-Hebrews
12:15 talks about a root of bitterness. What is this?
A root of bitterness is falling
from grace.(often
resulting from a lackadaisical
approach to the spiritual pathway of life including meditation, contemplation,
prayer
and
study),
a falling from this into working regarding one's believed stance
with God, often religiously, that is, trusting in one's own ability, instead
of believing that you are righteous by faith
and faith alone and this thanks to.Emmanuel
the Christ.
An example of this from the past:.1Kings
18:21-39.
Working in your own ability
which is living from what you feel necessary to get right with God takes
time away from any relationship
you can have with God made possible by faith in Emmanuel the Christ.
When one feels he has to do things to get right with God, to do things
to get God to answer, he obviously
is feeling out
of sorts with God and this hinders
a relationship with Him.
One's relationship with God
is by faith alone:.Hebrews
11:6. All one has to do is ask from their heart for help from God:.Matthew
7:9-11.
-Philippians
4:7.What
is this."peace
that passes all understanding"?
In the original the word
'understanding' is 'mind'. The verse is talking of what is beyond the mind
and that's the soul. This is
accessed by meditation.
Paul
referred to this as being 'in a trance'. It is the stillness that comes
when we are alone in the dark and quiet.
Here the mind becomes still and is one with the
Infinite Intelligent Energy of the universe, which itself is
stillness, the Silence, sensing messages that well
up to conscious attention.
-Hebrews
12:17 indicates that sometimes God doesn't accept repentance. How can
this be?
The word repentance means
'change'. Change is not
a prerequisite
to being saved. We were saved since the beginning:.2Timothy
1:9. It's just that most people have not
yet been awakened to that.
Being 'saved', being
in a saved state,
is a process of growing in high quality character
which
Christ revealed; growing in it so that one's
reward will be high and this by means of an individual decision to
do better for the self and for others:.Matthew
22:36-40. It's a moving from low consciousness to a higher consciousness
level of being.
The Old Testament example
of
Rahab the prostitute was all about
change not being a requirement
for being on the road
to salvation, that is, being saved.
It's not your repentance.
You could not even repent unless the Creator enabled it to be so:.Acts
5:31 "Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a
Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel
and forgiveness of sins.".They
didn't know it, but they were already in a state of forgiveness, but if
one is unaware of it, what good is it to him or her until they awaken to
it?.Hebrews
4:3 "For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As
I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world.(2Timothy
1:9)."
Does it make sense that Creator-God
would not accept a heart concerned
about changing towards good? Of course not! It's not that one 'works
on and fights sin' to eradicate
it in order to be pleasing to the Creator, but rather inculcates
righteousness moving one then from error filled ways and into new life,
called in the Bible, born again. Righteousness
doesn't come from what you may do or have done. It comes from what Christ
is, has done and given to you for a gift:.Romans
5:17.
The Creator has
already
looked after sin, for all people and for all time. The true change
comes from knowing that one is righteous.(brings
the power of God into
you).and
that
your sins don't count with Him,
in fact never did!
Why could Esau not find
repentance, even though he wanted it?.Hebrews
12:16,17.
Genesis
26:34,35 shows that Esau was a source of grief
for his parents Isaac and Rebekah.
Rebekah wanted her son Jacob to receive all the blessings he could, obviously
not caring too much for Esau:.Genesis
27:1-45. Esau, after making a deal with his brother Jacob,
wanted his brother to change his mind in his favor, after he got what he
wanted from his brother. In Genesis
25:27-34 is the story.
Paul's point here.(Hebrews
12:15-18,28).is
that we must be diligent
in keeping the grace of the Creator in our lives.(in
our hearts and minds).and
not be consumed with immediate physical concerns as was Esau. See 'Compassion'.
-Hebrews
12:22-24 What is this saying?
It is saying to focus
on Him.
-Hebrews
13:17 This sounds authoritarian and totalitarian?
A better translation would
be 'Trust those who lead you into a fuller understanding of Christ to enable
you to better serve God' and
that would be by understanding grace:.Hebrews
12:28.
The original for 'obey' is
'have confidence in', 'allow yourself not to be skeptical of'.(some
of us are skeptical
and hesitant
about most everything).and
original for the word 'rule' is 'lead'.
Obey is translated 'persuaded'
in
Matthew 27:20, translated 'trusted'
in Matthew 27:43, 'agreed' in Acts
5:40, 'made' and 'friend' in Acts
12:20, 'believed' in Acts 17:4,
'yield' in Acts 23:21, 'confident'
in Romans 2:19 and so on. To check
other occurrences get the
FreeBible.
-James
4:5 What does envy
mean as mentioned here?
In the New
Testament the word 'envy' means 'corruption', an evil purpose; except
in.Acts
7:9; 13:45;
17:5
where the word means 'burned with zeal', 'to boil with heat' and 'excitement
of the mind'. What kind of evil purpose would envy cause in someone?.Matthew
Henry's Concise Commentary gives this definition."Envy
is grieving at the good of another".or
'envy is grieving
over what another has and/or what they are like'. They may be wealthier,
happier, better dressed, good looking.(*).and
have more positive qualities than another. God will
look after you. Trust God!
In the
Old
Testament, envy meant
jealously.
God was jealous, but not a low consciousness jealously:.Exodus
20:5. God was protective of those His love was toward and His heart
was to love them so much in hopes they would continue to look to God so
He could continue blessing them. But alas,
they didn't:.Jeremiah
11:7,8.
Proverbs
27:4 "Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous, but who is able to stand
before envy?"
-Mark
9:24 What did the man mean here?
The man craved
more faith. The phrase."help
thou".is present
imperative
here and
implies
continuous help. The man wanted to continuously grow in faith. Those with
Emmanuel at the time, those individuals called His disciples.(learners
of Him).also
desired to grow in faith:.Luke
17:5. Also
Ephesians 2:8; Philippians
1:29; 2Thessalonians 1:3;
2Thessalonians
1:11;
1Corinthians 2:5;
Galatians
5:6; Hebrews 12:2.
-1Peter
2:20 What's it mean to glory in our sufferings?
The word
'glory' in the original means 'to think like the Creator'. This is
many people's hope
once they become awakened to the purpose of life. Once they have decided
to change from ways lived that brought negatives into their lives and to
now live in the sureness of a high
consciousness life. They are then on the pathway of life:.Hebrews
6:19 "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
stedfast and which enters into that within the veil." 2Peter
3:18 "But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Emmanuel Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen."
When you glorify something,
you make it the best you think it could be. When you glorify your garage,
you've cleaned it up, maybe painted it, arranged things so they are easy
to get to, thrown out what's not needed anymore and swept it out. It's
now the best it could be for
the time being. You've glorified your garage. Same with your character.
You see your negatives. You realize God's ways are better. You've cleaned
up your character. You've implemented
higher consciousness ways in your expression and thus,
glorified God in you.
God is reproducing Himself
through unique
expressions, us! And what
does this do for you? When one glories in
trials and sufferings, he thinks like the Creator regarding them, from
Creator's
point of view, has Creator's mind on things. The next verse tells of
following the example of Christ's suffering.
How
are we to follow the example of 'suffering' of Christ?
The word 'glory' refers to
the hope of humanity, the hope to be free of that which ails
him as he or she goes through life.
-1John
5:6-8 What about the omission
in most newer translations of this?
The question regarding the
subject of the 'Trinity'
has information on this. Perhaps also you may want to have a look at 'Holy
Spirit'....
-1John
5:10.Who
is the witness this verse is talking about?
Witness refers to someone
able to provide firsthand account of something seen and remembered, such
as 'he witnessed an incredible view'.
The verse means you are in
higher consciousness when believing. When in the
higher frame of living you are witnessing the record the Infinite One
gave of his son, that of being a
light to others by one's character,
which reflects what is
inside.
And what
will this character,
this spirit which was the same in quality that Emmanuel
had.elicit?.Romans
8:16; 1John 5:1,11; John
3:16; 1Corinthians 2:12.
-2Corinthians
3:18.How
are we changed into the image of the Infinite One?
See the scripture in the
question and.2Peter
1:2-8; 3:18.
...
-1Corinthians
15:17.Here
it seems to be saying that it was His raising from the dead that was important?
I thought it was His death that saved us?
The verse is saying that
if He hadn't raised, how do we know for sure that He died thus making atonement
for all sin. He would have been viewed as an imposter. The verse is emphasizing
the credibility of His death.
The verse says that if Emmanuel
had not died and been raised, that even after we move into the disembodied
state.(the
sleep humans call death as also mentioned here in this passage in verses
18-20), we would even then have
no hope:.Romans
4:25; 5:10.
-Ephesians
3:1.What
does it mean."by
revelation".Paul
came to understand some spiritual things?
Paul took time to be in
the dark and quiet. In these times the Infinite Intelligence wells
up into the mind specific things for each individual, as God does
not want clones. This is the actual power of God that works:.Ephesians
3:7.
-Matthew
18:18."Verily
I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven
and whatsoever you shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven."
It's talking of things of
the mind by both believing those things one knows about and wanting them
to be effective in the life of self and in the lives of others. These things
are bound by this in the mass consciousness of humanity, often called the
Akashic
record. To do this, use the key.
In this way for example,
kindness
can affect the world for good.."Higher
states of consciousness leads to elimination of any
destruction. When the majority of the collective consciousness has
achieved high consciousness then any destruction will be impossible.(including
the enemy the.Bible.calls
death).
Since the Creator is life, all that promotes destruction is of non life
and therefore not of the Creator.(and
herein we see a lock).
Animals eating other animals does not promote destruction but rather keeps
destruction away by ensuring a balance in nature."....Grigori
Grabovoi.
-Ezekiel
3:16-19 Are we to regard this passage in scripture as instruction for
us today?
Follow through the passages
on Ezekiel from 1:1.
-John
9:31 Where it says "God hears not sinners", I thought God forgives
sinners?
Reading.Luke
18:10-14.should
clear this up.