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You're a good egg, Luce.
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We are a cracked race ... couldn't cultivate much ...
You're a good egg, Luce.
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paradox3 ---- see post #643 page33 ------for clarification
Your Quote Here paradox3 -------In post #643 we were discussing Matthew 20: 1-16, the parable of the workers in the vineyard. This is the story of all workers being paid one denarius at the end of the day regardless of the time they were hired and began working.
There are no tenants or servants in this parable, unsafe.
unsafe says ----This is what I am talking about paradox3 ------all you see is what you see in what you read with your physical worldly glasses ------The is the Spiritual message to this parable and when you have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who gives you the Spiritual glasses to see beyond the Physical words you do see that there are --tenants and servants mentioned in this Parable ------
This is the difference in one just reading the words of the Bible and One who gets the meaning behind the words ------
There is the Logos word ---the written word of God --------and then there is the Rhema word ------which is the spoken word of God ----the Holy Spirit speaks to us the real meaning of the Logos -----The only person who can give us the Rhema word when we read Scripture is the Holy Spirit ----who dwells in us --------
THE LOGOS
John 1:1-2, 14 NKJV
1/ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2/ He was in the beginning with God. 14/ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
Rhema is a Greek word that literally means an"utterance" or
"thing said"
It is a word that signifies theaction of utterance.
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Isaiah 55:11 NKJV
11/So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
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Psalm 107:20 NKJV
20/He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.
In Christianity, rhema is used in reference to Jesus Christ's sayings.![]()
John 6:63 NKJV
63/........The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
NKJ has landowner, steward and laborers.
NRSV has landowner, manager and laborers.
Nothing about tenants or servants.
I wonder if @unsafe is conflating Matthew 20:1-16 and Matthew 21:33-46.
Maybe her spiritual glasses were fogged up at the time.NKJ has landowner, steward and laborers.
NRSV has landowner, manager and laborers.
Nothing about tenants or servants.
I wonder if @unsafe is conflating Matthew 20:1-16 and Matthew 21:33-46.
NKJ has landowner, steward and laborers.
NRSV has landowner, manager and laborers.
Nothing about tenants or servants.
I wonder if @unsafe is conflating Matthew 20:1-16 and Matthew 21:33-46.
Joel Olsteen this morning speaking on having spiritual eyes
Do you like Osteen and his prosperity gospel?
I know enough to know what I hear.
Show me a perfect pastor and I'll show you a unicorn
Are you saying Joel Osteen is a wolf. His message this morning is on seeing with spiritual eyes .There exist no perfect pastors.
There do exist some wolves in sheep's clothing.
Amenparadox3 ------
This is Matthew 20----this parable is about Salvation --------
Matthew 20 (ERV)
Jesus Uses a Story About Farm Workers
20 “God’s kingdom is like a man who owned some land.
unsafe says ------ Who is the Land owner ---------God -----
One morning, the man went out very early to hire some people to work in his vineyard.
unsafe says ------the first ones calledl to the Vineyard ----- represent the Jews ------
3 “About nine o’clock the man went to the marketplace and saw some other people standing there. They were doing nothing. 4 So he said to them, ‘If you go and work in my field, I will pay you what your work is worth.’ 5 So they went to work in the vineyard.
unsafe says ------the last ones called to the Vineyard represent the Gentiles -------
The equal pay represents God is in no debt to man as this world sees ------The first and the last hired are equal in God's eyes ----In Christ there is no Jew or Gentile ---etc The First group become jealous and discontent that the last got the same pay -----God brought in the Gentiles to include in Salvation to make the Jews jealous and come to the realization they needed a Saviour ------The Gentiles believed Jesus was the Messiah and the Jews didn't -----
So just because the Jews were the first chosen they become the last because of their unbelief that Jesus is who He said He was ----and the Last who were the Gentiles became the first unto Salvation ----
The Tenants ---are the Jew -----The Servants are the Gentiles ----- We are God's Creation and everything we have is owned by God ---we own nothing -----and we are nothing without Christ -----The Tenants--- the Jews thought that they were the Chosen ones and were the best of the lot ----The Parable shows that the Gentiles in God's eyes were equal in value to the Chosen ones hence the equal pay -------So what looks right in this world is not so in God's Kingdom ------
God accepts all who come to Him to be saved no matter the time ---------Salvation is there for us ---we have free will to accept or reject His Grace offer ------but we are to be saved His Way not our way -------
In the world we climb up the latter to success ----In the Spiritual world we climb down the Ladder for success -------
Jesus was King and laid His Kingship down ---he climbed down the ladder ----to become a sacrifice for us ------we are to lay self ( ego down to be a servant of Christ -----
So just because the Jews were the first chosen they become the last because of their unbelief that Jesus is who He said He was ----and the Last who were the Gentiles became the first unto Salvation ----
The Tenants ---are the Jew -----The Servants are the Gentiles ----- We are God's Creation and everything we have is owned by God ---we own nothing -----and we are nothing without Christ -----The Tenants--- the Jews thought that they were the Chosen ones and were the best of the lot ----The Parable shows that the Gentiles in God's eyes were equal in value to the Chosen ones hence the equal pay -------So what looks right in this world is not so in God's Kingdom----
I found it interesting that Joel Osteen's message today what's on seeing with spiritual eyesAll depends on which Glasses a Person reads the Scripture --------and we can't read the Spiritual without the Spiritual in us -------
Only God through His Grace which come through Faith can change our Glasses to view His word ------when we receive Jesus we get a new lens implant by and through the Holy Spirit -----
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I doubt the Holy Spirit dwells within us to lord over others but to respond in love and compassion no matter which " glasses" we are wearing.All depends on which Glasses a Person reads the Scripture --------and we can't read the Spiritual without the Spiritual in us -------
Only God through His Grace which come through Faith can change our Glasses to view His word ------when we receive Jesus we get a new lens implant by and through the Holy Spirit -----
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