Perhaps not, but I thought your last paragraph summed up pretty well.
The pressures of this world would not consume us if we have discovered that HE THAT IS WITHIN US IS MIGHTY AND HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD!
I understand the subtle hint you are giving me by what you said but to me it just does not matter. I have no problem ignoring that and just sharing what I know to be beneficial to you. So no problem there. I have Christ's shoulders to bear it with.
That particular verse of 1 John 4:4 (just as at 1 John 2:13-14) by the correct application of the Greek grammar indicates not so much the individual doing this but the oneness of godly spirit which gives strength to the brotherhood in Christ.
If you understood the Greek to the depth that I do you would be at least beginning to realize this is about us together more so than about us individually. When we think of it as applying individually we can benefit to a degree but it loses much of its power which is in and belongs to the body of Christ rather than to any one of us as a lone individual.
What happened is that sin turned us to a self centered nature where we began to think of ourselves as separate from one another. And by thinking of ourselves as separate from one another it becomes easier to hate one another and/or just exclude others. Whereas when we appreciate that there is only one flesh as Paul told us at 1 Cor 15:39 (Not "one kind of flesh" but "one flesh" for the words "kind of" are not in the Greek text of 1 Cor 15:39) and we therefore appreciate that we are all really and truly one body which was meant to operate by one godly spirit, then we have real power. The kind of power that Christian Psychologist Stephen Covey calls "synergistic."
Yes, when we properly understand the Greek grammar we learn that God is teaching us how to be synergistic in his power. He is not defeating that by appealing to us as individuals and you would know that if you really understood Greek grammar. So why do not so many other Greek Scholars teach the Bible like that then? Because they entered their education already having a belief and looking only to be able to better explain that belief. So they could not fully see to learn it all. That is why the majority of the schools to teach Greek sprung up around certain faiths. These schools taught in support of their own particular school of thought depending on what the religious affiliation was.
Belief is the most blinding force known to man.
I respect the fact your understanding of Greek it is what the NT was written with as well as Aramaic but spiritually speaking I see some serious short comings. The word holy means to be separate
The word church is ecclesia” Greek called out
The Hebrew word for holy is “qodesh” and means “apartness, set-apartness, separateness,
And the Greek Word for holy is “hagios” and means set apart, reverend, sacred, and worthy of veneration.”
A goat can be holy or set apart.
I see two churches "the called out" and Babylon.
Babylon tries to like with the children of Israel; I am climbing the (spiritual) mountain of God as Moses did; that is where the glory is.
God calls men not systems; never do you find a group of people called by God. The broad way that leads destruction is religion; men do not follow Christ they follow their Pastor/Priest or Pope, their denomination their system; not God’s anointing; anti Christ; anti anointing same thing. There is a true Church and a false Church; Babylon is the false church; while the true Church is not a building, a system, denomination but Christ with in us, the hope of Glory.
The Greek word for "assembling" is EPISUNAGOGE. The word, literally, is a verb meaning to synagogue. It is a compound of the Greek prefix EPI with the word SUNAGOGE from which we get our transliterated English word Synagogue. EPI means super- imposition - that which is above, higher than, highest, upon. SUNAGOGE means a meeting, assembly, or gathering. Putting these two words together, EPI- SUNAGOGE means THE ABOVE SYNAGOGUE, THE HIGHER MEETING, THE HIGHEST ASSEMBLY, THE HIGHER-THAN-ALL-GATHERINGS!
It bespeaks of something far greater than merely collecting so many breathing bodies together in one place. It is a meeting in a higher realm, on a higher plane, in the high places of the Spirit, and in the heights of Truth. It is a gathering together in a dimension above. It indicates an assembling IN THE SPIRIT, as Paul also testified, "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6). Tens of thousands, yea, tens of millions of believers gather together in "church buildings" every Sunday morning, and because they make the effort to get out of bed, get the family ready, and drive off to a warm pew, they are convinced that they have met the requirements of the divine fiat: "Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together."
Reference to Jesus with the Samaritan women at the well. He knew that Jews did not often speak to Samaritans, but He said to her, "Please give me a drink." The woman saw from His looks and His dress that He was a Jew, and she said to Him, "How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, a Samaritan woman?" Jesus answered her, "If you know what God's free gift is, and if you knew who it is that says to you, Give me a drink, you would ask Him to give you living water, and He would give it to you."
She said to Him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where can you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who drank from this well?" "Whoever drinks of this water, " said Jesus, "shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life." "Sir," said the woman, "give me some of this water of yours, so that I will not thirst any more nor come all the way to this well.
Now, which of these is the right place?" Her concern, and the major issue of the moment for her, had to do with the specific proper location for worship. In this respect, this woman differed little from the multitudes in this hour who ask, "Where should we worship? What church should we attend? What ministry should we submit to?"
The Lord did not dodge her question. Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe ME, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." The time would come, said the Lord, when both "this mountain" and "Jerusalem", as well as any other geographical locality, or appointed structure, would be considered completely irrelevant as a condition to worship.
A religious man needs the
The law is for spiritual children who need a baby sitter,
Wherefore the law was our school-master to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." (Galatians 3:21-24).
A schoolmaster, (the Greek text gives, a child conductor), was one who held the child in restraint as they conducted the child from home to the school, making sure that there was no mischief along the way, and that the child arrived at the school. Then the child was given over to the care of the teacher, and the duty of the child conductor was ended. The child conductor did not stand in the back of the class room and continue to exercise control and authority over the child, for now the Teacher was in control, and there was to be no outside interference. So also, once we have been brought to Christ, and His anointing abides within us, we are to be led by the Spirit.
Here is the reason so many cannot forsake father, mother, reputation, church leadership position, etc, etc; notice the hundred fold which is the highest spiritual position mention in scripture, there is also a thirty fold, sixty fold where most dwell spiritually.
Matthew 19: 28And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
30But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
Heb. 13:13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach
Revelation 18:3-5
3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
I came out of Babylon in 1973
