  That with is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again.  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.   So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

 

State then

 

Jn 4:24 - God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

 

I Jn 3:1-2 - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!  Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.  Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, fro we shall see Him as He is.

 

Christ, the first-born

 

Rom 1:4 - and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

 

Rom 8:29 - For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

 

Col 1:15-18 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.  And He is the head of the body, of the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

 

I Cor 15:22-23 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.  But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

 

How born?

 

Rom 1:4 - and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

 

When

 

I Cor 15, esp. vs 22-23 - for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

 

Phil 3:20-21 - For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that is may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able to subdue all things to Himself.

 

3.         CHRISTIAN, WHAT IS?  (top)

 

What is

 

Rom 8:14 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

 

What is not

 

Mt 7:21 - Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

 

Lk 6:46 - But why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?

 

Rom 8:9 - But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

 

Jas 2:19 - You believe that there is one God.  You do well.  Even the demons believe - and tremble.

 

I Jn 2:4 - He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

 

Follow Christ

 

I Pet 2:21-22 - For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth.

 

I Jn 2:6 - He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

 

How to become

 

Mt 4:4 - But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”

Mt 19:16-17 - Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?  So He said to him, “Why do you call me good?  No one is good but One, that is, God.  But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.

 

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

 

Acts 5:32 - And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

 

Way of Life

 

Acts 19:9 - But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

 

Acts 22:4 - I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

 

Heb 3:1 - Therefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus.

 

Heb 4:14 - Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

 

Christ in you

 

Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

 

Fruits - a description of

 

Mt 5:2-10 - Then he opened His mouth and taught them, saying “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.  Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.  Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.  Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.  Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Lk 22:39-42 - Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him.  When he came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”  And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done.

 

Gal 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.

 

4.         CHURCH - CIVIL GOVERNMENT  (top)

 

Church Government

 

Lk 6:12-13 - Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.  And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles.

 

Acts 1:22-26 - beginning from the baptism of John to that day when He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.  And they proposed two: Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Mathais.  And they prayed and said, “You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”  And they cast their lots and the lot fell on Matthais.  And he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

 

I Cor 11:1-13 - Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.  Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.  But I want you to know the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.  Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.  But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved.  For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn.  But if it shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.  For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.  For man is not from woman, but woman from man.  Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.  For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.   Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.  For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.  Judge among yourselves.  Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

 

I Cor 12 - Spiritual Gifts; unity in diversity, unity and diversity in one Body.  Vs 28- and God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.  Are all apostles?  Are all prophets?  Are all teachers?  Are all workers of miracles?  Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues?  Do all interpret?  But earnestly desire the best gifts.  And yet I show you a more excellent way (ch 13 - love).

 

Eph 4:11-12 - And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ

 

Col 1:18-29 - And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.  For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.  And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight - if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.  I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.  To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.  Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.  To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

 

I Tim 3 - Qualifications of overseers; of deacons.

 

Titus 1 - Qualifications of elders; the elders’ task.

 

I Pet 5:1-3 - The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain, but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock

 

Christ heads

 

Mt 4:19 - Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

 

Mt 16:19 - And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

 

Jn 15:16 - You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

 

Eph 1:22 - And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church.

 

Eph 2:19-20 - Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone.

 

Eph 5:23 - For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

 

Col 1:16 - For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.  All things were created through Him and for Him.

 

Authority

 

Rom 1:1-5 - Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God, with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name

 

I Cor 1:1 - Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God

 

I Cor 9:3-4 - My defense to those who examine me is this: do we have no right to eat and drink?  Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

 

Our life not our own

 

Rom 14:7-8 - For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.  For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.  Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

 

I Cor 6:19-20 - Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?  For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

 

 Examples

 

Num 12 - Revolt of Miriam and Aaron against Moses; vs. 6: Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.  Not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.  I speak with him face to face.  Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; and he sees the form of the Lord.  Why then were not afraid to speak against My servant Moses.

 

Num 16 - Korah, and the subsequent complaint of the people

 

Acts 10 - Peter and Cornelius

 

Acts 15 - The circumcision controversy and the Jerusalem council

 

Acts 19:11-12 - Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them

 

I Cor 5:1-5 - It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles - that a man has his father’s wife.  And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.  For I indeed, as absent in the body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I was present) him who has so done this deed.  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

Government authority

 

I Sam 26:9 - But David said to Abashai, “Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless.”

 

Dan 2:21 - And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.

 

Dan 4:17 - This decision is by the decree of the watchers, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men.

 

Eccl 10:20 - Do not curse the king, even in your thought; do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; for a bird of the air may carry your voice and a bird in flight may tell the matter.

 

Jn 19:10-11 - Then Pilate said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me?  Do you not know that I have power to crucify You, and power to release You?  Jesus answered, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above.  Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

 

Rom 13:1-3 - Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities.  For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.  Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgement on themselves.  For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil.  Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

 

I Tim 2:1-3 - Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior

 

Tit 3:1-2 - Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.

 

I Pet 2:13-14 - Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.

 

Obey, submit

 

Mt 23:2-4 - “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.  Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not according to their works; for they say and do not do.  For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

 

Acts 4:19 - But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

 

Acts 5:40 - And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, the commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

 

Taxes

Mt 17:24-27 - When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the Temple tax?”  He said, “Yes.”  And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon?  From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”  Peter said to Him, “From strangers.”  Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.  Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first.  And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.

 

5.         CHURCH NAME  (top)

 

Jn 17: 11-12 - Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you, Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given to Me, that they may be one as we are.

 

Acts 20:28 - Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

 

I Cor 1:2 - To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours

 

I Cor 10:32 - Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God.

 

I Cor 11:16 - But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

 

I Cor 15:9 - For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

 

II Cor 1:1 - Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia

 

Gal 1:13 - For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

 

I Thes 2:14 - For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus.  For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans.

 

II Thes 1:4 - so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure

 

I Tim 3:5, 15 - for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

 

6.         COMMANDMENTS, LAW - OBEDIENCE

 

Keep the commandments

 

Lev 22:31 - Therefore you shall keep My commandments, and perform them: I am the Lord.

 

Ps 103:18 - To such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them.

 

Ps 111:10 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments.  His praise endures forever.

 

Eccl. 12:13 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.  For God will bring every work into judgement, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

 

Ezek 37:24 - David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgements and observe My statutes, and do them.

 

Mt 5:17-20 - Do not think that I come to destroy the Law or the Prophets.  I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.  For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.  Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

Mat 7:21 - Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

 

Mat 19:16-18 - Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”  So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good by One, that is, God.  But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.

 

Mat 22:37-39 - Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!  How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!  See!  Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’

 

Lk 6:46 - But why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?

 

Jn 13:34-35 - A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

 

Jn 15:10 - If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

 

Jn 14:21 - He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.  And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.

 

Acts 5:29-32 - But Peter and the other apostles answered and said, “We ought to obey God rather than men.  The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.  Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness to sins.  And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

 

Rom 3:31 - Do we then make void the law through faith?  Certainly not!  On the contrary, we establish the law.

 

Rom 6:1-2 - What shall we say then?  Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  Certainly not!  How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it.

 

Rom 6:16 - Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness.

 

Rom 13:8 - Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

 

I Cor 7:19 - Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

 

Jas 1:22-23 - But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror...

 

Jas 2:8-12 - If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.  For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.  For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.”  Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.  So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

 

I Jn 2:3-6 - Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.  He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him.  By this we know that we are in Him.  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

 

I Jn 3:22 - And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

 

I Jn 5:2-3 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.  For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

 

II Jn 5-6 - And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.  This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

 

Rev 12:17 - And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

 

Rev 14:12 - Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

 

If so, results

 

Lev 26 -promise of blessing for obedience

 

Duet 11:26-28 - Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I commanded you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

 

Deut 28 - promise of blessing for obedience

 

Ps 111:10 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments.

 

Ps 119:172 - My tongue shall speak of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteousness.

 

Jn 15:10 - If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

 

Rom 10:5 - For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”

 

Rom 13:10 - Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

 

Heb 5:9 - And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

 

If not

 

Duet 28

 

Rom 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Gal 6:7 - Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Heb 10:26-31 - For if we sin willingly after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgement which will devour the adversaries.  Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.  Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.  And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

 

Purpose

 

Rom 3:20 - Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

 

Rom 7:7 - What shall we say then?  Is the law sin?  Certainly not!  On the contrary, I would not have know sin except through the law.  For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 

 

Good

 

Ps 119 - esp. vs 172 - for all Your commandments are righteousness

 

Rom 7:7 - What shall we say then?  Is the law sin?  Certainly not!  On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law.  For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

 

I Tim 1:5-6 - Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some , having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.

 

James 1:25 - But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

 

Christ to magnify

 

Is 42:21 - The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the law and make it honorable.

 

Mt 5:17-20 - Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.  I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.  For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or tittle shall in no way pass from the law till all is fulfilled.  Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does not and teaches them, he shall be great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

Rom 10:2-4 - For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.  For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, having not submitted to the righteousness of God.  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes..

 

In our hearts

 

Jer 31:33 - But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law into their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

Heb 8:10 - quotation of the above

 

Heb 10:16 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them.

 

Before Moses

 

Gen 2:16 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

 

Gen 4:7 - If you do well, will you not be accepted?  And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door.  And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

 

Gen 6:1-3 - Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.  And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty days.

 

Gen 6:5 - Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

 

Gen 20:2-8 - Now Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.  But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”  But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, “Lord, will You slay a righteous nation also?  Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’?  And she, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’  In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this.”  And God said to him in a dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart.  For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.  Now therefore, restore the man’s wife; for his is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live.  But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”  So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called on his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were very much afraid.

 

Gen 26:5 - because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.

 

Gen 35:1-4 - Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”  And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.  Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”  So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

 

Gen 39:9 - there is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God.

 

Ex 16 - the Sabbath

 

Rom 3:20 - therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

 

Rom 4:15 - because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

 

Rom 5:12-13 - Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned - for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

 

Rom 3:23 - for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

 

7.         COVENANT  (top)

 

Old Covenant: what is it?:

 

Marriage agreement

 

Ex 19:5-8 - ‘Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.  And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and holy nation.’  These are the words which you shall speak to Israel.  So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the Lord commanded him.  Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.”  So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

 

Ex 24:7 - then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people.  And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.”

 

Jer 31:32 - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

 

Ex 16:8 - When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness.  Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, says the Lord.

 

Terms- People

 

Ex 19:5-8 - ‘Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.  And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and holy nation.’  These are the words which you shall speak to Israel.  So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the Lord commanded him.  Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.”  So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

 

Ex 24:3-8 - So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgements.  And all the people answered with one voice and said, “all the words which the Lord said we will do.”  And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord.  And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.  Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offering and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.  And Moses took half the blood and put in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.  Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people.  And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.”  And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

 

Gen 34:12-17 - Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.  But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat his sacrifice, and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.  You shall make not molded gods for yourselves. 

 

Jer 7:22-23 - For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.  But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people.  And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.

 

God

 

Lev 26 & Duet 28 - blessings for obedience and curse for disobedience

 

Duet 7:9 - Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with whose who love Him and keeps His commandments.

 

Deut 11:8-32

 

Ten Commandments: Ex 20; Duet 5

 

Promises/Curses

 

Deut 28

 

Ex 19

 

Lev 26

 

Num 25:13 - and it shall be to him (Phinehas) and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

 

For whom

 

Rom 9:4 - who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises.

 

Israel Broke

 

Deut 29:25-29  - Then the people would say, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when they brought them out of the land of Egypt; for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them.  Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book.  And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

 

Jer 3:8 - Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had her put away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but when and played the harlot also.

 

Jer 11:10 - They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

 

Jer 31- mercy on Israel, reunification, the promise of the new covenant

 

Jer 32:30 - because the children of Israel and children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth...vs 40 I will bring them back to this place....they shall be My people and I will be their God.

 

Hos 8:1 - Because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

 

Sacrifices added because of transgression

 

Jer 7:22 - For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.  But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and your shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be will with you.

 

Gal 3:19 - What purpose then does the law serve?  It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

 

Need for a New Covenant

 

Deut 5:29 - Oh that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

 

Heb 8 & 9 - (vs 7 of 8) For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.  Because finding fault with them......

 

Rom 8:3 - For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh.

 

How fault to be corrected

 

Heb 8:6-10 - But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.  Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

Jer 31:33 - But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

Rom 5:5 - Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

 

II Cor 3:3 - clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with the ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not one tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

 

New Covenant - What is it:

 

Marriage Arrangements

 

Eph 5:22-23 - Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church: and He is the Savior of the body.

 

Eph 5:32 - This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

 

II Cor 11:2 - For I (Paul)  am jealous for you with godly jealousy.  For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

 

Rev 19:7 - Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.

 

Terms - People of God

 

Ezek 36:25-27 - Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them.

 

Heb 8 - I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

Promises - eternal priesthood

 

I Pet 2:9 - But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

 

Confirmed by Christ

 

Dan 9:27 - Then He shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.  And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.

 

Mal 3:1 - Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare a way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight.  Behold, He is coming, says the Lord.

 

Heb 12:24 - to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. 

 

Testament

 

Heb 9:19-21 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “this is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”  Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.  And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

 

Not yet completed

 

Dan 9:27 - Then He shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.  And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.

 

Heb 8:10 -For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

Jer 31:31-34 - “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.  But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord.  For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

 

For whom

 

Eph 2:11-13 - Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh - who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision make in the flesh by hands - that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus you who were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

 

Eph 2:19 - Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God

 

Gal 3:29 - and if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Rom 11:17-18 - And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you...

 

Differences - Ministration of Death

 

II Cor 3:6-7 - who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.  But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more righteous.

 

Ex 21:23-24 - But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for a life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

 

Heb 8 & 9

 

Gal 3 & 4 - (3:13) Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us

 

8.         FAITH  (top)

 

What

 

Heb 11: - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

 

Jas 2:14-26 - What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?  Can faith save him?  If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.  But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.”  Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.  You believe that there is one God.  You do well.  Even the demons believe - and tremble!  But do you want to know, o foolish man, that faith without works is dead?  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Issac his son on the altar?  Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect.  And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”  And he was called the friend of God.  You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.  Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?  For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

 

Why need it (for justification and salvation)

 

Rom 5:1-2 - Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

 

Rom 3:28 - Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

 

Gal 2:16 - knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believe in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

 

Gal 3:24 - Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

 

Salvation

 

Lk 7:50 - Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

 

Acts 20:21 - testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Gal 3:22-26 - But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.  But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward by revealed.  Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.  For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ .  For as many of you were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slaver nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

Gal 5:5 - For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

 

Eph 2:8 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.

 

Phil 3:9 - and found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith

 

II Tim 3:15 - and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

 

I Cor 13:2-13 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and through I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, though I give my body to be burned, but have not love to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.  Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails.  But whether there are prophesies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.  And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 

Heb 4:2 - For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

 

Heb 6:1 - Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrines of baptisms, laying on of hands, or resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgement.

 

I Pet 1:5 - who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

 

We are to Live  it

 

Hab 2:4 - Behold the proud, his soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.

 

Jn 20:27 - Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side.  Do not be unbelieving, but believing.

 

Rom 1:17 - For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

 

Rom 4:19-20 - And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.  He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God

 

Rom 14:22-23 - Do you have faith?  Have it to yourself before God.  Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.  But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

II Cor 3:7 - But if the ministry of death, written and engrave on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away

 

II Cor 5:7 - For we walk by faith, not by sight.

 

Gal 3:7-13 - Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.  And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.”  So then those who are of faith blessed with believing Abraham.  For as many are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them. But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident for “the just shall live by faith.”  Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”  Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

 

I Thes 5:8 - But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation

 

I Tim 6:11-12 - But you, o man of God, flee these things and pursur righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

 

II Tim 2:22 - Flee also youthful lusts, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord our of a pure heart.

 

Important

 

Mk 11:22 - So Jesus answered them (disciples), “Have faith in God.”

 

Lk 17:5-6 - And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”  So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

 

Lk 22:32 - But I have prayed for you (Peter), that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.

 

Acts 26:8 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers

 

Rom 4:15-16 - because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.  Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

 

I Cor 2:5 - that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God

 

I Cor 15:14-17 - And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.  Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up - if in fact the dead do not rise.  For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.  And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

 

I Thes 1:5-10 - For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.  And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became examples to all in Macedonia and Achaia who believe.  For from you the word of the Lod has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place.  Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything.  For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

 

II Thes 1:3 - We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other.

 

II Pet 1:5- who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time

 

Jas 2:13 - For judgement is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy.  Mercy triumphs over judgement.

 

Rev 13:10 - He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword.  Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

 

Rev 14:12 - Here is the patience of the saints: here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

 

Healing

 

Jas 5:14-15 - Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing hime with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer of the faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

 

Mat 9:29 - Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.”

 

How to get it (know God’s will)

 

Eph 5:17 - Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

 

Rom 10:17 - So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

Gift, Fruit of the Spirit

 

Rom 12:3, 6 - For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith....Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith....

 

I Cor 12:9 - to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit.

 

II Cor 4:13 - And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak

 

Gal 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.

 

Eph 2:8 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God

 

Eph 3:17 - that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love

 

Eph 5:14-15 - Therefore He says, “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”   See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools by as wise

 

Old Testament examples

 

Heb 11 - faith chapter, vs. 39: And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise.  God, having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

 

Dan 3 - story Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-Nego, vs 17: If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.

 

Rom 4:18-22 - who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”  And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about one hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.  He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being full convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.  And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”  Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us.  It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.

 

Gen 6-7 - Noah

 

II Chron 20 - Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir defeated, Jehoshaphat’s prayer, god’s repsonse: vs. 15: for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

 

New Testament (healing)

 

Mt 8:7-10 - (example of Centurion’s faith) And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heah him now.”  The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof.  But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.   For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.  And I say to this one, ‘Go’ and he goes; and to another, ‘come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”  When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!”

 

Mt 15:24-28 - But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”  Then she (woman of Canaan) came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”  But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.  Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith!  Let it be to you as you desire.”  And here daughter was healed from that very hour.

 

Mk 5:25-34 - So Jesus went with him (Jairus), and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him.  Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians.  She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.  When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.  For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”  Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.  And Jesus immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”  But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, “Who touched Me?”  And He looked around to see her who had done this thing.  But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.  And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well.  Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

 

Mt 9:22 - But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer,daughter; your faith has made you wel;.”  And the woman was made well from that hour.

 

Lk 8:48 - quotation of above

 

Lk 17:11-19 - Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.  Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.  And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”  So when He saw them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”  And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.  And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.  So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed?  But where are the nine.  Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”  And He said to him, “Arise, go your way.  Your faith has made you well.”

 

Acts 14:9 - This man heard Paul speaking.  Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!”  And he leaped and walked.

 

Mt 14:25-31 - Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.  And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!”  And they cried out for fear.  But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.”  And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”  So He said, “Come.”  And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.  But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord save me!”  And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

 

Heb 12:1-4 - Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so greate a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensares us, and let us run with endurance the rase that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.  You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

 

Acts 11:24 - For he (Barnabas) was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.  And a great many people were added to the Lord.

 

Rom 1:8 - First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

 

Eph 1:15 - Therefore I aslo, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

 

Col 1:4 - since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints

 

Unbelief

 

Mt 13:58 - Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

 

Mt 17:17 - Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?  How long shall I bear with you?  Bring him here to me.”

 

Lk 18:8 - I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.  Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?

 

Ps 78:5,20-22 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children.....Behold, He struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He give bread also?  Can He provide meat for His people?  Therefore the Lord heard this and was furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel, because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in His salvation.

 

9.         FASTING (SPIRITUAL), STUDY  (top)

 

What?

 

Ex 34:28 - So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water.  And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten commandments.

 

Commanded

 

Lev 23:27,29 - Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement.  It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord....For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.

 

Mt 6:16-18 - Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.  And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

 

Mt 9:15 - And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?  But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

 

Mk 2:20 - But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

 

Lk 5:33-35 - Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?  And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?  But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.

 

Why

 

Is 58:3-9 - ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen.  Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’  In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.  Indeed you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness.  You will not fast as you do this day.  To make your voice heard on high.  Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul?  Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?  Would you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?  Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?  Then your light shall break forth like the morning. Your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.  Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.”

 

Ps 35:13 - But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; and my prayer would return to my own heart.

 

Ps 69:10 - When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that became my reproach

 

Dan 9:3 - Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

 

Mt 17:21 - However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

 

How

 

Mt 6:16-18 - Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.  And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

 

Isa 58:3-4 -‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen.  Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’  In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.  Indeed you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness.  You will not fast as you do this day.  To make your voice heard on high. 

 

How not

 

Lk 18:12 - (parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector) I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.

  

Examples

 

II Sam 12:16-23 - David therefore pleaded with God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.  So the elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the ground.  But he would not, nor did he eat food with them.  Then on the seventh day it came to pass that the child died.  And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead.  For they said, “Indeed, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not heed our voice.  How can we tell him that the child is dead?  He may do some harm.”  When David saw that his servants were whispering, David perceived that the child was dead.  Therefore David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?”  And they said, “He is dead.”  So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped.  Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him and he ate.  Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done?  You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”  And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’  But now he is dead; why should I fast?  Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”

 

Neh 1:4 - So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

 

Ps 109:24 - My knees are weak through fasting, and My flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

 

Mt 4:2 - And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

 

Lk 2:37 - and this woman was a widow of about eighty four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

 

Acts 17:11 - These were (Bereans) more fair-minded that those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

 

Acts 13:2-3 - And they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”  Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away.

 

Ex 34:28 - So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water.  And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten commandments.

 

Study

 

I Cor 4:16 - Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

 

II Tim 2:15 - Be diligent to present yourselves approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth

 

Acts 17:11 - These were (Bereans) more fair-minded that those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were s.

 

Acts 18:24 - Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

 

10.       GOSPEL  (top)

 

What is it (Kingdom of God)

 

Mk 1:14-15 - Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.  Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

 

Mt 4:23 - And Jesus went about all Galillee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.

 

Mt 9:35 - Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

 

God spells (Good News) Gospel of Christ’s Kingdom

 

Jn 12:49-50 - For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.  And I know that His command is everlasting life.  Therefore, whatever I speak, jsut as the Father has told Me, so I speak.

 

Jn 14:24 - He who does not love Me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

 

Mk 1:1 - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

 

Rom 15:16 - that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

 

I Tim 1:11 - according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was commmited to my trust.

 

Kingdom of God preached

 

Lk 9:1-2 - Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.  He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

 

Lk 16:16 - The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it

 

Mt 24:14 - For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.

 

Acts 8:12 - But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both mane and women were baptized.

 

Acts 20:21-25 - testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ (see Rev 12:17).  And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me therer, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.  But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.  And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

 

Acts 28:30-31 - Then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.

 

Gospel preached

 

Mk 13:10 - And the gospel must be preached to all the nations

 

Acts 15:7 - And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

 

Phil 2:22 - But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel

 

Phil 4:3 - And I urge yuou also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel....

 

I Thes 2:2 - But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Phillipi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

 

Mt 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

 

Mt 26:13 - Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.

 

Mk 14:8 - She has done what she could.  She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial.

 

Lk 7:27 - This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I am sending My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your before You.

 

Lk 9:6 - So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

 

Acts 8:25 - So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

 

Acts 14:7 - And they (Paul & Barnabas) were preaching the gospel there (Iconium).

 

Acts 14:21 - And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch.

 

Acts 16:10 - Now after he (Paul) had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

 

Rom 1:15-16 - So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

 

Rom 10:15 - And how shall they preach unless they are sent?  As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace. Who bring glad tidings of good things.”

 

I Cor 1:17 - For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

I Cor 9:14-18 - Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.  But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me: for it would be better for me to die that that anyone should make my boasting void.  For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!  For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.  What is my reward then?   That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

 

II Cor 10:14 - For we are not overextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ.

 

II Cor 11:7 - Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

 

I Pet 1:12-25 - To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven - things which angels desire to look into.  Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation fo Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”  And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like with silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ,as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.  He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.  Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.  The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever.  Not this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

 

I Pet 4:6 - For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit

 

Obey

 

Rom 10:16 - But they have not all obeyed the gospel.  For Isiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report.”

 

II Thes 1:8 - in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

I Pet 4:17 - For the time has come for judgement to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

 

How many

 

Gal 1:8-9 - But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.  As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preached any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

 

11.       GRACE, LAW  (top)

 

What is it (Undeserved pardon)

 

Ps 51:1-2 - Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

 

Gal 5 - You have become especially estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law....

 

Eph 1:6-7 - to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

Eph 4:7 - But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

 

II Tim 1:9 - knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers....

 

Tit 3:7 - that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

 

I Pet 1:10,13 - Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you.....Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest you hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

 

Terms

 

Rom 11:5-6 - Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.  And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.  But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

 

Rom 12:6 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, then prophesy in proportion to our faith

 

Rom 15:15 - Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to my by God

 

I Cor 10:30 - But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for the food over which I give thanks

 

II Cor 8:7 - But as you abound in everything - in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all dilegence, and in your love for us - see that you abound in this grace also.

 

Mercy of God

 

Gal 2:21 - I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

 

Eph 3:2,7 - if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you.....of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

 

II Cor 9:14 - and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you

 

Col 1:6 - which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth

 

I Pet 4:10 - As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God

 

Saved by Grace

 

Eph 2:8-10 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

 

Jn 1:17 - For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ

 

Acts 15:11 - But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they

Tit 2:11 - For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men

 

Doesn’t abolish law

 

Ps 119:92 - Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction

 

Rom 7:12 - Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good

 

Jas 2:8-10 - If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.  For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

 

Rev 12:17 - And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

 

Still sin

 

Rom 5:15 - But the free gift is not like the offense.  For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

 

Lk 13:3,5 - I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish (repeats in vs 5)

 

Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord

 

Rom 4:15 - because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no trangression

 

Rom 3:23 - for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

 

I Jn 1:8 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

 

Works still needed

 

Eph 2:8-10 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

 

Jas 2:20,26 - But do you whant to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?...for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is deald also

 

II Cor 9:8 - And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

 

I Jn 2:3-4 - Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.  He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 

 

Not license

 

Jude 3,4,8 - Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.  For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.....Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.

 

Under law

 

I Cor 9:20-21 - and to the Jew I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God [comp Is 24, Rom 1, Gal 3:22], but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without the law

 

Gal 3:22-25 - But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.  But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.  Therefore the law was our tutor to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

 

12.       HEALING  (top)

 

God does heal

 

Ps 103:2-3 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits; Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.

 

Jas 5:14-15 - Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.  And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

 

Ex 23:24-25 - You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.  So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water.  And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

 

Deut 32:39 - Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; nore is there any who can deliver from My hand.

 

Is 6:10 - Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return and be healed.

 

Is 53:5 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and bby His stripes we are healed.

 

Is 57:18-19 - I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, and restore comfort to him and to his mourners.  I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near, says the Lord.  And I will heal him.

 

Jer 30:17 - For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds, says the Lord.  Because they called you an outcast, saying: This is Zion; no one seeks her.

 

Eccl 3:3 - A time to kill, and a time to heal; time to break down, and a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

 

Mt 9:35 - then Jesus when about all the cities and villages, teaching them in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

 

Mt 10:1,8 - And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease....Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

 

Mt 11:5 - The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

 

Mt 13:15 - For the hearts of this people have grown dull.  Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.

 

Mk 3:15 - and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons

 

Lk 9:1-2 - Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. He then sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

 

Lk 10:9 - And to heal them sick there, and say to them, “the Kingdom of God has come near to you.

 

Acts 28:27 - For the hearts of this people have grown dull.  Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them

 

I Cor 12:9 - to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit.

 

I Cor 12:28-30 - And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps and adminstrations, varieties of tongues.  Are all apostles?  Are all prophets?  Are all teachers?  Are all workers of miracles?  Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues?  Do all interpret?  But earnestly desire the best gifts.  And yet I show you a more excellent way.

 

I Pet 2:24 - who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness- by whose stripes you were healed.

 

It is God’s will

 

Lk 5:11-13 - So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.  And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”  Tehn He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.”  Immediately the leprosy left him.

 

Mt 8:3 - Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleanses.”  Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

 

What is it (forgiveness of sin)

 

Mt 9:2-6 - Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed.  When Jesus say their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.”  And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!”  But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’?  But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on the earth to forgive sins” - then He said to the paralytic - “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 

 

Mk 2:3-12 - same as above

 

Lk 5:18-26 - same as above

 

How? By what (Christ’s sacrifice)

 

Is 53:5 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and bby His stripes we are healed.

 

Mt 8:16-17 - When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed.  And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick

 

Mt 15:23-28 - But He answered her not a word.  And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”  But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”  Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”  But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”  And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.”  Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith!  Let it be to you as you desire.”  And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

 

I Cor 11:27-30 - Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.  For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgement to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.  For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

 

I Pet 2:24 - who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness- by whose stripes you were healed.

 

How (anointing)

 

Jas 5:14-15 - Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.  And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

 

Acts 28:8-9 - And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery.  Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him.  So when this was done, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed.

 

Mk 6:13 - And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.

  

Sin no more

 

Jn 5:14 - Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well.  Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”

 

Prerequisites (faith)

 

Mt 9:29 - Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.”

 

Mk 5:22-34 - And behold, one of the rules of the synagogue came, Jairus by name. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet, and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter lies at the point of death.  Come and lay your hands on her, that she may be healed, and she will live.”  So Jesus went with him (Jairus), and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him.  Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians.  She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse.  When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.  For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.”  Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.  And Jesus immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”  But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, “Who touched Me?”  And He looked around to see her who had done this thing.  But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.  And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well.  Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

 

Lk 7:7-9 - Therefore I (Centurion) did not even think myself worthy to come to You.  But say the word, and my servant will be healed.  For I am also am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under me.  And I say to one, “Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘do this,’ and he does it.”  When Jesus heard these things, He marveled at him and turned around and siad to the crown that followed Him, “I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!” 

 

Lk 8:48-50 - And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer, your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”  While He was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead.  Do not trouble the Teacher.”  But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying, “Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well.”

 

Lk 18:42 - Then Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight, your faith has made you well.”

 

Acts 14:8-10 - And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never walked.  This man heard Paul speaking.  Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!”  And he leaped and walked.

 

Jas 5:14-15 - Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.  And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

 

Ask

 

I Jn 3:22 - And whatever we ask we receieve from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

 

Examples in Old Testament

 

Gen 20:17 - So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants.  Then they bore children.

 

Ex 15:23-26 - Now when the came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter.  Therefore the name of it was called Marah.  And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”  So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree.  When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.  There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I brought on the Egyptians.  For I am the Lord who heals you.”

 

I Sam 6:3 - So they said, “If you send away the ark of God of Israel, do not send it empty; but by all means return it to Him with a trespass offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.

 

II Kings 5 - Naaman

 

II Chron 16:12 - And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

 

II Chron 30:20 - And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people

 

Ps 30:2 - O Lord my God, I cried out and You healed me.

 

Ps 107:20 - He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

 

Jer 17:14 - Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved. For you are my praise.

 

Examples in Christ’s time

 

Mt 4:23-24 - And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of diseases among the people.  Then His fame went throughout all Syria, and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epiletics, and paralytics; and He healed them.

 

Mt 8:6-13 - story of centurion, vs 11: And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Issac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.  But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness.  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

Mt 9:2-8 - story of the paralytic

 

Mt 9:20-35 - And suddenly a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”  But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.”  And the woman was made well from that hour.  When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crown wailing, He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.”  And they ridiculed Him.  But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl rose.  And the report of this went into all the land.  When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”  And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him.  And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”  They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”  Then He touched their eyes, saying, “according to your faith let it be to you.”  And their eyes were opened.  And Jesus sternly warned them saying, “See that no one knows it.”   But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country.  As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed.  And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke.  And the multitudes marveled, saying, “It was never seen like this in Israel.”  But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of demons.”

 

Mt 12:15- But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there.  And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.

 

Mt 14:14 - And when Jesus went out, He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and He healed their sick.

 

Lk 7:21-22 - And that very hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight.  Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

 

Lk 9:1-2, 6 -Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.  He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick....So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. 

 

Lk 13:11-16 - And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.  But when Jesus saw her,He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.”  And immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.  But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men  ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”  The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite!  Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?  So ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound - think of it - eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath.”

 

Lk 17:15-19 - story of ten lepers cleansed, and yet only one, the Samaritan, came back and glorified God and thanked Jesus.

 

Lk 22:50-51 - Malcom’s ear

 

Jn 5:13 - But the one (man healed at pool of Bethsaida) who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place.

 

Examples of the apostles

 

Acts 3:1-16 - Lame man healed through Peter, vs. 6: The Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

 

Acts 5:15-16 - so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.  Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were healed.

 

Acts 9:33-41 - Aeneas healed through Peter (he was paralyzed and bedridden) and Tabitha raised from the dead

 

Acts 14:9-10 - This man heard Paul speaking, Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on you feet!”  And he leaped and walked.

 

Acts 8:5-7 - Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.  And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.  For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

 

Acts 19:11-12 - Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

Acts 28:1-9 - Paul on Malta, bitten by snake, vs. 9: so when this was done, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed.

 

Js 5:14-15 - Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.  And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

 

May ask 3 times

 

II Cor 12:7-10 - And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.  Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.  And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”  Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  Therefore I take pleasure in my infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake.  For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

All weren’t healed immediately

 

II Tim 4:20 - Erastus stayed in Corinth, but Trophimus I have left in Miletus sick

 

Extra reference

 

Mt 13:58 - Now He did not do many works there (Nazareth) because of their unbelief.

 

13.       HELL  (top)

 

What

 

Mk 9:43-48 - If your hand causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.  If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.  And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched - where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.  And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.  It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire - where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

 

Mt 10:28 - And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.  But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

 

Mt 23:33 - Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

 

Rev 20:13-15 - The sea gave up the dead and who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.  And they were judged, each one according to his works.  Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

 

Rev 21:8 - But the cowardly, unbelieving, abonimable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

 

Four words: Sheol (Grave in OT); Hades (Grave in NT); Tartaros (place of fallen angels in NT); Gehenna (Valley of Hinnom, NT)

 

1.                  Sheol - O.T. - Grave -

 

Gen 37:35 - And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning.”  Thus is father wept for him.

 

Gen 42:38 - But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.

 

I Sam 2:6 - The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.

 

Job 14:13 - O that You would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past. That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

 

II Sam 22:6 - The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me

 

Job 11:8,26 - They are higher than heaven - what can you do?  Deeper than sheol - what can you know

 

Job 26:6 - Sheol is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.

 

Ps 18:5 - The sorrows of Sheol surround me; the snares of death confronted me

 

Ps 16:10 - For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will Your Holy One to see corruption.

 

Ps 55:15 - Let death seize them; let them go down alive into hell.

 

Ps 86:13 - For great is Your mercy to me, and you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

 

Ps 116:3 - The pains of death surrounded me, and the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

 

Ps 139:8 - If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold You are there.

 

Prov 5:5 - Her feet go down to death.  Her steps lay hold of hell.

 

Prov 7:27 - Her house is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.

 

Prov 9:18 - But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.

 

Prov 15:24 - The way of life winds upward for the wise, that he may turn away from hell below.

 

Prv 27:20 - Hell and Destruction are never full.  So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

 

Isa 5:14 - Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself and opened up its mouth beyond measure; their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he who is jubilant shall descend into it.

 

Is 14:9 - Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the earth.

 

Ezek 31:16-17 - I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the depths of earth.  They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the nations.

 

Ezek 32:21-27 - The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell, with those who help him: they have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.  Assyria is there, and all her company, with their graves all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword.  Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, whocause terror in the land of the living. There is Elam all her multitude, all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of earth, who cause their terror in the land of the living; now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.  They have set her bed in the midst of the slain, with all her multitude, with her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcise, slain by the sword; though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit; it was put in the midst of the slain.  There are Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes, with all their graves around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. They do not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war; they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities will be on their bones, because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

 

Amos 9:2 - Though they dig into hell, from there My hand shall take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

 

Jonah 2:2 - And he said, “I cried out to the Lord, because of my affliction, and He answered me, “Out of the belly of Sheol I cired and You heard my voice.”

 

Hab 2:5 - Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, and he does not stay at home.  Because he enlarges his desire as hell, and he is like death, and cannot be satisfied.  He gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples.

 

2.                  New Testament - Hades - Grave

 

Mt 11:23 - And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

 

Mt 16:18 - And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

 

Lk 10:15 - And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to hades.

 

Rev 1:18 - I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.  Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

 

Rev 6:8 - So I looked, and behold, a pale horse.  And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him.  And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with hunge, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

 

Rev 20:13-14 - The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.  And they were judged, each one according to his works.

  

3.                  Hell - NT- Tartaros (restraint of fallen angels)

 

II Pet 2:4 - For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and deliverd them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgement

 

Jude 6 - And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode. He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgement of the great day.

 

4.                  Hell - O.T. (Equivalent of Gehenna)

 

Deut 32:22 - For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; it shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

 

Ps 9:17 - The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

 

5.                  Hell -NT (Gehenna, Valley of Hinnom)

 

Neh 11:30 - They dwelt from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.

 

II Kings 23:10 - And he (Josiah) defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.

 

Jer 19:6 - therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, by the Valley of Slaughter.

 

Mt 5:22,29,30 - But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement.  And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!,’ shall be in danger of the council.  But whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be in danger of hell fire....If your right eye cause you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for you whole body to be cast into hell.

 

Mt 10:28 - And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.  But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

 

Mt 13:30 - Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.

 

Mt 18:9 - And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.

 

Mt 23:15,33 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves....Serpents, brood of vipers!  How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

 

Mk 9:47 - And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.  It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire

 

Lk 12:5 - But I will show you whom who should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has the power to cast into hell; yes, I say to your, fear Him!

 

Jas 3:6 - And the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.  See how great a little fire kindles.

 

Wicked Consumed

 

Mal 4:1-3 - For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yeas, all who do wickedly will be stubble.  And the day which is coming shall burn them up, says the Lord f hosts, that will leave them neither root nor brance.  But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; and you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves.  You shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet.  On the day that I do this, says the Lord. 

 

Jer 25:30-33 - The Lord will roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold.  He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.  A noise will come to the ends of the earth - for the Lord has a controversy with the nations; He will plead His case with all flesh.  He will give those who are wicked to the sword, says the Lord....Behold, disaster shall go forth, from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the farthest parts of the earth.  And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

 

Ps 37:9 - For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

 

Ps 37:12, 22, 29 - The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth....For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by Him shall be cut off....The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.  

 

Ps 104:35 - May sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked be no more.

 

Obadiah 16 - For as you drank on My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yes, they shall drink and swallow, and they shall be as though they had never been.

 

Isa 66:24 - And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me.  For their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched.  They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

 

Rom 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Jude 7 - as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

 

Fire not quenched

 

Jer 17:27 - But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

 

Jer 52:13 - He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

 

Mal 4:1-3 -  For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yeas, all who do wickedly will be stubble.  And the day which is coming shall burn them up, says the Lord f hosts, that will leave them neither root nor brance.  But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; and you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves.  You shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet.  On the day that I do this, says the Lord. 

 

Mk 9:43-48 - If your hand causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.  If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.  And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched - where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.  And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.  It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire - where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

 

II Pet 3:10,13 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up....Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

 

Jude 7 - as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

 

Rev 14:9-14 - Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured our full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.  And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.  Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.  Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”

 

Rev 19:20 - Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast inot the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

 

Rev 20:8 - and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

 

Rev 20:13-14 - The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.  And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

 

Rev 21:8 -But the cowardly, unbelieving, abonimable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

 

Judgement

 

I Sam 2:6 - The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.

 

Jn 5:28-29 - Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth - those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.  I can of Myself do nothing.  As I hear, I judge; and My judgement is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

 

Jn 12:48 - He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him - the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

 

Heb 9:27 - And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgement

 

Heb 10:26-27 - For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgement, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

 

II Pet 2:9 - then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punsishment for the day of judgement.

 

Rev 20:13 - The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.  And they were judged, each one according to his works.

 

Wages of Sin (death)

 

Mt 7:17-18, 23 - Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear bad fruit....And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

 

Lk 13:3 - I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

 

Rom 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Heb 10:26-27 - For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgement, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

 

After death

 

Ps 6:5 - For in death there is no remembrance of You; in the grave who will give you thanks.

 

Ps 146:4 - His spirit departs, he returns to this earth; in that very day his plans perish.

 

Eccl 3:19- 20 - For what happens to the son of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other.  Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.  All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to the dust. 

 

Ecc 9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Worm dieth not

 

Isa 66:24 - And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me.  For their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched.  They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.

 

Mk 9:44-48 - It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.  And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched - where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.  And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.  It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire - where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

 

14.       HOLY DAYS  (top)

 

Command, Old Testament

 

Lev 23: feasts of God, vs. 2: Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, “The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations (including the Sabbath, vs 3), these are My feasts.

 

Deut 16 - whole chapter

 

Num 28 - 29 - elaboration on what to do on those feasts (offerings)

 

Ex 34:18-27 - The Feast of Unleavend Bread, Sabbath, Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), Feast of Ingathering

 

Command, New Testament

 

Jn 7:37 - On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink.”

 

Lk 2:41-43 - His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.  And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast.  When they had finished the days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem.  And Joesph and His mother did not know it

 

Mk 14, Mt 26, & Lk 22 - Jesus keeps the Passover a day early, Last Supper

 

Jn 13 - same as above, and foot washing

 

Acts 12:3-4 - And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also.  Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread.  So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.

 

Acts 18:21 - but took leave of them, saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing.”  And he sailed from Ephesus.

 

Acts 20:16 - For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost (see Deut 16:16, Ex 23:14-18).

 

Acts 27:9 - Now when much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous because the Fast was already over, Paul advised them...

 

I Cor 5:7-8 - Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened.  For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

Future

 

Zech 14:16-19 - And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  And it shall be that whichever of the families of earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

How? (Offering)

 

Deut 16:16-17 - Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

 

Ex 23:14-18 - Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year.  You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty); and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.  Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.  You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.

 

Ex 34:23 - Three times in the year your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel.

 

No Sacrifices today

 

Jer 7:22-23 - For I did not speak to your fathers, or commande them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.  But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people.  And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.

 

Ps 51:16-17 - For you do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart - these, O God, You will not despise.

 

I Sam 15:22 - So Samuel said: Has the Lord a great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?  Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.

 

Gal 3:19 - What purpose then does the law serve?  It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

 

Passover (Christ’s sacrifice) - OT

 

Ex 12:1-10 - Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.  And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year.  You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.  Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month.  Then the whole assemble of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.  And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.  Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter hebrs they shall eat it.  Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire - its head with its legs and its entrails.  You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it you shall burn with fire.

 

Ex 13:3-10 - And Moses saide to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place.  No leavened bread shall be eaten.  On this day you are going out, in the month Abib.  And it shall be , when the Lord brings you into the land of the Caananites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.  Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days.  And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.  And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.  It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.  You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

 

Ex 34:20 - But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb.  And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck.  All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.  And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

 

Lev 23:4-5 -These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.  On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.

 

Num 28:16 - On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord.

 

Num 33:3 - They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.

 

II Kings 23:21-23 - Then the king (Josiah) commanded all the peopl, saying, “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.  Such a Passover surely had never been held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.  But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the Lord in Jerusalem.

 

Ezek 45:21 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall not be eaten.

 

II Chron 30:1-5 - And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.  For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month.  For they could not keep it at the regular time, because a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered at Jerusalem.  And the matter pleased the king and all the assembly.  So they resolved to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel, since they had not done it for a long time in the prescribed manner.

 

Passover - (Sacrifices, new symbols- NT)

 

Mt 26:26-28 - And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”  Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.  For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

 

Mk 14:22-24 - And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”  Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.  And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.”

 

Lk 22:19-20 - And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in rememberance of Me.”  Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”

 

Jn 13:1-5 - 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.  And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded himself.  After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

 

I Cor 11:20-34 - Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.  For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk.  What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in?  Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing?  What shall I say to you?  Shall I praise you in this?  I do not praise you.  For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”  In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood.  This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”  For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.  Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.  For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgement to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.  For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.  For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.  But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.  Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat,wait for one another.  But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgement. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

 

Jn 6:53-55 - Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.  Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.  For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.  He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him.  As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread with came down from heaven - not as your fathers ate the manna and are dead.  He who eats this bread will live forever.

Who?

 

Ex 12:43-44, 48-49 - And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.  But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it...And when a stranger dwells with you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land.  For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.  One law shall be foe the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”

 

Rom 2:28-29 - For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is the circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

 

Gal 3:27-29 - For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you alre all one in Christ Jesus.  And if you are Christ’s then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

 

Days of Unleavened Bread (Putting sin out)

 

Ex 12:1-10 - Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.  And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year.  You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.  Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month.  Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.  And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.  Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter hebrs they shall eat it.  Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire - its head with its legs and its entrails.  You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it you shall burn with fire.

 

Ex 13:1-10 - And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place.  No leavened bread shall be eaten.  On this day you are going out, in the month Abib.  And it shall be , when the Lord brings you into the land of the Caananites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.  Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days.  And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.  And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.  It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.  You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

 

Ex 23:14-15 -Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year; you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty).

 

Ex 34:18 - The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep.  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

 

Num 28:17-25 - And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.  On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.  And you shall present an offering made by fire as a burnt offering to the Lord: to young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year.  Be sure they are without blemish.  Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil; three-tenths of an ephah you shall offer for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram; you shall offer one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs; also one goat as a sin offering , to make atonement for you.  You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering.  In this manner you shall offer the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet aroma to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.  And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation.  You shall do no customary work.

 

Lev 23:6-8 - And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.  On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.  But you shall offer an offering to the Lord for seven days.  The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.

 

Deut 16:3-8 - You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of Egypt all the days of your life.  And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.  You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.  And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.  Six days you shall eate unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the Lord your God.  You shall do no work on it.

 

Ezra 6:22 - And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy; for the Lord make them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

 

II Chron 8:13 - according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

II Chron 30:13-27 - (Hezekiah’s reign) Now many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavned Bread in the second month.  They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook Kidron.  Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month.  The priests and the Levits were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.  They stood in thier place according to their custom, according to the Law of Moses, the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood received from the hand of the Levites.  For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had chared of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord.  For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulan, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written.  But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “may the good Lord provide atonement for everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though his is not cleansed, according to the purification of the sanctuary.”  And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.  So the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavenen Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing to the Lord, accompanied by loud instruments.  And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.  Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast another seven days, and they kept it another seven days with gladness.  For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep, and the leaders gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and then thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.  The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, also the priests and Levites, all the assembly that came from Israel, the sojourners who came from the land of Israel, and those who dwelt in Judah.  So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Soloman the son of David, king of Israel, there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.  Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

 

Ezek 45:21-23 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.  And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.  On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. 

 

Mt 26:17 - Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do you want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover.

 

Mk 14:12 - Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”

 

Lk 22:1 - Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover.

 

Acts 12:3 - And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also.  Now it was during the Days of Unleavend Bread.

 

Acts 20:6 - But we sailed away from Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days joined them at Troas, where we stayed seven days.

 

I Cor 5:2-8 - And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.  For I indeed, as absent in budy but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good.  Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened.  For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

Leaven in Sin

 

Lk 12:1 - In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”

 

Mt 16:6, 11-12 - Then Jesus said to them, “take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Saducees....How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? - but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”  Then they all understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

 

I Cor 5:2-8 - And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.  For I indeed, as absent in budy but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good.  Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened.  For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

Pentecost

 

Ex 23:16 - and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors  which you have sown in the field

 

Ex 34:22 - And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest

 

Lev 23:15-21 - And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering (from the Feast of Firstfruits): seven sabbaths shall be completed.  Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.  You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah.  They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven.  They are the firstfruits to the Lord.  And your shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams.  They shall be as a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord.  Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering.  The priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs.  They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.  And you shall proclaim the same day that is a holy convocation to you.  You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 

 

Num 28:26-30 - Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation.  You shall do no customary work.  You shall present a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one rame, and seven lambs in their first year, with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs, also one kid of the goats, to make atonement for you. 

 

Deut 16:9-12 - You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.  Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you.  You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord chooses to make His name abide.

 

II Chron 8:13 - according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

Acts 2:1 - When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

 

Acts 20:16 - For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.

 

I Cor 16:8 - But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost.

 

Christ as Wave Sheaf

 

Jn 20:17 - Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father, and to My God and your God.’”

 

Mt 28:9 - And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.

 

I Cor 15:20, 23 - But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep....But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

 

Rom 8:29 - For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to tbe conformed to image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

 

Col 1:15, 18 - He is the image of the invisible god, the firstborn over all creation....And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

 

We, the firstfruits

 

Jas 1:18 - Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

 

Rom 8:23 - Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

 

Rom 11:26 - And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.”

 

Is 11:11 - It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set His hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Assyria and Egypt, from Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, from Hamath and the islands of the sea.

 

Is 66:15-19 - For behold, the Lord will come with fire and with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.  For by fire and by His sword the Lord will judge all flesh; and the slain of the Lord shall be many.  Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, to go to the gardens after an idol in the midst, eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the Lord.  For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.  I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory.  And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.

 

I Cor 15:22-23 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.  But each on in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.

 

A Day of Salvation

 

Isa 49:8 - Thus says the Lord: “In an acceptable time I have heard You, and in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You as a covenant to the people, to restrore the earth, to cause them to inherit the desolate heritages.”

 

II Cor 6:2 - For He says, “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.”

 

Rom 11:1 - I say then, has God cast away His people?  Certainly not! For I am also an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

 

Tim 2:4-6 - who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  For there is one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time

 

Trumpets

 

Lev 23:24-25 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying: “in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocations.  You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lrod.”

 

Num 29:1 - And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation.  You shall do no customary work.  For you it is a day of blowing of trumpets.

 

Neh 8:2-9, 12 - So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding on the first day of the seventh month.  Then he read from it in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate from morning to midday, before the men and women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.  So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah, Hilkiah and Maaseah; and at his left hand Pediah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.  And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.  And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God.  Then all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands.  And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.  Also Jeshua, Bani....helped the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.  So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.  And Nehemiah, who was the govenor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the peopl, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law....And all the people went their way to eat and drink, to send portions and rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that were declared to them.

 

Alarm of War

 

Jer 4:19-21 - O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my very heart!  My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.  Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is plundered. Suddenly my tents are plundered, and my curtains in a moment.  How long will I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

 

Num 10:8 - The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpet, and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your generations.

 

Ezek 33:2-7 - Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: “When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make them their watchman, when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.  He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning, his blood shall be upon himself.  But he who takes warning will save his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.  So you, son of many: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.

 

Rev 8 & 9 - trumpet plagues

 

Joel 2:1-2 - Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain!  Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord is coming, for it is at hand: a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains, a people come, great and strong,.  The like of whom has never been; nore will there ever be any such after them, even for many successive generations.

 

Second Coming of Christ

 

I Thes 4:14-17 - For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.  For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  For the Lord Himself will descend with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.  And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

 

I Cor 15:52 - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trupmet. For the trumpet shall sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

Rev 11:15-19 - Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and forever.”  And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was and who is to come, because You have taken Your great power and reigned.  The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should reward your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy the earth.  Then the temple of God was opened in heavem and the ark of the covenant was seen in His temple.  And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

 

Is 27:13 - So it shall be in that day: the great trumpet will be blown, they will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, and they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

 

Zech 14:4-5 - And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.  Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.  Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.

 

How

 

Acts 1:9-10 - Now when He had spoken these things, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.  And while they looked steadfastly toward heavens as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?  This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.

 

Atonement

 

Lev 23:27-32 - Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement.  It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.  And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.  And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.  You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.  It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.

 

Lev 16

 

Num 29:7 - On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation.  You shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work.

 

Ps 81:1-4 - Sing aloud to God our strength; make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob. Raise a song and strike the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the lute.  Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day.  For this is a statute for Israel, a law of God of Jacob.

 

Acts 27:9 - Now when much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous because the Fast was already over, Paul advised them

 

Binding of Satan

 

Rev 20:1-3 - Then I saw an angel coming dow from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.  He laid hold of the dragon; that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should not deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.  But after these things he must be released for a little while.

 

Zech 13:2 - It shall be in that day, says the Lord, that I will cut off from the names of the idols of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered.  I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.

 

Lev 16:22 - The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness

Atonement with God

 

Isa 11:9 - They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.  As the waters cover the sea.

 

Zech 14:9 - And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.  In that day it shall be - “The Lord is one, And His name one.”

 

Tabernacles

 

Ex 23:16 - and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

 

Ex 34:23-24 - Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

 

Lev 23:34-43 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, “The fifteenth of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation.  You shall do no customary work on it.  For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.  On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.  It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it....also on the fiftteenth day of the sevent month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.  And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.  You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year.  It shall be a statute forever in your generations.  You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.  You shall dwell in booths for seven days.  All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

 

Deut 16:13-17 - You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.  And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and you daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.  Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.  Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.  Every many shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

I Kings 12:19-33 - Jeroboam’s feast in 8th month

 

Neh 8:13-18 - Now on the second day the heads of the fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and Levites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to understand the words of the Law.  And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel shall dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month....so the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children had not done so.  And there was very great gladness.  Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God.  And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.

 

Hosea 12:9 - But I am the Lord your God, ever since the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

 

Jn 7:2,14 - Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand....Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

 

Acts 18:21 - but took leave of them, saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing.”  And he sailed from Ephesus.

 

II Chron 8:13 - according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts - the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

Ezek 45:25 - In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he sahll do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.

 

Zech 14:16-19 - And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  And it shall be that whichever of the families of earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

Last Great Day

 

Lev 23:39 - Also on the fiftteenth day of the sevent month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Num 29:35 - On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly.  You shall do no customary work.

 

Jn 7:37 - On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink.

 

Meaning of 100-yr period

 

Rev 20:5-12 - But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.  Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection.  Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, God and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city.  And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.  The devil, who deceived them, was cast out into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are (should read were thrown).  And they (he) will be tormented day and night forever and ever.  Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.  And there was found no place for them.  And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened, which is the Book of Life.  And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.  The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.  And they were judged, each one according to his works.

 

Is 65:17-25 - For behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.  But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for behold I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people a joy.  I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.  Nor more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.  They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyarsds and eat their fruit.  They shall not build and another inhabit.  They shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.  They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them. It shall come to pass that before they call , I will answer; and while they are still speaking I will hear.  The wolf and lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food.  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, says the Lord.

 

Everyone to be saved

 

Rom 11: 11,26 - I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall?  Certainly not!  But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles... and so all Israel will be saved.

 

Rev 21:1-4 - Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.  Also there was no more sea.  Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from heaven, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people.  God Himself will be with them and be their God.  And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.  There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.

 

I Tim 2:3-4 - For this is a good and acceptable   in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

 

15.       HOLY SPIRIT  (top)

 

Why need it

 

Eph 3:16-19 - that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearths through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fulness of God. 

 

Eph 6:8 - knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is slave or free.

 

Jas 2:26 - For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also

 

I Cor 6:11 - And such were some of you.  But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

 

Jn 8:28 - Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things

 

Rom 7:23-24 - But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  O wretched man that I am.  Who will deliver me from this body of death?

 

Jn 5:30 - I can of Myself do nothing; as I hear, I judge; and My judgement is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

 

Jn 14:10 - Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?  The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

 

Rom 8:9-17 - But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.  And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  But is the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors - not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.  For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

 

I Jn 5:11-12 - And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

 

I Cor 12:13 - For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - whether Jews, or Greeks, whether salves or free - and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

 

Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

 

What? (Power)

 

Gen 1:2 - The earth was (should read became) without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

 

Mt 12:28 - But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

 

II Pet 1:4 - by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature (see Rom 8:16), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

 

Ps 89:7-8 - God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverance by all those around Him.  O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like You, O Lord?  Your faithfullness also surrounds You.

 

Rom 15:13-14 - Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able to admonish one another.

 

Acts 1:4-8 - And being assembled together with them.  He commanded them no to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me, for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.  Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?  And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.  But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and your shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and to all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

 

Acts 2:2-4 - And suddenly there came a sound from heaven,as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.  Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

 

Acts 3:12 - So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this (lame man healed thru Peter)?  Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

 

One Spirit

 

I Cor 12:13 - For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, whether slave or free - and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

 

Eph 4:4, 30 - There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all....And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

 

I Sam 10:6-10 - Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.  And let it be, when these signs come upon you, that you do as the occasion demands;for God is with you.  Youshall go down before me to Gilgal; and surely I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and make sacrifices of peace offerings.  Seven days you shall wait, till I come to you and show you what to do.”  So it was, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, that God gave him another heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.  When they came there to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him; then the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.

 

I Jn 4:1-6 - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.  And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.  You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is of the world.  They are of the world.  Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.  We are of God.  He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

 

Rom 8:5-17 - For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.  So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.  And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  But is the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors - not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.  For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

 

I Cor 6:11 - And such were some of you.  But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

 

Truth produces changes, leads to salvation

 

Gal 3:17-24 - And this I say, that the law which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should be made no effect.  For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.  What purpose then does the law serve?  It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; an it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.  Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.  Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not!  For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.  But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.  But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward by revealed.  Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.  

 

Eph 1:14 - who (the Holy Spirit) is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

 

Eph 5:22-23 - Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church: and He is the Savior of the body.

 

Phil 1:19 - For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

 

Rom 12:1-2 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

 

I Cor 2:11-14 - For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?  Even so no one knows the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

 

Christ in us

 

Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I wholive, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 

 

I Cor 3:16 - Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Jn 14:17 - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

 

II Pet 1:3-4 - as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

 

Col 1:27 - To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

 

Gal 4:19 - My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.

 

I Cor 2:16 - For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”  But we have the mind of Christ.

 

I Cor 6:20 - For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

 

II Cor 3:3 - clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. 

 

Jas 4:5 - Or do you think that the Scriptures says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously.”

 

Spirit in us

 

Ezek 36:27 - I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them.

 

Ezek 37:14 - “I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land.  Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.

 

How we get it

 

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

Acts 5:32 - And we are His witnesses to thes things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

 

Phil 1:19 - For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

 

Is 44:3 - For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

 

Receive more

 

II Cor 4:16 - Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day be day.

 

Jn 7:37-38 - On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.  He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

 

Eph 4:23 - and be renewed in the spirit of your mind

 

Ask

 

Lk 11:13 - If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.

 

Word of God

 

Gal 3:1-5,14 - O foolish Galatians!  Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?  This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  Are you so foolish?  Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?  Have you suffered so many things in vain - if indeed it was in vain?....Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

 

Gift of God

 

Jn 4:10 - Jesus answered and said to her, “If you know the gift of God, and who it is who says to your, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.

 

Lk 11:13 - If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.

 

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

Acts 10:45 - And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

 

Acts 11:17 - If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?

 

Rom 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

I Cor 12 - the spritual gifts, vs. 31: But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show your a more excellent way.

 

When do we get it

 

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

 

Acts 8:17 - Then they laid hands on them (Samaritans), and they received the Holy Spirit.

 

Acts 19:1-6 - And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus.  And finding some disciples, he said to them, “did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”  So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”  And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”  Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after Him, that is, on Christ Jesus.  When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of Lord Jesus.  And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

 

How much do we get

 

Rom 8:23 - Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

 

II Cor 4:16 - Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

 

II Cor 5:5 - Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

 

Eph 1:13-14 - In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

 

Future

 

Joel 2:3, 28, 32 - A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; surely nothing shall escape them....and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions....and it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be save.  For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the remnant whom the Lord calls.

 

Fruits

 

Mt 7:20 - Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

 

Acts 4:31 - And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

 

Rom 5:5 - Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

 

Rom 8:6 - For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

 

Rom 15:13 - Now may the God of hope fill you with all you and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

I Cor 12:1-11 - unity in diversity of spiritual gifts

 

I Cor 13 - the love chapter

 

Gal 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spriit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 

 

Eph 5:9 - (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth)

 

Phil 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

 

I Pet 1:22 - Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart

 

Flesh v. Spirit (Sanctification)

 

Rom 8:5-17 - For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.  So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.  And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  But is the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors - not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.  For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

I Cor 2:10-16 - But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.  For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.  For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?  Even so no one knows the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.  For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”  But we have the mind of Christ.

 

I Cor 6:11 - And such were some of you.  But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

 

Gal 5:16-18 - I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 

 

Eph 3:5 - which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, of the same body and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel

 

I Pet 1:2 - elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ

 

I Jn 4:1-8 - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.  And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.  You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is of the world.  They are of the world.  Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.  We are of God.  He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.  He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

 

Jude 19 - These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit

 

Produces Chance

 

I Sam 10:10 - When they came there to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him; then the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.

 

Ezek 11:19 - Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh.

 

Ezek 36:26-27 - I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the keart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them.

 

Rom 2:6 - who will render to each onc according to his deeds

 

I Cor 2:11-14 - For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?  Even so no one knows the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God,that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.  For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”  But we have the mind of Christ.

 

I Cor 12 - spiritual gifts, unity in diversity, also in one Body

 

II Pet 1:4-8 - by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self control, to self-control perserverance, to perserverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.  For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Leads to Salvation

 

Jn 3:5-8 -Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  That with is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again.  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.   So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

 

Rom 6:1-11 - What shall we say then?  Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  Certainly not!  How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it. Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?  Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism through baptism into death, that just a Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life.  For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.  For he who has died has been freed from sin.  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.  Death no longer has dominion over Him.  For the death that He died, He died to since once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.  Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

I Cor 8:23-26 - Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?  But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perserverance.  Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknessess.  For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

 

Eph 1:14 - who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possesion, to the praise of His glory.

 

Eph 2:22 - in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

 

Eph 4:30 - And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption

 

Eph 5:5 - For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolator, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

 

Phil 1:19 - For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

 

Begotten now

 

I Pet 1:23 - having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

 

Heirs

 

Rom 8:17 - and if children, then heirs - heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

 

Sons of God

 

Rom 8:14, 29 -For as many as are leb by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God....For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

 

Gal 3:26 - For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

 

Heb 12:9 - Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect.  Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live.

 

I Jn 3:1 - Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!  Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

 

16.       KINGDOM OF GOD  (top)

 

What is it (see Gospel)

 

Dan 2:44-45 - And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.  Inasmuch as you saw that stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold - the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this.  This dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.

 

Ruler (Christ)

 

Dan 2:44-45 - And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.  Inasmuch as you saw that stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold - the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this.  This dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.

 

Dan 7:14 - Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.  His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.

 

Zech 14:9 - And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.  In that day it shall be - “The Lord is one, “ and His name one.

 

Mt 4:1-11 - Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”  But He answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”   Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.  For it is written, ‘He shall give His angels charge over You,’ and ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.’” Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”   Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.  And he said to Him, “All these things I will give to You if You will fall down and worship Me.”  Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan!  For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.”  Then the devil left Him and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

 

Mt 28:18 - And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.”

 

Lk 1:31-33 - And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.  He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.  And He will reign over the House of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

 

Lk 19 - parables of the minas, Jesus to give His brethren, the saints, rulership over cities.

 

Rev 11:15 - Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.

 

Rev 19:15-16 - Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations.  And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron.  He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

 

Saints with Him

 

Dan 7:18,21 - But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever....I was watching and same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgement was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.

 

Zech 14:5 - Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley.  For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.  Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.  Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with You.

 

Lk 22:30 - that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

 

Rev 2:26-27 - And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations - He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels.

 

Rev 3:21 - To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

 

Rev 20:4 - And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.  Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.  And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

 

Territory

 

Is 2:2-4 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.  For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

 

Jer 3:17 - At that time Jerusalem shall be called the Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem.  No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.  In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.

 

Zech 14:4 - And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

 

Micah 4:1,2,7 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.  Many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.  For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem....I will make the lame a remnant, and the outcast a strong nation; so the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from now on, even forever.

 

Jn 14:13 - And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 

 

Acts 1:10-11 -Now when He had spoken these things, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.  And while they looked steadfastly toward heavens as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?  This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.

 

Rev 20:4 - And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.  Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.  And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

 

Rev 22:12 - And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

 

Citizens

 

Is 2:2-4 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.  For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

 

Is 24:1,5,6 - Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants....The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because the have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate.  Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

 

Is 30:21 - Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it.”  Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.

 

Dan 12:2 - And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to everlasting shame and everlasting contempt.

 

Zech 14:16-19 - And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  And it shall be that whichever of the families of earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

Jn 5:28-29 - Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the grave will hear His voice and come forth - those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

 

Laws

 

Ps 111:8 - They stand fast forever, and are done in truth and uprightness

 

Is 2:2-4 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.  For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

 

Is 11:9 - They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.

 

Zech 14:16-19 - And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  And it shall be that whichever of the families of earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

Micah 1,2,4 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.  Many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.  For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem....But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

 

Jas 4:12 - There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.  Who are you to judge one another?

 

When

 

Lk 21:25-32 - “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.  Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”  Then He spoke to them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.  When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near.  So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.  Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all things take place.

 

Jn 18:36-37 - Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world.  If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”  Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are you a king then?”  Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king.  For this cause I was born, and for this cause ia have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth.  Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.

 

Acts 3:21 - heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

 

Rev 12:10 - Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.”

 

Rev 21:1 - Now I was a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

 

For How long

 

Ps 145:12-13 - To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.  Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

 

Lk 1:33 - And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

 

How Christ will return

 

Zech 14:4 - And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

 

Mt 16:28 - Assuredly, I say to you there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.

 

Mat 24:26-30 - Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner room!’ do not believe it.  For as lightening comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.  For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.  Immdediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

 

Lk 17:24 - For as lightening that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.

 

Acts 1:6-10 - Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will Yuo at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?  And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.  But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  Now when He had spoken these things, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.  And while they looked steadfastly toward heavens as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?  This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.

 

What is it (Mystery)

 

Mk 4:11 - And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables.”

 

Lk 8:10 - And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to the rest it is given in parables, that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.”

 

Parables

 

Mt 13 - of the sower (seed falling on stony ground, good ground, etc), wheat and tares, mustard seed, leaven, hidden treasure, pearl of great price, of the dragnet.

 

Mt 18:23: of the master and the servant (master forgives servant’s debt but the servant does not forgive other’s debt)

 

Mt 20:1-16 - workers in the vineyard

 

Mt 22:2-13 - of the wedding feast

 

Mt 25 - wise and foolish virgins, of the talents

 

Mk 4 - of the sower, light under a basket, growing seed, mustard seed

 

Lk 13:18-21- mustard see and of the leaven

 

Christ represented

 

Mt 12:28 - But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

 

Lk 17:20-21 - Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “the kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’  For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.

 

Who in Kingdom?

 

Zech 14:5 - And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.  Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.  Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.

 

Mt 8:11 - And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Issac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

 

Lk 13:28-29 - There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Issac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.  They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

 

Spirit

 

Mk 12:25 - For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are givne in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

 

Lk 7:28 - For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.