1 Peter 2:24. Thank you for reminding me about that verse also. Dying to sin -- a choice we are to make every morning, as we pray upon waking, but accompanying that is the joy of living to our God! and that verses is also beautiful in how Peter alludes to Isaiah 53. That verse contains the gospel in a nutshell -- "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross" .... There are so many "gem verses"; verse 23 in the same chapter, "and while being reviled, He did not revile in return"; and on and on and on.
Thank you to jcosimi and to MarkAnthony. Yes, I too love John 14:27 :) As to the youtube link, I've already opened it and will listen to it :) That's probably just the "medicine" I need this morning :)
Thank you for asking, Saintman. I was grateful for what you shared yesterday from 1 Peter; those which you mentioned are special to me too. The verse you mentioned from 1 Peter 5 is a verse which an "older brother" (or so he seemed at the time; I was 17 and he was 21) but that older brother shared it with me not long after I got saved. Thank you for reminding me of that verse, Saintman.
It's hard for me to isolate a gem verse; but here's a couple of sequences of verses I've been thinking about lately.
Luke 12:2-5 2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. 3 Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops. 4 “I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!
John 15:9-11 9 Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 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. 11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
To JDJDJD: I promised a while ago that I'd create a blog post explaining how I use my spreadsheet to manage my LS queue. Well, I've finally done it. I hope that it's helpful to you or to someone else. My spreadsheet is rather complicated, but much simpler versions could also be used. Here's the link: https://telegra.ph/Explanation-about-my-spreadsheet-08-29
Yes, Moviegoer, all that makes sense, particularly the first paragraph where you described that "expectation" and then being freed from same by engaging in memorization ... I've had the same experience. Profound thanks.
I just want to add to TheMoviegoer, I didn't even think to congratulate you on the 67 - 72% in the three sections of 1 Peter chapter 1. Well done! and we look forward to hearing more about it in the future.
(I say "dear" because you are both, after all, brothers in Christ, as fellow believers in Jesus Christ)
I read Moviegoer with great interest what you wrote, and thank you for your insights.
I appreciate that you mentioned, TMG, the tense understandings; I myself am trying to go slower in my own process here, and to notice more what is going on in the Greek.
For example, Luke 11:8. NASB uses the word "persistence". King James says, "importunity". ESV says "impudence", the NIV says "shameless audacity", in translating the Greek word, ἀναίδειαν, anaideian, which in the original Greek meant "shamelessness".
There is a broader lesson which Jesus is teaching us here regarding being persistent in prayer. (I'd strongly advise any who read this to read the whole passage in context). But anyway, I am trying to go a bit slower and to learn such lessons from the Greek or from commentaries, Bible teachers, etc.
I want to comment about the 80 verses of Chapter 1 of Luke: I began working on those sometime in the hazy past. I don't remember for sure what year it was, but it was well before I started this journey 3 months ago.
At the time I broke it up into maybe 4 or 5 passages, and that's how I did it. Now many of them are at 100%, and most of the rest are in the high or mid-90s.
HOWEVER, if a person breaks everything into smaller passages, it's also ideal to accompany that with moments when you rehearse or repeat or practice the entire chapter as a whole, to keep your feel of the whole chapter -- or to simply read using an old fashioned book, the whole chapter -- to keep the feel of the whole chapter in your mind and soul.
I wish to reflect a bit more on the Gospel of Luke. I'm treasuring this journey through Luke specifically as a person in my late 60s. As one gets older, you simply begin to think more, "Well, mathematically speaking, it's simply logical that the moment of meeting Jesus is much nearer than before". One becomes more confronted with the actual reality of that fact. For that reason I truly treasure so much, the words of Jesus in Luke. I treasure too all of Luke's intervening narrative, every word. But the words of our Lord Himself -- that one whom we will all meet -- and now here I will refer to Final Asgard's memorized epistle, Philippians -- Paul says there that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (See Philippians 2:10-11).
I love our Lord Jesus, and I look forward very much to being in His presence in heaven. Pie in the Sky bye-and-bye? No, not in my opinion. I need to be more heavenly minded, I think, in order to be more earthly good (Colossians 3:2, set your mind on the things above)
As an old man, I am also long-winded LOL. Thank you for permitting me to take this liberty and share my long thoughts. Love our Lord and be devoted to Him.