pay attention to these spiritual words
Jn 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
try to grasp these spiritual words from the creator of conditions the mighty JESUS
pay attention
Jn 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
conditional love from the conditional God
you can't get no more spiritual than this!
so your ignoring the passage I presented because you think you can dismiss what it says by applying your favorite passage...wow, all of scripture dear one is profitable for...Now let's go back and take a look at both scriptures in that they compliment one another not dismiss one another. The first passage, the one in ISaiah that you dismiss, says that God is not like us, His thoughts are higher than ours, His ways different and superior. IOW's we can't totally grasp and sometimes might not agree with God but in the end, He is always without fault.
This basically means we cannot apply man's morals, man's logic, man's reasoning to God and expect to understand God through it. They are not the same and so we try to understand, we work at gaining knowledge (something you should try to do more of) and then accept what we found on faith.
Now let's take that biblical truth and add the passages you presented instead of trying to use scripture to trump other scripture let's apply literary rules to the scripture and see what it all means together.
Jn 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.[/quote] here we are talking about the HS that lives in us and through us and is our strength. It is the same HS that teaches us and interprets scripture. Therefore there can only be one correct interpretation and that interpretation is identified by the power and might of the HS within. See, this passage inlightens the other one, not trumps it. Understanding God's ways, which are not our ways, comes through the HS not self. Before you can grasp the amazing eternal love of our Lord Jesus Christ, Ozell, you must allow the HS to teach you the truths of scripture, rather than leaning on your own understanding. An idea that if found other places in scripture as well, like...
Proverbs 3:5-6 (New International Version)
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight. [
a]
Jn 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
now we have talked about this passage from the very start of this thread, and you still refuse to listen to anything but your own intellect, so I'm not even going down that path again. Instead we will apply this passage to the ISaiah passage I presented to you. Let's start by looking at the rest of the paragraph... 15"If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[
c] in you. 18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
See again, we are referring to the HS within. A HS that makes the Isiah 55 passage come alive. But again, let's not stop there, let's look for consistency....read...
John 15:13-15 (New International Version)
13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Notice especially vs. 15, the reason we are no longer just servants is because Jesus confides in us. We now have the HS to interpret for us, it is no longer relying on our own interpretations to understand, but now, the HS within interprets for us and because we have proven ourselves to be worthy, we have the secrets of our Lord. A secret that starts by understanding that His whole being radiates love, real, abiding, unconditional love.
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1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
again, we have talked about this passage a lot and you have been shown why it doesn't mean what you are trying to force it to mean, but let's put all that aside for the moment and apply it to the Isaiah passage you were presented. 1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
Notice verse 4 takes us right back to faith...a faith that is the vision we are to have. A faith that shows us the ways of God rather than our ways. Until you take of the blinders of the world and put on the glasses of faith, corrective lens that are the HS, you will never understand what God has for you in these passages. You have to stop looking at them through your eyes and start looking at them through the HS, the Spirit of truth, or you will simply continue to miss God and ignore the word that is presented to you.
