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Amazing verse that stood out to me. Check this out!

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I was reading over the Bible and found this verse. It jumped out at me, and I was excited to find it. Isn't that awesome? You read the New Testament more than once, and you can read over the same lines for the 15th time and still... you will always find something new that you didn't see before. This is what I found.

This happens, TWO times in two different places! Maybe more than 2 times, but these are the two I've found so far. Pay very close attention to these lines...one is from Luke the other is from Mark speaking of the same event, when Jesus healed a man from demons.

Luke 8:38

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, "Return home and tell how much God has done for you." So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.

^^ Do you see it!?

Mark 5:19

Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for Him. And all the people were amazed.


Notice how it says, SO and not BUT. There are instances where the person doesn't comply to what Jesus said so the next line will begin with BUT the man... etc. For example, sometimes when Jesus healed a person, He would say, "Don't tell anyone, just go to the Priests and let them examine you." If the man instead spread the news the next line would be "but" or "instead he" "yet", as in he disobeyed Jesus. Yet, in these lines, it says "so"; therefore, it doesn't infer that the man disobeyed Jesus, but obeyed Him.

Jesus said tell how much GOD has done for you. SO, the man went and told how much JESUS had done for him.

Jesus is God! More evidence. Of course, Christians already know Jesus is God, but I just love finding more verses that prove it that I didn't see before.

Just wanted to share this with you.
 
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Obedience!!

Now why do you suppose that we read a verse over and over then suddenly we see something we didn't see before?

How well do we hear from the Holy Spirit?

Is it the Bible that talks to us, or the Holy Spirit who talks to us sometimes while we read the Bible?

Don't we have to pay attention to the voice of the Lord to be obedient?
 
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Very cool - thanks for sharing!!
 
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The Bible is unlike every other book.

It is the living word of God.

This is why after 46 years in the faith, I can get totally new insights into even familiar Scriptures that I have been reading all that time!
 
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Oscarr said:
The Bible is unlike every other book.

It is the living word of God.

This is why after 46 years in the faith, I can get totally new insights into even familiar Scriptures that I have been reading all that time!
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The Bible is not the living Word of God!!

The Bible - the Scriptures - Graphe is Greek - are Holy Writ! That is - the Scriptures are words inspired by God, but that does not mean they are alive. The Lord is alive!

Rev 19:13 tells us the Jesus Christ is called the Word of God. That is His name!!

The Lord goes by a number of names. We call Him Jesus Christ, that is - we usually called Him Yeshua (God's salvation) who is the Christ. Yet He is more often reffered to as the Word of God. For example, in Gen. 15 we see Him "The Word" appear to Abram in a vision. He talks to Abram, and Abram believes Him to be God, and that is counted to Abram as righteousness.

You will also find that the prophets also often wrote, "The Word of God came to me saying." So again, "The Word of God" is His name. For example - the prophets might have written, 'The Christ came to me saying', thereby substituting the name 'Christ' for the name "The Word of God'.

John started his gospel off by writing, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God."

So again, we see 'The Word' was the name John used for the Christ, whom we call Jesus.

The Scriptures 'writings' don't move, writings can't take action, writing don't grow or change. The word in the Scriptupure verse quoted in the OP did not move or change and take any action that might be shown to make the Bible alive. Yet what happens is the Holy Spirit, (who does not speak to us on His own initiative) speaks the words of God, which belong to the Son (Jesus Christ). All things of the Father belong to the Son.

So we read a Scripture, and the Spirit (speaking to us on behalf of the Son - the living Word of God) then speaks to us and points things out to us! Yet our hearing is poor, due to us being men and women of little faith.

Another name for Jesus Christ is "The Living One". When the women went to the grave Jesus was put in, they found an angel, and the angel told them, "Why do you seek the 'Living One', amoung the dead. The angel could have said, 'Why to you seek Jesus amoung the dead', but the angel applied the name "The Living One" to the Lord to explain clearly to us the Jesus is indeed alive and active.

Now it is important to understand how we make idols!

Paul explained that there are no such things as idols here on earth. Indeed, a rock, tree, statue, or ink on paper, are not idols. But we make them idols by giving them attributes of gods. God's must be alive. So the first attribute of God we give an idol is the attribute of being alive. So if we start saying the Scriptures are alive, we have started making an idol out of them.

Jesus told the Jews, they search the Scriptures thinking in them they have eternal life, instead of looking to Him so they might have life. And that is exactly what we do when we start saying the Scriptures are alive. The Scriptures are not Jesus, as Jesus clearly explain by telling the Jews they searched the Scriptures instead of seeking Him.

It is of the utmost importance that we look to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Word of God, instead of leaning on our understanding of the Scriptures. The Lord sends the Spirit, so that we can have a personal relationship with Him. The Spirit speaks to us, and often while reading the Scriptures of course. However, it is important that we also check the Spirit, because the Spirit of God is not the only spirit willing to speak to us.

Evil spirit will also talk to us about the Scriptures. Indeed, where do we come up with the silly ideas of attributing attributes of God to items that are clearly not alive. Paul, after explaining that there are no such things as idols here on earht, went on to explain that there were many gods. There is indeed a connection between evil spirits and the riciculous notion that ink on paper is somehow alive.

Don't get me wrong. We need to study the Scriptures, just like a student needs to study the text book before attending class with the Teacher. But the text book is not alive, the Teacher is. Thinking differently can lead to alsorts of silly things.

I meet a lady that was into a new age Jesus, who was the trees, the mountains, the grass, and so on. God is spirit, and not the trees, the mountians, the grass, or ink on paper.
 
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Oscarr said:
The Bible is unlike every other book.

It is the living word of God.

This is why after 46 years in the faith, I can get totally new insights into even familiar Scriptures that I have been reading all that time!
Click to expand...

Before this I went into what the Bible is not the living word of God, but Jesus is.

So why do we get 'new inside into even familiar Scriptures'?

Because we have a teacher, of course.

Hopefully our teacher is the Lord God, but that was not the case with the Pharisees.

Certainly it is possible to get some new insight by continual study, but to suddenly and amazingly come up with something is not often the result of continualy study, and if it was was usually have an idea of why we didn't pick it up before.

In the OP, we see an amazement at finding this new insight. It's unlikely the result of continual study. Frankly, the new insight is not that amazing. If a person was to just figure it out from study, it doubtful they would have found it so amazing. "So" the guy went, as opposed to "But" the guy went. Not exactly an asounding discovery in itself.

Yet with the insight was also a revelation of 'obedience'. It testifies to listening and doing what the Lord says. That is not a revelation evil spirits wish to promote, but it is a revelation the Lord wishes to promote. So an awareness from a spiritual source is evident, and not a evil source, but a source that promotes the idea of getting instruction from the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the Spirit of God.

 
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