Peace in Christ.

We have 2 “wills” of the Father here in John 6.

John 6:37-40
(37) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
(38) For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

The 1st “will” of the Father is for the Son to lose nothing that has been given Him…that it should be raised (to stand up) TO THE last day.

It is not to raise it up “again” but “to stand up” TO the last day…the last day of this age. "Again" is found in some translations (such as the KJV) but does not show up in the Greek. "Again" is implied (erroneously).

We are to be kept standing here in this mortal body in this current age TO the last day of this age.

It is not “at” or “on” or "in" the last day but TO the last day. The “last day” is the last day of this current age that we are living in now.

This 1st “will” applies to Christ the firstfruits….the 144,000….the vessels of His mercy.

We who are “Christ the firstfruits” HEAR and believe on Him and have an age-lasting life now in this age. We do not mortally die but will be kept standing up here in this earth to the last day of this age (having an age-lasting life).

(39) And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up/stand up TO THE (τῇ) last day.

TO THE = Greek - τῇ : The actual dative singular feminine article. Because it is a dative form, it is often translated as "to the" or "for the" in English. In this context, it is “TO THE”.

“at” "on" =[ἐν] “the last day” = τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.

Some manuscripts have this variant text “ἐν” inserted in them giving us a reading of “ἐν” τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ (at or on the last day), but some manuscripts omit the article or use slightly different phrasing (e.g., τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ).

Textual variants are differences in wording, spelling, word order, omissions, or additions.

The variant text (“ἐν” ) is an “addition” and should not be found there as it changes the whole meaning dramatically. We are to be stood up TO the last day and not "on/in/at" the last day.

This is not a “minor” textual variant (“ἐν” ) as supposed by many (and overlooked by all) but a MAJOR one that changes the verses of John 6:39-40 dramatically.


The 2nd “will” of the Father in verse 40 is that everyone who SEES the Son and believes into Him may have an age-lasting life. The people of the outside world are the ones who will SEE and believe.

We, the 144,0000 under the 1st “will” of the Father, manifest Him in our mortal flesh to the people of the outside world (the subject of the 2nd “will”) who will then “behold” Him through us. They behold the Son by beholding us.

(40) And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth (beholds) the Son, and believeth on him, may have (PRESENT TENSE) everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life: and I will raise him up TO the last day.

BOTH SIDES NOW: What will sanctify the Lord's Day when Super Bowl LX comes on?​

Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend . . . so which comes first? Beer, chicken wings, and pigskin, or Mass and rest from servile work?

It’s possible that football is the perfect opportunity for Catholics to bring their families together and even bring Jesus to their friends and extended relatives. Or maybe our culture makes it impossible to carve out football time on Sunday without obsessing over the game, at the expense of what we owe our Creator and our loved ones on the Lord’s Day.

Today’s edition of Both Sides Now—call it Super Both V—explores a touchy subject for Catholics and sports fans, particularly in America. What are we supposed to be doing on Super Bowl Sunday? Does football fit?

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Well, we’ve got Bad Bunny and Green Day performing for the Super Bowl on Sunday, which feels like a big ole slap in the face to many Americans. Bad Bunny is openly political and frequently bashes the Trump administration and ICE, while Green Day is as TDS-riddled as they come.

Not exactly the most unifying performers for one of the nation’s biggest shows.

Many people will probably skip that and find something else to do while they’re performing. One thing besides the football that always attracts a lot of attention, though, is the commercials, where companies throw down millions of dollars for 30 or 60 seconds of air time to get their message across to a massive audience.

This year, the abortion crowd is sure to be screaming at their flatscreens because of a spot that dares to say there are alternatives to aborting your baby should you have an unwanted pregnancy.

It’s poignant, as former college swim star turned activist Riley Gaines noted:

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Ny Times article states Trump is not inviting any democrats



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Four people in Indiana are dead following a crash involving a semi truck on Feb. 3, 2026. The driver of the semi truck, Bekzhan Beishekeev, is a 30-year-old illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was paroled into the country under the Biden administration’s CBP One app, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS also stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer for Beishkeev and took custody of him on Feb. 5, 2026. “He will remain in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings,” they added.

Indiana State Police and the Jay County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a crash at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to local media reports. The crash occurred when the semi truck, driven by Beishkeev, allegedly swerved into the opposite lane and collided with a van. Passengers Henry Eicher, Menno Eicher, Paul Eicher, and Simon Girod, 50, 25, 19, and 23, respectively, were declared dead at the scene. All of them were residents of Bryant, Indiana, and were members of the state’s Amish community. The driver of the van, Donald Stipp, 55, was seriously injured and is being treated at a hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (RELATED: Privilege Lost Isn’t Oppression — It’s Justice)

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Four people in Indiana are dead following a crash involving a semi truck on Feb. 3, 2026. The driver of the semi truck, Bekzhan Beishekeev, is a 30-year-old illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was paroled into the country under the Biden administration’s CBP One app, according to a statement by…

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I have unlocked for you Peggy Noonan’s funeral oration for the Washington Post, published in the Wall Street Journal. Lots of people talking about it now, and for good reason. It is Noonan at her rhetorical finest, but also reads like something that can only have been written by someone from the ancien régime. She’s right about most things here, in my view, but also idealistic in a way that just seems antique. Let me explain.

Noonan says the decline, perhaps fatal, of the Post under owner Jeff Bezos, who just laid off 300 people there, is a catastrophe. She writes:

But the Post’s diminishment, which looks like its demise, isn’t just a “media story.” Reaction shouldn’t break down along ideological lines, in which the left feels journalism is its precinct and is sad, and the right feels journalism is its hulking enemy and isn’t sad. Treat it that way and we’ll fail to see the story for its true significance. The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it. That isn’t the occasion of jokes, it’s a disaster.
I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information.

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Wesley J. Smith’s petition above followed the recent news that a woman given a double mastectomy when she was 16 was awarded $2 million in a first-of-its-kind malpractice judgment for a detransitioner.

The case of 22-year-old Fox Varian was easy to miss; its resolution, highlighted by independent reporter Benjamin Ryan, was mostly ignored in mainstream press. But Varian’s lawsuit against her psychologist and plastic surgeon contained a familiar story for anyone who’s followed these kinds of cases (or who listened to NR’s Detransitioners podcast series): Her mother was led by medical professionals to believe her daughter’s breasts had to be removed to treat her gender dysphoria; she resisted, then eventually relented.

With this judgment, other detransitioners see hope that physicians urging these interventions will eventually be held similarly accountable — and that more patients will come forward.

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fhansen said:

Thank you as well, for a civil discussion.

I'll only add that the church has been guilty of lax oversight and over-tolerance in the past but the screening now is much more rigorous than before for new priests. Either way, I assume the church will become smaller but sounder and more serious about ensuring holiness in the future. And I think the goodness of the last Vatican council will shine through increasingly in the coming centuries. Some scandal will continue to raise its head in any case, however, because humans will continue to be humans in this life, or less than human, perhaps, to put it better.

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I agree.

linux.poet said:

So you’re saying that an amputee is defined by their amputation or a mental illness sufferer is defined by their mental illness? That isn’t what Paul teaches in the Scriptures:



Our bodies do not change automatically when we accept the Gospel, so the “new creation” is not our body. The presence of the Holy Spirit defines us as followers of Christ who are new creations in Christ, spiritually alive and undergoing the sanctification process. The soul and spirit “pilot” are changed, not the old body “car”. The old body is capable of obedience because it was originally designed by God too, but the body has the sin nature in it and rebels against the Spirit. This creates an internal war in which our bodies must be subdued in order to use them for Kingdom purposes.



“But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.” That indicates that there is an “I” that is distinct from the sin that dwells within him, and Paul defines the “law of sin” as being in his members, I.e. his body.

Therefore, I interpret the “I” of Romans 7 to be the same as the “new creation” of 1 Corinthians 5.

There are many other passages in Paul’s letters where Paul equates our fallen bodies with the sin nature of mankind and defines sin as “deeds of the flesh”.


God could just give new glorified bodies any time he wants, but He chooses not to. I think the reason He does not has to do with love and faith as a requirement for salvation. Also, he wants His church to be able to bear children and raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Glorified bodies aren’t able to marry or be given in marriage, so we’re stuck with what we got.


I’m really confused by this.

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Yeah, I don't understand what you said either but it is true that God is not mocked. Good thing God and fellow Christians are nice and clear about His plans for us.

essentialsaltes said:

"You know what the difference is between the Biden family business and the Trump family business?

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So we have actual conformation of the Biden Crime Family.

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Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

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And who was Jesus speaking too. Jews , to Israel. is who Jesus. was talking too. . and that is the CONTEXT. , PERIOD!!

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Is anyone ok with thus?

Matt5 said:

I agree with this whole works thing, but what is acceptable?

Take a look at the Christians in verse 22. They run circles around me.

Matthew 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.
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
Matthew 7:23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

What is their crime?

Might be nice to know.

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They led double lives. They publicly acted as Christians should, but privately, they did not. They did not repent of their hidden sins before they died. Ezekiel 33:12-20

Romans 11:22
See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

Why, over the years, has Trump gone from this.....

When Donald Trump Praised Hillary Clinton | TIME When Donald Trump Praised Hillary Clinton

.....to this.....

Trump amplifies personal attacks on Hillary and Bill Clinton post-debate | Donald Trump | The Guardian Trump amplifies personal attacks on Hillary and Bill Clinton post-debate

.....and recently back to this.....

Donald Trump Says He Likes Bill Clinton Donald Trump Says He Likes Bill Clinton

....?

Could it be because Bill Clinton has not only agreed to testify concerning Epstein, but offered to testify in public?

Pommer said:

Federal troops agents to do what the local sheriff’s department usually does?
“Big Government” is just fine now with Conservatives, why’s that, one wonders?

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Actually sheriff's departments are not enforcing immigration laws. Only the Feds can do that. So the agents are not do SO jobs.

We certainly are okay with Big Governement when they are doing their jobs. If America didn't want immigration laws then why do we have them?

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As an ex-Protestant who hopes the churches will one day reunify, I'm not particularly fond of the term. Wolsley might have accurately explained the term "co" in the Latin sense, but if the Catholic Church ever hopes to bring the Protestants under her umbrella, areas of potential confusion need to be dealth with.

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Exactly. With as much precision and good will as possible. And yet I don’t see that all Protestants will ever in a million years be willing to consider such things even perfectly explained. They think they know so much better. Humility is in short supply.

I gave been exploring the Latin in the ancient hymns. It is a unique way to pray.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Heb 4:12)
Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters), that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father (Roman Missal)

A life changing retreat
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Two years ago I spent nearly twenty-one days on a silent retreat. I have already shared some of my reflections about that time here. It was one of the most intensive, stretching, and sublime things I’ve ever experienced.

The retreat was truly an embarrassment of riches. I had room and board taken care of for nearly a month. I received daily spiritual direction from world class spiritual guides, plumbing the depths of scripture and my heart during undistracted silence in a beautiful wooded setting with zero outside demands on my time. I was growing and gaining insight at a stunning rate. I was truly availing myself of the ‘big guns’ of the Catholic spiritual tradition.

But of all the incredible benefits and privileges won at great investment and sacrifice, I remember telling my director that the very best part of my retreat was that we got to go to mass every day.

If mass isn’t the absolute highlight of your day and week, I encourage you to give this method a try. I developed it for myself as a way to take full advantage of the opportunity to enter into what really is the ultimate form of prayer and worship.

A quick reminder of what the mass is:
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What is the mass?​

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A Six Step Method to Get More out of Mass

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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In your charity, kindly pray for the repose of Fr Raimund Beisteiner, 59, who died while celebrating Mass. On December 31, 2025, another Catholic priest died while celebrating Mass in Nigeria. May their souls find rest in the Lord.

And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven (Matthew 12:31).

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Does the Modern Protestant Church in Sweden Blaspheme Against the Holy Spirit?​

Let us examine this question. Before we do, we should address some anticipated critiques. In confronting this question—this accusation—we must use the Bible and its narratives in a way that may appear heterodox to some, that we are not conformingto orthodox beliefs. It may seem as though we are reducing the Incarnation and the people involved in these events to mechanical abstractions, intellectualizing miracles such as the Incarnation or the Annunciation, or turning Jesus himself into mere metaphor. But this is not the case, especially if we remain faithful to the biblical story as we explore its meaning.

Christ was not merely a messenger of divine words—he was the Word. He was the message itself. This means that everything about Jesus is meaningful: every aspect of his life is instruction from God. His birth, for example, was not only a singular historical event—the birth of a child who happened to be God—but the manifestation of the Messianic principle of creativity itself. When God becomes incarnate, creativity and generation are also revealed. They always existed, just as Christ did, but now they become visible, material, and perceptible.

Perception and conception are the two key elements of this hypothesis. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. First: what is the “Holy Spirit”? If we can concretize it beyond the abstraction of living a righteous and spiritual life. Well, the religion is pretty clear about what it is: it is the way in which Christ, the Messiah, is begotten. So, how is Christ, the Messiah, begotten? To answer this question, we go to the Annunciation and verse that tells us about it, Luke 1:34, which says:

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

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On Saturday, Feb. 7, Brad Arnold, lead singer of the rock band 3 Doors Down, died following a battle with kidney cancer. He was 47.

In May 2025, Arnold told fans he had been diagnosed with stage 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Despite the grim diagnosis, Arnold expressed confidence in his faith.

“We serve a mighty God, and he can overcome anything. So I have no fear. I really, sincerely am not scared of it at all,” he said.

The following month, Arnold shared an update saying that God never fails.

“With so much faith behind me and my own faith within me, I have no doubt of the outcome of this fight,” he said. “God will continue to fight this [battle] for me…and God doesn’t fail. I love y’all!”

3 Doors Down Shares That Brad Arnold Has Died​

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It was pretty much a yes or no question. So, no? There aren't any? Really?

I often hear it said that people who claim to be believers in Jesus Christ, that they are presently “Sinners saved by grace.” But is that biblically correct? No, it isn’t. Why? Because “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were sinners” (past tense), “Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). And, for “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matthew 9:13), indicating a difference between the righteous and sinners. They are not one and the same. For a sinner is one who sins, in practice, like a runner runs.

But does that mean that a believer in Jesus will never sin again? No, it doesn’t (1 John 2:1-2), which we have evidence of in the New Testament Scriptures. So this is not saying that we will never sin again, but it does teach us in the Scriptures that the genuinely saved, by the grace of God, are those for whom sin is no longer their practice, but now righteousness and holy living, by the grace of God, and obedience to our Lord’s commands, in the power of God, should be the practice of the one who believes in Christ.

Example: I used to cut people’s hair a long time ago, but I no longer cut hair. So, I will not claim to be a haircutter today, for I no longer cut hair.

So, then, what is the issue with saying we are “sinners saved by grace”? It opens the door wide to the idea that we can be saved from our sins, and assured heaven as our eternal destiny, but while we continue sinning against God by habit. And that is typically how the phrase is being used and taught, that we can be saved and on our way to heaven while we remain active sinners. For they teach a false grace which does not teach that Jesus died to free us from our slavery to sin so we will now obey our God’s commands.

So, if we are all called “sinners,” whether or not we believe in Jesus, then what is to differentiate us who believe in Jesus from those who do not? It isn’t that we have been “saved by grace.” Why? Because when Jesus saves us, he is saving (delivering) us out of our addiction (slavery) to sin so that we can now serve him in walks of obedience to his commands. And the Scriptures make it clear that if we claim to be in fellowship with God while we walk in darkness (in sin, in practice) we do not live by the truth.

But it is absolutely truth that we are only saved from slavery to sin and assured heaven as our eternal destiny by the grace of God through God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ. But this faith is not a feeling or lip service only, but it is to be persuaded of God as to our sinfulness, and of his holiness and righteousness, and of God’s requirement that we now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, by his grace, in his power. For it means to be persuaded of God’s will, and if persuaded, then we yield to God’s control.

So, yes, there is not anything that we can do in our own flesh, by our own fleshly works, to be approved by God, to be saved from our sins, and to have eternal life with God. And this includes making verbal professions of faith in Jesus Christ, with no death to sin, and no obedience to God, thinking that all our sins are forgiven and now heaven is a sure thing. For that is not of God! That thinking is of human flesh! For Jesus put our sins to death with him so we will die to sin and obey him and his commands, in his power.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

For By Grace

Based off Ephesians 2:8-10
An Original Work / January 27, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

For by grace we’ve been saved
Of all our sins,
So that with Christ Jesus
Our lives begin.
Cleansing us from sin,
He made pure within
All who trust in Him
As their Savior, friend,
So that with Christ Jesus
Our lives begin.

We’ve been saved through faith;
This not from ourselves,
Lest that we should boast
In our fleshly works.
Our salvation is
A gift from our God,
Who loves us so much
That He gave His Son
To die on the cross
For all of our sins.

So repent of all
Of your sins today,
And He’ll forgive you;
Wipe your sins away.
Obey all of His
Teachings given you,
So that you can walk
With Him now in truth;
So that you can walk
With Him now in truth.

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Sinners Saved By Grace
An Original Work / February 8, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Yes it takes $$ to indo the damage. Do you think it is worth it?

Tooti said:

What's incredible about Attack on Titan?

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The complexity of the characters. The intriguing plot echoing the futility of war. How there are no clear good guys, the cultural impact of nuclear weapons.

The art, voice work, long form plot, music.

I’m not mad keen on Anime but this one really touched me. It brought me to tears more than once.