Looking for Paul

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- In 2 Corinthians chapter 2, Paul speaks about his great distress, his oppression of heart, his many tears in relation to his great love he has for the disciples!

- He speaks of the disciples being a fragrance to God that is a pleasant and a sweet smell!

- He speaks of the disciples of those who are worthy!

- To be worthy means we must deserve it!

- It is not possible to be worthy without any valuable reason!

- WE MUST NOT MIX THE WORDS OF GOD!

 

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- In Romans chapter 3, Paul says that all Jews and Arameans are under sin!

- In fact, none are righteous, not even one!

- None who understands and none who seeks for God!

- All have turned aside, and together are rejected, and none who does good; not even one!

- Their throats are open graves, and their tongues are deceitful, and the venom of the snake is under their lips!

- Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness!

- And their feet are quick to shed blood!

- Vexation and misery are in their ways!

- And the fear of God isn’t before their eyes!

- And God has sent His Son for the Reconciliation through the Faith of His Blood!

- And we can say the same for every man!

- There is no difference!

- Thus no one is innocent and as a consequence everyone should show humility!

- But it is rarely the case!

- Man likes to boast!

- Man thinks he thinks everything!

- At the end he will get the adequate prize!

- No one will escape!

 

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- In 1 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul says about his brothers that they aren’t spiritual but carnal ones, infant ones in the Anointed One!

- So close to what we have just read in Romans chapter 3!

- And once again, it shows the importance of keeping studying!

- Knowledge doesn’t come from nowhere except for those who think they know everything!

- But what kind of knowledge is it?

- We must never have enough!

- We must be hungry and thirsty!

- That’s the only way to get closer to Yah.weh!

- We can’t keep on drinking milk!

- We must eat solid food if we don’t want to stay in the flesh, if we don’t want envy being in us, contention and divisions!

- If someone plants and someone else waters, God makes it grow!

- We are laborers of God, we are the Work of God, We are the building of God!

- But for that we must be active, not passive!

- We can’t let the others do the job for us!

- Yah.weh will never tolerate that!

- Never!

 

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“The Foundation was set as a wise builder, but, another built on it. Yet, every man must watch how he builds on it,” “

- Here the expression “every man must watch how he builds on it” is visual!

-“Must watch how he builds on it”!

- First we must be active, we must build!

- If we don’t, we are good to nothing and we can’t expect anything!

- Second, the way we act or do things is essential!

- We must keep acting according to God’s will, not according to our will or to human tradition!

 

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“the work of every man must be revealed by the Fire which will separate it”

“and he whose work shall remain, he who builds receives the reward,”

“and he whose work shall burn, he shall lack, yet, he will be saved, but thusly; as from Fire.”

- Once again, acting is a necessity but not not enough!

- It must be accepted by God!

- Thus we must work according to God's will!

- And we must keep doing it!

- If we stop doing it, it’s good for nothing!

- We get so many examples in the Bible!

 

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“Do you not know that you are The Temple of God, and The Spirit of God dwells in you?”

- What a responsibility!

- Apparently too hard for the majority!

- We should think about that every day!

- Thus it could help us behave according to such a responsibility!

- I can look everywhere in the world, I don’t see that!

- NOWHERE!

- SIMPLE WORDS: “WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN US”

 

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- For Paul it is clear, “the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God”!

- We should be conscious of that if we want to get closer to Yah.weh!

- The world is so far away from Yah.weh!

- He adds the wise are emptiness!

- For that reason, man shouldn’t boast in the sons of men!

- But they keep doing it!

- We should also never forget that we are of the Christ or Messiah and the Christ or Messiah is of God!

 

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- In 2 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul uses such words as “written in our hearts”, “that is written not in ink, but rather, in the Spirit of the Living God; not with Tablets of Stone, but rather, with Tablets of The heart”, “our strength is from God”,

- Does it speak to you?

- Something from the inside, not from the surface!

- Something this world has no idea of!

- Something which is not natural!

- Something we must learn to practice if we want to get closer to Yah.weh!

- Forget everything we learnt and start from scratch again to really get deep inside!

 

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- Paul tells us that The Scripture kills but The Spirit gives life!

- In the same way, there is the ministry of condemnation and The ministry of Righteousness!

- The second one is more abundant in glory!

- The second one means abundant Hope for us!

- The sons of Israel were blind in their understanding!

- But the Spirit of Yah.weh frees us!

- Thus we must take the right path!

- If we are not free, we are not on the right path!

- Each time we must feel more freedom connected to more action and activity!

 

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- In Romans chapter 4, Paul reminds us of the importance of our faith!

- Thus, he speaks about the importance of Abraham’s faith!

“blessedness is for those whose unrighteousness is forgiven, and whose sins are covered,
and blessedness is for the man whom God doesn't count sin unto him.”

- Yes, unrighteousness is forgiven and sins are covered by God!

- But of course, for that, we must deserve it!

- Paul opposes The Sign for the circumcised to The Seal of The Righteousness of Faith!

- But we must demonstrate this Faith!

- Abraham received The promise unto his Seed because of The Righteousness of his Faith!

- Abraham demonstrated his Faith by offering his son to Yah.weh!

- Thus everybody is concerned by the Promise Abraham received unto his Seed!

- But we must demonstrate our Faith in the blood of Jesus!

 

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- In 1 Corinthians chapter 4, Paul says we are Ministers of Messiah and house stewards of The Mysteries of God!

- Thus we must represent Jesus and Yah.weh!

- House steward is quite visual!

- A house steward must be ready to DO ANYTHING INSIDE THE HOUSE OF HIS MASTER!

- HE IS IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING INSIDE THE HOUSE!

 

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- In 2 Corinthians chapter 4, Paul says: “we are not deceitful with The Word of God, but rather, with The Revelation of The Truth!

- Here Paul tells us that there are two ways, not three or four or many!

- We must choose one, the right one or the wrong one!

- It’s up to us!

- “whom the god of this age has blinded, concerning their understanding, so that they would not believe; so that The Light of The Good Message of The Glory of The Anointed One, He who is The Image of God, wouldn't shine unto them!

- Thus the devil is doing his best to prevent us from choosing the right track!

- But that is no excuse!

 

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- Yet, in every thing we are constrained, but, we are not strangled;
- we are beaten, but, we are not guilty;
- we are persecuted, but, we are not abandoned;
- we are thrown down, but, we are not ruined.

- Here Paul tells us that there is always a door open!
- The door is never closed!
- But the option is often left to us!
- We must get through the door!
- The others won’t do it for us!
- Remember Lot and his wife and his daughters!
- Lot got through!
- His daughters got through!
- But his wife didn’t!

 

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- But the option is always left to us!

 

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2 corinthians 4:13

13 We also therefore, who each have The Rukha d'Haymanutha {The Spirit of Faith}; for, as it is written that, “I believe, because of this, I also speak.” We are believing, because we also are speaking,

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And in keeping with what is written: “I believed, therefore have spoken,” we ho have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore (consequently) speak,

- Interesting, having the Spirit of Faith means believing and speaking!

- Believing is deeply connected to speaking!

- Thus no speaking, no believing!

- Or to demonstrate our faith, we must speak about it!

- IF WE REMAIN SILENT, WE HAVE NO FAITH!

- IN FACT, WE ARE GOOD TO NOTHING!

- OR IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE USELESS!

- THINK ABOUT THE RECONSTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM!

- HARD WORKERS WERE REQUIRED!

 

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- In Romans chapter 5, Paul connects afflictions and patience and experience and hope!

- Thus, we must learn from the four elements, but not only one!

- When we think about faithful servants of Yah.weh, we may remember these four elements and how they help faithful servants of Yah.weh to be more efficient and useful to Yah.weh!

- Once again, these four elements are all necessary to make us better servants of Yah.weh and we need to take advantage of each of them without forgetting one!

 

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Romans 5:12

for, as through the one son of man, sin entered into the alma {the world}, and through sin, mawtha {death}, and thus in every son of man, mawtha {death} was transferred into all those who sinned,

- Death was transferred into all those who sinned!

- We are used to dying, it seems to be natural for men!

- But here Paul uses the verb transferred showing how unnatural it is!

- We should be living forever!

- And we shouldn’t get old!

- We should live forever young!

- Yah.weh offers us this opportunity to fulfill his initial promise!

- Of course, we have to earn it!

 

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Romans 5:14

But, mawtha {death} reigned from Adam, and until Mushe {Moses}, even over those who didn't sin in the type of transgression of The Law, of Adam, that one who was a type of that One who was destined to come.

- Death reigned from Adam until Moses!

- And we keep dying!

- Of course, Jesus died for our sins!

- But before he comes back, we keep dying!

- Reigning is an interesting verb because it presents death like a king!

- But as a king it will reign only for a limited time!

- Of course, we must do our part if we want to escape from its reign!

 

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Romans 5:19

19 For, how that because the one son of man didn't obey, many became Khataye {Sinners}; thus also, because of the obedience of The One, many became Righteous.

- Obedience is central in our connection with Yah.weh!

- Adam didn’t obey Yah.weh but Jesus did!

- And man keeps following Adam!

- He will never understand!

- Like Lot’s wife!

- It is so simple and impossible to go against it!

- Find the mistake!

 

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Romans 5:21

21 so that as sin had reigned in mawtha {death}, thus Taybutha {Grace} will reign in Kenutha {Righteousness}, unto Khaye {Lives} which are eternal, by means of Maran Eshu Meshikha {Our Lord Yeshua, The Anointed One}.

- On the one hand, sin and death are connected to the past!

- On the other hand, Grace and Righteousness are connected to the future!

- It is so easy to visualize the first part as it has been part of human history and we only know that!

- On the contrary, we have no idea of the second part!

- But we must work for it if we want to have a share!